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Brian Orakpo, Michael Griffin, Pat Smith, Jesse Collins, Obi Obidike & Melanie Wideman · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: next two guests. It all started in February seventeen, two
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Speaker 1: very talented NFL football players and a banker. Almost sounds
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Speaker 1: like a joke. Two dudes walking the ball, you know,
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Speaker 1: and I decided they wanted to open their own g
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Speaker 1: GS cupcake store. So the three but from the University
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Speaker 1: of Texas graduates. I'm from Houston, Texas, so I having
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Speaker 1: affinity to these Texas boys decided to start a business
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Speaker 1: plan to bring their own GS cupcake store to Austin, Texas,
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Speaker 1: which is natural. You know, go to your roots, go
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Speaker 1: to your basic your popularity. You have seen this dispair
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Speaker 1: on a very popular Microsoft Pro commercial. There's been in
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Speaker 1: heavy rotation than the NFL season in the playoffs. Please
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Speaker 1: work on the money making conversation the very talented former
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Speaker 1: teammates of the Tennessee Titans, Brian A. Rock Pole and
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Speaker 1: Michael Griffin. Hey, how do you do it? That's that's
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Speaker 1: a great introduction. Well, I have to because I'm excited about,
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Speaker 1: you know, entrepreneurs that shows about entrepreneurship is experience about
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Speaker 1: letting people know that you can reinvent yourself. And I
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Speaker 1: have a when they guests to come on this show,
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Speaker 1: and it's allowed me to meet a lot of influential people.
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Speaker 1: I consider you influential because of the fact that you're athletes.
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Speaker 1: And that's why I have to bring up the fact
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Speaker 1: that you're graduates of the University of Texas because a
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Speaker 1: lot of people don't especially African American athletes, they don't
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Speaker 1: see the educational component being successful in our lives. And
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Speaker 1: so when bringing on this show and being a young
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Speaker 1: entrepreneurs like I had just in a vun on the
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Speaker 1: show this past week and he was just talking about
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Speaker 1: after his six year in the league, he started looking
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Speaker 1: around in the locker room and people started disappearing, and
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Speaker 1: so he had to make a plan. And so now
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Speaker 1: he's opened up trampolines and musing the trampoline in the
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Speaker 1: state of New Jersey. Now your got your story and
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Speaker 1: I seek you guys out to be on my show,
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Speaker 1: and I'm so thankful you on my show. So tell
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Speaker 1: us about that relationship from that that transcended from the
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Speaker 1: football field to sitting in the restaurant talking about we
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Speaker 1: want to get in business together. Well, mat rac I
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Speaker 1: think he going up for not to each other story
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Speaker 1: better it was. It was pretty much his idea. I
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Speaker 1: was already kind of on the way on the outside,
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Speaker 1: just finished year ten. But I think Rat came pretty
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Speaker 1: much explain more what that, what happened with transpired that day.
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Speaker 1: Thank you. Yeah, we're uh, we're me were me grow.
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Speaker 1: Um we obviously played it together for a long time, sir.
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Speaker 1: We all started the very young one. We got to
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Speaker 1: the professional level. Um, we had the opportunity to play
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Speaker 1: together with the Tendency Titans when I signed over, but
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Speaker 1: we were both you know or their second shade um
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Speaker 1: getting posts. We're starting starting to think about our FoST career,
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Speaker 1: post life after football. You knew this, kids couldn't last forever.
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Speaker 1: We knew we can't playing at the high. We gotta
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Speaker 1: start thinking about what we're gonna do afterwards. So we
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Speaker 1: are only go every off season. I want to get
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Speaker 1: together with the Hunter prison's part in the Brier hands,
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Speaker 1: some very good friends. We always get together to just
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Speaker 1: come over with planks, so to come old idea of
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Speaker 1: what can you do? I point with our blanks together,
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Speaker 1: come over with some great events for long ideas around there,
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Speaker 1: you know around Texas and uh but long stomach short.
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Speaker 1: We were eating cupcakes at the time at that dinner
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Speaker 1: uh and and then was just a little through teams
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Speaker 1: that it came in my head and was my way grip,
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Speaker 1: let's let's let's do a Tec sametimes. I didn't know
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Speaker 1: they'll ever really touched me up to more. Kid, Let's
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Speaker 1: go away reach out, um, let's see what the great
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Speaker 1: thing was obviously exciting and that's you have to the
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Speaker 1: sess business fro ground Duncer in the very successful Awesome.
