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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:55):
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Speaker 4 (01:07):
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Speaker 3 (01:10):
Work at work, Hello, hello everybody.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
I do want to talk about this weekend, shout out
to James and the YouTube saying I'm still processing a
town hall, man, I want to talk about it a
second and just talk about how grateful I am. Well, first,
before I get before I give my recap, let's give
it to Marcellus and let him kind of talk about
(01:36):
because I've talked about it several times this week, but
we want to have it for the podcast. But many
of you got a chance to meet Marcellus for the
first time, and so Marcellus, I am looking rough today though, James,
I kind of am. No makeup on baseball cap on
just showed up.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
But it is what it is, re organizing.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yeah, Marcella's had to learn what real organized. It is
a real welcome.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Marcell So Marcelle's give us some feedback on the town
hall that we had in Atlanta on Sunday, March thirty first,
in Atlanta, Georgia.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
I would say this it was a very successful event.
Once again, y'all it rained again.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Just like yeah, right, well, people don't know, let's break.
And when I did push the line in Atlanta, I
don't remember what month we did. Oh it was in September,
so it was it totally a month. It rained in
Atlanta when we had the three hundred people come and
they too stood in the rain.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
There's something about the rain, but but go ahead, Martill's.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Yeah, it rained. I also would say every well, I
ain't gonna say everybody, but people arrived way early.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
We had a line.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
I was texting Ted and Jay like all the people
don't came thirty minutes early. So the people was definitely
out there.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Uh uh.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
It was a great uh event. Erica did her thing.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
I can't recall the guy from City Hall comedian. Yeah,
Erica Demetris mcraig Demetris, he.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Did his thing black, the his thing Killer. Mike showed
up not once but twice.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah, why did that show?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Paul's right there, because he showed up once and then
when he showed up twice that you really were taken
back with that?
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Why because you know, usually celebrities be real, Uh, they
pop in for about two or three minutes and they
just bounce. But when he came back and just to
give his his testimony, that that that really you know
that that took me for a hour. I was just
surprised by that. But he laid down some some game
(03:53):
as well. I just feel like if you missed it
while you missed the time, because that to me, that
was like.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
That that was like the highlight of my twin twenty
five so far. Like that was. Oh yeah, that that
town hall was very little.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Even your uh, even the photographer from the road was like,
I've been to townholls before, they never been to one
this lit.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
And I can tell because he was having a good time.
Like it was. It was very every dope huh.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
A different type of town hall.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Yeah, so shout out to you, uh and thanks for
letting me, you know, work and tell what you really see.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
No, tell him what you really I'm over sweating like
a dog.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
That was real organized where she I had to start early.
I don't know, these people can't standing, so I started her.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
My my my feet was hurt. I had to do
more than more than one thing. Oh yeah, when you
organized just do one thing, you gotta do it all.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
And people that watch the recap video it looks like
it's an effect, Like it's an effect on the video
with me outside hugging.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
That is not an effect.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
That's not a special effect. That's the brain, like we
were literally in the brain. So yeah, Marcellas was working
trying to get it together. You gotta give out a ticket,
you gotta give out. He got to give a ticket out,
gotta give the risk band out. He's struggling and looking
at the little piece of paper he.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Printed off the names.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Now, this is where I'm gonna give y'all organizing tips
and make sure you sign up for my class. I'm
always Marcello's will tell you, I'm always teaching unsolicited teaching.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Whether he wanted or don't want it.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Whoever works with me, they always get, you know, the
background on why I'm doing what I'm doing, and what's
the point and why I'm doing it and how do
I And that's what I hope you guys put a
five in the chat if you always appreciate me giving
you the background of how do you make these things successful?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
What you know?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
How do the pieces come together? Why do I do
the things I do? My team will tell you count
shut out to Michelby this was my first time working
with her.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Uh and she does events with other folks, and I
know I got on her nerve myselves because you know
how I am.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I like stuff. You know, real organized are you? And
this is just advice.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
I'm glad I see some fives in the chat, So
give y'all some game. I believe in, you know, everything,
being real organized. I keep a Google doc of everything.
I expect staff team whoever to write stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
On that Google doc.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
If it's not on the Google doc, it didn't happen,
meaning okay, I talked to this person that person. This
is the information that I don't do all that random
email by email. I don't like trying to keep up
with stuff and text message.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
I don't write. If it's not on the Google doc,
it didn't happen.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
I appreciate y'all saying fives because I want to make
sure I'm not wasting time and you don't give y'
all this information. So going back to and I'll just
give y'all ins and outs. I want you to know
what it takes to organize and why I make people
put respect on organizer's name. You know why they must
put respect on organized nation because organizing, like what Michellee learned,
(07:13):
is very different than event planning. You know, although it
feels like an event because we had the music, we
had the comic relief. And by the way, even though
I'm hard on politicians, when they decide to you know,
like the DNC convention. You know, they danced at the convention.
They should automatically know that's what's going to go out
(07:35):
to the media instead of showing the business.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
And they're too big of the entity.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
People are too disgruntled right now, so it was unnecessary
to do a line dance.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
You know.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
I do like to have a good time, but I
believe in time and place. You remember Marcella's when Christy
tried it, remember and you so y'all know Christy is
the one that does open Black History Saturdays. She was
one of my trainers that pushed the line in two
thousand twenty too. And man, she was so ready.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
She had the little speaking, a little song selection.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
She had everybody, Oh man, after we got done with
the training for twelve hours, Okay, y'all, she got a
reality it's time to get up to there.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Oh so oh no, no, oh no, no, no no,
won't nobody.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Be leaving with videos of anybody doing any dancing in
this training. What we did was we went to the
club after Marcelli's, we went after in a completely different environment,
and then we got our book Young Now, the town
Hall was not designed to be a training. It's a
couple of objectives that I want to do. One welcoming
(08:40):
myself to Atlanta, Letting people know, Hey, Sophia home now, UH,
supporting Killer Tips restaurant, putting some money in folks hands,
comedians security, Marcelli's Uh, the comic, the special appearance from
the actor, showing you that we can circulate our own dollar,
you know, within our in micro organ And to build
(09:02):
with you guys face to face, one on one as
a mixer, but still give you, you know, a little
bit of information by having the guest speakers, but more
so just to connect with you as we continue to build,
These same one hundred people I'll be inviting to my trainings,
These same one hundred people I'll be inviting to be
a live studio audience will revolt on our upcoming debate,
(09:24):
showing may so I am just really building a tribe.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
So you always want to know the why, why are
you doing it?
Speaker 4 (09:30):
What's the purpose, because I don't want you to be
confused about the fact that I love having a good time,
but it is very important how you roll that out
and you know what that looks like, because it needs
to be able to make sense. Okay, so training, when
we're marketing training and we're putting out info that says training,
you won't be seeing us dancing.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Now.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
You will see us at the after party, you know,
but you will not your location, but at the actual training. No,
it's very important that any clip that anybody puts out
that it is showing that we are handling.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
The business that needs to be handled.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
So at the very onset of it, you know, working
with Michelle be and she was like, oh no, uh,
you know, it's fine.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
People are showing.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
I was pressing her, was like, I need you to
because I needed a point of contact with Bankhead even
though it's my brother Mike's restaurant. And she was like,
oh no, they gonna get I was like, no, Michelby,
I have to market ninety days.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I have to.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
It's not the same.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
She does events for Funky Dineva shout out to him,
but he's been doing events for fourteen years. You know,
so his folks are customer coming out. They're a customer
coming out having a good time. It's literally just that
you know, they go, they call it down to the bar,
and you know, people show up and they drink and
that's it.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
You know.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
So I was telling her organizing it's very different than
just getting people to show up at a bar. And
he probably doesn't have and I'm just guessing doesn't have
a certain amount of quota that he needs to meet
because he's literally just inviting people to the bar. It's
not necessarily paying for you know, all of different things
that I had going on. You know, there so two
(11:03):
totally different things. And I had to tell her, I organize,
like I'm organizing votes. Events to me are like votes, Marcellis,
And it is not just showing up.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
You know.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
This is why we see with the election last night,
a lot of.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
People think money, my adviis everything, but Wisconsin said no,
it actually you can't buy votes here. And Florida on
the Republican side, I told Democrats you can't buy votes here.
So money is a key ingredient, but it's not everything, Marcellis.
It really comes down to boots on the ground, face
to face. Winning award requires face to face. You can
(11:38):
be in the air with the Air Force all day,
shout out to my Air Force, hug, but the Marines
a few good.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Men, a few good men on the ground, the Army
on the ground. It's critical to organizing.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
So I needed to meet with folks hug every single
person at least twice so we could have some on the.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Ground face to face contact.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
So I told her it must be ninety days, it
must be and the reason and she's used to doing
thirty days in evands. You know I don't do that, Marcellis.
We got a ninety day program, did the same thing.
Would push the line. All three hundred plus people that
came to push the line in August, I mean in
September in twenty twenty two got text by me personally.
(12:23):
I used a system called simply Text, but it was
me typing the text and responding all of them, Marcellis.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
And how many times did you get a text?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
At least about ten fifty?
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Yes, you know, we like it best that the Marines
in the building. At best, it wasn't leaving it up
to no, Marcellis. It wasn't leading up to on the
day it wasn't leading it up to Michelle.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Oh yeah, we send some emails out. No no, no, no, no,
they must hear from me. Now, people didn't know what
it was from me till they came to the training.
So what I did was, guys, I ran them off
the list. You either gonna reserve or you're gonna get
off the list. Most people, well, don't look at that way,
say oh, it's a free event. We'll just wait on
everybody to show up. No, no, no, you must organize
just like it's a paid event. Same organizing tactic.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Are you coming? Are you coming? Are you coming? Are
you coming? Are you coming? Are you coming? Are you coming?
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Reserve reserve, reserve, reserve reserve, Dang, I'm coming already a
reserve again. I need three confirmations. I need to know
that you're going to be there. That's why they were
there in the rain. Somebody put in the rain in
the rain, three hundred people on a Saturday at eight am.
Before eight am. Yep, that's the difference. It's the hand
(13:35):
to hand contact. And I know a lot of my
brothers alsas Charlemagne All, I'm always arguing with them about
It's all about the podcast it's all about the digital.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
No, y'all gonna put some respect on the ground organizers.
