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How to Build an Authentic Personal Brand That Actually Grows - Ep. 200 w/ Parish Halsell · Black Fridays: Business Growth for Entrepreneurs, Creators & Professionals

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[SPEAKER_02]: I think that people put out content for the sake of pleasing other people and they end up doing things that are incongruing with who they are.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But if people flipped that and started to seek themselves and put out content that is serving that thing inside of themselves, that content will reach the people that also have had that same thing inside of themselves.
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[SPEAKER_02]: What I'm doing is actually change work and can have impactful outcomes in a real world for the people who encounter the stuff that I do.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm here to teach people how to be like themselves, and to love themselves, and to do the thing that is within them calling them to do outside of what the world is telling you not to do.
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[SPEAKER_02]: What up, though, Black Friday family.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome back to another episode of Black Friday's podcast.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Before we get into today's episode, make sure you like buttons, subscribe, drop a comment, since the video is the family friends and love ones, so then we keep this thing going.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Today, we have somebody in here who is an amazing advocate so she's just as worried here in the city of Detroit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And more importantly, a phenomenal content creator.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Mr. Parrish and K. pardon me with Pete.
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[SPEAKER_01]: How you doing today?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Whatever, I'll do it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you for having me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Man.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You got that spool-down peg, bro.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm trying.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm trying.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Can't so for the people who are familiar with your platform can we get the real the part I can't I ain't gonna do it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No justice Yeah, but for those who don't know part of me TV is an age of timing platform that celebrates blackness and seeks to answer the question what the fuck is going on around this beat
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[SPEAKER_01]: Is that simple?
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's really that simple.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The questions that need answers.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so in turn.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I got introduced to your platform through social media and things like that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know that you have different iterations of part of me with P, but more importantly, parts about your journey.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't know until recently was that like your educator and then also.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's a huge social and community component to what it is that you do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I want to start with first like the social aspect of it and where do you, where did that come in line in terms of your livelihood, your background experiences when you realized I want to do something rooted in community.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What's that with educational with it prior to?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, so I think that like I've always like been a person who's like just always been focused and concerned about other people and like making sure that other people had what they need it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I think that the parish that I am now probably like has has always been inside of me, but I think that my introduction in.
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[SPEAKER_02]: education being a classroom teacher kind of like brought all of those things out of me One just about like seeing the lives that my students had compared to what I thought they should have had compared to what my life was like um, and then just like being in golfing and systems that literally like ate us all up Kind of just like motivated me to like figure out what I can do with whatever power I have just like help all the people around me and so
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[SPEAKER_02]: Part of me started in 2020 prior to the, um, I was a classroom teacher for five years and then I worked in higher education as a deacosal team for for three years and so when I left the classroom, I left the classroom in 2018 and, um, I've always been on like, um, I've always been on like,
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[SPEAKER_02]: social media, Facebook, Instagram, all of those things.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so when I left the classroom, um, because I wasn't a teacher, no more.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, like I had a little bit more freedom to post stuff.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So like, you know, I started sharing my thoughts, sharing my views on everything, and like people like, oh, you need to start a YouTube channel.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You need to start a podcast, blah, blah, blah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm like, what?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not starting a podcast.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So at the time,
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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, I had just finished grad school.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was working at a college.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, I'm a real professional.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm gonna give me a real job in and use all of my words at my real job.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't need a you too, right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: But there, you know, as you grow and learn that all of those things are what they are.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And you know, like you can do your stuff anywhere you are.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, you know what, maybe I should, you know, start something 2020.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's when I started a part of me with P.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And when I first started it, the like scope of part of me with P wasn't what it is now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like when I started it, I remember I had made this intro video and I had described it as a mix of Wendy Williams, the breakfast club and
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[SPEAKER_02]: the view.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it was like really like focus on like pop culture, focus on like hot topics.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Me, you notice, yeah, talking my shit to the camera.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I remember like I have put out a couple it, I have put out a couple episodes and my ex boyfriend had called me and he was like, yeah, so I've been watching those show and it's good and stuff.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But you're just so much smarter than that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You need to start using your brain.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I ain't gonna lie, I missed that iteration of the show when you see it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: People on the show.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's like, like, you definitely miss that one.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, A used to be like, some, some, some totally different shit.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I was like, I love it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Like, I run.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I've loved every iteration of part of me of I've loved every iteration of who I am.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I didn't have any problem with it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But when he said that like they really like had me thinking like then maybe I should figure out how how I can use all of me and I just the parts that I think that the internet wants to see.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So then that's when I started to like make the transition to like weave in some more like
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's some more like impactful topics and just show to people like you can be a smart bad beach That's it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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[SPEAKER_01]: So in terms of I definitely wanted to touch on the evolution of part of me with Pete and then going through like those different phases of it and landing where you are now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So you were a part of a change collective right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yep, remember one year twin with damn what year is this twenty six twenty five twenty five so yeah and then I've been finished twenty six.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I was curious as to because I feel like around the same once I realized when you were in change collective and then the time frame of when you're.
