September 7, 2016 • 22 mins
Featuring interviews with Tia Ewing from Cleveland 19 News (CBS) and Dee McGee from Sirius Entertainment and HBO's Black Salt.
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Web Radio Network. Welcome to Taketwo with your host Alexis Nunn and our
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guests today see you and from Clevelandnineteen News and d McGee from Serious unders
Heyment HBO's Black Sort. Stay tunedup next to CEU and you are listening
to Take two. This is JessicaLavish with the Outlaws. We know that
racism still exists in our country,but what about slavery? Human trafficking,
a form of modern day slavery,is where people profit from the control and
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exploitation of others by means of force, fraud, and corrosion. Tragically,
no country, community, or individualis immune from the vast injustice. Human
trafficking is driven by demand. Insteadof contributing to the problem, we can
be part of the solution. Ifwe eliminate the demand, we eliminate human
trafficking. For more information, followhashtag demand No More. Welcome back to
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Take two with your host Alexis Nuttand our guests Tia Ewing from Cleveland nineteen
News. How are you today?I'm great? How are you doing to
that? Hot? I am hot? It is hot outside. I mean
it's the summer. Summer is notofficially over? Really? Yeah? I
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know that, but you you reallyexpected it to be this hot this year?
Well, heat is my thing.Like, I came here from California
and so I used to it.I'm from Chicago, but I moved here
to Cleveland from Cali. So yeah, I expect it to be hot.
I don't want no snow. You'reready for the snow. I'm ready for
fall, good luck, I'm not. I'm holding out the summer. You
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know. Yeah, we'll beg someonenot to go for you sometimes. But
no, Um, what made youmove from Cali to Cleveland? Opportunity?
Opportunity? Yes, um, anda lot of people thought I was insane?
What a lot of you think Isee him with this camera? Um,
what do I think? Do Ithink I was insane? No,
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I don't think I was crazy.I think that when you have a vision
and a purpose for your life,I think that you follow that vision and
purpose to wherever it leads you.And so you know, a city or
state does not depict your purpose.So like because it's Cleveland and I was
in Cali, that doesn't mean likeCleveland's any less than Cali. You move
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wherever you go for your purpose.In your dreams, I think I see
what you're saying, now, whatopportunity did you see in Cleveland? Because
you know, most people always sayCleveland is not the place for opportunity or
hope. If you want to becomesomething, leave Cleveland. I do not
believe in that. Well, butwhat made you What opportunity did you see?
Well? I think that people gotthat twisted on a few fronts when
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I first moved here. And Iforget exactly where the information came from,
but there was a professor at ClevelandState University who was researching cities and stuff
in Cleveland. And when I saycities, not really cities, but more
so neighborhoods like Ohio City, Tremont, University Circle. They looked at all
these places to see why are theybecoming so popular? Right because they're building
there, they have apartments there thatthey never had before. Why is it
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so popular? And what they foundout was that there are so many young
people moving here for job opportunities,and a lot of those opportunities are big
jobs. I'm not talking somebody movinghere for forty five grand. I'm talking
about somebody moving here for ninety grand, one hundred thousand grand so or one
hundred thousand dollars. So with thatbeing said, the opportunity for me wasn't
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a financial move. It was moreof I was the weekend anchor at my
station. I had been there forthree and a half years, and I
knew that I was capable of havingmore, and so it was just I
loved California. I had friends there. It became a place that was really
my life. Like when I leftCalifornia, I left my life behind in
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a way. But for me,you gotta sometimes see what's your worth,
and so my worth was bigger thanbeing a weekend anchor like that. My
worth was not going to be onthe weekends. Like think about it,
if you work every Saturday on Sunday, what life do you have? That's
when most people have fun and havea life. And so my life was
consumed to a Monday and Tuesday.And I just wasn't willing to do that.
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And so it came time for ahard choice like what do I do?
