January 16, 2023 • 59 mins
GBR sits down with Reginald Ballard aka Bruh Man from the legendary sitcom Martin. He talks about his time on the show, the acting world and their forthcoming podcast "The Rich People's Business Podcast" with his cousin Dana Healy, how to level up financially, new comedy tour and more. Tune in and join the conversation in the socials below.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Get get no boys, it's back and reot it all
in your mind. Yeah, and that deep throating. This is
for the streets, the real the railroading, the distant franchise,
the truth escape building, and they ain't knowing we speak
the truth, so they ain't quoted because we wrote it.
The North South East Coach, the g b my keeping
your head bobbing, it ain't no stopping and wants to
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be drips head by then the system is so corrupt
they throw the rock out of their hands and then
blame it on us. Don't get it twisted on code
and me danceing for no furtament biscuits. It's willy d
y'all scar faces in the building. Collectively we are the
ghetto boys, and you know the rest reloaded with another
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episode of information and instructions to help you navigate through
this wild, crazy, beautiful world. In the studio, the host
of the Rich People's Business podcast, Dana Haley and Reginald Ballard,
also known as bro Man. What's u hey Man? I
brought a whole lot of serves saying bitches for y'all.
(01:05):
Let me get right into it. Man. You know they
always say that family should not do business together. You
guys are cousins. Yeah yeah, man, And they say that
family should not do business together. What made you guys
want to do business together? I got the call, man,
I got she called me, and that's that was it. Man.
I said, Okay, well let's make it happen. Then, you know, listen, listen,
let's let's help people help themselves and make themselves better.
(01:28):
So he had a good plan. I was like, let's
do it right. Yeah. So so what's the role like,
ye y'all playing good y bad guy. So I'm Dana Haley.
I am his cousin. I'm also an entrepreneur. So this
was a perfect vehicle. Um, he's a great human being.
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So I thought this was a great vehicle for us
to come together. It is a podcast that encompasses business.
If you have a business, if you want to start
a business. Um, if you are a person and that
is just interested in growing your your wealth, your generational wealth,
this will be a place where you can come and
gain some knowledge. And because he's such a giver, Um,
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he leads with his heart. He has a servant's heart. Um.
I thought it was a great vehicle for him and
I to uh to coexist. Together and talk about the
dynamics that we talked about we're together, which is growth.
That's growth. It's growth. It's about growth. So so can
anybody follow this? I mean, this is this just for
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rich people because you see business, we're trying to get
you rich. So it's for people who are destined to
just grow their generational with whatever rich means to you.
It's just a better life. And we dabble into we
dabble into rich people's lives to bring it to regular
people so they're regular people can see how rich people
do it, so they see how easy it is to
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get done because you know the knowledge. You're like, you know, black,
especially to us man, Black people don't know anything about
stock market and and you know for yourself, throwing up
a lot of us, a lot of us brother, a
lot of my friends that I'm in circle around. You
know that that that you know in my circle, and
I try to bring it to him and I ain't
losing my money, man, you know that's the first thing
they want to say. It's like, man, when you see
rich people make the money work for them. Poor people
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make money to pay somebody else, you know, for the
bills that they have accumulated, you know, and that's our mentality.
So we want to try to you know, knock that
out and negate that. You know this how rich people
do it. You know, I'm not rich, but I know
how they do it. I'd be around a lot of
them to see how they do it. But I'm trying
to I'm trying to get to that place. Yeah, it's
all about evolution and growth, I think, um, and I
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think that's where we um. We're will sean and what
we don't know. We're going to bring professionals in to
talk about things and we're gonna grow together. We'll learn
more together. I mean this is you have to understand too.
I think you can still work for some for someone.
You can still work for a company or have a
job and still grow your wealth. Give us an example
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on how you can work for somebody at job and
still grow you well. Stock market for a one k.
So I feel as though, let's just let's just take
the stock market. God's Reggie's forte. He loves um. He
loves the stock market. So you can take your money
and invest it in the stock market. Um, you just
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have to really really save, you have to really put
a plan together. Well, you know, I think I think
any man that put his money in a a in
a savings account of bank, is it not that that
bright you know, lazy man. You know, because if you
take your money, man, and you put your money in
places where that money can make money for you, and
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you just monitor that money, monitor that money, you can
see how that money grows, man, way faster than how
much money are you trying to put in here? And
how much money are you willing to risk, you know,
suce instance apple, Uh maybe maybe a hundred and and
something like that. Okay, So I mean you know you
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could buy maybe if you buy a share here, a
share there, instead of going by that um that watching
that perfume or that um you know that that that
that piece of jewelry or whatever. You know, you put
it over there and put over there man, and and
like you'll be amazed how much money that, how much
that could grow within a month versus a savings account.
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But then then again that there are risks too. But
there's a whole lot of risks. And you're playing you
played the New York Stock to change the SNP. Yeah,
I have I have that the verse for all that man,
I have so many and right now I'm I'm taking
a bath right now, dude, I'm taking the bath right now.
But during the pandemic, during the pandemic, when I wasn't working,
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everybody wasn't working. That maintained that whole year of what
I could accumulate, I put so much in and I
tripled it with them like a year, you know, with
with with Tesla stocks and Michael Off stocks and um
I had Apple, Disney, all those and it made money
for me. So I was able to use some of
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that money to get through that whole pandemic thing. Mask
your question when when? When when the Republicans? When the
Republican left the office of the stock market go down? Uh,
that says a lot. I'm asking questions about gas sliding.
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Brot Obama was in there, the stock markers doing whale too.
Stock markets. The stock market is gonna go up and
down and it's manipulated by the oligarteners. What's gonna be
it's manipulated. What about currency? Stock markets? Cryptocurrency is manipulated.
All of it is manipulated. Man. Look man, if what
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about your homeboy? And you got it, you gotta you
gotta be in at the win it. You ain't gonna
getting out to be You ain't gonna getting no money
without letting your nutting without about it. What about it now?
I'm not in never I've never invested in it. But
that's how it is. How many throughout the years, how
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many of these are companies out here that then went
under the playing the stock market then went on under
ran off with people money. See y'all you're getting you're
getting blinded by the press. Bro. You're not paying a killing.
You got to do this, man, I know it's all
on my phone. I'm watching the show goes up. Man,
let me tell you something. A matter of fact, it
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goes well, and it could come way down. Brother. But
but the thing is one thing about the stock market,
in the history of the stock market, when it when it,
when it takes that that deal, it always hit and
bounced back up. Man, that was dollars, not looking at it,
the stock market one hundred dollars. The stock market is
designed to rise, cry. The crypto is designed to rise. Also. Look, man,
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if you get into crypto and you don't know how
to get that's your problem. Yeah, that's true, that's your problems.
If you get into crypto and you and you get
in and you you over leverage yourself if you put
up too much bread are you you're paying too much
money for for a coin that show fault? Do you research,
do your research, and at the end of the day,
and at the end of the day, even after you
do your research, like I always do, at the end
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of the day, do not ever gamble more than what
you're willing to lose. I like, I like what you
told me. Never take more with you than you would
take on a vacation. I mean, never invest more to
start then you would take on a vacations. It's like business,
and people take chances on businesses. Sometimes businesses work. Sometimes
the restaurants man one of the its like more of
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them fail than than succeed. So it's just anything you
get into to try to make money is a risk
in it, man, especially hot dollar risk competitive. But there's
other ways though. Let's talk about since you're since you
ask real estate, so he he loves which he's getting
into real estate now more too, But um my forte
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or I'm getting better at it. My passion has always
been real estate, so now I, um, I buy properties
and that's my goal. So that's also a way you
can work for somebody. Um, I have an Airbnb, um,
and I'm growing. Um, I'm growing that business. That is
also a way that you can still work for somebody
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by your property and have an Airbnb or rented out
by multiple doors. Give us some type of measure of
success with your Airbnb. Um so mine is rented out
pretty much over half the year, and I you know,
I might charge and fifty a night and yeah, yeah, yeah,
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and but I'm not stopping there. I bought my property
and it just immediately. Um, I bought it undervalue, which
is what which is a great idea, and I fixed
it up and so now it's worth two full of
what I paid for it. But you also bought in
a good neighborhood. I did expensive dirt I did, I
did so um so yeah, I think those factors help
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you as well. And then one of the other ways
you go grow generational generational wealth is through having a business.
You can still have a business on the side while
you're working for somebody. You know, you can have a
laundry mat. There's just things that you can do where
you collecting money while you're sleeping. You know, there are
things that you can do. Yes, always, always, there are
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just things you can do to grow. And I think
that do you think that any investment it's like too small?
You know, like you well, I know me. I don't
want to put no money in something that I'm gonna get,
you know, fifty dollars the day out of you know,
I want to I want to get it. If I
put my money in something, I need to triple up
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in two years, three years. But this thank to thanks
for the bucks. A day I was sading, I was
saying one of my boys there and say, yo, man,
if you have so many safe hair, you have maybe
twenty stocks and you might make five dollars a day
in those twenty stocks. If you put your money in
the savings, you're not gonna make five dollars in those
savings account, you know what I'm saying. So, so whatever
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you're making, you make it. So the more you put
in safe If you only put about one chef of
apple and it moves, and you make maybe ten dollars,
now if you put a hundred thousand and it moved,
you're gonna make way more than ten dollars, you know
what I'm saying. So That's that's the key. How much
you put in is how much you're gonna get back.
Eight thousand, two hundred fifty bucks if you put in
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fifty dollars, if you got fifty dollars a day return,
you would have eighteen thousand, two d dollars end of
the years in one year. A lot of money, A
lot of money. That's some decent money for doing nothing.
That money add up and that money is just sitting there. About.
What I like about investing is that I look at
every one of my dollars, asked and employed and put
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them to work. That working. They're working overtime with no blakes,
and they're working over time, no breaks, they didn't get
they don't get, no breaks, no vacations. I gotta get
like that. I like that. I gotta get to that page.
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I'm using that one. Let's man, let's go back to
Gaveston Man, you played for Gaveston Ball. I didn't know
that you played for Gaveston ball balled high school? Yeah,
and use that dude track football, I mean had I
had office man to every major university in the country. Man,
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No HBCUs came from me though, Wow? Not one? Yeah?
So um, but all of the colleges. Man I was.
I was, Yeah, we got the Deaf Country. I was there.
I was one of the three dudes that they said
that were still getting paid that had to you know,
the Bill Clemence was the governor of Texas and he
was in the the whole thing. It's not the money,
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they say, so, so did you get paid? I mean
it's over now many Hey, man, let me tell you
something like this here. Man, it was very you got.
It was a good time. It was a good time
over there. And I know some catting went to the Nfair.
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They got paid cuts and Bill Clemens getting paid so well,
he man, cottage football is business. But now now they
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can get paid. Yeah. No, man, I say that talked
about on thirty for thirty on SPN. So but um,
I'm gonna tell you something, man. Um they they they
they they it was real. It was fun. It's me
was fun. Then I my transferred the University Missouri my
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last year. That's when I started majoring the theater. Man. Yeah,
true story. I told my friends and said, look, having
to go to Hollywood hanging with stallone them, I said,
the next time you see him be on TV. I
left went to Hollywood. First movie I did with Stallone.
Next time I seen Hi, I was on TV because
I went exactly that's I was just I was just
messing around, you know, because I was supposed to do
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this play. I did this one play in college, A
soldier's play. You know. I c J Memphis, and uh,
I was supposed to do I raised in the son.
I just left, man, came out to California. I don't
want to play football no more. I knew what I
wanted to do. Did you get any backlash from the
people who had high hopes for you and football? No? Man,
I was broke up. Man, I was tired of playing football. Dude.