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Speaker 1: So let me remind everybody to Tennessee Titan football team
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Speaker 1: is based in Nashville, Tennessee. And uh so that's why
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Speaker 1: we were able to get a contact with them, pass
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Speaker 1: and get this thing going. Okay cool. Now here's the
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Speaker 1: thought process. You have subways out there, you have uh
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Speaker 1: you have uh Jersey Mix, you have all these different
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Speaker 1: places that you can dunk and don't utch franchises. Why
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Speaker 1: gig cupcakes? Cupcakes? There you go when you talking to
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Speaker 1: you talking to the baker. Now, I I bake. I
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Speaker 1: just finished my big U baking program. Or I searched
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Speaker 1: for the top bakers around the country every every eight months.
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Speaker 1: So I'm a fan of you openings cupcake. But why
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Speaker 1: you know, for the s of a business person, you know,
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Speaker 1: I just want to wrap that is because they always say,
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Speaker 1: if you're gonna invest in stock, invest in stock that
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Speaker 1: you buy that you're using your personal life. If you
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Speaker 1: go to home depot and that's where you don't that's
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Speaker 1: the stock you should buy if that's the place you go.
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Speaker 1: So it's because you like the GGS brand, is would
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Speaker 1: lead to the investment opportunity idea, Well, then you gotta
7:25
Speaker 1: look at like this, what is one thing, no matter
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Speaker 1: no matter what happens each and every day, what is
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Speaker 1: something that every year something comes around and it's your birthday,
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Speaker 1: and you know the way that you celebrate your birthday
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Speaker 1: is always a cake or to take wherever it is
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Speaker 1: you go to. You go to a restaurant, you ask
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Speaker 1: and can I see a dessert menu? It's it's not
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Speaker 1: significant other, it's my daughter, whoever it may be, it's
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Speaker 1: their birthday, and you always see, is there some type
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Speaker 1: of cake that I can put a candle in, whoever
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Speaker 1: it may be, and the one thing And in going
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Speaker 1: through and developing and looking at this whole process, we
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Speaker 1: we looked in at an area where that's very highly
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Speaker 1: populated with a lot of families, a lot of a
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Speaker 1: lot of stay at home mothers who pretty much you know,
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Speaker 1: Rapport chose a very great developing area that's developing. I
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Speaker 1: mean people think Austin's probably within the top five growing
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Speaker 1: cities and special in the area. Sooner or later that
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Speaker 1: Wenna have to build more schools. I know they are
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Speaker 1: building another elementary school in the area. And as soon
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Speaker 1: as gonna be a middle school and the high school.
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Speaker 1: Saw so it's a growing area. Um, we also have
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Speaker 1: a trampoline park that's gonna be right behind us called
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Speaker 1: Urban Airs, and there's a great location looking forward to
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Speaker 1: what's going to become in the future. And um, it
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Speaker 1: was just something that we looked at it that no
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Speaker 1: matter what the economy is, people are gonna always you know,
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Speaker 1: it's something that people it's it's like a necessity even
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Speaker 1: though it's not a need, it's a necessity that people
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Speaker 1: no matter what the market is, it's always, Hey, you know,
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Speaker 1: birthday is coming around. We need to make a cake
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Speaker 1: or need cupcakes or whatever it is. And then you
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Speaker 1: have so many different holidays, whether it's Halloween, whether it's
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Speaker 1: Valentine's Day, Christmas, Thanks Give Bean, Mother's Day. You have
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Speaker 1: so many different holidays that people celebrate. They like to
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Speaker 1: celebrate with with suits. And uh, you know, we already
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Speaker 1: have something that started Nashville called Tipps Treats. Um that
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Speaker 1: you may be aware. I know you said you're from
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Speaker 1: the city of Houston. But again another another Atmospere, another
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Speaker 1: you know area with cupcakes and and you know, we
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Speaker 1: had some called Sprinkles and got Hey Cakes and know
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Speaker 1: all those different things. But this was a brand that
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Speaker 1: wasn't in the Austin area. That was something new, and
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Speaker 1: we know in the Austin area we like to grasp
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Speaker 1: on the things that are new and build upon it. Uh.