And so when Cleveland's opportunity came onthe table, it was just an
easy decision. My station that Iwas at in California, they wanted to
keep me. It wasn't like theywere like, you gotta go They wanted
me to stay, but I wasnot going to stay on weekends. And
my last six or seven months there, I was. I was one of
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their prime time anchors, and theygave the job to a guy. They
wanted a guy. And that's fine. It happens in TV, it happens
in acting. They want roles forcertain people. I get it. But
I needed to figure out what myrole was in my life, Like,
am I going to allow other peopleto be, you know, the strain
players of my life? Or amI going to be in control? Are
they the puppeteer or am I thepuppeteer? Or am I the puppet?
So I had to make that harddecision. And so that decision led me
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to Cleveland. But you gotta understand, I went here for undergrad not here,
but I lived in Columbus, Ohio. I went to Ohio State,
the Ohio State University shout out tomy buck eyes. So it was an
easy transition to, you know,come back to the Midwest. I'm from
Chicago. It's not like, youknow, I'm not. I'm used to
Midwest living. It's different, butI'm used to it. California is definitely
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a place where, you know,it's just different. And if you want
to ask me how, you canfeel free to do that. But it's
just mad different. It's something thatI don't think you can ever get used
to after living there. It's likegoing from paradise to like just another world.
And not because of the look ofit, you know, because when
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people think California, I think palmTreason. That's beautiful. But I'm talking
about just the people. Like whenI first got to Cleveland, you know,
I came from California, so Icame with a very happy attitude.
I think I still have that,but I came with a very bubbly attitude,
and I'll walk down the street likea Californian, like, Hey,
how are you know Californians? Andthey really in California yea. And people
were look at me like what's wrongwith you? Like we don't do that
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here, Like everybody looked like theywas mad about something, and so I
was like, this is not life, right, So I thought maybe I
just had a bad encounter with afew people. But then I realized quickly,
like that's the Cleveland way. ButI refused to become that way.
I've been here a year and I'mnot becoming that way. And I think
a lot of times people don't realizehow good they have it, or how
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good a place is when they're there. You know what I'm saying, Like,
there's so many things happening around Clevelandersand they don't even know what's happening.
They refused to probably educate themselves toknow. And so I think Cleveland
is really a goal mine right now. We got the winning basketball team.
I was a Cavalier span way beforeI moved here. By the way,
I have to watch people root forthe Golden State Warriors when I live in
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California. It made me sick.We have the Indians the hockey team,
I mean obviously not major league,but they won. I mean, so
you kind of own something great.So if a Clevelander is listening, they
should just wake up and smell snollof roses because it's good right now.
It's gonna only gonna get better.I feel like I should move to Callie
because I'm always too I'm too bubbly. Well, I think I think it's
one of those things, you know, how like people say like have well.
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First of all, one issue Ithink here in the Midwest period is
that people don't really travel outside ofthemselves or outside of their circles. So
like I live on the east Side. I'm an east Sider, and so
people will be like, oh,do you do you go to the west
side? Like, but people heredon't. People from here think like it's
a like going to another city.It's like, no, you live here,
Like you should go to the eastside, you should go to the
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west side to side right, Andso I think Callie's one of those things
like you gotta try it once,even if you don't stay, you gotta
go visit once. I totally agree. I totally agree. So what age
were you? What agel was whenI got into TV? Yes, oh,
man, well I'm thirty five nowI've been in TV since two thousand
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and eight, So I don't know. I'm not good at math um,
but like what twenty six has todo something? I'm really about to pull
out a calculator. I am actuallygood in math, but on tired and
so I'm about to do all that. So I'm about to like literally type
it in and see um if Iam thirty five now twenty sixteen, So
do you have these moments? Attwenty seven? I was twenty seven when
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I got into TV twenty seven.You're not old at all, by the
way. I mean, at thirtyfive, you don't really care what people
think about your age or you.That is not true. Actually, I
don't know a few people just like, oh my gosh, I'm so old.
I don't really care what people think. I don't get as you're beautiful.
That's why it's not even that Iappreciate. Really, to just wake
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up, I literally just woke outof bed and thank god, that's all
I did today. I brushed myteeth though, but that was it.
That's all I did, like beforeI came here. Seriously, I like
her. She's funny. So canyou tell me what it's like at Cleveland
nineteen news. What do you mean? You gotta be specific with that question.
