My next two guests are Marquis Lupton and William Way Jr. They are two of the founders of TCP Network, TCP stands for The Cultured Professional Network. They recently took their business up another notch this new year, bringing their content on Roku, launching their Roku channel TCP TV. TCP TV aims to give people of color and other disenfranchised groups a voice and platform and supports its community through broadcasted content, community service events, and media literacy camps for kids. Please welcome to Money Making Conversations, Marquis Lupton, and William Way Jr.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome to Money Making Conversations. It's the show that she
has the secrets of success experience firsthand by marketing and
Brandon expert Rashan McDonald. I will know he's giving me
advice to many occasions. In the case you didn't notice,
I'm not broke, you know he'll be interviewing celebrity CEOs,
entrepreneurs and industry decision makers. It's what he likes to do,
it's what he likes to share. Now it's time to
(00:25):
hear from my man, Rashan McDonald money Making Conversations. Here
we come. Welcome to Money Making Conversations. I am your host,
Rashean McDonald. It's important to understand that everybody travels a
different path to success their challenge. Use your face in
your life. They're be different. So it really tell everybody
stop reading your stop reading other people's success stories. That
(00:45):
really started writing your own. Now you can be motivated
by this success. I always tell people about that you
can read their stories, but remember it's their story and
it's portant you started writing your own story and starting
your own goals and start playing in and being committed
to your own personal effort. My next two guys about
being committed to their effort, being commoted to a plan.
And actually, I'm for sure when they started talking about
(01:06):
this dream, people probably looked at them sideways told him
that was impossible, that could only be one b et.
You know, people, I always tell people, don't let your friends,
your your relatives, your church followers, or anybody even somebody
you love who loves you swear you from your dream.
I want to tell people also that if you try
to be a doctor, don't talk to a mechanic. Vice version,
(01:28):
try to be a mechanics, don't talk to a doctor.
So you have to go to people who understand you.
And that's why I created Money Making Conversation. My next
two years are my Keith Lupton and Win Wait the
second I call him w W two. There two of
the followers of TCP Network. TCP stands for the Cultural
Professional Network. They recently took their business up in another
notch in this new year, bringing their content on Roku,
(01:50):
which is really really important, launching their real CoA channel
TCP TV. TCPTV aims to give people all color and
other disenfranchise groups of voice on this platform and supports
this community through broadcasting content, community service events, and media
literacy camps for kids. Please work with the money making conversation,
my friends, because we've been trying to get this connected
(02:11):
by three weeks. Marquetes Loveton and he's not in studio,
but if my man the w W two William wait
a second, thank you for having us, Thank you for
having us. You know you know you got anything like that,
w W. I gotta give you some hype, you know
what I'm saying. Well, guys, you know there's a conversation
I'm having with both of you about the network called
(02:33):
the Cultural Professional Network, and uh, you know sometimes I'm
gonna reference you Markees and something reference you within. But
feel free to create this in a conversation about your
brand that each one feels comfortable. A boy chiming in
because I really want to let my audience know and
also build name and brand recognition. That's what it's about
when you come on shows like this, so people walk
(02:55):
away with a clear understanding what you're trying to do.
And I want to just start the interview saying congratulations
by getting on the realcup platform. Thank you very much,
Thank you very much. Appreciate it. It was it was
actually a um uh, it was part of our like
five year plan um and it and it happened in
(03:15):
in three years, you know. Uh. So it's a um
testament um to the team that we have right now
we have to date about about forty people, uh that
that helped this thing move you know, um um and
and everyone from start to finish, top to bottom left right,
UM has has really helped this dream come true. Now
(03:38):
when you say dream come true, what is the dream? Uh?
The dream? The dream is all right, UM, if I
can have everybody just a dream with me real quick, alright. Uh.
On the right hand side, you have your local news
you know, your local affiliate, your your ABC, CBS is NBCs. Uh.
(04:00):
You know that that this group over here, they're they're
not going to cover certain stories UM that that effect
uh certain neighborhoods. Um, certain neighborhoods. You know that they're
only gonna have a narrative um come out of that
neighborhood that they're not going to search for those um
field good stories, those stories that take a little bit
(04:23):
more elbow breaths to get. So you have your local
affiliates over here over here, you have your CB, I
mean your major CBS is. You have your CNN's MSNBC
S and you have your b E T s. UM.
We know that when when they talk about the melonated people, uh,
people of color in this country. Uh, it's it's more
(04:46):
so like a broad stroke. It's never gonna get down
to individual communities, uh, individual neighborhoods. Uh. That's where TCP exists.
