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Rushion Interviews 'College Hill: Celebrity Edition' Executive Producer, Tracey Edmonds, reveals all Stacey Dash, Ray J, Nene Leakes and full casts! · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversation Masterclass. I'm your host, Rashan McDonald.
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  Speaker 1: My guest is Tracy Edmonds. I've known it for a
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  Speaker 1: long time. An incredible Emmy Award winning TV and film
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  Speaker 1: producer as well as entrepreneur. I definitely want to emphasize entrepreneur.
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  Speaker 1: Her film and television work includes shows like movies like
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  Speaker 1: Jumping the Broom, Uh, Josie and the Pussycat, and TV
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  Speaker 1: shows like Games, People Play, Dian Sanders, Family Playbook, UH College,
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  Speaker 1: Hell So Food, TV ap DA type Ship with my
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  Speaker 1: girl Felicia Henderson who's a good friend of mine and
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  Speaker 1: now she's doing a reboot. That's what we got on
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  Speaker 1: the show. And talk about reboot of college here celebrity
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  Speaker 1: addition mean h b c U, y'all in Texas Southern University,
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  Speaker 1: that's my hometown. So but I also want to talk
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  Speaker 1: about her entrepreneurial side, health and wellness when she is
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  Speaker 1: always pushing out a call. She has a website which
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  Speaker 1: is fantastic that I helped launch several years ago called
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  Speaker 1: all right now dot com. Please welcome to money making
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  Speaker 1: Conversation because I got the energy and I got to love.
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  Speaker 1: Please welcome Tracy Edmonds. How you, Tracy? Thank you? Always
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  Speaker 1: get to see you well. First of all, you know
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  Speaker 1: the beauty of what we're doing here is a HBCU show,
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  Speaker 1: and you've done it in the past. You did for
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  Speaker 1: like seven or eight seasons previously, right, yes, seven seasons
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  Speaker 1: and this was used to undergraduate students. He was a
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  Speaker 1: young adult pursuing. Now you're taking I like to use
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  Speaker 1: the word grown folks, because they've grown folms. You got
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  Speaker 1: many leaks all the way down that Little India loves.
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  Speaker 1: She may be the youngest person on the show, and
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  Speaker 1: uh and dream Doll may be mad I'm younger, but
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  Speaker 1: but again they're the two youngest people on the show.
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  Speaker 1: So you have you have these like these eighteen or
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  Speaker 1: thirty four Allenneo gen Z type people, and then you
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  Speaker 1: have these uh these are these people who are beyond
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  Speaker 1: the millennial, who are veterans of of reality shows, like
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  Speaker 1: Nini Nicks and ray J. Talk about the casting. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so we have a it's an all African American cast,
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  Speaker 1: but we wanted to divide. I'm sorry, can yeah, no problem.
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  Speaker 1: So let's let's talk about this. Okay, you have Nianie
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  Speaker 1: Leaks and you have ray J on the show, and
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  Speaker 1: I want to emphasize that because they have veterans of
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  Speaker 1: reality shows. When you bring on veterans, I'm just being honest,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes they could be no at alls and sometimes they
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  Speaker 1: could be assets. Nini is a great person. Ray J
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  Speaker 1: is a fantastic ber. I go way back to him
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  Speaker 1: with his sister Brandy, all the way back to Moesia.