What is your favorite thing to do? So far? My show?
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I love my show? So that'sabout your show. It comes on,
Well, I come on at five, go off at seven on Cleveland nineteen.
Then people make the switch to cleforty three from seven until eight am.
So I'm on the morning news andI'm one of the main anchors,
so you could see me do allkinds of stuff. The other day my
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co anchor. He's a very interestingperson. He used to do sports and
he's funny. And so he saysthat he hates veggies. He hates he
hates all veggies. He doesn't likeanything pumpkin. And obviously we're moving into
fall. What's popular around here pumpkin, right, pumpkin something. So he
was like, yeah, I hatepumpkin, you know. So we knew
the PSL the Pumpkin Spice Latte wascoming out. So on Friday one day,
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because I don't know when you're goingto air this one day one night,
I was like, man, I'mgonna go get a pumpkin spice latte
and make him taste it on theair. That happened this week. So
he tasted it on air. HeSo what happened was he said he rather
he made a statement the previous weeksaying I'd rather drink sewage water than to
drink a pumpkin spice. Oh mygod. So what I did was I
saved that clip. I was like, oh, I'm gonna get him next
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week. He don't even know it'scoming, and so I let everybody in
on it. And so what Idid was I made a dtox water have
you ever had dtox water? Sodtox water has kayne. It can have
different things in it, but kayennepepper, lemon spring water, and usually
maple syrup or honey is what peopleput in it. But that kayenne pepper.
If you never drinking, you know, I never had something like that.
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When it first goes down, it'scrazy, you like, what in
the world am I drinking? Right? So I made that and it looks
like sewage water, and then Iwin't got the PSL. But I put
him in cups that were identical,and so he didn't know it was coming.
He kept asking me, Hey,what is this in the show?
Why does it say teas take?And I was like, I don't know
what's going on. But I alreadyhad a plan, so that the night
before I went bout the pumpkin spicelatte and I put it in my fridge
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and everything. And the next dayI was like, oh, I'm gonna
put just put him in two separatecups. He won't realize it because I
drink out of two cups every morning. I have a water cup and I
always have a coffee cup, Andso I figured he just think it was
the same thing, and I justput a top on it so you couldn't
see what was inside. So Isaid, remember last week you said that
you rather drink sewage water or no. I said, remember last week,
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You're always talking. You always gotsomething to say. I was like,
remember saying this, and they playedthe clip and then when it came back,
I said, you said you'd ratherdrink sewage water or you know,
than a pumpkin spice lottech So yougot to you got two choices right here,
what you're gonna do. So helike, I'm not drinking either.
I was like, oh, yesyou are. This is my five dollars
in the cup. You're gonna drinkthis today. You're gonna drink one of
them. And so he drinks itand spits it out. So like fun
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moments like that, But obviously youhave to tell the hard news too.
You know. You have to talkabout, you know, the killings that
happened across the country. You haveto talk about the presidential debate. You
have to talk about things that youknow people still still care about that are
not, I guess not fun moments. Some of that stuff is not fun
to digest. You know, you'rewaking up in the morning. You don't
always want to hear about the latestshooting in your community, right, but
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you do want somebody that's telling itto you, but someone that also makes
you feel like, hey, youknow what, I can keep on another
day. There's a reason to behappy, and there is a reason to
smile. And so that's why Ilike those moments because in our day and
age, the way that the newsbusiness is right now, with all of
the volatile conversations that we must haveabout black and white, about you know,
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being straight or gay, like,you need a journalist who's going to
give you that but also make youfeel like life is really worth living because
sometimes it's challenging. And so that'swhat I think I like about my show
is that it gives you all ofthat. I like that that's it was
a funny story, and that's interestingto know. I'm happy that you love
your job. I do love myjob, because it's not really a job.
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If you love it, you're withthat. If you don't love it,
yeah, it's hard to go toa job that you don't like.
I've been there. Yeah, Socan you tell us what school other than
Old State? What high school didyou go through? I went to school
in Chicago that was torn down.It was called Future Commons Multiplex. It
was torn down after like two years. I graduated from there. It wasn't
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around. Did you have any particularmajor in that school? No. When
I went to school, UM,I wanted to be your force pilot.