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[SPEAKER_01]: content started to change and how you kind of have like a resurgence or re-emergence of the platform Do do those correlate?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Do you feel like change collective had played a role in that or were you kind of already on that trajectory and then change collective was Among a long for the right during that time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, for sure, so I think that I was already on that journey.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, but then Change collective kind of like served as an
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[SPEAKER_02]: Accelerator for me to see part of me as change work okay, like I've always been the person behind Part of me talking about the things doing the things that I have been doing but I always seen it as you know This just me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just you know talk it to some folks But then when I did the change collective it was like wait a minute what I'm doing is actually change work and can have Impact for all comes in a real world for the people who encounter the stuff that I do
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so I think that change collective didn't necessarily like give me anything revolutionary, but it did allow me to see that the work that I have been doing and have always done is worthy of being changed making work for the world and for the word that I'm trying to be all for all of us.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, so I think that that was like definitely like something that helped me like realize like, oh, damn, maybe I can't take this serious as like an an actual thing to change the world versus me just feeling like I'm just talking to a few folks.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And this current iteration could you break down for us?
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[SPEAKER_01]: What does that all entail?
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I get I see the social media content and then I know that you mentioned at one point had a YouTube channel actually to show, but like what this
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[SPEAKER_02]: around.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I will say in like 2024.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, I so it's been to him.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's been so many like stops in journeys within like part of me, but around 2024, I had this idea like I want to do more than just my one show.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So in my one show, part of me with P, I had like four different.
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[SPEAKER_02]: segments, right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I was like, okay, that's cool, but I have so many other ideas, so many other things that the world needs to learn.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I need to figure out how I can put this stuff in it too.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I was like, well, what if I just had different shows for each thing and created a whole network versus just trying to put everything into this one show that I already got.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so that's when I came up with the idea to like transition, part of me with P to part of me TV and part of me TV would
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[SPEAKER_02]: encompass all of the things that I am.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so, um, I started that transition in 2024.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's when I started doing more like political content I started.
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[SPEAKER_02]: interviewing other people, I started doing like street interviews, so like I started just to like play around to see like okay, what do I like to do, what don't I like to do, what does the world need, what are people looking for.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I was like really experimented from like 2024 up until January, 2026 this year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So if people like some of my content being like, you might have seen a whole bunch of different things just because I was trying to see like, well, what was it was the thing that I wanted part of me to be.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so in February first this year, 2026, I officially launched part of me TV or the transition from part of me with P2 part of me TV.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so part of me TV is a network that I'm building that includes the like four main shows, but then I have like other different like other different like
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[SPEAKER_02]: series that I do from time to time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm on four main pillars of part of me TV is one of course the OG part of me with P and that will be the space that like serves as pop culture hot topics.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This is what's going on in the world right now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Real like relevant in the moment current events type of like my take on on those things.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Then we have politics with P. And politics with P is the space where we just get into all things, politics.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Granny, I can go there on every single show that I have because politics is in everything that we do.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But politics with P is the space where we talk about all things political.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I might be...
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[SPEAKER_02]: interviewing somebody who is in office, somebody who is a candidate, I might be on the streets talking to folks about their views, I might be at a Trump rally trying to see, why don't you even vote for Trump?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Right, so like that is what politics with peace, like from there we got T with P. And T with P is like where I'll sit down with another person, somebody who I will probably
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[SPEAKER_02]: depending on the topic of the show.
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[SPEAKER_02]: T with P is missing it down with somebody who I think is a genius or an expert in whatever field that they're in.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're just talking about those things.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We send down and we get into the team.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like what's going on?
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then lastly, we got P's playlist.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like I love music, music.
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[SPEAKER_02]: has always been a part of my life like I've been playing saxophone since fifth grade.
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[SPEAKER_02]: A lot of things that I learn or not a lot of things that I learn, but a lot of ways that I learn to interpret the world around me comes from music, um, and I just think that music is very like powerful, like like you can, you can have a song, the whole world lifts the song and they don't know that they've been singing a coded message the whole time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I'm saying?
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[SPEAKER_01]: So my friends put me up on before I got married they used to talk about it with certain songs They weren't gonna play it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They went in because it had like underlined in me Yeah, yeah, I didn't think about it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The one in the songs that I told me was Mr. Mr. Jones.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and then it was like I had I never you just be saying it before I let go like that's
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, people be like barbing and yeah, like why are you that you're wedding playing pretty wings Why is pretty wings playing at your wedding like?
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[SPEAKER_02]: People and but like that's why I love music yeah because it can do so many things If you have the skills to like see what it's doing yeah, and so I'll piece also real quick I'm seeing like pastors and stuff like doing it to me and hustle and like this
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's a crazy song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He was the leader.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's a graphic song.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, that was a graphic song.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Close the door.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, bad.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, my.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I want more.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I can get enough of you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What?