We do need the digit. Of course I'm using social
media to reach you. Of course I'm using YouTube right now.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
But that hand to hand combat, that hand to hand, ye,
it's why then people drove six hundred miles. Is whying
people drove two hundred miles. It makes a difference. It's
why the people got on the plane. So again, I'm
not gonna keep well. I am gonna keep arguing with
my brothers who love thinking. They know it ain't never worked,
(14:14):
no race. That's the whole thing about myselves. I'll be
really going back and forth people theyin't.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Never work no race.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Eating something wrong with me or something wrong with them.
I'm gonna go ahead and say something wrong with me
because I'm the one to keep going back. But hand
to hand combat matters. It's the military strategy. You must
have it, you must have it. The error is what
I look at is virtual that you're online, that's your Instagram,
that you're spreading it far.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Casting a wide net. But that hand to hand. Watch
and see what I do with three hundred people.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Just watch.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
We've already had candidates that have came out of pushed
the line. We've already had Black History Saturdays, which now
has been funded for three years, that came out and
push the line. We've already had success stories. Wait till
I get three hundred and work with the three hundred
year round. Yeah, because I ain't looking for big numbers, Marcellus.
If three hundred is good enough for Gidding, it's good
enough for me. I'm just looking for three hundred. Somebody
put three hundred in the shack. So the organizing part
(15:12):
of it, of me going live every day, I want
to send a shout out to all of you, all
of you who are on this live right now. I
have to tell Isaac yesterday, tell you if you was
on fan Base. You know, I guess you try to
throw a little shade, I guess, But he said it
only it's only fifty sixty people. If he would have
said that, best I know, he would have thrown some shade,
but said only fifty sixty people on your Instagram if
(15:35):
you were on fan base, it would be two three hundred.
And I had to tell them I'm all right with
the fifty people. Somebody say we all right with the
fifty right, We all all right with the fifty, were
all right with See what I told him, I'm not
motivated by numbers the way you motivated by numbers, shout
out to him. I appreciate that, though, be motivated by
raising twelve million dollars every month, be motivated by men's
(15:55):
and men's of people, be motivated by that. I'm not
motivated by that. My fifty people that be showing up
on this live is how we got them. One hundred
and fifty plus people in that room that not only
just came from Atlanta because Isaac didn't drive from around
the corner.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
He lives in Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Then people got on the plane from Virginia, from DC,
from Houston, from Cleveland, from New Jersey. That's what you
call movement work. Yeah, y'all worried about numbers. Y'all worried
about That's why Gideon's Army they started with ten thousand.
They said, I want no ten thousand. I'm not impressed
with ten thousand. I'm impressed with the three hundred. So
(16:32):
me and you, I tell me, and you ain't motivated
on the same thing. Definitely, go get the numbers, but
I'm not impressed with that. That's why y'all don't see
me on Facebook. That's why I stopped. I stopped posting
on Twitter two years ago. I literally only talked to
y'all on Instagram. And when I asked y'all to share it,
y'all shared it. Isaac never shared it. When I asked
y'all to share the flyer, the influencers didn't share it.
(16:53):
Killer Mike did it a couple of times. Shout out
to comedian Miss Patch.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
She shared it once. But at the end of the day,
we did that. The fifty did that. Shout out to
the fifty.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
The fifty did that. See, they don't ever want you
all to believe that the fifty is more powerful than
the five thousand. I'm getting ready to preach to somebody.
They don't ever want you to believe that the fifty,
(17:29):
it's just as powerful, are more powerful than the five hundred.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
And shout out to my brother Isaac. I get it.
But see that that reminds me a lot of white
supremacy and power and power tripping and oh I got
all these fires.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
We don't seen penty people, and we ain't got name,
no names, Marcellus, But we don't seen plenty people with
bigger followings than me that done held events right here
in Atlanta with thirty people in the room.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
At best, right at best.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
No, it is right on college campuses with college students
walking around at prime time seven o'clock. They ain't got
to drive nowhere, they didn't have to fly nowhere. They're
literally on campus walking past your event.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
So why did I coming in? It must be something.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
It got to be something that that's saying what makes
the po And I'm not talking about me. I'm talking
about God's annointing. I'm not talking about me. This ain't
about my personality. Yeah, this is about what God has
for these people that's in this room. So I'm not
(18:45):
motivated home by the numbers that you're talking about. The
smaller the better.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
When I did that training with Queen, the one that
went outside that Don Lemon ran up on remember when
and he ran up on her and said, oh, what
are you doing that? She said, I'm just doing basically.
I was told to just stand out here with a
sign if that's all I got. When I told her,
she said, what can I do if you don't do number?
Stand outside with a sign? Just you don't wait on
no army, don't wait on no lidy. And she really
(19:15):
did that, and Don Lemon happened to walk up to
her and say, well, wow, what are you doing out?
Didn't know she was in my training two weeks before.
And guess how many people was in the training teeing
that best was very small. I want a very small
group because I know that one one can make the difference. Well,
just one, marcellus.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
They don't want y'all to know that about yourself though.
The people with the money and the access and the platforms,
they don't want y'all to know that. That's why y'all say, well,
I don't have no platform, tells them I can't do it.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Why you can't do it?
Speaker 4 (19:48):
I didn't have no platform either, And according to my peers,
I don't had a platform either. They got means or followers. Yeah,
stop waiting on the platform to get busy. Be the
one that's staying outside, Be the one that's in the rain,
Be the one that say no, that's okay. I'm just
gonna talk to these fifty. I believe in these fifty.
I believe that we actually can make it happen without you. Yeah,
(20:13):
that's what's scares of Marcellus. That's why you don't see
a lot of my so called peers sharing my work.
They're afraid of the fifty.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
But I love it.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
I love it that we get it out the mud.
I love it that you can leave knowing that, yeah,
we did this right. We appreciate help. By no stretch
of imagination. I'm not turning down help. Now turned down
donations and I turned down help. You want to spread,
spread the word, absolutely, But don't you ever as long
(20:47):
as you black, white, or whatever it is, think that
me having access to you are begging for access to you,
are begging support. I will never fall on my needs
to beg for your support. I will always be found
on my two feet. Did y'all hear what I said?
(21:10):
Put some boots in the chat? This really is got
my boots.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
On the ground. They on the ground.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
I'm not laying on my back, ladies, you know what
I'm talking about. I'm not laying on my back, and
I'm not bending on my knees. And my back will
always be straight and I'll be on my two feet.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
That's it, and that's all. And I don't need no
big old support system and this big name and that
big name. I'm alright with meeting with the fifty. I'm
alright with meeting with the one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
I'm alright with meaning the two because I know out
of that two hundred is gonna be another Christie. Out
of that two hundred, I know it's gonna be another Marcellus.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Out of that two hundred, I know it's gonna be
another one, just like two three people that was there
saying I want to run for office.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Can you help me?
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Now?
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Y'all might not be Christian, but if you are, you
think Jesus was going around looking for big crowds. They
never been about no big crowd. Fairoa was concerned about
big crowd. Pride is concerned about big crowds.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Ego.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Those who worship money and influence and power, they're the
ones concerned about big crowds.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
See the God I serve like to reduce the crowd.
Somebody put reduce That's why the military is so successful.
By the way, make sure you go listen to I
broke that down on Jamal Bryant's podcast.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
See the Military like to run you out the game.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Shout out to my Marine friend brother here in the comments,
the military, I say, they like to run you out
the game.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
See the civil rights wrong, want to say, come on ourselves,
come come on in. We want everybody. Uh.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
The military say, when you come to basic true, look
to your left and look to your right. So one
of y'all ain't gonna make it. Their goal is to
run you out. They want to encourage you to go
a wall. They want you out of the game. See
that's how I organized, Marcella. I don't want a bunch
of y'all in the game. I want to take Chris
(23:18):
that drove seven hundred miles. That's what I want with
me in the fox hole. I want Marcello's that was
there at two o'clock when it started at four. That's
what I want with me in the fox hole. That's
why Mike showed up twice. He ain't like the rest
of them. I want the celebrities that don't think they celebrities.
(23:40):
I want the celebrities that actually remember what this is
and why we're doing what we do.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Yep, that's the one. That's what I want with me.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Military, run your ass out. When I started at the
Air Force, got through basic training.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
They picked on me the.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Whole time, called me out because I got into it
girl from DC. So that made my life hell for
the whole, you know, six weeks. Then after that to
my Marine brother when I went to Security police school.
All of us went to the same security police school.
Marine's Army air Force. Maybe my Army, my rigs, my
regulations meaning how many push ups, how long you run
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put sit ups? That changed to Army standards, so you
may not think it's a lot to go from having
to do I can't remember what it was at the time,
thirty four sit ups in two minutes to thirty one.
I know it was around the thirty mark, But like
those extra four or five sit ups to have to
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do in two minutes, that shit ain't easy.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
When you have to.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
When in the Air Force you had twenty one minutes
to run two miles, you had to shave it down
to eighteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
In the arms, that three minutes.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Make a big difference.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Shout out to those of you that know what it
means they have to push through in the last three minutes.
Shut out.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Do y'all want a sermon today? I'm easing in and out.
I got some good news I want to share with y'all,
but I don't want to share it yet. The good
news I told you that was coming. I got it today,
but I'm away.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
But before before you feel I want to say this
real quick. I also like the fact of how you
had no business. Of course, I've seen you have business
multiple multiple times. But one thing I never forget is
you telling everybody, now my name is on this. We
were gonna have this right. She ain't wait on nobody.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
She literally didn't know.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
And she told us, no, I'm just saying me and
me and someone was communicating, and she was like, no,
you need to put me on that communication.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
You know we have no we have no oh yeah,
ye yeah yeah, Marcin Well, I will say this.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Oh yeah, I tell you and Michelle b I wanted
uh and that's who was being the point. Uh Gonna
Tellers wanted to be the twenty contact. And I wanted
Marcella's to go up there and do a run walk
through because we did two walkthroughs because I don't do
that just show up.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
You know.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
We got the oh they said, it's fine. Yeah, I
don't trust y'all. I don't trust y'all. We got we
got to see it for ourself. So marcella Is thought
they was gonna have a group chat outside of me. No, no, no,
let's all keep me in.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
I need to serve.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
I need to see who responding back, who ain't responding back,
who cooking like, who ain't clicking like?