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Speaker 1: All three of us being graduates from the University of
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Speaker 1: Texas and mourn you know what our names brought to
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Speaker 1: the table and the people that we do know, Um,
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Speaker 1: it just helped out tremendously. And then again this Microsoft
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Speaker 1: things came out of nowhere and it just continuously just
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Speaker 1: pro telling us going forward. And I think I'll work
9:50
Speaker 1: ethic altogether, working together as a team, being real good friends. Uh.
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Speaker 1: They were my groomsmen at my wedding and we have
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Speaker 1: that type of relationship with our families and things that nation.
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Speaker 1: I think it was just something that we just hit
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Speaker 1: the ball. This this hated rolling and and it's me
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Speaker 1: they have a lot of great success. The first thing
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Speaker 1: about that Microsoft commercial is that, first of all, I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna use some terminolarge. It's very female friendly, you know,
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Speaker 1: and it's very family friendly. Every time I see it,
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Speaker 1: I smile. Both of you guys are very engaging, you know.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's like it's like it's these big old guys.
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Speaker 1: It's a little bit of cupcake. You know, it's really Uh,
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Speaker 1: can you tell us how that came about? Because you
10:27
Speaker 1: said it came out of nowhere? Because it is a
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Speaker 1: monster a monster success for me personally, a guy who's
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Speaker 1: really into marketing and branding. It's amazing. Man. Congratulations. Uh
10:41
Speaker 1: uh go ahead, right if you want to go ahead,
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Speaker 1: I mean I can. I mean, I guess my standpoint
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Speaker 1: it was, it was it kind of came out of nowhere.
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Speaker 1: We started getting reached out. Uh was getting phone calls up,
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Speaker 1: the phone calls, and our man just said, somebody from Microsoft.
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Speaker 1: That's somebody somebody. Yeah, And I keep trying to tell
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Speaker 1: him that y'all are not here, you know, keep saying
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Speaker 1: that Brian rack Poles playing with the Titans right now.
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Speaker 1: And you know I was at the time, I was
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Speaker 1: doing the Longhorn Network, so I'm doing broadcasting, so I
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Speaker 1: wasn't in the store all the time. And Brian Instant,
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Speaker 1: you know, he has his job also, so one day,
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Speaker 1: you know, let me just get him a call and
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Speaker 1: see what's going on. And that I gave him a
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Speaker 1: call and they were like, hey, you want to sit
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Speaker 1: down and talk and discussing things. And again I was like, okay,
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Speaker 1: this must be a joke. And then I guess, um,
11:24
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Speaker 1: the closing thought. We got a couple of minutes here. Um.
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Speaker 1: First of all, I want to congratulate you too, and
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Speaker 1: that's a sincere Both of you guys are both articulate.
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Speaker 1: The intelligence and your education shows through, and so that's
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Speaker 1: what comes across. I'm just going to let you know
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Speaker 1: from an African American perspective how important what you guys
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Speaker 1: are doing in those commercials because of the fact that,
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Speaker 1: you know, we're often misrepresented as to what we can do,
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Speaker 1: especially when we're when our skills are tied to athleticism.
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Speaker 1: Thank you very much more than you know how we
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18:04
Speaker 1: which is a phenomenon and also changed the game and
18:07
Speaker 1: perspective of what athletes thought what athletes can do in
18:10
Speaker 1: that particularly genre, you know, because he wanted. But let's
18:13
Speaker 1: get back on you actually want to put that out,
18:15
Speaker 1: that little joke about dancing out there. Let's talk about
18:18
Speaker 1: a lot of your organizations out there that are changing
18:20
Speaker 1: people's lives. Let's start with Treasure You, which is a
18:23
Speaker 1: nonprofit organization founded by you, of course, dedicated to supporting
18:26
Speaker 1: women and finatural, emotional, and spiritual needs. Let's talk about that.
18:31
Speaker 1: You know that That's why I call it my baby, um,
18:35
Speaker 1: because it's wow. It was. It was a very difficult
18:39
Speaker 1: birthing process for that. All babies, okay, all babies, but
18:45
Speaker 1: you know, our biological babies usually take about nine months.