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[SPEAKER_01]: To me with Megan.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But like, because I think that words are so powerful.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I think that music is a way to like relay great.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Messages but also a way to kind of like brainwash folks.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, peace play this It's the space where like I just get into like what does this really mean what like what is this lyric saying to you?
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[SPEAKER_01]: What is this thing to me like you'll take on genius lyric.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, yeah
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so those are like the four main components of part of me TV, but then I have like other like series that I do like black business Monday, it's just you know Sean, I'm like this is that I'm using my day today life.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Theory Thursdays share some theories that I have about like why the world is in a state that is in.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The weekend tweets is like, I might see a couple of tweets or posts from the internet over the weekend.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Be like, oh, we need to talk about this.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I got so many like series actually, but the main thing it would be the four people.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, part of me with P, politics with P, T with P and P's playlists.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Don't I love how you found the way to be able to incorporate the different aspects of yourself and then put that into them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Sake many into the different types of content.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Definitely got more questions about that, but now you are a familiar with this part.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm an institution of my favorite part freestyle Friday.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm glad we did it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If you ain't coming to bars, you're going to have to get up out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You got to get up out of here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to end here early.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know you got some bars.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I got some, but I don't know, bro.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I wasn't looking for a pair.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You want to give it a try again when I got to do you have free stuff.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, you you need a beater You're going to occupy the I need a beaver.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, let me see what I can do for you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to give you the same be the game Amber, but in my in my end up that way.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Okay There you go
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[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, hey, hey, hey, we in the studio with Black Friday's podcast in the studio talking to party me TV in the place to be, hey, let's go Black Friday's podcast.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Let's go party me TV.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We in the studio teaching the people all about the world.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Let's get it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, everybody don't come on your freestyles.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, go start.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You listen do it afraid.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's what I've been doing there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You go go start So if you don't mind, I do have a few rapid fire questions for you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So people can learn a little bit about you all right So I've been seeing this thing online where they're going around doing tours about unpopular opinion Mm-hmm.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What show unpopular opinion and it could be about anything what is an unpopular opinion that you have a heel that you will in the day on
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[SPEAKER_01]: something that's like controversial or it would be it would be controversial to people like for example uh what's somebody say they like uh like pineapple's don't belong on piece yeah something yeah something like that that people might but like what you trip but you like not stand by it
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[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like I shouldn't, I should have my radio.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like I got a lot of...
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's like this kind of... A lot of your content is kind of sitting around that in a certain aspect.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But something people may not know that you like, I feel this way.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Hmm.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Um...
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[SPEAKER_02]: The...
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[SPEAKER_02]: Wait, what is the title of it again?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm popular, Pink.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And unpopular opinion I have is that all love songs are actually gospel songs and Beyonce is an advocator for Christ.
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[SPEAKER_02]: How did you come to that conclusion if we say that God is love and the song is about love.
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[SPEAKER_02]: then the song equals God.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's, that's may have God equals love.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This song gives a love song, so that means the song is about God.
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[SPEAKER_02]: However, it really just depends on like, your frame, like when you are singing that song, whereas I know for me all love songs, I'm singing them to Jesus.
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[SPEAKER_02]: other people might not be, but I know I'm singing them to Jesus.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And when I see the words and hear the words and feel the words, it's like, oh, yeah, it is the gospel.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because if you change a couple of lyrics, it is the gospel.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's some song.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You haven't got a change in our lyrics.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, some songs like straight up, it is the gospel song.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, and Granny, it might not be every.
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[SPEAKER_02]: piece of the song, but that section is given gospel.
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[SPEAKER_02]: For example, I think Beyonce got a bunch of gospel songs.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think more and he'll got a bunch of gospel songs, shock a cock, got a bunch of gospel songs.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We need Houston got a bunch of gospel songs, little dirt, got a lot of songs.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like like these songs be gospel.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but you got to have literacy skills to understand now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, for sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so you you must burn to me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I might get counsel for this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Are you a
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[SPEAKER_02]: I wouldn't have no pets.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was about to say, I feel like if you got a pet, you are colonizer.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just, that animal don't belong to your house.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to, I don't want to go too much further, but that's, that's a very shame.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's the thing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, why?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Because they're on this, I'm saying, that's, well, number one, I just, I personally don't, I grew up with pets.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I have pets in the household, but I've learned like when those pets don't get
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a completely different story and I just feel like they're wired a certain way in terms of how they're how they exist in the world that is not meant to be in your house, that's not meant for them to be getting their hair died, that's not meant for that you to be walking a cat on the leash like that, I feel like those things are disruptive to how they function there are naturally in the world they're not supposed to be in the kenneling your basement, they're not supposed to be sleeping in your bed and all that type of stuff like yeah shout out to the animals that they're not they they're not supposed to be in your house.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The thing is, like, I don't necessarily disagree with that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, what was the mistake?