Speaker 3 (26:34):
I'm all in the mix. I am hands on.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
And she was like, oh, okay, I see you different
because he ain't other clients ain't like that. Yeah, I'm
not like your other kind.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Welcome home.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
I'm hands on, my name on this. Ain't nobody showing
up confused? Ain't nobody like I could have sold.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
To vendors do all of that?
Speaker 4 (26:50):
I said, just leave it alone, because they couldn't figure
out if they needed permits yet in time and not
time and when people when they too shake you on information,
Marcello's I don't do it, you know, I don't hate
no take y'all too long. And what we don't want
to do is have people coming down here, you know,
with their tables and thinking they can bend and the
police show up because y'all don't have tents and all
of that. So just don't wear it at it. Leave
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that money on the table. I never operate on greed.
I never operate on that. I operate on what made sense.
Just like they were saying, oh, sell tickets for the patio,
and I said, no, I'm not gonna do that because
it may rain, and most people will just be greedy
and do it anyway and say, well, let's just see
how it work out.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
No, that's okay.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
I'd rather take less and make sure everybody got a
seat than trying to be greedy and having people standing
in the ring because guess what it did rain?
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Yeah, shout out love three flight. She said.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
It sounds like like my wedding plan. I'm hening diad. Yeah,
I'm hands on, dey, I'm all in it. I need
to know everything. We went to the walkthrough and the
guy was like, uh, I said, are we clear about
the shots and making sure, you know, give them a
raffle ticket they spost to have a shot.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Oh, I don't know about no shots. I said, wait,
minut I'm confused because they told.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Me you knew about the walk He said, well, they said,
they didn't say, well, well we'll I'll figured no, no, no, no,
we gotta figure it out right.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Now.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Let's figure it out right, now we got time. Let's
sit down, let's figure it out. We won't be figuring
it out on Sunday. We want to figure it out
right now. He said, Well, because I'm all known that
I would have ordered more to keep. Well, where's the confused?
Because that's another thing, y'all when y'all organize it, you
always got to find that where the confusion happened. People
can't stand me for this, people that I work with,
and it don't matter to me. I don't care if
y'all don't like it or not. I always got to
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figure out what the ball dropped. I'm never wanted the
ones to be like, oh well we got it all together,
so don't worry about no, no, no, let's backtrack. So
Marcella's did you talk to Jan and Jan talked to
Tom and Tom talked to it. You gotta know where
your wink is weak as link is, because you need
to correct it. Not to chastise embarrassed, but you gotta
correct it. Where was the confusion? And so people that
work with me, we hold each other very high standard
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because Marcell's definitely was like, well, Michelle, we shouldn't have
did that, because he'll definitely tell on you, because the
best way tell on marcels. So we all got to
be on the same page, so he said, so. Then
Michelle said, well, I send it in the group text.
I told her, she said she sent it in the
group text. Then I said, can you look it up
right now while we're here, because I want to make
sure somebody confused, like she didn't send it or you
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didn't read it.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
And I got to get to the bottom.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Man, if she doing right now, he can't go behind.
You gotta look at it.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Marcella's gotta see. We got to look at it right
here on deck. We gotta look at it right here
on deck. And he was looking through. He said, oh, yes,
she sent it. I just didn't see it.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Okay, Then let's get to the bottle. He had to
go out to the side and have a discussion. I said, look, Marcela,
yo trying to clean it up.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Clean, ye clean. We got to get it clean.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
We ain't walking off till everything clear. We ain't walking
and we got to clear about what, who was who
sent what?
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Who is that?
Speaker 3 (29:44):
All that? I need to know all that. Marcell just
eating it up, y'all. You just sitting at the chance
you looked dead in his eyes? How I look at
I'm sure Marcella since we bus busy, because he said, well,
I didn't know. I didn't.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
I didn't get I didn't get a run a show.
With a run a show, I ain't got nothing to
do with the tequila. The run of the show was
talking about the show. So let's narrow down on what.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
We just confusion.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Said, did you ask? So finally, I look at Marcella.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Y'all missing it on instagra, y'all gotta come to you, Sube,
Why did I do it?
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Did you.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
See y'all over and say, well, you see this? How
that's how y'all do it?
Speaker 4 (30:31):
This is how Marcella would did it. When he said
I didn't get to run a show. Marcella would have said, okay,
let me sing you to run a show, an't I
do it? Put it in the shot if you like
how I do it. He said, I didn't get a
run of show. My next question is, did you ask
for a run show? You supposed to know get to
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run a show. If you never asked for it, we
got to nail this down. We gotta nail it down.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
We can't be confused.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
What you mean you normally get it, So if you
normally get it, there's little trigger to say I normally
get it.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Where's the run the show?
Speaker 4 (31:14):
Not sit back and say I normally get it and
just sit there and wait on nobody to get You
know who's gonna say something?
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Communicate right, communicate it was not blinking. She ain't even
I'm like looking in the eyes, stroke style, broke style.
The guys I'm even in all stroke style probably say
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no he did?
Speaker 5 (31:41):
He did?
Speaker 3 (31:42):
I think he is hating ass.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
I don't know what I gotta get to even they
not he ain't my staff, but I come in ask
in either the other folk staff question don ourselves we
don't work.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
I need to know where's the confusion?
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Yeah, because wood ain't gonna never have y'all not gonna
never show up but nothing to mine. Well my name
on it and think you're gonna play with me. I
don't let peop play with it because playing with me
is playing with y'all, and I'm not. I'm never gonna
let nobody play with y'all. They're gonna respect your time,
respect your inner. I don't care if you paid to
get in, if you didn't, the linker is at the
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top of the bio, uh, top of my bio on Instagram.
If you paid to get in, if it's free to
get in, you're gonna you're gonna respect. You're gonna respect
my constituents. They they elected me to hold this event
to y'all gonna respect it, y'all. Bet u y'all ever
get an office, I ever get an office, or you're
gonna talk about somebody representing your interests interest cap nuggets
(32:39):
to the fries, to the tequila. These people they came,
they can't looking for it. It's gonna be there. And
then Marcella said, I hope they got it. I hope
they who hope they're gonna have it? Oh, they have it,
and somebody gonna go along to the store. Oh, it's
definitely gonna be there. Marcella's you got it all twisted
and confused. They're definitely gonna happen. Go yeah, no, no, no,
we depending on nobody. I just like to see where
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the Vincent link is. You know where the weakest link is,
so we know how to correct that moving forward.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
As a great multitask you on the phone too, No, no, no,
you said you were gonna you're gonna come at this time.
You said, you got you're gonna you're gonna be here
this time. You got at this time, you're supposed to
do this, supposed to do. That's great.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
If Marcello's got some of the smoke too, said I said,
I need to go print this sheet off. Was because
I went down to print it because I, okay, so
this how y'all got to organize?
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Y'all.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
I wanted to bring the the laptop with the sheet
the people to get in. That was the first thing.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
But you never just depend on technology. You never depend
on technology. So I said, Marcella's bring your laptop. He said, okay,
But then I said, let me also print it off.
Now see when I told Marcellis, bring your laptop. That
was when Marcelle's spost to say, I got a laptop,
but I need to make sure i'm by a plug
because my lap top don't hold.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
A long charge. You see what I'm saying. But you
didn't say that.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
This is one I'm teaching how to organize. You always
got to think for everybody else, you know, have the
the planing b C D. You see what I'm saying.
Because Marcella's it was just like, Okay, let me bring
the laptop. So I said, okay, Marcella's let's print this
sheet off. I was down printed at my apartment. Printing
wasn't working, said Marcella's I need you to go find
a printer. I said, is it a printer?
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Close?
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Is it something well closer? Well no, I didn't even
say close to you. I said, go find a printer.
Marcella started looking it up on the phone. Yes, one
close and one by. And I said, Marcella, this ain't
about it being close.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
This is about She said, no, just just just call
me when it's done.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
No, I'm not at that that part yet.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
I'm telling me that at the first a partment you
started looking up on the phone because I just saw
you up on your little phone, a little tiny phone.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
You have a little small phone. So Marcella, w yes,
this one right around the corner, and it's one two
miles away. I said, you you get the choice. This
ain't about all needs to know if it's bite.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
Because it's almost like you're saying, if it ain't want
to buy, you ain't gonna get it done.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
No, let's just get it done. And then I said
to Marcella's.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
Don't call me back with no, I need to know
when it's done, don't come back. And I went over
here and they said they didn't have it, so I
ended up having to go over here.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
And I need it done.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
Marcella's the next text should be done. The next text
sh'll be done. I don't need all the play by
play from here to that.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
It need to be done. The next tix's done.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Now.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
He probably was scared to call me to say it.
The fox so little because he ended up. But we
had a backup.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
I had my laptop. He had his laptop because when
I said so, then when Marcella's got to the actual event,
he said, they're gonna have to move me because I
need a plug.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
I said, well, why you.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
Didn't charge it up, Marcelli's before you got there, gonna
use your laptop? He said, I did try. I should
have checked the charger. Y'all see, if you tell the truth,
charge it. But my laptop don't hold charge that long.
I said, well that's why I had you printed. So
you see why I had you printed, because you always
got to look at things like that. I also told
him to print two copies, you know, why I had
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two copies just in case somebody else need to help
check people in. And that's exactly what happened, wasn't it. Yeah, yeah,
and people was outside, so I put my best friend
to work. Hey, best friend, I need you to check
some of these people because I don't want these people
standing in line. So those are the small things, guys
that I try to teach folks that work with me,
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like Marcella's, so you know what it means to organize. Also,
when Marcella's got there, I had to keep calling him,
ask them, did DJ get there to hang them?
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Call back?
Speaker 4 (36:45):
Did the comedian get there? Okay, marcelf I need you
to run down everybody who's there when you step on
a scene. One of the parts of it's called advance
in political campaigns. One of the things, oh yeah, we
laugh all the time. One of the things is advanced Guys.
