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Marcellus Wiley, Thomas 'Nephew Tommy' Miles, Nina Taylor & Sarita Pittman · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: My next guest is from my hometown Houston, Texas and
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  Speaker 1: has built a career that encompasses radio, television, film, and more.
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  Speaker 1: He is the co host of the nationally syndicated Steve
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  Speaker 1: Harvey Morning Show that puts him in front of a
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  Speaker 1: live radio artist and more than eight million listeners daily
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  Speaker 1: with an incredibly funny prank phone calls. He co stars
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  Speaker 1: on on many television and film roles and has a
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  Speaker 1: law following as an outstanding stand up comedian. He's on
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  Speaker 1: the show today to talk about overcoming the arts and
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  Speaker 1: show business, which I got to talk about what this
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  Speaker 1: you just arrived, you know, just see you in television.
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  Speaker 1: They see it's like the lottery, and this business is
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  Speaker 1: not like that. I've been knowing this young brother since
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  Speaker 1: n two when I opened up my comedy club, the
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  Speaker 1: Hip Hop Comedy Stop, way back then in Houston, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: So I understand that. And this new unscripted show that
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  Speaker 1: he's hosting, that he's hosting the dating show that is
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  Speaker 1: that's on the own network. It's called Ready to Love.
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  Speaker 1: Please work on the money making conversation, my man, Thomas Nephew, Tommy, Myles, Bruce,
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  Speaker 1: how you're doing man? Pretty good man? Very proud, very proudly.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the funny part. You know, because when you was
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  Speaker 1: in Atlanta with Will Will Packer, you know, doing that
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  Speaker 1: little tour, because Will sitting next year, would let you talk.
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  Speaker 1: I love Will Man. We'll be going out there, man,
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  Speaker 1: Will he let my man talk. So I was I
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  Speaker 1: was in U and I was at I was at
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  Speaker 1: the restaurant, and I was just watching on TV, said
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  Speaker 1: my man, because I knew the show was coming out.
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  Speaker 1: And the show I'm talking about on the on network.
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  Speaker 1: It's called Ready to Love. It's hosted by good friend
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  Speaker 1: long time. I wouldn't say mentor I've been mentoring this
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  Speaker 1: man's nineteen ninty two is uh as a stand up
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  Speaker 1: comic and UH, and watched them grow into an amazing talent.
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  Speaker 1: How did that opportunity to come about? And we'll just
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  Speaker 1: talked about it. Go back in your past, this journey
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  Speaker 1: of being nephew Tom, being Thomas Miles first and then
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  Speaker 1: becoming this amazing character on radio and nephew Tim me
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  Speaker 1: and now you Thomas, Nephew Tommy Miles. Now the whole
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  Speaker 1: the whole brand. Now it compasses everything. Talk about that, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity to hosting this new show. Well, you know
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  Speaker 1: what we show. You know, it starts back with uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know school man, from from junior high to high
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  Speaker 1: school to college being being a theater major and um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, after school man, I did, I did stage
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  Speaker 1: plays around the country and uh, but then you know, uh,
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  Speaker 1: stage plays kind of working like school teachers. They're off
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  Speaker 1: in the summertime and off on the holiday. So in
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  Speaker 1: the summer, Man, in the summer, I would I would
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  Speaker 1: come home and and uh, one of my buddies told me, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I don't why don't you try your hand at some
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  Speaker 1: stand up comedy. I'm like, no, man, I'm a I'm
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  Speaker 1: a thespian. That's not what I do. And I came
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  Speaker 1: to your club one night and got on stage and
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  Speaker 1: did a great job. And you know that's where it started.
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  Speaker 1: I came back and you kept giving me a shot,
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  Speaker 1: You kept putting me on stage, and next thing I know,
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  Speaker 1: I was doing a HOLLO, I was doing VTS comic views.