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm not saying that I agree with that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I'm saying?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm saying that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But, but no, like, that's real shit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, if we're saying that animals have rights, and they have a rights to live in your own habitat.
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[SPEAKER_01]: talk to all right so moving on if building part of me will be I had thought about this if you they made you in charge of public access TV for the city Detroit for 24 hours what program and are you putting on there
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's a great question.
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[SPEAKER_02]: First, definitely doing a series on literacy, especially like mediator to see, so like giving people the like the like steps to take, to question themselves before making a conclusion about something that they just see.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, so definitely something about like literacy skills.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Definitely giving them some type of show about this is what you are on the news, but this is what it actually means.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Because I think that people aren't able to like read between the lives, even though we shouldn't have to read between the lives, but people don't really know like what's going on in the world because the messaging that
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[SPEAKER_02]: that they get.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's so cold.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so they just take it as what it is.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so definitely some series on like decoding the language that they see in here on the news or in the media.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Definitely a show about like black genius or like greatness within the city.
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[SPEAKER_02]: whatever that might look like from all different industries.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like I think this jeans in every space in in every place.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's a fire series.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, so just like recognizing that, um, and I probably shouldn't say it that because I that's the series that I'm trying to plan for a part of me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: TV.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It just got to come out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think we've got to come out sooner.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But definitely win it all's um, and then of course, I'm gonna do some type of like music education series.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Speaking of music, so you had mentioned, like, peace playlists and you're going to cooperate that into your content.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What's the one song to you?
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[SPEAKER_01]: It just screamed you trade.
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[SPEAKER_01]: As soon as it come on, you just like, this made me feel like home, just made me feel like the city, like it just screamed you trade.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Good as day.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, like, that's my go-to detrace song in my like.
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[SPEAKER_02]: in my time that I'm here now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's a Detroit Negro spiritual at this point.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, for sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But listen back when I was a kid, Blade, I swear that I love you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Could do anything.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, you do a great laying room.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, my god.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, my god.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, that wasn't my shit.
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[SPEAKER_02]: What fire cruising on the mile in my old fire rain sounds bad game big dumb ice shank again Yeah, okay Man, okay, talk about man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know man That air that was the air man.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was so good and like I was just I don't even know like we're great I was there probably like 80th grade 7 grade some shit like that, but they used to like
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[SPEAKER_02]: It, when I just heard that I was to feel like, yeah, I'm a real boy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, because I was out of the day, I was twerking.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So, that one got good, could tell you one from seven miles.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Tell me, she's like, wait, wait, wait, wait.
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[SPEAKER_01]: To me, it's, um, takes money to make money.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, it's only to come on.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's the good way.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's the trade right there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Shout out to stress money, man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We got to find them and get them on the platform.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's all.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, uh, before we wrap up free style Friday, I just wanted to know if you want to make your announcement that peace playlist is actually you, buying a terminus TV.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, Mike had to get there to the sculptor sequence of it all.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But thank you for partaking and freestyle for our days.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We got to freestyle a lot of it and learn some more about you in the process.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So one thing I wanted to, you had mentioned earlier in terms of being able to incorporate the different elements of you into parting me TV and one thing that I remember from creator weekend, you got hosted the Crater Summit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, great job.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Always bring the energy, it was super dope, kept the people engaged and excuse me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But somebody had mentioned on the stage that that was the,
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[SPEAKER_01]: being able to find the different aspects of you, that inner that whatever the inner section is, that your secret song will make you special.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Who said that?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because I feel like they heard that from me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But they had mentioned that that was the the secret sauce.
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[SPEAKER_01]: How did you kind of come to be able to figure out what were the things?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because like you said, you started with what you felt like was entertaining, and then now it has graduated to you just exposing people more than who you are.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So how did you kind of find that intersectionality between them all?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so one that like concept is such a great concept and like I don't know like where even I saw her from but I know like there was this blue car or like there was this concept or idea or something called the
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[SPEAKER_02]: genius circle.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And basically it's talking about that same thing like one should find all of the intersections of like everything that you've always like throughout your life and and the course center of that and and you are in that and resting in that it unlocks your level of genius because you have found the sweet spot to everything that has made you who you are.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I think for me
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[SPEAKER_02]: A lot of like introspection like I'm a very reflective person.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm a very self aware person even when I'm doing something I know I'm shouldn't be doing or something that I know I shouldn't be saying.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I know that I'm doing that and it's somebody called me I don't know I'm not going to try that like I'm not I'm being like okay with you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You got yeah, yeah, so I'm I'm very introspective already and so Just on this journey like I'm like I've I've always said that I'm on this journey at
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[SPEAKER_02]: Getting better at getting better, and I got there from a previous school leader that I had.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She was very motivational, very like, we gonna make it through anything, and her like, framework was we're always here to get better at getting better.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So on this constant state of continuous improvement.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's like just what I'm always on.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I think just me being on that journey, naturally, I'm always looking for ways to like make what I do better.