18:49
Speaker 1: This baby took about you know, fifteen years, um, because
18:54
Speaker 1: it started with with pain and hurt and disappointment as
18:59
Speaker 1: a woman, you know, making some bad decisions. Um, you
19:05
Speaker 1: know on my part and through that journey of pain
19:09
Speaker 1: and discoveries what led me to UM to start Treasure
19:13
Speaker 1: You years ago because I just felt like there needed
19:17
Speaker 1: to be a place for women to go to that
19:19
Speaker 1: was safe, first of all, UM, where we could share
19:23
Speaker 1: honestly and openly in an authentic and transparent way with
19:27
Speaker 1: each other. UM. I got into a place where, you know,
19:33
Speaker 1: with with some of the losses, going through a divorce,
19:36
Speaker 1: going through a lot of nose in the entertainment industry, UM,
19:40
Speaker 1: I lost a lot of my self esteem and a
19:43
Speaker 1: lot of my self worth. And so I felt like,
19:46
Speaker 1: they're you know, there needed to be this place where
19:48
Speaker 1: we could come together and inspire one another and share
19:51
Speaker 1: and grow UM. And so I hosted my first retreat
19:55
Speaker 1: with women that were very similar to me, that were
19:57
Speaker 1: married to high profile men who had just lost themselves.
20:01
Speaker 1: And then that then grew into something even larger, which
20:05
Speaker 1: was just I realized, as women, we all sometimes lose ourselves,
20:10
Speaker 1: whether it's to our children, to our careers too, UM,
20:14
Speaker 1: just being overwhelmed with life in general, we we forget
20:18
Speaker 1: who we are and why we're here. And I've learned,
20:22
Speaker 1: you know, it's not about just having a career. It's
20:24
Speaker 1: about having a mission in life. And so Treasure You
20:29
Speaker 1: just really grew and then um, I developed a heart
20:34
Speaker 1: to stand in the gap for women or be a
20:36
Speaker 1: bridge for women. There was a woman who helped me
20:38
Speaker 1: years ago, and UM, I was going through it, you know,
20:42
Speaker 1: left my house middle of the night with with my
20:44
Speaker 1: my baby girl, she's nine months old, and she took
20:47
Speaker 1: me in and provided a safe place for me. And
20:50
Speaker 1: so I said, you know what, I want to do
20:52
Speaker 1: that for women. The Treasure You went from retreats, you know,
20:55
Speaker 1: to events, to then raising dollars to help women that
20:58
Speaker 1: were just like me who needed a bridge. Um, just
21:02
Speaker 1: to get you know, hey, it's gonna be all right, girl,
21:04
Speaker 1: I got you, sister. Um you know, maybe she needs
21:08
Speaker 1: a you know, a place to stay, temporary housing. Maybe
21:12
Speaker 1: she needs, you know, to get her vehicle fixed so
21:14
Speaker 1: she can get to work or get her kids to school.
21:16
Speaker 1: Whatever that is. Um. We provided you know, women with furniture.
21:20
Speaker 1: When you know, the tornado hit here in Dallas years ago. Um,
21:24
Speaker 1: there's a lot of single mothers who were put out.
21:27
Speaker 1: We were able to partner with the Dallas Furniture Bank
21:29
Speaker 1: and help them. So that is that's kind of where
21:32
Speaker 1: we've grown to today. I haven't done a retreat in years,
21:35
Speaker 1: but we are always there for for someone who needs
21:38
Speaker 1: just the bridge. So yeah, yeah, that's my that's my baby.
21:43
Speaker 1: That's just taking a long time to to birth. But
21:46
Speaker 1: we know the thing about it is because there's so
21:48
Speaker 1: many layers and a lot of people. Uh, you know,
21:52
Speaker 1: there's so many you you championed so many situations because
21:55
Speaker 1: I'm sure you know, uh the best in violence situation
21:59
Speaker 1: falls into line with that. How you come to the
22:01
Speaker 1: rescue of women in period and try to point them
22:05
Speaker 1: in the right direction and build their self esteem and
22:08
Speaker 1: so and so when you say how do you go
22:11
Speaker 1: about raising funds for this organization? If anywhere I can
22:14
Speaker 1: help assist and promote that, how do you reise funds
22:16
Speaker 1: for treasure? You? You know what's just going to treasure
22:20
Speaker 1: you dot org um and you know making a donation,
22:25
Speaker 1: which it's a blessing because we're continually like trying to
22:29
Speaker 1: um support women. I mean I get requests all the time,
22:31
Speaker 1: and you know, I have not been able to do
22:34
Speaker 1: a fundraiser in a long time. So people just making
22:36
Speaker 1: donations that will definitely help. Also, you mentioned my clothing
22:40
Speaker 1: line with PS by Pat Smith, a portion of the
22:43
Speaker 1: proceeds I always donate back to treasure You what what
22:47
Speaker 1: what is? What is that closing line? What is it?