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I ain't let my son. I didn't even let my
son play football. Man, my son jazz pianist. Man, Huh,
you're lying back, Yeah, but man, football ain't built for
the human body. Man, that's a bad bus. That's a
tough way to make a living, just like boxing. I
don't want, like you said, you want, you want your
money to work for you. I don't want to go
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out there and have I don't wanna have to sweat
for my money. Man. But I love what I do,
so that's nothing You know if you if you make
a living at doing what you love, you're never working
down in your life. Yeah, man, I love what I do. Man,
I love you know, making people laugh, I love you know,
live theater, I love you know acting. I mean, I
just love it. Man. So how do you get on
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with Martin? It was just another audition? I mean I
went in. I've done a lot of things before Martin,
and then a lot of things since Martin. But it's
funny because everybody know the Martin the twelve episodes only
did twelve. I did like for the episodes, and Bernie
only did twe twelpisode twelve episodes, and I wouldn't have
got I wouldn't have got those tway old unless they
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didn't want to. They didn't want to pay the money
that I wanted. And I guess who I asked to
act like my manager. She wouldn't negotiated. I was like,
I was two years old, and he was he was
he was sad looking around the house, and so I
was like, what's wrong? And he said, I'm not gonna
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be on the show anymore. I was like, we're getting
you back on the show. I called the show and
they said, hey, can you be here in an hour?
We wanna we want to talk about it with UH,
with the network. So we went in and I told
him don't say anything when we were walking the room.
I'm the heavy. I had him on the drive over
tell me everything that he did and didn't want. And
I walked in the room and I negotiated for him
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and got him more episodes and way more money we got.
The first time you ever did something like the first time, well, well,
I don't know you was younger, you weren't. You wasn't
too much in the game for as as negotiating anything.
I was surprised, but I told I said, we'll just
I said, what's something nice? So you know they're gonna
be you did not say that they're gonna be looking
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at you and not really paying attention what you're talking about.
I didn't even really know. I didn't even know that
I had it in me to do what I did
that day, But it was, it was. It was very surreal,
and the first thing that came out of my mouth.
They were like, oh, they said, oh, we can't do that,
we can't do that, And I said, oh, it's really nice.
It's been really nice to meet with you, and all
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I can see it was out of the corner of
my eyes his leg like his leg moving. I'm thinking,
don't look at him, don't look at it. So it
worked out really really well. But that's when first they
said we can't do that. At what point did they
change they have a change of heart when she was
getting ready, when we were when we were about to
walk out, because I went high on the negotiation. He
told me what he wanted, and so in my head
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I went much higher. And so when he heard the
number come out of my mouth, I can I can
already see him moving next to me, and I was
trying not to focus because I was trying to keep
a straight face. And after that we did. I got
him on Deaf Comedy Jam. I managed him for a
while after that and tell you he left me for
a big agent with us. Yeah, it was good. It
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worked out, though it worked out. The first time I
met Willie Man was on the set of Martin Remember
that said yeah came to the said yeah came to
one of the tapings. H Willie was laughing at the
audience when they said when it did when it dud
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Girl Voice Revoting podcast when she right back after the spot.
You were just talking about the character, the broad Man character.
Um so, I just recently saw a video of Angela Means,
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who played Felicia, and she was lamenting about how her
role asked Felicia and how that stuck with her and
how hard and how heavy it's been for her to
embrace that role, and how people have basically just type cast.
Have you have you? Have you ever had that type
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of experience? What do you think about that? You know,
because both of you played iconic roles right right, that
broad Man role. Man, you can't shake it. Day before yesterday,
I just text my friend I sent him that interview
with Angela Means, and I say, man, is this serious?
He hit me back and said, Yo, dude, it ain't
that big. It ain't that serious. He said, Man, he said,
I ain't get mad that I got my ass by
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Steven Seagal and Mark for death. My man, Mike Raf
he was the Jamaican dude. It was always getting beat up,
you know. But said man, I don't care about that.
Let me tell you something. Man. Uh far as me
doing stand up, you know, I only start doing stand
up after the Martin thing. I just started as a
stand up coming started off as an actor, and um,
so I don't do stand up like in l A.
I never done. You know, I do it every now
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and then. I might do a stand up in l A,
but I never do because I don't want to get
known as a stand up comic, gonna be Donna taking series.
As a dramatic actor, I've done so many dramatic roles,
comedy roles, and you know, like a lot of the
white cast directors don't know me as bro Man, A
lot of black casts and directors know me as bro Man,
but they still call me in for other other other
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characters of the roles. And I've done so many man
like I said, E R n C, I s um vegas, Uh,
so many other roles I've done, but our people know
me as those twelve characters. And I did like fort
the episodes of Bernie. I did way more Bernie than
I did Martin. But um now, I don't worry about
getting type because I know once I get into that
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room to audition, I know I got the chops to
do what I have to do. So you know, that's
and and that's you know, basically, it's like that's my business.
It's like what I do, you know, myself is loan
myself out to other you know, the companies, so you
know these these these you know, it's like yo, man,
it's like a business. You know, you you you people,
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you know vy for y'all. You know, your your your
performances and your entertainment. So that's what we do. Man.
It's like, you know, I'm I'm my own um employer.
I employed myself to go out and do what I do.
And that's it's just like you know the cameo app
I'm on cameo. So it's like, you know, people call
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and asked me to say happy birthday to them. So
it's like, there's so many ways to to go into
a business to make money all for yourself. You know,
any talent that you have, hey man, you gotta use it, man,
because if you don't, you lose it. Did that from
that business relationship? Were there any personal relationships that got
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developed on The Martin Show? Carl, you know, me and
car payin pretty tight, and uh, me and Tommy was
pretty tight. You know. Tommy was my dude, man. I
mean he was off an electronics like me. You know,
so you know, we U we was like the first
cast that had those little mimentals, little eight millimeter uh
portable vhs you can take on the plane with your
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man pop up, put the little tape in you can
watch movies. So yeah, yeah, yeah we had those things. Man. Yeah, yeah,
as me, I love I love electronics, man, I love electronics.
So so me and Tommy develop a real good race ship. Man.
I haven't seen Martin in so long. Man, I think
I've seen the last time I've seen him was on
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the reunion we did. But before that, about five years ago,
Man Snoop had um Um eight his party and uh
he invited us and we went, Man and my wife,
and I've seen him then. That was like that was
twenty years before I seen him. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
What do you think about Martin? Martin man Mark got
a big heart, man, a big heart, you know, kind
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of laid back dude. If you if you, if you
around him, he don't really to say much, you know,
just um. You know, I never really hung out with
him to know him like that, you know, like I
hung out with Car like I hung out with with Tommy,
you know, to Sheina a few times, but I never
hung out and and and it could have been my
fault because he had invited me over to his house before.
You know, shoot hoops. I'm not. I don't shoot hoop.
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I was a football player. I never got I never
I never got around and shooting hoop and um. But
but yeah, I mean when we see each other's like
we we we've been knowing each other for years. Though.
That we did the reunion, it was real cool man
hanging with him and talking to him. Man, I mean,
you know, it was a lot of love man on
set when I came through the window for the reunion,
a whole lot of love. Seemed like he didn't even
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know I was gonna be there. Yeah. Did you encourage
Danna to come to l A. How did that go?
You know? She I did. I did my first comedy
show out here. And remember they had Uptown Comedy. It
was Uptown Comedy Spot. Jathony Brown owned it and uh
they rabond Yeah, yeah, yeah it was it was Uptown
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No no, no, no top comedy spot. Comedy. Man said,
that's right, that's right. And I met her there man,
and yeah, yeah, the first time ever. We didn't know
y'all with cousins. Now, well we did at the time
we did well. My mother told me I was kidding
all the scurries. Okay, so, and she kind of reminds
me of my family. His daughter and I look alike. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
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So y'all didn't meet up that y'all you met her?
That met her there? Yeah, exactly, trying to push up
on it. You thought she was cute country, don't count.
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Don't listen to him. Don't listen to him. How did
you I never heard that story? How did you make
your way to l A? So, Houston? I've always wanted
to be in l A. I've always wanted to just
for some reason, I was attracted to the city. Just
give up Houston. I love Houston. You seen his home.
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It's different. You will always be home. But I always
felt photos though, I wanted to be somewhere with the
energy match mine um on entrepreneurial. That spirit you have
l A is a hoshposh. You have all these people come.
It's a melting pot of people from all over the
world that come that just want a better life and
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just want to be judged on their on their work ethic.
And they're married. And that's what I That's where I
wanted to be. I wanted to be around that energy.
But you have a marketing degree. How do you take
a marketing degree and go out to l a and
become a writer? So I have a marketing degree, you can,
I say, from Texas Southern University. I'm very proud of that. So, um,
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I just I have I want to say, I have layers.
I tried I'm morphined to five different people before I
turned thirty. Um, I just wanted to try different things.
I had an energy in me. I have a work
ethic in me where I knew I could be whatever
I put my stamp on. I could do whatever I
wanted to do. And so when I was young, I
tried to feel that out. What does that mean? And
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where could I be successful? So I always wanted to write,
but my mom wanted me to have the marketing degree.
So I went and I got the marketing degree, and
then hello, hello mama. Um. And so after that, I
worked my nine to five and I interned at the
Steve Harvey Show. And then it was awesome. It was amazing,
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it was amazing. I got a lot of opportunity from
that experience. I wrote my first spec script and I
was hired Um to assist Ralph Farqua, who was the
creator of the Mosia Show. He was hired to executive
produce The Proud Family and hired me as his assistant,
and I wrote some episodes while I was employed by
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the show, so it was fun. I realized it was
not for me. While I was on the set of
the Steve Harvey Show. Some wardrobe Steve's wardrobe girls and
I got together and we formed a business to make
some extra money during the holidays. And Steve said, whatever
money y'all come up with, I'll match it, and he did,
and we formed a I think we came up with
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and he matched there and we started doing gifts for
the holidays and in that month we made fifteen thousand dollars. Again,
my servants heart. I loved um making people happy. During
that Will Smith Cedric the entertainer, shout out to e
Cedric Um, just the cast and people that were on
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the lot. So we made a We made a great
deal of money. To us at that time, fifteen thousand
UH was a lot of money. So when I was
on The Proud Family, I saved my money up and
I formed my business which is now it's promotional products.
And corporate gifting for major corporation is for Fortune five hundreds.
Nice you work with some of the biggest global brands
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in the world like Target. Um yes, I have Honda,
I have um oh my gosh, so many companies I
have all in our area, our local area. We have
all of the all of your phone, the phone company,
the you know, water companies, all of your utilities. We
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have in the area and we've been serving them. We
have I think at this point we just got Metro.
I think we also have Metro in Houston. Shout out
to Houston again. Um so, yeah, we have Bristol Our
Squib that's one of our our best clients. Mackenzie. Um so,
we just have a number of clients. Exactly what are
y'all doing with these clients? What do you how do
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you serve them? So what's the products? So they might
come to us and they say, you know, they might say, hey,
we have a community event. The target market. We're asking
what the target market is and what message they're working
to convey, and we'll work to come up with a
campaign of promotional products, branded items that best suits the brand,
that protects the brand and speaks to that to that
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event and no and that target market. Let me tell
you something, man, I've seen her the products she used
to sell. I seen this girl is one of the
hardest working people I ever seen. I've seen her selling
stuff out of her garage, dude apartment garage and used
to wrap that gives herself and send them out like
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she's like, she's a multi big time multi business, you know,
a conglomerate or something. Man. And she grew into that now.
And I remember, yeah, man, in her little bitty apartment,
you know, sometimes me and my wife used getting into it.