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  Speaker 1: That's a know a long I've known him. So talk
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  Speaker 1: about them being assets on the show because of the
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  Speaker 1: past experience or reality shows. Oh yeah, so, so Nini
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  Speaker 1: and ray J are absolute reality veterans. Of course, we
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  Speaker 1: all know Nini was on Old Housewives of Atlanta forever
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  Speaker 1: and ray J, you know, love and hip hop and
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  Speaker 1: you know, and he goes way back to Moitia days
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  Speaker 1: doing scripted TV. So they are TV pros and we're
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  Speaker 1: really amazing because they were kind of like they kind
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  Speaker 1: of like shepherded the rest of the cast. And so
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  Speaker 1: we had a lot of young cast members, you know,
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  Speaker 1: some who had never done reality TV before, and Needy
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  Speaker 1: and ray J came in as pros and just kind
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  Speaker 1: of relaxed everyone, got everyone comfortable being in front of
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  Speaker 1: the cameras, where you know, after the cameras around for
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  Speaker 1: a while, you kind of stopped stop thinking about them
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  Speaker 1: and just kind of ignore them and just kind of
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  Speaker 1: be yourselves. And so they helped just kind of relax
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  Speaker 1: and warm everybody up and really, you know, just kind
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  Speaker 1: of helped keep things alive. And you know, in the
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  Speaker 1: houses that's important because this is all energy we see
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  Speaker 1: a lot of. You know, first of all, the producers
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  Speaker 1: did a great job of keeping the story moving, of
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  Speaker 1: keeping it feeling like there was a rhythm to the show,
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  Speaker 1: because that's what you have to do. You have these
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  Speaker 1: these eight people are thrown into the house. I don't
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  Speaker 1: care how professionally you are. There are personalities and all
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  Speaker 1: personality jail immediately, okay. And and the beauty of this
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  Speaker 1: particular series is that if you watch India, I'm a
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  Speaker 1: rally Joe veteran Tracy. So they all when they when
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  Speaker 1: they bring in the cast, they start with and they
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  Speaker 1: end with the shocker. They I was in with the shocker.
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  Speaker 1: The shocker was the queen came in that was Nini Leaks.
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  Speaker 1: And then you came in with the end of the
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  Speaker 1: show shocker, Stacy, And she came in strong. Her entrance
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  Speaker 1: was strong. We did not tell Stacy how to dress.
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  Speaker 1: She came in wearing her cowboy hat, her cowboy boots
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  Speaker 1: and completely for her Texas experiences. And so she came
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  Speaker 1: in with a bad Yeah. Well, you know, she's still beautiful, everybody,
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  Speaker 1: this woman is an incredibly beautiful woman, but she's also
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  Speaker 1: Stacy Dash and Stacy Dashed and is throughout her life
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  Speaker 1: has proven that living in an environment with other people
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  Speaker 1: may not be the best thing, but she's gonna try
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  Speaker 1: it out on this show. Now, how did the whole
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  Speaker 1: casting process go through, because let me just go through
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  Speaker 1: the cast member your Ninni Leaks, yea Ray J Lama
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  Speaker 1: Older if you don't know him, played in the Nba
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  Speaker 1: Kadashi and just to get Lama old him Kadashi in Okay,
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  Speaker 1: just you remember him. Now you're Big frieda who out
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  Speaker 1: of New Orleans who I've known many years, the Queen
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  Speaker 1: of Bouts, the Queen of Bouts, and there's a great
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  Speaker 1: conversation she has on the show with Slim Thug who's
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  Speaker 1: also on the show, but he calls himself Big Slim
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  Speaker 1: on the show. And then of course you have Dime
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  Speaker 1: dream Dog, who's a rapper out of the Bronx and
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  Speaker 1: India Love who I just loved her death because she's
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  Speaker 1: coming out of her shell. That is basically the cast
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  Speaker 1: that you have that you put him in this beautiful
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  Speaker 1: matching which I'm so jealous because I'm from Houston. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know where the house is at, but I want
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  Speaker 1: to rent it for a weekend. Talk about the house
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  Speaker 1: because it's the star to show to me. Then talk
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  Speaker 1: about the cast. Oh yeah, so okay, So first of all,
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  Speaker 1: just so people know, when you have to find a
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  Speaker 1: house for reality TV series, it can be really tough
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  Speaker 1: because you need a humongous house with tons of bedrooms.
