December 13, 2024 • 46 mins
This episode is a replay when Tamika and Mysonne addressed the Carlee Russell kidnapping hoax, and their true feelings towards it. Moreover, they made sure to let their listeners know that they wouldn't change anything they did to try to get a young woman back home. Next, they spoke to two black entreprueners Jamal Anderson the founder of engagement platform "Fanmire" and Arthur Thomas who spoke about building their company from the bottom.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
What's up family, It's your girl to meek A D.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Mallory and it's your boy Might song the Gentleman.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
And we are your host of street Politicians, the PA
and politics.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Me.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
When I hear us.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Talking saying street politicians, I keep wondering when we're gonna
announce our new name. I thought, we we we you know,
we didn't let the people vote. We should do the
people choice.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
On the names. We should we should do that. We
should do the people's choice. Actually I like that, I do,
so let's do that.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I think because I came up with it, I kind
of have like an affinity to the name.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
But also I also understand evolution, and I did too.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
It was me that came up with Yes, I I did.
Oh my gosh, Okay, so you came up.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
With it, of course I did.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
You forget you did not come anyway today because today
we are on a ti time crazy got our guest.
I'm not gonna get caught up on you, just like
I'm not going to stay caught up on Carly Russell
for the rest of my life, because Lord have mercy.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
People are still It's days and days and days later, and.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
They're not gonna just and and and you know what
someone said to me or said They didn't say it
to me, they wrote in the comments section of one
thing or the other.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Either the Shade Room reposted my.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Comments on the situation when it first happened right after
the press conference last week, and it was either there
or on my page where someone said, it's so crazy
that people want us to just move on and be
more mad at us for being mad at Carly than
we are than they are at Carly. So I don't
know if they were talking to me, but I know
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that the fact that it came up on my feed
means it was in some of those comment sessions. And
I was thinking, I don't think anybody is telling people
to move on. I know I haven't said that. I
think there's a whole lot of discovery and deep dives
and discussion that needs to be had, So you know,
I'm not I wouldn't say that. I definitely definitely don't
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think that people should just move on. I think that
people have the right to go through all different types
of emotions. There's some grief, there's some anger, there's frustration,
there's disappointment.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
There's a lot.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Of things that I think people have the right to feel,
and I think people have the right to call for accountability.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
No, no, I agree.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
You know what I'm saying, And my thing is this,
I'm not mad at y'all being mad at the situation.
I'm not mad at you being mad because you know
there's a possibility that the lady lie.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I wouldn't. I'm not angry at that.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
I'm confused with why people are mad at other people
who have good hearts and good natures for trying to
save somebody's life that they thought was in trouble, Like
because you, because you you're overly skeptical, and if you
would because the thing is, if you if the people
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who were saying she was lying was wrong and she
would have died, I could have been okay with that.
You're to say what I'm saying, because what's the worst
of her, Well, the worst. When I looked at both
case scenarios, I said to myself, if this is not
the truth, the worst case scenario is we find out
it's not the truth, nobody dies. If somebody is done
something illegal, they go to jail.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Cool.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
But the worst case scenario, if I'm wrong for not
believing or trying to find out if something happened to
this woman that she could lose her life, and that wasn't.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I mean, the trade off for me was easy.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
It's like, okay, now, whatever colleagues issues is, whatever the
problem is, whatever her the legal ramifications is for whatever,
if they are. You know, those are things that she
kind of deal with. But me, on my heart, I
did the right thing, and I would do it every
time every time I see in the situation where women
was you know, quote unquote supposedly abducted, nobody knew who
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she was, and people were trying to find it. I
would lend my voice in my platform every time to
try to find out where she is without question.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
And I said, and I said every time that I can, right,
because I want to be honest that none of us
are going to show up the right way every time.
And I saw Teslin figure out our girl from a
straight shot, no chaser talking about how it's classism as well, right,
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because there are a lot of people who are missing
that never get the type of attention that Carly Russell received.
And a part of the reason why she got that
attention was because her status, her parents' status, they were
able to reach people who reached people who took it
to a high level. So it wasn't really on the
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news at all until Star Jones contacted you know, different
people in the media. And I know she did it
because she was we was on textreads and she was like, Okay,
they're gonna running on CNN at this time in that
time and this and that, because she's got those relationships.
I mean, we know who Star Jones is and so
if you don't look her up and so that helped.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
But what I will say is.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
That from our perspective, Breonna Taylor didn't have that type
of profile.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
She didn't have that type of profile.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
And there's other cases that we worked on where they
did not have those types of profiles or they didn't
she didn't come from a family that was you know, sorority.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Members and whatever.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I don't know anything about what this family has, but
just based upon what I'm able to gather, the relationships
that she had helped them to get this story going
the way that it did. In a situation with Brianna,
it took two months. And so I do agree with
Tesla's point that based upon where you sit in life
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sometimes and circumstances because it's looking for a child on
the side of the road and blah blah blah, and
then you go missing. That would make people respond quicker.
And Breonna Taylor's case, there was a drug dealer boyfriend
and they were trying their best to make it the
worst story ever, and as a result, people kind of
turned a blind eye, really didn't know about it. The
media didn't cover it, and it took people like Ben
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Crump and I'll needed Baker and Sam Agyar and the
local community and all of us to get together and
bring it to life. So I think to you know,
those are conversations we have to have that we can't
just we can't stop at Carly Russell. But we also
have to think about what are the things that block
us or stop us from engaging in these situations, and
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then how do we use the same power for the
hundreds of thousands of people who are harmed, missing, whatever
in different ways, the kidnappings, the children that are missing
in Ohio, the people being killed by police. And it
takes me to the topic of right now, what we
should be talking about all this legislative shit that's happening.
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Because I understand that people are so worn out and
we say it all the time because we want to
acknowledge that folks feel tired. They feel tired, they feel like,
you know, it's just too much of the same thing.
Keep on having a conversation about the legislators and this
and that. But this stuff is really, really, really really serious.
And the only point that I would make is that,
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you know, first of all, let me just read what
happened in Florida last week. Very simple thing that happened
in Florida last week, and it was going on at
the same time as the Carly Russell discovery or uncovering
What's happening. So the Florida Board of Education approves several
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new controversial laws passed by the legislature and signed by
Governor Ron DeSantis. Several Democratic state lawmakers attended the board
meetings on Wednesday, and each disagreed with the standards.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
So all of this shit that people.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Arguing with us about political sides, and they all ain't nothing.
One group was pushing for these laws, the other group
disagreed with it and tried to fight it.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Okay, they took particular issue.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
With one instructional change that includes how slaves developed skills,
skills which in some instances could be applied for their
personal benefit. So basically, what they're doing is changing the
way that history is told.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Now.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I know y'all say, well, people need to tell a
history to their children, that's not the point. You need
to do all that, but your kids should still not
be going to a.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
School to the public get to the public to the public.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
School that is teaching them that being enslaved meant that
you were able to develop skills for later on in life.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
And some people just don't know.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
To Mika, some of the parents don't Some of the
parents are the reality situations. What I realized was my
I didn't mean to cut you off, no, please. What
I realized with my parents, my grandparents, my grandparents, they
sacrifice so that we can have a better education in them, right,
they sacrificed. They weren't as aware of our history. They
didn't know all those things. I remember coming home with
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lessons and teaching it to my grandmother and telling her.
She was like, I didn't know that, And I would
teach her things and she wanted to learn, but her
job was, you know, I'm gona make sure that your
mother has a better education. And me and my mother
told us to make sure I have education in her.
Sometimes we don't know the things. So while we while
our parents were working hard and putting a a position
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to be able to go to school and not have
to worry about if we starve or if we don't
have clothes on our backs, you know, the schools that
say that we go to should be teaching us the
proper curriculum. And that's the bottom mind. It's not even
though of course it would be ideal if every parent
was able to teach you know, African history and African
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American history to their children and be accurate upon it.
But that's not the reality. And we shouldn't have to.
You know, we should want to if we're able to,
but we shouldn't have to. We shouldn't be able to
go to schools and get the proper education.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
And gactually schools that are paid for by our tax.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
The public schools.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yes, But can I say one thing though, and this
is my thought of the day today as we get
ready to and you know, we were supposed to talk
about Daniel Cameron, and I guess we need to probably
do a live or something to really break that down.
I just before I get to my thought of the day.