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[SPEAKER_02]: and also seeing the content landscape that we're in and how it's fully shaped and how people are dumb.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're getting content that's fully shaped.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's
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[SPEAKER_02]: reproducing shit everywhere.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Just shit all over the place.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Shit all on the wall.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, fickle matter, fickle matter, and everywhere.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so, knowing that I'm like them, I need to figure out what I can do to make sure that my content is actually impactful, and that's when I went on like a internal, like soul searching journey, like who am I?
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[SPEAKER_02]: What do I like?
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[SPEAKER_02]: What makes me take?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Why are these the things that get me going?
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[SPEAKER_02]: And on that journey, like you find yourself, you find God, you, you find why you're here.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You find the things that make you, you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then you're just able to give that to the world.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, as long as you're doing that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: for the sake of finding yourself.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think that people put out content for the sake of pleasing other people and they end up doing things that are incongruing with who they are because they think like, oh, other people are gonna like this.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So let me do this.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's why our content landscape is what it is.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But if people flip that and start to seek themselves and put out content that is serving that thing inside of themselves, that content will reach the people that also have that same thing inside of themselves
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, like I was telling you before we started recording, I was at the damn take out live show and he talked about that exactly and he was like basically his whole thing was like, look, I'm funded by the people.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I ain't got no questions back in me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I ain't got no target money.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, none of that going on.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He would like the people rock with me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The people pay for my patreon.
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[SPEAKER_01]: People pay for tickets to come to see me and that's who I create content for and he was saying,
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's the only reason why he's able to create like at a high clip because he's doing it for the community people and he won't talk to you that rock with him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's that's that same level of thinking or level of interest.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it made me think of that when you had mentioned like you got to you got to figure out what's inside of you to be able to
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[SPEAKER_01]: do the thing and keep pushing it out because that's how you experience burnout trying to go and do full reviews and like you don't need me.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you barely eat.
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[SPEAKER_01]: One thing was a day you were doing full review.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They don't get me started on the full review videos.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm do something else.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's I think it's dying down.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that trend is is is is dying down.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I want all
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[SPEAKER_02]: of the content that makes you turn your body into a billboard for another entity.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I wanted to shut down.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I say that because
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[SPEAKER_01]: It depends on what the industry is like, what if it's like a good car?
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[SPEAKER_02]: If it's like a small business grade, if it's a black business, if it's a marginalized business grade, but people are billboards for Target and Walmart and like all of these corporations that are buying the politicians killing you, I think that the whole like in the whole influencer industry kind of like,
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[SPEAKER_02]: Parace itself, that's like, oh, we're so free.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I've had freedom over my time and did it, but to get that freedom over your time, you become an advocate for the corporations buying the politicians, creating a loss that's killing you and everybody else around you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so I just see it as a part of their whole like ecosystem.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So that's also I'm probably just like being as a tire to like for review videos.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just tired of like mindless content.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So you have mentioned like politics and the politics that go in between these large corporations and the politicians in Washington or in local government and you have been a part of being able to help inform people about what's going on in their communities and their local government.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So you did an interview with Abdul.
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[SPEAKER_01]: the content that you do or your involvement in politics because I know that you work with my TT Janelle on her campaign so when it like politics become kind of a thing for you or when was your earliest memory of getting involved in politics could be laughing at you but when I was younger
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[SPEAKER_01]: The family hustle was you signed up to work the polls.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So there you get a couple of dollars.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's exciting.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But during by doing that and being with my people, what they did that, we and they also were very adamant about making sure that you vote it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They vote in the primaries.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They vote in generals and all that type of stuff.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I got a chance to get exposed that early on.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then so later on, I became an adult.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I could do my own research, make my own research stuff like, but I knew how the process works.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So when did that was that thing for you?
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[SPEAKER_02]: So for me, politics has always been a part of who I am.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I just didn't message it in the way that I message now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think that even when I first started part of me, like there was a...
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[SPEAKER_02]: political aspect there, but I just did it talk about it in in a way that like made that the forefront.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was more like, oh, you're so dumb.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You voted for Trump.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But hi, dummy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But now I'm trying to teach them like who you should be voting for if this is your goal you should do there, right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: So like it has always been here, but I think it just kind of.
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[SPEAKER_02]: grew up a little bit but I will say um the like thing that got me like interest in politics as a whole was the tray of our martin in George Zimmerman case um and I was that was my first year teaching when like George Zimmerman like didn't go to jail so that that was really the like high
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[SPEAKER_02]: Mom and for me that like really made me like look at the world like totally totally different and so When I started my show, um, I didn't start messaging like seriously about politics until The put what year was that 2024?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, well, it probably started a little bit before that, but I got real series on politics and in 2024 when Kamala Harris became the nominee instead of Joe Biden and I solely did that because I saw that it was so much misinformation coming out about her as a candidate, about why you know, like she even should be doing this whole thing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So my whole viewpoint was like,
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[SPEAKER_02]: to go vote for this person, even though I kind of was, because I'm voting for this person.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But like, this is not right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This is the actual facts.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This is what this means.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so that is kind of like when I started in like 2024, and it was through the lens of like clarifying misinformation, because this black woman is now on the ticket.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If Joe Biden was still on the ticket, I don't know if I would have cared enough to even clarify any misinformation.