That's all I ever wanted to do. Oh air force. Yeah, that's
why I'm asking. I was like, that looks cool. I didn't know
anything about it. It just seemedlike something fun to do. And then
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I realized that I like sports,so I went to Ohio State to be
a sports agent. But what happenedwas I started basically reporting on the sidelines
and all the athletes were stuck upto me, and I was like,
I'm not about to be Repinese peopleand going to bad for people like this.
I'm good. I don't want themoney, but now I think about
it was a good money. Iprobably should have did it, but it
doesn't matter. The point is isthat, Um, that's why I went
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to school. And yeah, butI guess the short end of that answer
is that God had another point formy life, and you're going with it.
I like that. I like that, So is there any way for
people to get in contact the treeif they need to. Yeah, I
have a Facebook page. If yougo on Facebook and you searched Tia Tia,
last name you and E W In G, or you can just
search search on TV news Star.You can find me on Facebook and then
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on Twitter. I'm t N tI A underscore e W I n G
euing and I'm also on Instagram.TV news Star. Thank you for joining
us on the show today and staytuned. Will be right back with more.
Take two. My name is RockKim and I'm sixteen years old.
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My name is Jamonte and I'm fifteen. My name is Ed and I'm fourteen.
Well, why don't you smoke?You can lose one of your lungs
and you can get a hold inyour throat. The reason why I an't
spoke I played basketball in football,and I'll get a lot of air my
lungs for me to able to runup down the court and up down the
field. I think about what itdoes. What if I die earlier than
I expect, or what if thingsstart to happen that I don't want to
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happen. A message from FCB Entertainment. The Eyes have a media group and
Tobacco Free Kids. Welcome back toTake two with your host Alexis Nunne and
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our guests d McGhee. How areyou doing today? I'm doing phenomenal.
How are you? I am doinggreat on this hot, hot day in
Cleveland. It's always hot in Clevelandin summer. I was told this is
one of the hottest summers we've hadin fifty four years. Wow, how
that means since the hottest summer eversince I've been alive? And you too,
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right? Yeah? Yeah, sothat's pretty cool. So I want
to ask you some questions and I'lljust first of all, can you tell
the guests a little bit about yourself? Sure? Again, my name is
Dan McGhee. Everybody can't remember thatbecause it proms and it sounds like a
superstar, right, Yes, Yes, I am and the owner of Serious
Entertainment Serious like the Stars. Ir I you asked because I helped to
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make stars bright like the Star serious. It's serious talent and casting and I
am a casting director, a movieproducer, and a talent manager. Oh,
yes, you do a lot.How long have you been doing this?
I would say I've been in theentertainment industry for probably fifteen years,
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but I started in kind of doingthe production and talent management and kind of
the back scenes about five or sixyears ago. What made you want to
get into the entertainment business. Ihave always been an entertainer by nature.
When I was younger, people usedto always tell me, you need to
be on a TV show, youneed to dance, you need to go
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do something, you need to bein front of a camera. So it
was always kind of a passion ofmine. I started out very young in
dance classes, I took acting,I did some modeling, just a whole
bunch of entertainment related at civities.And as I started to grow older and
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more mature and I had children,I decided, you know, in order
for me to do what I loveto do, which is, you know,
entertain people, I'm going to haveto you know, switch up a
little bit and try something new.So, um, I had a situation
where I was laid off from ajob and decided, well, what am
I going to do next? Itwas kind of I was kind of at
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a crossroad, and I decided togo into the entertainment casting, production management
business with a friend of mine,and we started our first entertainment company and
it was pretty awesome. Oh thatis nice, that is nice. Um,
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what school did you go do?I actually went to Ohio State University,
d Ohio State University, Ohio,and I also am a graduate of
Euclid High School right here really Ohio. Yeah, I want to Muclid Middle
School for us work. Well yeah, I was, yes, I was
actually yes. And then um didyou in Ohio? Say, did you
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take any majors in entertainment? Actuallyno, I did not, was I.
