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Kevin Bludso Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversation. I am your host, ra
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  Speaker 1: out with your dreams. I want you to stop tripping
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  Speaker 1: over small challenges and prepare to rise above the bigger
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  Speaker 1: obstacles that life will present to you. My next guest
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  Speaker 1: is Kevin Blood, So we go all the way back
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  Speaker 1: to the Hoodie Awards in Los Angeles, California, before he
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  Speaker 1: opened Blood Sows Barring Q on Lobrea, which I've been
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  Speaker 1: too many times in Los Angeles. Kevin's is a chef
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  Speaker 1: television personality and two times Steve Harvey Hoodie Award winner.
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  Speaker 1: In two thousand and eight, he opened Blood Souls by
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  Speaker 1: b b Q and it's since growing into an international empire.
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  Speaker 1: Hear me when I say international. From Compton to International
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  Speaker 1: with utsoles, ball and Q which I talked about earlier.
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  Speaker 1: It is right there on Librea. Right there, man, you
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  Speaker 1: got valet parking, everything, great food. Every time I go there, man,
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  Speaker 1: it's just a beautiful, uh display of food. People in
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  Speaker 1: their cross sexual people, uh concession standing at the l
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  Speaker 1: A f C Soccer Stadium a location in Proud Bird
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  Speaker 1: right there in l A. Been there many times. Catering
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  Speaker 1: and the sprawling restaurant and ball called Sanding tone by
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  Speaker 1: Blood Show BBQ in the crowd casino and Millborne him
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  Speaker 1: and now y'all millborn Australia. That's where the International Park
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  Speaker 1: comes from. The legend of Blood so BBQ begins in
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  Speaker 1: course of Countera, Texas. That's right south of Dallas, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: The reason I know. I'm from Houston, Texas, so I
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  Speaker 1: passed through Colta towna many times. I get up to Dallas.
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  Speaker 1: Come on now where the Blood Show family has been
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  Speaker 1: perfecting the craft of slow smith slow smoked meats for
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  Speaker 1: five generations. But while his family roots of Lady in Texas,
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  Speaker 1: Kevin himself was born and raised in Compton, California. That's
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  Speaker 1: where I met him. Now he is a television start
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  Speaker 1: like I said earlier, telling he big time, tell of it,
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  Speaker 1: sitting up that man got make up and anything. You
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  Speaker 1: can catch him judging on Netflix The American Barbecue Showdown.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen every episode. I've also seen him on the
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  Speaker 1: Food Challemeler Cookie Network. I've seen him on the Bar Rescue.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen his brother everywhere please working the money making conversations.
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  Speaker 1: I want to call him a dear friend and a
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  Speaker 1: guy I feel so blessed to talk to right now
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  Speaker 1: on my show today, my man Kevin Blood too. How
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  Speaker 1: you doing, sir, man, I am good. After that introduction,
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  Speaker 1: I interview over, I'm good. I've been smiling. Well. I
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  Speaker 1: had to because I see you post a let on
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  Speaker 1: the on the on social media. You're gonna be talking
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  Speaker 1: to the legend on Thursday. I saw that this fine.
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  Speaker 1: Let me let me, let me make it perfectly clear.
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  Speaker 1: I would not be doing probably none of this extra
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  Speaker 1: stuff if it wasn't for winning that first Hoodie award. Man,
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  Speaker 1: I would never forget that. I remember talking to you backstage.
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  Speaker 1: It was so cool and it was like I always
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  Speaker 1: knew you and Steve too, but with me and you,
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  Speaker 1: how backstage and man, you came and gave me the hug.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, damn, have I met him? Be false
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  Speaker 1: by just say, man, and I have light. And I
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  Speaker 1: mean you told me something that night. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you remember, but you said you're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: all right. I always look out for your folks. You
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  Speaker 1: remember you told me that. Absolutely absolutely believe that, man,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And I just want to say, man, I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate you. I appreciate everything you guys have done for me. Man.