I said, all right, way, ain't coming back. I go
over there. Girl be working hard. I'd be like she'd
be up to like twelve o'clock at night, still on
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the phone, like I'm going back to my wife. I
can't over here. Yo, this is crazy. When a little
bit of food time she was in theiving room and
she she she made it happy. Man, I'm an eyewitness
to that. Eye witnessed Dana. How satisfying is it for
you to have those humble beginnings in l A and
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then to be on the level you are right now
and then getting ready to do this podcast where you're
gonna share this information Oh wow, that is a loaded question.
I think that for me, I'm proud of my humble beginnings.
I'll say this. I started in fifth Ward, parents got divorce,
we moved to fifth Ward, and I used to have
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eliminated stand so pickles now laters m eliminate to the
folks and far And it's just it was always in
my spirit, it was always in my soul. I always
knew as seven years old that I wanted to um,
I wanted to serve others and I wanted to do
well for myself. I want to push past whatever limits
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I think I have, I want to push past them.
So coming from a humble, humble, humble begettings, I think
kind of brings a full circle because this is why
we want to do this, This is why I want
to do this, to whom much has given, much is required.
And I think that goes without saying, um, you know,
Reggie and I we're gonna say the wrong thing, We're
gonna put ourselves out there. We're both very private people.
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So that that which leads me to this question. Yes,
you being such a low key person. All of this time,
you've been a low key, very low key person, and
now you're about to do a podcast where you're about
to put yourself out there and be and subject yourself
to a lot of scrutiny. Yes, are you really ready
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for that? Well? I don't think I'm I don't think
I've been ready for anything that I stepped out on
theting tried. Yeah, but all the time you've been doing
all this other stuff, you've still been low key, I know.
But I think I hope more than anything that people
will see our heart and and our why and know
why we do it. We only want to help people,
and so hopefully that will be transparent as we as
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we navigate, because we're gonna be learning to We're gonna
put our foot in our mouths. We're human. We're gonna
do a lot of things that maybe we will look
back on and say, uh, maybe we should have, you know,
treaded lighter. But I think we're going to put our full,
our full selves in be dedicated to it, and hopefully
as long as we can help anybody, hopefully that will
that will count for something. So yes, I think that's
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both of our wise. Yeah, yeah, because you want to
give people something that they could when they get um
finished listening to us, and say well wow, and they
go put it to use and they say, hey, that
it really works, you know. So yeah, if it don't,
then you know, I mean it takes. It takes a
lot of work, man, You got a lot of time.
I mean, you know kindergartens. One time they thought that
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Martin find me on the streets. And that's how it became. Bro. Man,
they found you on the street down as he was home.
I went to two universities. Man, it takes. Though it
just happened overnight, Bro, it don't happen overnight. Man, I
mean it takes a man. It take. It take hard work.
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Brovoice reloaded podcast will be right back after the poet.
Let me answer a question when you, um, you guys
left down here Houston, Galaston to go to southern California,
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you know, Hollywood movie stars. Did that cost to live
and play a part of the fear? Did you have
any fear and knowing that you were gonna have to
come up with this money because it costs a lot
of money to be in lost As California even more
now and it was that's the reason why I never left. Yeah,
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I don't want to spend that kind of money. Hey,
I remember, man, you know, my my family, A lot
of them are coming, a lot of come back, come back,
a lot of them coming from all over. I'm talking. Yeah,
that's that's true. People, famous people are coming back to you. Boys. Man.
When I left gals and we all said in my
living room, man and a little bit the apartment my
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mother house, and it was four of us, man, me
and my boys. I said, hey, man, we don't make
a pack. None of us coming back. I left. All
three of them came back too, came back the next day.
They spent the night outside looking at the college, and
drove back the next day. That's real. Third and uh,
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but my aunt I was in Missouri because I had transferred,
went to Missouri my last year. And I was telling
my aunt something coming down there. I want to be
an actor. I got a friend out here. He's trying
to be an actor and he's not making it. And
you should go to the NFL, go play football. And
I wasn't even listening, man, I just like she got
through talking, Like we talked about earlier, about this, wait
for my opportunity to jump into the conversation. When she
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got through talking, I said, okay, we'll be pulling in Friday.
I didn't know how he was gonna make it. We
left in a little bit of Nissan Sentral Man. I
was riding like this hill on the stering wheel because
all our stuff was packed in the back seat. All
the way to California. Yeah, we had about five hundred
bucks straight through. Dude, you got to have a good
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support system. His wife is amazing. She was right, she was.
She's the most amazing, the most amazing woman ever. And
so she supported him and they had each other. And
it's crazy. I had him when I moved out. I
had two months. I stayed. I had a roommate, had
a bad experience and he had to move me out
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in the middle of the night and I slept on
his couch for he and his wife's couch for Yes,
what was the bad experience? Yea with the guy right, No, no, no,
it was it was it was a girl. What happened?
I've been hearing these horror stories about roommates all the time. Oh, yeah,
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it was. It was. It was insane that there were
a couple and uh, I guess she thought he was
getting too friendly with me. So Carr ended up getting
stolen jewelry getting stolen, so he had to come and
move me out like a thief in the night. So yeah,
it gets Harry out there. But I will tell you this,
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I knew moving from Houston, I bet on myself. I
knew my worth, I knew my value, and even though
I was really young, I knew what I knew. I
could always come home. I didn't. I had it in
my mind. I never will unless it's on my terms.
And I put the pedal to the metal, to the
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to the metal. And that's why I say. I worked
my nine of five and then I worked for Steve
Harvey in the afternoon. You know, I always I was
always thinking of ways to better myself. It was I
was never comfortable with just stutus quote. It just always
had a burning burning inside of me to do more
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than to do better. First night in town, first night
in town. Put in California, you know that first day.
And first of all, I didn't even think. I didn't
even think about not making it. I never thought about
making it or not making it. I just I just
went with the flow, man, I just went with the floor.
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I'm here wherever I land, I'm gonna land. Man. The
first day we got there. My unt told me right
over by usc off of ver Month that's where she
lived hood. She said, hey, you got the Missouri place
on your car. This ain't Texas. This ain't Missouri. Take
your stuff out the back of the trunk. I said,
I get it to Mars, saying okay. Came back to mall.
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Everything was gone, my white wind dress but football tapes, clippings, papers, all.
Had a big old poster in the back of me,
like big poster s m you on the gold line
like this. If we stopped, I think of Texas in
and then I'm like this hear. I said, they ain't
got my poster. And I had a three ft sell
Magnum appellic gun. I said it ain't take that, so
I pulled it in the back. I put in the back.
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She said, boy, you ain't nothing, and I said I
got something that. I said, I go get that after
why she said, boy, this is not I went back
out there. That's my initiation. But my cousin she knew.
She said, well, usually when they steal people stuff, they're
leaving in this alley. You know what they don't want there,
you know, leaving in the alley. So I got some
of the stuff back, you know, but the main stuff that, Yeah,
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I got some stuff back in the dump stuff man,
and some of the stuff they I knew who did it, man,
and the dude ain't living to this day. But you
didn't have anything to do with let's just be clear
about that. But he did. Dude name j J. Got me,
got me for my stuff. Dog. But the way AD
dressed you shouldn't never touched that. But it was that
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in the trash. Uh. We couldn't find that one. Somebody
somebody wrote that one. You know what you know I had, Man,
I would hurt me, but he would hurt me. Is
he got my Vanessa Dear real collection. Oh wow, not Vanessa.
That hurt me to my heart right here, my Vanessa
Dear Rio. Man. But I never thought about, man, I never.
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I never thought about like if I was gonna make it,
if I wasn't gonna make it. This is like college, man.
I never. I mean in high school, I never thought,
uh going to a dh one school or college. I
was just playing football and I just start getting let
us man, I wouldn't even anticipating going to play college football. Man,
it just happened, you know, when I did death. Jam.
I didn't even I want to do I didn't even
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uh try to do death jam. Man, it just happened.
It just came about. I didn't see it. Seemed like
to me, you kind of like followed the opportunity. I
just I just I just went, man, because I never
had in my mind that, you know, from when I
was in the fourth grade. I know, I wanted to
I want to play football, I want to run track,
and I wanted to at I had a piece of
paper and I wrote it and I stuck it on
my door when I was a kid, and every time
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I walked out of my room, I looked at that
paper and it followed that way. Man. I never thought
it wasn't gonna happen. I never I never had a doubt. Man.
You know. I took my wife out there, man, and
I was like, Okay, the only thing I was worried
about is taking care of her. I didn't want her
to be out there, you know, struggling. I said, Man,
if I canna take care of my wife, I'll be
all right. But I didn't never think. I never thought
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that I wasn't gonna make it. Yeah, you play a
lot of supporting roles if you ever, like really just
wanted to be the guy all the way out in
the front. I do. And I just before I came
out here, and I just landed a new agent, man,
uh b H agency. And they want to take me
in a whole different direction, man, they want to take
me more dramatic now, you know. So I'm happy that
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I got with her, you know, um Charlene him over there,
Yeah yeah, And um, I'm excited, man, I'm looking forward
to this, this this new year. Man, what's the wildest
story you can share with us about somebody recognized and
you asked brod Man in the streets. Yeah, Uh, I
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was coming. I was coming from the set Martin, and
uh it was a big girl, man. She was a
big old girl and he was walking because I had
the park in the parking lot with it with the audience,
you know, everybody else had, you know what I'm saying.
So I'm parting with the audience, man. And my cousin
was and my other cousin in California, she's like, she's
the girl, said bro Man. And I said, hey, how
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are you doing? And then she saw running and my
cousin said, you better, you better, uh, walking a little faster, right,
and then she saw it like my cousin, now you
better running. So I saw running man girl. I got
in my car man and it was like it was
like like cool Joe dog and that was I was like, wow,
(41:53):
that's what I know. That's when I knew that you know,
this character was was you know, bigger than um. You
know that that that I thought, Man, I was just
doing another role because like I said, I've done you know,
I played this character on FIS called Tyrrel and show
called um True Colors with Frankie face on Yeah, yeah man,
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and um, you know I did other things, but Martin
was the one that, like I say, man, that's that's
the staple that um, everybody knows. What's the story that
you can share with us? Where it came out all bad?
It was like I'm really just a negative experience because
you know, sometimes when your celebrity people can be fans
of yours, they don't really know how to react, they
don't know how to speak to you when they see you.
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Sometimes that they're star struck in a negative way. Yeah,
and you know, and you know how you know what's
funny about that? Man? It always stuff like that always
happened at home, your home people. You know, I never
had really bad experiences with you know, people from somewhere else,
but is at home, you know, classmates, you know, they
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might get a little jealous and they'd be like, oh, man,
I don't care who you are, man, blah blah blah
blah blah. And I ain't even say nothing. Man, I'm
just all the time, you know what I mean. It's
like I didn't even say nothing, dude, I'm trying to
I'm trying to hang out, you know, have fun, and
you're like, yeah, man, it's crazy. Man by myself. Man,
I'm doing me by myself. You came in here. Yeah,
that is that that is It's always that person, man,
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this it's never you know, I don't think I ever
had a bad experience with with somebody outside of my hometown.
But why do you think that is? That is happening
in your own because they think that they know me,
and they think that man, I'm funny than him, or
I can do this better than him. You know, I
remember when I used to take theater classes man, and
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I was in Cottage. You know, my friends used to say, man,
you'll start lying back and man, you taking many stuff
for girls. Man, Now the'm saying casts asked me. You
know they you know I was doing theater and football play.
I'm lying back and start lying back and they think
that's like, you know, girl stuff to take theater classes,
you know. So um then say those same cats now
asked me, can I hook him up? So now I
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put in the work all these years, put into work,
but now you just want to come out here, and
I just think that you just go on. I played
football and I was in speeching drama too in school,
Is that right? Yeah? Well see that was that in
high school to college. No, no, no, you know who
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I am like junior high school. Yeah, my first you
didn't never get no flag for that. That's what I'm saying.