We exist right in that middle, um be because we
know that the local affiliates, UM, they're not going to
get the stories that really address us UM and the
(05:08):
national Uh, they're not really going to have that microscope
so to speak to UM to break down certain stories
that happen in certain neighborhoods, communities and what have you.
So we exist kind of right in that middle sphere. Uh.
And as we said, let me ask you now, William.
Now the network has ten shows, and now you have
(05:29):
a show which I'm about to ask you to start talking.
It's tall say less, so you know which is you know,
in the in the world of what we're talking about,
a lot of people say sometimes you should speak up.
So we have a tyler call say less. Well, what
do you mean by that? Say less is actually probably
the opposite, because we saved the most UM that is exactly.
(05:56):
It's kind of like, uh, just a player on where
we We are very outspoken on our show. If you've
ever seen Say Less for anybody out there. We we
cover pop culture, but we also get into social issues
and we do it unfiltered. We do it with uh
with with no no uh. There's there's nobody to tell
(06:19):
us what we can and can't set. And that's what
you get with TCP and you won't get on regular
news and regular TV. Like we don't have nobody telling
us we can't say this and we can't say that.
So we okay because nobody else, Okay, say less. I'm against,
don't say let's I'm on the show. Okay, let's talk
about some of the topic because you know, that's what
(06:41):
money making conversation is. It's a conversation about the community.
It allows you to have a void like I got
you know, I've got special guest Marquis over here, you know,
and I'm just stumbling at the opponent show. Hit me
with a couple of topics so I can join in,
come on with you. Okay. Well, yesterday we we didn't
say Less, and I started talking to about colorism. Okay,
(07:01):
So because There was a conversation on one day to
Miami where Jim Brown had checked You're not checked. But
he was speaking to Malcolm lex and he asked, why
was he so militant? Uh? What was he militant? Didn't
have to do but because he was light skinned. Um,
And I think colorism, I know colorism still exists today.
Has colorism affected chewing anyway? Now? I would say that
(07:25):
because I'm a black man. Anytime I walk in a room,
I've lost I've lost my competitive edge because you know
who I am. Okay, that's where white people don't have
to deal with colorism, you know, now have to deal
with being a different shade. I don't know if they
are tag you. I don't know if they Jewish, I
don't know if they Greek. You know, in some situations,
I might not even know that you are from a
Latin American country. So colorism just taking it out of
(07:47):
the African American community, which we know exists there as well.
But from a global perspective, I I am at a
loss because you know, my eights. I can't play a game,
I can't play in the shadow or me being somebody else,
are coming from a different culture because you know, for
a fact, I'm either African or I'm black, and so
(08:08):
looking at who I am, you're probably gonna say he's
a black guy. So from a colorism has always played
a a game in my life, but I haven't let
it stop me because I've realized that's the hand I've
been dealt with. And so with that being said, I
always tell people. We might tell people, you know, racism
does exist, so it's your your purpose to get in
(08:29):
the sightline of the decision makers. I always tell people
decisions are always made when people are looking forward. People
never look back to make a decision. They never do.
They never turned around. Go oh, let me see who's
behind me. Oh Bill, I want you to come back here.
They make a decision looking fraud left the right. And
so that's how I see what your brand TCP. You know,
(08:49):
you guys are in front of the decision makers. Now
who are the decision makers? The viewers? And so so
when you ask me about my color, I always tell people, look,
I deal with it, but my job is to be
in front of the decision makers. And as long as
I can stand in front of the decision makers, I
have an edge. And I'm not gonna let that beat
me down. And that's how I've been able to stay
(09:12):
ahead of the curve. I hear that, that all right,
because like, come on you again, I love well you know,
but but that's why that's why when I when I
reached out to you guys, because I saw an article
on you and I want you know, we all got
(09:33):
to have a plane. You know, everybody has this theory
because you know, I grew up on BT like we
all did. And BT started out with music videos and
then they started you know, my boy Ed Gordon was
the what's the you know, it was the black voice
of news, and then all of a sudden, BT kind
of like went away. They stopped serving the public for
for they never would They never did um do it
(09:55):
yourself shows, They never did cooking shows you see on
this trying to go in that direction. So black people
have always been catered to like, you know, we want action,
we want a comedy, and uh, you want music in
the entertainment world, especially in the television of the streaming medium.