I want to encourage everybody. You already said what you said,
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so let's just wrap that up and make the point
that even though yes, we absolutely and I disagree with you,
I don't think it's that we shouldn't have to. We
should want to, We should have no, we should absolutely
make it a one hundred percent demand that in our
homes we teach our.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Children history the right way.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
They're never gonna teach it exactly as it needs to
be told for the benefit of our children and our
communities and for our well being and our understanding and.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
For their well being. They're never gonna do that.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
But they should not be allowed legislatively to pass laws
that erase our history and their history. They should be
exposed to and it is not right, and we should
not sit by and say, well, I don't care, and
allow it to happen. Because no matter what you teach
your children at home, if they go somewhere else every
single day and spend more time in that place than
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they do at home with their parents and they're being
taught something different, it conflicts what you're telling them, and
that is not okay. You pay taxes, The taxes should
be spent to do the right job. So we need
to first of all put that to this side. On
the other side, right, this is the Daniel Cameron story,
y'all know, We talk about it all the time.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Y'all know the deal.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
This is the Attorney General of Kentucky and what he
did to Brianna Taylor's family where he refused to prosecute
those officers. The jurors came forward and said that they
were never presented with charges for Brianna Taylor's killers, and
that if they hadn't been presented with the charges, they
would have indicted them because they believed that what those
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officers did was wrong. He did nothing. He only got
an indictment for the wall and the potential for the
bullets that went through a wall to harm other people,
and nothing for a dead woman nor a young man
whose life has been destroyed forever, which is Kenny Walker.
So we know that we know that that's what the
Attorney General's done. We know that his relationship with Mitch
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McConnell and his status as a very high ranking Republican.
He is a well liked Republican in the state of Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
He has a twelve point plan that includes.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Drug offenders being getting the death penalty. This is what
he's running on. This is his platform. He wants to
get rid of the Civilian Complaint Review Board so that
there is no recourse, no mechanism for being able to
challenge police officers and hold them accountable when they when
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they when I want to say when they assault, but
that's not the right word because it's not just assault.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
It's also just illegal behavior.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
In general, the way that they treat people in communities.
So when they are wrong, when they are God what
I don't know. I want to because I keep going
to violent part, but I have to always remind myself
that it's not always just violence. Sometimes it's harassment in
communities and people are able to report what police officers
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have done. And he wants to get rid of the
Civilian Complaint Review Board, which people fought for to make
sure that we had a mechanism for accountability within policing. Okay,
he's talking about centering police and now he's running for governor.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
We need your help.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
We are going to fight Daniel Cameron tooth and nail,
and in order to fight him, we are asking you.
I know, it's a lot fifty dollars for a T shirt.
You gotta be kidding me. The T shirt on the
front set has a beautiful picture of Brionna Taylor.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
It's the shirt that we wore when we wore when
we went.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
To the Beyonce concert or the Renaissance tour with forty
of our people, protesters and lawyers and others who've been
involved in the Brionna Taylor movement. And we are asking
you to spend fifty dollars to buy yourself and everybody
in your family stretch as far as you can, and
a T shirt on until Freedom's website. Right now, you
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go to until freedom dot com and purchase a T shirt.
We need to sell ten thousand T shirts at fifty
dollars so that we can pay for our office space
in Louisville, Kentucky and in Lexington, Kentucky, hire our staff
and put people to work to fight this man and
not allow him to be rewarded to go from attorney
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general to governor. Because he becomes governor, he can become president.
So we have to put a stop to it. So
I'm gonna let you respond to that, but I just
want to give you my thought of the day and
then you take us out and take us to our guests. Okay,
here's my thought of the day.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
It's a damn lie.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
So, first of all, it's one thing to try to
change history and try to skew it where it sounds
better and it's softer. So you don't want to say
that these people were brutally beaten, they were murdered, they
were rates, they were robbed from their homeland. It is
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absolutely one hundred percent alive. Now you can try to
change history so it sounds better, so it feels better,
so that people don't understand that the Africans who were
robbed and and stolen and brought to America under freaking
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the worst atrocity that this country has ever or that
the Europeans have ever committed in order to create this
nation that we're in, that they.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Stole from another group of people. So that that's the history.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
That's the history, and you could try to change it
to make it sound softer so it feels better, and
so people will not take with them your history when
they're voting, when they're spending their money, and when they
are just living in their everyday lives and have to
make decisions. Understand the devil that exists within some of
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those who are still walking among us. So you can
try to change it, but then you're a damn liar
because you sit there and say, and this new Florida,
these legislative items have been put in place to make
it seem like, from our history perspective, when we got
here to America, we learned skills. That's a damn lie.
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We already had the skills when we got here. That's
why you came to get us. Because the Europeans were
among the people in Africa. They were on the continent,
and they learned that we were already some of the
most skillful people in the world. There was nobody anywhere
else that was more skillful than us as Africans.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
These that was one of the reasons why they chose
Africans as sleet. Absolutely, they realized how talented, durable all
the things in the world.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Right, we were not just talented, but we also could
stay in the sun for longer than any other group
of people. And so they found us to be a commodity.
We was a hot commodity. Don't you let anybody tell
you that when we got here we developed skills. No,
we bought our skills here. We bought skills that the
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Europeans didn't have. They didn't have the skills to build
their own white house, to build their own monuments, to
build their own society. They did not even have the
skills to be a civilized people. We were the ones.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Who had the skill set, who had.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
The ability to even raise their babies and feed their children.
That was us, okay, that was Africans who were robbed
of our homeland, our culture, everything everything about us, our names.
They took everything and they stripped us down so that
they could bring here.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
So bring us here.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
And use the skills that we already had. We were
already carpenters. We were all refreshed. What are you talking about?
First of all, if you go into Egypt and look
at the walls, we were writing.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
We were already writing.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
When you think about how TV shows were made, if
you look at the cinema and how all those things happened,
where you see an image and another image and another
image and another image and it tells a full story.
That's on the walls in the damn pyramids and inside
of the different tombs and whatnot. In Egypt, in Africa,
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it's already there. So we had the skills. We built
things that the world can't even imagine, that you would
never have been able to And we're still doing it now.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
We ain't land on Plymouth rock. Plymouth Rock landed on us.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
I'm just saying it's a lie. It's not just it's
not just distorted. It's a flat line that we had
to learn those skills. No, we were the farmers, we
were the carpenters, We raised the children, We were the builders.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
We did the cooking. We found things in the.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Gardens and out in the wild that they didn't even
know existed, to create the food that we all still
eat right.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Now, that's a fact.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
I mean, we've contributed so much to American civilization, you know,
so to for Florida to even come up with this
stupid ass you know, laws and legislation they're trying to
pass in these schools, it's it's actually just disrespectful, you know.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
And and I just say to myself, we realized this America,
you know, this is this is what they've done.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
They've they've done so many atrocities to so many different people,
but black people being the most, and continue to compound
those atrocities by trying to erase the history of those
atrocity these and not reckon with that history, you know,
and not be honest.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
About that history. It's just just so disrespectful to me.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
The thing about it is that it's not just disrespectful,
it's criminal because it's coming from elected officials, right, And
we better, we better, we better Carly that because we're
busy worrying about h that's we better car Lead that.
You're us what a lie can do, and a lie
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can do great damage, and it has done great damage.
But if you think that Carly's lie is worse than
the lie that they're trying to tell to the people
of the whole state of Florida and across this world, no, sir, no,
it ain't the same.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Do you be mad at you?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Especially?
Speaker 4 (21:48):
My thing is this, Especially if you're somebody who supported her,
and you know you you were actually scared, praying for her,
you know, trying to reach out, utilizing your platforms to
speak up for her, and then you find this out,
you have no right. You have every right, I mean,
to be disappointed, you know, and to say that you
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know what she did was wrong because you actually supported
the person but those of you who just wanted to
say I told you, and I ain't never believe that anyway,
and just want to ask you to the fire, like
your opinion doesn't really matter, you know what I'm saying,
because the reality is you never support her anyway, So
she doesn't care about or nobody should care about what
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you think about somebody when you never supported them. If
you supported Carli, you didn't support You supported a woman
you didn't know, Carley.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
You know what I'm saying. You supported a black woman
that you felt was.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
In need, that life was in jeopardy, and that's something
that you would probably do every time, and you should
do every time. So to put it all on Carly,
it's like, no, I supported a woman, a black woman,
who I thought was abducted, and there was no evidence
that that time that suggested anything else, you know. So
what I did was utilize my voice platform whatever I
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had to amplify that.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
And I'm not going to be angry about that.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
I'm not going to you know, I'm not even gonna
let her take my joy or take because it just
shows me the individual I am. You know, it shows
my own character, So I can't focus I wish her
the best. I hope, you know, whatever help she needs,
she receives it. You know, whatever time she has, she reflects.
It reflects on what's going on here. And you know,
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and if what they say is true, then you know,
at some point this needs to be some level accountability.
But it's not my job to say what that is.
But I think we have to definitely make sure that
people know that we can't play with serious things like this.
This is not one of those things.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
So I could have stayed on those topics. I mean,
like I said, I have so much more to talk about.