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  Speaker 1: As time progress, I was opening up for opening up
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  Speaker 1: for Luke de Van Dronson, you know, excuse me in
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  Speaker 1: between me uh doing Luthan. When I came to Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 1: you had you had then moved from from Houston to
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles. So what do I do when I land
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  Speaker 1: and hit the ground, Who do I call Russia? Mcdonalo, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'm in l A man. I want to work somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: And that's that's when you would you would throw the
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  Speaker 1: Parker sister sisters. Remember I would land these I would yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I would land these guest starring roles when I would
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  Speaker 1: come and on this and it basically you just told
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  Speaker 1: me that you know, you need to be here, man,
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  Speaker 1: you need to get your get your mind right. Or
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  Speaker 1: if you this is really what you want, you gotta
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  Speaker 1: be here. And those are the things that people have
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  Speaker 1: to hear. If this is really your desire, if this
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  Speaker 1: is really your dream, did you You can't do it
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  Speaker 1: if you're not in the place where it is. You
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  Speaker 1: gotta get there and and and that's what made me,
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  Speaker 1: Um redirect myself to Los Andres, California. Got there. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you invited me to come down and sit
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  Speaker 1: on the show, which Steve had no idea this was
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a home run hit that that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the birth of the of the Nephew and the Uncle
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  Speaker 1: became just a home run hit up and here Um,
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  Speaker 1: fourteen years later, I can't believe I'm you know, because
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  Speaker 1: I was telling you guys. I remember saying, okay, listen,
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  Speaker 1: I could do this. But when Luther call, I be
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  Speaker 1: playing on the radio with y'all. And and then and
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  Speaker 1: you know, man, you know, God gives you a God
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  Speaker 1: gives you a job when you don't even know you
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  Speaker 1: need one. Man, Luther, Luther got sick, passed away, never
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  Speaker 1: went back out on tour, and uh, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: I was blessed to have that that uh be able
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  Speaker 1: to jump and land on my feet with the with
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  Speaker 1: the Steve Harvey Morning Show, uh executive produced by you.
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  Speaker 1: And I was able to get you know, get in
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  Speaker 1: there and find my way. And and um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the prank onon calls took off, characters took off, my
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  Speaker 1: my stand up comedy got bigger, and it all just
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  Speaker 1: sam from not quitting, not not settling to do something else, man.
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  Speaker 1: And and that's the goal. Will Packer been with us
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  Speaker 1: a long time, you know, way back to stump to y'all,
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  Speaker 1: that's how long he's been with us in the radio,
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  Speaker 1: and we pe promoting all this picture thinking like a
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  Speaker 1: man one and two, all these all these movies. He's
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  Speaker 1: been doing sitcoms. So the Will Packer text you and say, hey, man,
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  Speaker 1: we got next. That's a different wheel Packer than we
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  Speaker 1: first met. So you know when he says that, I
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  Speaker 1: do want everybody know how big of a text that
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  Speaker 1: was for Tommy to get when you said he got emotional. Dude,
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  Speaker 1: Will Packer is a beast now in the game. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: girl trip, girl tripp to coming out. You know, so
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  Speaker 1: when you see you know what I'm saying. When you
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  Speaker 1: when you get that text from the guy like that,
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  Speaker 1: the will Packer we talk about now, Man, that that
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  Speaker 1: had to be, like you said, brought you to tears. Yeah, yeah, yea,
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  Speaker 1: so it's it's uh, it was. It was a good feeling, Rashaan.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, even after you get the call, Rashaan,
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  Speaker 1: Now you you know, your mind is your mind is like, okay, man,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta do this and I got to hit home run. Sure,
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  Speaker 1: I do my job. You know, you start stepping up
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  Speaker 1: to the flats there Now, I'm not Benna strikeout. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I've been waiting on this shot too long. Okay, Now,
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  Speaker 1: tell us about the show, it's uh black men and
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  Speaker 1: women in their thirties and fortists who are looking for
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  Speaker 1: lasting love and authentic relationships. Yes, yes, based out of
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  Speaker 1: out of Atlanta, Rashaan. So we got twenty twenty singles,
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  Speaker 1: uh thriving singles. Man, out of Atlanta. We had eight
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  Speaker 1: eight guys and twelve women because you know, the ratio
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  Speaker 1: in Atlanta is twenty to one. So we set the
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  Speaker 1: show up in that, in that type of layout where
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  Speaker 1: it's a little outside of eight guys and twelve women
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  Speaker 1: and it's it's it's ten weeks, man, a process of elimination. Man,
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  Speaker 1: they go out, they mix up you you uh, you
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  Speaker 1: may go out with this person this week, next week,
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  Speaker 1: you might whoever you're feeling. You might. You might go
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  Speaker 1: out and and and meet their parents, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, like you said, there in their thirties and four,
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  Speaker 1: you might be meeting their kids. This is the real world.