So that's why I'm happy to see what you guys
(10:16):
doing because when I see hip hop and politics, King's
Court Boss talk sit down with the Johnson's you know,
say less opinionated facts. These are shows that I've been
waiting for because of streaming networks and innovative gentlemen like
you allowed me and my family and my friends and
people of color to say, guess what, we can participate
(10:38):
absolutely and and and that's really what what helped build CCP. UM.
We we built this thing off of uh Facebook, off
of Facebook line. Uh. So so it was that that
audience participation. UM. It was it was active, active TV
watching UM, where where as a viewer, UM, you're not
(11:01):
only watching the content, but you can be a part
of the conversation and and really helped control the flow
of the conversation to a degree. UM and UM and
especially over the pandemic. UM when when everything shut down, Uh,
that's when we really experienced a a explosion because everybody
(11:25):
was at home. UM, everybody was just scrolling through their phone. UM.
So what we said, UM, we had to move on
from the studio that we were at UM at that
time because of COVID, and we said, all right, well look, UM,
we're just gonna do this from my garage. UM, and
we're just going to broadcast from my garage. And and
(11:47):
for about four months UM in the pandemic, we broadcasted
from my garage. We did it it up um a
little bit UM. But during that time, again, people were
just scrolling and scrolling and scrolling and just absorbing and
and really enjoying our content. UM. And then with that
(12:09):
the protests over the summer came UM and and that's
when we we witnessed another search because we were we
were right in the thick of things, UM, getting getting
the real stories, getting the real reactions of the people. UM.
We we went to places where other other journalists UM
(12:29):
may have been a bit fearful UM. But because we
shared the same personal story um of other people that
were protesting, we had access to places and people during
that time that really helped us tell tell the story UM.
And and that's where people began to really see the
(12:50):
the effect and the reason why we exist cool. We Uh,
we were all down. It was terrible, but it was
a lot to talk about, and that makes for great content.
So we spoke about it. When you say we take terrible,
you're talking about the George Floyd or the loss of
(13:11):
life from COVID. Because it was just overtly affected. People
of color were the terrible part about the conversation. All
of the above COVID hit and um, we we never
stopped working, so we was they saw in real time.
Our reaction was like their reaction, like we we had
(13:31):
no idea what we were going through. Like it was.
It was a scary time. And then during that time,
the George Floyd thing happened, and all over the country,
including our city, there were there were protests everywhere and
we were on the front lines. We were at the protests,
we were covering these things. And during these protests, a
young man was killed by police in our very city
(13:52):
and we were first on the scene to cover that.
So like all of these things, like we were there,
we were, we were in the mix. We were in
d c for for for that march they get your
knee off our next march, we were there, like we
were everywhere during this year. Um, when it was just
rough for people, we will, we will, we will working.
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and which I'm a big fan of and it it
feels very much that you guys are doing VICE, which
is organic, authentic programming that feels gritty and uh from
(16:27):
from our on the original point of view. Am I
close to saying the style of program that you guys
are trying to bring to the to the people of
color community. UM. I would say that we're a mix
between UM VICE and UM and c y T on
the Young turts UM. But we're just melanated, you know,
(16:51):
it's mellanated media like we like to say, you know,
now we got this step programs. You know, I'm gonna
take it this way. I would take it away away.
You know, when I look at Boss Talk and I
look at King's Chord and hip hop and politics, you know,
that to me is I'm not seeing that nowhere else.
So that's important to hear that because I can't hear
(17:11):
that on the radio. I can't hear that on Serious
x M, even though they say that's what they do.
You know, you know they you know, they they they've
had the same people to host the same shows for
the last ten years. And that's serious talk. And if
you go to the to the HBC used, they're over
there inundated by jazz stations and adult program It really
(17:34):
is crazy to me when I go to college stations
and I go, who are they trying to the listeners
fitting up? And so that means they missed the whole
voice of what I think these schools are supposed to
be at tuned into. And so so when I listened
what you guys are doing, it feels like I'm hitting
the millennial generation well much that am I wrong in
(17:54):
saying that, No, we were we were blessed with the Internet,
and with the Internet we were able to cut out
the the middleman and give it to the people's straight,
no filter, and and that's what we try to do. It.