When I started applying for schools,my intention was to major in dance
because again, that that's my passion. It still is. Um and unfortunately
I let um the dance world kindof discourage me. At the time when
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I was going to college. Um, Alvin Ailey was the only black dance
company available really and um that wasin New York. And I didn't want
to move to New York. AndI was a very talented dancer. But
when I got there, I wastold, um, my body shape was
not right for a professional dance andyeah, and so instead of talking with
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my parents about it or you know, just kind of not getting discouraged,
I got a little discouraged and decidedall well, I'll just take accounting then.
And it was a stupid decision now, you know, in hindsight,
it was kind of a stupid decision, but it was a very important one
that kind of shaped the way thatmy life went from there on. I
hate when that's I can't Yeah itis, Yeah, it's pretty It was
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pretty disappointing, Yes, it was. I see. Can you tell us
a little bit of things that youare working on right now? Yeah,
I got some great projects in theworks, so um. One of I'm
working on a television comedy show withGiantly Pictures. I can't give you guys
too much information on it because we'restill in pre production stage, but we
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are currently casting for that project.And then also another project that I'm really
excited about that I'm working with thesame production house with is Bleeding Blue,
which is kind of the flip sideof the police brutality, because there is
a lot of that going on,and you know, even though we're not
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saying that it's right for you know, what's going on between our community and
the police, there's also a lotof things that happen with police that are
not you know, the story's nottold through the media. So we want
to make sure that people know that, you know, the majority of policemen
are here to protect us, andwithout them, you know, we be
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in some really big trouble. SoI'm very excited about that project. I
think it's going to get a lotof attention from the right people, and
I think that it will hopefully bridgethe gap a little bit for what's going
on out there in our world today. Do you think that it will be
any angry people about them? Like, Oh, yeah, I'm sure.
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I'll tell you. I have conversationswith some of my friends about that project
all the time, and yeah,there are some of them that are are
mad about it, but there's noreason to be mad. There are always
two sides to every story, andto me, part of being an entertainment,
part of being a part of themedia, such as radio newscasting,
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even making responsible filming and documentaries andthings like that, we have to be
responsible for telling both sides. Andunfortunately that doesn't happen in our world today
today. It's just one sided.Whatever the hot topic is, we're gonna
stay on that, and whatever themajority opinion is, we're gonna stay on
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that, or whatever gets people's attention. We're gonna stay on that, but
if you tell both sides of thestory, then maybe it wouldn't get as
much attention. Thank you for joiningus on the show and stay tuned.
Will be right back with more.Take two. This is Jessica Lavish with
the Outlaws. We know that racismstill exists in our country, but what
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about slavery. Human trafficking, aform of modern day slavery, is where
people profit from the control and exploitationof others by means of force, fraud,
and corrosion. Tragically, no country, community or individual is immune from
the vast injustice. Human trafficking isdriven by demand. Instead of contributing to
the problem, we can be partof the solution if we eliminate the demand,
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we eliminate human trafficking. For moreinformation, follow hashtag demand No More.
Welcome back to Take two, andI would like to thank my guests
to ewing from Cleveland nineteen News andthe McGhee for serious entertainment and you can
follow me on Twitter or Instagram atLady Undersquare lex two one six and see
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you next time.
Web Radio Network. Welcome to Taketwo with your host Alexis Nunn and our
(00:15):
guests today see you and from Clevelandnineteen News and d McGee from Serious unders
Heyment HBO's Black Sort. Stay tunedup next to CEU and you are listening
to Take two. This is JessicaLavish with the Outlaws. We know that
racism still exists in our country,but what about slavery? Human trafficking,
a form of modern day slavery,is where people profit from the control and
(00:37):
exploitation of others by means of force, fraud, and corrosion. Tragically,
no country, community, or individualis immune from the vast injustice. Human
trafficking is driven by demand. Insteadof contributing to the problem, we can
be part of the solution. Ifwe eliminate the demand, we eliminate human
trafficking. For more information, followhashtag demand No More. Welcome back to
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Take two with your host Alexis Nuttand our guests Tia Ewing from Cleveland nineteen
News. How are you today?I'm great? How are you doing to
that? Hot? I am hot? It is hot outside. I mean
it's the summer. Summer is notofficially over? Really? Yeah? I
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know that, but you you reallyexpected it to be this hot this year?