That's what I'm saying. As I say I wish your
mother would play. I was about to say that we got,
we got because I got because the girls was in there. Man,
I got flag bro on my on my But they
came and seeing that some of the plays, and they
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showed there a lot of love. They respected it, and uh,
but you know that that was the story. Man. It's
like I knew what I wanted to do you know,
no one to do? And I did it, you know,
And and I was nervous as hell walking to my
first audition in college the place c J Memphis. Man
go and I was there. He was my first time
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going up on stage to do comedy. J Anthony Brown
started me in doing comedy. Man. Yeah, yeah, man, he
once started. Yeah, he's my man. Man. He the one
told me to go to hip hop. He said, Man,
go to the Clipan and Houston. Man. He owned part
of the club and said, go to my clip and
Houston this bring up there. You know, I was on Marcus.
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He used to warm up the audience on Martin and
He's like, Man, let's go down and then, you know,
bring up the audience. May get your thound dollars for
seven shows. I thought there was a lot of money.
I'm like a thousand for something show. Okay, really ain't going,
I ain't going now, really gonna talk. You're gonna talk
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to me out of a lot of money. Hundred and yeah.
At that time, man, the show was hot. How long
you had to be able there? We did? We did?
What what on stage? Or how long did you have
(46:11):
to be on stage? For the herd Bucks I was hosting.
I was hosting, so I just brought it up comics, man,
So I really have any jokes? But I asked him,
can I tell jokes? Is if you think you can
tell the jokes? Man? And and and thought I was cool.
And somebody else saw me in the artist. Man. They
took me all over the world man, Japan, Germany. I
was hosting, you know, for the troops. So that's how
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I did that. How how long was it that you
was in l A before you got your first role? Man?
It wasn't long at all, um, because maybe shoot, maybe
two months? And how did you go about doing it?
Two much? I found? Man? I was. I went to
this bank and his cat named Muhammed. He was the man.
Things happened for a reason. Man, he was. He was
(46:52):
a security. He said, hey, man, I'm gonna be on
TV tonight. We didn't even know this, dude. I said, really,
I see, I'm trying to be an actor. I said,
how you do this? I'm just gonna be extra, man,
I'm just gonna be an extra. I said, how do
you be an extra? And he told me how to
do it? And I did it for I did extra
work for four times. And I told my wife on
the fourth point, I say, man, I ain't doing this
chump no more. And I was supposed to be a
stand in for this this actor and shot for show
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Call movie Call Uh, I Love You The Death of
River Phoenix Kevin Klein and Tracy Oldman. I was supposed
to be a stand in actor didn't show up. So
River Phoenix, I'm standing behind the River Phoenix and I'm
from I'm from Texas. Man, I ain't scared of nothing.
I s the only thing they could do. I said,
I'm gonna start talking, because that's on what you get
your sad car. You have to talk in the movie,
and there going to be in a movie. You gotta
have your sad car. So I said, well, ain't I'm
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a sad car. Ain't I said, I was talking. Don't
think you could do it? Take me to shut up,
go home. They can't put their hands on me. As
long as I know k can put their hands on me,
I'm good. So I start talking. And I just started
talking and Lawrence can I saw. I said, hey, good
jobs man, good job, like good job. And they said,
you know, Lawrence casting Man, the director, Big director of
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the Big Chill and all that. They came up to me,
gave me a contract man, and then I was saying it.
I was saying, I wish I could see that countrack
right now because I can't understand nothing wrong. I'm trying
to hurt from. I was safe, can dude, And I
got my my River Phoenix many risk in peace. He
was more happy for me than myself. River was so
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cool man. He was jumping up maybe he's coming out shot,
hitting me in my arm, punching me. He had this
old beat up car he ust to get in through
the window us to jump through the winter to getting
his cars. Because he was like, you know, mellow dude. Man,
he was punching in my in my face. Man, good
y'all man. I mean you know this hit me on
my arms and stuff like, good y'all man. He said,
that's that's great. Congratulations. And I found out later when
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I did the movie Class actle Kid played the actor
then show up. It was Timmy Forward. That's how I
got my tough for Martin. Tommy, Tommy, you don't want
to show up man. And we were talking on the
set of a Class Act and I was like, man,
don't I got my sad. Call this acting and showing
for this, this role in this movie called I Love
You definite said what he said? Man, it was me, man,
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it's because I was doing uh Hall of Nights. Yeah,
River Phoenix died, um drug man in that club. What's
the name of that club? The Viper the Viper Room.
What kind of dude was he? Though? And I was surprise, brother,
because the dude we was eating doing a scene eating
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a pizza and he was eating he was picking off
the veggies man eating because he was a vegetarian. It
was vegan, so he eating the vegetables. I'm like, how
this dude, you know, eating vegetables but you know he
oh on drugs. That's why I couldn't believe that, Like wow,
because everybody got their own vices that story. So it's
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like I know I got because I never drank in
my life. Man, never had a drink in my life,
never smoked in my life. But I got that that
weakness with that tweets born it's my problem. It calls
me never smoked, We never had a drink. Can't say
high taste, man, but I can tell you how bluebearrel tastes. Baby. Yeah,
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so straight up down an ice cream then to tell
us that story about when Mohammed Ali for the second
time when he was in l A. Oh my goodness.
So I had a I had a doctor that I
had surgery um signed surgery. And it was my last
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visit of five for one of the first business I
saw a picture on the wall, uh that my doctor
had with Muhammad Ali, and I said, you know, told
him my story of how I met him when I
was young, and he and I showed him a picture
that I had with Muhammed Ali, and he was like
to hold onto this, to this picture, So I gave
him a copy of it. And my last visit in
the doctor's chair, doctor all of my nose and all
(50:45):
of a sudden the door swings open and Muhammed Ali
walks in. Yes, yes, he bought no knock, no nothing,
He just walks in. And this was close to before
he died, so he was you know, I couldn't really
speak very well, but opened the door and my doctor said,
do you remember this this young lady. And he looked
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at me and he smiled so big, and he was
like beautiful. Just I think he was thinking more of
the experience, you know that we had when I was
when I was a kid, when we were glued to
the hip. It was. It was one of the greatest
experiences of my life. I didn't know that, Yeah, greatest.
I meant Mohammed Alien had to share in the hotel
in the university. I ain't met No Mohammed in university
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on me so hard because I met the champ. But
the champion told b W he looked like Joe Fraser
and he got in that boxing stand. Yeah, yeah did.
And Ali had so many moments like that. If you go,
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he just walks into a room and surprised people. But
the idea that he had planned, you know, he wasn't
feeling well, he wasn't at his best, and he's still
time to come to that office and to see me.
It was, it was, you know, it was. That was
a surreal moment as well. One of the things I
wanted I want to say though some people have been
(52:18):
asking about rich people's business. You know, how how does
Reggie come into the full I have a business, but
this is again the business of Reginald runs himself as
a business, and so he has and he does it flawlessly.
He doesn't have an assistant he's on the road Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
(52:41):
and he runs his own business completely and he um,
he does it well. And he's grown. He's on he
does sometimes two shows a day, and he's grown. Um,
he's organized. Um, he can tell you anything about his business.
He has a lot to share about the industry. UM.
So I think just just know when you come to
(53:02):
our podcast, when you when you um come tune in,
you're gonna learn a lot about a lot. You know,
You're going to be able to see things from different perspectives,
and then you'll tell us what you want to know.
The goal for us is to go inside of various businesses.
We want to take you along a journey. We want
to show you show people regular people doing um jobs
(53:24):
that we don't talk about a lot. You know. We
want to take you and show you minority business owners
that own car dealerships successfully. Um. You know. We just
want just jobs, things that people do that don't get
a lot of play but are very lucrative for minorities.
You have to understand in the US, seventy percent of
small businesses, which is anything under I think it's forty million,
(53:46):
is considered a small business. Is um Caucasian driven everything.
I think black folks are at about six point six percent,
Asians are at six point two percent, and Hispanics I
think are about a team point of the small business
pathe So we need to figure out how we elevate
(54:07):
and go to the next level and make sure that
we are growing our own percentages in our numbers in
different ways. So that's what we want to do. Yeah,
we an Asian number is a little skewed because they
have a much smaller population than we do. So we
should have a higher number. Yea, we should have because
(54:28):
we represent a much larger demographic. Yeah. Yeah, well that's
that's gonna be Uh, that's that's gonna be very beneficial.
That's what we try to do on this podcast is
basically give people information and instructions they have to navigate
through this wild, crazy, beautiful world. Yeah, and it's been
very beautiful sitting here with you guys, uh, sucking up
(54:51):
game and learning a little bit more about your lives.
I thought I knew you. I guess you've still got
some more secrets, but keep seeing. But it's it's definitely
good man about you. Dana just talked about you all
and not just talking mc gual raid best friend. Nobody
(55:14):
teases me. Nobody teases me like him. Girl, you don't
have a forehead, you got you got an eight head?
Scared about that? Ye? Not clouds me. I'm glad to
have a thick skin. Please please, I would that, man.
I would love everybody to to join in and check
(55:35):
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us and we'll keep you posted. We're gonna we're gonna
jump off probably the first quarter of the year, but
we'll keep you posted. You come follow us. Reggie is
your your hand over for TikTok Instagram? Your hand man
(55:57):
Underscore feel Flow? Yeah yeah, Danna Haley, what's your what's
the business? I g oh Steral Marketing, Stera Marketing, and
we're also launching the bot box. And let me tell
you something. I have bought a number of items from
(56:18):
Steral Marketing, and uh, they do a very good job.
Quality products, quality, packaging, quality service. Quality. Now, yeah, used
to be chicken change, but NIC's nice, not even when
she's small. Did really were carrying them bad boys to man? Yeah?
(56:41):
I didn't play. I can. I have tell on one
little story. So when I first worked started working with Honda,
I had this little apartment stuff in the garage. Like
Reggie said, they said, oh, we're gonna come to a walkthrough.
We want to do a site visits. I was saying, oh,
it was just me. So the lady driving up to
the to the site visits, She's like, what are we
gonna do when we get there? And I'm thinking, you're
gonna walk in, you gonna turn around, and you're gonna
(57:03):
go back out. And so she gets to the apartment
and she steps through the door and she says, oh,
ships And I said good And she said, you've been
working with us all this time, and it had been
about four months. He said, I thought you were a
(57:23):
multimillion dollar company. She said, you're so responsive, you know,
you answer the phone every time. And she said everything
is above top quality. She said, if you may, if
you made me feel like that with just what you've
done with this little apartment, she said, I will help
you grow with Honda. And that lady was amazing. She
was true to her word. Yeah, that's it, that's it
(57:46):
you got all about. That's what it's all about. You
gotta fight. You can do it even if you don't
have any money. You gotta fight. It'll come. That's right. Really, Uh,
what's the tour looked like? Yeah? Man, my first show
back is June January tenth. I got to go to Germany, Man,
I do something over there for the troops, and then
I go to Jamaica. So those are two first two
(58:08):
out the gate. Yeah, that's live. That's perfectly. I'm trying
to convince will go on this farewell tour. Man, that
would be so dope right there, boy, Yeah, that would
be so dope right down. I like it. Call me,
call me when you open right here, I'm gonna come
(58:31):
out on tour with us incorrigible. Okay, okay, all right,
well again, thank you all for coming on and can't
wait to see y'all blow up and y'all back on
the show and then you guys like we see what
we did with it. Yeah, you know that'd be beautiful
to see. Drive we can pull up in a couple
(58:52):
of may backs for y'all. It's our laws. We're finna
get right now. Right Well, if we at these icons,
you know, hey, where else can we go with? You
just make sure man, when y'all put up in those
made decks that you have some sandwiches and I'm gonna
have a whole lot of serve with butter off on
(59:12):
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episode of information and instructions to help you navigate through
this wild, crazy, beautiful world. In the studio, the host
of the Rich People's Business podcast, Dana Haley and Reginald Ballard,
also known as bro Man. What's u hey Man? I
brought a whole lot of serves saying bitches for y'all.