We're gonna hit it from all angles using the technology
that we had and the technology that we've had when
(18:15):
we started to the technology that we have now has
allowed us to be capable of doing things that we
wouldn't even have dreamed about in the beginning. And so
so it's moving at a rapid pace. And yeah, that's
that's exactly what we're gonna do, is take complete advantage
of every media platform that we can. Now, he's a
funny part. Now you know you said you started on
(18:35):
Facebook live, So im impression that y'all y'all were like
out there. Yeah, it was raw, it was unpredictable. Uh,
it was learning on the on the fly. People people
comment and you're dropping some information accurate, but it was
from the heart. Talk about those earliest early years. So
(18:57):
of lunch the oh man. So um so, we we
started um in in a community center, um in in
a um studio that wasn't used for ten years. Um
so there was there was just terrible, terrible, terrible reception um,
(19:20):
no ventilation. Uh. And and we had to hold our
phones so like we we would have to hold the
phone for an hour, you know, seventy five minutes, ninety minutes,
however long the show is. And our arm was a
tripod and like I'm coming up was like a money joke. Uh,
TCP t C p Uh, they'll have you hold the phone.
(19:44):
They'll have you hold the phone for an hour. You know.
So so that was really like, UM, that was a
humbling Uh. It was very very humbling. And then UM,
and then at times when the community center was closed,
you know, we had to figure out ways to still
put on the show and everything because we wanted to
(20:04):
be consistent with this um our start is what really
is our strong foundation, because we really leaned on one another,
um at the beginning, and and and now we can
share those stories now like oh we got a studio now.
But at the beginning, UM, I remember when we were
(20:27):
running off of one life, you know, UM, when we
were all sweating in the studio, those signs were very humbling.
Don't they lock us out the building and we can't
get in? But you know, and that your Roku your
Roku challenge, you know, it's like it's like it's it's like,
don't let when I when I hear your story and
(20:48):
I read your story, it's really about overcoming the odds
and like I said, people kicking dirt in your face
and people caution you, people being more critical but not
seeing the vision or the passion of the hope, the dreams.
And now you're on the Rocal channel, which is the
ultimate platform for you know, for for streaming channels. It
really is you know, you know roal coul is like
(21:09):
it's like you know you you you you get it all.
Like any small TV as real coup. That's the beauty
of when you're going from a technology standpoint, you're not
being left. If you buy a new TV, it's a
small TV, it will have Rocal channel and you guys
are on that. How can one find your on the
search button on the Recal channel, Go up and and
(21:30):
type in your search for TCP television in the pot
right up click Okay, now who started crying for who?
Who was like and disbelief and kept typing in TCP TCP.
That makes sure it worked. I think I watched it
for seven I'm the biggest absolutely well, when you got
(21:58):
your brother Brandon Way. He does Opinionated Facts. I see
I love this a family operation because I see Marquis, Marquis,
you have a you have you have a TCP in
the morning, you have that show. And then I see
uh Reverend Sherry Lufton UH does reset Boss Talking by
Jesse Cannon, Kings Corp by Andre Dixon, Hip Hop and
(22:21):
Politics by Nina Falk Tae Kwon Ryan. I love that.
What is tid Floorida? What's his tip floor? Um Tip Florida.
That is um. That is our sports and and pop
culture show. And it also takes a little a little
deeper look into sports, uh than our affinionated Facts show.
(22:44):
Um U affinionated facts. That's more. You know, it's in
its name opinions. Tim Floria takes it tastes a little
bit deeper, looking at UH statistics and tying that into
UH pop culture and whatnot. Well, my and how can
I help you? I got you Twitter, I got social media.
(23:04):
I got one point six million brand influencers. I'd love
to be able to send me some banners because that's
what this show is developed. You know, I'm not charging
anybody anything, but you know, God has allowed me to
live my dream. This is part of my dream, you know,
being able to talk to talented individuals like you, not
consider your visionaries and the visionaries. Uh, I need partnerships.
(23:26):
I'm a partner and then trying to be able to
market and be able to get the word out. So
if you send me banners I put in my weekly newsletter.
