Two-time Emmy and three-time NAACP Image Award-winning television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald, interviews Nephew Tommy, he is the host of OWN’s Ready for Love. OWN’S POPULAR LOVE AND RELATIONSHIP DATING SHOW, READY TO LOVE. He is TV host, radio host, philanthropist, entrepreneur and family man. The show has been Friday night's #1 original cable series among African-American women (18+) in 2022. “Ready to Love” is not your mother’s “let’s fall in love in thirty minutes or less” dating show; these are grown men and women in their 30’s and 40’s who are seeking the special relationship-of-a-lifetime that has eluded them thus far, and the baggage they each bring to the party is real. The old adage that “The course of love never did run smooth” is proven to be truer than ever when these eager singles come together to meet, date, cross-date, group-date and re-date, all in an effort to discover and claim “the one.” The romantic high drama is palpable from the moment that 18 attractive and successful women and men first set eyes on one another at the Mansion Mixer in Dallas that sets them all off on the bumpy road to love.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
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The interviews and information on this show is your show.
It's your information. It's time to start reading other people's
success stories and start living your own. My guest today
longtime friend Thomas Miles. He is the host of Owns,
Ready for Love, Executive Duke bubble Ball, Will Packer, Own
Popper Love and Relationship Dainty show Ready to Up. Come
on That Yeah, returned to eighteen hopeful singles, Looking for
(01:04):
Love and Big d Dallas texts Now on the show today.
I also gonna interview Nephew Thomas from the popular Steve
Harvey Morning Shows, also Thomass.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
My guess today boy.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
He covers the gamut celebrity, TV host, radio host, stand
up comedian, philanthropists, entrepreneur and family man. Please welcome to
Money Making Conversation Master Class.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Owns hosts for Love. Thomas Miles.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
How you doing, Thomas, I'm good, I'm good. Thank you
for signing man. Good to see you, man.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I appreciate you taking the time to come on the show. Man,
and uh, you know, I, like I said ninety two,
I met you inspired Willian Thomas Mile, then you blew
up on the Steve Hart Morning Show.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Nephew Thomas. Now to I get to introduce you as
Thomas Miles. Let's full How does that f full circle?
Speaker 5 (01:51):
It feels good, Man, been around the block with it.
You know, you start out as Thomas Miles, and you
jumped into nephew Tommy, which is actually what what got
me to this platau, and then you know, now maybe
to actually go back to my name Thomas Miles. So
it makes a full circle. But I think I think
Nephew tom me, I don't slight him at all. He's
got us to the to the point that we're able
(02:11):
to get back to the name Thomas Miles and get
more established. And but you know it took that going
around the block, going around the world to get back
to it.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Well you know, you know, going around the world tour
with Luther Vandros Thomas Miles.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
You know what I'm saying. You know when you're doing
Sister and Sister with me back in the day, Thomas, Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Park building Parker to act like you know, Nephew tom me,
it just did everything Thomas Miles was building something.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Nephew told me.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
It was just that that that that that that that
that that hook that wrought you to as they say,
create longevity in this business. That's really key Man to
enable to host the show. That Will Packard, that's our friend,
both our friends. Man, damn you spotted at you your
brand own the Steve Harvey Morning Show. How did that
(03:00):
happen and why did you feel you could actually host
the show like this?
Speaker 5 (03:05):
You know what, Man, Will gave me a call Rushan,
And you know, people in Hollywood always say, you know what,
you know, we're gonna work together.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
We're gonna do something soon or later.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
We're gonna do something people in Hollywood always say that,
so I you know, when you're here, you're like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I've been hearing this or I've been hearing this ever
since I got to Hollywood. But Will Packer called me
and said, uh he sent me a text first and
showed me that he was had a couple of shows
that was getting ready to blow up out of out
of own network. And I was texting him back saying, hey, man,
(03:35):
congratulations to you, brother, and he was like, no, no, no, no,
just ready to love show. I want you to I
want you to host this show and Rustani immediately immediately,
I'm thinking, hey man, I ain't got no time for
your prank phone call. Okay, I'm the one to do
the pranks. You don't do the pranks. I do the pranks.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
So man, He's like, no time. This is perfect for you.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Man.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
You and your wife been together forever. You're the great
person that.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Can get in here and give people your your great
advice on being married. I was like, okay, okay, new time, man.
We look up later. Here we are.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
I'm one hundred plus episodes in brother, that's the blessing.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Okay, now you know, you know we grew up on
love connection, you know right right, the dating game, you
know what I'm.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Saying, newly weeded game and all that they got all
those other shows out there.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Ain't gonna mention the other shows out there.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Everybody got they have naked, they look they don't have
a job, Thomas, they got time to just take off
because they ain't got nothing to take off from.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Now ready to love these some grown people. Brother, as
they were saying, my.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Lane, tie on the tread on the tie, but Fred
could tread though. Talk about the difference and the people
in this show. Let's start breaking it down because I
got the list of all the names on the show,
so we won't talk about them a little bit.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Okay, So you know what the difference is, man, let
me let me, let me clarify.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
The difference between these other shows and mister Shriver.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
John is because you know, you got when you hear something,
and this is not knocking them something. These are great shows.
When you hear Bachelor and you hear Bachelorette. When you
hear all of that, you're talking about people that are
in their twenties. Life is just now getting started. They
have not been through any ups and downs. Yet Ready
to Love is different. This is the real deal. These
people are thirties, forties, some people are in their fifties.
(05:30):
Some people are divorced, some people got kids. Some people
career driven, never took time for love. You know, you
got some boss ladies, you got some men that are
entrepreneurs that are doing their thing, but the one thing
they miss it is love.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Well, it's really important that you say that, because, like
I said, I'm looking at aries. You know, software sales manager, okay,
lead health and wellness coach. You know you got a
TV and film producer, you got ah, we got a
comedian on that, James Red Now, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
I comedian coming on Ready to Love or that's funny
by itself, right absolutely.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
But you know the thing about it, I know it's
popular because they said in twenty twenty two, Ready to
Love has been Friday Night's number one original cable series
American African American women.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
What has that done to your brand?