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  Speaker 1: We had eight cast members and they all wanted their
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  Speaker 1: own room. Uh, most of them did not get their
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  Speaker 1: own room. That became an issue as well. So um,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, he had to find, you know, a
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  Speaker 1: house that could accommodate everybody and also find one that
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  Speaker 1: looked really good on camera as well. And so we
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  Speaker 1: were really lucky. We found this brick mansion that kind
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  Speaker 1: of resembled like an old dormitory house or something. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and it was on the lake, and so we had
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  Speaker 1: a chance to you know, put the cast in a
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  Speaker 1: beautiful environment, um where they spent half their time and
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  Speaker 1: then the other half of the time was spent at
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  Speaker 1: attending classes at Southern University and so um. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so you get a chance to see how the cast
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  Speaker 1: navigated which rooms they wanted to stay in, you know,
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  Speaker 1: which roommates they wanted to have, and at the same
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  Speaker 1: time go to school and get that HPC you experience.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more Money Making Conversations Masterclass
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  Speaker 1: with Rushan McDonald. Now let's return to Money Making Conversations
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  Speaker 1: Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. Let's talk about that HBC experience.
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  Speaker 1: Texas Southern University, one of the great HBCUs just did
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  Speaker 1: an event and like I said, we were crossing lines
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  Speaker 1: here because I was there April two for an HBCU
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  Speaker 1: College day uh tour where I bring in like fourteen
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  Speaker 1: HBCUs to the campus of Texas Southern. We had prayer
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  Speaker 1: view there, We had the Mississippi Valleence State there with
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  Speaker 1: Kentucky State, Maryland easton Shore, wildly college old campus recruiting students.
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  Speaker 1: That's how that's how family it is. When hbc used
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  Speaker 1: to actually allow other HBCUs to come on campus, were
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  Speaker 1: roughly four thousand parents and influences and counsels showed up
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  Speaker 1: to my event. But all the time we were planning
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  Speaker 1: this event, Tracy, they kept saying, Oh, we're busy, We're busy,
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  Speaker 1: We're busy. Finally we got there, they said, whoa they
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  Speaker 1: just left campus? Who? We said, who? College Hill, College Town.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yes. Our cast was busy with Sean because
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  Speaker 1: we wanted them to have a real HBCU experience, not
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  Speaker 1: like some little faith produced one where they where they
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  Speaker 1: just go in for a couple of minutes each day
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  Speaker 1: and pretend like they're going to school. No, our cast
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  Speaker 1: really went to class every day. They took African American studies,
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  Speaker 1: they took business management, they took law, they took biology
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  Speaker 1: and they had tasks, they had final exams, they had
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  Speaker 1: mid terms, they had presentations. And then on top of that,
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  Speaker 1: our casts also had the extracurricular HBCU experience. And so
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  Speaker 1: we see Stacy Dash joined the dance team, Meani and
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  Speaker 1: Raye joined the debate team. Lamar helped out with the
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  Speaker 1: basketball team, and you know, I forgot dreamed all became
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  Speaker 1: a cheerleader, you know. And so they really took the
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  Speaker 1: HBCU experience seriously and just kind of wanted to embrace
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  Speaker 1: and absorb everything in Texas. Southern has offen. We had
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  Speaker 1: a lot to offer. And let's talk about the whole experience.
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  Speaker 1: Because you you graduated from you attended HBCU Southern University,
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  Speaker 1: and well, I I graduated from Stanford. I did my
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  Speaker 1: undergraduate work at Stanford University, and then um I was
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  Speaker 1: blessed and got a doctorate from Southern Southern. Very well,
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  Speaker 1: it sounds like a graduate to me. She graduated for something,
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  Speaker 1: you know, easily. Okay, it's so funny. Our relationship is
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  Speaker 1: so funny because you know, my freshman year, I enrolled
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  Speaker 1: in Southern University in Baton Rouge. I didn't at team.
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  Speaker 1: You know, just this has been like off on that
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  Speaker 1: we've been crossing our line so much. It's great to
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  Speaker 1: reconnect with and you know, you guys, Southern was the
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  Speaker 1: very first university that we shot College Hill at, so
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  Speaker 1: it's absolutely absolutely so she went back to home. Now
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  Speaker 1: she's coming back to my home in Houston, Texas. Now.