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  Speaker 1: And I really really missed the Hoodie Awards. I really
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  Speaker 1: do because Win I los. It was so much fun. Man,
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  Speaker 1: how y'all take normal folks from the neighborhood and made
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  Speaker 1: us feel incredible every time for those three and Podas Man,
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  Speaker 1: I just always wanted to thank you guys. Man. It
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  Speaker 1: was an incredible time. It was an incredible ride. And
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  Speaker 1: even because I think I went to like sixth Straighter
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  Speaker 1: absolutely remember we had those little those little meeting greets
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. Remember, yeah, man, the little the
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  Speaker 1: great room in there, because don't forget Jevin Won't the
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  Speaker 1: red carpet, that the red carpet And to get my
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  Speaker 1: first one for what was Sally Richard and uh Bernie
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  Speaker 1: Mack and I'm not Bernie mac up George Waller clowning
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  Speaker 1: for thirty minutes and and my pants falling down and
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  Speaker 1: everything and memories. Man, I chairs the sound real though,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So I have the video of of your
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  Speaker 1: winning I don't know if you have that. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: send it to you. Please don't show that, man, Please
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  Speaker 1: send it to you. I got them all. I got
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  Speaker 1: that time history of the hoodia wants slash neighborhood of
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  Speaker 1: on I got it. But but you know something giving
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  Speaker 1: It's the thing about it is that that's what it
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  Speaker 1: was all about. It's always been about the people. It's
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  Speaker 1: always recognizing the regular people because you know, we get
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  Speaker 1: so we get become like unknown, we can when we
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  Speaker 1: get burdened, like we're not even delivering a contributing And
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  Speaker 1: that's why I was telling you about to take care
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  Speaker 1: of you people, because what we didn't know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Steve Harvey now didn't know at the time, was that well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I started this in Houston, Texas in nineties seven,
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  Speaker 1: just says I was a sidekick on the radio show.
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  Speaker 1: And then what happened when Steve came we got the
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  Speaker 1: radio gig in l A. He said, rich Sean, then
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  Speaker 1: you should do that Hoodie Award thing. I think I
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  Speaker 1: could be big. You know, I would never as a
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  Speaker 1: as an individual, I could never just go to the
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  Speaker 1: radio stations. But Steve was big enough to say, let's
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  Speaker 1: do this, let's do that. I gotta give credit with
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  Speaker 1: credits due, and they wouldn't know. And they sold it,
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  Speaker 1: and we sold the idea. We went to Vegas several
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  Speaker 1: times with the Forum several times, and then we went
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  Speaker 1: back to Vegas. And so it was when you when
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  Speaker 1: you talk about it, you know, because what I didn't
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  Speaker 1: see common was how it affected the business. How enabled
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  Speaker 1: you to talk about how the Hoodie Awards affected you
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  Speaker 1: guys with all that promotion, Steve Holland and out on them.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the nominees, here's the nominees. Here's the top four,
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  Speaker 1: here's the top four. Talk about that, I mean, the
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  Speaker 1: pride that is, I mean, uh, it's like people still
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  Speaker 1: to this day just talking about when it was time
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  Speaker 1: to vote, the first vote and the second vote, and
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  Speaker 1: and and how genius as well us the way y'all
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  Speaker 1: put that together that had the first vote in the
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  Speaker 1: second vote, but just the pride of bringing people together
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  Speaker 1: and people just want to be part of that. And
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  Speaker 1: then when you win and and bringing home, man, it's
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  Speaker 1: like in the neighborhood. It's like you know, winning the
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  Speaker 1: National Championship. You know, everybody want to come, and so
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  Speaker 1: many people would wait to hear if you want. I
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  Speaker 1: mean people. I mean we had customers cry when we lost,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And uh, it's that I
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  Speaker 1: mean because like I said, you don't have that much.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, you you don't have that many shows
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  Speaker 1: that do that. Especially, I mean, we barely got enough
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  Speaker 1: of for real celebrities that they give props to to have,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the normal hard work and people trying to
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  Speaker 1: run their businesses and all that doing their thing to
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  Speaker 1: get an award, and and and and like I said,
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  Speaker 1: getting the award from Sally Sally Richards and and and
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  Speaker 1: George Wallace and and the people I met backstage and
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  Speaker 1: just the whole thing. Man, It's incredible, man, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it was a it was a real beautiful time, man.