(01:05):
Let me get right into it. Man. You know they
always say that family should not do business together. You
guys are cousins. Yeah yeah, man, And they say that
family should not do business together. What made you guys
want to do business together? I got the call, man,
I got she called me, and that's that was it. Man.
I said, Okay, well let's make it happen. Then, you know, listen, listen,
let's let's help people help themselves and make themselves better.
(01:28):
So he had a good plan. I was like, let's
do it right. Yeah. So so what's the role like,
ye y'all playing good y bad guy. So I'm Dana Haley.
I am his cousin. I'm also an entrepreneur. So this
was a perfect vehicle. Um, he's a great human being.
(01:48):
So I thought this was a great vehicle for us
to come together. It is a podcast that encompasses business.
If you have a business, if you want to start
a business. Um, if you are a person and that
is just interested in growing your your wealth, your generational wealth,
this will be a place where you can come and
gain some knowledge. And because he's such a giver, Um,
(02:11):
he leads with his heart. He has a servant's heart. Um.
I thought it was a great vehicle for him and
I to uh to coexist. Together and talk about the
dynamics that we talked about we're together, which is growth.
That's growth. It's growth. It's about growth. So so can
anybody follow this? I mean, this is this just for
(02:31):
rich people because you see business, we're trying to get
you rich. So it's for people who are destined to
just grow their generational with whatever rich means to you.
It's just a better life. And we dabble into we
dabble into rich people's lives to bring it to regular
people so they're regular people can see how rich people
do it, so they see how easy it is to
(02:52):
get done because you know the knowledge. You're like, you know, black,
especially to us man, Black people don't know anything about
stock market and and you know for yourself, throwing up
a lot of us, a lot of us brother, a
lot of my friends that I'm in circle around. You
know that that that you know in my circle, and
I try to bring it to him and I ain't
losing my money, man, you know that's the first thing
they want to say. It's like, man, when you see
rich people make the money work for them. Poor people
(03:15):
make money to pay somebody else, you know, for the
bills that they have accumulated, you know, and that's our mentality.
So we want to try to you know, knock that
out and negate that. You know this how rich people
do it. You know, I'm not rich, but I know
how they do it. I'd be around a lot of
them to see how they do it. But I'm trying
to I'm trying to get to that place. Yeah, it's
all about evolution and growth, I think, um, and I
(03:37):
think that's where we um. We're will sean and what
we don't know. We're going to bring professionals in to
talk about things and we're gonna grow together. We'll learn
more together. I mean this is you have to understand too.
I think you can still work for some for someone.
You can still work for a company or have a
job and still grow your wealth. Give us an example
(03:58):
on how you can work for somebody at job and
still grow you well. Stock market for a one k.
So I feel as though, let's just let's just take
the stock market. God's Reggie's forte. He loves um. He
loves the stock market. So you can take your money
and invest it in the stock market. Um, you just
(04:18):
have to really really save, you have to really put
a plan together. Well, you know, I think I think
any man that put his money in a a in
a savings account of bank, is it not that that
bright you know, lazy man. You know, because if you
take your money, man, and you put your money in
places where that money can make money for you, and
(04:39):
you just monitor that money, monitor that money, you can
see how that money grows, man, way faster than how
much money are you trying to put in here? And
how much money are you willing to risk, you know,
suce instance apple, Uh maybe maybe a hundred and and
something like that. Okay, So I mean you know you
(05:00):
could buy maybe if you buy a share here, a
share there, instead of going by that um that watching
that perfume or that um you know that that that
that piece of jewelry or whatever. You know, you put
it over there and put over there man, and and
like you'll be amazed how much money that, how much
that could grow within a month versus a savings account.
(05:23):
But then then again that there are risks too. But
there's a whole lot of risks. And you're playing you
played the New York Stock to change the SNP. Yeah,
I have I have that the verse for all that man,
I have so many and right now I'm I'm taking
a bath right now, dude, I'm taking the bath right now.
But during the pandemic, during the pandemic, when I wasn't working,
(05:46):
everybody wasn't working. That maintained that whole year of what
I could accumulate, I put so much in and I
tripled it with them like a year, you know, with
with with Tesla stocks and Michael Off stocks and um
I had Apple, Disney, all those and it made money
for me. So I was able to use some of
(06:06):
that money to get through that whole pandemic thing. Mask
your question when when? When when the Republicans? When the
Republican left the office of the stock market go down? Uh,
that says a lot. I'm asking questions about gas sliding.
(06:26):
Brot Obama was in there, the stock markers doing whale too.
Stock markets. The stock market is gonna go up and
down and it's manipulated by the oligarteners. What's gonna be
it's manipulated. What about currency? Stock markets? Cryptocurrency is manipulated.
All of it is manipulated. Man. Look man, if what
(06:48):
about your homeboy? And you got it, you gotta you
gotta be in at the win it. You ain't gonna
getting out to be You ain't gonna getting no money
without letting your nutting without about it. What about it now?
I'm not in never I've never invested in it. But
that's how it is. How many throughout the years, how
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many of these are companies out here that then went
under the playing the stock market then went on under
ran off with people money. See y'all you're getting you're
getting blinded by the press. Bro. You're not paying a killing.
You got to do this, man, I know it's all
on my phone. I'm watching the show goes up. Man,
let me tell you something. A matter of fact, it
(07:32):
goes well, and it could come way down. Brother. But
but the thing is one thing about the stock market,
in the history of the stock market, when it when it,
when it takes that that deal, it always hit and
bounced back up. Man, that was dollars, not looking at it,
the stock market one hundred dollars. The stock market is
designed to rise, cry. The crypto is designed to rise. Also. Look, man,
(07:57):
if you get into crypto and you don't know how
to get that's your problem. Yeah, that's true, that's your problems.
If you get into crypto and you and you get
in and you you over leverage yourself if you put
up too much bread are you you're paying too much
money for for a coin that show fault? Do you research,
do your research, and at the end of the day,
and at the end of the day, even after you
do your research, like I always do, at the end
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of the day, do not ever gamble more than what
you're willing to lose. I like, I like what you
told me. Never take more with you than you would
take on a vacation. I mean, never invest more to
start then you would take on a vacations. It's like business,
and people take chances on businesses. Sometimes businesses work. Sometimes
the restaurants man one of the its like more of
(08:42):
them fail than than succeed. So it's just anything you
get into to try to make money is a risk
in it, man, especially hot dollar risk competitive. But there's
other ways though. Let's talk about since you're since you
ask real estate, so he he loves which he's getting
into real estate now more too, But um my forte
(09:02):
or I'm getting better at it. My passion has always
been real estate, so now I, um, I buy properties
and that's my goal. So that's also a way you
can work for somebody. Um, I have an Airbnb, um,
and I'm growing. Um, I'm growing that business. That is
also a way that you can still work for somebody
(09:23):
by your property and have an Airbnb or rented out
by multiple doors. Give us some type of measure of
success with your Airbnb. Um so mine is rented out
pretty much over half the year, and I you know,
I might charge and fifty a night and yeah, yeah, yeah,
(09:50):
and but I'm not stopping there. I bought my property
and it just immediately. Um, I bought it undervalue, which
is what which is a great idea, and I fixed
it up and so now it's worth two full of
what I paid for it. But you also bought in
a good neighborhood. I did expensive dirt I did, I
did so um so yeah, I think those factors help
(10:14):
you as well. And then one of the other ways
you go grow generational generational wealth is through having a business.
You can still have a business on the side while
you're working for somebody. You know, you can have a
laundry mat. There's just things that you can do where
you collecting money while you're sleeping. You know, there are
things that you can do. Yes, always, always, there are
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just things you can do to grow. And I think
that do you think that any investment it's like too small?
You know, like you well, I know me. I don't
want to put no money in something that I'm gonna get,
you know, fifty dollars the day out of you know,
I want to I want to get it. If I
put my money in something, I need to triple up
(10:57):
in two years, three years. But this thank to thanks
for the bucks. A day I was sading, I was
saying one of my boys there and say, yo, man,
if you have so many safe hair, you have maybe
twenty stocks and you might make five dollars a day
in those twenty stocks. If you put your money in
the savings, you're not gonna make five dollars in those
savings account, you know what I'm saying. So, so whatever
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you're making, you make it. So the more you put
in safe If you only put about one chef of
apple and it moves, and you make maybe ten dollars,
now if you put a hundred thousand and it moved,
you're gonna make way more than ten dollars, you know
what I'm saying. So That's that's the key. How much
you put in is how much you're gonna get back.
Eight thousand, two hundred fifty bucks if you put in
(11:41):
fifty dollars, if you got fifty dollars a day return,
you would have eighteen thousand, two d dollars end of
the years in one year. A lot of money, A
lot of money. That's some decent money for doing nothing.
That money add up and that money is just sitting there. About.
What I like about investing is that I look at
every one of my dollars, asked and employed and put
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them to work. That working. They're working overtime with no blakes,
and they're working over time, no breaks, they didn't get
they don't get, no breaks, no vacations. I gotta get
like that. I like that. I gotta get to that page.
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I'm using that one. Let's man, let's go back to
Gaveston Man, you played for Gaveston Ball. I didn't know
that you played for Gaveston ball balled high school? Yeah,
and use that dude track football, I mean had I
had office man to every major university in the country. Man,
(12:48):
No HBCUs came from me though, Wow? Not one? Yeah?
So um, but all of the colleges. Man I was.
I was, Yeah, we got the Deaf Country. I was there.
I was one of the three dudes that they said
that were still getting paid that had to you know,
the Bill Clemence was the governor of Texas and he
was in the the whole thing. It's not the money,
(13:10):
they say, so, so did you get paid? I mean
it's over now many Hey, man, let me tell you
something like this here. Man, it was very you got.
It was a good time. It was a good time
over there. And I know some catting went to the Nfair.
(13:31):
They got paid cuts and Bill Clemens getting paid so well,
he man, cottage football is business. But now now they
(13:53):
can get paid. Yeah. No, man, I say that talked
about on thirty for thirty on SPN. So but um,
I'm gonna tell you something, man. Um they they they
they they it was real. It was fun. It's me
was fun. Then I my transferred the University Missouri my
(14:14):
last year. That's when I started majoring the theater. Man. Yeah,
true story. I told my friends and said, look, having
to go to Hollywood hanging with stallone them, I said,
the next time you see him be on TV. I
left went to Hollywood. First movie I did with Stallone.
Next time I seen Hi, I was on TV because
I went exactly that's I was just I was just
messing around, you know, because I was supposed to do
(14:34):
this play. I did this one play in college, A
soldier's play. You know. I c J Memphis, and uh,
I was supposed to do I raised in the son.
I just left, man, came out to California. I don't
want to play football no more. I knew what I
wanted to do. Did you get any backlash from the
people who had high hopes for you and football? No? Man,
I was broke up. Man, I was tired of playing football. Dude.
