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Why This NFL Star Cares More About Books Than Football - Ep. 182 w/ Joique Bell · Black Fridays: Business Growth for Entrepreneurs, Creators & Professionals

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  [SPEAKER_03]: So growing up Maddie, we could not test that video game.
• 0:03
  [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, go outside and play until we read the book for 30 minutes.
• 0:06
  [SPEAKER_03]: And then after we read the book for 30 minutes, we have to write down a paragraph on what we just read.
• 0:11
  [SPEAKER_03]: So reading the comprehensive.
• 0:12
  [SPEAKER_03]: And so as I graduated, went on to school, went on to play the NFL, my first in NFL.
• 0:19
  [SPEAKER_03]: I immediately started my foundation.
• 0:22
  [SPEAKER_03]: And this year is actually my sixth year anniversary of my nonprofit.
• 0:30
  [SPEAKER_03]: I've always knew that I wanted to get back when I ended up leaving Ben Harbor and I started looking at Ben Harbor education.
• 0:37
  [SPEAKER_03]: I would look and see why there was Ben Harbor area schools rated 2010, what I was going on.
• 0:44
  [SPEAKER_03]: I never knew why and so I started digging and I saw the realizing that 90 to 95% of our kids are not reading that grade level.
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• 1:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: With update, Black Friday family, welcome back to another installment of Black Friday's podcast.
• 2:03
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Now that I got that business out of the way, I wanna introduce you to someone who is adamant about giving opportunities to our young people right here in the city of Detroit in addition to their philanthropy.
• 2:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: They're also an entrepreneur
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  [SPEAKER_01]: a community builder and then you'll get a chance to learn more about that by the camp that they have coming up this summer for our young people.
• 2:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I don't want to forget this either former Detroit land star and NFL.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not Mr. Joyke Bell.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: How you doing today?
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I appreciate it.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Thanks for having me.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: See you with dope.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: uh, saw a couple of your interviews, man.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I love what you doing, man.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.
• 2:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.
• 2:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: I appreciate that.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And grateful to have you on the platform, man.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I love the work that you've been doing over the years.
• 2:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then also your commitment to the city of Detroit as well.
• 2:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I know on your IG, it's been in Harbor Race, me Detroit made me and you are probably like one of
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  [SPEAKER_01]: three or four people that I've met from Benton Harbor.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Never got a chance to talk to anybody about it or learn more about it myself.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So I want to start with the foundation of Joyke and starting in Benton Harbor.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So if you could tell me back to a young Joyke and growing up, tell me about Benton Harbor and what life looked like for you back then.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Uh, some small city.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Uh, I think we're in a population of 12 to 15,000 people.
• 3:24
  [SPEAKER_03]: uh... we're a basketball time and so uh... i grew up around a lot of basketball phonetics and fans uh... graduated with was in chattel who played the nba for fourteen years actually play with them in uh... we were teammates and junior high basketball team and they we played our high school together uh... animal is that i mean mr. basketball and then um...
• 3:52
  [SPEAKER_03]: We ran up one in the state number a in the country and, you know, I couldn't within the NBA too, but you know, I chose in the field right now, but, you know, I was a kid.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I loved all the sports.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I played baseball from the age of eight to like graduate high school, four years varsity, three years varsity football, three years varsity basketball, three years varsity track, just a kid to love playing sports group in the church, father was the pastor.
• 4:16
  [SPEAKER_03]: My mom was a missionary.
• 4:18
  [SPEAKER_03]: My godfather was a co-pastor at another church.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: His son and I grew up best friends and so whenever I wasn't at home, I was at their house every Sunday.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: My godfather was actually my first football coach and I was eight.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: He gave me
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  [SPEAKER_03]: My first ring, my first handoff.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I remember the play.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: It was called the Drakeville Special.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: This is hand-up all out to him.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I remember they gave it to me.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I ran with his quarter touchdown.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And kind of got that feeling like, okay, this is what I wanna do right here.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I wanna play this position.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I wanna do this for the rest of my life.
• 4:56
  [SPEAKER_03]: This is what I wanna do, right?
• 4:57
  [SPEAKER_03]: And so, but, you know, little grown-up have been harbors, you don't know what you don't know, you don't know what you're missing to you, leave.
• 5:06
  [SPEAKER_03]: looking back at it now.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I had everything I needed, you know, parents love me, you know, had a guy father who did everything he could to make sure I was successful, going and even me going to Wayne's stay, I got there because my mother couldn't afford for me to go.
• 5:26
  [SPEAKER_03]: And so my guy father went half with her or sent me to the U of infobox camp and was at the football camp that I met Wayne State and the funny part is Wayne State was the only school I approached the entire week at that football camp and then when the camp was over I was one of the players they recruited the hardest and that's how I ended up getting the Wayne State.
• 5:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: And speaking of that journey, going to Wayne State, I was listening to a previous interview that you had a day where you talked about your freshman year at Wayne State, you were not only playing football, but then you also have a security job for the team that you ended up playing for in the Detroit land.
• 6:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: So could you, well, before I get to talking more about
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The pathway to the lines more so wanted to ask you about your work ethic at that point in time because I was talking to Smite earlier today who was a collegiate athlete and they talked about how they feel like they missed out on the opportunity to really immerse themselves in like the education of college because they were so focused on their sports.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So to hear that you not only work
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  [SPEAKER_01]: playing a sport and then also working.
• 6:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: I believe that you had a child at that point in time as well.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Like how, how did you, you got to have, you got to be locked in to be able to, you know, hold all those things down, even a couple of those things.
• 6:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: So how did that look for you back there?
• 6:44
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I guess growing up and seeing my parents and watching them raise me in my man, they really got this name figured out just to grow up and roll out.
• 6:54
  [SPEAKER_03]: I didn't even know what they were doing, I was winging it.
• 6:57
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I was winging it.
• 6:58
  [SPEAKER_03]: I was just present and I knew my goals and one thing that always set with me, I never wanted to ask my son to do something that I'd never did.
• 7:10
  [SPEAKER_03]: And so, regardless of how hard he got or how hard it was, you know, I was tougher or how tough it was, I was tougher.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Um, and so, you know, having my son come up with me on campus and him standing me in the dorms.
• 7:27
  [SPEAKER_03]: And going with me around campus, and people, I played so much, I was a, I was a, you know, I was a joke, a joke stir, something called me juic stir, right, because I was always joking around and it was no one believe I had a kid, right, and so I mean, my son really grew up together, right, and so the dope part about that now is that, um, I'm just like a three, um, like a three, nine and a three, sixy, but, you know,
• 7:57
  [SPEAKER_03]: special because not my son is now standing all same dorms that I had a man as a kid going away and say plant for the same football team.
• 8:05
  [SPEAKER_03]: And it's done for me to be able to go back.
• 8:08
  [SPEAKER_03]: So it was like a kind of a full circle moment for me.
• 8:11
  [SPEAKER_03]: They better do that.
• 8:12
  [SPEAKER_03]: And he loves it.
• 8:14
  [SPEAKER_03]: And you know, for me to be able to be an entrepreneur.
• 8:17
  [SPEAKER_03]: And then have my son working, you know, and my different business is good.
• 8:22
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's given my opportunity to kind of
• 8:25
  [SPEAKER_03]: You know, learn the business right from the ground up and then not only that, but he has a little I guess you think he has some juice because he can get some of his teammates in to work at my establishment Which this is what is all about right.
• 8:40
  [SPEAKER_03]: I want to help out as many won't say kids as possible
• 8:43
  [SPEAKER_03]: I'm gonna help out as many Detroit kids as possible, and the reason that I feel that way because I had so many people help me along the way, from my childhood, to my daughter college, and the only way that I can repay the people who help me is by, you know, I'm paying a forer.
• 9:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: How does it feel for you to be in that position now, to be able to look up and say, like, if you're a son and does come to you and play, hey, I need an opportunity or a friend needs an opportunity and you can look around and like, I actually got the resources to be able to do that.
• 9:19
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I mean, I have a lot of time.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: So where am I supposed to football up banquet at the end of the year?
• 9:24
  [SPEAKER_03]: Some brings up one of these teammates and like in that, I got to see me right here and he's looking for a job.
• 9:30
  [SPEAKER_03]: Now you want to tell him to work at par late.
• 9:33
  [SPEAKER_03]: All right, we have interviews every Tuesday, two to six PM, come here.
• 9:37
  [SPEAKER_03]: Let's see how I goes.
• 9:38
  [SPEAKER_03]: He was like, really?
• 9:39
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, just come in.
• 9:40
  [SPEAKER_03]: It sounded, do they interview him?
• 9:42
  [SPEAKER_03]: He was taking it from there.