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  Speaker 1: Might the factory sign. We've sent them out and you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna do You're gonna meet that best friend, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the best friend like, oh yeah, but the kid episode
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  Speaker 1: just that's that's the killer episode right there. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the fine chick with the bad kids. You go now
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  Speaker 1: you go. I've always want let me you know matter. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: they brought the concept to you. Were you able to
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  Speaker 1: shape it? Because I know you're a creative guy. Did
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  Speaker 1: you ever put it in nephew tummy ism into it,
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  Speaker 1: bring a little your flavor series, Yes, I had to,
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  Speaker 1: man uh, I mean, I mean, you know, you know
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  Speaker 1: how long I've been with my wife, So I was
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  Speaker 1: able to at least bring uh some relationship advice or
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  Speaker 1: what I've been through, what I'm seeing and what I've experienced,
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  Speaker 1: and then you know, and then bring some Tommy to it,
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  Speaker 1: because I want some comedy anywhere I can at least
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  Speaker 1: be a kid, been playful, but but it's still safe
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  Speaker 1: focused at the same time. So yeah, I was able
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  Speaker 1: to shape myself and and put myself you know, not
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  Speaker 1: lose Tommy right right here here here in this root y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Not lose Tommy, but give him some Komas Miles too.
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  Speaker 1: There you go there, because see, like I said, Tomas,
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  Speaker 1: right now you're hearing Thomas Miles. See that Tommy nefew
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  Speaker 1: Tommy said, laugh right there, that nephew Tommy, that that
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  Speaker 1: look that looks a little kind of like funny centers
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  Speaker 1: to side. Yeah, he come over here, I got some
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  Speaker 1: fun over here. Yeah, that's that's what I because I
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  Speaker 1: saw an episode because first of all, when the promo,
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  Speaker 1: when I saw the promo, that was Thomas Miles to me,
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  Speaker 1: because you articulate, smooth and everything that go, Man, I
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  Speaker 1: hope he ain't Thomas Miles the whole thing through now.
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  Speaker 1: Then I then I start, I saw an episode. Go
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  Speaker 1: there you go. Being silly and silly is a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: Being a good thing because a lot of people understand that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, as your comedian, silly. You want to be silly.
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  Speaker 1: You wanna be funny, you wanna be available, to be
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  Speaker 1: able to say wow, because you've got a career that
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  Speaker 1: you gotta go back out there and tell jokes on.
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  Speaker 1: So you don't want to come on the TV show.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell you this. For what I didn't want
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  Speaker 1: people to do is to tune in and not know
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  Speaker 1: this guy at all. That I had to have some
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  Speaker 1: comed There had to be a balance. You have to
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  Speaker 1: give him some comedy and then maybe you introduced them
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of Thomas Miles. But the comedy has
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  Speaker 1: to be there. And that's what I loved, That's what
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  Speaker 1: I love. So so as you went through, was there
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  Speaker 1: they growth for you as a host because this was
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  Speaker 1: your You've hosted many Lives shows. You've hosted those those
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  Speaker 1: those those academic shows, a black black academic shows. So
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  Speaker 1: this is a different show. But dealing with adult people
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  Speaker 1: is unscripted. What what challenges did it bring to you
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  Speaker 1: as a host? As a host? You know what? Man,
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  Speaker 1: I turned into U a coach. I turned into a referee.
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  Speaker 1: I turned into a mentor. That that that because these
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  Speaker 1: young guys and I'm saying here I am and I
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  Speaker 1: can't believe I'm saying young guys they're in their thirties
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  Speaker 1: and forties, that that that really really don't have a
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  Speaker 1: clue about how to keep a relationship. So, you know,
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  Speaker 1: outside of being funny, I had to go back and say, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: come on, man, brother, really is this really the way
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  Speaker 1: you think? You know? So I had to I had
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  Speaker 1: to really start giving advice for real Ruth Shine, And
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, come on, man, you can't. You can't go
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  Speaker 1: around telling every girl out here you like you like
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  Speaker 1: all twelve of them. Man, you just went and told
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  Speaker 1: all twelve of them. You think y'all got something? Come on, brother,
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  Speaker 1: I love it. I love it, I love it. On
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  Speaker 1: the phone, he's on the phone. This uh Thoma's nephew,
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  Speaker 1: Tommy Miles uh coast the wildly popular Steve Harvey morning show.
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  Speaker 1: But he's the host of the very popular Ready Ready
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  Speaker 1: to Love is our own network as a will Pack production.