(14:55):
I ain't let my son. I didn't even let my
son play football. Man, my son jazz pianist. Man, Huh,
you're lying back, Yeah, but man, football ain't built for
the human body. Man, that's a bad bus. That's a
tough way to make a living, just like boxing. I
don't want, like you said, you want, you want your
money to work for you. I don't want to go
(15:15):
out there and have I don't wanna have to sweat
for my money. Man. But I love what I do,
so that's nothing You know if you if you make
a living at doing what you love, you're never working
down in your life. Yeah, man, I love what I do. Man,
I love you know, making people laugh, I love you know,
live theater, I love you know acting. I mean, I
just love it. Man. So how do you get on
(15:36):
with Martin? It was just another audition? I mean I
went in. I've done a lot of things before Martin,
and then a lot of things since Martin. But it's
funny because everybody know the Martin the twelve episodes only
did twelve. I did like for the episodes, and Bernie
only did twe twelpisode twelve episodes, and I wouldn't have
got I wouldn't have got those tway old unless they
(16:00):
didn't want to. They didn't want to pay the money
that I wanted. And I guess who I asked to
act like my manager. She wouldn't negotiated. I was like,
I was two years old, and he was he was
he was sad looking around the house, and so I
was like, what's wrong? And he said, I'm not gonna
(16:21):
be on the show anymore. I was like, we're getting
you back on the show. I called the show and
they said, hey, can you be here in an hour?
We wanna we want to talk about it with UH,
with the network. So we went in and I told
him don't say anything when we were walking the room.
I'm the heavy. I had him on the drive over
tell me everything that he did and didn't want. And
I walked in the room and I negotiated for him
(16:41):
and got him more episodes and way more money we got.
The first time you ever did something like the first time, well, well,
I don't know you was younger, you weren't. You wasn't
too much in the game for as as negotiating anything.
I was surprised, but I told I said, we'll just
I said, what's something nice? So you know they're gonna
be you did not say that they're gonna be looking
(17:06):
at you and not really paying attention what you're talking about.
I didn't even really know. I didn't even know that
I had it in me to do what I did
that day, But it was, it was. It was very surreal,
and the first thing that came out of my mouth.
They were like, oh, they said, oh, we can't do that,
we can't do that, And I said, oh, it's really nice.
It's been really nice to meet with you, and all
(17:26):
I can see it was out of the corner of
my eyes his leg like his leg moving. I'm thinking,
don't look at him, don't look at it. So it
worked out really really well. But that's when first they
said we can't do that. At what point did they
change they have a change of heart when she was
getting ready, when we were when we were about to
walk out, because I went high on the negotiation. He
told me what he wanted, and so in my head
(17:48):
I went much higher. And so when he heard the
number come out of my mouth, I can I can
already see him moving next to me, and I was
trying not to focus because I was trying to keep
a straight face. And after that we did. I got
him on Deaf Comedy Jam. I managed him for a
while after that and tell you he left me for
a big agent with us. Yeah, it was good. It
(18:09):
worked out, though it worked out. The first time I
met Willie Man was on the set of Martin Remember
that said yeah came to the said yeah came to
one of the tapings. H Willie was laughing at the
audience when they said when it did when it dud
(18:30):
Girl Voice Revoting podcast when she right back after the spot.
You were just talking about the character, the broad Man character.
Um so, I just recently saw a video of Angela Means,
(18:50):
who played Felicia, and she was lamenting about how her
role asked Felicia and how that stuck with her and
how hard and how heavy it's been for her to
embrace that role, and how people have basically just type cast.
Have you have you? Have you ever had that type
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of experience? What do you think about that? You know,
because both of you played iconic roles right right, that
broad Man role. Man, you can't shake it. Day before yesterday,
I just text my friend I sent him that interview
with Angela Means, and I say, man, is this serious?
He hit me back and said, Yo, dude, it ain't
that big. It ain't that serious. He said, Man, he said,
I ain't get mad that I got my ass by
(19:35):
Steven Seagal and Mark for death. My man, Mike Raf
he was the Jamaican dude. It was always getting beat up,
you know. But said man, I don't care about that.
Let me tell you something. Man. Uh far as me
doing stand up, you know, I only start doing stand
up after the Martin thing. I just started as a
stand up coming started off as an actor, and um,
so I don't do stand up like in l A.
I never done. You know, I do it every now
(19:56):
and then. I might do a stand up in l A,
but I never do because I don't want to get
known as a stand up comic, gonna be Donna taking series.
As a dramatic actor, I've done so many dramatic roles,
comedy roles, and you know, like a lot of the
white cast directors don't know me as bro Man, A
lot of black casts and directors know me as bro Man,
but they still call me in for other other other
(20:18):
characters of the roles. And I've done so many man
like I said, E R n C, I s um vegas, Uh,
so many other roles I've done, but our people know
me as those twelve characters. And I did like fort
the episodes of Bernie. I did way more Bernie than
I did Martin. But um now, I don't worry about
getting type because I know once I get into that
(20:39):
room to audition, I know I got the chops to
do what I have to do. So you know, that's
and and that's you know, basically, it's like that's my business.
It's like what I do, you know, myself is loan
myself out to other you know, the companies, so you
know these these these you know, it's like yo, man,
it's like a business. You know, you you you people,
(21:00):
you know vy for y'all. You know, your your your
performances and your entertainment. So that's what we do. Man.
It's like, you know, I'm I'm my own um employer.
I employed myself to go out and do what I do.
And that's it's just like you know the cameo app
I'm on cameo. So it's like, you know, people call
(21:21):
and asked me to say happy birthday to them. So
it's like, there's so many ways to to go into
a business to make money all for yourself. You know,
any talent that you have, hey man, you gotta use it, man,
because if you don't, you lose it. Did that from
that business relationship? Were there any personal relationships that got
(21:42):
developed on The Martin Show? Carl, you know, me and
car payin pretty tight, and uh, me and Tommy was
pretty tight. You know. Tommy was my dude, man. I
mean he was off an electronics like me. You know,
so you know, we U we was like the first
cast that had those little mimentals, little eight millimeter uh
portable vhs you can take on the plane with your
(22:05):
man pop up, put the little tape in you can
watch movies. So yeah, yeah, yeah we had those things. Man. Yeah, yeah,
as me, I love I love electronics, man, I love electronics.
So so me and Tommy develop a real good race ship. Man.
I haven't seen Martin in so long. Man, I think
I've seen the last time I've seen him was on
(22:25):
the reunion we did. But before that, about five years ago,
Man Snoop had um Um eight his party and uh
he invited us and we went, Man and my wife,
and I've seen him then. That was like that was
twenty years before I seen him. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
What do you think about Martin? Martin man Mark got
a big heart, man, a big heart, you know, kind
(22:47):
of laid back dude. If you if you, if you
around him, he don't really to say much, you know,
just um. You know, I never really hung out with
him to know him like that, you know, like I
hung out with Car like I hung out with with Tommy,
you know, to Sheina a few times, but I never
hung out and and and it could have been my
fault because he had invited me over to his house before.
You know, shoot hoops. I'm not. I don't shoot hoop.
(23:10):
I was a football player. I never got I never
I never got around and shooting hoop and um. But
but yeah, I mean when we see each other's like
we we we've been knowing each other for years. Though.
That we did the reunion, it was real cool man
hanging with him and talking to him. Man, I mean,
you know, it was a lot of love man on
set when I came through the window for the reunion,
a whole lot of love. Seemed like he didn't even
(23:31):
know I was gonna be there. Yeah. Did you encourage
Danna to come to l A. How did that go?
You know? She I did. I did my first comedy
show out here. And remember they had Uptown Comedy. It
was Uptown Comedy Spot. Jathony Brown owned it and uh
they rabond Yeah, yeah, yeah it was it was Uptown
(23:53):
No no, no, no top comedy spot. Comedy. Man said,
that's right, that's right. And I met her there man,
and yeah, yeah, the first time ever. We didn't know
y'all with cousins. Now, well we did at the time
we did well. My mother told me I was kidding
all the scurries. Okay, so, and she kind of reminds
me of my family. His daughter and I look alike. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
(24:18):
So y'all didn't meet up that y'all you met her?
That met her there? Yeah, exactly, trying to push up
on it. You thought she was cute country, don't count.
(24:38):
Don't listen to him. Don't listen to him. How did
you I never heard that story? How did you make
your way to l A? So, Houston? I've always wanted
to be in l A. I've always wanted to just
for some reason, I was attracted to the city. Just
give up Houston. I love Houston. You seen his home.
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It's different. You will always be home. But I always
felt photos though, I wanted to be somewhere with the
energy match mine um on entrepreneurial. That spirit you have
l A is a hoshposh. You have all these people come.
It's a melting pot of people from all over the
world that come that just want a better life and
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just want to be judged on their on their work ethic.
And they're married. And that's what I That's where I
wanted to be. I wanted to be around that energy.
But you have a marketing degree. How do you take
a marketing degree and go out to l a and
become a writer? So I have a marketing degree, you can,
I say, from Texas Southern University. I'm very proud of that. So, um,
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I just I have I want to say, I have layers.
I tried I'm morphined to five different people before I
turned thirty. Um, I just wanted to try different things.
I had an energy in me. I have a work
ethic in me where I knew I could be whatever
I put my stamp on. I could do whatever I
wanted to do. And so when I was young, I
tried to feel that out. What does that mean? And
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where could I be successful? So I always wanted to write,
but my mom wanted me to have the marketing degree.
So I went and I got the marketing degree, and
then hello, hello mama. Um. And so after that, I
worked my nine to five and I interned at the
Steve Harvey Show. And then it was awesome. It was amazing,
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it was amazing. I got a lot of opportunity from
that experience. I wrote my first spec script and I
was hired Um to assist Ralph Farqua, who was the
creator of the Mosia Show. He was hired to executive
produce The Proud Family and hired me as his assistant,
and I wrote some episodes while I was employed by
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the show, so it was fun. I realized it was
not for me. While I was on the set of
the Steve Harvey Show. Some wardrobe Steve's wardrobe girls and
I got together and we formed a business to make
some extra money during the holidays. And Steve said, whatever
money y'all come up with, I'll match it, and he did,
and we formed a I think we came up with
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and he matched there and we started doing gifts for
the holidays and in that month we made fifteen thousand dollars. Again,
my servants heart. I loved um making people happy. During
that Will Smith Cedric the entertainer, shout out to e
Cedric Um, just the cast and people that were on
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the lot. So we made a We made a great
deal of money. To us at that time, fifteen thousand
UH was a lot of money. So when I was
on The Proud Family, I saved my money up and
I formed my business which is now it's promotional products.
And corporate gifting for major corporation is for Fortune five hundreds.
Nice you work with some of the biggest global brands
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in the world like Target. Um yes, I have Honda,
I have um oh my gosh, so many companies I
have all in our area, our local area. We have
all of the all of your phone, the phone company,
the you know, water companies, all of your utilities. We
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have in the area and we've been serving them. We
have I think at this point we just got Metro.
I think we also have Metro in Houston. Shout out
to Houston again. Um so, yeah, we have Bristol Our
Squib that's one of our our best clients. Mackenzie. Um so,
we just have a number of clients. Exactly what are
y'all doing with these clients? What do you how do
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you serve them? So what's the products? So they might
come to us and they say, you know, they might say, hey,
we have a community event. The target market. We're asking
what the target market is and what message they're working
to convey, and we'll work to come up with a
campaign of promotional products, branded items that best suits the brand,
that protects the brand and speaks to that to that
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event and no and that target market. Let me tell
you something, man, I've seen her the products she used
to sell. I seen this girl is one of the
hardest working people I ever seen. I've seen her selling
stuff out of her garage, dude apartment garage and used
to wrap that gives herself and send them out like
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she's like, she's a multi big time multi business, you know,
a conglomerate or something. Man. And she grew into that now.
And I remember, yeah, man, in her little bitty apartment,
you know, sometimes me and my wife used getting into it.
I said, all right, way, ain't coming back. I go
over there. Girl be working hard. I'd be like she'd
be up to like twelve o'clock at night, still on
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the phone, like I'm going back to my wife. I
can't over here. Yo, this is crazy. When a little
bit of food time she was in theiving room and
she she she made it happy. Man, I'm an eyewitness
to that. Eye witnessed Dana. How satisfying is it for
you to have those humble beginnings in l A and
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then to be on the level you are right now
and then getting ready to do this podcast where you're
gonna share this information Oh wow, that is a loaded question.