• 9:43
  [SPEAKER_03]: Now, he's been working for me for about three or four months now.
• 9:46
  [SPEAKER_03]: So, it's opportunities like that that, you know, I'm in a position where I'm able to get back.
• 9:52
  [SPEAKER_03]: That way as well.
• 9:53
  [SPEAKER_03]: Because I know when I was in college, I needed to job.
• 9:56
  [SPEAKER_03]: And so that's how I ended up getting a job for the lines.
• 9:59
  [SPEAKER_03]: My brother-in-law at the time was an FBI agent.
• 10:03
  [SPEAKER_03]: And he worked for the Detroit drug task force.
• 10:09
  [SPEAKER_03]: And he will partner with the Detroit police with the FBI.
• 10:14
  [SPEAKER_03]: And you know, let me get the bag guys.
• 10:16
  [SPEAKER_03]: All right.
• 10:17
  [SPEAKER_03]: So I guess he would do background checks for the lines and he got a good relationship with the head of security and basically told him about me and got me a job working.
• 10:25
  [SPEAKER_03]: And not only got me a job working, but also got me a car.
• 10:29
  [SPEAKER_03]: Well, gave me one of his cars to be able to get back and forth from work.
• 10:32
  [SPEAKER_03]: It was an old-le-buy,
• 10:35
  [SPEAKER_03]: I think it was a little of a Sabre Buick and it was like a 1980s and it was like falling apart.
• 10:42
  [SPEAKER_03]: But it got me to play A to play B, right?
• 10:45
  [SPEAKER_03]: And so I'll never forget that moment, right?
• 10:47
  [SPEAKER_03]: And he really was a father figure with more like a
• 10:52
  [SPEAKER_03]: It was more like a big brother in an age, but more like a father figure.
• 10:56
  [SPEAKER_03]: And we were very close, and so it's people like that, and I'm gonna pause source, by the way it's the guy named.
• 11:04
  [SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
• 11:05
  [SPEAKER_03]: And a great guy, shout out to Maurice Burton, my guy, father, Benny Bowers, who was one of my mentors, as well as the state trooper, so it's the super dope, the kind of
• 11:19
  [SPEAKER_03]: You know, being the position I'm at now, and I know it because, you know, I'm a child of the judge, you know, my parents, grandparents, all cool odds all prayed for me, you know, so.
• 11:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: beautiful and speaking of opportunities, you have your annual summer camp that's happening this year and in order in addition to be able to have to focus on the youth and sports, you're going a little bit further and deeper into what it is that you're offering now based on some of your life experience.
• 11:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: Could you tell us more about that?
• 11:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, a grown-up man.
• 11:53
  [SPEAKER_03]: You know, I will go to my
• 11:56
  [SPEAKER_03]: We could not test that video game, or go outside and play until we read a book for 30 minutes.
• 12:02
  [SPEAKER_03]: And that's where we read a book for 30 minutes.
• 12:03
  [SPEAKER_03]: We have to write down a paragraph on what we just read.
• 12:06
  [SPEAKER_03]: So we're even a comprehendy.
• 12:08
  [SPEAKER_03]: And so it always came naturally, right?
• 12:12
  [SPEAKER_03]: And so as I graduated, went on to school, went on to play the NFL, my first in the NFL, I immediately started my foundation.
• 12:21
  [SPEAKER_03]: And this year is actually my 16th anniversary of my nonprofit.
• 12:26
  [SPEAKER_03]: And this is because I've been, you know, I've
• 12:29
  [SPEAKER_03]: I've always knew that I wanted to get back, so it started up as a celebrity basketball game, that from that group to a football camp to where I would have the younger girls come up to me and say, well what do you have for us?
• 12:42
  [SPEAKER_03]: We want to do something to, so it's our having cheercaps.
• 12:46
  [SPEAKER_03]: and I would get the lion's shielders to come out of the chaircaps.
• 12:49
  [SPEAKER_03]: And then, it went from the chairkamp to a dance camp, football camp, celebrity basketball game, where we go out to every school in the surrounding area on my hometown, grab two kids that were seniors, one for the boys basketball team, one for the girls basketball team, or bring them all to Ben and Harvard, and they will play all my friends like where they're.
• 13:11
  [SPEAKER_03]: MBA players, football players, influencers, other celebrities, actors, actresses, and they'll come in and we'll be planning against the key as locally.
• 13:22
  [SPEAKER_03]: Basically, given them something that I never had when I grew up in experience, they can take with you, put a rest of your life.
• 13:29
  [SPEAKER_03]: Now, I remember doing that in 10 years, seven, eight years later, I would get emails or DMs or messages from people who played in those games, who will reach back out to them and tell me, thank you for that experience.
• 13:44
  [SPEAKER_03]: And so, for me,
• 13:49
  [SPEAKER_03]: As far as the education part, when I ended up leaving Ben Harbor and I started looking at Ben Harbor education, I would look and see why there was Ben Harbor area schools ready to entertain what I was going on and I never knew why and so I started digging and I saw the realizing
• 14:10
  [SPEAKER_03]: 90 to 95% of our kids are not reading that grade level.
• 14:13
  [SPEAKER_03]: So there's no way for a kid to go in the classroom, look at what the teacher's writing on the board and be able to comprehend that and then comprehend that and write it on paper.
• 14:23
  [SPEAKER_03]: There's no way that they can do that.
• 14:25
  [SPEAKER_03]: And so I met with a group.
• 14:31
  [SPEAKER_03]: ran early.
• 14:32
  [SPEAKER_03]: I had to go do a speaking of engagement and I had to go speak to some kids because somebody backed out.
• 14:37
  [SPEAKER_03]: So don't I as research out to me because I was one of their ambassadors.
• 14:40
  [SPEAKER_03]: And I went out to
• 14:44
  [SPEAKER_03]: What school was that?
• 14:45
  [SPEAKER_03]: I think the Trace Central, Derfee.
• 14:48
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yep, yeah.
• 14:49
  [SPEAKER_03]: So I went to Derfee and I spoke to a group of kids.
• 14:51
  [SPEAKER_03]: And all these kids that were there were a lot of tears.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And spoke with these kids and kind of told them my story.
• 14:57
  [SPEAKER_03]: I didn't know what program it was though.
• 15:00
  [SPEAKER_03]: And, um...
• 15:01
  [SPEAKER_03]: After I finished giving it my spell, it's a cute name, but, you know, it's really not me talking and then asking you a name, it's really a conversation I'm having with the kids, and I'm like, to talk at you, I like to talk to you, and I remember one of the kids, I had the kids whenever they speak to me, I had to stand up, said their name, they grade, and they ask their questions.
• 15:22
  [SPEAKER_03]: And one of the kids asked me a question that I would never forget.
• 15:25
  [SPEAKER_03]: He stood up and gave me his name, gave me his great.
• 15:31
  [SPEAKER_03]: And then said, well, how do these teachers expect us to come in here every day?
• 15:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: And learn.
• 15:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: But we don't have a let you come.
• 15:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: We don't know why next month it's coming.
• 15:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: We don't have clean clothes.
• 15:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: We don't have hot water.
• 15:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: My hobby shows to come in here with that on our plate and focus on learning.
• 15:56
  [SPEAKER_03]: And that was our question I've been asked.
• 16:01
  [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, one of you, if a pen driver was like, I'm like a ton of momma now, all right.
• 16:06
  [SPEAKER_03]: And it just took me coming to tell me about my childhood where, you know, I had me and my sister when my momma died, the voice and my dad moved away.
• 16:13
  [SPEAKER_03]: I remember,
• 16:15
  [SPEAKER_03]: I'm on was struggling and I remember he had to go through a lot of things.
• 16:19
  [SPEAKER_03]: I didn't know what poverty was.
• 16:21
  [SPEAKER_03]: I just thought like, this is just how it was, you know, I aren't doesn't worship, you know, you put it on the stove, get a high thing on your clothes or, you know, the water's off.
• 16:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: And so I bought it, put it into, it's up, but we're gonna have water.
• 16:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: I got water's off.
• 16:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 16:35
  [SPEAKER_03]: Some of my sister became a scientist, so she took the water hose connected to the soil house.
• 16:40
  [SPEAKER_03]: and then ran it all into our neighbor's house connected to their water to their water of water their water of turn it on and their water ran into our house and gave us running water and I pipe so we filled up you know buckets of water and gallons of water and just stored it
• 16:57
  [SPEAKER_03]: So in the morning, we can just take, you know, a bird dance to get off the stove, right?
• 17:01
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's so, but for me, it was just like, this is just life.
• 17:04
  [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know, I'm a property, I'm a happy kid, you know?