You know, I got a lot to talk about. But
we during this summer right here, we are doing our
work and trying to find ways to celebrate the culture
and enjoy ourselves. And these next two individuals that's coming up,
I mean, they do more than make people enjoy themselves,
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but they certainly.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Have been helping us enjoy ourselves.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
So I'm excited to bring out two new friends to
the Two Street Politicians today. You know, I love when
I find black people, especially black men. You know, this
show we cover a lot of black women. I have
to give it to you that you are very, very
gracious with making sure black women get the proper representation
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and time on Street Politicians. But whenever I find and
whatever we are able to bring forth black men that
are doing powerful things and helping to transform people's life,
their energy, their time, and to lend themselves to the culture,
I get really excited about it.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
So let me.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Introduce these two gentlemen, these too young black men. First
of all, we have the founder of Fan Meyer, which
you all are about to learn all about this company,
Fan Meyer, and his name is Jamel Anderson, so thank
you for joining Street Politicians. And then there's author Thomason,
who is from the Bronx where I currently live, and
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you kind of from the Bronx, I guess, I mean.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
I think from Harlem.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Okay, So Jamel and Ire, you know we're together more
than the Bronx people. But this is a gentleman who
went from being a marine all the way to the
chief branding officer at Fan Meyers. So we're about to
figure out, like how do you go from that to that?
What's the transition? And I guess the best way to
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kick it off is for Jamail, first of all, for
you to tell us why did you start this company
and what is Fan Meyer.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Thank y'all so much for joining Street Politicians.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Thank you, thanks guys for having us. And you know,
I'm always excited to talk about famire. The name represents
a fan, admirer and a favorite whatever, right. I grew
up a big time sports fan and I loved my
Next Giants, and I had the opportunity to stick my
toe in the concert business. I was unsuccessful to fund
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major tours and it was like a lot of one offs,
but nothing was short of missing in terms of excitement
and sellouts to a lot of these shows. And it
was one in particular, it was a little Wayne Tour
when he was first coming home. That tour went on
to gross forty six million, and I was like, wait
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a minute, the Aions and the it was back then,
the Meadowlands and the Garden, it was another arena. All
of these shows sold out like in two days, in
like five venues. So I asked myself, way back then,
how can you connect that energy around what fans have
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for the things that they love in a digital way.
So we fast forward a few years later. A friend
of mine was doing a commercial in MSG and he
was the silhouette for the top fiftieth Moments Ali Moe
from Harlem. He was a silhouette for the Top fiftieth
fifty Greatest Moments in MSG. Then I had all access
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pads in there, and I'm like, wow, this is what
John Starks do with at, this is what Patrick Ewing
is at every night. And I said, I can imagine
people want to experience what it's like in these arenas
after the game, after the show. So I said, wait
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a minute, I need to do some research and see
if anything like this exists. And back then it didn't, right, So,
you know, one thing led to another, but that energy
never left me. I galvanized the team. We did some
research and development for about two years. I built some
versions of it that didn't work. So for me, connection
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and bringing people together was something I was always passionate about.
So the concept kind of fit my personality and me
and already known each other for over twenty years now
and we've had success at things on both sides of life,
and our friendship maintained throughout that. So I built this thing,
(28:38):
and there were versions of it that you know, we
could have made better. I made it Wes Seth where
I was you know, invited to do capstone projects, and
if these kids would select family as a project didn't
work on, they would pick us. And I kind of
knew when I went there one year and we would selected.
I think I was in a pool with DocuSign and
(28:59):
to it. So when these kids picked this project to
work on, I kind of knew from there, like, you know,
we need to finish this thing out. And that's that's
kind of how it all came together.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Wow, So that's amazing. How long has fan might have
been in business?
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Well, I had the concept a little over ten years ago,
but what I would say is right during the pandemic,
it was it was only fans and myself and a
few others out there that that was still dormant. Then
only fans took off. So I had the idea for
ten years, but I would say about three years ago
(29:38):
is when it all started to come together.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
You said something I think is important.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
You said, first it didn't work and you had some
asks that it just wasn't it wasn't right. So I
think that's important because a lot of people they feel
like as soon as they do something, it's supposed to
just pop immediately. But you're you know, you're an example
of how it takes time.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
Yeah, listen, technology concept and idea it never works right
you just at the present moment of where you are,
it's just going right because it always can be enhanced
and anything that you're doing around connecting is always going
to take more effort.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
Right.
Speaker 5 (30:21):
So for me, yes, a lot of those versions within
the technology, it felt, the concept wasn't the concept wasn't clean.
So you know, it felt I felt, and I continue
to fail. But for me, it's about failing forward. So
you know, it takes time. I mean, I'm talking about
I'm twelve years in right, so this is not overnight.
(30:44):
You only can lose it overnight, right, but we constantly
stand at it and you know, so for me, it
just takes tom and we like where we are today.
It's a lot of energy around what we're doing. We're
starting to meet decent people, the relationships are for going
into place. I know later on in the show you'll
probably ask me about the whole journey around VCS. And
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we know that one percent of black founders get funded,
so it's an uphill battle to say the least, But
I don't have an option but to do it, you know,
So it motivates you, so, Arthur, what.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
You know, I know this is your friend, you know,
just watching your transition being from the VX, you know,
shout out to the VX and you know, being in
the Marines then going into construction. Like, what what made
you shift and say I want to be a part
of this? What was it?
Speaker 7 (31:38):
Well, like he said, we've been friends for like twenty years, right,
and we've done many things together right on all walks
of life.
Speaker 6 (31:47):
Mel has always been the passionate one.
Speaker 7 (31:49):
So when he started fan Meier, obviously me coming out
of the military, and then I started in the Union.
I'm working Local seventy nine. And then I started my
own business. I started my own construct company, and obviously
that's what keeps the lights on, That's how I support myself.
But Mel's been super, super passionate about family and us
being so so close to friends. We started spending a
(32:11):
lot of time together and I started learning more and
more about it and it wasn't just his passion.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
I realized, like this is this is real.
Speaker 7 (32:18):
And I'm more of like the go getter, like I'm outside,
I'm I'm gonna figure it out, Like he's the brains
he figured he he puts all the pieces together.
Speaker 6 (32:26):
But then I'm gonna go out and make it happen.
Speaker 7 (32:27):
So as we start to spend more time together and
talk about it, I just jumped on full fledged. And
it's been like we've been gaining so much traction together,
you know, like we every day we have meetings and
we sit down and we figure out how to bring value,
how to move forward.
Speaker 6 (32:45):
And it's him.
Speaker 7 (32:46):
It's the passion that he has, and I just pretty
much follow mail, follow his lead and regards.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Give us like a complete understanding of what you do
as family, like exactly what you do.
Speaker 6 (32:57):
How I were best describe it is, I'm more like
the glue. Right.
Speaker 7 (33:01):
So we have certain we have a team that goes
out and they start vetting potential influences, potential creators, potential ambassadors.
Right and obviously with having all the moving parts, they
would come to me after that and the vetting process
will start. Right, We'll figure out if this person is
a good fit, if this person works, So putting pretty
(33:23):
much all the pieces together and then making sure it
works before we on board anybody, before we figure out
if this is a relationship that would that would potentially work.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Who have you guys worked with in the past.
Speaker 7 (33:35):
Yeah, we have Davits on the platform. We have Peter
Guns on the on the platform.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
B X, that's right, BX.
Speaker 6 (33:44):
We have Fred I don't know if familiar.
Speaker 7 (33:46):
Fred Degard has a brother, fat boy guy all right,
on the platform. Now heavy this is what we're doing.
I'm saying it's X heavy man. So yeah, we have
so many. We have a bunch of smaller influences that
we've been talking to, a bunch of models, stylists, Like
(34:08):
anyone could be an influencer, right, anyone can have followers, right.
So this is where right now it's getting is getting busy,
where we're getting barrage with calls or potential influence. People
want to come on, but there's a vetting process because
on Fanmire there's no sex, no cyberbullion, no negativity.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
So there's a vetting process.
Speaker 7 (34:29):
Everybody's not gonna we can't We're not only fans, right,
We're not selling sex. So on, once they go through
the proper channels in the process, then we on board
them and then the rest is history.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
I want to ask, so, being a black own company,
is it hard for you to get certain opportunities and funding.
Speaker 5 (34:49):
What I would say. You know, I'm one to not
try to complain or use obvious adversities as a crutch, right,
But I think it's an understatement of is it hard? Right?
It's virtually impossible in a lot of cases. But I
(35:09):
feel fortunate in that I've been afforded a lot of
support through friends and family. So what I can say
is like funding this thing thus far has been just
everything for me, the wife, friends and family. So VC
money has been really a hurdle for myself.
Speaker 6 (35:28):
Right.
Speaker 5 (35:29):
So but what I will tell you is we presently
just secured it.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
Can you say, can you explain what VC means to
some of the audience, ain't going to know what it is?