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[SPEAKER_02]: about him, but because it was Kamala, it's like, oh shit.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And not saying that I was a Kamala stand or fan, but I'm just saying like this is it right and it's going to go extremely crazy in the country that's racist in anti black and rambah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: white supremacist versus if it was Joe Biden and he's been hit with misinformation, it was probably going to be what it was going to be.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I see that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I saw that as a get and I got the skills to like target this and that kind of like pushed part of me down this like route that it is now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: How do you tow the line of because you've been doing part of me for how many years now like six six years since you started and how do you what I've noticed is like you have strong following people pay attention or content they engage with it I see people come up to you in person but pardon me so yeah it's it's a real thing how do you tow the line of where you are now in terms of being able to
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[SPEAKER_01]: give people the facts of the information, but not being able to do it from a bias lens or like trying to steer you down.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This role, one way or another.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I think that it's kind of difficult for any of us to be completely unbiased.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think that anything we do is going to be shaped about who we are shaped about what our leaf experiences are.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I don't necessarily say that I give people completely unbiased information, but what I do do, what I do do.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I tell them like,
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[SPEAKER_02]: This is the four landscape.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This is what I think this is what I'm going to do.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But this is what all that's going on.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And you can figure out whatever the fuck you need to figure out.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry if I'm closing to my show.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like you can figure out whatever you need to figure out based on these, based on these facts.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But this is what I'm going with.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I think that just presenting stuff in that type of way, presents a case that is,
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[SPEAKER_02]: better than just only giving what your views are knowing that it's other people shaping their views based on what you're presenting to them.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, and I, and I so for me, I think just just being a teacher inherently, I'm able to present a case, but still give what my conclusion is on that case, but in a way that makes space for people to feel one, know what's actually going on,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and that's what teaching is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's what mentorship is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Leadership, real, like leadership, mentorship, teaching, being able to present people with the pathway, but not necessarily telling them what to do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because I had a chance to work with high school students and like you got to, they didn't, they didn't make the own decisions.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, not telling, I think it's going to be a stupid one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I presented you with the facts.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I laid it out for you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You got to figure out how to, how to take it from here.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's what I think everything in the world should be like these are this is the case.
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[SPEAKER_02]: These are the facts I'm not telling you what to do, but but this is what I'm gonna do You can do what you do based on this entire thing But I think because that isn't the case in anywhere and everybody is spending everything and people don't realize that they're being spent And they're making their views and choices shaped by that spin We have a reality where everybody is spinning all around because they don't know what the actual thing is
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, just like I'm gonna put my tin foil hat on for a little bit just like
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[SPEAKER_01]: Just like how they talk about it's conversations that's been happening lately in the city of Detroit, some shenanigans that's been going on, but basically how the powers that be will use a black face.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And a lot of different cases beyond the city of Detroit throughout the history of time in order to be able to, like you say, it's been and get people on board with a certain agenda or message in and things like that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then it becomes obviously very dangerous.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then even sometimes people make
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[SPEAKER_01]: what they say, the role to hailed as pay if we get attention, you know, even though it may be some good things out there, or people what they perceive as being good, still you could be leading people down the wrong path.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so it's very,
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's why I appreciate having this conversation with you being someone who was also a media professional and creating in that space because that's where things get, it gets muddy, it gets dangerous, and media is the vehicle.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Unfortunately, I kind of pushes people to, like, pushes these agendas and warps people mine, so to speak.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Listen, people don't understand just how powerful, well, I don't know if people understand this or not, but I don't know if they realize just how much of the things they do is not from themselves.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's based upon the things that you have internalized and what do we internalize the most, the things from the media.
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[SPEAKER_02]: and just like Beyonce say, those who control the media control the mind, and if you're not in tune with that, and you don't got your 10 for your head on, you're not going to be able to question the things that you encounter to identify how you really feel about those things, and now you're walking around like a robot, and all your actions are not even shaped based on the core of who you are.