22:49
Speaker 1: When you when you say that is it? Is it? What?
22:51
Speaker 1: What is it? What is it? Gear towards the professional woman,
22:53
Speaker 1: the casual where? What is the what is the clone? LPs?
22:56
Speaker 1: What is pois the fashion so PS? It's Pat Smith?
23:02
Speaker 1: But it also means PS like just one more thing.
23:06
Speaker 1: So I played off of that because you know what,
23:09
Speaker 1: with women, I think sometimes we weighed so many of
23:11
Speaker 1: our resources and money on clothes and stuff that is
23:16
Speaker 1: not eternal, um, when we should be saving our money.
23:20
Speaker 1: So I didn't want a clothing line that was going
23:22
Speaker 1: to drain people's pockets, but a clothing line where people
23:25
Speaker 1: could get affordable, you know, cute outfits that were different
23:30
Speaker 1: because of course we all like to look nice, um
23:33
Speaker 1: and feel good about ourselves. And then knowing that a
23:36
Speaker 1: portion of your funds, then we'll go back to help
23:39
Speaker 1: another woman who is in need. It's empowering. I wanted
23:42
Speaker 1: to create this this community of women that yes, you
23:45
Speaker 1: can come shop, but it's not gonna you know, we're
23:48
Speaker 1: not not design aware rights affordable ware, but it's still
23:53
Speaker 1: they're still cute and unique pieces. Okay, what is that website? Okay,
23:58
Speaker 1: that is ps by Smith dot com. See, I gotta
24:01
Speaker 1: get all these websites. Oh, we go. We want to
24:06
Speaker 1: make conversations, not bad. Remember what show You'll not money,
24:09
Speaker 1: make you conversations. Okay, let's move on to another project.
24:12
Speaker 1: Because of the fact that I know I got another second,
24:14
Speaker 1: I want to squeeze a little bit this conversation. Then
24:17
Speaker 1: you're an executive producer alongside your husband Hall of Famer,
24:19
Speaker 1: NFL Hall of Famer and Smith of Canal Street. A
24:23
Speaker 1: faith driven film. Uh that speaks to millennials who find
24:26
Speaker 1: confident in the belief systems were driven is a propeller
24:30
Speaker 1: and inspires movement. So let me just clarify. And this
24:34
Speaker 1: isn't no disrespect, but I think it's important for other
24:37
Speaker 1: women to know. Um, So I am I'm executive producer
24:40
Speaker 1: without him. So okay, he's very supportive, but I'm I'm
24:45
Speaker 1: actually um executive producer. Well that's good because they wrote
24:50
Speaker 1: it on a piece of paper just like that. That's
24:53
Speaker 1: because I'm I'm Let me just tell you something. My
24:56
Speaker 1: whole thing is that this shows about you. And so
24:59
Speaker 1: I remember our mana Steve Harvey, many years and I
25:01
Speaker 1: had to define what my accomplishments were because a lot
25:04
Speaker 1: of people kind of like you know, shared our shared
25:06
Speaker 1: my success story with him. And this show is about
25:09
Speaker 1: allowing you, as a successful female in the in the industry,
25:13
Speaker 1: to show that this is a project. So let's talk
25:15
Speaker 1: about executive producer of Canal Street, Miss past Smith. Let's
25:20
Speaker 1: get it right and let me let me if you
25:22
Speaker 1: don't mind, let me just say this and why it's
25:24
Speaker 1: important for me personally. It's because, like I said, I
25:27
Speaker 1: started Treasure you because I literally was drowning in the
25:29
Speaker 1: shadows when I met you years ago. I was in
25:32
Speaker 1: l A, you know, trying to overcome a divorce, back
25:35
Speaker 1: in acting classes and studying and trying to get my
25:38
Speaker 1: grind on and and working really hard. Um and then
25:43
Speaker 1: of course I moved to Dallas and got married in
25:45
Speaker 1: two thousands, and I lost myself, you know, with the cowboys,
25:50
Speaker 1: you know, kind of getting lost in the shadows of
25:52
Speaker 1: raising children. I just kind of lost path. So I
25:56
Speaker 1: want people to know that, you know, now I'm forty
25:59
Speaker 1: eight years old, I started it in this business when
26:00
Speaker 1: I was twenty two and it's never too late. It's
26:05
Speaker 1: never too late to find yourself, rediscover yourself and continue
26:09
Speaker 1: to pursue your dreams, your purpose, your passion. So I
26:12
Speaker 1: wanted to make that clear because many times people do
26:14
Speaker 1: want to, you know, connect me to Emma or Emma
26:17
Speaker 1: Smith's wife, which yes, I am his wife, he's my husband.