• 17:07
  [SPEAKER_03]: Mom's here, sister's here, she's healthy, mom's healthy, and they love us.
• 17:11
  [SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to school every day, you know, you figuring it out, you know, eating syrup sound, we're just, you know, you know, they all know nothing about that.
• 17:18
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 17:20
  [SPEAKER_03]: You know, I'm picking the mold off, I'm like, you know, this is what it is, but, you know,
• 17:24
  [SPEAKER_03]: I enjoyed all of it, right, and it kind of made me a person who I never, ever played the victim role, right?
• 17:34
  [SPEAKER_03]: It was always okay.
• 17:35
  [SPEAKER_03]: Let me figure it out.
• 17:36
  [SPEAKER_03]: Like I saw it, where there's a problem is always a solution.
• 17:40
  [SPEAKER_03]: But at the same time, everyone doesn't have that mindset, right?
• 17:43
  [SPEAKER_03]: Why do you have to be that way, right?
• 17:45
  [SPEAKER_03]: And so what I want to do is give the kids the opportunity to say, you know what, if I can have all these resources, if I can learn how to read, if I can learn how to comprehend different classes, right?
• 17:57
  [SPEAKER_03]: If I'm going to English, you know, I can understand that.
• 17:59
  [SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to reading.
• 18:00
  [SPEAKER_03]: I can't understand that.
• 18:01
  [SPEAKER_03]: It even correlates over the math as well.
• 18:03
  [SPEAKER_03]: So all these different things, if just by learning how to read, I can put you in about our opportunities.
• 18:09
  [SPEAKER_03]: So we've had kids in our program that were in 10th grade, reading at the fifth grade level, go through our program and test our read at 11 grade.
• 18:19
  [SPEAKER_03]: Kids that are 11 grade, read at the fifth grade level, test our read at the 10th grade level.
• 18:24
  [SPEAKER_03]: And we've had this like across the board through our program.
• 18:28
  [SPEAKER_03]: And so now, there's something I'm willing to bring to us many kids as possible.
• 18:34
  [SPEAKER_03]: And I can do Detroit schools at one point in time, was 85% of our kids when I read that grade level.
• 18:39
  [SPEAKER_03]: So you have 45 plus thousand students in DPS.
• 18:44
  [SPEAKER_03]: So we want to make sure that we're giving every kid as possible, or as many kids as possible, opportunities to be able to be a part of this program.
• 18:52
  [SPEAKER_03]: Now we can take in everyone.
• 18:55
  [SPEAKER_03]: But that's why it's so crucial for if you guys
• 19:00
  [SPEAKER_03]: Hey, Seth, because I signed up as SuperSumpleds.
• 19:05
  [SPEAKER_03]: Go to jbcharty.org, go to registration, put your kids information in there, his submit, and they'll be on all this.
• 19:12
  [SPEAKER_03]: Now, we haven't filled up yet, but we're about.
• 19:16
  [SPEAKER_03]: 85, 90% there, and so what's that happens?
• 19:20
  [SPEAKER_03]: We're not going to close it.
• 19:21
  [SPEAKER_03]: You can still sign up, but what's going to happen is the only way that we can select your kid to come in is if a kid, you know, goes to vacation and he leaves.
• 19:30
  [SPEAKER_03]: Now we can, you know, bring one of your kids in.
• 19:32
  [SPEAKER_03]: So are we going to cut it off?
• 19:34
  [SPEAKER_03]: No, we're not going to cut it off, but we are going to cut it off
• 19:41
  [SPEAKER_03]: Like, please take advantage of this opportunity, right?
• 19:44
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's not too many times.
• 19:45
  [SPEAKER_03]: Well, it makes my capital a bit more unique is that I'll be able to bring in a lot of my teammates, a lot of my celebrity friends, for some of the kids who may want to be an actor, or kids who may want to be a football player, or a basketball player, or even a professional dancer, right?
• 20:01
  [SPEAKER_03]: Doing choreography and touring with different artists across the world, right?
• 20:06
  [SPEAKER_03]: and don't you love to do?
• 20:08
  [SPEAKER_03]: Whether it's that, whether you want to be a judge, I have judges coming in to talk to the kids.
• 20:14
  [SPEAKER_03]: People who come and talk about financial literacy because as African-American.
• 20:18
  [SPEAKER_03]: As an African American culture, I was never taught that, right, as a child growing up.
• 20:24
  [SPEAKER_03]: Like, and so for me, that was always important for me to kind of push back.
• 20:28
  [SPEAKER_03]: And I'm not only the kids in my program and not just my kids, but to even my dog friends, who may not know, right?
• 20:37
  [SPEAKER_03]: So it's for everyone.
• 20:38
  [SPEAKER_03]: And so for me is,
• 20:41
  [SPEAKER_03]: If we can get one reader in the house because a lot of the time to say what it starts at home, but when they did the study, that was about 52% of DPS students parents couldn't read officially.
• 20:51
  [SPEAKER_03]: So when you say it starts at home, does it really start at home?
• 20:54
  [SPEAKER_03]: They can't really can't combat that.
• 20:56
  [SPEAKER_03]: Well, we can just get one reader in the house and they start reading.
• 21:01
  [SPEAKER_03]: then it might inspire the other ones to kind of get on board.
• 21:04
  [SPEAKER_03]: And that's kind of how we change it.
• 21:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, and do you have speaking of the camp?
• 21:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: Do you have any success stories from previous camps?
• 21:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: You said you've been doing it for 16 years.
• 21:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, any students that went off and been able to be successful and come back and still, you have to forward that camp.
• 21:19
  [SPEAKER_03]: So, two things.
• 21:20
  [SPEAKER_03]: So, we started the camp, but when we first started the camp, we wasn't a literacy program.
• 21:23
  [SPEAKER_03]: It was just on football camps.
• 21:25
  [SPEAKER_03]: I shifted.
• 21:26
  [SPEAKER_03]: My, I'm not a profit to want to do this in 2019, why I decided I want to make that ship and it took me about three years to get into the schools and then last year was my first year doing it in a summer program setting.
• 21:42
  [SPEAKER_03]: And so this would be our second year, the summer program setting.
• 21:45
  [SPEAKER_03]: Well, we've been doing the leadership program for the past.
• 21:48
  [SPEAKER_03]: Five years so and we use your work with elementary kids junior junior high and we also work at high school as well All right, so I think I'll last year in a high school We'll actually work in in the high school during the school day and not at the school program So it wasn't a curriculum, but we were putting kids from different classrooms throughout the throughout the week So they can come in and I'll read the benefits of this program.
• 22:12
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah
• 22:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: And before we go any further, I got to put a pause in the action because I want to introduce in my favorite part of Black Friday's, which is free-stop Friday's.
• 22:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, we've seen you build businesses, build community, build programs, and regulations for students, when you send you rap, at least on camera.
• 22:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, we're going to need some bars from you.
• 22:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: We can't get eight, 16.
• 22:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, 16.
• 22:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 22:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 22:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: We tried that one time before.
• 22:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: I was like, what is that?
• 22:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: They're selling money.
• 22:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 22:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, we're going to do these rapid fire questions if that's cool.
• 22:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 22:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: All right.
• 22:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I'm going to start off first, man.
• 23:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: I would love to know where would you say you got your sense of style from.
• 23:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: I've seen you out in a few different places in public.
• 23:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: You definitely be putting it on, man.
• 23:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I wanted to know where you feel like you got your sense of fashion from.
• 23:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, don't shout out to
• 23:22
  [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, man, shout out to my stylist what she does in my style with my sister, man.
• 23:27
  [SPEAKER_03]: She says a lot of style.
• 23:29
  [SPEAKER_03]: So she She looks out for me and then by she's something I like I'll make put it together, all right.
• 23:35
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's like looking at I don't go through magazines.
• 23:38
  [SPEAKER_03]: I'm not like a big.
• 23:39
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I'll put to my energy into it But I do like to look nice.
• 23:43
  [SPEAKER_03]: So just, you know, just I don't know.
• 23:46
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I was you know, I just
• 23:49
  [SPEAKER_03]: Like I really don't know.
• 23:49
  [SPEAKER_03]: Like I know what I like.
• 23:50
  [SPEAKER_03]: Like I'm not adjusting my son, you know, I take my son shot and I'm like, no, don't put that now.
• 23:55
  [SPEAKER_03]: I'm put this now.
• 23:56
  [SPEAKER_03]: He's getting his own style now.
• 23:57
  [SPEAKER_03]: So I can back and but honestly, I don't know.
• 24:02
  [SPEAKER_03]: I just I'm not being in the fashion, but I am.
• 24:05
  [SPEAKER_03]: I just like to look nice.