Well, heat is my thing.Like, I came here from California
and so I used to it.I'm from Chicago, but I moved here
to Cleveland from Cali. So yeah, I expect it to be hot.
I don't want no snow. You'reready for the snow. I'm ready for
fall, good luck, I'm not. I'm holding out the summer. You
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know. Yeah, we'll beg someonenot to go for you sometimes. But
no, Um, what made youmove from Cali to Cleveland? Opportunity?
Opportunity? Yes, um, anda lot of people thought I was insane?
What a lot of you think Isee him with this camera? Um,
what do I think? Do Ithink I was insane? No,
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I don't think I was crazy.I think that when you have a vision
and a purpose for your life,I think that you follow that vision and
purpose to wherever it leads you.And so you know, a city or
state does not depict your purpose.So like because it's Cleveland and I was
in Cali, that doesn't mean likeCleveland's any less than Cali. You move
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wherever you go for your purpose.In your dreams, I think I see
what you're saying, now, whatopportunity did you see in Cleveland? Because
you know, most people always sayCleveland is not the place for opportunity or
hope. If you want to becomesomething, leave Cleveland. I do not
believe in that. Well, butwhat made you What opportunity did you see?
Well? I think that people gotthat twisted on a few fronts when
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I first moved here. And Iforget exactly where the information came from,
but there was a professor at ClevelandState University who was researching cities and stuff
in Cleveland. And when I saycities, not really cities, but more
so neighborhoods like Ohio City, Tremont, University Circle. They looked at all
these places to see why are theybecoming so popular? Right because they're building
there, they have apartments there thatthey never had before. Why is it
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so popular? And what they foundout was that there are so many young
people moving here for job opportunities,and a lot of those opportunities are big
jobs. I'm not talking somebody movinghere for forty five grand. I'm talking
about somebody moving here for ninety grand, one hundred thousand grand so or one
hundred thousand dollars. So with thatbeing said, the opportunity for me wasn't
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a financial move. It was moreof I was the weekend anchor at my
station. I had been there forthree and a half years, and I
knew that I was capable of havingmore, and so it was just I
loved California. I had friends there. It became a place that was really
my life. Like when I leftCalifornia, I left my life behind in
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a way. But for me,you gotta sometimes see what's your worth,
and so my worth was bigger thanbeing a weekend anchor like that. My
worth was not going to be onthe weekends. Like think about it,
if you work every Saturday on Sunday, what life do you have? That's
when most people have fun and havea life. And so my life was
consumed to a Monday and Tuesday.And I just wasn't willing to do that.
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And so it came time for ahard choice like what do I do?
And so when Cleveland's opportunity came onthe table, it was just an
easy decision. My station that Iwas at in California, they wanted to
keep me. It wasn't like theywere like, you gotta go They wanted
me to stay, but I wasnot going to stay on weekends. And
my last six or seven months there, I was. I was one of
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their prime time anchors, and theygave the job to a guy. They
wanted a guy. And that's fine. It happens in TV, it happens
in acting. They want roles forcertain people. I get it. But
I needed to figure out what myrole was in my life, Like,
am I going to allow other peopleto be, you know, the strain
players of my life? Or amI going to be in control? Are
they the puppeteer or am I thepuppeteer? Or am I the puppet?
So I had to make that harddecision. And so that decision led me
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to Cleveland. But you gotta understand, I went here for undergrad not here,
but I lived in Columbus, Ohio. I went to Ohio State,
the Ohio State University shout out tomy buck eyes. So it was an
easy transition to, you know,come back to the Midwest. I'm from
Chicago. It's not like, youknow, I'm not. I'm used to
Midwest living. It's different, butI'm used to it. California is definitely
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a place where, you know,it's just different. And if you want
to ask me how, you canfeel free to do that. But it's
just mad different. It's something thatI don't think you can ever get used
to after living there. It's likegoing from paradise to like just another world.