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (35:38):
VC is venture capital, Right? Most projects are funded by
venture capitalists. Right, you go back ten years ago. You
can have a good idea on a napkin, and you
know somebody can write twenty thirty million dollars for you
to see if you can fulfill it. But what I've
learned in this space, not only does the concept have
(35:58):
to be right, you have to have a build. Then
you actually have to be scaling it before, at least
in my case, be considered to be funded. I can't
speak to anyone else's journey, but the work that I
did thus far with the support of the team. Man,
I don't understand why it's been as hard as it's been,
(36:19):
but it's been really hard. We haven't secured no VC
funding none.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
Well, so everything is just you guys just believing in
each other and investing.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
In yourself and friends and family. And what I tell
you is we just what I'm proud of this. We
just secured a brand partnership and sponsorship with the Brooklyn
Nets in New York Liberty that has tremendously validated and
infused some energy into us as a company. Our brand
(36:49):
credibility has went up like overnight. Right, And I was
listening when you was asking Artie, he's so authentic, Right, Well,
what do you do? He does a lot more than that. Right,
has strategically aligned every relationship that he humanly has to
line up to the goals and values to Fanily. Right,
(37:09):
And I would say we're fortunate even for this opportunity.
This came from audise background networking. We have more scheduled
interviews with high level influences. That's a result of a
lot of Audie's ability to connect so you know, we
(37:30):
just been really doing what we have to do to
leverage resources and network to stay afloat.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Well, I just want to say I appreciate you, guys.
I swear like I know. I feel like me and
Aldie used to hang out somewhere before.
Speaker 6 (37:41):
I know we know each other.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
I know we have I'm just I'm looking like this.
We definitely met and from the BX.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
But you know, I just I love I love watching
young black individuals just grime, you know, because a lot
of times that's not something that's celebrated in a big
is way. More when you grind right and you know
you're not giving anything and you're not looking for anything.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
I love the mindset you said, you don't want to look.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
You notice the obvious hurdles, but you don't want to
use it as a crutch because you're gonna grind regardless.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
What do you see, FAMI, in the next ten years?
What do you want? What do you vision?
Speaker 5 (38:18):
I like to look at it, guys. What will happen
in ten years? Right? And we'll continue to add value relationships.
My philosophy will always be to give more than I ask, right,
and I think will be the platform where genuine connection
(38:41):
is preferred to be used. One of the initiatives that
we got coming forth from a rebranded standpoint is to
become the preferred platform for HBCUs and I got a
lot of energy around what that's going to look like
for us. So in ten years, I think will be
a diverse community with the DNA of black creators created
(39:08):
a home for each other that opened itself up to
the world as well. So in ten years will be
a place that people are still saying they found genuine
and authentic connection in a responsible way.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
I love it, man, dude, I just want to ask,
does it get hard sometimes? Do you ever feel like
I don't know what I started just for?
Speaker 4 (39:29):
Or you always have this enthusias Because me, I'm gonna
be honest with you. You know a lot of you know,
I've tried so many different things. I started out in
music in basketball. Like when I started music, and when
I got locked up and I came home, it was frustrated,
Like a lot of things frustrated me. But then I
start I stopped the business part of it and then
(39:50):
started realizing just I love music, you know, and I
would do it for free.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
So that's how it is.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
And then when I transitioned into the space that I
am now in doing activism, it wasn't work for me,
you know. But sometimes even in this it's a little
frustrating because Breonna Taylor dies and you can't get the
officers arrested.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
You know.
Speaker 4 (40:12):
It is young people getting killed and arrested every day
for crimes they didn't commit, in all types of things,
and then trying to stop by.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
So sometimes it gets a little overwhelming.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
Do you ever feel like you get overwhelmed or you
feel like you're not progressing the way that you want to?
Speaker 5 (40:27):
Man, you hit a hit, you hit a nerve For
me with that, right, I'm always overwhelmed. Right, And a
lot of it stems from some of the things that
you just said. Right. I grew up in the old Harlem, right,
where all my friends' parents, who to mine, were either
alcoholics or alcoholics or on drugs. Right. So I grew
(40:48):
up in a generation where we pretty much raised ourselves. Right.
I didn't know what real I didn't know what community
looked like. I ain't I never been on a vacation
as a child, right. My expo to the world was limited,
and a lot of the things that happened in low
income community has a lot to do with lack of
(41:10):
lack of awareness and lack of resources. Right, And that's
not something that is a big surprise on a big scale.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Right.
Speaker 5 (41:18):
So when you start hearing about you can't lock a
cop up for something that he did, right, think about
the limited of resources that who used the word entrepreneur
twenty years ago?
Speaker 6 (41:29):
Right?
Speaker 5 (41:30):
It wasn't a word, was it. So for someone who
had a passion and drive to build something, did school
teach us you can build a business? Did school teach
us that you could you could own something or have
a Korean sports if either you were in some talented
and gifted program or you played ball, or you was locked,
you wasn't considered rap ball, or you were really bright.
(41:53):
But in the middle there with where was their room at?
So what drives me and keep me going is Jamel
the kid didn't have the support that Jamel the man
know he needs. Now I'm taking care of that kid
that wasn't treated right.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
But that's to keep me going.
Speaker 5 (42:13):
So yeah, I get discourage. It's it's it's an uphill
battle on roller skates. But you gotta have that energy,
You gotta have that passion because you gotta. You can't
get through it if you don't go through it right right.
Speaker 4 (42:25):
You got to go through it to get through it, man.
You know so I just want to say once again,
I commend you guys.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
Man.
Speaker 4 (42:31):
Let everybody know where they can find you, guys, how
they can support you, how to follow you, and just
keep up with you're going with.
Speaker 5 (42:37):
You got going on man, Thank you.
Speaker 7 (42:39):
Man.
Speaker 5 (42:39):
It starts with fan Maya that's f A N and
myr dot com. You can actually get us on Instagram
too at fan Mayer, f A N and my RI.
You can subscribe to be a part of our newsletters
to stay in tuned for what we're doing. And uh,
I'm just excited for this opportunity.
Speaker 6 (42:57):
This was great.
Speaker 5 (42:58):
Thank you and I look to forward to continue to
build with you guys.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
Definitely, man, I you forward to continue to build you.
Speaker 4 (43:05):
I just want to I want you to leave us
with It's a young boy from the BX.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
He's watching this right now.
Speaker 4 (43:11):
You know he's he wants to be successful and I
want you to give him some words of encouragement.
Speaker 2 (43:17):
What would you say to him?
Speaker 7 (43:18):
I would say, main thing is to stay focused, right,
like we talked about so many things today, so much
has happened and so much is going on in society.
Is stay focused, like we're trained, Like Jamel just said,
play ball or if you don't play ball or your rap,
you can't be successful.
Speaker 6 (43:36):
Stay focused.
Speaker 7 (43:37):
And if you stay focused and you put everything into it,
you can do whatever you want to do. I got
two boys, one twenty two, one sixteen, and I tell
him the same thing, like, stay for whatever you want
to do. I'm gonna support you. I'm not gonna steer
you in no direction. Whatever you feel is your passion,
whatever you want to do, I'm support you. So stay focused.
It's hard, it's gonna be a little harder for us,
but it's not impossible, right, And I think that's what
(43:59):
me and Jamel trying to show people, right that people
that look like you can make it happen.
Speaker 2 (44:04):
I hope y'all get it.
Speaker 4 (44:05):
Stay focused, because I tell my sons that every day, man,
you know, every day it's gonna be hard. It's nothing
that that's worth having, it's not gonna be worth going through.
You know, you're gonna go through a lot of stuff
if you're trying to really get somewhere to be successful.
So I want to appreciate y'all.
Speaker 2 (44:20):
Everybody.
Speaker 4 (44:21):
Shout out Jamel Anderson, founder of fan Mayer, and author Thomason.
I've been calling them audio all day, so that's what
I want to be calling you Audi man, like we've
been outside, Like we've been friends for forty years. So
it's Aladi now man, author Thomason, Chief Brandon officer at Famine.
Speaker 2 (44:39):
I appreciate you guys.
Speaker 4 (44:40):
You know, I look forward to working with you guys,
and I know in the next ten years y'all gonna
be the biggest thing, so keep it going.
Speaker 2 (44:47):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (44:48):
I appreciate you guys. Thanks.
Speaker 4 (44:55):
So I want to thank my guests, Jamel Anderson, the
founder of fan Mayer, off the time, the chief branding
officer of fam Mind for coming through today.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
I want to support these guys.
Speaker 4 (45:05):
You know, you could tell that they grinded and they
really believe in what they doing. You know, brand building
brands and connecting brands with influencers. It's just a dope
thing and is a fast growing industry right now, you know.
Speaker 2 (45:21):
So I love the passion in both of these guys. Man.
Speaker 4 (45:24):
Shout out to my co host Ms Timikid Mallory, who
just threw me a curveball, you know, and vanished. I
guess she had to go get her hair done and say,
you know how y'all women do. Y'all got shit to
do and we just got to figure it out because
y'all got to go.
Speaker 2 (45:38):
So shout out to her, everybody. I appreciate y'all.
Speaker 5 (45:42):
Man.