• 24:06
  [SPEAKER_03]: That's about it.
• 24:07
  [SPEAKER_03]: Fischer.
• 24:08
  [SPEAKER_03]: No name brands really.
• 24:10
  [SPEAKER_03]: And if I do, I got it on the discount.
• 24:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: 100%.
• 24:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: Like John with his phone said, you got a coordinate.
• 24:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: So as long as you know how to coordinate.
• 24:19
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you know, you're not a coordinate.
• 24:20
  [SPEAKER_03]: You know, it's, it's fine.
• 24:21
  [SPEAKER_03]: You know, then my, you know, I got pieces.
• 24:24
  [SPEAKER_03]: My sister couldn't get together.
• 24:25
  [SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
• 24:26
  [SPEAKER_03]: This looks better.
• 24:26
  [SPEAKER_03]: Put that together.
• 24:27
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, but I ended up.
• 24:29
  [SPEAKER_03]: Fischer.
• 24:31
  [SPEAKER_03]: What was your favorite subject in school?
• 24:33
  [SPEAKER_03]: It was math.
• 24:35
  [SPEAKER_03]: until I got high school, until I got high school, and then I didn't have one.
• 24:40
  [SPEAKER_03]: I just was the best of gym.
• 24:46
  [SPEAKER_03]: But not reading, so I didn't like reading the first, and then my godmother, when she made us read 30 minutes every day, I actually enjoyed it.
• 24:55
  [SPEAKER_03]: And so when my nieces and nephews and my kids when they come over, I will always make them read, but it wasn't starting with soil hour, and then after they read, they have to write down what they read.
• 25:06
  [SPEAKER_03]: And um, you know, they didn't like it at first, and then they grew to like it.
• 25:12
  [SPEAKER_03]: So, they ran a bite.
• 25:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 25:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: What you, are you reading anything right now, or could you tell us when your favorite books?
• 25:21
  [SPEAKER_03]: I got a lot of books.
• 25:23
  [SPEAKER_03]: Well, for one thing for me though, whenever I really I always have to read for now, just know.
• 25:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: Um, I like the rich as men of Babylon, yeah, don't fire 40 laws of power, powerful book.
• 25:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, that's a long book.
• 25:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: Um, you read a way to superior man, the way to superior man.
• 25:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: That was a good one.
• 25:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that one.
• 25:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: Then, um,
• 25:51
  [SPEAKER_03]: Because a lot of Nick's reviews, I actually do like Rizad for that.
• 25:55
  [SPEAKER_03]: I actually do like that book.
• 25:57
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
• 25:57
  [SPEAKER_03]: Great foundation of book.
• 25:58
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
• 25:59
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's very surface level.
• 26:00
  [SPEAKER_03]: But it's a good book, right?
• 26:02
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's a good book.
• 26:02
  [SPEAKER_03]: Right.
• 26:02
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's a good book.
• 26:03
  [SPEAKER_03]: So my son and my son read the book when he was in eighth grade.
• 26:06
  [SPEAKER_03]: So I read the read that was in eighth grade.
• 26:09
  [SPEAKER_03]: And it write me a paper on what he read.
• 26:13
  [SPEAKER_03]: So that was that that was a good book for getting into investing The final loss of financial fitness.
• 26:21
  [SPEAKER_03]: I actually go through that with my son every morning He went to give me the final loss of financial fitness.
• 26:25
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's probably the one that's right there I was gonna say you guys.
• 26:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I have to knock up my baby.
• 26:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: I can't forget in the polling hill thinking girl rich.
• 26:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I can't forget that now that one is a little bit
• 26:37
  [SPEAKER_03]: My suggestions when you read them would be one pair of refiday and make sure you have paper and write notes.
• 26:45
  [SPEAKER_03]: And you might have to go through that pair and that chat that won the two times because you always don't see something new, maybe three times.
• 26:52
  [SPEAKER_03]: And that book is
• 26:55
  [SPEAKER_03]: a lot of history with that blue group.
• 26:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, for sure, yours, uh, to this day, uh, shoot all this by Phil Knight, that's my favorite, that's one of my favorite books period about business, about, uh, talks about his journey in, in starting Nike and basically in ends with Nike, going public and that's it.
• 27:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yep, Phil Knight, yep, love that absolutely love that book, some recent ones that just read, or I listen to, because I do audio, it to make sure I actually,
• 27:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: read the books, so I got the physical version.
• 27:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: I do the audio version.
• 27:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: I listen to re-rights our own rules by Morgan DeBond, the founder of Gravity, AfroTek.
• 27:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then you deserve to be rich by the guys that earned your leisure train.
• 27:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: We're shot.
• 27:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: But if you had to pick one, like once of all time, yeah, it would be feel nice.
• 27:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's feel nice for sure.
• 27:49
  [SPEAKER_03]: Might be tax-free, well, okay.
• 27:51
  [SPEAKER_03]: Don't die, I love that one.
• 27:54
  [SPEAKER_03]: Get yourself many tools to use.
• 27:59
  [SPEAKER_03]: Because the start of business is going to be a lot of things you have to do to get there, which is important, it's super important.
• 28:07
  [SPEAKER_03]: And the thing is, like getting there hard, keeping it is even harder.
• 28:11
  [SPEAKER_03]: And so when I started reading a book, you know, I'll just, I'll give it a story.
• 28:17
  [SPEAKER_03]: I remember I was, uh,
• 28:20
  [SPEAKER_03]: a rookie and I had just went to uh... the new on the Saints assigned a sign of bonus for about sixty thousand and i don't know too much about taxes i knew a little bit nothing for real just thousand ten and uh...
• 28:37
  [SPEAKER_03]: At this time, I was on the check and I direct the positive because I had just got there so I couldn't, I had saw with them the first game of the playoff.
• 28:43
  [SPEAKER_03]: So do you remember the beat, the beat smaller?
• 28:45
  [SPEAKER_03]: Of course, that was my first game on the Saints.
• 28:48
  [SPEAKER_03]: Wow.
• 28:48
  [SPEAKER_03]: So I'm on the sideline, watching it in person, Mitt Romney was running for president in 2012.
• 28:54
  [SPEAKER_03]: Mm-hmm.
• 28:55
  [SPEAKER_03]: All right.
• 28:57
  [SPEAKER_03]: And so I think one of the debate questions was that he, um,
• 29:05
  [SPEAKER_03]: was that he made $2,000,000.
• 29:07
  [SPEAKER_03]: And my hand was like, you know what, when I got paid that $6,000, when I got my check, I only touched $31,000, all right?
• 29:15
  [SPEAKER_03]: I was high, I was furious.
• 29:18
  [SPEAKER_03]: I called my agent, man.
• 29:19
  [SPEAKER_03]: What happened to me in front of somebody?
• 29:21
  [SPEAKER_03]: Who's that guy?
• 29:22
  [SPEAKER_03]: Who's that guy?
• 29:24
  [SPEAKER_03]: They're like, let's go to your place, all right?
• 29:27
  [SPEAKER_03]: And so, I'm not saying.
• 29:29
  [SPEAKER_03]: So I'm watching Mitt Romney,
• 29:33
  [SPEAKER_03]: And Barack Obama and they're saying he made $20 million and they said, but he only paid a million dollars in taxes, right?
• 29:38
  [SPEAKER_03]: I said, no way, he paid $10,000 in taxes.
• 29:41
  [SPEAKER_03]: And they took half of my, I know that took half of his, because he made more.
• 29:46
  [SPEAKER_03]: And turn around, he paid a million dollars in taxes.
• 29:50
  [SPEAKER_03]: And I called my financial advisor, Ferris again.
• 29:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: How is that, do you know he paid?
• 29:54
  [SPEAKER_03]: You know, he's like,
• 30:02
  [SPEAKER_03]: Hmm, all right, how the, and I saw a research like how can I protect my money, all right, from taxes, and so I saw reading more, I started asking more questions, and that he told me at 2011, 2012, 13, I bought my first will estate property, and I started to build my real estate portfolio and started to grow it, and from there I was like, okay, now
• 30:30
  [SPEAKER_03]: I can write some things off.
• 30:31
  [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, let me see what I can do.
• 30:32
  [SPEAKER_03]: And then from there, I started to just get a little bit more intrigued with how I can protect my money.
• 30:38
  [SPEAKER_03]: So, and while we picked up that book, the text free will, that was the cheat code.
• 30:45
  [SPEAKER_03]: That was the cheat code.
• 30:46
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's the cheat code.
• 30:48
  [SPEAKER_03]: So, please, we guys, have it, keep reading it, keep using it.
• 30:53
  [SPEAKER_03]: If you never heard of it, please, go look it up.