Speaker 4 (06:23):
The show man?
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Let me tell you something, Rachelle, this thing has now
uh turned into uh men and and their their spouses
that you know, the couples are sitting down watching Ready
to Love Friday Nights. I'm getting I'm getting texts, I'm
getting people hit me in my uh on social media,
how this is their big night, this is their.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Big date night.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
This has blown up to be that there's there's a
lot of ladies who get together saying, you know, this
is our this is our TV night on Friday nights.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
We get together.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
And the big thing is Rashan is they're trying to
pick out who they think to be, who they gonna
they're gonna connect together. I want them to get together, right,
I want them to get together and listen, list goes
on and on. Man, So it's become this great date
night for a lot of people, and you know it's
it's become number one on the old network.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Okay, now let's let's talk about the show here because
a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
I want people to get engaged with the show.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
I know I watched the show in the beginning to
kick off one girl and begetting kick off one guy
and to get it break down everybody how this show
actually works and because we don't because you know, a
lot of lots of some of these shows are insensitive,
and I don't think I don't think this is definitely
not one of those shows. Because It's about really hoping
that the people come on the show really become a
couple really fine, right, love, that's really the number one goal.
(07:43):
And we know, and we know as African Americans anybody
as you get older, the options to find that mate.
Oh yes, unless okay, how does Ready to Love work?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
What is the formatt and how do you.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Let me show you? Right here?
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Take your time here, ready, here's Already to Love works.
You when you started off, you said eighteen singles. So
let me let's go back a little bit. When we
first started this. We started out with twenty singles, ten men,
ten women, all right, and this is what this is
is it's a process of elimination. One week, the women
eliminate the men, the next week, men eliminating women, and
(08:22):
it dwindles down till by the end of ten eleven weeks,
we are now down to six people, three couples who
have hopefully found love. That's it. So there is no
that's the prize. The prize is loved. There's no million dollars,
no trip around the world. The prize is love that
you found it for three couples. Now you read just
(08:43):
a second ago, you said eighteen singles, so what we're
doing Roushan is we're throwing curveballs.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Now.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
We started with nine men, nine men and nine women,
eighteen eighteen people. So two weeks later, I throw a
curveball in and bring in a lady and bring in
a guy. So now we really are at the twenty.
I'm just not giving it to you all at one time.
Oh oh okay, okay, okay, Gods, so.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
You gotta switch it up a little bit.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
So because people have been watching the show, you know,
so when you get new casts, remember they like, oh,
I know what's gonna happen here. I know what's gonna
happen here. Oh no, you don't. We're finn change all
this thing up. We're gonna give it to you little
by little.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Now, I'm not trying to give away the show, but
there are always people who become your favorite or you know,
you know people who either either nut got personality or
you really because your shirt people, you know, you go
that that person ain't ever gonna find love. But the show,
we're gonna ride with it. Any any favorites on the
(09:45):
show that we can, we can we can kind of follow,
not saying that you you point to who gonna actually
make love or get to the love portion. But talk
about the guests of the individual talenteds on the show.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Man, you got you got so many moves? Do you
see the one on now that is the she's a stylist.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Yes, and Sierra, she's thirty three Sierra.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Now, Sierra is a favorite of mine, Rashan, because she funny,
is all good, Rashana. If we wanted her to open
up and do fifteen minutes, she'll go out there and
kill it, I promise. So she's a favorite. She's the
one that you really want, you want to see her
fine love, but she's so she's so real, she's so
natural and she's not she's not playing with the with
(10:32):
with with what's going on. She really wants to find love,
but she refuses to fake it. She wants you to
know exactly who she is. So she's my favorite on
this season for Dallas.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Man right now. What on the guy side, we got okay?
Speaker 4 (10:45):
On the guy Herbert, you got.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Jack and James and Marvin and Peel and Travis and
ma and Maria Maria.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Marier Marier Molray.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Now, I like Maray Now listen now Marvin Marvin scares
me Sean. Okay, the one name Marvin, because Marvin he
writes these erotic books and he's into these this he's
into these whips and he's in the whips and chains.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
And that the one of the promo talking about dominating.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, and and the girl looks at
him like, huh did.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
You say he got a whole He got a whole
dungeon at his house. I don't even want to go
over there.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
This is real. This is real, this is real.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
You can't write this. And he writes he also he
writes erotic books. He's a he's a he's a he's
a he's a he's a novelist, he's an author.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
So so, but Marier is the more is the guy
that's a man's man.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
He does a lot in the community, you know, very philanthropic.
So you know those are my favorite. If it comes
to God, Marier for the female will be Sierra.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Right right, So as you as you go through this show,
what is the show done for you?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
You know?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Because I know I know you know you you launched
your career as a comedian, okay, right, and then you start,
you know, we're trying to get these little nuggets and
acting and.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
All these things.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
And Steve Harvey morning, the show made you a prison,
especially with the pranks. Now I see a different a
different style of you. And how are you? How is
that with your social media? How are people reacting?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Dude? Are they looking for love advice from you?
Speaker 6 (12:27):
Now?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Are you a love shine?
Speaker 4 (12:33):
I have become.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
I have become the love doctor that people are. People
are calling wanting information even here, and uh, you know,
I'm still in you know, uh home is always Houston,
Texas for me and you both.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
So what's up? I got?
Speaker 5 (12:48):
I've had couples in my neighborhood Rushan Wow calling calling saying, hey,
can you come sit down and talk to me and
my husband?
Speaker 4 (12:58):
What?