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  Speaker 1: And it's just the pride that it brings. And then
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  Speaker 1: the customers that you get. You notice everything that I do,
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  Speaker 1: every show that I say that I do, they say
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  Speaker 1: about winning the Hoodie Award, No matter what they always
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  Speaker 1: said in Canada, Australia and whatever. Like the lady told
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  Speaker 1: the body said, you know, all over always be a
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  Speaker 1: problem man, because like I said, that was just a
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  Speaker 1: really exciting time, man, was it was real fun, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and and I thank you, you know, because of
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  Speaker 1: the fact that the whole idea, man, was to celebrate
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  Speaker 1: the real stars of the community. That was the basis
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  Speaker 1: of the Video Awards and the Neighborhood Awards because of
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  Speaker 1: the fact that and my whole thought was that, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: instead of have the celebrities being recognized for un let's
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  Speaker 1: use the celebrities. It's almost like props to get people there,
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  Speaker 1: because you know, if we said that we were just
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  Speaker 1: gonna be doing best Bibecue, best high School, would nobody
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  Speaker 1: show up? But you got Steve irvinghol you got the
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  Speaker 1: salary just just Sali Richardson's on stage, you got the
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  Speaker 1: George Wallace so stage, you got Stop Dog Ice Q
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  Speaker 1: showed up one year, Matt Jason showed up. When you
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  Speaker 1: could all these people people going whoa, whoa, what's going
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  Speaker 1: on here? What's going on here? And this allows us
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  Speaker 1: to be back like like in the Green, like before
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  Speaker 1: the Wars and in the green room with him, you know,
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  Speaker 1: having cocktails, but just like and everybody interacting. Man, it
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  Speaker 1: was incredible. And like I said to even the walker
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  Speaker 1: to the not just the red carpet, when we walked
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  Speaker 1: through the casino or whatever, going inside getting ready to
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  Speaker 1: call in and walking inside that arena. Man, that was like.
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  Speaker 1: That was that was That was That was major. That
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  Speaker 1: was that was major because I you know, the thing
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  Speaker 1: about it I would not share. No, that was people
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  Speaker 1: come in and go, man, this is produced better than
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  Speaker 1: the image. Dude, this is better than because I because
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  Speaker 1: I had to do that. The worst thing in the world, man,
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  Speaker 1: is for us as black people, you know, to say
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna do something good for us and didn't do
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  Speaker 1: it half. I didn't do it slopping, And that's what
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  Speaker 1: that was my greatest love, man, because to see the
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  Speaker 1: look on y'all faces because y'all didn't believe it. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: this will always chipped me out. Was those acceptance species.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't ready for that, Kevin. So I wasn't ready
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  Speaker 1: for because I I told Steve, I was look, man,
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  Speaker 1: I got the fact we're gonna nominate them. I got
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  Speaker 1: the fact we're gonna vote vote. I said, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what they're gonna say when they get up there. Man.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all got up there, man, and it was like if
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  Speaker 1: they brought me to tears many times, man, because I
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  Speaker 1: didn't realize the impact of a community award. That's what
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  Speaker 1: it was. It was a community award and how it
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  Speaker 1: affected And you know, when I because I always like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because I was a regular guy. Steve was
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  Speaker 1: still the start, you know, way back there. But I
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  Speaker 1: could go to a restaurant and I went by your
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  Speaker 1: place one time back in the hood. And then when
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  Speaker 1: and then and then I found out my girl Candy,
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  Speaker 1: who should do my backstage celebrity streaming? She said, She said,
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  Speaker 1: Sean Sean Kevin is on Librey, I said, she see
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  Speaker 1: he got a spot on Libra. I didn't even know, Kevin.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even know you had that. Candy so cool
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  Speaker 1: after my baking sister. Now, man that she is so cool,
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  Speaker 1: always so professional, oh man, and just and incredible, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, your whole staff was just like you know, man,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, and I mean when you guys came out
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  Speaker 1: and did the video of me, uh, and I was
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  Speaker 1: still in COMPLI, man, and I don't even know what
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  Speaker 1: and you know, Candy don't give no information. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I used to find my best to see that. Boy,
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  Speaker 1: you think I'm gonna losing my job over you know
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  Speaker 1: like that. So she said about the video when y'all
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  Speaker 1: did the video, she said, well, well, I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to say she lied, but she lies, like, oh, we
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  Speaker 1: do this with all the contestant with people just don't
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  Speaker 1: get on the video and at the luncheon, and then
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  Speaker 1: I was on the luncheon. I don't even know untill
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  Speaker 1: I got did you know. I mean, everything y'all did
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  Speaker 1: was it was just it was it was for even
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  Speaker 1: like the waiting like like like in that first time.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm I'm nervous. I'm sweating like a brother
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  Speaker 1: of clan the white woman. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sweating that nervous. But I said, man, I ain't
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  Speaker 1: been this nervous since football days. And it was just
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  Speaker 1: uh and and I'm not even too much on it. Man.