You sent me banners I posted on my social media
because I'm proud of you, and I just want to
thank you guys for being patient with me because we
rescheduled a couple of times because in earnest I wanted
to put my best foot forward and presenting this interview
(23:47):
to America. I really appreciate it. Hey, William Marquees, thank
you for coming on the show. Uh, money making Conversation
platform dot com Okay cool, thank you for coming on
the show. I want to appreciate you all. We're gonna
get this aired immediately and we're gonna start the voting
and doing our part to make this winning situation and
winn an opportunity. I'm so proud of you guys to
(24:08):
be on that real coup platform. I really that is
a big deal. It's not nothing that I'm gonna shy
away from. And say that anybody can get on it,
and that's not true. You're creating a valid, consumable program
for people of color. Your TIN shows are only the beginning. Again,
thank you for taking the time to come on Money
Making Conversation and like I was told, everybody to keep winning. Okay,
thank you for having us. Thanks forever cool. Alright. If
(24:30):
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Welcome to Money Making Conversations. It's the show that she
has the secrets of success experience firsthand by marketing and
Brandon expert Rashan McDonald. I will know he's giving me
advice to many occasions. In the case you didn't notice,
I'm not broke, you know he'll be interviewing celebrity CEOs,
entrepreneurs and industry decision makers. It's what he likes to do,
it's what he likes to share. Now it's time to
(00:25):
hear from my man, Rashan McDonald money Making Conversations. Here
we come. Welcome to Money Making Conversations. I am your host,
Rashean McDonald. It's important to understand that everybody travels a
different path to success their challenge. Use your face in
your life. They're be different. So it really tell everybody
stop reading your stop reading other people's success stories. That
(00:45):
really started writing your own. Now you can be motivated
by this success. I always tell people about that you
can read their stories, but remember it's their story and
it's portant you started writing your own story and starting
your own goals and start playing in and being committed
to your own personal effort. My next two guys about
being committed to their effort, being commoted to a plan.
And actually, I'm for sure when they started talking about
(01:06):
this dream, people probably looked at them sideways told him
that was impossible, that could only be one b et.
You know, people, I always tell people, don't let your friends,
your your relatives, your church followers, or anybody even somebody
you love who loves you swear you from your dream.
I want to tell people also that if you try
to be a doctor, don't talk to a mechanic. Vice version,
(01:28):
try to be a mechanics, don't talk to a doctor.
So you have to go to people who understand you.
And that's why I created Money Making Conversation. My next
two years are my Keith Lupton and Win Wait the
second I call him w W two. There two of
the followers of TCP Network. TCP stands for the Cultural
Professional Network. They recently took their business up in another
notch in this new year, bringing their content on Roku,
(01:50):
which is really really important, launching their real CoA channel
TCP TV. TCPTV aims to give people all color and
other disenfranchise groups of voice on this platform and supports
this community through broadcasting content, community service events, and media
literacy camps for kids. Please work with the money making conversation,
my friends, because we've been trying to get this connected
(02:11):
by three weeks. Marquetes Loveton and he's not in studio,
but if my man the w W two William wait
a second, thank you for having us, Thank you for
having us. You know you know you got anything like that,
w W. I gotta give you some hype, you know
what I'm saying. Well, guys, you know there's a conversation
I'm having with both of you about the network called
(02:33):
the Cultural Professional Network, and uh, you know sometimes I'm
gonna reference you Markees and something reference you within. But
feel free to create this in a conversation about your
brand that each one feels comfortable. A boy chiming in
because I really want to let my audience know and
also build name and brand recognition. That's what it's about
when you come on shows like this, so people walk
(02:55):
away with a clear understanding what you're trying to do.
And I want to just start the interview saying congratulations
by getting on the realcup platform. Thank you very much,
Thank you very much. Appreciate it. It was it was
actually a um uh, it was part of our like
five year plan um and it and it happened in
(03:15):
in three years, you know. Uh. So it's a um
testament um to the team that we have right now
we have to date about about forty people, uh that
that helped this thing move you know, um um and
and everyone from start to finish, top to bottom left right,
UM has has really helped this dream come true. Now
(03:38):
when you say dream come true, what is the dream? Uh?
The dream? The dream is all right, UM, if I
can have everybody just a dream with me real quick, alright. Uh.
On the right hand side, you have your local news
you know, your local affiliate, your your ABC, CBS is NBCs. Uh.
(04:00):
You know that that this group over here, they're they're
not going to cover certain stories UM that that effect
uh certain neighborhoods. Um, certain neighborhoods. You know that they're
only gonna have a narrative um come out of that
neighborhood that they're not going to search for those um
field good stories, those stories that take a little bit
(04:23):
more elbow breaths to get. So you have your local
affiliates over here over here, you have your CB, I
mean your major CBS is. You have your CNN's MSNBC
S and you have your b E T s. UM.
We know that when when they talk about the melonated people, uh,
people of color in this country. Uh, it's it's more
(04:46):
so like a broad stroke. It's never gonna get down
to individual communities, uh, individual neighborhoods. Uh. That's where TCP exists.
We exist right in that middle, um be because we
know that the local affiliates, UM, they're not going to
get the stories that really address us UM and the
(05:08):
national Uh, they're not really going to have that microscope
so to speak to UM to break down certain stories
that happen in certain neighborhoods, communities and what have you.