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[SPEAKER_03]: like I need to go your band need to go yeah you can't even feel like you're fuck up here like man don't get me started like man I think people are brainwashed like I think it's the like yeah and the evidence proves it for sure
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so we started our journey in terms of our current media aspects of what it is that we do around the same time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm curious what have you learned so far about the business aspect of building, part of me, TV and how you go about the creating opportunity for yourself, people reaching out to you for opportunities like what does that look like for you to develop a business around your brand?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, um, I will say that I'm grateful that I have my experience in corporate that I have had, just because I think that though, I think what I think about corporate spaces, um, a day give me the opportunity to experience what is like to be in like business transactions with,
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[SPEAKER_02]: companies are like whatever the case might be and so now when I'm doing this on my own from my own stuff and I'm able to like have these conversations to like figure out if this is if it's the best fit for part of me TV I'm able to do that from like experience lens.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Something I will say about trying to do business while in this media space is that for me right,
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[SPEAKER_02]: I have been in education, I've been in corporate now, I mean, media, I think what I think is the most interesting or the or the thing that I did not expect is that and I probably should have known this.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But the issues that I have with how white supremacy shows up in corporate spaces as far as like business transactions, some of those same
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[SPEAKER_02]: media spaces, even with black-all media companies or people who claim to preach like I'm for the people.
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[SPEAKER_02]: When you sit down to actually conduct business with them, it's still structure like a very wise supremacist type of institution.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And for me,
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[SPEAKER_02]: knowing that I can do anything.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I can build anything, anything that I touch is going to be great.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't want to go from a space of white supremacy to a space of white supremacy with Afro, like I don't want to do that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so that's what I've been trying to figure out for myself.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's like as I'm building this thing, knowing that I have the right in the autonomy to choose what
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[SPEAKER_02]: to something that was very close to slavery.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And do you have like a, I want to say peak moment, but any highlights of part of me with TV, since you throughout your journey or since you've been able to restructure over the last year, year and a half, you haven't any like highlights that you've been able to do from a business perspective.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But like content, it will be anything.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I have so many highlights.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so
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[SPEAKER_02]: Tina knows follow me on Instagram.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I know I love Beyonce Beyonce is my sister and I don't Tina knows it's my mama but basically so Tina knows had follow me off of a real that only had 20 likes and like wow and like 1000 views.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I don't know how she even saw that video but what was happening at the time she'd be on the ground.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She's on the ground a lot.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, my girl don't play.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, but what I but that moment was special to me.
43:03
[SPEAKER_02]: It's because that same day she followed me was the same day that I deleted my only fans.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that was another business I had.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I had, and it took me so like, I felt like the call to like get rid of the only fans for a long time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I was making money on there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm like, one month, I made $20.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so I'm like, if I didn't make all this money, I don't want to stop doing this, but like, I felt it like you need to stop.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You got other shit to focus on, blah, blah, blah.
43:35
[SPEAKER_02]: So like, I had a real long talk with guy, like, I'm like, okay, big bro, like, I'm about to stop these.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But you know, like, it was given me money, like, I'm trying to see like what's going on.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I don't want nobody think that I was an escort.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was in no escort.
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[SPEAKER_02]: it was not given it it was me and the person I was we we was together and we was just on the internet doing stuff that all of y'all be doing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I wasn't our escort but I still had a business.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So anyway I'm having this conversation we got.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm like, you know what?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm gonna just let it go.
44:08
[SPEAKER_02]: So I let it go.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Mind you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I had 30,000 followers.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, like, like, like, it was like, it was jumping up there, but I gave it up in that same day, teen and others following me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm like, okay.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If Tina knows follow me, you know she's showing up behind say something.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that means one day I'm gonna be working with Beyonce.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So if this is the clue that I needed to see with my future can look like, then I'm gonna just keep on keeping on keeping on.
44:33
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So that's one thing that came to mind.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Another highlight of like part of me TV.
44:38
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, it is that so I did like one of my favorite episodes isn't even me in this in the actual studio.
44:48
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, it's me out on the streets talking to these Trump supporters and I have ran it to them because I was about to pull up at this like Trump rally.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That ended up not being a rally because they don't know how to plan shit correctly, but I still ended up talking to some people and like that that moment for me was such a highlight because I think that is show me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: that if one is shut, well, I've always done this, but a reaffirmed for me that I can sit and have, I can sit and have, I'm a couple conversations with people who might be on the company, they're like, side of what.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm on, and it still will be some like learning opportunities within that space.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So sure.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So that was another thing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, and then one more thing I'll say, as far as like highlights of part of me, um, as far as like a business or like growth type of thing is that I got my own studio this year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so I bought my own, when I bought, I bring
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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, and I think just like building that while building the whole brand of part of me, um, it just gives me something to look forward to every day.
45:56
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
45:57
[SPEAKER_01]: So speaking of continuing the journey and building the legacy, what do you want that to look like?
46:04
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's say, let's say 10 years from now, let's say we're in 2036.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What do you want?
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[SPEAKER_01]: What do you want to accomplish and what do you want to
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So by 2036, like I see part of me TV as a full-flist like TV network that like offers nothing but good beneficial impactful entertaining educational content for all people to consume focused on black folks.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I see it just like as like I see myself as the CEO of this TV network that is giving good messages to the world so I kind of see me on the fight of being a good voice in the fight for good media right making sure that if
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's true that those who control the media control the mind, they're not going to be a part of that, giving counters to whatever BS or the people are put in out.