Speaker 5 (12:59):
And I was like, it has and it's gotten to
this and people have people now given me this new
hat to wear that I'm this guy that can actually
just come in and sit down and have a conversation with.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
You and maybe get you and your relationship back on track.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Had no earthly idea that my life would evolve to this,
no earthly idea, but it's there. You know, there's people
from all over there saying, hey, we got to sit
down and talk to Tommy I want to talk to Tommy.
I want to get some advice from Tommy. So it's changed, Rashan,
it really has.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
Man, don't go anywhere. We'll be right back with more
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Speaker 1 (13:41):
Okay, you know me, why y'all? Okay, ready to festival?
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Okay, okay, okay, okay, So we got to talk out
there on this one.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
I go, I got it. I'm ahead of you, trust me, dude.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
All these bron folks ain't got no place to go.
Come on that.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I think we can put them someplace for three days.
I think you and I and we'll packer. Now we
can't leave up on will packer made of a big.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Box office.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
I came up.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
I came up with Love Fest twenty twenty four. And
it's just that it's that, it's that love is whether
you and whether you couples or whether you singles. We
got that. We got that getaway island for you to
go to. We're gonna have concerts every night. We're gonna
have this, this and that, but you're gonna have a
good time. But it's love Fest, love Fest twenty twenty four,
(14:37):
and then and it just goes on and on, twenty
twenty five, twenty six, twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Hey, yes, sir, these black people ain't going nowhere.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
You got the number one This is ready to Love
now Friday yepes number one Original single series cable series African.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
American Women, and we all know once you get the women,
you win it. Eighteen plus.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Yeah all we usuid we said twenty or two because
show just came on.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
It's gonna be twenty two three two. I'm predicting it's
gonna be twenty twenty three two.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Okay, Yeah, now let's shift gears here, Thomas Miles, I'm
tired of talking to you.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Talk to nephew.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Nephew. Yeah, that's a different guy.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Give everybody the backstore how that character was created, man,
and how it got started man and evolved and it
just just just get't let everybody know, man.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Okay, So what you guys don't know, let me let
me break it off for you is is uh I was.
I would always come to Hollywood. I come to Hollywood.
Every time I come to Hollywood. I'm calling Rouseeawan McDonald. Okay,
So man, I'm in town. How long are you here?
Telling by a week? But I can't get you nothing
no week. So but Roushine would do the best he could.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
He would give me.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
H He got me on The Parkers, got me on
Sister's Sister. Every time I come in guest starring role
on these sitcoms, I would come in there and get it.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
And then on one.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
Particular time, Uh, I come in town and I just
got on hiatus.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Off.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
We're on hiatus with me opening for Luther Vandraws, and
Luther says, hey, we gonna be We're gonna be off
about six months and then we're gonna be back out
on the road. I'm gonna go write a new album
and then I'm we'll be right back out. I'm like, okay,
So I'm gonna go to Hollywood and hang out with
my acting buddies. And you know that's when you're sleeping
in one apartment six people. You know, everything in the
(16:24):
refrigerator got a sticky on it. Don't touch my stuff.
So so I called Rushine again, Hey, I'm in town.
How long you here? By here I'm here bout six months?
And we said, okay, we work with six months you
got six months. We might, we might, we might be
in there. You come in here for four a's. I
can't get you nothing before the eight. And he says,
once you come up here and hang out with Steve
(16:46):
on the radio and talk smack like y'all do. And
I'm like, eh, okay, uh what time? He say, five
by five? Get it about five five thirty. I was like,
I said, yeah, I'll I'll eat dinner early. No no, no, no, no, no,
no no no, I ain't talking. I ain't talking about
any I'm coming out in the morning. I'm like, in
the morning. What So I get up, go to the
(17:07):
radio station and jump on there with Steve, and I
think we do it Rotsurn. I think we do it
about two three weeks and it is a hit yesterday.
Los Angeles loves it and it's the birth of Uncle
and Neph and it just goes completely crazy. And man,
let me tell you something. What's the blessing of this
(17:29):
roots Stane is? I told you said, I told you.
I said, hey, man, I can do this. I can
play with y'all on this radio. Boy, I can't be
playing with y'all. When Luther called me, When Luther called me,
I gotta go.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
I can't be fooling with y'all.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
And the blessing of it all, the blessing of it all, man,
is that you know. Unfortunately we never went back out.
Luther passed away. So it's like it's like, man, God
gave me a job before he before I even knew
I needed one, And here here I am, twenty plus
years later, still on the radio.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
You know that.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
And that's that's a that's an amasi. I'll tell you
some man, the two things have to happen. You gotta
have talent, you gotta have accept the blessing with God
is point you in that direction. A lot of people
don't see that because they just see work.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Because you saw because he's telling the truth.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
When I said five five thirty, he really thought it
was afternoon, you know, and a lot of people go
mass too early. I'm not a I'm not a morning person,
you know. But he just went, Man, let's do this.
And we used to have Thomas go to go to
He would always come in the studio. We tell her, hey, man,
go over to the L A. F. The street was
in Los Angeles, go over to Christmpy Kreme on Krin
Sharp remember.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Because he had to always act like he did. He
forgot to come to work. That was his character. He
forgot to come to work. Oh oh I'm sick, he
would always.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
And then the time for New Year's Eve, when you
took over his house, the city city went crazy.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
And I don't think people, I don't think people realized
what I was in the street before you brought me
into the studio.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Yes, yes, and that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
In the winter, it was there was some cold times, man,
and we wasn't kicking out, no real money.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
But he said he sold you know something, man, I
believe in this, you know.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
And and the reason I bring up their story because
everybody wants a check nowadays.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Everybody want I'm gonna get paid. They don't see the opportunity.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Put the work in. Go put the work in.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
If you looked at other ways, say hey, man, anybody
paying me? No, I ain't gonna do all that craziness,
we wouldn't be talking today.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
We wouldn't be talking to Thomas Miles.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
That's true. That's true.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
And let me and let me say this to your
to your audience, man, is is when we first started
doing these prank calls right, and and and and and
you know, I did a couple of it, and they went, well,
mister Rusim McDonald comes in and say, I'm.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Gonna need five every week. I need five. I was like,
I was like, now you're not man, people hanging up
on me. I don't care. I need five.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
So every week I was like, oh my god, he
wants this spy. I was so mad about that.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I'm like, why does he.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Want he won't I want five every week? I need
one for every day of the week for money through.