So we exist kind of right in that middle sphere. Uh.
And as we said, let me ask you now, William.
Now the network has ten shows, and now you have
(05:29):
a show which I'm about to ask you to start talking.
It's tall say less, so you know which is you know,
in the in the world of what we're talking about,
a lot of people say sometimes you should speak up.
So we have a tyler call say less. Well, what
do you mean by that? Say less is actually probably
the opposite, because we saved the most UM that is exactly.
(05:56):
It's kind of like, uh, just a player on where
we We are very outspoken on our show. If you've
ever seen Say Less for anybody out there. We we
cover pop culture, but we also get into social issues
and we do it unfiltered. We do it with uh
with with no no uh. There's there's nobody to tell
(06:19):
us what we can and can't set. And that's what
you get with TCP and you won't get on regular
news and regular TV. Like we don't have nobody telling
us we can't say this and we can't say that.
So we okay because nobody else, Okay, say less. I'm against,
don't say let's I'm on the show. Okay, let's talk
about some of the topic because you know, that's what
(06:41):
money making conversation is. It's a conversation about the community.
It allows you to have a void like I got
you know, I've got special guest Marquis over here, you know,
and I'm just stumbling at the opponent show. Hit me
with a couple of topics so I can join in,
come on with you. Okay. Well, yesterday we we didn't
say Less, and I started talking to about colorism. Okay,
(07:01):
So because There was a conversation on one day to
Miami where Jim Brown had checked You're not checked. But
he was speaking to Malcolm lex and he asked, why
was he so militant? Uh? What was he militant? Didn't
have to do but because he was light skinned. Um,
And I think colorism, I know colorism still exists today.
Has colorism affected chewing anyway? Now? I would say that
(07:25):
because I'm a black man. Anytime I walk in a room,
I've lost I've lost my competitive edge because you know
who I am. Okay, that's where white people don't have
to deal with colorism, you know, now have to deal
with being a different shade. I don't know if they
are tag you. I don't know if they Jewish, I
don't know if they Greek. You know, in some situations,
I might not even know that you are from a
Latin American country. So colorism just taking it out of
(07:47):
the African American community, which we know exists there as well.
But from a global perspective, I I am at a
loss because you know, my eights. I can't play a game,
I can't play in the shadow or me being somebody else,
are coming from a different culture because you know, for
a fact, I'm either African or I'm black, and so
(08:08):
looking at who I am, you're probably gonna say he's
a black guy. So from a colorism has always played
a a game in my life, but I haven't let
it stop me because I've realized that's the hand I've
been dealt with. And so with that being said, I
always tell people. We might tell people, you know, racism
does exist, so it's your your purpose to get in
(08:29):
the sightline of the decision makers. I always tell people
decisions are always made when people are looking forward. People
never look back to make a decision. They never do.
They never turned around. Go oh, let me see who's
behind me. Oh Bill, I want you to come back here.
They make a decision looking fraud left the right. And
so that's how I see what your brand TCP. You know,
(08:49):
you guys are in front of the decision makers. Now
who are the decision makers? The viewers? And so so
when you ask me about my color, I always tell people, look,
I deal with it, but my job is to be
in front of the decision makers. And as long as
I can stand in front of the decision makers, I
have an edge. And I'm not gonna let that beat
me down. And that's how I've been able to stay
(09:12):
ahead of the curve. I hear that, that all right,
because like, come on you again, I love well you know,
but but that's why that's why when I when I
reached out to you guys, because I saw an article
on you and I want you know, we all got
(09:33):
to have a plane. You know, everybody has this theory
because you know, I grew up on BT like we
all did. And BT started out with music videos and
then they started you know, my boy Ed Gordon was
the what's the you know, it was the black voice
of news, and then all of a sudden, BT kind
of like went away. They stopped serving the public for
for they never would They never did um do it
(09:55):
yourself shows, They never did cooking shows you see on
this trying to go in that direction. So black people
have always been catered to like, you know, we want action,
we want a comedy, and uh, you want music in
the entertainment world, especially in the television of the streaming medium.
So that's why I'm happy to see what you guys
(10:16):
doing because when I see hip hop and politics, King's
Court Boss talk sit down with the Johnson's you know,
say less opinionated facts. These are shows that I've been
waiting for because of streaming networks and innovative gentlemen like
you allowed me and my family and my friends and
people of color to say, guess what, we can participate
(10:38):
absolutely and and and that's really what what helped build CCP. UM.