If you're on my advanced team, that means you coming
through and Marcella's love this. You're coming through, you taking roll,
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You're finding out who is who because really you weren't
asking them nothing, so you just letting them just sit
in there.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
So your whole job is to make sure who's in
the room, who ain't in the room. And it should
be able to call me.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
It should be a text DJ check, uh, videographer check,
comedian check da da check, not me having a call.
You know, remember he posted that way if they behind,
I can jump on. Okay, what's going on? Like be
asking a videographer, Hey, what's your estimated time? He's like,
I'm already here. Well, Marcella's already did that. That's one
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extra step.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
So you learned I was overthinking it.
Speaker 5 (37:48):
I was like, Nah, I ain't gonna ain't gonna over step.
I'm gonna do what you told me to do.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
Ain't gonna over step to push the line trot. Understand
you want the wrong tribe because that's all we do.
We are habitual overstep, over the line steppers. What you
mean you ain't gonna overstep?
Speaker 1 (38:13):
No, do it, just do it. Just do whatever I
told you.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
That's true.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
But letting me know people are there that you can't
go wrong with that if somebody ain't showing up, you know, so,
so there is do do what you's told meaning if
I say Marcella's tell them X y Z yes. But
if you're doing it, bance. But this is your first
time doing advance in that way like going in a band.
That's why I teach you in real time and in bance.
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You still want to make sure we need to know
what holes are missing, so we got time to correct it.
You don't wait on you know, me to get there.
And then now we got to correct you know, when
you are you're an hour there in advance, You're not
just hour there just for you to be an hour there,
You're you're there early to make sure if there's something
that we need to fix before the people arrive, that
we have a jump at that.
Speaker 3 (38:59):
So that's what that's about out.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Okay, mm hmm.
Speaker 5 (39:03):
And then I don't know if you remember, it was
one it was one person where he was looking for
that book. They was trying to pull me, talk to me,
talk to me because they wanted the book.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
And he was like, no, I do do.
Speaker 4 (39:18):
Yeah, because I thought we had passed out the book
that was dedicated to me, because he had told me
one of the books was special for me, and I
didn't check it, you know, just started passing down.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
I was like, oh, I forgot one of the books
of the me. So that's what that was.
Speaker 4 (39:32):
So I needed to hear us stand down for a
moment because the main issue was trying to find that book.
Speaker 5 (39:36):
So that's what that right, But Bob was that that
was veris and not to mention it really wasn't no
standing room.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
No, literally we.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
Did the whole capacity and as people even left and
came in and other people showed up.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
So no, we we did exactly what we what what
it was set all that have to do. But it
was because I had a plan.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
So somebody put organizing as a plan.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (40:07):
It's not just it's not just organized. It's not just
doing a club night and see how it all work out.
It's not just let's just see how fall. It's not
all well, it ended up working out anyway. Oh we
had some mishaps, but it worked out anyway. No, no, no,
we had no mishaps.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
None. I don't do mishaps, right, you can avoid.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
We had someone we had we had a guy that
was in the he was actually in the car, y'all
have a ticket, and then he still end up being
able to come in.
Speaker 4 (40:33):
People waiting in the car like okay, there's enough room,
can I come in. That's called organizing. That's why I don't.
That's why I keep my foot on these politicians next
who got millions of dollars to organize people?
Speaker 3 (40:45):
You got the budget, I don't.
Speaker 4 (40:48):
If y'all feel like given a cash at today, definitely
please do take it because you know I pay myselves
for every show.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
And yes, she back big. It's gonna be a lot
of big and going.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
Out chest share share Yep, yep.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
Sure, sure is gonna be a lot of biking going on.
Speaker 4 (41:01):
Y'all want me take it on the road. Gotta have money,
and I'm talking about two dollars five dollars. It don't
don't have to be much cash app testing figure out,
but yeah, uh, this was actual. You know, it requires
work and you gotta be kind to people. Pay everybody.
Everybody gets paid, guys. I know y'all be asking, Oh
(41:23):
I volunteer and all that. Noah, like put money in
people's pocket. Took everybody to dinner Marcella's and then set
up there and ate up twelve hundred dollars worth of shit,
well definitely eight of twelve hundred dollars worth of shit,
and then coming here on Monday talking about, Yeah, my
fee was hurt and I was working like a dog
till the whole host tour, till the whole for it.
(41:45):
You don't don't just say like you just worked like
a dog. The big dog got paid too. So I
always shared this with him, like real leader's gonna give
you something. They may not have much, they gonna give
you something because Marcella's will do it. Guys, if I
asked myrsel it's just help me, if I'd be like,
can you just help me, he would absolutely do it.
But always giving him something because he deserves it. And
(42:08):
I just you know, I want to do what I can,
when I can and how I can. But I am
self funded.
Speaker 3 (42:14):
There is no.
Speaker 4 (42:17):
Big donor behind me or big organization, which is why
we can't really take it on the road the way
y'all want me to shout out to John Patterson in
the building, who's here, you know, in the comments from Houston,
he's always saying bring to Houston, bringing Houston. But when
I did want to bring to Houston, John couldn't give
before five people at best. And I know this makes
me John, but I'm just saying we got to make sure,
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like I can't just come to Houston with five people.
You know what I mean, so I am trying to
put something together. Now I'm going on breakfast club. We
got the next The virtual training is hopefully how we
can fund the in person you know trainings. The in
person trainings are not going to be two three hundred people.
I can tell you that now you know forty fifty people,
you know, but it's still got to make sense. At
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least pay for the ticket, the hotel room, you know,
the location that we have, that kind of stuff. I
can't feed you all all the time, you know, I
can't afford to do all of that, but at least
you know enough to cover you know, the costs, and
the virtual training hopefully will do that. Yes, somebody asks
pastor Brian gonna do something you Yes, I'm hoping to
go at least speak to his I think they're doing
(43:20):
somewhat something like a career fair or a job fair
or something that they're doing with the displaced federal workers.
Speaker 3 (43:29):
So I'm excited about going to that. I have a
word for them as well.
Speaker 4 (43:33):
Last before we get out of here, guys, the virtual
training is rolling out.
Speaker 3 (43:38):
Because I'm just.
Speaker 4 (43:40):
Like this, I always have free stuff and I need
to stop because I literally, you know, have a master's
in adult education. This is real information that I give
you guys, but I have to get better about making
sure that we stay in business.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
You do.
Speaker 4 (43:54):
Always get your free content here, you know, on the
podcast every week on Straight Shot No Chaser.
Speaker 3 (44:00):
We're now gonna be uploading that stuff to YouTube.
Speaker 4 (44:03):
I'm gonna do more live shows that you guys can
come in and you know, be a part of it,
panelists and things like that. But the training, the virtual training,
I'm rolling that out on a training platform where you
can actually take courses. Many of those will be free,
especially for the displaced workers. You know, ten fifteen minutes.
You know, how to rewrite your resume after not being
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in work, you know for so long, twenty years, fifteen years,
how to answer difficult questions, you know, some stuff for
the workers. But then there will be additional training for
those that want a deeper dive, and that's interactive training.
Speaker 3 (44:39):
No more than fifty bucks for two hours to twenty
five an hour.
Speaker 4 (44:42):
I'm capping it at that, So it's not gonna be
something ridiculous unless there's something specializing. I'm bringing in a
special guest, you know, featuring them something like that that
you know, people want to learn from. I gotta compensate them.
So we'll be rolling that out black History Saturdays. We're
gonna include that Marcella. So Chrisy's gonna do on some
black history training, you know, online as well. We want
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to bless her so she can expand that program so
that it's not just on Saturdays. I want you guys
to think about it like this. If it's twenty five
dollars of training, fifty dollars of training, you and some
of your friends sit around the computer like I'm not above,
I don't mind you. You know, somebody chipping in with you.
Most people got fifty bucks, but a lot of people
(45:26):
don't Marcello's they really don't, right, So if it's fifty
dollars to teach you how to market, how to pr
how to push the media, how to whatever for your business,
the ones that we're charging for it, people that's trying
to do stuff in business, just trying to grow their
business and things like that. But yeah, you and your
business partner, you'll only get one link. But you know,
you and your business partner, y'all sit up and watch
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it together, ask questions together, you know, So I'm not
limiting because I can't control it no way. You know,
I can't stop how many people are watching in your house.
So I encourage you figure out a way. That's the
number two. The thing that I talk about on the
stack merge together. You go in twenty five, I go
in twenty five. You know, let's get the information together.
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So I'm not I'm not above that. You're gonna get
the platform information here real soon. It's gonna be on
telimfiirg go, dot com, whatever platform I use. But I'm
trying to ask some different ones because there's a couple
different ones that I've used in the past, because it
actually has to be a training platform that has those
you know, that holds it all and courses and content
(46:28):
and notes and you know, it's not just zoom or
you know, it's not just on YouTube. It's an actual
training platform. So just stay connected to teslimpiag dot com.
Speaker 1 (46:36):
Guys.
Speaker 4 (46:37):
I'll have that road out when I go to the
breakfast club week after next, so just be looking for
that and then push the line.
Speaker 3 (46:46):
Training.
Speaker 4 (46:46):
That's where you learn how to organize, where you learn
how to run for office. Those are the things that
I would love to have in person with thirty forty
people in the room, but we have to figure out
how to fund it. We got to figure out how
to fund it. So hopefully the training, the virtual train
with people kind of pouring into that will give you know, me,
an opportunity to go to at least a couple of
places before the year is out.
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can't go. I just can't go.
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Speaker 4 (01:14):
I do want to talk about this weekend, shout out
to James and the YouTube saying I'm still processing a
town hall, man, I want to talk about it a
second and just talk about how grateful I am. Well, first,
before I get before I give my recap, let's give
it to Marcellus and let him kind of talk about
(01:36):
because I've talked about it several times this week, but
we want to have it for the podcast. But many
of you got a chance to meet Marcellus for the
first time, and so Marcellus, I am looking rough today though, James,
I kind of am. No makeup on baseball cap on
just showed up.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
But it is what it is, re organizing.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yeah, Marcella's had to learn what real organized. It is
a real welcome.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Marcell So Marcelle's give us some feedback on the town
hall that we had in Atlanta on Sunday, March thirty first,
in Atlanta, Georgia.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
I would say this it was a very successful event.