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  Speaker 1: African American Studies. That was one of the things that
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  Speaker 1: stood out to me, and I wanted to talk about
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  Speaker 1: that because my my college degree is in mathematics, my
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  Speaker 1: minors in sociology, and I took African American Studies because
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  Speaker 1: I heard it was an easy grade. I heard that
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  Speaker 1: was one of the easy grades on campus. I went
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  Speaker 1: into the class and realized what I had been educated
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  Speaker 1: in life was nothing. I knew nothing about my black experience.
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  Speaker 1: I knew nothing that I was not aware of our
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  Speaker 1: contributions as African American or black people or colored people
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  Speaker 1: or negroes, whatever they wanted the callers, as we transcended
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  Speaker 1: through this country and built this country and made a
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  Speaker 1: difference in this country. And HBCUs, which started in the
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  Speaker 1: A ten sixty five, have played that same tremendous role.
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  Speaker 1: Why was it important to have a class like African
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  Speaker 1: American Studies on an HBCU show and black people go
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  Speaker 1: to the HBCU, Well, I mean I think it, um,
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  Speaker 1: it showcases what makes the HBCU experience so unique and
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  Speaker 1: so special, and so part of what makes the HBCU
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  Speaker 1: experience so wonderful is that you have professors who look
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  Speaker 1: like you and professors who can relate to you. And
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  Speaker 1: so when you're an African American student and you're being
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  Speaker 1: taught by an African American professor, they can connect to
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  Speaker 1: you in a deeper and more meaningful way that I
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  Speaker 1: think you know, um, someone that's outside of your racial
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  Speaker 1: identity can And so starting the students off with African
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  Speaker 1: American studies was like, it was just a no brainer
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  Speaker 1: for us, because you know, the other thing that's important
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  Speaker 1: is to know where you came from, you know, know
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  Speaker 1: where you're heading, and also feel empowered. You know that
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  Speaker 1: you're black, and so a lot of you know these
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  Speaker 1: classes these days. You know, while it's important to know
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  Speaker 1: the history of slavery and the challenges and the obstacles
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  Speaker 1: that we've had to overcome as a race, it's also
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  Speaker 1: important to know the accomplishments that we've made as a race,
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  Speaker 1: and so learning about African Americans who have helped build
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  Speaker 1: this country, you know, have invented things that have impacted
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  Speaker 1: the entire world. You know, learning about all those contributions
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  Speaker 1: that African Americans have made really helps you feel empowered
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  Speaker 1: as an individual because you look at you know, your
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  Speaker 1: you know people, your predecessors, and you go, wow, they
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  Speaker 1: did this and you know, and they didn't have one
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  Speaker 1: tenth of the resources that I have now, you know, Um,
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  Speaker 1: that makes me feel like I can do this too.
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  Speaker 1: And so we wanted our you know, our cast members
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  Speaker 1: to feel inspired and encourage and be able to take
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  Speaker 1: everything that they're learning from this HBC you experience and
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  Speaker 1: apply that in today's society and in their lives and
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  Speaker 1: in their careers. I'm talking to the Emmy Award winning
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  Speaker 1: television producer Tracy Edmonds. Tracy was really interesting in watching
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  Speaker 1: the cast members eight cast members as on the show,
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, Ninnie Leaks, Ray j lamar Old and Freda, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: Stacy Dash, dream Dog, India Love and slim A Big
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  Speaker 1: Slam on the show. Uh. You know, there's a certain
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  Speaker 1: amount of respect because you know, you watch these realities
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  Speaker 1: shows just feel like people have agendas. They have these
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  Speaker 1: issues and they bring up to the show, and I
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  Speaker 1: felt a natural or natural goal was to be very
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  Speaker 1: respectful to the brand of HBCUs. I'm talking about the
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  Speaker 1: cast members and was that was that? Was that a
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  Speaker 1: natural for them to go that direction? You got set
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  Speaker 1: them down and go, look, we're doing a show on
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  Speaker 1: an HBCU campus. A HBCU campus are what they represent
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  Speaker 1: in our society. We don't want to do anything foolish.