We we built this thing off of uh Facebook, off
of Facebook line. Uh. So so it was that that
audience participation. UM. It was it was active, active TV
watching UM, where where as a viewer, UM, you're not
(11:01):
only watching the content, but you can be a part
of the conversation and and really helped control the flow
of the conversation to a degree. UM and UM and
especially over the pandemic. UM when when everything shut down, Uh,
that's when we really experienced a a explosion because everybody
(11:25):
was at home. UM, everybody was just scrolling through their phone. UM.
So what we said, UM, we had to move on
from the studio that we were at UM at that
time because of COVID, and we said, all right, well look, UM,
we're just gonna do this from my garage. UM, and
we're just going to broadcast from my garage. And and
(11:47):
for about four months UM in the pandemic, we broadcasted
from my garage. We did it it up um a
little bit UM. But during that time, again, people were
just scrolling and scrolling and scrolling and just absorbing and
and really enjoying our content. UM. And then with that
(12:09):
the protests over the summer came UM and and that's
when we we witnessed another search because we were we
were right in the thick of things, UM, getting getting
the real stories, getting the real reactions of the people. UM.
We we went to places where other other journalists UM
(12:29):
may have been a bit fearful UM. But because we
shared the same personal story um of other people that
were protesting, we had access to places and people during
that time that really helped us tell tell the story UM.
And and that's where people began to really see the
(12:50):
the effect and the reason why we exist cool. We Uh,
we were all down. It was terrible, but it was
a lot to talk about, and that makes for great content.
So we spoke about it. When you say we take terrible,
you're talking about the George Floyd or the loss of
(13:11):
life from COVID. Because it was just overtly affected. People
of color were the terrible part about the conversation. All
of the above COVID hit and um, we we never
stopped working, so we was they saw in real time.
Our reaction was like their reaction, like we we had
(13:31):
no idea what we were going through. Like it was.
It was a scary time. And then during that time,
the George Floyd thing happened, and all over the country,
including our city, there were there were protests everywhere and
we were on the front lines. We were at the protests,
we were covering these things. And during these protests, a
young man was killed by police in our very city
(13:52):
and we were first on the scene to cover that.
So like all of these things, like we were there,
we were, we were in the mix. We were in
d c for for for that march they get your
knee off our next march, we were there, like we
were everywhere during this year. Um, when it was just
rough for people, we will, we will, we will working.
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T E R dot ai. You know Vice UH programming
and which I'm a big fan of and it it
feels very much that you guys are doing VICE, which
is organic, authentic programming that feels gritty and uh from
(16:27):
from our on the original point of view. Am I
close to saying the style of program that you guys
are trying to bring to the to the people of
color community. UM. I would say that we're a mix
between UM VICE and UM and c y T on
the Young turts UM. But we're just melanated, you know,
(16:51):
it's mellanated media like we like to say, you know,
now we got this step programs. You know, I'm gonna
take it this way. I would take it away away.
You know, when I look at Boss Talk and I
look at King's Chord and hip hop and politics, you know,
that to me is I'm not seeing that nowhere else.
So that's important to hear that because I can't hear
(17:11):
that on the radio. I can't hear that on Serious
x M, even though they say that's what they do.
You know, you know they you know, they they they've
had the same people to host the same shows for
the last ten years. And that's serious talk. And if
you go to the to the HBC used, they're over
there inundated by jazz stations and adult program It really
(17:34):
is crazy to me when I go to college stations
and I go, who are they trying to the listeners
fitting up? And so that means they missed the whole
voice of what I think these schools are supposed to
be at tuned into. And so so when I listened
what you guys are doing, it feels like I'm hitting
the millennial generation well much that am I wrong in
(17:54):
saying that, No, we were we were blessed with the Internet,
and with the Internet we were able to cut out
the the middleman and give it to the people's straight,
no filter, and and that's what we try to do. It.