Once again, y'all it rained again.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Just like yeah, right, well, people don't know, let's break.
And when I did push the line in Atlanta, I
don't remember what month we did. Oh it was in September,
so it was it totally a month. It rained in
Atlanta when we had the three hundred people come and
they too stood in the rain.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
There's something about the rain, but but go ahead, Martill's.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Yeah, it rained. I also would say every well, I
ain't gonna say everybody, but people arrived way early.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
We had a line.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
I was texting Ted and Jay like all the people
don't came thirty minutes early. So the people was definitely
out there.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Uh uh.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
It was a great uh event. Erica did her thing.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
I can't recall the guy from City Hall comedian. Yeah,
Erica Demetris mcraig Demetris, he.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Did his thing black, the his thing Killer. Mike showed
up not once but twice.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah, why did that show?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Paul's right there, because he showed up once and then
when he showed up twice that you really were taken
back with that?
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Why because you know, usually celebrities be real, Uh, they
pop in for about two or three minutes and they
just bounce. But when he came back and just to
give his his testimony, that that that really you know
that that took me for a hour. I was just
surprised by that. But he laid down some some game
(03:53):
as well. I just feel like if you missed it
while you missed the time, because that to me, that
was like.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
That that was like the highlight of my twin twenty
five so far. Like that was. Oh yeah, that that
town hall was very little.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Even your uh, even the photographer from the road was like,
I've been to townholls before, they never been to one
this lit.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
And I can tell because he was having a good time.
Like it was. It was very every dope huh.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
A different type of town hall.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Yeah, so shout out to you, uh and thanks for
letting me, you know, work and tell what you really see.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
No, tell him what you really I'm over sweating like
a dog.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
That was real organized where she I had to start early.
I don't know, these people can't standing, so I started her.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
My my my feet was hurt. I had to do
more than more than one thing. Oh yeah, when you
organized just do one thing, you gotta do it all.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
And people that watch the recap video it looks like
it's an effect, Like it's an effect on the video
with me outside hugging.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
That is not an effect.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
That's not a special effect. That's the brain, like we
were literally in the brain. So yeah, Marcellas was working
trying to get it together. You gotta give out a ticket,
you gotta give out. He got to give a ticket out,
gotta give the risk band out. He's struggling and looking
at the little piece of paper he.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Printed off the names.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Now, this is where I'm gonna give y'all organizing tips
and make sure you sign up for my class. I'm
always Marcello's will tell you, I'm always teaching unsolicited teaching.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Whether he wanted or don't want it.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Whoever works with me, they always get, you know, the
background on why I'm doing what I'm doing, and what's
the point and why I'm doing it and how do
I And that's what I hope you guys put a
five in the chat if you always appreciate me giving
you the background of how do you make these things successful?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
What you know?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
How do the pieces come together? Why do I do
the things I do? My team will tell you count
shut out to Michelby this was my first time working
with her.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Uh and she does events with other folks, and I
know I got on her nerve myselves because you know
how I am.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I like stuff. You know, real organized are you? And
this is just advice.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
I'm glad I see some fives in the chat, So
give y'all some game. I believe in, you know, everything,
being real organized. I keep a Google doc of everything.
I expect staff team whoever to write stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
On that Google doc.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
If it's not on the Google doc, it didn't happen,
meaning okay, I talked to this person that person. This
is the information that I don't do all that random
email by email. I don't like trying to keep up
with stuff and text message.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
I don't write. If it's not on the Google doc,
it didn't happen.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
I appreciate y'all saying fives because I want to make
sure I'm not wasting time and you don't give y'
all this information. So going back to and I'll just
give y'all ins and outs. I want you to know
what it takes to organize and why I make people
put respect on organizer's name. You know why they must
put respect on organized nation because organizing, like what Michellee learned,
(07:13):
is very different than event planning. You know, although it
feels like an event because we had the music, we
had the comic relief. And by the way, even though
I'm hard on politicians, when they decide to you know,
like the DNC convention. You know, they danced at the convention.
They should automatically know that's what's going to go out
(07:35):
to the media instead of showing the business.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
And they're too big of the entity.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
People are too disgruntled right now, so it was unnecessary
to do a line dance.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
You know.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
I do like to have a good time, but I
believe in time and place. You remember Marcella's when Christy
tried it, remember and you so y'all know Christy is
the one that does open Black History Saturdays. She was
one of my trainers that pushed the line in two
thousand twenty too. And man, she was so ready.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
She had the little speaking, a little song selection.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
She had everybody, Oh man, after we got done with
the training for twelve hours, Okay, y'all, she got a
reality it's time to get up to there.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Oh so oh no, no, oh no, no, no no,
won't nobody.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Be leaving with videos of anybody doing any dancing in
this training. What we did was we went to the
club after Marcelli's, we went after in a completely different environment,
and then we got our book Young Now, the town
Hall was not designed to be a training. It's a
couple of objectives that I want to do. One welcoming
(08:40):
myself to Atlanta, Letting people know, Hey, Sophia home now, UH,
supporting Killer Tips restaurant, putting some money in folks hands,
comedians security, Marcelli's Uh, the comic, the special appearance from
the actor, showing you that we can circulate our own dollar,
you know, within our in micro organ And to build
(09:02):
with you guys face to face, one on one as
a mixer, but still give you, you know, a little
bit of information by having the guest speakers, but more
so just to connect with you as we continue to build,
These same one hundred people I'll be inviting to my trainings,
These same one hundred people I'll be inviting to be
a live studio audience will revolt on our upcoming debate,
(09:24):
showing may so I am just really building a tribe.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
So you always want to know the why, why are
you doing it?
Speaker 4 (09:30):
What's the purpose, because I don't want you to be
confused about the fact that I love having a good time,
but it is very important how you roll that out
and you know what that looks like, because it needs
to be able to make sense. Okay, so training, when
we're marketing training and we're putting out info that says training,
you won't be seeing us dancing.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Now.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
You will see us at the after party, you know,
but you will not your location, but at the actual training. No,
it's very important that any clip that anybody puts out
that it is showing that we are handling.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
The business that needs to be handled.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
So at the very onset of it, you know, working
with Michelle be and she was like, oh no, uh,
you know, it's fine.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
People are showing.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
I was pressing her, was like, I need you to
because I needed a point of contact with Bankhead even
though it's my brother Mike's restaurant. And she was like,
oh no, they gonna get I was like, no, Michelby,
I have to market ninety days.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I have to.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
It's not the same.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
She does events for Funky Dineva shout out to him,
but he's been doing events for fourteen years. You know,
so his folks are customer coming out. They're a customer
coming out having a good time. It's literally just that
you know, they go, they call it down to the bar,
and you know, people show up and they drink and
that's it.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
You know.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
So I was telling her organizing it's very different than
just getting people to show up at a bar. And
he probably doesn't have and I'm just guessing doesn't have
a certain amount of quota that he needs to meet
because he's literally just inviting people to the bar. It's
not necessarily paying for you know, all of different things
that I had going on. You know, there so two
(11:03):
totally different things. And I had to tell her, I organize,
like I'm organizing votes. Events to me are like votes, Marcellis,
And it is not just showing up.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
You know.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
This is why we see with the election last night,
a lot of.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
People think money, my adviis everything, but Wisconsin said no,
it actually you can't buy votes here. And Florida on
the Republican side, I told Democrats you can't buy votes here.
So money is a key ingredient, but it's not everything, Marcellis.
It really comes down to boots on the ground, face
to face. Winning award requires face to face. You can
(11:38):
be in the air with the Air Force all day,
shout out to my Air Force, hug, but the Marines
a few good.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Men, a few good men on the ground, the Army
on the ground. It's critical to organizing.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
So I needed to meet with folks hug every single
person at least twice so we could have some on the.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Ground face to face contact.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
So I told her it must be ninety days, it
must be and the reason and she's used to doing
thirty days in evands. You know I don't do that, Marcellis.
We got a ninety day program, did the same thing.
Would push the line. All three hundred plus people that
came to push the line in August, I mean in
September in twenty twenty two got text by me personally.
(12:23):
I used a system called simply Text, but it was
me typing the text and responding all of them, Marcellis.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
And how many times did you get a text?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
At least about ten fifty?
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Yes, you know, we like it best that the Marines
in the building. At best, it wasn't leaving it up
to no, Marcellis. It wasn't leading up to on the
day it wasn't leading it up to Michelle.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Oh yeah, we send some emails out. No no, no, no, no,
they must hear from me. Now, people didn't know what
it was from me till they came to the training.
So what I did was, guys, I ran them off
the list. You either gonna reserve or you're gonna get
off the list. Most people, well, don't look at that way,
say oh, it's a free event. We'll just wait on
everybody to show up. No, no, no, you must organize
just like it's a paid event. Same organizing tactic.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Are you coming? Are you coming? Are you coming? Are
you coming? Are you coming? Are you coming? Are you coming?
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Reserve reserve, reserve, reserve reserve, Dang, I'm coming already a
reserve again. I need three confirmations. I need to know
that you're going to be there. That's why they were
there in the rain. Somebody put in the rain in
the rain, three hundred people on a Saturday at eight am.
Before eight am. Yep, that's the difference. It's the hand
(13:35):
to hand contact. And I know a lot of my
brothers alsas Charlemagne All, I'm always arguing with them about
It's all about the podcast it's all about the digital.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
No, y'all gonna put some respect on the ground organizers.
We do need the digit. Of course I'm using social
media to reach you. Of course I'm using YouTube right now.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
But that hand to hand combat, that hand to hand, ye,
it's why then people drove six hundred miles. Is whying
people drove two hundred miles. It makes a difference. It's
why the people got on the plane. So again, I'm
not gonna keep well. I am gonna keep arguing with
my brothers who love thinking. They know it ain't never worked,
(14:14):
no race. That's the whole thing about myselves. I'll be
really going back and forth people theyin't.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Never work no race.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Eating something wrong with me or something wrong with them.