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  Speaker 1: It was other contestants that I met, and then the
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  Speaker 1: friendships the people that I met from other businesses that
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  Speaker 1: we are still good friends to this day. Man. That's
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  Speaker 1: what that's what it's all about. Man. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: hear like the morning show sometimes and I get nervous
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  Speaker 1: because I remember during the time when it's voting time,
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  Speaker 1: because you know, we have Coast got us about a
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  Speaker 1: few hours and they don't already started. I remember that
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  Speaker 1: one year, it was six forty five, they was about
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  Speaker 1: to go off the air and uh and it was
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  Speaker 1: this krapt Tommy said he was doing the top three
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  Speaker 1: or whatever, the top four, and we was number three
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  Speaker 1: already in time. But Steve said, now that's a Now
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  Speaker 1: that don't make no sense. Bless those number three and
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  Speaker 1: number brothers in l A. That's right, So listen, let
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  Speaker 1: me explain everybody. See what happened was from two thousand
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  Speaker 1: one to two thousand five l A, who was LA
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  Speaker 1: based radio station. Steve three and and Kevin and all
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  Speaker 1: everybody was in the other l A show. In two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and five, were left and went to New York
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  Speaker 1: based in New York for two years. So for one
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  Speaker 1: year with a year off two thousand and six, we
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  Speaker 1: didn't even do it. We didn't even do it. But
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  Speaker 1: we're trying to figure out what we had to do
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  Speaker 1: with our own career. We were struggling and trying to
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  Speaker 1: come up after that run, and then two thousand seven
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  Speaker 1: we brought it back and so we're freaking me and
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  Speaker 1: Steve I was like, okay, they in l A. And
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  Speaker 1: so you know, you guys, and like you said, y'all
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  Speaker 1: were three hours difference and y'all were voting. Y'all were
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  Speaker 1: seriously voting Kevin. Yeah, we had him. Uh, we had everybody,
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  Speaker 1: every old college people, everywhere, everybody we knew all over
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  Speaker 1: the United States. We had them going. Man. But like
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  Speaker 1: I said, and you'd be surprised. I mean, people still
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  Speaker 1: come and tell me how much they missed that. And
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  Speaker 1: I missed those weeks of the Hoodie Awards and so
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  Speaker 1: many people. When you win, it would go and I
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  Speaker 1: remember being, you know, like I said, it's starting in
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  Speaker 1: l A. And you did. But I remember being and
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  Speaker 1: I remember, you know a couple of times, but those
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  Speaker 1: was the only one in I mean one time we
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  Speaker 1: were the one my first year we wanted and crash
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  Speaker 1: shall High wanted. And after that it got so people
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  Speaker 1: don't know how hard you know, Yeah, it was like
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  Speaker 1: you know, because you're absolutely right, because two thousand and seven,
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, That's when you know it became
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  Speaker 1: really national because we started out syndicating to all these
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  Speaker 1: walking with New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, you know, Charlotte, Miami,
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  Speaker 1: all these different market dollars and so it wasn't just
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  Speaker 1: l A anymore. That's why I Steer trip that you
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  Speaker 1: guys were able to win before it really explode. And
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  Speaker 1: when it really explode, it was like, Wow, this is
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  Speaker 1: something that was just a just a cool idea that's
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  Speaker 1: become worldwide. But that but that kind of like prepared
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  Speaker 1: you for what you're doing now as as as a
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  Speaker 1: as they said international brand talk about the stuff we
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  Speaker 1: were talking about. Thing is we're talked about coming out
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  Speaker 1: of Comptom. You know, open up your shop. You got
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  Speaker 1: this beautiful restaurant. I'm gonna just tell you about the food. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: and uh blood so ball and cute ball and que
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  Speaker 1: that's on Labria. I swear to you guys every time
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  Speaker 1: I go to l A. You know, the COVID has
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  Speaker 1: kept me out, but I would go there and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling I'm gonna typing by Candy. Candy Candy she
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  Speaker 1: goes by Kendy Marina because I represent her as an
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  Speaker 1: actress and and uh talk and producer. She took me
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  Speaker 1: that the first time, she said, and she said, Kevin
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  Speaker 1: said he got you on this Rashan. I said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't like that. I don't like that, and said
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  Speaker 1: I don't like and so and so. So. You know,
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  Speaker 1: every time I go in there, I don't even tell nobody.
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  Speaker 1: I don't go. I've taken the Air Force in there.
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  Speaker 1: Air Force in there because I had a big contract
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  Speaker 1: the Air Force, and then I was doing a base
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  Speaker 1: like two hours away and uh and in the month
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  Speaker 1: of March, two hours away. And I told him, I said,
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  Speaker 1: I want you all to go to l A and
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  Speaker 1: Or and get and pick up this barbecue run. They said, Rushan, really,
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  Speaker 1: I said, yes, blood so or Libreya. I said, the
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  Speaker 1: Colin Green's gonna kill you then gonna mess you up. Now,
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: I said, Colline Green's gonna mess you up. And they
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  Speaker 1: said when they two hours down to our us back,
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: was nobody disappointed. He went, Wow, let's see why you
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  Speaker 1: would appreciate. That's how powerful I believe in your brand.