26:21
Speaker 1: But I want women to know that you can. We
26:23
Speaker 1: all have our own unique purpose and it doesn't necessarily
26:26
Speaker 1: want to be in films or do films, but Pat
26:28
Speaker 1: does well. Young lady, um I say young, because you are.
26:32
Speaker 1: You're fantastic, You're amazing. I think I want to tell
26:36
Speaker 1: you is that this is not the interview that I
26:39
Speaker 1: plan is. It's a bigger because the fact that I've
26:42
Speaker 1: learned additional nuggets about you that are changing people's lives,
26:46
Speaker 1: especially from a women need to hear about finding themselves
26:51
Speaker 1: and realizing living their life. And it tells a little
26:54
Speaker 1: selfish moment and nothing wrong with being selfish because in
26:57
Speaker 1: the end you have to be happy to past me.
27:00
Speaker 1: I want to thank you about thank you for coming
27:01
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27:03
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27:07
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27:08
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Speaker 1: businesses with Information to succeed My next guest. Last time
29:08
Speaker 1: I saw we ran into each other was at the
29:10
Speaker 1: Image Awards about a couple of years ago, when I
29:13
Speaker 1: went up there and picked up an image for the
29:15
Speaker 1: Steve Harvey Talk Show. And um, but I've known him
29:18
Speaker 1: much longer this, I have to say, almost twenty years. Uh.
29:22
Speaker 1: My next guest is an entertainment industry veteran. Still young, yeah, young.
29:26
Speaker 1: The veterans always sound like you've been out there, yo. No,
29:29
Speaker 1: just just young guy right here. He has played an
29:31
Speaker 1: integral role in producing many of television's memorable memorable moments.
29:37
Speaker 1: In music industry, just in Collins Entertainments. The name of
29:39
Speaker 1: this business has produced award winning program and including the
29:42
Speaker 1: BT Awards, which he knows. That's why we really got
29:46
Speaker 1: big at the BET Awards, man, he really got rolling
29:48
Speaker 1: BT Honors, U n c US, an Evening of Stars,
29:52
Speaker 1: A b f F Awards, Soul Training Awards, BT Hip
29:55
Speaker 1: Hop Awards. And I just saw him his name on
29:58
Speaker 1: the screen on Amanda Sales if you haven't saw that
30:00
Speaker 1: HBO special African American Young Lady Um historical executive producer
30:07
Speaker 1: on her comedy special. He is also a consultant producer
30:10
Speaker 1: for the iconic Grammy Awards. Okay coming up in February,
30:14
Speaker 1: because it's called multiple Streams of Income, y'all. If y'all
30:16
Speaker 1: don't understand his career executive, he was the executive use
30:19
Speaker 1: of the Bat's hit TV series Real Husband of Hollywood
30:22
Speaker 1: staring crazy Man Kevin Hart. He's also executive producer VICH
30:26
Speaker 1: Once Dear Mama, which comes on Memorial Day. I saw
30:29
Speaker 1: his name, there's man, I think I called. I said, man,
30:33
Speaker 1: you're doing it, dude. Hip Hop Squares with ice Cube
30:37
Speaker 1: and Netflix Rhythm and Flow that were debated in twenty
30:39
Speaker 1: and eight teen. Please welcome the money making conversation. I'm
30:42
Speaker 1: gonna call my friend Jesse Collins. What's happening, Rashan? How
30:47
Speaker 1: you doing doing very good? Man? Uh? Your energy side? Lord,
30:51
Speaker 1: you just tie from being so busy man. Yeah, we
30:58
Speaker 1: just we are. We did uh we did a panel
31:02
Speaker 1: yesterday at Sundance and it was it was great. So
31:04
Speaker 1: we just I'm just getting back just walking in an offensite.