We're gonna hit it from all angles using the technology
that we had and the technology that we've had when
(18:15):
we started to the technology that we have now has
allowed us to be capable of doing things that we
wouldn't even have dreamed about in the beginning. And so
so it's moving at a rapid pace. And yeah, that's
that's exactly what we're gonna do, is take complete advantage
of every media platform that we can. Now, he's a
funny part. Now you know you said you started on
(18:35):
Facebook live, So im impression that y'all y'all were like
out there. Yeah, it was raw, it was unpredictable. Uh,
it was learning on the on the fly. People people
comment and you're dropping some information accurate, but it was
from the heart. Talk about those earliest early years. So
(18:57):
of lunch the oh man. So um so, we we
started um in in a community center, um in in
a um studio that wasn't used for ten years. Um
so there was there was just terrible, terrible, terrible reception um,
(19:20):
no ventilation. Uh. And and we had to hold our
phones so like we we would have to hold the
phone for an hour, you know, seventy five minutes, ninety minutes,
however long the show is. And our arm was a
tripod and like I'm coming up was like a money joke. Uh,
TCP t C p Uh, they'll have you hold the phone.
(19:44):
They'll have you hold the phone for an hour. You know.
So so that was really like, UM, that was a
humbling Uh. It was very very humbling. And then UM,
and then at times when the community center was closed,
you know, we had to figure out ways to still
put on the show and everything because we wanted to
(20:04):
be consistent with this um our start is what really
is our strong foundation, because we really leaned on one another,
um at the beginning, and and and now we can
share those stories now like oh we got a studio now.
But at the beginning, UM, I remember when we were
(20:27):
running off of one life, you know, UM, when we
were all sweating in the studio, those signs were very humbling.
Don't they lock us out the building and we can't
get in? But you know, and that your Roku your
Roku challenge, you know, it's like it's like it's it's like,
don't let when I when I hear your story and
(20:48):
I read your story, it's really about overcoming the odds
and like I said, people kicking dirt in your face
and people caution you, people being more critical but not
seeing the vision or the passion of the hope, the dreams.
And now you're on the Rocal channel, which is the
ultimate platform for you know, for for streaming channels. It
really is you know, you know roal coul is like
(21:09):
it's like you know you you you you get it all.
Like any small TV as real coup. That's the beauty
of when you're going from a technology standpoint, you're not
being left. If you buy a new TV, it's a
small TV, it will have Rocal channel and you guys
are on that. How can one find your on the
search button on the Recal channel, Go up and and
(21:30):
type in your search for TCP television in the pot
right up click Okay, now who started crying for who?
Who was like and disbelief and kept typing in TCP TCP.
That makes sure it worked. I think I watched it
for seven I'm the biggest absolutely well, when you got
(21:58):
your brother Brandon Way. He does Opinionated Facts. I see
I love this a family operation because I see Marquis, Marquis,
you have a you have you have a TCP in
the morning, you have that show. And then I see
uh Reverend Sherry Lufton UH does reset Boss Talking by
Jesse Cannon, Kings Corp by Andre Dixon, Hip Hop and
(22:21):
Politics by Nina Falk Tae Kwon Ryan. I love that.
What is tid Floorida? What's his tip floor? Um Tip Florida.
That is um. That is our sports and and pop
culture show. And it also takes a little a little
deeper look into sports, uh than our affinionated Facts show.
(22:44):
Um U affinionated facts. That's more. You know, it's in
its name opinions. Tim Floria takes it tastes a little
bit deeper, looking at UH statistics and tying that into
UH pop culture and whatnot. Well, my and how can
I help you? I got you Twitter, I got social media.
(23:04):
I got one point six million brand influencers. I'd love
to be able to send me some banners because that's
what this show is developed. You know, I'm not charging
anybody anything, but you know, God has allowed me to
live my dream. This is part of my dream, you know,
being able to talk to talented individuals like you, not
consider your visionaries and the visionaries. Uh, I need partnerships.
(23:26):
I'm a partner and then trying to be able to
market and be able to get the word out. So
if you send me banners I put in my weekly newsletter.
You sent me banners I posted on my social media
because I'm proud of you, and I just want to
thank you guys for being patient with me because we
rescheduled a couple of times because in earnest I wanted
to put my best foot forward and presenting this interview
(23:47):
to America. I really appreciate it. Hey, William Marquees, thank
you for coming on the show. Uh, money making Conversation
platform dot com Okay cool, thank you for coming on
the show. I want to appreciate you all. We're gonna
get this aired immediately and we're gonna start the voting
and doing our part to make this winning situation and
winn an opportunity. I'm so proud of you guys to
(24:08):
be on that real coup platform. I really that is
a big deal. It's not nothing that I'm gonna shy
away from. And say that anybody can get on it,
and that's not true. You're creating a valid, consumable program
for people of color. Your TIN shows are only the beginning. Again,
thank you for taking the time to come on Money
Making Conversation and like I was told, everybody to keep winning. Okay,
thank you for having us. Thanks forever cool. Alright. If
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