I'm gonna go ahead and say something wrong with me
because I'm the one to keep going back. But hand
to hand combat matters. It's the military strategy. You must
have it, you must have it. The error is what
I look at is virtual that you're online, that's your Instagram,
that you're spreading it far.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Casting a wide net. But that hand to hand. Watch
and see what I do with three hundred people.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Just watch.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
We've already had candidates that have came out of pushed
the line. We've already had Black History Saturdays, which now
has been funded for three years, that came out and
push the line. We've already had success stories. Wait till
I get three hundred and work with the three hundred
year round. Yeah, because I ain't looking for big numbers, Marcellus.
If three hundred is good enough for Gidding, it's good
enough for me. I'm just looking for three hundred. Somebody
put three hundred in the shack. So the organizing part
(15:12):
of it, of me going live every day, I want
to send a shout out to all of you, all
of you who are on this live right now. I
have to tell Isaac yesterday, tell you if you was
on fan Base. You know, I guess you try to
throw a little shade, I guess, But he said it
only it's only fifty sixty people. If he would have
said that, best I know, he would have thrown some shade,
but said only fifty sixty people on your Instagram if
(15:35):
you were on fan base, it would be two three hundred.
And I had to tell them I'm all right with
the fifty people. Somebody say we all right with the
fifty right, We all all right with the fifty, were
all right with See what I told him, I'm not
motivated by numbers the way you motivated by numbers, shout
out to him. I appreciate that, though, be motivated by
raising twelve million dollars every month, be motivated by men's
(15:55):
and men's of people, be motivated by that. I'm not
motivated by that. My fifty people that be showing up
on this live is how we got them. One hundred
and fifty plus people in that room that not only
just came from Atlanta because Isaac didn't drive from around
the corner.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
He lives in Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Then people got on the plane from Virginia, from DC,
from Houston, from Cleveland, from New Jersey. That's what you
call movement work. Yeah, y'all worried about numbers. Y'all worried
about That's why Gideon's Army they started with ten thousand.
They said, I want no ten thousand. I'm not impressed
with ten thousand. I'm impressed with the three hundred. So
(16:32):
me and you, I tell me, and you ain't motivated
on the same thing. Definitely, go get the numbers, but
I'm not impressed with that. That's why y'all don't see
me on Facebook. That's why I stopped. I stopped posting
on Twitter two years ago. I literally only talked to
y'all on Instagram. And when I asked y'all to share it,
y'all shared it. Isaac never shared it. When I asked
y'all to share the flyer, the influencers didn't share it.
(16:53):
Killer Mike did it a couple of times. Shout out
to comedian Miss Patch.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
She shared it once. But at the end of the day,
we did that. The fifty did that. Shout out to
the fifty.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
The fifty did that. See, they don't ever want you
all to believe that the fifty is more powerful than
the five thousand. I'm getting ready to preach to somebody.
They don't ever want you to believe that the fifty,
(17:29):
it's just as powerful, are more powerful than the five hundred.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
And shout out to my brother Isaac. I get it.
But see that that reminds me a lot of white
supremacy and power and power tripping and oh I got
all these fires.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
We don't seen penty people, and we ain't got name,
no names, Marcellus, But we don't seen plenty people with
bigger followings than me that done held events right here
in Atlanta with thirty people in the room.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
At best, right at best.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
No, it is right on college campuses with college students
walking around at prime time seven o'clock. They ain't got
to drive nowhere, they didn't have to fly nowhere. They're
literally on campus walking past your event.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
So why did I coming in? It must be something.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
It got to be something that that's saying what makes
the po And I'm not talking about me. I'm talking
about God's annointing. I'm not talking about me. This ain't
about my personality. Yeah, this is about what God has
for these people that's in this room. So I'm not
(18:45):
motivated home by the numbers that you're talking about. The
smaller the better.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
When I did that training with Queen, the one that
went outside that Don Lemon ran up on remember when
and he ran up on her and said, oh, what
are you doing that? She said, I'm just doing basically.
I was told to just stand out here with a
sign if that's all I got. When I told her,
she said, what can I do if you don't do number?
Stand outside with a sign? Just you don't wait on
no army, don't wait on no lidy. And she really
(19:15):
did that, and Don Lemon happened to walk up to
her and say, well, wow, what are you doing out?
Didn't know she was in my training two weeks before.
And guess how many people was in the training teeing
that best was very small. I want a very small
group because I know that one one can make the difference. Well,
just one, marcellus.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
They don't want y'all to know that about yourself though.
The people with the money and the access and the platforms,
they don't want y'all to know that. That's why y'all say, well,
I don't have no platform, tells them I can't do it.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Why you can't do it?
Speaker 4 (19:48):
I didn't have no platform either, And according to my peers,
I don't had a platform either. They got means or followers. Yeah,
stop waiting on the platform to get busy. Be the
one that's staying outside, Be the one that's in the rain,
Be the one that say no, that's okay. I'm just
gonna talk to these fifty. I believe in these fifty.
I believe that we actually can make it happen without you. Yeah,
(20:13):
that's what's scares of Marcellus. That's why you don't see
a lot of my so called peers sharing my work.
They're afraid of the fifty.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
But I love it.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
I love it that we get it out the mud.
I love it that you can leave knowing that, yeah,
we did this right. We appreciate help. By no stretch
of imagination. I'm not turning down help. Now turned down
donations and I turned down help. You want to spread,
spread the word, absolutely, But don't you ever as long
(20:47):
as you black, white, or whatever it is, think that
me having access to you are begging for access to you,
are begging support. I will never fall on my needs
to beg for your support. I will always be found
on my two feet. Did y'all hear what I said?
(21:10):
Put some boots in the chat? This really is got
my boots.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
On the ground. They on the ground.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
I'm not laying on my back, ladies, you know what
I'm talking about. I'm not laying on my back, and
I'm not bending on my knees. And my back will
always be straight and I'll be on my two feet.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
That's it, and that's all. And I don't need no
big old support system and this big name and that
big name. I'm alright with meeting with the fifty. I'm
alright with meeting with the one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
I'm alright with meaning the two because I know out
of that two hundred is gonna be another Christie. Out
of that two hundred, I know it's gonna be another Marcellus.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Out of that two hundred, I know it's gonna be
another one, just like two three people that was there
saying I want to run for office.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Can you help me?
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Now?
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Y'all might not be Christian, but if you are, you
think Jesus was going around looking for big crowds. They
never been about no big crowd. Fairoa was concerned about
big crowd. Pride is concerned about big crowds.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Ego.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Those who worship money and influence and power, they're the
ones concerned about big crowds.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
See the God I serve like to reduce the crowd.
Somebody put reduce That's why the military is so successful.
By the way, make sure you go listen to I
broke that down on Jamal Bryant's podcast.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
See the Military like to run you out the game.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Shout out to my Marine friend brother here in the comments,
the military, I say, they like to run you out
the game.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
See the civil rights wrong, want to say, come on ourselves,
come come on in. We want everybody. Uh.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
The military say, when you come to basic true, look
to your left and look to your right. So one
of y'all ain't gonna make it. Their goal is to
run you out. They want to encourage you to go
a wall. They want you out of the game. See
that's how I organized, Marcella. I don't want a bunch
of y'all in the game. I want to take Chris
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that drove seven hundred miles. That's what I want with
me in the fox hole. I want Marcello's that was
there at two o'clock when it started at four. That's
what I want with me in the fox hole. That's
why Mike showed up twice. He ain't like the rest
of them. I want the celebrities that don't think they celebrities.
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I want the celebrities that actually remember what this is
and why we're doing what we do.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Yep, that's the one. That's what I want with me.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Military, run your ass out. When I started at the
Air Force, got through basic training.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
They picked on me the.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Whole time, called me out because I got into it
girl from DC. So that made my life hell for
the whole, you know, six weeks. Then after that to
my Marine brother when I went to Security police school.
All of us went to the same security police school.
Marine's Army air Force. Maybe my Army, my rigs, my
regulations meaning how many push ups, how long you run
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put sit ups? That changed to Army standards, so you
may not think it's a lot to go from having
to do I can't remember what it was at the time,
thirty four sit ups in two minutes to thirty one.
I know it was around the thirty mark, But like
those extra four or five sit ups to have to
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do in two minutes, that shit ain't easy.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
When you have to.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
When in the Air Force you had twenty one minutes
to run two miles, you had to shave it down
to eighteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
In the arms, that three minutes.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Make a big difference.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Shout out to those of you that know what it
means they have to push through in the last three minutes.
Shut out.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Do y'all want a sermon today? I'm easing in and out.
I got some good news I want to share with y'all,
but I don't want to share it yet. The good
news I told you that was coming. I got it today,
but I'm away.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
But before before you feel I want to say this
real quick. I also like the fact of how you
had no business. Of course, I've seen you have business
multiple multiple times. But one thing I never forget is
you telling everybody, now my name is on this. We
were gonna have this right. She ain't wait on nobody.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
She literally didn't know.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
And she told us, no, I'm just saying me and
me and someone was communicating, and she was like, no,
you need to put me on that communication.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
You know we have no we have no oh yeah,
ye yeah yeah, Marcin Well, I will say this.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Oh yeah, I tell you and Michelle b I wanted
uh and that's who was being the point. Uh Gonna
Tellers wanted to be the twenty contact. And I wanted
Marcella's to go up there and do a run walk
through because we did two walkthroughs because I don't do
that just show up.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
You know.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
We got the oh they said, it's fine. Yeah, I
don't trust y'all. I don't trust y'all. We got we
got to see it for ourself. So marcella Is thought
they was gonna have a group chat outside of me. No, no, no,
let's all keep me in.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
I need to serve.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
I need to see who responding back, who ain't responding back,
who cooking like, who ain't clicking like?
Speaker 3 (26:34):
I'm all in the mix. I am hands on.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
And she was like, oh, okay, I see you different
because he ain't other clients ain't like that. Yeah, I'm
not like your other kind.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Welcome home.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
I'm hands on, my name on this. Ain't nobody showing
up confused? Ain't nobody like I could have sold.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
To vendors do all of that?