• 30:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm adding that to the to the cart to the wish list for sure and then last and not least would love to know what has been if you had to pick one thing what's your favorite thing about Detroit.
• 31:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: It could be anything it'd be anything I'm going to say on that is okay.
• 31:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: In bad choice.
• 31:21
  [SPEAKER_03]: bad choice.
• 31:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: I said not bad talk.
• 31:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 31:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: No, you talk it to a lifelong life.
• 31:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm locked in.
• 31:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: Good and bad.
• 31:30
  [SPEAKER_03]: So just I got got to write.
• 31:32
  [SPEAKER_03]: So it's rich data advisors tax-free well.
• 31:36
  [SPEAKER_03]: So it's still a part of that rich that poor that collection.
• 31:39
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
• 31:39
  [SPEAKER_03]: But I think it was written by someone else though.
• 31:41
  [SPEAKER_03]: I don't think it was written by.
• 31:46
  [SPEAKER_03]: No, it was in my right of kids like he was okay.
• 31:48
  [SPEAKER_03]: So it's like offshoot of.
• 31:50
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's what I could.
• 31:51
  [SPEAKER_03]: You have like he has like four or five books in that collection in that collection.
• 31:57
  [SPEAKER_03]: Like the the cast will.
• 31:59
  [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah, okay.
• 32:00
  [SPEAKER_03]: All that's in that.
• 32:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: That kind of that collection, so yeah, I need to revisit that because I read wrist app where that went.
• 32:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I went.
• 32:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: I went there yet and turned in my comprehension and money.
• 32:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm way better now.
• 32:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I need to revisit it to be able to be like, oh, okay, I can actually put stuff in these different buckets now.
• 32:16
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I think it's a great opportunity or a great place to start, right?
• 32:21
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, see if you have no idea what it is.
• 32:24
  [SPEAKER_03]: Surface level, but
• 32:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for partaking the freestyle Friday even though we ain't getting no bars maybe next time we can get we can get eight 16 something like that.
• 32:36
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you got a piano here.
• 32:37
  [SPEAKER_03]: I play the piano.
• 32:40
  [SPEAKER_03]: You got a tuba.
• 32:41
  [SPEAKER_03]: I play a tuba.
• 32:44
  [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if I got some free stuff.
• 32:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: So continuing the story, so we talked about your like and been harbor, then being able to a matriculate to Wayne State, and then start that Detroit journey, and then you get an opportunity, even with you being an NFL, you go undraft it, and then you bounce around from a few different teams to be able to start.
• 33:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: And like you said, you landed with the New Orleans Saints, and how the opportunity
• 33:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: be there and then you really hit your stride once you had joined the lion's and so we'll love to know as being a fan at that point in time and watching the lion's and you were here doing some great years because I mean as you you grew up a lion's fan I'm assuming.
• 33:21
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I'll go have a very painful story.
• 33:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, okay, perfect.
• 33:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, you, you, you know the history that we have as far as being alliance fans, but you had opportunity to be a part of some of those better years.
• 33:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: So what was that experience like for you being in Detroit, the city that you had the opportunity to be able to be here for college.
• 33:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then now being able to play here and then hitting your stride in the league as well.
• 33:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so it's funny.
• 33:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: So.
• 33:44
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yes, well, I'm drafted and understand that draft night is gonna be crazy.
• 33:49
  [SPEAKER_03]: All right, you're gonna have phone calls some people day before asking What are you gonna be at?
• 33:53
  [SPEAKER_03]: You know, are you gonna be your family?
• 33:55
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I be on my family.
• 33:56
  [SPEAKER_03]: You know, so you're thinking I'll get the car to the next day You get no car and the thing is when you play a smaller schools They try to do everything to discredit discredit you whether that no matter how well you play right
• 34:09
  [SPEAKER_03]: They're trying to use anything.
• 34:11
  [SPEAKER_03]: All right, they get you for his cheapest possible.
• 34:13
  [SPEAKER_03]: All you playing against the fear of competition.
• 34:15
  [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, his 40-tile was low.
• 34:16
  [SPEAKER_03]: Well, what you look at his numbers, you look at his body and work, you look at the film.
• 34:22
  [SPEAKER_03]: He's a gamer.
• 34:24
  [SPEAKER_03]: But he's going to go off everything else.
• 34:26
  [SPEAKER_03]: They're trying to discredit you.
• 34:28
  [SPEAKER_03]: All right.
• 34:29
  [SPEAKER_03]: And so I don't know how you look at a player who's
• 34:32
  [SPEAKER_03]: Top 10 and CW history, all the vision and scoring all purpose yards and rushing.
• 34:39
  [SPEAKER_03]: Top 10 and CW history at 1, 2, 1, W, division 3 and say, ah, he's not going to.
• 34:47
  [SPEAKER_03]: All right.
• 34:47
  [SPEAKER_03]: And so had a chip of my shoulder came in as a, as a undrafted free agent, working and signed, or undrafted
• 35:01
  [SPEAKER_03]: The Buffalo Bills went to the, went to the Filly, went to the Eagles, went to the Coats, got cut, went back to the Eagles, got left the Eagles, went to the Saints, all my rookie year, all my rookie year, and so I end up in a playoff, and I end up in a playoff, sorry, and, you know, this is like the pros and cons and NFL, right, and cup throw business, right?
• 35:25
  [SPEAKER_03]: So if you play on a certain team for a certain amount of games, let's say three games.
• 35:30
  [SPEAKER_03]: When if that team goes to the playoffs, you get half of whatever that team makes in the playoff.
• 35:36
  [SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
• 35:37
  [SPEAKER_03]: So I played on two teams that went to the playoffs.
• 35:40
  [SPEAKER_03]: And I was with the Saints.
• 35:41
  [SPEAKER_03]: Was the third team.
• 35:42
  [SPEAKER_03]: So I was getting how the triple dipping.
• 35:44
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• 35:59
  [SPEAKER_03]: in the Super Bowl, and if you don't, it's called SLL, and if I was your thing, it's almost what I mean, but that's your limitation.
• 36:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
• 36:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, the same thing.
• 36:11
  [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, the exact same thing, as I remember that, now remember going to the Saints, and I remember the first name.
• 36:21
  [SPEAKER_03]: They have four renovates that Chris Ivory who actually played in my send division and I think he was a starter.
• 36:28
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, Pierre Thomas who was a season that they had the dinner sprues who had they had just brought from the San Diego Chargers and they had a market room who they just drafted first round.
• 36:41
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• 36:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: They don't need a job in the back of you.
• 36:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: They're straight.
• 36:45
  [SPEAKER_03]: You're right.
• 36:45
  [SPEAKER_03]: That's fine.
• 36:47
  [SPEAKER_03]: By the end of preseason, I had left the team and rushing in.
• 36:50
  [SPEAKER_03]: I left the team and received it.
• 36:52
  [SPEAKER_03]: So it was like, I'm going to figure it out.
• 36:54
  [SPEAKER_03]: Right.
• 36:55
  [SPEAKER_03]: And it takes a certain type of mentality to kind of push through that.
• 36:59
  [SPEAKER_03]: And I say my child growing up kind of put that mentality in me.
• 37:03
  [SPEAKER_03]: the work after that you talked about earlier, me watching my mom wake up Saturday morning is that five in the morning going to the beauty salon because she was a beautician and doing here from, you know, six a.m. all the way until nine at night, come home with the bands popping out of her legs, like I don't got no use, like why can't I, all right.
• 37:25
  [SPEAKER_03]: And then, you know, and they
• 37:31
  [SPEAKER_03]: not even think I was going to be a starter.
• 37:34
  [SPEAKER_03]: All right, not even thinking that to, you know, getting the start position one week before my first name and and college, and then taking off the way I did and sending the NCAA record for Russian for refreshing it.
• 37:45
  [SPEAKER_03]: I didn't know I was going to do that.
• 37:46
  [SPEAKER_03]: I just knew I wanted to put up 2,000 yards that season.
• 37:50
  [SPEAKER_03]: And coaches who were there, who ended up leaving going to another school before the season started, said, no, just get 15 yards.
• 37:59
  [SPEAKER_03]: And I'm going to tell you this kids, if you guys have an idea in your head or go that you want to reach, no, like anyone didn't get lied, don't let anyone feel like you're not, you know, you're dreaming too big, because he'd sat there in my face and told me, no, just get 1500 yards.
• 38:15
  [SPEAKER_03]: They'll be a good season for you.
• 38:17
  [SPEAKER_03]: I said, no, I'm going to get 2000 yards.
• 38:19
  [SPEAKER_03]: He said, listen, just get 1500, they'll be a great season.