I don't need five, man.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
I look back now, I got over three hundred plus
prank calls. It is a library that is just amazing
because now you know, everyone knows my voice. But but
the time that you was making me grind and do
it is the time that I was accumulating all of
that library that you It had no earthly idea that
(20:32):
I'll be able to look back and say.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Oh my god, I got a gold mine. Yes, I
got a gold mine, you know.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
But then as we as we drift through this conversation,
I got to go back to the philanthropy side of you.
I remember early on when when you was going over
during the during the comedy shows. You remember, I think
he was on Air Force two, not Air Force one,
Air Force two, you know, flying over there with the generals,
and man, we we didn't see that, Tommy, you know,
(20:57):
but now that's that's part of your your brand. Talk
about that.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Mm hm.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
So so you know, you guys allowed me to go
over and perform for the troops manu Uso tour. I
think the first one I was with. I was with
Robert or Minka Kelly uh uh Jordan Sparks who won
American Idol, and.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
We go over. Yeah, we go over there and perform
for the troops.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
And you know, we would we would go to hospitals
and and and different places and visit, uh, all these
guys in the military. But one guy had just had surgery,
had his legs, had his legs blown off, and he
was just waking up while we were in the room.
And man, we're standing around and while he's coming to
and we start taking pictures with him. Man, and he says,
(21:42):
he says, hey, I'd like to I'd like to keep
taking pictures with y'all, but I got to get back
to my men. He hasn't realized what's happened. And man,
we said, now we me Robert or Jordan's spark. We man,
we are in tears, we crying. And when we came
out of that room, I asked one of the soldiers,
I say, hey, man, what happens to these soldiers when
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they get back home? I said, what do we take
care of these guys? They say, yeah, it's a it's
a system you gotta go through, you know. But I say,
but what about the right now?
Speaker 6 (22:13):
Right?
Speaker 4 (22:14):
And he said, well, you know, that's always the struggle.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
So man, when I came back home, I said, now
I've found something that I'm passionate about.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
And that's where I came up with Miles of Giving.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
And my thing was, I want to be able to
give back to people right now. So whether it's a
thousand or fifteen hundred dollars, you'll be surprised what that
does to a soldier immediately or what they're going through.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
And that's what Miles of Good Giving stands on. Man,
we are about right now.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
Finish. We don't have to send our money. It ain't
got to get approved by nobody. I'm gonna send this
man two thousand dollars. I'm gonna send this lady, three
thousand dollars. We are the Right Now Foundation. That's who
we are, Miles to.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Give right now because man, you know we say thank
you for your service. Time is what service needs to
be more than to thank you, you know, excut And
that's that's important. And I just love the way and
that's see the beauty of that. That's Thomas Miles and nephew.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Thomas right there.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Yes, sir see, that's that's a combined blessing of this
boy's talent. And I said boy in a very affectionate
way because I've known him so long, and uh, in
the neighborhood, you can call this there's my boy. And
everybody said, oh, that's cool, it's good, you know, but
I know that when I'm talking to you, Thomas, you know,
ready to love. You know, this is the show. This
is a show that's changed your life, but another show
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that you did. All know if you're still.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
Doing you're still doing the Black the Black College quit, Yes,
Black Collage quit.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
You're still doing that.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
We're coming up this fall with shooting the new season.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Yes, sir, Okay, you get worse than Steve.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Okay, okay, hold on, hold on, y'all, hold on, let
me start counting out.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Ready to Love number one.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Yeah, eighteen women, eighteen plus black women, Steve Harry morning
the show.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Tell me when I stopped, when I got it, when
I went, I of.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Fingers, okay, black college quids, okay, stand up comedian okay,
you know the actor.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
I'm fine, man, My one hand is feeled right now
to fall.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
And then then then he got the library over there,
a pray phone girl said, that's a six job.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
It's just it's just that's mail box money. That's mail
box money. Then he Philanchbor, a family man.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
All that and a family man at the same time.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
How is all this happening? Now?
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Brother?
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Where are you at now? Where's the future for Thomas Bowles?
Speaker 5 (24:37):
I think I'm in a I think I'm in a
better place now, rashwan, a good place where it's now.
It's about what I want to do? What I want
to do?
Speaker 4 (24:45):
What?
Speaker 5 (24:45):
What do I want to show people that they haven't
seen about me yet?
Speaker 4 (24:49):
What?
Speaker 5 (24:49):
What what talent do I want to pull out and
and and show you? So you know, just recently I
shot a movie on on Lifetime with Stephanie Mills called Pride,
which is under the umbrella of Bishop TD Jakes and
Derek Williams. So now people are starting to see that
other side of Thomas Miles that oh my god, the boy.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Can the boy can act, he can go right.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
So so so now you're getting those phone calls we
would love you to come, uh do this role or
do that role. So I think that's the next platform
is trying to do that more on a consistent basis.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Well, the next platform is to start in your own
sitcom or lead your own drama. Because you got the town.