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Speaker 4 (00:15):
Me.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
When I hear us.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Talking saying street politicians, I keep wondering when we're gonna
announce our new name. I thought, we we we you know,
we didn't let the people vote. We should do the
people choice.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
On the names. We should we should do that. We
should do the people's choice. Actually I like that, I do,
so let's do that.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I think because I came up with it, I kind
of have like an affinity to the name.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
But also I also understand evolution, and I did too.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
It was me that came up with Yes, I I did.
Oh my gosh, Okay, so you came up.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
With it, of course I did.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
You forget you did not come anyway today because today
we are on a ti time crazy got our guest.
I'm not gonna get caught up on you, just like
I'm not going to stay caught up on Carly Russell
for the rest of my life, because Lord have mercy.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
People are still It's days and days and days later, and.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
They're not gonna just and and and you know what
someone said to me or said They didn't say it
to me, they wrote in the comments section of one
thing or the other.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Either the Shade Room reposted my.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Comments on the situation when it first happened right after
the press conference last week, and it was either there
or on my page where someone said, it's so crazy
that people want us to just move on and be
more mad at us for being mad at Carly than
we are than they are at Carly. So I don't
know if they were talking to me, but I know
(02:00):
that the fact that it came up on my feed
means it was in some of those comment sessions. And
I was thinking, I don't think anybody is telling people
to move on. I know I haven't said that. I
think there's a whole lot of discovery and deep dives
and discussion that needs to be had, So you know,
I'm not I wouldn't say that. I definitely definitely don't
(02:25):
think that people should just move on. I think that
people have the right to go through all different types
of emotions. There's some grief, there's some anger, there's frustration,
there's disappointment.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
There's a lot.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Of things that I think people have the right to feel,
and I think people have the right to call for accountability.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
No, no, I agree.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
You know what I'm saying, And my thing is this,
I'm not mad at y'all being mad at the situation.
I'm not mad at you being mad because you know
there's a possibility that the lady lie.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I wouldn't. I'm not angry at that.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
I'm confused with why people are mad at other people
who have good hearts and good natures for trying to
save somebody's life that they thought was in trouble, Like
because you, because you you're overly skeptical, and if you
would because the thing is, if you if the people
(03:20):
who were saying she was lying was wrong and she
would have died, I could have been okay with that.
You're to say what I'm saying, because what's the worst
of her, Well, the worst. When I looked at both
case scenarios, I said to myself, if this is not
the truth, the worst case scenario is we find out
it's not the truth, nobody dies. If somebody is done
something illegal, they go to jail.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Cool.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
But the worst case scenario, if I'm wrong for not
believing or trying to find out if something happened to
this woman that she could lose her life, and that wasn't.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I mean, the trade off for me was easy.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
It's like, okay, now, whatever colleagues issues is, whatever the
problem is, whatever her the legal ramifications is for whatever,
if they are. You know, those are things that she
kind of deal with. But me, on my heart, I
did the right thing, and I would do it every
time every time I see in the situation where women
was you know, quote unquote supposedly abducted, nobody knew who
(04:15):
she was, and people were trying to find it. I
would lend my voice in my platform every time to
try to find out where she is without question.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
And I said, and I said every time that I can, right,
because I want to be honest that none of us
are going to show up the right way every time.
And I saw Teslin figure out our girl from a
straight shot, no chaser talking about how it's classism as well, right,
(04:43):
because there are a lot of people who are missing
that never get the type of attention that Carly Russell received.
And a part of the reason why she got that
attention was because her status, her parents' status, they were
able to reach people who reached people who took it
to a high level. So it wasn't really on the
(05:05):
news at all until Star Jones contacted you know, different
people in the media. And I know she did it
because she was we was on textreads and she was like, Okay,
they're gonna running on CNN at this time in that
time and this and that, because she's got those relationships.
I mean, we know who Star Jones is and so
if you don't look her up and so that helped.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
But what I will say is.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
That from our perspective, Breonna Taylor didn't have that type
of profile.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
She didn't have that type of profile.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
And there's other cases that we worked on where they
did not have those types of profiles or they didn't
she didn't come from a family that was you know, sorority.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Members and whatever.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I don't know anything about what this family has, but
just based upon what I'm able to gather, the relationships
that she had helped them to get this story going
the way that it did. In a situation with Brianna,
it took two months. And so I do agree with
Tesla's point that based upon where you sit in life
(06:09):
sometimes and circumstances because it's looking for a child on
the side of the road and blah blah blah, and
then you go missing. That would make people respond quicker.
And Breonna Taylor's case, there was a drug dealer boyfriend
and they were trying their best to make it the
worst story ever, and as a result, people kind of
turned a blind eye, really didn't know about it. The
media didn't cover it, and it took people like Ben
(06:31):
Crump and I'll needed Baker and Sam Agyar and the
local community and all of us to get together and
bring it to life. So I think to you know,
those are conversations we have to have that we can't
just we can't stop at Carly Russell. But we also
have to think about what are the things that block
us or stop us from engaging in these situations, and
(06:53):
then how do we use the same power for the
hundreds of thousands of people who are harmed, missing, whatever
in different ways, the kidnappings, the children that are missing
in Ohio, the people being killed by police. And it
takes me to the topic of right now, what we
should be talking about all this legislative shit that's happening.
(07:17):
Because I understand that people are so worn out and
we say it all the time because we want to
acknowledge that folks feel tired. They feel tired, they feel like,
you know, it's just too much of the same thing.
Keep on having a conversation about the legislators and this
and that. But this stuff is really, really, really really serious.
And the only point that I would make is that,
(07:39):
you know, first of all, let me just read what
happened in Florida last week. Very simple thing that happened
in Florida last week, and it was going on at
the same time as the Carly Russell discovery or uncovering
What's happening. So the Florida Board of Education approves several
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new controversial laws passed by the legislature and signed by
Governor Ron DeSantis. Several Democratic state lawmakers attended the board
meetings on Wednesday, and each disagreed with the standards.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
So all of this shit that people.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Arguing with us about political sides, and they all ain't nothing.
One group was pushing for these laws, the other group
disagreed with it and tried to fight it.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Okay, they took particular issue.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
With one instructional change that includes how slaves developed skills,
skills which in some instances could be applied for their
personal benefit. So basically, what they're doing is changing the
way that history is told.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Now.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I know y'all say, well, people need to tell a
history to their children, that's not the point. You need
to do all that, but your kids should still not
be going to a.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
School to the public get to the public to the public.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
School that is teaching them that being enslaved meant that
you were able to develop skills for later on in life.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
And some people just don't know.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
To Mika, some of the parents don't Some of the
parents are the reality situations. What I realized was my
I didn't mean to cut you off, no, please. What
I realized with my parents, my grandparents, my grandparents, they
sacrifice so that we can have a better education in them, right,
they sacrificed. They weren't as aware of our history. They
didn't know all those things. I remember coming home with
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lessons and teaching it to my grandmother and telling her.
She was like, I didn't know that, And I would
teach her things and she wanted to learn, but her
job was, you know, I'm gona make sure that your
mother has a better education. And me and my mother
told us to make sure I have education in her.
Sometimes we don't know the things. So while we while
our parents were working hard and putting a a position
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to be able to go to school and not have
to worry about if we starve or if we don't
have clothes on our backs, you know, the schools that
say that we go to should be teaching us the
proper curriculum. And that's the bottom mind. It's not even
though of course it would be ideal if every parent
was able to teach you know, African history and African
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American history to their children and be accurate upon it.
But that's not the reality. And we shouldn't have to.
You know, we should want to if we're able to,
but we shouldn't have to. We shouldn't be able to
go to schools and get the proper education.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
And gactually schools that are paid for by our tax.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
The public schools.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yes, But can I say one thing though, and this
is my thought of the day today as we get
ready to and you know, we were supposed to talk
about Daniel Cameron, and I guess we need to probably
do a live or something to really break that down.
I just before I get to my thought of the day.
I want to encourage everybody. You already said what you said,
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so let's just wrap that up and make the point
that even though yes, we absolutely and I disagree with you,
I don't think it's that we shouldn't have to. We
should want to, We should have no, we should absolutely
make it a one hundred percent demand that in our
homes we teach our.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Children history the right way.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
They're never gonna teach it exactly as it needs to
be told for the benefit of our children and our
communities and for our well being and our understanding and.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
For their well being. They're never gonna do that.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
But they should not be allowed legislatively to pass laws
that erase our history and their history. They should be
exposed to and it is not right, and we should
not sit by and say, well, I don't care, and
allow it to happen. Because no matter what you teach
your children at home, if they go somewhere else every
single day and spend more time in that place than
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they do at home with their parents and they're being
taught something different, it conflicts what you're telling them, and
that is not okay. You pay taxes, The taxes should
be spent to do the right job. So we need
to first of all put that to this side. On
the other side, right, this is the Daniel Cameron story,
y'all know, We talk about it all the time.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Y'all know the deal.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
This is the Attorney General of Kentucky and what he
did to Brianna Taylor's family where he refused to prosecute
those officers. The jurors came forward and said that they
were never presented with charges for Brianna Taylor's killers, and
that if they hadn't been presented with the charges, they
would have indicted them because they believed that what those
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officers did was wrong. He did nothing. He only got
an indictment for the wall and the potential for the
bullets that went through a wall to harm other people,
and nothing for a dead woman nor a young man
whose life has been destroyed forever, which is Kenny Walker.