31:07
Speaker 1: Now here's the thing that were you based at to
31:10
Speaker 1: give a little back around about the people who really
31:12
Speaker 1: delve into the world of Jesse College, because I read
31:16
Speaker 1: it just do a radio. When we first connected, right
31:20
Speaker 1: radio he started the radio, started radio the radio, and
31:24
Speaker 1: I think you and I connected um around the Parenthood,
31:28
Speaker 1: Yes sir, yes, sir. And that was my first that
31:30
Speaker 1: was like that was a ninety four or something like that,
31:33
Speaker 1: and yeah and uh and so then he went on
31:35
Speaker 1: and then uh, when we really connected was on the
31:38
Speaker 1: BT Awards when Steve Harvey and Cedric didn't table with
31:42
Speaker 1: co Holst. We did it two years in a row.
31:44
Speaker 1: That was like the start. That was like the start
31:47
Speaker 1: of the Jesse College brand. Correct. Yeah, that was yeah,
31:52
Speaker 1: that was really good. You know when once we started
31:55
Speaker 1: getting those Awards shows and BT Awards. You know though,
31:58
Speaker 1: it was you guys that you know what Stephen said
32:00
Speaker 1: that that really, you know, laid the template for what
32:04
Speaker 1: the BT Awards became, and then everything just kind of
32:06
Speaker 1: grew off of that. Mm hm. Now let's let's talk
32:10
Speaker 1: about you, the you, the individual who I'd like to say, man,
32:14
Speaker 1: you you you don't shy away from an opportunity. A
32:16
Speaker 1: lot of people say this is all I do. You know,
32:19
Speaker 1: I can't executive producer a drama series, so I can't
32:22
Speaker 1: ejective producer a show that's not on B E T.
32:25
Speaker 1: I can't injective just gonna appeal to the masses. What
32:28
Speaker 1: drives you, Jesse? What drives you? For me, it's just
32:33
Speaker 1: it's about diversity. It's about just trying to um. You know,
32:37
Speaker 1: Hollywood loves to put people in boxes. They would love
32:40
Speaker 1: to say that you're that this guy, you're the that guy,
32:42
Speaker 1: and and they don't want you to you know, they
32:44
Speaker 1: don't want to call you for anything else, especially you know,
32:48
Speaker 1: in the African American space. And you know, that just
32:51
Speaker 1: doesn't make sense to me, because you know, entertainment is
32:55
Speaker 1: constantly changing, and you got to be able to evolve
32:58
Speaker 1: with it because one day the thing that you do
33:01
Speaker 1: may go out of style and then where how are
33:04
Speaker 1: you simply how are you gonna play your bills? You
33:07
Speaker 1: can't tell American Express that like, oh yeah, Ward shows,
33:11
Speaker 1: I'm really hot right now, so I'm waiting for them
33:13
Speaker 1: to come back. That just doesn't work. So you gotta, um,
33:18
Speaker 1: you gotta be diversified. And you know, I love all
33:23
Speaker 1: kinds of you know, comedies, dramas, award shows, game shows.
33:28
Speaker 1: You know, like most people, you're entertained by a lot
33:31
Speaker 1: of different types of a programming. So why not produce
33:36
Speaker 1: it um and not be afraid of producing it? That's
33:40
Speaker 1: the key. Ye, that's the key. Now here's a serious
33:43
Speaker 1: is coming up. Man. I can't wait that the promos
33:47
Speaker 1: laws have mercy American Soul. That ships looks so good. Man.