You know, that's what you went to Texas A and
M for. Okay, exactly exactly one wait, none of that
degree at Texa A and M.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Brow. Let's gonna put out that new I'm gonna make
a man sharing love with the with the new.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Hey man, thank you for taking the time to come
on the show, not only talk about the number one
showing on every Friday. African American Women eighteen to plus
the twenty twenty two is back on. Now you can
hear him every five days a week on Steve brod
Morning Show as nephew Thomas. We all know him back
from Houston, Texas as Thomas Miles. Thank your brother for
coming on Money Making Conversation Masterclass.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
Thank you sir, Thank you for having me man five
I need five every week.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Five fye job that.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
What you talking about? Five by job fie job.
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The interviews and information on this show is your show.
It's your information. It's time to start reading other people's
success stories and start living your own. My guest today
longtime friend Thomas Miles. He is the host of Owns,
Ready for Love, Executive Duke bubble Ball, Will Packer, Own
Popper Love and Relationship Dainty show Ready to Up. Come
on That Yeah, returned to eighteen hopeful singles, Looking for
(01:04):
Love and Big d Dallas texts Now on the show today.
I also gonna interview Nephew Thomas from the popular Steve
Harvey Morning Shows, also Thomass.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
My guess today boy.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
He covers the gamut celebrity, TV host, radio host, stand
up comedian, philanthropists, entrepreneur and family man. Please welcome to
Money Making Conversation Master Class.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Owns hosts for Love. Thomas Miles.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
How you doing, Thomas, I'm good, I'm good. Thank you
for signing man. Good to see you, man.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I appreciate you taking the time to come on the show. Man,
and uh, you know, I, like I said ninety two,
I met you inspired Willian Thomas Mile, then you blew
up on the Steve Hart Morning Show.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Nephew Thomas. Now to I get to introduce you as
Thomas Miles. Let's full How does that f full circle?
Speaker 5 (01:51):
It feels good, Man, been around the block with it.
You know, you start out as Thomas Miles, and you
jumped into nephew Tommy, which is actually what what got
me to this platau, and then you know, now maybe
to actually go back to my name Thomas Miles. So
it makes a full circle. But I think I think
Nephew tom me, I don't slight him at all. He's
got us to the to the point that we're able
(02:11):
to get back to the name Thomas Miles and get
more established. And but you know it took that going
around the block, going around the world to get back
to it.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Well you know, you know, going around the world tour
with Luther Vandros Thomas Miles.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
You know what I'm saying. You know when you're doing
Sister and Sister with me back in the day, Thomas, Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Park building Parker to act like you know, Nephew tom me,
it just did everything Thomas Miles was building something.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Nephew told me.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
It was just that that that that that that that
that that hook that wrought you to as they say,
create longevity in this business. That's really key Man to
enable to host the show. That Will Packard, that's our friend,
both our friends. Man, damn you spotted at you your
brand own the Steve Harvey Morning Show. How did that
(03:00):
happen and why did you feel you could actually host
the show like this?
Speaker 5 (03:05):
You know what, Man, Will gave me a call Rushan,
And you know, people in Hollywood always say, you know what,
you know, we're gonna work together.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
We're gonna do something soon or later.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
We're gonna do something people in Hollywood always say that,
so I you know, when you're here, you're like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I've been hearing this or I've been hearing this ever
since I got to Hollywood. But Will Packer called me
and said, uh he sent me a text first and
showed me that he was had a couple of shows
that was getting ready to blow up out of out
of own network. And I was texting him back saying, hey, man,
(03:35):
congratulations to you, brother, and he was like, no, no, no, no,
just ready to love show. I want you to I
want you to host this show and Rustani immediately immediately,
I'm thinking, hey man, I ain't got no time for
your prank phone call. Okay, I'm the one to do
the pranks. You don't do the pranks. I do the pranks.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
So man, He's like, no time. This is perfect for you.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Man.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
You and your wife been together forever. You're the great
person that.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Can get in here and give people your your great
advice on being married. I was like, okay, okay, new time, man.
We look up later. Here we are.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
I'm one hundred plus episodes in brother, that's the blessing.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Okay, now you know, you know we grew up on
love connection, you know right right, the dating game, you
know what I'm.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Saying, newly weeded game and all that they got all
those other shows out there.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Ain't gonna mention the other shows out there.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Everybody got they have naked, they look they don't have
a job, Thomas, they got time to just take off
because they ain't got nothing to take off from.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Now ready to love these some grown people. Brother, as
they were saying, my.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Lane, tie on the tread on the tie, but Fred
could tread though. Talk about the difference and the people
in this show. Let's start breaking it down because I
got the list of all the names on the show,
so we won't talk about them a little bit.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Okay, So you know what the difference is, man, let
me let me, let me clarify.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
The difference between these other shows and mister Shriver.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
John is because you know, you got when you hear something,
and this is not knocking them something. These are great shows.
When you hear Bachelor and you hear Bachelorette. When you
hear all of that, you're talking about people that are
in their twenties. Life is just now getting started. They
have not been through any ups and downs. Yet Ready
to Love is different. This is the real deal. These
people are thirties, forties, some people are in their fifties.
(05:30):
Some people are divorced, some people got kids. Some people
career driven, never took time for love. You know, you
got some boss ladies, you got some men that are
entrepreneurs that are doing their thing, but the one thing
they miss it is love.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Well, it's really important that you say that, because, like
I said, I'm looking at aries. You know, software sales manager, okay,
lead health and wellness coach. You know you got a
TV and film producer, you got ah, we got a
comedian on that, James Red Now, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
I comedian coming on Ready to Love or that's funny
by itself, right absolutely.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
But you know the thing about it, I know it's
popular because they said in twenty twenty two, Ready to
Love has been Friday Night's number one original cable series
American African American women.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
What has that done to your brand?
Speaker 4 (06:23):
The show man?