Speaker 4 (26:50):
I said, just leave it alone, because they couldn't figure
out if they needed permits yet in time and not
time and when people when they too shake you on information,
Marcello's I don't do it, you know, I don't hate
no take y'all too long. And what we don't want
to do is have people coming down here, you know,
with their tables and thinking they can bend and the
police show up because y'all don't have tents and all
of that. So just don't wear it at it. Leave
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that money on the table. I never operate on greed.
I never operate on that. I operate on what made sense.
Just like they were saying, oh, sell tickets for the patio,
and I said, no, I'm not gonna do that because
it may rain, and most people will just be greedy
and do it anyway and say, well, let's just see
how it work out.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
No, that's okay.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
I'd rather take less and make sure everybody got a
seat than trying to be greedy and having people standing
in the ring because guess what it did rain?
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Yeah, shout out love three flight. She said.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
It sounds like like my wedding plan. I'm hening diad. Yeah,
I'm hands on, dey, I'm all in it. I need
to know everything. We went to the walkthrough and the
guy was like, uh, I said, are we clear about
the shots and making sure, you know, give them a
raffle ticket they spost to have a shot.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Oh, I don't know about no shots. I said, wait,
minut I'm confused because they told.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Me you knew about the walk He said, well, they said,
they didn't say, well, well we'll I'll figured no, no, no, no,
we gotta figure it out right.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Now.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Let's figure it out right, now we got time. Let's
sit down, let's figure it out. We won't be figuring
it out on Sunday. We want to figure it out
right now. He said, Well, because I'm all known that
I would have ordered more to keep. Well, where's the confused?
Because that's another thing, y'all when y'all organize it, you
always got to find that where the confusion happened. People
can't stand me for this, people that I work with,
and it don't matter to me. I don't care if
y'all don't like it or not. I always got to
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figure out what the ball dropped. I'm never wanted the
ones to be like, oh well we got it all together,
so don't worry about no, no, no, let's backtrack. So
Marcella's did you talk to Jan and Jan talked to
Tom and Tom talked to it. You gotta know where
your wink is weak as link is, because you need
to correct it. Not to chastise embarrassed, but you gotta
correct it. Where was the confusion? And so people that
work with me, we hold each other very high standard
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because Marcell's definitely was like, well, Michelle, we shouldn't have
did that, because he'll definitely tell on you, because the
best way tell on marcels. So we all got to
be on the same page, so he said, so. Then
Michelle said, well, I send it in the group text.
I told her, she said she sent it in the
group text. Then I said, can you look it up
right now while we're here, because I want to make
sure somebody confused, like she didn't send it or you
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didn't read it.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
And I got to get to the bottom.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Man, if she doing right now, he can't go behind.
You gotta look at it.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Marcella's gotta see. We got to look at it right
here on deck. We gotta look at it right here
on deck. And he was looking through. He said, oh, yes,
she sent it. I just didn't see it.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Okay, Then let's get to the bottle. He had to
go out to the side and have a discussion. I said, look, Marcela,
yo trying to clean it up.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Clean, ye clean. We got to get it clean.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
We ain't walking off till everything clear. We ain't walking
and we got to clear about what, who was who
sent what?
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Who is that?
Speaker 3 (29:44):
All that? I need to know all that. Marcell just
eating it up, y'all. You just sitting at the chance
you looked dead in his eyes? How I look at
I'm sure Marcella since we bus busy, because he said, well,
I didn't know. I didn't.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
I didn't get I didn't get a run a show.
With a run a show, I ain't got nothing to
do with the tequila. The run of the show was
talking about the show. So let's narrow down on what.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
We just confusion.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Said, did you ask? So finally, I look at Marcella.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Y'all missing it on instagra, y'all gotta come to you, Sube,
Why did I do it?
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Did you.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
See y'all over and say, well, you see this? How
that's how y'all do it?
Speaker 4 (30:31):
This is how Marcella would did it. When he said
I didn't get to run a show. Marcella would have said, okay,
let me sing you to run a show, an't I
do it? Put it in the shot if you like
how I do it. He said, I didn't get a
run of show. My next question is, did you ask
for a run show? You supposed to know get to
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run a show. If you never asked for it, we
got to nail this down. We gotta nail it down.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
We can't be confused.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
What you mean you normally get it, So if you
normally get it, there's little trigger to say I normally
get it.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Where's the run the show?
Speaker 4 (31:14):
Not sit back and say I normally get it and
just sit there and wait on nobody to get You
know who's gonna say something?
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Communicate right, communicate it was not blinking. She ain't even
I'm like looking in the eyes, stroke style, broke style.
The guys I'm even in all stroke style probably say
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no he did?
Speaker 5 (31:41):
He did?
Speaker 3 (31:42):
I think he is hating ass.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
I don't know what I gotta get to even they
not he ain't my staff, but I come in ask
in either the other folk staff question don ourselves we
don't work.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
I need to know where's the confusion?
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Yeah, because wood ain't gonna never have y'all not gonna
never show up but nothing to mine. Well my name
on it and think you're gonna play with me. I
don't let peop play with it because playing with me
is playing with y'all, and I'm not. I'm never gonna
let nobody play with y'all. They're gonna respect your time,
respect your inner. I don't care if you paid to
get in, if you didn't, the linker is at the
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top of the bio, uh, top of my bio on Instagram.
If you paid to get in, if it's free to
get in, you're gonna you're gonna respect. You're gonna respect
my constituents. They they elected me to hold this event
to y'all gonna respect it, y'all. Bet u y'all ever
get an office, I ever get an office, or you're
gonna talk about somebody representing your interests interest cap nuggets
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to the fries, to the tequila. These people they came,
they can't looking for it. It's gonna be there. And
then Marcella said, I hope they got it. I hope
they who hope they're gonna have it? Oh, they have it,
and somebody gonna go along to the store. Oh, it's
definitely gonna be there. Marcella's you got it all twisted
and confused. They're definitely gonna happen. Go yeah, no, no, no,
we depending on nobody. I just like to see where
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the Vincent link is. You know where the weakest link is,
so we know how to correct that moving forward.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
As a great multitask you on the phone too, No, no, no,
you said you were gonna you're gonna come at this time.
You said, you got you're gonna you're gonna be here
this time. You got at this time, you're supposed to
do this, supposed to do. That's great.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
If Marcello's got some of the smoke too, said I said,
I need to go print this sheet off. Was because
I went down to print it because I, okay, so
this how y'all got to organize?
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Y'all.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
I wanted to bring the the laptop with the sheet
the people to get in. That was the first thing.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
But you never just depend on technology. You never depend
on technology. So I said, Marcella's bring your laptop. He said, okay,
But then I said, let me also print it off.
Now see when I told Marcellis, bring your laptop. That
was when Marcelle's spost to say, I got a laptop,
but I need to make sure i'm by a plug
because my lap top don't hold.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
A long charge. You see what I'm saying. But you
didn't say that.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
This is one I'm teaching how to organize. You always
got to think for everybody else, you know, have the
the planing b C D. You see what I'm saying.
Because Marcella's it was just like, Okay, let me bring
the laptop. So I said, okay, Marcella's let's print this
sheet off. I was down printed at my apartment. Printing
wasn't working, said Marcella's I need you to go find
a printer. I said, is it a printer?
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Close?
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Is it something well closer? Well no, I didn't even
say close to you. I said, go find a printer.
Marcella started looking it up on the phone. Yes, one
close and one by. And I said, Marcella, this ain't
about it being close.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
This is about She said, no, just just just call
me when it's done.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
No, I'm not at that that part yet.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
I'm telling me that at the first a partment you
started looking up on the phone because I just saw
you up on your little phone, a little tiny phone.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
You have a little small phone. So Marcella, w yes,
this one right around the corner, and it's one two
miles away. I said, you you get the choice. This
ain't about all needs to know if it's bite.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
Because it's almost like you're saying, if it ain't want
to buy, you ain't gonna get it done.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
No, let's just get it done. And then I said
to Marcella's.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
Don't call me back with no, I need to know
when it's done, don't come back. And I went over
here and they said they didn't have it, so I
ended up having to go over here.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
And I need it done.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
Marcella's the next text should be done. The next text
sh'll be done. I don't need all the play by
play from here to that.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
It need to be done. The next tix's done.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Now.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
He probably was scared to call me to say it.
The fox so little because he ended up. But we
had a backup.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
I had my laptop. He had his laptop because when
I said so, then when Marcella's got to the actual event,
he said, they're gonna have to move me because I
need a plug.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
I said, well, why you.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
Didn't charge it up, Marcelli's before you got there, gonna
use your laptop? He said, I did try. I should
have checked the charger. Y'all see, if you tell the truth,
charge it. But my laptop don't hold charge that long.
I said, well that's why I had you printed. So
you see why I had you printed, because you always
got to look at things like that. I also told
him to print two copies, you know, why I had
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two copies just in case somebody else need to help
check people in. And that's exactly what happened, wasn't it. Yeah, yeah,
and people was outside, so I put my best friend
to work. Hey, best friend, I need you to check
some of these people because I don't want these people
standing in line. So those are the small things, guys
that I try to teach folks that work with me,
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like Marcella's, so you know what it means to organize. Also,
when Marcella's got there, I had to keep calling him,
ask them, did DJ get there to hang them?
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Call back?
Speaker 4 (36:45):
Did the comedian get there? Okay, marcelf I need you
to run down everybody who's there when you step on
a scene. One of the parts of it's called advance
in political campaigns. One of the things, oh yeah, we
laugh all the time. One of the things is advanced Guys.
If you're on my advanced team, that means you coming
through and Marcella's love this. You're coming through, you taking roll,
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You're finding out who is who because really you weren't
asking them nothing, so you just letting them just sit
in there.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
So your whole job is to make sure who's in
the room, who ain't in the room. And it should
be able to call me.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
It should be a text DJ check, uh, videographer check,
comedian check da da check, not me having a call.
You know, remember he posted that way if they behind,
I can jump on. Okay, what's going on? Like be
asking a videographer, Hey, what's your estimated time? He's like,
I'm already here. Well, Marcella's already did that. That's one
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extra step.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
So you learned I was overthinking it.
Speaker 5 (37:48):
I was like, Nah, I ain't gonna ain't gonna over step.
I'm gonna do what you told me to do.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
Ain't gonna over step to push the line trot. Understand
you want the wrong tribe because that's all we do.