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  Speaker 1: And I like the show because it's a it's a
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  Speaker 1: spin from all these dating shows. Always got young people,
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  Speaker 1: always got they look like they're perfect. They look at
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  Speaker 1: they want perfect, they get up perfect. This is this
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  Speaker 1: is a show still attractive people, but they got flaws.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You know, they got flaws,
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  Speaker 1: but they flaws that you're gonna meet in real life.
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  Speaker 1: That's why the love if they think it's gonna be authentic,
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  Speaker 1: and that's why you gotta watch this show now, they
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  Speaker 1: tell me now. The final episode of the first season
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  Speaker 1: airs on Deceper twenty second, but just comes on every week, correct, yes,
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  Speaker 1: at least nine Central on but yeah, we uh we
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  Speaker 1: just finished the sixth the sixth episode shot, so we're heady.
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  Speaker 1: This this come inside of the the episode number two. Okay, cool,
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  Speaker 1: what I need for you for talking? Because you know
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  Speaker 1: much love and respect for you. I brought you on
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  Speaker 1: the show because I just want to tell you, man,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for being a man, and also let you
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  Speaker 1: know how much your father was special. And uh and
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  Speaker 1: he raised the good man. He raised the good man.
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  Speaker 1: Man and you guys watch you okay, Man, stay strong.
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  Speaker 1: That's nephew Tommy Thomas Miles on Network every Saturday, Ready
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  Speaker 1: to love. He's the host a Will Packer production again.
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  Speaker 1: My next guest is one of those people I've knowna
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  Speaker 1: has to be like fourteen years now. She uh special
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  Speaker 1: you for having me. First of all, Nina, how are
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  Speaker 1: Town in Houston. Will you allow me to get to
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  Speaker 1: want to come want to talk about your new business
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  Speaker 1: I t E. Faith. But I also want to talk
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  Speaker 1: about when I on this show, I'd like to talk
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  Speaker 1: about using an individual because you know, you originally from
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  Speaker 1: the Fort Worth, Dallas, Texas area, correct, Correct? And you
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  Speaker 1: made a decision, conscious lifestyle decision to move to New York,
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  Speaker 1: did you? And you knew no one in New York
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  Speaker 1: when you moved up there, and a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: in life are intimidate by the process of making a
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  Speaker 1: unknown or the fear of even potential failure because there's
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  Speaker 1: no guarantee you were going to be successful when you
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  Speaker 1: moved to New York. How did you overcome that my
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  Speaker 1: faith in God. It was one of those things that
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  Speaker 1: I had a really great conversation with my mother one time,
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  Speaker 1: and she just said she wanted more for me. And
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  Speaker 1: as scared that as that might seem, because I just thought, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna go to college, I'll get married,
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  Speaker 1: I'll have a couple of kids, like that will be
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  Speaker 1: you to live your dream. And I took a trip
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  Speaker 1: to New York and I got on that plane and
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  Speaker 1: to go back to Texas, and I cried my heart out,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, in two years, I'm moving in
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  Speaker 1: the summer of two thousand five, And in the summer
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  Speaker 1: two thousand five, I moved to New York. And uh
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  Speaker 1: summer of two thousand Rushian McDonald moved to New York.
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  Speaker 1: And that is true. It was our kind of career
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  Speaker 1: path kind of aligned, which was great because I literally
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  Speaker 1: had just gotten there. I was already in my career
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  Speaker 1: of course in Dallas, um in corporate housing, and so
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  Speaker 1: I knew my way around, but I was not knowing
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  Speaker 1: my way around the city. So you were actually you
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  Speaker 1: and the Steve Harvy Morning Show was one of my
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  Speaker 1: first top clients. So as intimidating as you were, and
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  Speaker 1: you are demanding and assertive and you want what you
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  Speaker 1: my big inspiration of I'm about to prove to this
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  Speaker 1: man that I can do this job and I am
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  Speaker 1: going to make it exceptionable for him. And from there
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  Speaker 1: it just it accumulated to a point where I was
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  Speaker 1: just like, Oh, I can do this, I can do that.