And not because of the look ofit, you know, because when
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people think California, I think palmTreason. That's beautiful. But I'm talking
about just the people. Like whenI first got to Cleveland, you know,
I came from California, so Icame with a very happy attitude.
I think I still have that,but I came with a very bubbly attitude,
and I'll walk down the street likea Californian, like, Hey,
how are you know Californians? Andthey really in California yea. And people
were look at me like what's wrongwith you? Like we don't do that
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here, Like everybody looked like theywas mad about something, and so I
was like, this is not life, right, So I thought maybe I
just had a bad encounter with afew people. But then I realized quickly,
like that's the Cleveland way. ButI refused to become that way.
I've been here a year and I'mnot becoming that way. And I think
a lot of times people don't realizehow good they have it, or how
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good a place is when they're there. You know what I'm saying, Like,
there's so many things happening around Clevelandersand they don't even know what's happening.
They refused to probably educate themselves toknow. And so I think Cleveland
is really a goal mine right now. We got the winning basketball team.
I was a Cavalier span way beforeI moved here. By the way,
I have to watch people root forthe Golden State Warriors when I live in
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California. It made me sick.We have the Indians the hockey team,
I mean obviously not major league,but they won. I mean, so
you kind of own something great.So if a Clevelander is listening, they
should just wake up and smell snollof roses because it's good right now.
It's gonna only gonna get better.I feel like I should move to Callie
because I'm always too I'm too bubbly. Well, I think I think it's
one of those things, you know, how like people say like have well.
(07:10):
First of all, one issue Ithink here in the Midwest period is
that people don't really travel outside ofthemselves or outside of their circles. So
like I live on the east Side. I'm an east Sider, and so
people will be like, oh,do you do you go to the west
side? Like, but people heredon't. People from here think like it's
a like going to another city.It's like, no, you live here,
Like you should go to the eastside, you should go to the
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west side to side right, Andso I think Callie's one of those things
like you gotta try it once,even if you don't stay, you gotta
go visit once. I totally agree. I totally agree. So what age
were you? What agel was whenI got into TV? Yes, oh,
man, well I'm thirty five nowI've been in TV since two thousand
(07:53):
and eight, So I don't know. I'm not good at math um,
but like what twenty six has todo something? I'm really about to pull
out a calculator. I am actuallygood in math, but on tired and
so I'm about to do all that. So I'm about to like literally type
it in and see um if Iam thirty five now twenty sixteen, So
do you have these moments? Attwenty seven? I was twenty seven when
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I got into TV twenty seven.You're not old at all, by the
way. I mean, at thirtyfive, you don't really care what people
think about your age or you.That is not true. Actually, I
don't know a few people just like, oh my gosh, I'm so old.
I don't really care what people think. I don't get as you're beautiful.
That's why it's not even that Iappreciate. Really, to just wake
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up, I literally just woke outof bed and thank god, that's all
I did today. I brushed myteeth though, but that was it.
That's all I did, like beforeI came here. Seriously, I like
her. She's funny. So canyou tell me what it's like at Cleveland
nineteen news. What do you mean? You gotta be specific with that question.
What is your favorite thing to do? So far? My show?
(09:00):
I love my show? So that'sabout your show. It comes on,
Well, I come on at five, go off at seven on Cleveland nineteen.
Then people make the switch to cleforty three from seven until eight am.
So I'm on the morning news andI'm one of the main anchors,
so you could see me do allkinds of stuff. The other day my
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co anchor. He's a very interestingperson. He used to do sports and
he's funny. And so he saysthat he hates veggies. He hates he
hates all veggies. He doesn't likeanything pumpkin. And obviously we're moving into
fall. What's popular around here pumpkin, right, pumpkin something. So he
was like, yeah, I hatepumpkin, you know. So we knew
the PSL the Pumpkin Spice Latte wascoming out. So on Friday one day,
(09:43):
because I don't know when you're goingto air this one day one night,
I was like, man, I'mgonna go get a pumpkin spice latte
and make him taste it on theair. That happened this week. So
he tasted it on air. HeSo what happened was he said he rather
he made a statement the previous weeksaying I'd rather drink sewage water than to
drink a pumpkin spice. Oh mygod. So what I did was I
saved that clip. I was like, oh, I'm gonna get him next
(10:03):
week. He don't even know it'scoming, and so I let everybody in
on it. And so what Idid was I made a dtox water have
you ever had dtox water? Sodtox water has kayne. It can have
different things in it, but kayennepepper, lemon spring water, and usually
maple syrup or honey is what peopleput in it. But that kayenne pepper.