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Let me tell you something, Rachelle, this thing has now
uh turned into uh men and and their their spouses
that you know, the couples are sitting down watching Ready
to Love Friday Nights. I'm getting I'm getting texts, I'm
getting people hit me in my uh on social media,
how this is their big night, this is their.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Big date night.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
This has blown up to be that there's there's a
lot of ladies who get together saying, you know, this
is our this is our TV night on Friday nights.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
We get together.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
And the big thing is Rashan is they're trying to
pick out who they think to be, who they gonna
they're gonna connect together. I want them to get together, right,
I want them to get together and listen, list goes
on and on. Man, So it's become this great date
night for a lot of people, and you know it's
it's become number one on the old network.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Okay, now let's let's talk about the show here because
a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
I want people to get engaged with the show.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
I know I watched the show in the beginning to
kick off one girl and begetting kick off one guy
and to get it break down everybody how this show
actually works and because we don't because you know, a
lot of lots of some of these shows are insensitive,
and I don't think I don't think this is definitely
not one of those shows. Because It's about really hoping
that the people come on the show really become a
couple really fine, right, love, that's really the number one goal.
(07:43):
And we know, and we know as African Americans anybody
as you get older, the options to find that mate.
Oh yes, unless okay, how does Ready to Love work?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
What is the formatt and how do you.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Let me show you? Right here?
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Take your time here, ready, here's Already to Love works.
You when you started off, you said eighteen singles. So
let me let's go back a little bit. When we
first started this. We started out with twenty singles, ten men,
ten women, all right, and this is what this is
is it's a process of elimination. One week, the women
eliminate the men, the next week, men eliminating women, and
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it dwindles down till by the end of ten eleven weeks,
we are now down to six people, three couples who
have hopefully found love. That's it. So there is no
that's the prize. The prize is loved. There's no million dollars,
no trip around the world. The prize is love that
you found it for three couples. Now you read just
(08:43):
a second ago, you said eighteen singles, so what we're
doing Roushan is we're throwing curveballs.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Now.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
We started with nine men, nine men and nine women,
eighteen eighteen people. So two weeks later, I throw a
curveball in and bring in a lady and bring in
a guy. So now we really are at the twenty.
I'm just not giving it to you all at one time.
Oh oh okay, okay, okay, Gods, so.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
You gotta switch it up a little bit.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
So because people have been watching the show, you know,
so when you get new casts, remember they like, oh,
I know what's gonna happen here. I know what's gonna
happen here. Oh no, you don't. We're finn change all
this thing up. We're gonna give it to you little
by little.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Now, I'm not trying to give away the show, but
there are always people who become your favorite or you know,
you know people who either either nut got personality or
you really because your shirt people, you know, you go
that that person ain't ever gonna find love. But the show,
we're gonna ride with it. Any any favorites on the
(09:45):
show that we can, we can we can kind of follow,
not saying that you you point to who gonna actually
make love or get to the love portion. But talk
about the guests of the individual talenteds on the show.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Man, you got you got so many moves? Do you
see the one on now that is the she's a stylist.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Yes, and Sierra, she's thirty three Sierra.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Now, Sierra is a favorite of mine, Rashan, because she funny,
is all good, Rashana. If we wanted her to open
up and do fifteen minutes, she'll go out there and
kill it, I promise. So she's a favorite. She's the
one that you really want, you want to see her
fine love, but she's so she's so real, she's so
natural and she's not she's not playing with the with
(10:32):
with with what's going on. She really wants to find love,
but she refuses to fake it. She wants you to
know exactly who she is. So she's my favorite on
this season for Dallas.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Man right now. What on the guy side, we got okay?
Speaker 4 (10:45):
On the guy Herbert, you got.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Jack and James and Marvin and Peel and Travis and
ma and Maria Maria.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Marier Marier Molray.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Now, I like Maray Now listen now Marvin Marvin scares
me Sean. Okay, the one name Marvin, because Marvin he
writes these erotic books and he's into these this he's
into these whips and he's in the whips and chains.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
And that the one of the promo talking about dominating.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, and and the girl looks at
him like, huh did.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
You say he got a whole He got a whole
dungeon at his house. I don't even want to go
over there.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
This is real. This is real, this is real.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
You can't write this. And he writes he also he
writes erotic books. He's a he's a he's a he's
a he's a he's a novelist, he's an author.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
So so, but Marier is the more is the guy
that's a man's man.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
He does a lot in the community, you know, very philanthropic.
So you know those are my favorite. If it comes
to God, Marier for the female will be Sierra.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Right right, So as you as you go through this show,
what is the show done for you?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
You know?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Because I know I know you know you you launched
your career as a comedian, okay, right, and then you start,
you know, we're trying to get these little nuggets and
acting and.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
All these things.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
And Steve Harvey morning, the show made you a prison,
especially with the pranks. Now I see a different a
different style of you. And how are you? How is
that with your social media? How are people reacting?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Dude? Are they looking for love advice from you?
Speaker 6 (12:27):
Now?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Are you a love shine?
Speaker 4 (12:33):
I have become.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
I have become the love doctor that people are. People
are calling wanting information even here, and uh, you know,
I'm still in you know, uh home is always Houston,
Texas for me and you both.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
So what's up? I got?
Speaker 5 (12:48):
I've had couples in my neighborhood Rushan Wow calling calling saying, hey,
can you come sit down and talk to me and
my husband?
Speaker 4 (12:58):
What?
Speaker 5 (12:59):
And I was like, it has and it's gotten to
this and people have people now given me this new
hat to wear that I'm this guy that can actually
just come in and sit down and have a conversation with.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
You and maybe get you and your relationship back on track.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Had no earthly idea that my life would evolve to this,
no earthly idea, but it's there. You know, there's people
from all over there saying, hey, we got to sit
down and talk to Tommy I want to talk to Tommy.
I want to get some advice from Tommy. So it's changed, Rashan,
it really has.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
Man, don't go anywhere. We'll be right back with more
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Speaker 1 (13:41):
Okay, you know me, why y'all? Okay, ready to festival?