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  Speaker 1: And then people started coming in and you helped with mentorship,
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  Speaker 1: and so many other great people did as well. Um,
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  Speaker 1: so I just had a foundation want of faith and
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  Speaker 1: to just to trust my instincts. And three I really
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  Speaker 1: worked at it. I mean, there's a work ethic that
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  Speaker 1: you actually have to have in New York because you
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  Speaker 1: What exactly is corporate housing for the layman person to
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  Speaker 1: understand that there's a there's a there's a whole business
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  Speaker 1: you up in a turn key basic what's exactly its
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  Speaker 1: corporate housing. So corporate housing is apartment so essentially or
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  Speaker 1: to do is just go pick up the keys at
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  Speaker 1: the front desk. So we take care of the housekeeping,
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  Speaker 1: We take care of all of the maintenance, any additional fees.
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  Speaker 1: It's a whole package plan. So it's a great set
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  Speaker 1: up when it comes to a big city like New
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  Speaker 1: York or l A or you know even here um
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  Speaker 1: in Texas. So that allows you the comfortability of getting
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  Speaker 1: that kind of as they say, home away from Holland
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  Speaker 1: situation instead of staying in a hotel room. It's the
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  Speaker 1: four walls. You don't have like a full kitchen, you
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  Speaker 1: can't really entertain guests when you want, So it gives
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  Speaker 1: you a little bit more flexibility, um, just to feel
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  Speaker 1: say we are we are not discriminating. It is that's
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  Speaker 1: you were you moved to New York because you were
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  Speaker 1: if someone's even you know, moving just for a few
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  Speaker 1: something that we can help and take care of. And
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: then the benefit also of our company is that we
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  Speaker 1: like to give back. So the more services that you
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  Speaker 1: go through the Sweet Faith and use, the more we're
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  Speaker 1: able to actually give back to your church, give back
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  Speaker 1: to your church, your charity. Um. Of course, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know too many churches who don't have a building fund, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So it's all about giving back. So that's
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  Speaker 1: one of the things that we also inspired to do.
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  Speaker 1: to bring you back on another interview because I want
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: to talk about your relationship with just for success, but
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  Speaker 1: I want to just focus on this whole uh, this
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  Speaker 1: whole thing and congratulations and uh, you know I'm here
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  Speaker 1: like a lot of people starting I started doing here
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  Speaker 1: it looks good. But I started doing here in my
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  Speaker 1: parents bathroom in middle school. And then I went from
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  Speaker 1: doing hair to go into cosmetology school, now technologist school, aesthetics, massage, therapy, kinesiology,
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  Speaker 1: holistic here care practitioner, and Trichology school. So I've been
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  Speaker 1: in the health and beauty industry for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: And then I helped incorporate coaching into my business model,
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  Speaker 1: which leads me to where I am today to show
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: other people how to incorporate coaching into their business model
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  Speaker 1: to have another stream of income and have a passive
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: stream of income. So that's my history starting from the bathroom.
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  Speaker 1: Now I'm here. So it's always about the background. My
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  Speaker 1: background uh, interstity kid. Uh, six sisters, two brothers. My
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  Speaker 1: father's a truck driver. My mom had a high school education. First,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: more people that didn't have a vision as beyond what
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  Speaker 1: they raised kids and try to give them a better
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  Speaker 1: life than what they had. Okay, here you are. See
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  Speaker 1: your father's here, which is fantastic when you have a
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  Speaker 1: relationship with your with your father. My relationship with my
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: daughter that I just love. She's a she's a sawhomore
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  Speaker 1: college in college. So when you started doing this hair
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  Speaker 1: in the bathroom, you know, you know, you're tying up
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  Speaker 1: the bathroom and I did. I'm the baby of four. Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: have trying up the bar with just ha absolutely not
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  Speaker 1: sharing any profits. Okay, so tell me about that little
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  Speaker 1: moment there. Well they gotta understanding that. Okay. Well I
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  Speaker 1: started to bathroom and then my mom took me to
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  Speaker 1: the kitchen. I graduated to the kitchen. You know, back
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  Speaker 1: in the day, he used to have those ponytailers used
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  Speaker 1: to put in the microwave, you know, So I learned
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  Speaker 1: how to perfect that right before I get burned. So
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  Speaker 1: that was my go to hairstyle. But then my mom
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  Speaker 1: was like, okay, you need to get out of my
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  Speaker 1: kitchen too, So then I started going to the people's
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  Speaker 1: homes and then my dad didn't like that side of
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  Speaker 1: It's like, okay, now you need to get in the
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  Speaker 1: I did um and my parents was just like, if
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna do it, take it to the next up.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, my dad was like, you're doing hair
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  Speaker 1: like what Like he wanted me to really pursue going
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  Speaker 1: to college first, but he supported it. My mom was like,
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  Speaker 1: be the stereotypical hair scholars. So they me and thankfully
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  Speaker 1: I got to see my mom. She's an entrepreneurship, had
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  Speaker 1: That was like one of the job for the black
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  Speaker 1: man to have. That was like the jobs. So him,
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  Speaker 1: he dressed the dressed ushn So you know, that's what
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  Speaker 1: I saw, and in mediocrity was not celebrated in our house.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, we didn't get celebration for doing what
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  Speaker 1: at what you what you accomplished it like my parents.