I think that for me, I'm proud of my humble beginnings.
I'll say this. I started in fifth Ward, parents got divorce,
we moved to fifth Ward, and I used to have
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eliminated stand so pickles now laters m eliminate to the
folks and far And it's just it was always in
my spirit, it was always in my soul. I always
knew as seven years old that I wanted to um,
I wanted to serve others and I wanted to do
well for myself. I want to push past whatever limits
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I think I have, I want to push past them.
So coming from a humble, humble, humble begettings, I think
kind of brings a full circle because this is why
we want to do this, This is why I want
to do this, to whom much has given, much is required.
And I think that goes without saying, um, you know,
Reggie and I we're gonna say the wrong thing, We're
gonna put ourselves out there. We're both very private people.
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So that that which leads me to this question. Yes,
you being such a low key person. All of this time,
you've been a low key, very low key person, and
now you're about to do a podcast where you're about
to put yourself out there and be and subject yourself
to a lot of scrutiny. Yes, are you really ready
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for that? Well? I don't think I'm I don't think
I've been ready for anything that I stepped out on
theting tried. Yeah, but all the time you've been doing
all this other stuff, you've still been low key, I know.
But I think I hope more than anything that people
will see our heart and and our why and know
why we do it. We only want to help people,
and so hopefully that will be transparent as we as
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we navigate, because we're gonna be learning to We're gonna
put our foot in our mouths. We're human. We're gonna
do a lot of things that maybe we will look
back on and say, uh, maybe we should have, you know,
treaded lighter. But I think we're going to put our full,
our full selves in be dedicated to it, and hopefully
as long as we can help anybody, hopefully that will
that will count for something. So yes, I think that's
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both of our wise. Yeah, yeah, because you want to
give people something that they could when they get um
finished listening to us, and say well wow, and they
go put it to use and they say, hey, that
it really works, you know. So yeah, if it don't,
then you know, I mean it takes. It takes a
lot of work, man, You got a lot of time.
I mean, you know kindergartens. One time they thought that
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Martin find me on the streets. And that's how it became. Bro. Man,
they found you on the street down as he was home.
I went to two universities. Man, it takes. Though it
just happened overnight, Bro, it don't happen overnight. Man, I
mean it takes a man. It take. It take hard work.
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Brovoice reloaded podcast will be right back after the poet.
Let me answer a question when you, um, you guys
left down here Houston, Galaston to go to southern California,
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you know, Hollywood movie stars. Did that cost to live
and play a part of the fear? Did you have
any fear and knowing that you were gonna have to
come up with this money because it costs a lot
of money to be in lost As California even more
now and it was that's the reason why I never left. Yeah,
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I don't want to spend that kind of money. Hey,
I remember, man, you know, my my family, A lot
of them are coming, a lot of come back, come back,
a lot of them coming from all over. I'm talking. Yeah,
that's that's true. People, famous people are coming back to you. Boys. Man.
When I left gals and we all said in my
living room, man and a little bit the apartment my
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mother house, and it was four of us, man, me
and my boys. I said, hey, man, we don't make
a pack. None of us coming back. I left. All
three of them came back too, came back the next day.
They spent the night outside looking at the college, and
drove back the next day. That's real. Third and uh,
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but my aunt I was in Missouri because I had transferred,
went to Missouri my last year. And I was telling
my aunt something coming down there. I want to be
an actor. I got a friend out here. He's trying
to be an actor and he's not making it. And
you should go to the NFL, go play football. And
I wasn't even listening, man, I just like she got
through talking, Like we talked about earlier, about this, wait
for my opportunity to jump into the conversation. When she
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got through talking, I said, okay, we'll be pulling in Friday.
I didn't know how he was gonna make it. We
left in a little bit of Nissan Sentral Man. I
was riding like this hill on the stering wheel because
all our stuff was packed in the back seat. All
the way to California. Yeah, we had about five hundred
bucks straight through. Dude, you got to have a good
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support system. His wife is amazing. She was right, she was.
She's the most amazing, the most amazing woman ever. And
so she supported him and they had each other. And
it's crazy. I had him when I moved out. I
had two months. I stayed. I had a roommate, had
a bad experience and he had to move me out
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in the middle of the night and I slept on
his couch for he and his wife's couch for Yes,
what was the bad experience? Yea with the guy right, No, no, no,
it was it was it was a girl. What happened?
I've been hearing these horror stories about roommates all the time. Oh, yeah,
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it was. It was. It was insane that there were
a couple and uh, I guess she thought he was
getting too friendly with me. So Carr ended up getting
stolen jewelry getting stolen, so he had to come and
move me out like a thief in the night. So yeah,
it gets Harry out there. But I will tell you this,
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I knew moving from Houston, I bet on myself. I
knew my worth, I knew my value, and even though
I was really young, I knew what I knew. I
could always come home. I didn't. I had it in
my mind. I never will unless it's on my terms.
And I put the pedal to the metal, to the
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to the metal. And that's why I say. I worked
my nine of five and then I worked for Steve
Harvey in the afternoon. You know, I always I was
always thinking of ways to better myself. It was I
was never comfortable with just stutus quote. It just always
had a burning burning inside of me to do more
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than to do better. First night in town, first night
in town. Put in California, you know that first day.
And first of all, I didn't even think. I didn't
even think about not making it. I never thought about
making it or not making it. I just I just
went with the flow, man, I just went with the floor.
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I'm here wherever I land, I'm gonna land. Man. The
first day we got there. My unt told me right
over by usc off of ver Month that's where she
lived hood. She said, hey, you got the Missouri place
on your car. This ain't Texas. This ain't Missouri. Take
your stuff out the back of the trunk. I said,
I get it to Mars, saying okay. Came back to mall.
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Everything was gone, my white wind dress but football tapes, clippings, papers, all.
Had a big old poster in the back of me,
like big poster s m you on the gold line
like this. If we stopped, I think of Texas in
and then I'm like this hear. I said, they ain't
got my poster. And I had a three ft sell
Magnum appellic gun. I said it ain't take that, so
I pulled it in the back. I put in the back.
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She said, boy, you ain't nothing, and I said I
got something that. I said, I go get that after
why she said, boy, this is not I went back
out there. That's my initiation. But my cousin she knew.
She said, well, usually when they steal people stuff, they're
leaving in this alley. You know what they don't want there,
you know, leaving in the alley. So I got some
of the stuff back, you know, but the main stuff that, Yeah,
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I got some stuff back in the dump stuff man,
and some of the stuff they I knew who did it, man,
and the dude ain't living to this day. But you
didn't have anything to do with let's just be clear
about that. But he did. Dude name j J. Got me,
got me for my stuff. Dog. But the way AD
dressed you shouldn't never touched that. But it was that
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in the trash. Uh. We couldn't find that one. Somebody
somebody wrote that one. You know what you know I had, Man,
I would hurt me, but he would hurt me. Is
he got my Vanessa Dear real collection. Oh wow, not Vanessa.
That hurt me to my heart right here, my Vanessa
Dear Rio. Man. But I never thought about, man, I never.
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I never thought about like if I was gonna make it,
if I wasn't gonna make it. This is like college, man.
I never. I mean in high school, I never thought,
uh going to a dh one school or college. I
was just playing football and I just start getting let
us man, I wouldn't even anticipating going to play college football. Man,
it just happened, you know, when I did death. Jam.
I didn't even I want to do I didn't even
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uh try to do death jam. Man, it just happened.
It just came about. I didn't see it. Seemed like
to me, you kind of like followed the opportunity. I
just I just I just went, man, because I never
had in my mind that, you know, from when I
was in the fourth grade. I know, I wanted to
I want to play football, I want to run track,
and I wanted to at I had a piece of
paper and I wrote it and I stuck it on
my door when I was a kid, and every time
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I walked out of my room, I looked at that
paper and it followed that way. Man. I never thought
it wasn't gonna happen. I never I never had a doubt. Man.
You know. I took my wife out there, man, and
I was like, Okay, the only thing I was worried
about is taking care of her. I didn't want her
to be out there, you know, struggling. I said, Man,
if I canna take care of my wife, I'll be
all right. But I didn't never think. I never thought
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that I wasn't gonna make it. Yeah, you play a
lot of supporting roles if you ever, like really just
wanted to be the guy all the way out in
the front. I do. And I just before I came
out here, and I just landed a new agent, man,
uh b H agency. And they want to take me
in a whole different direction, man, they want to take
me more dramatic now, you know. So I'm happy that
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I got with her, you know, um Charlene him over there,
Yeah yeah, And um, I'm excited, man, I'm looking forward
to this, this this new year. Man, what's the wildest
story you can share with us about somebody recognized and
you asked brod Man in the streets. Yeah, Uh, I
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was coming. I was coming from the set Martin, and
uh it was a big girl, man. She was a
big old girl and he was walking because I had
the park in the parking lot with it with the audience,
you know, everybody else had, you know what I'm saying.
So I'm parting with the audience, man. And my cousin
was and my other cousin in California, she's like, she's
the girl, said bro Man. And I said, hey, how
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are you doing? And then she saw running and my
cousin said, you better, you better, uh, walking a little faster, right,
and then she saw it like my cousin, now you
better running. So I saw running man girl. I got
in my car man and it was like it was
like like cool Joe dog and that was I was like, wow,
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that's what I know. That's when I knew that you know,
this character was was you know, bigger than um. You
know that that that I thought, Man, I was just
doing another role because like I said, I've done you know,
I played this character on FIS called Tyrrel and show
called um True Colors with Frankie face on Yeah, yeah man,
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and um, you know I did other things, but Martin
was the one that, like I say, man, that's that's
the staple that um, everybody knows. What's the story that
you can share with us? Where it came out all bad?
It was like I'm really just a negative experience because
you know, sometimes when your celebrity people can be fans
of yours, they don't really know how to react, they
don't know how to speak to you when they see you.
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Sometimes that they're star struck in a negative way. Yeah,
and you know, and you know how you know what's
funny about that? Man? It always stuff like that always
happened at home, your home people. You know, I never
had really bad experiences with you know, people from somewhere else,
but is at home, you know, classmates, you know, they
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might get a little jealous and they'd be like, oh, man,
I don't care who you are, man, blah blah blah
blah blah. And I ain't even say nothing. Man, I'm
just all the time, you know what I mean. It's
like I didn't even say nothing, dude, I'm trying to
I'm trying to hang out, you know, have fun, and
you're like, yeah, man, it's crazy. Man by myself. Man,
I'm doing me by myself. You came in here. Yeah,
that is that that is It's always that person, man,
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this it's never you know, I don't think I ever
had a bad experience with with somebody outside of my hometown.
But why do you think that is? That is happening
in your own because they think that they know me,
and they think that man, I'm funny than him, or
I can do this better than him. You know, I
remember when I used to take theater classes man, and
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I was in Cottage. You know, my friends used to say, man,
you'll start lying back and man, you taking many stuff
for girls. Man, Now the'm saying casts asked me. You
know they you know I was doing theater and football play.
I'm lying back and start lying back and they think
that's like, you know, girl stuff to take theater classes,
you know. So um then say those same cats now
asked me, can I hook him up? So now I
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put in the work all these years, put into work,
but now you just want to come out here, and
I just think that you just go on. I played
football and I was in speeching drama too in school,
Is that right? Yeah? Well see that was that in
high school to college. No, no, no, you know who
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I am like junior high school. Yeah, my first you
didn't never get no flag for that. That's what I'm saying.