• 38:22
  [SPEAKER_03]: I said, no, I'm going to get 2000 yards.
• 38:26
  [SPEAKER_03]: I will see.
• 38:27
  [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, keep watching.
• 38:29
  [SPEAKER_03]: And I did it.
• 38:30
  [SPEAKER_03]: But it was that faith that I had in myself.
• 38:34
  [SPEAKER_03]: That I knew what I wanted to do.
• 38:35
  [SPEAKER_03]: And not letting anyone put their putting their fears or projecting their own thoughts onto what I had in store for my life.
• 38:49
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's all that prepared me for what was coming in the NFL, and I felt it's, it gave me a great opportunity.
• 38:58
  [SPEAKER_03]: I'm in a lot of great men, but I won't be able to understand the NFL's a cut pro business.
• 39:04
  [SPEAKER_03]: And so what can you do for me now, you know, the average NFL career is 3.1 years, you need 3.3 years to get your pension, guys again cut right before they secure the pension, so you really got to make sure that you're doing everything that you can possible and not only in just in that league, but in anything that you do, right?
• 39:25
  [SPEAKER_03]: waking up in the morning having a routine like this is a competition every you need to have a routine like one of my doing one of my waking up in doing like am I going to be better today than I was yesterday you know and all this matters like are you reading or are you watching extra film or are you going up you know over the place are you understanding of just the concept of what you guys are doing
• 39:49
  [SPEAKER_03]: are you asking the right questions?
• 39:50
  [SPEAKER_03]: Are you looking for the right things?
• 39:52
  [SPEAKER_03]: When you watch anywhere you're looking for, you're trying to find the weakness and I was an offensive player, so I'm trying to find the weakness in the defense.
• 39:58
  [SPEAKER_03]: I'm trying to find tendencies.
• 39:59
  [SPEAKER_03]: I'm trying to look at their tendency when they're trying to describe certain blisters when I have to pick up blocks, right?
• 40:07
  [SPEAKER_03]: Because you can't block in this league, you're not going to be here alone, right?
• 40:10
  [SPEAKER_03]: And so for me is I try to capitalize on trying to perfect everything goes around my game,
• 40:15
  [SPEAKER_03]: Right then just running the ball.
• 40:18
  [SPEAKER_03]: I want to I want to be the best blocker.
• 40:20
  [SPEAKER_03]: I want to be I want to have the best vision.
• 40:23
  [SPEAKER_03]: I want to understand What was the online?
• 40:27
  [SPEAKER_03]: Well, I want to know who the online was blocking and how they were blocking So I can set it up for them, right?
• 40:33
  [SPEAKER_03]: And so it's like me going in and watching family my own
• 40:37
  [SPEAKER_03]: at the stadium, but at the same time, coaches walking by and out, and they see me in the watching field.
• 40:42
  [SPEAKER_03]: And then when I go out and perform well, and I do well, it's all contributed to the work that I'm putting in by just watching film.
• 40:52
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's not just about talent and talent gets you in the door, right?
• 40:55
  [SPEAKER_03]: But your work ethic, your talent, you understanding and becoming a professional and learning the science of your position, of this game is what's going to keep you longer.
• 41:04
  [SPEAKER_03]: I think Tom Brady said it best, basically his mind was the internet and he wanted to know how fast can he download certain things and certain tendencies from his competitors or opponents and being able to react
• 41:21
  [SPEAKER_03]: quicker, all right, the anybody else on the field and that what man himself successful, like he was, it was a couple players like that, Peyton Manning was like that, I never seen a player have the type of power of a franchise had Peyton had.
• 41:38
  [SPEAKER_03]: He would have his own meetings, doing coaches meetings, and pull players out of those meetings, because, you know, we have a player that knows, probably more than most of your coaches, it's hard to say, you know, what?
• 41:51
  [SPEAKER_03]: I think they argue with you, right, right, and so, but he was very, you know, it's a couple players that I respect.
• 42:01
  [SPEAKER_03]: jubries when they're probably one of the best leaders I've ever played with.
• 42:05
  [SPEAKER_03]: Calvin Joseph, probably one of the most talented players I've played with, my Sean Lynch, probably one of the most dominant players I've played with, so me and this player, I play with, and with great player, right?
• 42:18
  [SPEAKER_03]: And, um, and I love the way he played with the game, and, you know, each, as I learn this game, as I play, I learn that each player has,
• 42:28
  [SPEAKER_03]: a certain way that they are a leader.
• 42:31
  [SPEAKER_03]: Some may be talking, some may just be straight action.
• 42:33
  [SPEAKER_03]: We don't do any talking.
• 42:35
  [SPEAKER_03]: Some may be just a leadership on how they are able to bring the team together and get everyone on the same page.
• 42:41
  [SPEAKER_03]: And it's just being around that and learning that.
• 42:44
  [SPEAKER_03]: I took all of that when I learned and put it into my business practice and being able to deal with a lot of different personalities.
• 42:53
  [SPEAKER_03]: and being able to always stay calm in certain situations because you plan to fund a million people, to come back and have this type of pressure of, the pressure's kind of different, but for me, it's really no pressure.
• 43:08
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's more so how do we figure it out?
• 43:09
  [SPEAKER_03]: You know, it's a different from where, you know, you plan to fund it for a million, and the game's on the line, and you know,
• 43:17
  [SPEAKER_03]: versus, you know, it's, you have families who are working for you and you have to figure out a way to make payroll.
• 43:23
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, because they have three kids on or, uh, one may need medication and, and they're counting on you to figure out.
• 43:34
  [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, how do we make this business successful?
• 43:37
  [SPEAKER_03]: Now, that's pressure.
• 43:39
  [SPEAKER_03]: Plan football, and then that, that's not really for me, it wasn't pressure.
• 43:44
  [SPEAKER_03]: It was just, we prep for this, we're prepared for it.
• 43:47
  [SPEAKER_03]: Now, let's still execute.
• 43:49
  [SPEAKER_03]: Now, my idea, we're gonna fall short sometimes.
• 43:51
  [SPEAKER_03]: Plenty gets the best players in the world, right?
• 43:55
  [SPEAKER_03]: And some days in my head, you're number.
• 43:57
  [SPEAKER_03]: But when I came to the lights, I felt like we had a team that we fought like our team was different.
• 44:03
  [SPEAKER_03]: We felt like we were in now and we had some great coaches.
• 44:07
  [SPEAKER_03]: John Callwell, I think he's probably one of the best coaches.
• 44:10
  [SPEAKER_03]: I've had, I have some great coaches on him, I've had Andy Reed, I had Sean Payton when he was
• 44:19
  [SPEAKER_03]: with the Saints after they just wanted to Super Bowl, so I had some good coaches and kind of watching them and seeing how they were with the team.
• 44:30
  [SPEAKER_03]: I also saw that a lot of your players or I would say employees.
• 44:37
  [SPEAKER_03]: they take on the identity of the person at the top.
• 44:40
  [SPEAKER_03]: So if you're a person at the top, this all way.
• 44:44
  [SPEAKER_03]: Then that's going to trickle down into your staff.
• 44:47
  [SPEAKER_03]: But if you are a person that can
• 44:50
  [SPEAKER_03]: control your emotions, think logically, and be able to, to relay your messages in the way where people don't understand.
• 44:59
  [SPEAKER_03]: It really changes the dynamic of the business and also the respect that people have for you, because it goes from a fear, right?
• 45:07
  [SPEAKER_03]: People want to do good because they fear you, to people want to do well because they love you and then don't want you to go anywhere because
• 45:14
  [SPEAKER_03]: they love the atmosphere, and that's kind of what I've learned when I play, when players love their coaches, they play well.
• 45:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: When it comes through, you have mentioned your businesses and some of the ethics that you've been able to get from, not only life, but then also the game of football as well.
• 45:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: For you, because I got to make sure that I put this in here, so part of it, one of my favorite spots that I like to go to, your part of the ownership and creation of that
• 45:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: Wait, is that their first like full-fledged our partnership endeavor or were there others prior to and partly as well?
• 45:47
  [SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
• 45:48
  [SPEAKER_03]: That's my last one.
• 45:49
  [SPEAKER_03]: My first endeavor was real estate.
• 45:52
  [SPEAKER_03]: Who was investing in real estate?
• 45:53
  [SPEAKER_03]: And then I got in the cannabis.
• 45:55
  [SPEAKER_03]: I got in the hemp.
• 45:57
  [SPEAKER_03]: I got in the crypto.
• 46:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: And that was kind of,
• 46:03
  [SPEAKER_03]: 2000, that was those who know from about 2012 to about 2018, I think, let me do those things.