47:06
[SPEAKER_02]: So I see me as just like a CEO of that network and I got multiple, multiple like series that she's like giving people like great information.
47:15
[SPEAKER_02]: Like when I was getting ready for this today, I'm like, yeah, I can't wait to like, you know, I got
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[SPEAKER_02]: this whole full network, I'm gonna have, Mr. Rachel, all my network, I'm gonna have hope.
47:28
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, you know, like, just like thinking about all the people that I can see doing good things and like seeing them feet into this landscape of bliss all just trying to change the world in our own ways.
47:37
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's go.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And...
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was the most I want to say.
47:43
[SPEAKER_02]: That's for that.
47:44
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a good, good idea.
47:45
[SPEAKER_01]: I follow a question to you, or for you, I meant to ask earlier.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What, how do you make educational content entertaining?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because I can tell like you're a naturally an energetic entertainer person yourself.
47:55
[SPEAKER_01]: But for people who may not like me, I feel like I struggle to kind of,
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[SPEAKER_01]: I put my own spin on it to make it entertaining but like for people who may struggle with that where it's like the stuff I like and really enjoy it might be a little boring I might be a librarian I want to start a channel, but how do you make it fun entertaining and engaging for people that actually want to interact with your content?
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[SPEAKER_02]: So personally that's just me like that is just who I am.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just the entertaining person So what whatever I'm doing is going to be entertaining and that kind of pisses me off some time Because like when I be this serious and like I'd be sad people be laughing like bitch This is real shit But like everything I do is just entertaining.
48:36
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, um, and so I can't really like teach anybody
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, this is what I'm gonna say, but like I can't even I can't teach anybody how to be entertaining but what part of me does or one of the goals of part of me is to teach people how to be okay with who they are 100% authentically and that means that even if you do have this topic that you are interested in and you might not be as entertaining as you think I am you're okay because you are okay with whatever you have 100% on that what you have is great for the world and you're going to do it anyway.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so I'm never here to teach anybody how to be like me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm here to teach people how to be like themselves and to love themselves and to do the thing that is within them calling them to do outside of what the world is telling you not to do.
49:25
[SPEAKER_02]: And so I see part of me as like being a voice of liberation, authenticity, and literacy.
49:35
[SPEAKER_01]: Amen to that mm-hmm.
49:37
[SPEAKER_01]: Amen to that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So for the people on the follow journey to one tapping with you What's all your social media handles web sites how can they get in touch with part and possibly be on part of me with TV Yeah, those are money your way listen But no website part of me dot TV on all of the social media is I'm on
49:59
[SPEAKER_02]: Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Twitter, part of me TV.
50:04
[SPEAKER_02]: You can also find me on my personal Twitter page at part of me with, at part of me with me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I can't even say it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So don't go to that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's a part of me TV and that's part of me TV on all on all socials, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and part of me.tv is the website email perishatpartemy.tv, just type in part of me TV and you're going to find me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: For sure, and then you storing all your part of me to part of me with them.
50:37
[SPEAKER_01]: Now you guys are doing it.
50:38
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, part of me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Part of me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Part of me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's on YouTube.
50:42
[SPEAKER_01]: So like everybody is accessible and all that type of stuff.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, they can, they can find it on YouTube, Instagram, and YouTube are probably the like main channels.
50:51
[SPEAKER_02]: Eventually I do want to get to a place where like I probably just post on my website only to like own that.
50:56
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's what I'm going to say.
50:57
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But right now, YouTube.
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[SPEAKER_01]: For sure.
51:00
[SPEAKER_01]: For sure.
51:01
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, Paris, man, this has been great.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Appreciate you pulling up to the podcast and the content that you do very entertaining and very educational and informative.
51:11
[SPEAKER_01]: It is important and we definitely want to encourage you to keep doing it.
51:14
[SPEAKER_01]: Keep fighting the good fight.
51:15
[SPEAKER_01]: Stand up for our people.
51:16
[SPEAKER_01]: People that look like us are young people and keep fighting.
51:20
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, keep doing the thing, keep doing the damn thing because it is needed, especially like in our community as we have talked about before and different iterations, we need more of those types of warriors that's out there.
51:31
[SPEAKER_01]: So you you're doing the work.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you for appreciate that.
51:33
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you for, you know, that and like I always said to you like you keep doing this like when I say I feel like I have a very keen eye of like black genius and you are definitely exhibiting that black genius with this black Friday's podcast like even the like way that you ask questions the like way that you come up with questions how I can see you thinking about the like goodness that you're going to put into this work is amazing and everybody is not doing it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like people do not care about their craft this much, and I appreciate just the way that you pour into this space Um, and I know like this is gonna be everything that you want it to be and I'm proud to be on the show Nice.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I thank you for having me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I appreciate that man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You can come back whenever you read Come back if you ever ever you ready, but thank you man That's how praise and everybody watching listen it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're gonna type in with y'all soon, peace