So we know that we know that that's what the
Attorney General's done. We know that his relationship with Mitch
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McConnell and his status as a very high ranking Republican.
He is a well liked Republican in the state of Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
He has a twelve point plan that includes.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Drug offenders being getting the death penalty. This is what
he's running on. This is his platform. He wants to
get rid of the Civilian Complaint Review Board so that
there is no recourse, no mechanism for being able to
challenge police officers and hold them accountable when they when
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they when I want to say when they assault, but
that's not the right word because it's not just assault.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
It's also just illegal behavior.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
In general, the way that they treat people in communities.
So when they are wrong, when they are God what
I don't know. I want to because I keep going
to violent part, but I have to always remind myself
that it's not always just violence. Sometimes it's harassment in
communities and people are able to report what police officers
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have done. And he wants to get rid of the
Civilian Complaint Review Board, which people fought for to make
sure that we had a mechanism for accountability within policing. Okay,
he's talking about centering police and now he's running for governor.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
We need your help.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
We are going to fight Daniel Cameron tooth and nail,
and in order to fight him, we are asking you.
I know, it's a lot fifty dollars for a T shirt.
You gotta be kidding me. The T shirt on the
front set has a beautiful picture of Brionna Taylor.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
It's the shirt that we wore when we wore when
we went.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
To the Beyonce concert or the Renaissance tour with forty
of our people, protesters and lawyers and others who've been
involved in the Brionna Taylor movement. And we are asking
you to spend fifty dollars to buy yourself and everybody
in your family stretch as far as you can, and
a T shirt on until Freedom's website. Right now, you
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go to until freedom dot com and purchase a T shirt.
We need to sell ten thousand T shirts at fifty
dollars so that we can pay for our office space
in Louisville, Kentucky and in Lexington, Kentucky, hire our staff
and put people to work to fight this man and
not allow him to be rewarded to go from attorney
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general to governor. Because he becomes governor, he can become president.
So we have to put a stop to it. So
I'm gonna let you respond to that, but I just
want to give you my thought of the day and
then you take us out and take us to our guests. Okay,
here's my thought of the day.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
It's a damn lie.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
So, first of all, it's one thing to try to
change history and try to skew it where it sounds
better and it's softer. So you don't want to say
that these people were brutally beaten, they were murdered, they
were rates, they were robbed from their homeland. It is
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absolutely one hundred percent alive. Now you can try to
change history so it sounds better, so it feels better,
so that people don't understand that the Africans who were
robbed and and stolen and brought to America under freaking
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the worst atrocity that this country has ever or that
the Europeans have ever committed in order to create this
nation that we're in, that they.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Stole from another group of people. So that that's the history.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
That's the history, and you could try to change it
to make it sound softer so it feels better, and
so people will not take with them your history when
they're voting, when they're spending their money, and when they
are just living in their everyday lives and have to
make decisions. Understand the devil that exists within some of
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those who are still walking among us. So you can
try to change it, but then you're a damn liar
because you sit there and say, and this new Florida,
these legislative items have been put in place to make
it seem like, from our history perspective, when we got
here to America, we learned skills. That's a damn lie.
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We already had the skills when we got here. That's
why you came to get us. Because the Europeans were
among the people in Africa. They were on the continent,
and they learned that we were already some of the
most skillful people in the world. There was nobody anywhere
else that was more skillful than us as Africans.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
These that was one of the reasons why they chose
Africans as sleet. Absolutely, they realized how talented, durable all
the things in the world.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Right, we were not just talented, but we also could
stay in the sun for longer than any other group
of people. And so they found us to be a commodity.
We was a hot commodity. Don't you let anybody tell
you that when we got here we developed skills. No,
we bought our skills here. We bought skills that the
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Europeans didn't have. They didn't have the skills to build
their own white house, to build their own monuments, to
build their own society. They did not even have the
skills to be a civilized people. We were the ones.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Who had the skill set, who had.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
The ability to even raise their babies and feed their children.
That was us, okay, that was Africans who were robbed
of our homeland, our culture, everything everything about us, our names.
They took everything and they stripped us down so that
they could bring here.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
So bring us here.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
And use the skills that we already had. We were
already carpenters. We were all refreshed. What are you talking about?
First of all, if you go into Egypt and look
at the walls, we were writing.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
We were already writing.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
When you think about how TV shows were made, if
you look at the cinema and how all those things happened,
where you see an image and another image and another
image and another image and it tells a full story.
That's on the walls in the damn pyramids and inside
of the different tombs and whatnot. In Egypt, in Africa,
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it's already there. So we had the skills. We built
things that the world can't even imagine, that you would
never have been able to And we're still doing it now.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
We ain't land on Plymouth rock. Plymouth Rock landed on us.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
I'm just saying it's a lie. It's not just it's
not just distorted. It's a flat line that we had
to learn those skills. No, we were the farmers, we
were the carpenters, We raised the children, We were the builders.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
We did the cooking. We found things in the.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Gardens and out in the wild that they didn't even
know existed, to create the food that we all still
eat right.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Now, that's a fact.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
I mean, we've contributed so much to American civilization, you know,
so to for Florida to even come up with this
stupid ass you know, laws and legislation they're trying to
pass in these schools, it's it's actually just disrespectful, you know.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
And and I just say to myself, we realized this America,
you know, this is this is what they've done.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
They've they've done so many atrocities to so many different people,
but black people being the most, and continue to compound
those atrocities by trying to erase the history of those
atrocity these and not reckon with that history, you know,
and not be honest.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
About that history. It's just just so disrespectful to me.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
The thing about it is that it's not just disrespectful,
it's criminal because it's coming from elected officials, right, And
we better, we better, we better Carly that because we're
busy worrying about h that's we better car Lead that.
You're us what a lie can do, and a lie
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can do great damage, and it has done great damage.
But if you think that Carly's lie is worse than
the lie that they're trying to tell to the people
of the whole state of Florida and across this world, no, sir, no,
it ain't the same.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Do you be mad at you?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Especially?
Speaker 4 (21:48):
My thing is this, Especially if you're somebody who supported her,
and you know you you were actually scared, praying for her,
you know, trying to reach out, utilizing your platforms to
speak up for her, and then you find this out,
you have no right. You have every right, I mean,
to be disappointed, you know, and to say that you
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know what she did was wrong because you actually supported
the person but those of you who just wanted to
say I told you, and I ain't never believe that anyway,
and just want to ask you to the fire, like
your opinion doesn't really matter, you know what I'm saying,
because the reality is you never support her anyway, So
she doesn't care about or nobody should care about what
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you think about somebody when you never supported them. If
you supported Carli, you didn't support You supported a woman
you didn't know, Carley.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
You know what I'm saying. You supported a black woman
that you felt was.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
In need, that life was in jeopardy, and that's something
that you would probably do every time, and you should
do every time. So to put it all on Carly,
it's like, no, I supported a woman, a black woman,
who I thought was abducted, and there was no evidence
that that time that suggested anything else, you know. So
what I did was utilize my voice platform whatever I
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had to amplify that.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
And I'm not going to be angry about that.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
I'm not going to you know, I'm not even gonna
let her take my joy or take because it just
shows me the individual I am. You know, it shows
my own character, So I can't focus I wish her
the best. I hope, you know, whatever help she needs,
she receives it. You know, whatever time she has, she reflects.
It reflects on what's going on here. And you know,
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and if what they say is true, then you know,
at some point this needs to be some level accountability.
But it's not my job to say what that is.
But I think we have to definitely make sure that
people know that we can't play with serious things like this.
This is not one of those things.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
So I could have stayed on those topics. I mean,
like I said, I have so much more to talk about.
You know, I got a lot to talk about. But
we during this summer right here, we are doing our
work and trying to find ways to celebrate the culture
and enjoy ourselves. And these next two individuals that's coming up,
I mean, they do more than make people enjoy themselves,
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but they certainly.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Have been helping us enjoy ourselves.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
So I'm excited to bring out two new friends to
the Two Street Politicians today. You know, I love when
I find black people, especially black men. You know, this
show we cover a lot of black women. I have
to give it to you that you are very, very
gracious with making sure black women get the proper representation
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and time on Street Politicians. But whenever I find and
whatever we are able to bring forth black men that
are doing powerful things and helping to transform people's life,
their energy, their time, and to lend themselves to the culture,
I get really excited about it.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
So let me.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Introduce these two gentlemen, these too young black men. First
of all, we have the founder of Fan Meyer, which
you all are about to learn all about this company,
Fan Meyer, and his name is Jamel Anderson, so thank
you for joining Street Politicians. And then there's author Thomason,
who is from the Bronx where I currently live, and
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you kind of from the Bronx, I guess, I mean.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
I think from Harlem.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Okay, So Jamel and Ire, you know we're together more
than the Bronx people. But this is a gentleman who
went from being a marine all the way to the
chief branding officer at Fan Meyers. So we're about to
figure out, like how do you go from that to that?