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  Speaker 1: You know, my mom was just you know, do the
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  Speaker 1: that what happened? Everything happened this head. I got the
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  Speaker 1: I was just gonna throw out a business. Let's say
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  Speaker 1: I want to lunch. And it's not trying to hold
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  Speaker 1: you accountable, but I want to launch me because people
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  Speaker 1: They killer? I want to? I want to. I want
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  Speaker 1: to open a cheesecake business. How why would I launch that? What? What? What? What?
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  Speaker 1: What would be the mistakes I would make? Because right now,
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  Speaker 1: being driven by my friends absolutely absolutely telling me I
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  Speaker 1: should do this nobody, nobody from Baker hadn't told me
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  Speaker 1: about alone. I don't know about the manufacturer. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: mask produce these things. What how would I launch that?
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  Speaker 1: I would say what I teaches? Ranking it? What can
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  Speaker 1: you do right now with what you have? So you
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  Speaker 1: have all these great ideas, rank them for the number three.
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  Speaker 1: Number three is something that I could do right now
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  Speaker 1: with what I have. So if I'm a great baker,
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  Speaker 1: besides my friends, who else knows that I'm a great baker?
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  Speaker 1: So you can build start building relationships. Go to car dealerships,
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  Speaker 1: go to restaurants, give them your stuff for free. People
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  Speaker 1: don't like doing that, but go head and the people
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  Speaker 1: that I could get some testimonials. That way, you can
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  Speaker 1: pictures of your cakes, make them look pretty. And then
• 36:08
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  Speaker 1: start small because you jump out there. Figure your cost. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: get funding? After you get funding, what's your what's your
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  Speaker 1: interest rate? How much you gotta pay? All of those
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: things matter, But first, initially, let people taste your product,
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: let people offer, and people don't want to do that
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  Speaker 1: free part. We just want to jump out there and
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  Speaker 1: I call the relationships or are we staying the same
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: thing peer group relationship? Well, I also do a subject
• 39:32
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  Speaker 1: We don't understand that if we are the smartest person
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  Speaker 1: everyone else to be there. So many times we do
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  Speaker 1: not put ourselves in environments that we can become sharpened
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  Speaker 1: want to win, hang out with people that are at
• 39:49
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  Speaker 1: And that's what I teach. I don't ever just want
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  Speaker 1: to be the smartest person in the room again, unless
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  Speaker 1: everybody is coming there to he or me. But I
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: put myself in an environment that forces me to stay humble.
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  Speaker 1: It keeps me real, it keeps me relatable, and I
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  Speaker 1: know that I'm not the only person that knows everything. Well.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with that, you know, I I know that
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  Speaker 1: I have to. I've only gotten better by surrounding myself
• 40:14
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  Speaker 1: questioned me, You know they're kind of tentative saying that,
• 40:21
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• 40:23
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• 40:25
  Speaker 1: demand that information from them because of the fact that
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  Speaker 1: you go, and his sociology's degree from Columbia University. That's
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  Speaker 1: in New York City, y'all. He was an all pro
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  Speaker 1: who played ten years in the NFL for four different teams.