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  Speaker 1: It did that conversation have to be had or with
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  Speaker 1: just a natural butture guidance by the cast, I can
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  Speaker 1: honestly say, ra Sean, we didn't even have to have
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  Speaker 1: that conversation. Each has member when I talked to them
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  Speaker 1: about joining the show. I'm being totally honest. They were
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  Speaker 1: all genuinely organically excited about attending an HBCU and they
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  Speaker 1: they could not wait for the to get to Houston
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  Speaker 1: and to get it going, and especially Texas Southern. And
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  Speaker 1: so a couple of our cast members had affiliations with
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  Speaker 1: Texas Southern, you know in the past. They either had
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  Speaker 1: a family member that had had attended you know, um
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  Speaker 1: Texas Southern, you know, or one of our cast members
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  Speaker 1: had attended it briefly and then had to drop out.
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  Speaker 1: And so, um, they knew how incredible Texas Southern is
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  Speaker 1: as an h B c U and so they were
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  Speaker 1: really really excited about attending it, and so we didn't
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  Speaker 1: have to pump them up. They were already pumped up. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it showed and I was very fairy worried about that,
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  Speaker 1: and there was the word was quickly erased early on
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  Speaker 1: in the in the first episode, you realized this is
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  Speaker 1: a show that's gonna really be groundbreaking and also learning
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  Speaker 1: career for the cast members as well because of the
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  Speaker 1: fact that did the agendas and putting together a show
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  Speaker 1: like this. You know, Stacy dash let's go back to
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  Speaker 1: the Elephant in the room, you know, the bull and
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  Speaker 1: the China Shop. Okay, based on her comments you know
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  Speaker 1: show on Fox News. Uh she said there, why do
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  Speaker 1: we have black history mad? When they asked her on
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  Speaker 1: the show where she African American, she clearly says she's uh,
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  Speaker 1: Mexican and black, So she would acknotge she's African Americans.
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  Speaker 1: She's some type of mixture. That's why she said a
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  Speaker 1: biracial or something like that. So how did she get
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  Speaker 1: on the show? They see that well, actually, we wanted
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  Speaker 1: to have a cast that was coming from very diverse
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  Speaker 1: experiences and perspectives, because you know, it would be boring
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  Speaker 1: to have eight cast members who all thought exactly alike
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  Speaker 1: and who all had the same perspective in backgrounds, and
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  Speaker 1: so we hand picked every single cast member from their background,
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  Speaker 1: their history, their personalities, their perspectives, because we just we
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  Speaker 1: wanted to mix it up and have like a melting
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  Speaker 1: pot of you know, all kinds of different perspectives. It's
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  Speaker 1: more interesting for discussions and for the journeys that we
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  Speaker 1: wanted to chronicle. And so Stacy obviously was coming from
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  Speaker 1: a conservative background. You know, she had you know, UH
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  Speaker 1: had an experience uh as a host for her Fox News.
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  Speaker 1: She's been very vocal about some of her thoughts about
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  Speaker 1: you know, black culture, and so we thought it would
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  Speaker 1: be very interesting to have someone who's coming from a
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  Speaker 1: conservative perspective attend an HBCU because HBCUs can really open
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  Speaker 1: your eyes and open your perspective on the black experience.
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  Speaker 1: And so we were hoping that Stacy, through the classes
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  Speaker 1: that she took, through her experience on campus and with
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  Speaker 1: our cast members, would really you know, kind of continue
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  Speaker 1: to grow her perspective and a pause sative direction on
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  Speaker 1: the African American experience and black culture. And so that
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  Speaker 1: was our our goal in casting Stacy and Stacy actually,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when I spoke to her prior to you know,
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  Speaker 1: starting to film things, she was super excited about going
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  Speaker 1: to n HBCU and about attending Texas Southern and was
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  Speaker 1: positive about what she thought her experience was gonna entail.