• 46:13
  [SPEAKER_03]: And then in 2022, I formed a tech company called You Jarjuk, which you have the largest footprint now in Michigan.
• 46:20
  [SPEAKER_03]: And we spread out to Indiana, California, Tennessee, Florida,
• 46:29
  [SPEAKER_03]: closing out on Dallas now, so we'll be in taxes and then we'll be in the thinnest sons arena this year as well.
• 46:36
  [SPEAKER_03]: So we get close to doing a couple of partnerships.
• 46:41
  [SPEAKER_03]: We've grabbed him before.
• 46:42
  [SPEAKER_03]: So we're here before.
• 46:43
  [SPEAKER_03]: We've looked in a grab a few hospitals, hospitals, different brands.
• 46:48
  [SPEAKER_03]: And so that was
• 46:49
  [SPEAKER_03]: just probably one of the most successful ones I had.
• 46:52
  [SPEAKER_03]: And then Parlay came after that, which is now, I got one of my babies right here.
• 46:58
  [SPEAKER_03]: And whenever you have a business that you're just starting up, you've got to make sure that you're kind of engulfed in it.
• 47:04
  [SPEAKER_03]: And you have to be, because there's some things fall through the crack, man, it's on you, right?
• 47:11
  [SPEAKER_03]: And I have partners who I trust to do the job.
• 47:14
  [SPEAKER_03]: And
• 47:15
  [SPEAKER_03]: to make sure that making decisions that's going to best benefit the business.
• 47:21
  [SPEAKER_03]: And then also, in a hold of myself accountable to make sure I'm doing everything I can to make sure we're putting our right foot forward.
• 47:28
  [SPEAKER_03]: So, but partly it's definitely something that I'm happy that I brought down here with my partners.
• 47:34
  [SPEAKER_03]: One of my partners that I died there to me, it was actually
• 47:40
  [SPEAKER_03]: And I knew about the concept, but I was like, if I'm going to do it, it has to be in Detroit.
• 47:45
  [SPEAKER_03]: I have to have my hands on it, I don't want to do it where I'm not involved or I'm not there.
• 47:50
  [SPEAKER_03]: And so when opportunity can't to wear, okay, let's do it in Detroit.
• 47:54
  [SPEAKER_03]: I brought in some more partners and raised them from some capital and put in a lot of our own capital.
• 48:02
  [SPEAKER_03]: So I can be put up in the end.
• 48:03
  [SPEAKER_03]: I was in my own money to start it and then, um,
• 48:09
  [SPEAKER_03]: But then a matter of 60 days we got our first preview And then probably within two weeks after that we had our first week in When we did a whole weekend soft opening and then we waited two more weeks after that that one more soft opening and then when it won't we can say okay
• 48:28
  [SPEAKER_03]: We're ready now.
• 48:29
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and then open up four time on November 15th of 2024 and it was almost like a media hit.
• 48:38
  [SPEAKER_03]: And I think what it was is that when we were very intentional with whom we built that out, all right, you know, we talked about me growing up a liar's fan.
• 48:47
  [SPEAKER_03]: So, berries are good for him.
• 48:50
  [SPEAKER_03]: I told him I listen on the page homage to the ones who came before me.
• 48:53
  [SPEAKER_03]: And when I named my cigar room after you,
• 48:57
  [SPEAKER_03]: and he gave me his blessing.
• 48:59
  [SPEAKER_03]: And so he can't feel.
• 49:03
  [SPEAKER_03]: All right, Rick, I just has to be I end.
• 49:07
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's not even that that was even on my mind at all because I knew this concept that we were bringing was something that hasn't been done in downtown Detroit yet and it wasn't any spots like this at downtown Detroit, it wasn't another reason why I wanted to do it, which is again, it was that poor dad wanted to file out some financial fitness, it's supply of demand, learning to understand in the market.
• 49:29
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
• 49:29
  [SPEAKER_03]: And so I'm sending the mark out understand what we have here and it wasn't here.
• 49:34
  [SPEAKER_03]: I knew that it was a need for it.
• 49:36
  [SPEAKER_03]: I didn't know how big of a need it was for something like this to be able to come down town to have a sports ball where you have, you know.
• 49:47
  [SPEAKER_03]: kind of luxury on the odds with good food, with boosts that are comfortable enough to fit for me and that'll watch a whole game.
• 50:00
  [SPEAKER_03]: When a lot of restaurants are looking to turn tables over quick, they give more people in the tables, we're actually quite the opposite.
• 50:08
  [SPEAKER_03]: We're not turning
• 50:17
  [SPEAKER_03]: We don't do reservations on game days because it's so packed in there because of the the army odds and the vibes that we're so learned from our service and then that's another thing of hospitality.
• 50:27
  [SPEAKER_03]: We want to have the best service.
• 50:29
  [SPEAKER_03]: All right.
• 50:29
  [SPEAKER_03]: We want our service to walk around with smiles in the face, right?
• 50:32
  [SPEAKER_03]: And that's one thing that I tell them every day, even if you don't feel like this smile in the mirror for six to seconds.
• 50:38
  [SPEAKER_03]: It'll change your, it'll change your bio, right?
• 50:42
  [SPEAKER_03]: You go from like, okay, just leave, leave, whatever is happening outside those doors.
• 50:48
  [SPEAKER_03]: And I bring that inside a parlay because that's not part of our brand.
• 50:51
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
• 50:51
  [SPEAKER_03]: Right.
• 50:52
  [SPEAKER_03]: And so, uh...
• 50:54
  [SPEAKER_03]: And just, you know, from the speak easy to our, um, to our patio to our cigar room to, you know, I'll probably have to go all these different things right and for us to have an opportunity to bring that to the city and downtown in a great location that is new true and we're, you know, a 12 minute walk.
• 51:15
  [SPEAKER_03]: at most to the farthest city in the way four blocks away seven eight-minute walk from four fields seven eight-minute walk from to Comerica Park 12 to 15-minute walk to LCA right here you're right next to everything right and then that'd be right next to where majority of the the best hotels in the city city are the roost they believe in the chanola yep
• 51:40
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, but Cadillac, you have the book towers, you have, to the club apartment, so all these people just walk down stairs and just come across the street and just come patronize, right?
• 51:52
  [SPEAKER_03]: And it's always opportunity to meet new people, right?
• 51:55
  [SPEAKER_03]: So it's an elevator spot to where it's not like a typical sports bar we use just.
• 52:00
  [SPEAKER_03]: Let's let me throw anything going here.
• 52:02
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
• 52:03
  [SPEAKER_03]: You got to come.
• 52:03
  [SPEAKER_03]: We got to come correct.
• 52:05
  [SPEAKER_03]: We got to come correct us.
• 52:05
  [SPEAKER_03]: You want to have some of the most influential people in the city in here.
• 52:08
  [SPEAKER_03]: So, you know, I'm going to come and look in the top of the way.
• 52:12
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
• 52:13
  [SPEAKER_03]: And that's the culture that we built there.
• 52:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 52:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: And you do, you do your famous pictures with people when they come to town, where they do a concert.
• 52:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: So they happen to be in town.
• 52:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: They like we got to go pull up the parlay.
• 52:22
  [SPEAKER_03]: All these celebrities and people making some move.
• 52:24
  [SPEAKER_03]: 100%.
• 52:25
  [SPEAKER_03]: We don't impose all of them.
• 52:26
  [SPEAKER_03]: That career, right?
• 52:27
  [SPEAKER_03]: We post a few.
• 52:29
  [SPEAKER_03]: Um, but I mean, the list just goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on and it's kind of through kind of like I said not only what we built but also the relationships like I told you one of the biggest things for me is, um,
• 52:52
  [SPEAKER_03]: his best friend's wife went to school in the L.A. State and, you know, when they get married, I met the wedding right next to Kevin, and we're talking cannabis, right?
• 53:03
  [SPEAKER_03]: And then from that point on, you know, became like a guy who I always had a...
• 53:09
  [SPEAKER_03]: A lot of respect for not because of what he was doing in the company, but what he was doing in the business world.
• 53:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 53:14
  [SPEAKER_03]: All right.
• 53:15
  [SPEAKER_03]: And very smart and telling you, man, when it comes to business and that's one thing I didn't know about him until I met him on my mind.
• 53:22
  [SPEAKER_03]: He's smart like he's really smart.
• 53:25
  [SPEAKER_03]: He's really I mean not only a logical thicker like he's Imagine a lot of my so he figure things like he figures it out Like he's just figures it out right and Look the solid team I ride them you know the plastic up boy.
• 53:39
  [SPEAKER_03]: I'm shot out to them you know an angel spank Wayne all those guys Solid guys You know every time I come around as always
• 53:50
  [SPEAKER_03]: always love, always love and, you know, and that's just one person I can talk about, right?