33:53
Speaker 1: Tell me about the American Soul man, which is about
33:55
Speaker 1: about the soul trying. Yes, well, yes, American Soul is
34:01
Speaker 1: uh something that we're really excited about. It. It's a
34:03
Speaker 1: it's a one hour drama. Uh. This will be our
34:06
Speaker 1: first season, ten episodes. And what we do is it's
34:10
Speaker 1: really about what it was like. Of course it was
34:15
Speaker 1: following the journey of Don Cornelius bringing the show from
34:17
Speaker 1: Chicago to Los Angeles. But also it's about what life
34:22
Speaker 1: was like, what the black experience was in Los Angeles
34:26
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy one. You know, we were in an
34:29
Speaker 1: environment where we were at war. It was the beginnings
34:33
Speaker 1: of the crips and the gang, the gang activity. You
34:37
Speaker 1: had a government that was oppressive at that time. You know,
34:42
Speaker 1: we had a president that wasn't really checking for us,
34:45
Speaker 1: and so you know, there are some Sadly, there are
34:49
Speaker 1: some dualities. As you watch the show and you think
34:52
Speaker 1: about where things are today, you kind of see that, like, oh,
34:55
Speaker 1: something's changed with some things are either making a comeback
34:58
Speaker 1: or have remain the same. Um all of that against
35:03
Speaker 1: Don struggle to to cut through and be and and
35:08
Speaker 1: create something iconic along of course with all the things
35:12
Speaker 1: that we love from Soul Train. So you're gonna get
35:14
Speaker 1: the music, you're gonna get the Soul Train line, you're
35:16
Speaker 1: gonna get the fashion from that time period. Like it's
35:20
Speaker 1: all it's all bundled in one to make it a
35:23
Speaker 1: show that everybody can enjoy. When you when you look
35:26
Speaker 1: at the project like that, it comes to you because
35:28
Speaker 1: of the fact it's my style. And so the promos
35:31
Speaker 1: got me because the style is you know, it's like
35:34
Speaker 1: and I'm just saying, let everybody know we're talking about
35:36
Speaker 1: We're talking to Jesse Collins of Jesse Collins Entertainment, one
35:39
Speaker 1: of the iconic producers and creative minds in Hollywood today.
35:43
Speaker 1: The new series that will be Aaron on BT called
35:45
Speaker 1: American Soul. It will premiere Tuesday, February fifth, starting at
35:49
Speaker 1: nine pm and would air back to back episodes. It's
35:53
Speaker 1: the first season order is ten episodes. How is the
35:56
Speaker 1: casting because a good friend of mine, uh Saraphiny Johnson,
35:59
Speaker 1: we're on this series, and and so did the series
36:03
Speaker 1: is written? And then you guys went out the casting
36:05
Speaker 1: to cast a series? How did how did how did you? How?
36:08
Speaker 1: How did they work? Basically what it was is that
36:13
Speaker 1: they ordered ten scripts out of the gate. You know,
36:18
Speaker 1: Divon Gregory and Jonathan Prince just great show runners, and
36:22
Speaker 1: they just we went in and BT just took the
36:25
Speaker 1: leap of faith at the post to ordering a pilot
36:28
Speaker 1: and then just that and see what it is. You know,
36:31
Speaker 1: we kind of said, we said, listen, if you do
36:34
Speaker 1: the pilot, great, but then and you love it even better.
36:39
Speaker 1: Bad news is, because of the production schedule, you won't
36:42
Speaker 1: get the rest of them till two thousand twenty. And
36:46
Speaker 1: it was one of those things where they just they
36:49
Speaker 1: were just they committed to it so much and they
36:51
Speaker 1: loved it so much that they said, okay, just go.
36:53
Speaker 1: But then we wrote the ten scripts and then we started,
36:56
Speaker 1: uh and we started the casting process finding these Knelius
37:00
Speaker 1: the ultimate don't yes exactly, and we shot um, you know,
37:05
Speaker 1: we shot this fall and you know, you know the deal.
37:09
Speaker 1: We're still in the edit, but these things will you know,
37:13
Speaker 1: we'll get there. That's and that's that's amazing. So so
37:17
Speaker 1: the thing about it is that let's go back a
37:19
Speaker 1: little bit. Let's go back to the New Edition. You
37:21
Speaker 1: know when you just, oh lord, you know, out of
37:24
Speaker 1: the blue, just set all kind of records. So tell
37:28
Speaker 1: us about that experience. Tell us about that breakthrough programming.
37:32
Speaker 1: I like to say, for B. E. T that you
37:35
Speaker 1: helmed as an executive producer, the New Addition series, I
37:39
Speaker 1: mean a New Edition mini series. Was you know that
37:42
Speaker 1: one that was you know, one of those big pivotal
37:45
Speaker 1: moments you know, Uh, it touched the culture. I think
37:49
Speaker 1: it it excited a basic gout. Everyone at BT excited. Um,
37:54
Speaker 1: it was something that took a long time. It was
37:56
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Speaker 1: empower small businesses with information to succeed. Y'all new Toyota
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Speaker 1: RAV four asks what if? What if your ride was
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Speaker 1: new RAP four Hybrid. Combined horse power and standard all
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Speaker 1: wheel drive make it the most powerful RAP four plus.
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Speaker 1: With its head turning style and breakaway speed, It's bound
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Speaker 1: to change the way you think of a hybrid. You'all
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