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  Speaker 1: That's how good your brain is. Tell everybody about the
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  Speaker 1: menu that you have, the type of food that you
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  Speaker 1: serve on your menu, Kevin. Uh, Like I always say
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  Speaker 1: that we do it right, low and slow, like a
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  Speaker 1: sixth vote. You know what I'm saying. Take our time
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  Speaker 1: to brisket is fifteen hours, the ribs is four to
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  Speaker 1: five hours. You know, we we you know, I'm a
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  Speaker 1: firm believer it's Nat broke. Don't don't fix it. You know.
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  Speaker 1: I still do it the way Willie May feels you
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  Speaker 1: should do it. When I was coming up spend my
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  Speaker 1: summers and of course in Canada, you know, she would
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: take her time and do it right, you know. And
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: I just try to I just try to keep that
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: going at every spot that we got, you know. Um
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: and like I said, just knowing incredible people like you
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: and and and and it's so funny you bring up
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: because I had a discussion about that with a younger
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: guy who just opened up a spot, and he was saying,
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: you know, say, you know, uh, sometimes celebrities come in
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: and and uh this and that, this and that. Let
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: me just tell you one thing, I don't care who
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: they are, whatever whatever you give them that option, because
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: celebrities are different. Some of them are just like you,
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: who like I want to pay. Some of them don't
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: you know, but you being you need you need them
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: more than they need you. And like on any field,
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: you've got cool people and you've got uh, you know,
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: people who're tripping or whatever whatever, But that's on you
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: to understand that. But a celebrity coming in there, it's
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: gonna look out for your business. But you have to respect.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: Just like they respect your work as a chef and
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: they come to your spot, you have to respect they work.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: Like these people don't want to deal with people sometimes,
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: but they take the time to come come to you
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: and come to your spot. And sometimes us as business
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: owners have to really quick speaking on people's pocket books
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: and all that one tweet or some of the like
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: when you talk about free advertisement or some of the
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: stuff that you do. I can never pay for that
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: because I posted time, I posted a couple of last
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: month and I hadn't even been there, and I act
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: like I was there. Yeah, and That's what I'm saying.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: But I can't. And I respect that, and I love
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: that so much. And I try to tell younger brothers
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: and sisters who opened up get that mentality. They the time,
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: they're gonna pay, but make sure you give them the
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: respect that they deserve, you know. I mean, we got
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: all huge celebrities coming there and do the same thing
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: with all of them, all of them. You know, I'm
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: not gonna drop no names, but I'm come about who's
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: you know, some of the best artists we ever had too,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: from the Titanic and everything come in that spot and
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: they all look out. But you better give them, you know,
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: take care of the man because these people are gonna
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: do unique that. Who wasn't for that and the Hoodie
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Awards and getting to know that. I mean, there was
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: so many celebrities that come to the Hoodie Awards that
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: came to the restaurant afterward. I gotta come see what
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: this is about. Absolutely absolutely, and that's that's called community.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: But the thing about it, let me just tell you
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: some real talk here. Every time I've been I've been
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: there over a dozen times. Okay, I brought people with me.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: I went in there by myself and just got the
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: vegetable spread. Because when you get the vegetable spread in
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: the met it's just too much. And I'm always traveling
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: and I don't really I'm in a hotel, so I
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: can't do it to go okay, and so so sometimes
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: I come in there, give me some corn bread, and
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: then I give me the the you know, some colar
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: greens and beans and and so I just break it
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: up like that. Or sometimes you're coming and get me
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: a sandwich and so. But every time I go in there,
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: the service is always on point. Kevin. The meal looks
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: exactly the same of quality separation. I mean picture, I
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: take pictures of your food and then people do. People go, Okay,
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: it looks like that. I said all the time, all
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: the time. I remember when I brought the National Guarden there.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: You know, we was we were standing way in Long
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Beach for for conference. I said, they said, it's where
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: we gonna eat. I said, we're going to uh blood
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: show bar and Q it's where l A he said.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: All way on that. I said, yes, We're gonna go
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: over there. Went up in there. Man, they went wow
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: after because because the beauty about the beaut the thing
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: about coming to this place, like when you get your meal,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: you get that double meat, triple mea the order. Because
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: I'm a tind of guy, man, people, I was saying, man,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: you're small, you know all that food. Hey, stay off
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: my plate, Stay off my plate. Stay we need to
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: click that up. And so what happens when you have
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: a boy, five people at the table, okay, and all
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: that food come to the table. You get attention man,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: because it looks so beautiful because every one of the
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: plates is look immaculate as far as as we want
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: to say, you work is immaculate. Everything. There's nothing running
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: off the sides, nothing too small, The portions are good.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: That's why I just love what I what I eat.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: That's why when I kind of sneak in because Channing,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell Kevin, you know, you ain't one problem
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: problem because it's about a respect. That's why I started
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: the Hoodie Awards, man, because it's about showing love. Man.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: The fact that you guys, you still believe in it
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: just excites me even more. Man. And and and the
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: fact that the fact that you you're doing so well
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: and you your TV so talk about how did the
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: television stuff start for you? And how would you how
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: would you were you nerv it? Did you know? What?