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  Speaker 1: He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife and
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  Speaker 1: son and a baby on the way. Because we read
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• 43:30
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• 43:36
  Speaker 1: Return of Parents. Marcellus Wiley, My man, I love right there. Well,
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: well I'll tell you some man Um. First of all,
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: this you know your sociology degree. My mind was the
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: sociology we always got that. Let's let's let's talk a
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: little bit about that, because I feel that because you
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: got a degree is so geology which is a plays
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: a part in your book, that that that really allows
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: you to tap into what you see in everyday life
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: and also how you how you the person on the day,
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: How is important to getting that degree in sociology has
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  Speaker 1: been to you for you? Yeah, it's it's been critical
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: because it's it's a degree that gives you a universal
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: understanding of people and the patterns of life and what
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: really shapes us and influences us as as individuals. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you really learn something that I think comes back from
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: biblical times where there are more similarities than differences and
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: everyone so I'm able to find those commonalities and try
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  Speaker 1: to bring like minds together even though we may have
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  Speaker 1: different experiences. So the sociology background really points out those
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: elements in our everyday existence, whether it's go to the
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  Speaker 1: grocery store, and why are certain items in the front
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  Speaker 1: and certain items in the back. And when you open
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: the magazine, why do they have certain articles here and
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: certain articles there? Every single facet of life someone that
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: has studied that behavior to try and have the most impact,
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: the maximum impact. And I'm able to know some of
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: those things. Yeah, and that's really amazing. Now, your book,
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  Speaker 1: that's why you're calling me. You know, I know we
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  Speaker 1: gotta love for each other, but you call about this book.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: We gotta sell some books. That's why I never shut
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: up The Life, Opinions and Unexpected Adventures of an NFL Outlet.
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  Speaker 1: My man, why did you write this book? I wrote
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  Speaker 1: this book to inspire everyone, no matter what adversity they face,
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: no matter what age group, what circumstances you come from.
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: Uh and simple. I'm a guy from Compton who who's
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: mother and father wanted a better life for me, and
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: they scraped together their pinies and took us from Compton
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: to South Central. And that may now say it seemed
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: like a huge leap to people, but you know, in
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  Speaker 1: our reality, it's crazy. My grandmother started this mindset. She
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: moved from Watts in the sixties to Compton with the
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: same mindset. She wanted a better life for her family.
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  Speaker 1: And my my story is just the fork in a
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  Speaker 1: roll kid who decided to use his talents to plant
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: and plan away out of the neighborhood to give himself
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: and his family a chance to live a better life
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: in better experiences and circumstances. So I became very responsible
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: for my talents. I didn't waste them. I didn't take
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: them for granted. I try to maximize them and allow
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: them to give me an opportunity to make it to
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: to realize my dreams. And the reason I wrote The
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  Speaker 1: Blue Kids it simply I'm a kid who figured this out,
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: made sure he understood his identity, what his role was
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: in the family, and took full advantage of it. And
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: I want to empower everyone in their circumstances, no matter
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  Speaker 1: how dire that those circumstances may look, that you can
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: become anything you want. And I know it sounds cliche,
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: but trust me, man, I am a walking, living existence
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: of that same cliche. And I want to inspire others.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: Will you do that for me, because it's really funny
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: when I read the book, Well, you had me at
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: the opening. You know, here's the funds day. They sent
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: me a link to get the book for free, right,
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: and so I couldn't figure it out. And I read
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: the opening where you were sitting in your house waiting
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: to be called, and then then I clicked a little
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: part and read sample, and it just took me to
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: that part that hold on, holdo, holo, hold on, and
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: I bought the book. I went on and bought the
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: book because first, first of all, you're my boy. Secondly,
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: you have me in the beginning, so I had to
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: read this book now. And so so the things is,
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: this is the thing about it. It was very similar
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: because I come from the hood. I grew up in Hereford,
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: and just like your your parents, they moved me to
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: Northeast and somebody said that wasn't much of an upgrade,
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: but they thought they wanted to give me a better
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: opportunity to succeed. But things that the things that I
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: stood out for me was that you said, athletes took
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: your athletics took you out. But you're a very smart guy.
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: Let's not unders sail your intellect, your intelligence, your your
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: ability to get grades under in the circumstances and that's
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: what I think that on our last call that we
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: talked about, is that so many times standing in the hood,
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: growing up in the hood, people only see one type
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: of person, and we know there are so many diamonds
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: in the hood that can sometimes be you know, the
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: be damaged because of the fact they're not giving the
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: proper opportunity to succeed. Sports gave you your opportunity and
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: you got out and uh and then you on this
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: radio show talking about your life ten years in NFL.
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: You know, beautiful daughter who's attending a tract scholarship at
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: the University of Connecticut, a wife who's a nurse anesthesiastic
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: in its thesis. Right, Yeah, I know, man, I was
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: working with him, and I was working with him, man.