We are habitual overstep, over the line steppers. What you
mean you ain't gonna overstep?
Speaker 1 (38:13):
No, do it, just do it. Just do whatever I
told you.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
That's true.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
But letting me know people are there that you can't
go wrong with that if somebody ain't showing up, you know, so,
so there is do do what you's told meaning if
I say Marcella's tell them X y Z yes. But
if you're doing it, bance. But this is your first
time doing advance in that way like going in a band.
That's why I teach you in real time and in bance.
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You still want to make sure we need to know
what holes are missing, so we got time to correct it.
You don't wait on you know, me to get there.
And then now we got to correct you know, when
you are you're an hour there in advance, You're not
just hour there just for you to be an hour there,
You're you're there early to make sure if there's something
that we need to fix before the people arrive, that
we have a jump at that.
Speaker 3 (38:59):
So that's what that's about out.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Okay, mm hmm.
Speaker 5 (39:03):
And then I don't know if you remember, it was
one it was one person where he was looking for
that book. They was trying to pull me, talk to me,
talk to me because they wanted the book.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
And he was like, no, I do do.
Speaker 4 (39:18):
Yeah, because I thought we had passed out the book
that was dedicated to me, because he had told me
one of the books was special for me, and I
didn't check it, you know, just started passing down.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
I was like, oh, I forgot one of the books
of the me. So that's what that was.
Speaker 4 (39:32):
So I needed to hear us stand down for a
moment because the main issue was trying to find that book.
Speaker 5 (39:36):
So that's what that right, But Bob was that that
was veris and not to mention it really wasn't no
standing room.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
No, literally we.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
Did the whole capacity and as people even left and
came in and other people showed up.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
So no, we we did exactly what we what what
it was set all that have to do. But it
was because I had a plan.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
So somebody put organizing as a plan.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (40:07):
It's not just it's not just organized. It's not just
doing a club night and see how it all work out.
It's not just let's just see how fall. It's not
all well, it ended up working out anyway. Oh we
had some mishaps, but it worked out anyway. No, no, no,
we had no mishaps.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
None. I don't do mishaps, right, you can avoid.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
We had someone we had we had a guy that
was in the he was actually in the car, y'all
have a ticket, and then he still end up being
able to come in.
Speaker 4 (40:33):
People waiting in the car like okay, there's enough room,
can I come in. That's called organizing. That's why I don't.
That's why I keep my foot on these politicians next
who got millions of dollars to organize people?
Speaker 3 (40:45):
You got the budget, I don't.
Speaker 4 (40:48):
If y'all feel like given a cash at today, definitely
please do take it because you know I pay myselves
for every show.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
And yes, she back big. It's gonna be a lot
of big and going.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
Out chest share share Yep, yep.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
Sure, sure is gonna be a lot of biking going on.
Speaker 4 (41:01):
Y'all want me take it on the road. Gotta have money,
and I'm talking about two dollars five dollars. It don't
don't have to be much cash app testing figure out,
but yeah, uh, this was actual. You know, it requires
work and you gotta be kind to people. Pay everybody.
Everybody gets paid, guys. I know y'all be asking, Oh
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I volunteer and all that. Noah, like put money in
people's pocket. Took everybody to dinner Marcella's and then set
up there and ate up twelve hundred dollars worth of shit,
well definitely eight of twelve hundred dollars worth of shit,
and then coming here on Monday talking about, Yeah, my
fee was hurt and I was working like a dog
till the whole host tour, till the whole for it.
(41:45):
You don't don't just say like you just worked like
a dog. The big dog got paid too. So I
always shared this with him, like real leader's gonna give
you something. They may not have much, they gonna give
you something because Marcella's will do it. Guys, if I
asked myrsel it's just help me, if I'd be like,
can you just help me, he would absolutely do it.
But always giving him something because he deserves it. And
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I just you know, I want to do what I can,
when I can and how I can. But I am
self funded.
Speaker 3 (42:14):
There is no.
Speaker 4 (42:17):
Big donor behind me or big organization, which is why
we can't really take it on the road the way
y'all want me to shout out to John Patterson in
the building, who's here, you know, in the comments from Houston,
he's always saying bring to Houston, bringing Houston. But when
I did want to bring to Houston, John couldn't give
before five people at best. And I know this makes
me John, but I'm just saying we got to make sure,
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like I can't just come to Houston with five people.
You know what I mean, so I am trying to
put something together. Now I'm going on breakfast club. We
got the next The virtual training is hopefully how we
can fund the in person you know trainings. The in
person trainings are not going to be two three hundred people.
I can tell you that now you know forty fifty people,
you know, but it's still got to make sense. At
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least pay for the ticket, the hotel room, you know,
the location that we have, that kind of stuff. I
can't feed you all all the time, you know, I
can't afford to do all of that, but at least
you know enough to cover you know, the costs, and
the virtual training hopefully will do that. Yes, somebody asks
pastor Brian gonna do something you Yes, I'm hoping to
go at least speak to his I think they're doing
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somewhat something like a career fair or a job fair
or something that they're doing with the displaced federal workers.
Speaker 3 (43:29):
So I'm excited about going to that. I have a
word for them as well.
Speaker 4 (43:33):
Last before we get out of here, guys, the virtual
training is rolling out.
Speaker 3 (43:38):
Because I'm just.
Speaker 4 (43:40):
Like this, I always have free stuff and I need
to stop because I literally, you know, have a master's
in adult education. This is real information that I give
you guys, but I have to get better about making
sure that we stay in business.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
You do.
Speaker 4 (43:54):
Always get your free content here, you know, on the
podcast every week on Straight Shot No Chaser.
Speaker 3 (44:00):
We're now gonna be uploading that stuff to YouTube.
Speaker 4 (44:03):
I'm gonna do more live shows that you guys can
come in and you know, be a part of it,
panelists and things like that. But the training, the virtual training,
I'm rolling that out on a training platform where you
can actually take courses. Many of those will be free,
especially for the displaced workers. You know, ten fifteen minutes.
You know, how to rewrite your resume after not being
(44:24):
in work, you know for so long, twenty years, fifteen years,
how to answer difficult questions, you know, some stuff for
the workers. But then there will be additional training for
those that want a deeper dive, and that's interactive training.
Speaker 3 (44:39):
No more than fifty bucks for two hours to twenty
five an hour.
Speaker 4 (44:42):
I'm capping it at that, So it's not gonna be
something ridiculous unless there's something specializing. I'm bringing in a
special guest, you know, featuring them something like that that
you know, people want to learn from. I gotta compensate them.
So we'll be rolling that out black History Saturdays. We're
gonna include that Marcella. So Chrisy's gonna do on some
black history training, you know, online as well. We want
(45:05):
to bless her so she can expand that program so
that it's not just on Saturdays. I want you guys
to think about it like this. If it's twenty five
dollars of training, fifty dollars of training, you and some
of your friends sit around the computer like I'm not above,
I don't mind you. You know, somebody chipping in with you.
Most people got fifty bucks, but a lot of people
(45:26):
don't Marcello's they really don't, right, So if it's fifty
dollars to teach you how to market, how to pr
how to push the media, how to whatever for your business,
the ones that we're charging for it, people that's trying
to do stuff in business, just trying to grow their
business and things like that. But yeah, you and your
business partner, you'll only get one link. But you know,
you and your business partner, y'all sit up and watch
(45:47):
it together, ask questions together, you know, So I'm not
limiting because I can't control it no way. You know,
I can't stop how many people are watching in your house.
So I encourage you figure out a way. That's the
number two. The thing that I talk about on the
stack merge together. You go in twenty five, I go
in twenty five. You know, let's get the information together.
(46:07):
So I'm not I'm not above that. You're gonna get
the platform information here real soon. It's gonna be on
telimfiirg go, dot com, whatever platform I use. But I'm
trying to ask some different ones because there's a couple
different ones that I've used in the past, because it
actually has to be a training platform that has those
you know, that holds it all and courses and content
(46:28):
and notes and you know, it's not just zoom or
you know, it's not just on YouTube. It's an actual
training platform. So just stay connected to teslimpiag dot com.
Speaker 1 (46:36):
Guys.
Speaker 4 (46:37):
I'll have that road out when I go to the
breakfast club week after next, so just be looking for
that and then push the line.
Speaker 3 (46:46):
Training.
Speaker 4 (46:46):
That's where you learn how to organize, where you learn
how to run for office. Those are the things that
I would love to have in person with thirty forty
people in the room, but we have to figure out
how to fund it. We got to figure out how
to fund it. So hopefully the training, the virtual train
with people kind of pouring into that will give you know, me,
an opportunity to go to at least a couple of
places before the year is out.
Speaker 3 (47:07):
And if that don't then cool. I mean, but I
can't go. I just can't go.
Speaker 4 (47:10):
Well, I'm totally fine with just being merchant guys, Like, seriously,
I'm busy enough. So thank you guys for everything. Make
sure you subscribe to the podcast straight shotow Chase, to
make sure you subscribe.
Speaker 3 (47:19):
To Revote News.
Speaker 4 (47:20):
Please follow me in all those places because it is
very critically important that we have your supporters. We try
to push to the news. Subscribe to the YouTube channel.
I'm gonna start using our YouTube channel. It's gonna start
using that more.
Speaker 3 (47:34):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (47:34):
I can't keep just doing Instagram live. I have to
you guys always say, will you lead is live up?
Will you lead his live up? That's not really the
place for that, but YouTube is. So if you like
my messages and you like what I have to say,
and you want to get involved and be interactive, and
you insist on looking at me because you just ADHD
and just.
Speaker 3 (47:52):
Can't be you know, I can't listen, only subscribe to
the YouTube.
Speaker 4 (47:56):
And we're gonna start doing more on our YouTube channel
as well, because that's the one platform that I'm learning
that regardless of what contract ends with Black Effect or
ends with Revolt and not, you know, nothing bad, just
sometime contracts in. I want to be able to at
least have a platform where I know you guys are
tapped in for me. You know that's not affiliated with
anything where you can always find me. All Right, guys,
(48:17):
it's been a blessing. We will see you on next week. Guys,
thank you so much for tapping in peace. If you
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(48:38):
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