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Did you? Did you play it off? How did it
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: all kick off for you? Kevin? H what my first one?
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: And it's so funny, my niece, because I'm I'm just like, shoot,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: this is maybe two thousand ten, Kevin, I'm uh, I'm
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: still knee deep in the competent location. So uh uh,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: this producer called and said, hey, we really want to
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: get you know, Kevin busy. He happened to be at
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: the restaurant. I didn't know who he was, you know,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: in the restaurant, in the kitchen, we clowned in the back.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: We clowned and cracked jokes and bag. The dude heard
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: me back there clowning. So I've never even seen it.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Didn't know who he was. And uh, he kept calling,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: and he kept always he got my niece itself on him.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: He always calls and she's like, um, this guy wants
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: you for for a TV show, And I was like
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: one TV show, Bar Rescue and I never heard of it,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: you know, never heard of the show. And that just
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: and that he kept calling, and then one day she said, look,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: this dude need a video. We're gonna go to your
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: house and do this video. So we we went to
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: the house and started the video of just you know,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: me interviewing or whatever whatever. But before the thing was
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: even set up, it's me cussing her out and like, God,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: I ain't got my t I don't know she's my
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: name who he's throwing souls and this man. So when
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: she sent it, she said the whole thing and John
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Tafford's seen it anything. Now I gotta have this dude.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: I gotta have the bam bam bam. Uh and I
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: got in a funny story. I'm gonna keep the shore.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: But for my first episode was in uh Kansas City. Uh.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: I think it was called Boondocks or whatever. The show
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: never was supposed to air because so we saved this boy.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking this dude is. That's when I learned to
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: between like, oh, southern racist are Southern rocker? This dude
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: was a Southern rocket. We we actually are good friends
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: now and you know Southern rocket they like rapp and
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: country and on. Thinking he was a racist. But anyway,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: we get into it on the show, I'm like, you know,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna put hands on this food and on the
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: show and U but he didn't have no reverse. He
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: didn't have no reverse, so he wasn't no pump. You
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: know what I mean with it. I'm gonna get I'm
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: gonna get you, You're gonna get. But anyway, so it's
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: so crazy. So it takes about a couple of months
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: with him to do it. So the night before the
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: show was supposed to hear, which was Thanksgiving weekend that year,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: I can't think of in that the exact year, he
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: was having a party at his bar and got a
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: guy was smoking, a big time country singer at his bar,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: and they got into it, had a fight to do,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: kind of got the best and Chris Chris shot and
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: killed the night before the show was supposed to hear,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: so they had to pull up the show. But the
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: show accidentally aired on the replay later on that night.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: And it's a big old thing and all that, but
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, I'm getting into this food. This food go
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: to He could have went to the back and out
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: of gun on me, you know. But that was my
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: first episode, my first job. And then John Tapper is
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: like huge in my life, like you guys or I mean,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: this dude is as far as business and bars and
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: the things that he old and like I said, the
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: team episodes later. Man, he keeps me busy. In fact,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: he called me the other day to congratulate me because
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: the Netflix show is doing so good. Number one after
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: last week is the number one unscripted show on Netflix.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: And it's doing well. Man. First of all, First of all,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: that we're talking about the American Barbecue Showdown, Okay, and
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: they got some characters on there. And your girl from Mississippi,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: she's the real deal. Who the whole hall? Did you
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: know it before the show? Are just I knew ever?