What's the transition? And I guess the best way to
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kick it off is for Jamail, first of all, for
you to tell us why did you start this company
and what is Fan Meyer.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Thank y'all so much for joining Street Politicians.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Thank you, thanks guys for having us. And you know,
I'm always excited to talk about famire. The name represents
a fan, admirer and a favorite whatever, right. I grew
up a big time sports fan and I loved my
Next Giants, and I had the opportunity to stick my
toe in the concert business. I was unsuccessful to fund
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major tours and it was like a lot of one offs,
but nothing was short of missing in terms of excitement
and sellouts to a lot of these shows. And it
was one in particular, it was a little Wayne Tour
when he was first coming home. That tour went on
to gross forty six million, and I was like, wait
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a minute, the Aions and the it was back then,
the Meadowlands and the Garden, it was another arena. All
of these shows sold out like in two days, in
like five venues. So I asked myself, way back then,
how can you connect that energy around what fans have
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for the things that they love in a digital way.
So we fast forward a few years later. A friend
of mine was doing a commercial in MSG and he
was the silhouette for the top fiftieth Moments Ali Moe
from Harlem. He was a silhouette for the Top fiftieth
fifty Greatest Moments in MSG. Then I had all access
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pads in there, and I'm like, wow, this is what
John Starks do with at, this is what Patrick Ewing
is at every night. And I said, I can imagine
people want to experience what it's like in these arenas
after the game, after the show. So I said, wait
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a minute, I need to do some research and see
if anything like this exists. And back then it didn't, right, So,
you know, one thing led to another, but that energy
never left me. I galvanized the team. We did some
research and development for about two years. I built some
versions of it that didn't work. So for me, connection
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and bringing people together was something I was always passionate about.
So the concept kind of fit my personality and me
and already known each other for over twenty years now
and we've had success at things on both sides of life,
and our friendship maintained throughout that. So I built this thing,
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and there were versions of it that you know, we
could have made better. I made it Wes Seth where
I was you know, invited to do capstone projects, and
if these kids would select family as a project didn't
work on, they would pick us. And I kind of
knew when I went there one year and we would selected.
I think I was in a pool with DocuSign and
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to it. So when these kids picked this project to
work on, I kind of knew from there, like, you know,
we need to finish this thing out. And that's that's
kind of how it all came together.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Wow, So that's amazing. How long has fan might have
been in business?
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Well, I had the concept a little over ten years ago,
but what I would say is right during the pandemic,
it was it was only fans and myself and a
few others out there that that was still dormant. Then
only fans took off. So I had the idea for
ten years, but I would say about three years ago
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is when it all started to come together.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
You said something I think is important.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
You said, first it didn't work and you had some
asks that it just wasn't it wasn't right. So I
think that's important because a lot of people they feel
like as soon as they do something, it's supposed to
just pop immediately. But you're you know, you're an example
of how it takes time.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
Yeah, listen, technology concept and idea it never works right
you just at the present moment of where you are,
it's just going right because it always can be enhanced
and anything that you're doing around connecting is always going
to take more effort.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
Right.
Speaker 5 (30:21):
So for me, yes, a lot of those versions within
the technology, it felt, the concept wasn't the concept wasn't clean.
So you know, it felt I felt, and I continue
to fail. But for me, it's about failing forward. So
you know, it takes time. I mean, I'm talking about
I'm twelve years in right, so this is not overnight.
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You only can lose it overnight, right, but we constantly
stand at it and you know, so for me, it
just takes tom and we like where we are today.
It's a lot of energy around what we're doing. We're
starting to meet decent people, the relationships are for going
into place. I know later on in the show you'll
probably ask me about the whole journey around VCS. And
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we know that one percent of black founders get funded,
so it's an uphill battle to say the least, But
I don't have an option but to do it, you know,
So it motivates you, so, Arthur, what.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
You know, I know this is your friend, you know,
just watching your transition being from the VX, you know,
shout out to the VX and you know, being in
the Marines then going into construction. Like, what what made
you shift and say I want to be a part
of this? What was it?
Speaker 7 (31:38):
Well, like he said, we've been friends for like twenty years, right,
and we've done many things together right on all walks
of life.
Speaker 6 (31:47):
Mel has always been the passionate one.
Speaker 7 (31:49):
So when he started fan Meier, obviously me coming out
of the military, and then I started in the Union.
I'm working Local seventy nine. And then I started my
own business. I started my own construct company, and obviously
that's what keeps the lights on, That's how I support myself.
But Mel's been super, super passionate about family and us
being so so close to friends. We started spending a
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lot of time together and I started learning more and
more about it and it wasn't just his passion.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
I realized, like this is this is real.
Speaker 7 (32:18):
And I'm more of like the go getter, like I'm outside,
I'm I'm gonna figure it out, Like he's the brains
he figured he he puts all the pieces together.
Speaker 6 (32:26):
But then I'm gonna go out and make it happen.
Speaker 7 (32:27):
So as we start to spend more time together and
talk about it, I just jumped on full fledged. And
it's been like we've been gaining so much traction together,
you know, like we every day we have meetings and
we sit down and we figure out how to bring value,
how to move forward.
Speaker 6 (32:45):
And it's him.
Speaker 7 (32:46):
It's the passion that he has, and I just pretty
much follow mail, follow his lead and regards.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Give us like a complete understanding of what you do
as family, like exactly what you do.
Speaker 6 (32:57):
How I were best describe it is, I'm more like
the glue. Right.
Speaker 7 (33:01):
So we have certain we have a team that goes
out and they start vetting potential influences, potential creators, potential ambassadors.
Right and obviously with having all the moving parts, they
would come to me after that and the vetting process
will start. Right, We'll figure out if this person is
a good fit, if this person works, So putting pretty
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much all the pieces together and then making sure it
works before we on board anybody, before we figure out
if this is a relationship that would that would potentially work.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Who have you guys worked with in the past.
Speaker 7 (33:35):
Yeah, we have Davits on the platform. We have Peter
Guns on the on the platform.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
B X, that's right, BX.
Speaker 6 (33:44):
We have Fred I don't know if familiar.
Speaker 7 (33:46):
Fred Degard has a brother, fat boy guy all right,
on the platform. Now heavy this is what we're doing.
I'm saying it's X heavy man. So yeah, we have
so many. We have a bunch of smaller influences that
we've been talking to, a bunch of models, stylists, Like
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anyone could be an influencer, right, anyone can have followers, right.
So this is where right now it's getting is getting busy,
where we're getting barrage with calls or potential influence. People
want to come on, but there's a vetting process because
on Fanmire there's no sex, no cyberbullion, no negativity.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
So there's a vetting process.
Speaker 7 (34:29):
Everybody's not gonna we can't We're not only fans, right,
We're not selling sex. So on, once they go through
the proper channels in the process, then we on board
them and then the rest is history.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
I want to ask, so, being a black own company,
is it hard for you to get certain opportunities and funding.
Speaker 5 (34:49):
What I would say. You know, I'm one to not
try to complain or use obvious adversities as a crutch, right,
But I think it's an understatement of is it hard? Right?
It's virtually impossible in a lot of cases. But I
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feel fortunate in that I've been afforded a lot of
support through friends and family. So what I can say
is like funding this thing thus far has been just
everything for me, the wife, friends and family. So VC
money has been really a hurdle for myself.
Speaker 6 (35:28):
Right.
Speaker 5 (35:29):
So but what I will tell you is we presently
just secured it.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
Can you say, can you explain what VC means to
some of the audience, ain't going to know what it is?
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (35:38):
VC is venture capital, Right? Most projects are funded by
venture capitalists. Right, you go back ten years ago. You
can have a good idea on a napkin, and you
know somebody can write twenty thirty million dollars for you
to see if you can fulfill it. But what I've
learned in this space, not only does the concept have
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to be right, you have to have a build. Then
you actually have to be scaling it before, at least
in my case, be considered to be funded. I can't
speak to anyone else's journey, but the work that I
did thus far with the support of the team. Man,
I don't understand why it's been as hard as it's been,
(36:19):
but it's been really hard. We haven't secured no VC
funding none.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
Well, so everything is just you guys just believing in
each other and investing.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
In yourself and friends and family. And what I tell
you is we just what I'm proud of this. We
just secured a brand partnership and sponsorship with the Brooklyn
Nets in New York Liberty that has tremendously validated and
infused some energy into us as a company. Our brand
(36:49):
credibility has went up like overnight. Right, And I was
listening when you was asking Artie, he's so authentic, Right, Well,
what do you do? He does a lot more than that. Right,
has strategically aligned every relationship that he humanly has to
line up to the goals and values to Fanily. Right,
(37:09):
And I would say we're fortunate even for this opportunity.