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Okay, okay, okay, okay, So we got to talk out
there on this one.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
I go, I got it. I'm ahead of you, trust me, dude.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
All these bron folks ain't got no place to go.
Come on that.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I think we can put them someplace for three days.
I think you and I and we'll packer. Now we
can't leave up on will packer made of a big.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Box office.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
I came up.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
I came up with Love Fest twenty twenty four. And
it's just that it's that, it's that love is whether
you and whether you couples or whether you singles. We
got that. We got that getaway island for you to
go to. We're gonna have concerts every night. We're gonna
have this, this and that, but you're gonna have a
good time. But it's love Fest, love Fest twenty twenty four,
(14:37):
and then and it just goes on and on, twenty
twenty five, twenty six, twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Hey, yes, sir, these black people ain't going nowhere.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
You got the number one This is ready to Love
now Friday yepes number one Original single series cable series African.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
American Women, and we all know once you get the women,
you win it. Eighteen plus.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Yeah all we usuid we said twenty or two because
show just came on.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
It's gonna be twenty two three two. I'm predicting it's
gonna be twenty twenty three two.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Okay, Yeah, now let's shift gears here, Thomas Miles, I'm
tired of talking to you.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Talk to nephew.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Nephew. Yeah, that's a different guy.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Give everybody the backstore how that character was created, man,
and how it got started man and evolved and it
just just just get't let everybody know, man.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Okay, So what you guys don't know, let me let
me break it off for you is is uh I was.
I would always come to Hollywood. I come to Hollywood.
Every time I come to Hollywood. I'm calling Rouseeawan McDonald. Okay,
So man, I'm in town. How long are you here?
Telling by a week? But I can't get you nothing
no week. So but Roushine would do the best he could.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
He would give me.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
H He got me on The Parkers, got me on
Sister's Sister. Every time I come in guest starring role
on these sitcoms, I would come in there and get it.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
And then on one.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
Particular time, Uh, I come in town and I just
got on hiatus.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Off.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
We're on hiatus with me opening for Luther Vandraws, and
Luther says, hey, we gonna be We're gonna be off
about six months and then we're gonna be back out
on the road. I'm gonna go write a new album
and then I'm we'll be right back out. I'm like, okay,
So I'm gonna go to Hollywood and hang out with
my acting buddies. And you know that's when you're sleeping
in one apartment six people. You know, everything in the
(16:24):
refrigerator got a sticky on it. Don't touch my stuff.
So so I called Rushine again, Hey, I'm in town.
How long you here? By here I'm here bout six months?
And we said, okay, we work with six months you
got six months. We might, we might, we might be
in there. You come in here for four a's. I
can't get you nothing before the eight. And he says,
once you come up here and hang out with Steve
(16:46):
on the radio and talk smack like y'all do. And
I'm like, eh, okay, uh what time? He say, five
by five? Get it about five five thirty. I was like,
I said, yeah, I'll I'll eat dinner early. No no, no, no, no, no,
no no no, I ain't talking. I ain't talking about
any I'm coming out in the morning. I'm like, in
the morning. What So I get up, go to the
(17:07):
radio station and jump on there with Steve, and I
think we do it Rotsurn. I think we do it
about two three weeks and it is a hit yesterday.
Los Angeles loves it and it's the birth of Uncle
and Neph and it just goes completely crazy. And man,
let me tell you something. What's the blessing of this
(17:29):
roots Stane is? I told you said, I told you.
I said, hey, man, I can do this. I can
play with y'all on this radio. Boy, I can't be
playing with y'all. When Luther called me, When Luther called me,
I gotta go.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
I can't be fooling with y'all.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
And the blessing of it all, the blessing of it all, man,
is that you know. Unfortunately we never went back out.
Luther passed away. So it's like it's like, man, God
gave me a job before he before I even knew
I needed one, And here here I am, twenty plus
years later, still on the radio.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
You know that.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
And that's that's a that's an amasi. I'll tell you
some man, the two things have to happen. You gotta
have talent, you gotta have accept the blessing with God
is point you in that direction. A lot of people
don't see that because they just see work.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Because you saw because he's telling the truth.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
When I said five five thirty, he really thought it
was afternoon, you know, and a lot of people go
mass too early. I'm not a I'm not a morning person,
you know. But he just went, Man, let's do this.
And we used to have Thomas go to go to
He would always come in the studio. We tell her, hey, man,
go over to the L A. F. The street was
in Los Angeles, go over to Christmpy Kreme on Krin
Sharp remember.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Because he had to always act like he did. He
forgot to come to work. That was his character. He
forgot to come to work. Oh oh I'm sick, he
would always.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
And then the time for New Year's Eve, when you
took over his house, the city city went crazy.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
And I don't think people, I don't think people realized
what I was in the street before you brought me
into the studio.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Yes, yes, and that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
In the winter, it was there was some cold times, man,
and we wasn't kicking out, no real money.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
But he said he sold you know something, man, I
believe in this, you know.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
And and the reason I bring up their story because
everybody wants a check nowadays.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Everybody want I'm gonna get paid. They don't see the opportunity.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Put the work in. Go put the work in.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
If you looked at other ways, say hey, man, anybody
paying me? No, I ain't gonna do all that craziness,
we wouldn't be talking today.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
We wouldn't be talking to Thomas Miles.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
That's true. That's true.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
And let me and let me say this to your
to your audience, man, is is when we first started
doing these prank calls right, and and and and and
you know, I did a couple of it, and they went, well,
mister Rusim McDonald comes in and say, I'm.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Gonna need five every week. I need five. I was like,
I was like, now you're not man, people hanging up
on me. I don't care. I need five.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
So every week I was like, oh my god, he
wants this spy. I was so mad about that.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I'm like, why does he.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Want he won't I want five every week? I need
one for every day of the week for money through.