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: If I knew ever, that was our first time meeting.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: And uh, she's incredible. I mean she's a legend. She's
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: a legend. And uh, and you'd be surprised some of
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: those cooks to be first time. I mean, they did
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: such a good job of getting that cast together. I
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: mean we're hoping for a season two, but you've got
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: some of the producers might not even want to do
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: a season two because he said some things just need
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: to be left untouching. To get that the cast of
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: of the pit masses that they had and the attitudes
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: and the personalities, it's hard to you know what I'm
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: and it's hard to strike gold twice, you know, And well,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: you know you're part of well you know you I
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: know you'll be back because it's part of your brain,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: it's part of you. It's just part of what you do.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: That that like, you know, when I put the press
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: relead that belaves out. You know they say, I said
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: with Kevin's name first, Kevin blood So's name first on
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: the press release. That press release was reached a hundred
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: million people. Wow. That press release picked up when you
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: start talking to my audience, picked up by different websites
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: and they started putting that numbing together a hundred million people.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: And that's what relationships do, Kevin. And that's what you're
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: talking about this whole conversation is that you respect the process,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: you understand the process. Just drop just drop some jewels
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: on people about the value of relationships, Kevin. I mean,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: it's like I said when you when you say look,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: I look out. I would not be here if it
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: wasn't for people looking out for me. And you know
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, I always say, uh Russia's uh, I
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: don't give to be blessed. I'm blessed so I give
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: you know. It's not no secret. restI you to this.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: You know it has to come from your heart. Like
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: I try to tell people, love to talk about all
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: the funerals and stuff we paid for um, you know,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: with blood cells. Okay, let's also talk about the scholarships
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: and how many kids we put through college too. It's
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: more of the good things that outweighed the bad things.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: And God has put me in position to help like that.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: And that's what I'm saying. And and it it it
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: comes that, That's what it's. It's like, it's so weird,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: it's just and I try to tell people it has
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: to come from your heart and it's natural. The blessing
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: is gonna keep ringing in if you do what you're
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: supposed to do. And how was you raised? You was
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: raised to give you know, spencing us as black folks.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know coming up what we had, all
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: we had was food and and love and hugs and
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: all that. And like we gotta we gotta go back
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: to that. Man, we gotta, we gotta go back to that.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: And you gotta want to put the work in. It's
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: hard work. Like people want to get a business. I know,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: you know, a business is gonna be the hardest job
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: you ever had in your life. And if you don't
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: have that, it that's why everybody can't do it. A
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: business is gonna be the hardest job in your I mean,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: I said, adding, I want to be like you. I
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: want to you know, be able to live in Texas,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: and this and that, this and that. I said, Okay,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: were you ready to go eight years without off day?
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean, I'm gonna I'm gonna post
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: that all the motivational car Kevin, don't put that on
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: my way. Are you ready to give eight years without
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: off day? Well, let me tell you. When I first
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: opened up Blood Shocks, I was still d Jane, so
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: I would have I would. I would get to blood
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: shows at uh four o'clock on a Saturday morning and
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: uh be there until seven o'clock at night, go home,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: take a shower, pack my gig up, and go do
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: a DJ gig, get back about two three in the morning,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: take a shower, and go up to blood shows to
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: take briskets off and get ready for the day. Twenty
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: four hours straight. And that went on for the first
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: almost year and a half for my business because I
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: was at one time I was just DJ and and catering,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: so I was booked, you know. But I had to
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: do what I had to do. I mean, my daughter
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: wrote wanted to wish I had it, and she said,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: my daddy, if you knew the work, my daddy, it
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: was called my Daddy's not overnight success. My daddy would
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: come in at three four in the morning. I would
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: just hope my father got at least one hour of sleep,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: and I know he didn't. My Daddy's not an overnight success.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: And they got to know everybody's path. It's not gonna
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: be that way, you know, but it's tough, specially when
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: you and I would and I know you know, when
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: you know, money making conversations. I would tell anybody if
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: you can, please have the money and the backing to start,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: because when you start on a shoestring budget, that's why
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: a lot of them don't make it, because you need that.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: And us as a community, that's why we need our
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: own banks and we need because we can't these younger
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: they can't get the loans. You know. They want you
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: to to be experienced to get a small business man loan,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: but you you need the small business man only get going,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: you know, and they and they and they have to
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: understand that. Then as you grow, get get you know,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: get with a good team. I have a good team
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: behind me. There's no way I could do what I'm
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: doing if I didn't have the team that uh I
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: have working you know with with you know, the blood
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: shows LLC, the people that we have, the things that
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: have been done, the doors that have opened, to get
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: tied straight, to get on the bread, to get in