This came from audise background networking. We have more scheduled
interviews with high level influences. That's a result of a
lot of Audie's ability to connect so you know, we
(37:30):
just been really doing what we have to do to
leverage resources and network to stay afloat.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Well, I just want to say I appreciate you, guys.
I swear like I know. I feel like me and
Aldie used to hang out somewhere before.
Speaker 6 (37:41):
I know we know each other.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
I know we have I'm just I'm looking like this.
We definitely met and from the BX.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
But you know, I just I love I love watching
young black individuals just grime, you know, because a lot
of times that's not something that's celebrated in a big
is way. More when you grind right and you know
you're not giving anything and you're not looking for anything.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
I love the mindset you said, you don't want to look.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
You notice the obvious hurdles, but you don't want to
use it as a crutch because you're gonna grind regardless.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
What do you see, FAMI, in the next ten years?
What do you want? What do you vision?
Speaker 5 (38:18):
I like to look at it, guys. What will happen
in ten years? Right? And we'll continue to add value relationships.
My philosophy will always be to give more than I ask, right,
and I think will be the platform where genuine connection
(38:41):
is preferred to be used. One of the initiatives that
we got coming forth from a rebranded standpoint is to
become the preferred platform for HBCUs and I got a
lot of energy around what that's going to look like
for us. So in ten years, I think will be
a diverse community with the DNA of black creators created
(39:08):
a home for each other that opened itself up to
the world as well. So in ten years will be
a place that people are still saying they found genuine
and authentic connection in a responsible way.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
I love it, man, dude, I just want to ask,
does it get hard sometimes? Do you ever feel like
I don't know what I started just for?
Speaker 4 (39:29):
Or you always have this enthusias Because me, I'm gonna
be honest with you. You know a lot of you know,
I've tried so many different things. I started out in
music in basketball. Like when I started music, and when
I got locked up and I came home, it was frustrated,
Like a lot of things frustrated me. But then I
start I stopped the business part of it and then
(39:50):
started realizing just I love music, you know, and I
would do it for free.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
So that's how it is.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
And then when I transitioned into the space that I
am now in doing activism, it wasn't work for me,
you know. But sometimes even in this it's a little
frustrating because Breonna Taylor dies and you can't get the
officers arrested.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
You know.
Speaker 4 (40:12):
It is young people getting killed and arrested every day
for crimes they didn't commit, in all types of things,
and then trying to stop by.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
So sometimes it gets a little overwhelming.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
Do you ever feel like you get overwhelmed or you
feel like you're not progressing the way that you want to?
Speaker 5 (40:27):
Man, you hit a hit, you hit a nerve For
me with that, right, I'm always overwhelmed. Right, And a
lot of it stems from some of the things that
you just said. Right. I grew up in the old Harlem, right,
where all my friends' parents, who to mine, were either
alcoholics or alcoholics or on drugs. Right. So I grew
(40:48):
up in a generation where we pretty much raised ourselves. Right.
I didn't know what real I didn't know what community
looked like. I ain't I never been on a vacation
as a child, right. My expo to the world was limited,
and a lot of the things that happened in low
income community has a lot to do with lack of
(41:10):
lack of awareness and lack of resources. Right, And that's
not something that is a big surprise on a big scale.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Right.
Speaker 5 (41:18):
So when you start hearing about you can't lock a
cop up for something that he did, right, think about
the limited of resources that who used the word entrepreneur
twenty years ago?
Speaker 6 (41:29):
Right?
Speaker 5 (41:30):
It wasn't a word, was it. So for someone who
had a passion and drive to build something, did school
teach us you can build a business? Did school teach
us that you could you could own something or have
a Korean sports if either you were in some talented
and gifted program or you played ball, or you was locked,
you wasn't considered rap ball, or you were really bright.
(41:53):
But in the middle there with where was their room at?
So what drives me and keep me going is Jamel
the kid didn't have the support that Jamel the man
know he needs. Now I'm taking care of that kid
that wasn't treated right.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
But that's to keep me going.
Speaker 5 (42:13):
So yeah, I get discourage. It's it's it's an uphill
battle on roller skates. But you gotta have that energy,
You gotta have that passion because you gotta. You can't
get through it if you don't go through it right right.
Speaker 4 (42:25):
You got to go through it to get through it, man.
You know so I just want to say once again,
I commend you guys.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
Man.
Speaker 4 (42:31):
Let everybody know where they can find you, guys, how
they can support you, how to follow you, and just
keep up with you're going with.
Speaker 5 (42:37):
You got going on man, Thank you.
Speaker 7 (42:39):
Man.
Speaker 5 (42:39):
It starts with fan Maya that's f A N and
myr dot com. You can actually get us on Instagram
too at fan Mayer, f A N and my RI.
You can subscribe to be a part of our newsletters
to stay in tuned for what we're doing. And uh,
I'm just excited for this opportunity.
Speaker 6 (42:57):
This was great.
Speaker 5 (42:58):
Thank you and I look to forward to continue to
build with you guys.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
Definitely, man, I you forward to continue to build you.
Speaker 4 (43:05):
I just want to I want you to leave us
with It's a young boy from the BX.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
He's watching this right now.
Speaker 4 (43:11):
You know he's he wants to be successful and I
want you to give him some words of encouragement.
Speaker 2 (43:17):
What would you say to him?
Speaker 7 (43:18):
I would say, main thing is to stay focused, right,
like we talked about so many things today, so much
has happened and so much is going on in society.
Is stay focused, like we're trained, Like Jamel just said,
play ball or if you don't play ball or your rap,
you can't be successful.
Speaker 6 (43:36):
Stay focused.
Speaker 7 (43:37):
And if you stay focused and you put everything into it,
you can do whatever you want to do. I got
two boys, one twenty two, one sixteen, and I tell
him the same thing, like, stay for whatever you want
to do. I'm gonna support you. I'm not gonna steer
you in no direction. Whatever you feel is your passion,
whatever you want to do, I'm support you. So stay focused.
It's hard, it's gonna be a little harder for us,
but it's not impossible, right, And I think that's what
(43:59):
me and Jamel trying to show people, right that people
that look like you can make it happen.
Speaker 2 (44:04):
I hope y'all get it.
Speaker 4 (44:05):
Stay focused, because I tell my sons that every day, man,
you know, every day it's gonna be hard. It's nothing
that that's worth having, it's not gonna be worth going through.
You know, you're gonna go through a lot of stuff
if you're trying to really get somewhere to be successful.
So I want to appreciate y'all.
Speaker 2 (44:20):
Everybody.
Speaker 4 (44:21):
Shout out Jamel Anderson, founder of fan Mayer, and author Thomason.
I've been calling them audio all day, so that's what
I want to be calling you Audi man, like we've
been outside, Like we've been friends for forty years. So
it's Aladi now man, author Thomason, Chief Brandon officer at Famine.
Speaker 2 (44:39):
I appreciate you guys.
Speaker 4 (44:40):
You know, I look forward to working with you guys,
and I know in the next ten years y'all gonna
be the biggest thing, so keep it going.
Speaker 2 (44:47):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (44:48):
I appreciate you guys. Thanks.
Speaker 4 (44:55):
So I want to thank my guests, Jamel Anderson, the
founder of fan Mayer, off the time, the chief branding
officer of fam Mind for coming through today.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
I want to support these guys.
Speaker 4 (45:05):
You know, you could tell that they grinded and they
really believe in what they doing. You know, brand building
brands and connecting brands with influencers. It's just a dope
thing and is a fast growing industry right now, you know.
Speaker 2 (45:21):
So I love the passion in both of these guys. Man.
Speaker 4 (45:24):
Shout out to my co host Ms Timikid Mallory, who
just threw me a curveball, you know, and vanished. I
guess she had to go get her hair done and say,
you know how y'all women do. Y'all got shit to
do and we just got to figure it out because
y'all got to go.
Speaker 2 (45:38):
So shout out to her, everybody. I appreciate y'all.
Speaker 5 (45:42):
Man.
Speaker 4 (45:42):
I hope y'all continue to enjoy the show. Number one
podcasts in the world, Street Politicians. Let me know what
you don't like, let me know what you love. Hit
us up on Street Politicians Pod. Give us all your feedback.
Speaker 2 (45:54):
We love it.
Speaker 4 (45:55):
Let us know what shows who you want us to
interview everything, everything you know. I'm not gonna always be
right to make it the mallories not gonna always be wrong,
but we both always and I mean always, be authentic.
Speaker 2 (46:08):
Salute y'all, and we're gonna.
Speaker 3 (46:11):
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Speaker 4 (46:16):
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Speaker 2 (46:21):
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