I don't need five, man.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
I look back now, I got over three hundred plus
prank calls. It is a library that is just amazing
because now you know, everyone knows my voice. But but
the time that you was making me grind and do
it is the time that I was accumulating all of
that library that you It had no earthly idea that
(20:32):
I'll be able to look back and say.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Oh my god, I got a gold mine. Yes, I
got a gold mine, you know.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
But then as we as we drift through this conversation,
I got to go back to the philanthropy side of you.
I remember early on when when you was going over
during the during the comedy shows. You remember, I think
he was on Air Force two, not Air Force one,
Air Force two, you know, flying over there with the generals,
and man, we we didn't see that, Tommy, you know,
(20:57):
but now that's that's part of your your brand. Talk
about that.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Mm hm.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
So so you know, you guys allowed me to go
over and perform for the troops manu Uso tour. I
think the first one I was with. I was with
Robert or Minka Kelly uh uh Jordan Sparks who won
American Idol, and.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
We go over. Yeah, we go over there and perform
for the troops.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
And you know, we would we would go to hospitals
and and and different places and visit, uh, all these
guys in the military. But one guy had just had surgery,
had his legs, had his legs blown off, and he
was just waking up while we were in the room.
And man, we're standing around and while he's coming to
and we start taking pictures with him. Man, and he says,
(21:42):
he says, hey, I'd like to I'd like to keep
taking pictures with y'all, but I got to get back
to my men. He hasn't realized what's happened. And man,
we said, now we me Robert or Jordan's spark. We man,
we are in tears, we crying. And when we came
out of that room, I asked one of the soldiers,
I say, hey, man, what happens to these soldiers when
(22:04):
they get back home? I said, what do we take
care of these guys? They say, yeah, it's a it's
a system you gotta go through, you know. But I say,
but what about the right now?
Speaker 6 (22:13):
Right?
Speaker 4 (22:14):
And he said, well, you know, that's always the struggle.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
So man, when I came back home, I said, now
I've found something that I'm passionate about.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
And that's where I came up with Miles of Giving.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
And my thing was, I want to be able to
give back to people right now. So whether it's a
thousand or fifteen hundred dollars, you'll be surprised what that
does to a soldier immediately or what they're going through.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
And that's what Miles of Good Giving stands on. Man,
we are about right now.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
Finish. We don't have to send our money. It ain't
got to get approved by nobody. I'm gonna send this
man two thousand dollars. I'm gonna send this lady, three
thousand dollars. We are the Right Now Foundation. That's who
we are, Miles to.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Give right now because man, you know we say thank
you for your service. Time is what service needs to
be more than to thank you, you know, excut And
that's that's important. And I just love the way and
that's see the beauty of that. That's Thomas Miles and nephew.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Thomas right there.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Yes, sir see, that's that's a combined blessing of this
boy's talent. And I said boy in a very affectionate
way because I've known him so long, and uh, in
the neighborhood, you can call this there's my boy. And
everybody said, oh, that's cool, it's good, you know, but
I know that when I'm talking to you, Thomas, you know,
ready to love. You know, this is the show. This
is a show that's changed your life, but another show
(23:33):
that you did. All know if you're still.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
Doing you're still doing the Black the Black College quit, Yes,
Black Collage quit.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
You're still doing that.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
We're coming up this fall with shooting the new season.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Yes, sir, Okay, you get worse than Steve.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Okay, okay, hold on, hold on, y'all, hold on, let
me start counting out.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Ready to Love number one.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Yeah, eighteen women, eighteen plus black women, Steve Harry morning
the show.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Tell me when I stopped, when I got it, when
I went, I of.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Fingers, okay, black college quids, okay, stand up comedian okay,
you know the actor.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
I'm fine, man, My one hand is feeled right now
to fall.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
And then then then he got the library over there,
a pray phone girl said, that's a six job.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
It's just it's just that's mail box money. That's mail
box money. Then he Philanchbor, a family man.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
All that and a family man at the same time.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
How is all this happening? Now?
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Brother?
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Where are you at now? Where's the future for Thomas Bowles?
Speaker 5 (24:37):
I think I'm in a I think I'm in a
better place now, rashwan, a good place where it's now.
It's about what I want to do? What I want
to do?
Speaker 4 (24:45):
What?
Speaker 5 (24:45):
What do I want to show people that they haven't
seen about me yet?
Speaker 4 (24:49):
What?
Speaker 5 (24:49):
What what talent do I want to pull out and
and and show you? So you know, just recently I
shot a movie on on Lifetime with Stephanie Mills called Pride,
which is under the umbrella of Bishop TD Jakes and
Derek Williams. So now people are starting to see that
other side of Thomas Miles that oh my god, the boy.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Can the boy can act, he can go right.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
So so so now you're getting those phone calls we
would love you to come, uh do this role or
do that role. So I think that's the next platform
is trying to do that more on a consistent basis.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Well, the next platform is to start in your own
sitcom or lead your own drama. Because you got the town.
You know, that's what you went to Texas A and
M for. Okay, exactly exactly one wait, none of that
degree at Texa A and M.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Brow. Let's gonna put out that new I'm gonna make
a man sharing love with the with the new.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Hey man, thank you for taking the time to come
on the show, not only talk about the number one
showing on every Friday. African American Women eighteen to plus
the twenty twenty two is back on. Now you can
hear him every five days a week on Steve brod
Morning Show as nephew Thomas. We all know him back
from Houston, Texas as Thomas Miles. Thank your brother for
coming on Money Making Conversation Masterclass.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
Thank you sir, Thank you for having me man five
I need five every week.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Five fye job that.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
What you talking about? Five by job fie job.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
Thank you for joining us for this edition of Money
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