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  Speaker 1: We'll leave it at that and then we'll move on
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  Speaker 1: to some of the other great projects because this is
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  Speaker 1: an incredible show. It already has prepared, uh Aaron right
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  Speaker 1: now streaming right now on BT Plus. It's called the
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  Speaker 1: Celebrity Edition College Hill. Uh. It's a show that was
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  Speaker 1: previous produced by the Ammy Award winning Tracy Edmonds and
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  Speaker 1: at Southern University. Now is at Texas Southern University, Southern
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  Speaker 1: University in Baton Rouge, Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas,
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  Speaker 1: and to show the stars an incredible diverse you got diversity,
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  Speaker 1: you got it, you know you you got it and
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  Speaker 1: and and it's and it's really and I say this
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  Speaker 1: really in a complimentary way. It's kind of like a
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  Speaker 1: naiveness that's in the house outside of ray j and
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  Speaker 1: outside of the nine leaks, you can see the awesome
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  Speaker 1: virgin bodies in this world. So you get a lot
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  Speaker 1: of good, honest conversations. Uh, and that a call on
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  Speaker 1: tape And I think that's a blessing when you do
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  Speaker 1: reality shows, correct, Oh, absolutely, And and your hopes and
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  Speaker 1: doing reality shows is that the cast members will learn
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  Speaker 1: from each other and we'll grow from being around each other.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, one of the most amazing individuals that
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  Speaker 1: I hadn't had a chance to spend time with until
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  Speaker 1: this show is Big Freedom. And so um Big Freeda
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  Speaker 1: is coming from the l g b t Q community,
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  Speaker 1: and um, just one of the most beautiful spirits I
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  Speaker 1: have ever worked with. Just incredibly talented, incredibly kind. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it had a very unique perspective on life. And some
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  Speaker 1: of the conversations that Big Freedom shares with our cast members,
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  Speaker 1: which you'll see, you know a camera, especially, She's got
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  Speaker 1: a an amazing conversation with with Slim Thug. Um really
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  Speaker 1: helped our cast members grow and expand their perspective on
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  Speaker 1: life and learn a lot about the LGBTQ community and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And so again, our goal was to really bring a
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  Speaker 1: cast that's coming from all different perspectives together and see
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  Speaker 1: how they all learn from each other, but then collectively
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  Speaker 1: learned from the HBC experience too. We'll be right back
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  Speaker 1: with more Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. Now,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: let's return to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald.
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  Speaker 1: You had a couple of the projects I want to
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: bring onto the table. You have a Netflix thriller that
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: comes out in September starring the incredible Queen Latifa. Uh.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Ludicrous is part of that, and my man bow Bridges
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: talk about that. How did it all come together? And
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: how are you wearing all these different hats? You know? Sean,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: let me just tell you I was so busy in
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: one true story, I didn't I wasn't in my own
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: bed between January and September because I was on the
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: road shooting stuff. And so I shot games, people play,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: I shot this this movie Netflix movie, End of the Road,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: and at the top of this year I shot um
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: College Hill as well. But let's talk about into the road. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So End of the Road Uh premieres on Netflix September nine, starring,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: as she said, Queen Latifa Ludicrous and bow Bridges and
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: so it's a script that I have been trying to get.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: I've been trying to get produced for ten years. Can
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: you believe it to be ten years? Mat um? But
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: I'm super excited about it and so clean. Latifa plays
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: a single parent mom raising kids down on her luck,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: loses her job, loses her house, and has to go
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  Speaker 1: cross country to relocate. And her brother, who we call
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Uncle Ridge, who's played by Ludicrous, joins them and on
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  Speaker 1: their journey cross country, let's just say they get mixed
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  Speaker 1: up into something they thought they never would have gotten
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  Speaker 1: into and it becomes a thriller and so um they
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: see something they shouldn't have seen and so um. So
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  Speaker 1: this family has got to pull together to save each
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: other and come out of some serious mess. We have
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  Speaker 1: a great relationship with Netflix. They always sent me these
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  Speaker 1: projects early and hopefully I need locked in on the
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: interview with Ludicrous or both bridges and I'll be if
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  Speaker 1: I get Queenland, that'd be amazing. But again, uh, definitely
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  Speaker 1: give me that trailer because you know I promote anything
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: that you do. Now I want to go to a
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  Speaker 1: personal story with all right now dot com um, because
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: you always promote healthy living stretching. And I'm gonna tell
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: you something. My hip was bothering me, Tracy, and so
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: I went to the doctor and I thought, I was
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: that was nervous. I thought there would need a hip
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: replacement or do I have to have authritic ballowing in
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: my hip? And he said, oh, you need to stretch.