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: But but you know, you don't even know that if
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: you read the book. Don't see what I'm saying. You
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: don't know that if you read the book. You gotta
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: read the book. But it's the funny part. But in
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: the beginning, in the early parts of the book, and
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna tell everybody book, but there's certain things
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: that you have to know about this young man and
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: in his journey. And it was like when I was
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: his sister there used to there, used to come walk
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: through school. They get beat up every day from the
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: fact they got beat up for four straight weeks, okay.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: And in my when I was growing up in the hood,
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: it was this guy. This guy would pas me down
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: on the corner like I like he like I was
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: like he was the police every day. I our dread walking.
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: I mean, see, at least Marcelis just tell his sister
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: to go another way. She wouldn't go another way. We're
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: gonna walk down the street. See, I tried to go
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: all the way. He found me. He found me every time.
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: So I found that so relatable to to that that's
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: how the hood is. The hood is is that either
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: stand up and deal with it or runaway and become
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: a victim of it. And that's and you never became
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: a victim of it. And that's why I really appreciate
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: at the beginning of the book, and tell me about that.
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: You said a lot there, brother, Let me go back
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: to the beginning point. Uh. Yeah, my talents. When I
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: say talents, I mean to plural one and two. My
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: talents were academics and my talents were athletics. So I
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: was a very good football player, damn good, super fast
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  Speaker 1: as a kid, and I was super smart, um smart
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  Speaker 1: because I not so much. I was born a genius,
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  Speaker 1: but I was a kid in the front of the
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  Speaker 1: class raising his hand asking why I was a curious kid.
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  Speaker 1: So I coupled my two talents, which was my academics
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  Speaker 1: and athletics, and I decided to play the game of
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  Speaker 1: life in a short and in a long game. My
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  Speaker 1: short game was gonna play football. That was gonna be
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  Speaker 1: my means to an end. A lot of people in
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  Speaker 1: the hood look at sports and entertainment as the end game,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, no, it's a means to an end. Um.
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  Speaker 1: So I used football to get us immediately out of
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  Speaker 1: the hood, to give me scholarship opportunities, to give me
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  Speaker 1: the millions of dollars initially to help my family and
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  Speaker 1: start generational wealth. Excuse me. That was That was football,
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  Speaker 1: But the long game was Columbia. The long game was
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  Speaker 1: my Ivy League education. A long game was opening up doors,
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  Speaker 1: having people respect my intelligence, to presume my intelligence before
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  Speaker 1: they even meet me. Based off a degree, based off
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  Speaker 1: of schooling of the journey in the in the in
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  Speaker 1: the articulation, and the characterization he has for both his
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  Speaker 1: parents in the book is rather amazing. Now, the book
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  Speaker 1: title never Shut Up, I have to assume that that
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  Speaker 1: title came from You're not You're not shutting up with
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  Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. Is that's why that title came from.
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  Speaker 1: It was just your whole lifestyle because you didn't shut
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  Speaker 1: up when your teammate told you to shut up. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that was one. It certainly has shown his ugly head
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  Speaker 1: and at times this beautiful head in my life. But
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  Speaker 1: the core of never Shut Up is for everyone. Um,
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  Speaker 1: this world tried to tell me, The world tried to
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  Speaker 1: tell me at a young age, who I had to be,
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  Speaker 1: who I could be, and who I couldn't be. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: The stereotypes, the statistics, everything was telling me what I
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  Speaker 1: was going to be. But my essence was saying something different.
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  Speaker 1: My responsibility to my family and to myself with saying
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  Speaker 1: something different. So never shut Up comes from the fact
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  Speaker 1: that you tell the world who you want to be.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let the world tell you. Don't let the world
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  Speaker 1: dictate circumstances to you, dictate terms and they will. The
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  Speaker 1: world would tell you you're gonna be a gang banger bro.
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  Speaker 1: The world would tell you all you are as a
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  Speaker 1: football player, the world would tell you all you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be is just this rapper or or you know what
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  Speaker 1: the world's gonna tell you. Your daddy wasn't here for you.
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  Speaker 1: You're not gonna be anything in this world like this
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  Speaker 1: world would tell you so much. Never shut up telling
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  Speaker 1: the world what you're gonna be, and don't stop till
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  Speaker 1: you go get it. It's just that simple, marcellus. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for calling the show man. Give me those autog
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  Speaker 1: And you know I support you and everything that you do. Man.
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  Speaker 1: daughter and yukon and keep winning, Keep winning, marcellus. We'll
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  Speaker 1: we sort of stopped paying attention and racked up a
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