• 53:57
  [SPEAKER_03]: And it's just a great opportunity to have something like that in the city to where we can in our short time, we become a staple, right?
• 54:11
  [SPEAKER_03]: And so it's truly a blessing.
• 54:14
  [SPEAKER_03]: because it's so many other good restaurants and different places that you can go to in downtown Detroit.
• 54:19
  [SPEAKER_03]: And for people to complexionize with us, we don't take that lightly.
• 54:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 54:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: And one of the main things I appreciate is that y'all open at hours during the day when people can pull up no matter what your schedule is looking like.
• 54:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, some places might not open to four or whatever.
• 54:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: Like I can pull up the parlay for lunch.
• 54:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: I can pull up for branch on the weekend.
• 54:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: I can come for the game.
• 54:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: Like there's accessibility.
• 54:39
  [SPEAKER_03]: So, and that's where it was.
• 54:40
  [SPEAKER_03]: So, we opened up a three.
• 54:41
  [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah.
• 54:42
  [SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
• 54:45
  [SPEAKER_03]: Maybe I had that.
• 54:47
  [SPEAKER_03]: Honestly, because we did the 11 o'clock.
• 54:49
  [SPEAKER_03]: It just wasn't enough traffic.
• 54:51
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
• 54:51
  [SPEAKER_03]: All right.
• 54:51
  [SPEAKER_03]: So, it was like just in make sense, but we, I actually love opening up an 11.
• 54:55
  [SPEAKER_03]: So, we may go back.
• 54:56
  [SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
• 54:56
  [SPEAKER_03]: We may go back.
• 54:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
• 54:58
  [SPEAKER_03]: So, I know we had three, but we do open up an 11.
• 55:00
  [SPEAKER_03]: I'm setting it for our brunch.
• 55:02
  [SPEAKER_03]: That's every Saturday of Sunday.
• 55:04
  [SPEAKER_03]: We're going to open up an 11.
• 55:08
  [SPEAKER_03]: you know, especially now, because now we can utilize our patio, our patio, super dope.
• 55:13
  [SPEAKER_03]: And we call it a party outfield.
• 55:17
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's just the concept we came up with it.
• 55:20
  [SPEAKER_03]: And I love when we open up our windows.
• 55:23
  [SPEAKER_03]: We have the accordion windows that opens up to the inside to where if you're sitting outside, you can still see the TV's right in front of you inside.
• 55:30
  [SPEAKER_03]: And I love that when people are driving down Grand River and they're riding by they have to see inside through the windows Yeah, well, we have one on it.
• 55:38
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's you know, it's a jam packed.
• 55:39
  [SPEAKER_03]: You know every weekend every Every lion's game every pissing playoff game is being packed and dumb just a vibe
• 55:48
  [SPEAKER_03]: Get the early please.
• 55:49
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, please don't get down to please don't get there doing the game They call my phone I'm gonna place the city You'll send up come stand up here with me.
• 56:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm right I have a question for you so in terms of light
• 56:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: You talk about your network and the connections that you made over the years in terms of your former folks, teammates, friends, and league, or have been in the league with that common conversations to talk about business and like entrepreneurship and things that you might be doing or was that not necessarily like, I guess like when I talk so to speak with that not comment for people to talk about, I'm about to do this business or I'm considering doing this in it.
• 56:36
  [SPEAKER_03]: Not really.
• 56:38
  [SPEAKER_03]: Not really.
• 56:38
  [SPEAKER_03]: Like, even with business now, like, I don't have to sit in and do the daily operations, right?
• 56:44
  [SPEAKER_03]: I build a team and then they go and they take our vision and they bring it to life.
• 56:49
  [SPEAKER_03]: No.
• 56:50
  [SPEAKER_03]: We can oversee them.
• 56:52
  [SPEAKER_03]: We can't oversee what they're doing.
• 56:54
  [SPEAKER_03]: And.
• 56:55
  [SPEAKER_03]: kind of understand, you know, we don't really like it that way.
• 57:00
  [SPEAKER_03]: How about we try it this way and then Let's see how that works out and if it works out we stick with it if it doesn't we'll go back to the draw board But we have people in my team that handles our data the operation who I don't a heck of a job Like, you know, no one's perfect
• 57:18
  [SPEAKER_03]: But they're definitely pushing our concept on our vision and through the roof, and we're extremely proud of what they've done and what they've rated.
• 57:27
  [SPEAKER_03]: And it's a great opportunity.
• 57:28
  [SPEAKER_03]: But yeah, for sure.
• 57:30
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
• 57:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: And so, what's next for, joint, what's next for your charity businesses?
• 57:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: What do you have in your crystal ball that you can tell us about this happening in the future?
• 57:42
  [SPEAKER_03]: I honestly just growing my nonprofit for big and big and bigger, my last year we had 20 kids.
• 57:48
  [SPEAKER_03]: this year we have 500 fire, they should we want to do a thousand, make sure we want to do 2000 and we want to continue to grow this concept now as we continue to grow as we come with some growing pains but you know stick with us because we're going to perfect this and I think this year is going to be better than last year and the next year is going to be better than this year
• 58:16
  [SPEAKER_03]: I'm just excited to see where we are.
• 58:18
  [SPEAKER_03]: Tinguish them now, where we can go back and say, you know, these kids were a part of our program.
• 58:22
  [SPEAKER_03]: And I'm there back tutoring, some of the same kids that went to the same schools as them.
• 58:28
  [SPEAKER_03]: All right.
• 58:29
  [SPEAKER_03]: Some of you, like, you know, you're part of midnight golf, and you or you came out of a late online.
• 58:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yep.
• 58:35
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yep.
• 58:36
  [SPEAKER_03]: And now you're back there doing interviews at the Gallo, you know, we wanted to...
• 58:41
  [SPEAKER_03]: the greatest actors that come out of Detroit right like you know that's a full So come on with me and I just want to be able to create those same opportunities for the kids in my program
• 58:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: no doubt he most definitely will already already on the pathway to do so.
• 58:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: So before we get up out of here, how can the people tap in with you if they want to follow the journey, they want to get them kids and that can't.
• 59:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, hit a brother beater and get them in the end.
• 59:07
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's possible.
• 59:08
  [SPEAKER_03]: How can they find you?
• 59:09
  [SPEAKER_03]: 100%.
• 59:09
  [SPEAKER_03]: So if you guys want to go to Joykeville charity on Instagram, you go to Joykeville charity.
• 59:16
  [SPEAKER_03]: If you want to go to my personal page, I'll push a lot of my
• 59:22
  [SPEAKER_03]: So my other businesses, and there's going to be a juggernaut just my name, too.
• 59:26
  [SPEAKER_03]: I key we are in a UT, right there at the bottom.
• 59:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I got you right down the bottom.
• 59:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then also.
• 59:38
  [SPEAKER_03]: feel free to go to our website at jbtherity.org, which is going to be right here.
• 59:44
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's helping out there.
• 59:49
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's super dope.
• 59:50
  [SPEAKER_03]: So if you guys want to stay in contact, so go to anyone else and we're posting constantly.
• 59:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I got to ask you this, there's something I always wondered for years and now we send your average conversation, what's the origin of joy?
• 1:00:03
  [SPEAKER_03]: Where did that name come from grandparents?
• 1:00:05
  [SPEAKER_03]: So I'm a drug-builder second, actually.
• 1:00:07
  [SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
• 1:00:07
  [SPEAKER_03]: And my grandparents came up with the name because they weren't both.
• 1:00:10
  [SPEAKER_03]: They wanted both of their kids to have that energy.
• 1:00:13
  [SPEAKER_03]: So my aunt name is Joy.
• 1:00:16
  [SPEAKER_03]: And my father name was Joyke.
• 1:00:18
  [SPEAKER_03]: And Joyke is French last Greek for Conqueror.
• 1:00:21
  [SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
• 1:00:22
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
• 1:00:22
  [SPEAKER_03]: I like it.
• 1:00:23
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
• 1:00:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: I like it.
• 1:00:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 1:00:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: Would you like, man, it's been a pleasure having you on the platform today, man, and love to see your intentionality, like I said, not only with the city, Detroit, but the moves that you make in the city as well, whether it be business, non-profit, giving people opportunities, it's truly amazing, man.
• 1:00:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: And also being a phenomenal ambassador for us as well.
• 1:00:40
  [SPEAKER_03]: Appreciate it.
• 1:00:41
  [SPEAKER_03]: Or fashion like you said, in passion.
• 1:00:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely yeah.
• 1:00:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: Everybody watching listening, we're going to tap him with y'all soon.
• 1:00:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: Peace.