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  Speaker 1: That's all they said. For four weeks they taught me
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  Speaker 1: how to stretch, and they told me you need to walk.
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  Speaker 1: So now I walk, you know, a Miliday in the morning,
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  Speaker 1: and then I stretched for another thirty minutes. Something you
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  Speaker 1: have been preaching to me ever since all right now
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  Speaker 1: dot com things I see on your LinkedIn post, I
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: have been ignoring. The doctor said, stretch, please your life.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: That is some real talk. And I'm happy, Rashaan that
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: you're taking the doctor's advice because he is so right.
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  Speaker 1: Stretching keeps you young, and so it gives you that
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  Speaker 1: pep in your step. It gives you that that energy
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  Speaker 1: and that blood flow that you need. And I'm telling you,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: when you stretch those legs and stretch your back even
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  Speaker 1: ten minutes a day, and you do that at the
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  Speaker 1: top of your day, you're gonna feel so energized. The
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: rest of your day and you're gonna feel your blood flowing,
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna think clearer, and I mean, it's it's amazing
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: for you. It's almost like it's it's almost equally important
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: to cardio, like you know it is. It is. So
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna just just just a testimony. Okay, she's
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: speaking the truth. Because what happens is as you get older,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: your strides get shorter and you tend to lean leaned over.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: You come, all that is gone. My stride is longer,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: my posture is correct now because of the stretching is
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: And it's just simple stuff. It's not something that you
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: know then I tell you the lift weights and it
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: just stretch, you know, just simple things that you can do.
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  Speaker 1: I'm watching the news. I get up at four thirty.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: I staggered down to my basement. I turn on the news,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: so I'm watching news. So I'm not like I can't
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: do anything but stretch. I can be focused, I can
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  Speaker 1: do a lot of different things. All I'm just saying
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  Speaker 1: is that I am a champion of everything you say.
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  Speaker 1: Tracy Edmonds, All right now, dot Com will be in
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  Speaker 1: my newsletter every week. I go up to sixty four
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  Speaker 1: thousand people every Wednesday at ten am. It will be
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  Speaker 1: in there. I'll have personal testimony telling people do it
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  Speaker 1: because of the fact that no surgery was needed. All
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  Speaker 1: he told me was Rashan McDonald stretch, love love at Rashaun.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, take taking care of yourself is so important.
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  Speaker 1: You guys, eat right, exercise, take your vitamins and your supplements,
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  Speaker 1: and stretch and it will keep you young and keep
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  Speaker 1: you going well. I testify to that again. Thank you
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: for your time. Tracy Award winning Tracy is on my show.
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  Speaker 1: Remember streaming right now on BT Plus is College Hills
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: the celebrity edition. Also coming up in September is the
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Quility for Netflix thriller. We gotta watch it, everybody, because
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: you want to get it into the top ten streaming.
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  Speaker 1: You wanted to trend in all hundred and ninety countries,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: said he knows way too much. But now, but again,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. Look fantastic. And I'm gonna tellar something. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna put a curse on you. It's a good curse.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you don't make it to your bed that
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  Speaker 1: much in two how about that. I want you on
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  Speaker 1: the road doing all these great projects. And I want
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  Speaker 1: you to because it's that it's been a blessing to
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  Speaker 1: have you back in my life, is a blessing to
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  Speaker 1: talk about all these great projects. If that's what it
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: takes to keep you on the road, I know you're
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: down in sawth Carolina, Hilton Head relaxing, So you go
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: to relax, get a little tan, eat some great food,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: and get your butt back on the road. Okay. I
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: always get to see you, love you, wish you, gonna
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: tell you, thank you, talk soon again. If you want
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