That's what I'm saying. As I say I wish your
mother would play. I was about to say that we got,
we got because I got because the girls was in there. Man,
I got flag bro on my on my But they
came and seeing that some of the plays, and they
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showed there a lot of love. They respected it, and uh,
but you know that that was the story. Man. It's
like I knew what I wanted to do you know,
no one to do? And I did it, you know,
And and I was nervous as hell walking to my
first audition in college the place c J Memphis. Man
go and I was there. He was my first time
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going up on stage to do comedy. J Anthony Brown
started me in doing comedy. Man. Yeah, yeah, man, he
once started. Yeah, he's my man. Man. He the one
told me to go to hip hop. He said, Man,
go to the Clipan and Houston. Man. He owned part
of the club and said, go to my clip and
Houston this bring up there. You know, I was on Marcus.
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He used to warm up the audience on Martin and
He's like, Man, let's go down and then, you know,
bring up the audience. May get your thound dollars for
seven shows. I thought there was a lot of money.
I'm like a thousand for something show. Okay, really ain't going,
I ain't going now, really gonna talk. You're gonna talk
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to me out of a lot of money. Hundred and yeah.
At that time, man, the show was hot. How long
you had to be able there? We did? We did?
What what on stage? Or how long did you have
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to be on stage? For the herd Bucks I was hosting.
I was hosting, so I just brought it up comics, man,
So I really have any jokes? But I asked him,
can I tell jokes? Is if you think you can
tell the jokes? Man? And and and thought I was cool.
And somebody else saw me in the artist. Man. They
took me all over the world man, Japan, Germany. I
was hosting, you know, for the troops. So that's how
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I did that. How how long was it that you
was in l A before you got your first role? Man?
It wasn't long at all, um, because maybe shoot, maybe
two months? And how did you go about doing it?
Two much? I found? Man? I was. I went to
this bank and his cat named Muhammed. He was the man.
Things happened for a reason. Man, he was. He was
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a security. He said, hey, man, I'm gonna be on
TV tonight. We didn't even know this, dude. I said, really,
I see, I'm trying to be an actor. I said,
how you do this? I'm just gonna be extra, man,
I'm just gonna be an extra. I said, how do
you be an extra? And he told me how to
do it? And I did it for I did extra
work for four times. And I told my wife on
the fourth point, I say, man, I ain't doing this
chump no more. And I was supposed to be a
stand in for this this actor and shot for show
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Call movie Call Uh, I Love You The Death of
River Phoenix Kevin Klein and Tracy Oldman. I was supposed
to be a stand in actor didn't show up. So
River Phoenix, I'm standing behind the River Phoenix and I'm
from I'm from Texas. Man, I ain't scared of nothing.
I s the only thing they could do. I said,
I'm gonna start talking, because that's on what you get
your sad car. You have to talk in the movie,
and there going to be in a movie. You gotta
have your sad car. So I said, well, ain't I'm
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a sad car. Ain't I said, I was talking. Don't
think you could do it? Take me to shut up,
go home. They can't put their hands on me. As
long as I know k can put their hands on me,
I'm good. So I start talking. And I just started
talking and Lawrence can I saw. I said, hey, good
jobs man, good job, like good job. And they said,
you know, Lawrence casting Man, the director, Big director of
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the Big Chill and all that. They came up to me,
gave me a contract man, and then I was saying it.
I was saying, I wish I could see that countrack
right now because I can't understand nothing wrong. I'm trying
to hurt from. I was safe, can dude, And I
got my my River Phoenix many risk in peace. He
was more happy for me than myself. River was so
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cool man. He was jumping up maybe he's coming out shot,
hitting me in my arm, punching me. He had this
old beat up car he ust to get in through
the window us to jump through the winter to getting
his cars. Because he was like, you know, mellow dude. Man,
he was punching in my in my face. Man, good
y'all man. I mean you know this hit me on
my arms and stuff like, good y'all man. He said,
that's that's great. Congratulations. And I found out later when
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I did the movie Class actle Kid played the actor
then show up. It was Timmy Forward. That's how I
got my tough for Martin. Tommy, Tommy, you don't want
to show up man. And we were talking on the
set of a Class Act and I was like, man,
don't I got my sad. Call this acting and showing
for this, this role in this movie called I Love
You definite said what he said? Man, it was me, man,
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it's because I was doing uh Hall of Nights. Yeah,
River Phoenix died, um drug man in that club. What's
the name of that club? The Viper the Viper Room.
What kind of dude was he? Though? And I was surprise, brother,
because the dude we was eating doing a scene eating
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a pizza and he was eating he was picking off
the veggies man eating because he was a vegetarian. It
was vegan, so he eating the vegetables. I'm like, how
this dude, you know, eating vegetables but you know he
oh on drugs. That's why I couldn't believe that, Like wow,
because everybody got their own vices that story. So it's
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like I know I got because I never drank in
my life. Man, never had a drink in my life,
never smoked in my life. But I got that that
weakness with that tweets born it's my problem. It calls
me never smoked, We never had a drink. Can't say
high taste, man, but I can tell you how bluebearrel tastes. Baby. Yeah,
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so straight up down an ice cream then to tell
us that story about when Mohammed Ali for the second
time when he was in l A. Oh my goodness.
So I had a I had a doctor that I
had surgery um signed surgery. And it was my last
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visit of five for one of the first business I
saw a picture on the wall, uh that my doctor
had with Muhammad Ali, and I said, you know, told
him my story of how I met him when I
was young, and he and I showed him a picture
that I had with Muhammed Ali, and he was like
to hold onto this, to this picture, So I gave
him a copy of it. And my last visit in
the doctor's chair, doctor all of my nose and all
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of a sudden the door swings open and Muhammed Ali
walks in. Yes, yes, he bought no knock, no nothing,
He just walks in. And this was close to before
he died, so he was you know, I couldn't really
speak very well, but opened the door and my doctor said,
do you remember this this young lady. And he looked
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at me and he smiled so big, and he was
like beautiful. Just I think he was thinking more of
the experience, you know that we had when I was
when I was a kid, when we were glued to
the hip. It was. It was one of the greatest
experiences of my life. I didn't know that, Yeah, greatest.
I meant Mohammed Alien had to share in the hotel
in the university. I ain't met No Mohammed in university
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on me so hard because I met the champ. But
the champion told b W he looked like Joe Fraser
and he got in that boxing stand. Yeah, yeah did.
And Ali had so many moments like that. If you go,
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he just walks into a room and surprised people. But
the idea that he had planned, you know, he wasn't
feeling well, he wasn't at his best, and he's still
time to come to that office and to see me.
It was, it was, you know, it was. That was
a surreal moment as well. One of the things I
wanted I want to say though some people have been
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asking about rich people's business. You know, how how does
Reggie come into the full I have a business, but
this is again the business of Reginald runs himself as
a business, and so he has and he does it flawlessly.
He doesn't have an assistant he's on the road Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
(52:41):
and he runs his own business completely and he um,
he does it well. And he's grown. He's on he
does sometimes two shows a day, and he's grown. Um,
he's organized. Um, he can tell you anything about his business.
He has a lot to share about the industry. UM.
So I think just just know when you come to
(53:02):
our podcast, when you when you um come tune in,
you're gonna learn a lot about a lot. You know,
You're going to be able to see things from different perspectives,
and then you'll tell us what you want to know.
The goal for us is to go inside of various businesses.
We want to take you along a journey. We want
to show you show people regular people doing um jobs
(53:24):
that we don't talk about a lot. You know. We
want to take you and show you minority business owners
that own car dealerships successfully. Um. You know. We just
want just jobs, things that people do that don't get
a lot of play but are very lucrative for minorities.
You have to understand in the US, seventy percent of
small businesses, which is anything under I think it's forty million,
(53:46):
is considered a small business. Is um Caucasian driven everything.
I think black folks are at about six point six percent,
Asians are at six point two percent, and Hispanics I
think are about a team point of the small business
pathe So we need to figure out how we elevate
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and go to the next level and make sure that
we are growing our own percentages in our numbers in
different ways. So that's what we want to do. Yeah,
we an Asian number is a little skewed because they
have a much smaller population than we do. So we
should have a higher number. Yea, we should have because
(54:28):
we represent a much larger demographic. Yeah. Yeah, well that's
that's gonna be Uh, that's that's gonna be very beneficial.
That's what we try to do on this podcast is
basically give people information and instructions they have to navigate
through this wild, crazy, beautiful world. Yeah, and it's been
very beautiful sitting here with you guys, uh, sucking up
(54:51):
game and learning a little bit more about your lives.
I thought I knew you. I guess you've still got
some more secrets, but keep seeing. But it's it's definitely
good man about you. Dana just talked about you all
and not just talking mc gual raid best friend. Nobody
(55:14):
teases me. Nobody teases me like him. Girl, you don't
have a forehead, you got you got an eight head?
Scared about that? Ye? Not clouds me. I'm glad to
have a thick skin. Please please, I would that, man.
I would love everybody to to join in and check
(55:35):
us out to Instagram. Please come follow us Instagram Rich
People's Business podcast where all the socials TikTok. Come join
us and we'll keep you posted. We're gonna we're gonna
jump off probably the first quarter of the year, but
we'll keep you posted. You come follow us. Reggie is
your your hand over for TikTok Instagram? Your hand man
(55:57):
Underscore feel Flow? Yeah yeah, Danna Haley, what's your what's
the business? I g oh Steral Marketing, Stera Marketing, and
we're also launching the bot box. And let me tell
you something. I have bought a number of items from
(56:18):
Steral Marketing, and uh, they do a very good job.
Quality products, quality, packaging, quality service. Quality. Now, yeah, used
to be chicken change, but NIC's nice, not even when
she's small. Did really were carrying them bad boys to man? Yeah?
(56:41):
I didn't play. I can. I have tell on one
little story. So when I first worked started working with Honda,
I had this little apartment stuff in the garage. Like
Reggie said, they said, oh, we're gonna come to a walkthrough.
We want to do a site visits. I was saying, oh,
it was just me. So the lady driving up to
the to the site visits, She's like, what are we
gonna do when we get there? And I'm thinking, you're
gonna walk in, you gonna turn around, and you're gonna
(57:03):
go back out. And so she gets to the apartment
and she steps through the door and she says, oh,
ships And I said good And she said, you've been
working with us all this time, and it had been
about four months. He said, I thought you were a
(57:23):
multimillion dollar company. She said, you're so responsive, you know,
you answer the phone every time. And she said everything
is above top quality. She said, if you may, if
you made me feel like that with just what you've
done with this little apartment, she said, I will help
you grow with Honda. And that lady was amazing. She
was true to her word. Yeah, that's it, that's it
(57:46):
you got all about. That's what it's all about. You
gotta fight. You can do it even if you don't
have any money. You gotta fight. It'll come. That's right. Really, Uh,
what's the tour looked like? Yeah? Man, my first show
back is June January tenth. I got to go to Germany, Man,
I do something over there for the troops, and then
I go to Jamaica. So those are two first two
(58:08):
out the gate. Yeah, that's live. That's perfectly. I'm trying
to convince will go on this farewell tour. Man, that
would be so dope right there, boy, Yeah, that would
be so dope right down. I like it. Call me,
call me when you open right here, I'm gonna come
(58:31):
out on tour with us incorrigible. Okay, okay, all right,
well again, thank you all for coming on and can't
wait to see y'all blow up and y'all back on
the show and then you guys like we see what
we did with it. Yeah, you know that'd be beautiful
to see. Drive we can pull up in a couple
(58:52):
of may backs for y'all. It's our laws. We're finna
get right now. Right Well, if we at these icons,
you know, hey, where else can we go with? You
just make sure man, when y'all put up in those
made decks that you have some sandwiches and I'm gonna
have a whole lot of serve with butter off on
(59:12):
him and some sprinkles. It's gonna be what's up as
that times it's time to go. We ain't got no mo,
no mo, no mo talk. This episode was produced by
A King and brought to you by The Black Effect
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