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: those conversations that we need to be in so we
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: can have a voice, you know. And that's the whole thing.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: You have to have a good team, man, and then
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: you got to trust the team. You might be the quarterback,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: but you need some good running backs, coaches you know
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: on the side last year, and your own cheer leaders
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: all that stuff, man, And more importantly, you need fans
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: in the stands. That's called customers. People, and how you
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: keep them by putting out a good product. Absolutely, Kevin,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: I just want to thank you, man, and uh look,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: don't hang up, come and wrap up this show. I
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: want to get the number and so we can stay
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: in touch. But uh, I just love you, man, I
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: just love you, man. Man, I got so much love
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: and respect for you. Bro. It's it's you know, because
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: of the fact that I know where you came from.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: I know I know, and I know that what I've
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: been doing all my life and two people, I've been
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: doing this since all the eighteen years old. For some reason,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: God just just said this is what you do. You
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: uplift people. You know you don't when somebody's behind you,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: you don't run off and leave them. You extend their
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: own or our hand. And that's what the Neighborhood Awards
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: and that's what the Hoodie Awards was. And to see
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: you have such a reaction in it, and there's a
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: lot of people like that. Man, I'll be in d C.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: People to Sean, come on that you ain't gonna bring
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: it back. Come on that shop. I'm talking about barber shops.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about high school churches, Detroit, Atlanta, all over
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: this country. Stop me for real, man, for real? I said, look,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: thinking about it. Well, we're thinking about it, man, I
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: got something else gonna They're gonna jump off. But we're
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: talking about the brother because I understand exactly what's going off,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: what's going on in life, and I know it's need,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: especially doing these times or the pandemic and black unrest,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: because you know, some of they messed up with this
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: pregnanlated to date had their knee on her, the police
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: and that it's not gonna stop, man. And we gotta
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: go out there and vote. We got to register the vote,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: and I'm voting in person, my friend, I am voting
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: in the person. I'm not messing around with no mail
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: in ballot. I'm not messing around with that. I wanted
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: somebody to go, here's your card. Sure you've officially voted,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: because I want to people understand that that if you
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: want something to life, no matter what it is, a business,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: you want to graduate, you want to be in a
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: relationship for a long time, it's hard work. It's hard work,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: and voting it's hard if you got stand in that line,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: if it's raining, if it's storming, standing that line, because
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  Speaker 1: if you don't make a change, it's gonna be uh
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  Speaker 1: four more years of a life that would never be good,
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  Speaker 1: especially people who aren't making it. And I'm just talking
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: about you know, we we we've crossed a little line there, Kevin.
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  Speaker 1: We can survive the ignorance. I'm not but say again,
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  Speaker 1: if I'm making it and my people ain't making it,
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  Speaker 1: then I'm not making its use. That's that's that's a burden,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And I always tall you too, And I
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  Speaker 1: know we wrapped, but it wasn't that long ago when
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  Speaker 1: we talked about standing the lines. I meant my son
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  Speaker 1: was at a play football at Utah and he called
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  Speaker 1: me one day and he was just upset and he
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: was like that he was one at sixty five. I said, yeah, Mark.
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  Speaker 1: He said the Voters Act was made uh June or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Since if I said yeah, whatever it was. He said,
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  Speaker 1: so when you was born, black people couldn't vote. I
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  Speaker 1: said no. So he said my granting them couldn't vote.
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  Speaker 1: I said no. And if if it hit home with him,
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  Speaker 1: like he knows people, he couldn't believe that he knew
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  Speaker 1: black people that couldn't vote at the time. And if
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: people don't think certain things can happen again. Like I
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  Speaker 1: tell people all the time, I'm not a conspiracy theorist,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: theory of theorists or whatever. I said. But when they came,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: when got their brothers from Africa for slavery, I said,
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  Speaker 1: they were living normal life, normal life. I said, please
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: look at the big picture on everything. Please look at
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: people trying to line up with with Russia and things
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  Speaker 1: like that. Just always look at the big picture, man,
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  Speaker 1: and get out there and vote. And it's just this.
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  Speaker 1: I never thought we would be to this time again,
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  Speaker 1: and we are. And if this don't bring us all together,
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  Speaker 1: and like I said, you can't say certain things aren't
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  Speaker 1: different because I mean, I was in l A for
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  Speaker 1: the ninety two rides. You know what I need to
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: brothers and Hispanics out there. But now look at who's
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: out there now. It's white, black, Hispanic together. And like
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: I said, maybe not in our lifetime, but I feel
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: like once you have kids, ain't about maybe in a
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: lifetime and a lifetime after that, racism might not exist
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  Speaker 1: no more. You know what I mean? And and and
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: that's what I try to work towards. Man. But we
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: gotta do it. You know, Yes, Kevin, I would appreciate
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: you coming on money making conversations with a two times,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: I said, two times Steve Harvey Hoody Award winner from
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles, California, a k A Compton, California, a k
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  Speaker 1: of course, a kind of Texas, just south of Dallas.
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  Speaker 1: Who don't know I forty five? See he know, I
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  Speaker 1: know he knows graduating class, official college. Oh don't about
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: my sister went to school Bishop College. I know what
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: you're talking about, man, beep rock. That