If you never drinking, you know, I never had something like that.
(10:24):
When it first goes down, it'scrazy, you like, what in
the world am I drinking? Right? So I made that and it looks
like sewage water, and then Iwin't got the PSL. But I put
him in cups that were identical,and so he didn't know it was coming.
He kept asking me, Hey,what is this in the show?
Why does it say teas take?And I was like, I don't know
what's going on. But I alreadyhad a plan, so that the night
before I went bout the pumpkin spicelatte and I put it in my fridge
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and everything. And the next dayI was like, oh, I'm gonna
put just put him in two separatecups. He won't realize it because I
drink out of two cups every morning. I have a water cup and I
always have a coffee cup, Andso I figured he just think it was
the same thing, and I justput a top on it so you couldn't
see what was inside. So Isaid, remember last week you said that
you rather drink sewage water or no. I said, remember last week,
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You're always talking. You always gotsomething to say. I was like,
remember saying this, and they playedthe clip and then when it came back,
I said, you said you'd ratherdrink sewage water or you know,
than a pumpkin spice lottech So yougot to you got two choices right here,
what you're gonna do. So helike, I'm not drinking either.
I was like, oh, yesyou are. This is my five dollars
in the cup. You're gonna drinkthis today. You're gonna drink one of
them. And so he drinks itand spits it out. So like fun
(11:31):
moments like that, But obviously youhave to tell the hard news too.
You know. You have to talkabout, you know, the killings that
happened across the country. You haveto talk about the presidential debate. You
have to talk about things that youknow people still still care about that are
not, I guess not fun moments. Some of that stuff is not fun
to digest. You know, you'rewaking up in the morning. You don't
always want to hear about the latestshooting in your community, right, but
(11:54):
you do want somebody that's telling itto you, but someone that also makes
you feel like, hey, youknow what, I can keep on another
day. There's a reason to behappy, and there is a reason to
smile. And so that's why Ilike those moments because in our day and
age, the way that the newsbusiness is right now, with all of
the volatile conversations that we must haveabout black and white, about you know,
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being straight or gay, like,you need a journalist who's going to
give you that but also make youfeel like life is really worth living because
sometimes it's challenging. And so that'swhat I think I like about my show
is that it gives you all ofthat. I like that that's it was
a funny story, and that's interestingto know. I'm happy that you love
your job. I do love myjob, because it's not really a job.
(12:37):
If you love it, you're withthat. If you don't love it,
yeah, it's hard to go toa job that you don't like.
I've been there. Yeah, Socan you tell us what school other than
Old State? What high school didyou go through? I went to school
in Chicago that was torn down.It was called Future Commons Multiplex. It
was torn down after like two years. I graduated from there. It wasn't
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around. Did you have any particularmajor in that school? No. When
I went to school, UM,I wanted to be your force pilot.
That's all I ever wanted to do. Oh air force. Yeah, that's
why I'm asking. I was like, that looks cool. I didn't know
anything about it. It just seemedlike something fun to do. And then
(13:18):
I realized that I like sports,so I went to Ohio State to be
a sports agent. But what happenedwas I started basically reporting on the sidelines
and all the athletes were stuck upto me, and I was like,
I'm not about to be Repinese peopleand going to bad for people like this.
I'm good. I don't want themoney, but now I think about
it was a good money. Iprobably should have did it, but it
doesn't matter. The point is isthat, Um, that's why I went
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to school. And yeah, butI guess the short end of that answer
is that God had another point formy life, and you're going with it.
I like that. I like that, So is there any way for
people to get in contact the treeif they need to. Yeah, I
have a Facebook page. If yougo on Facebook and you searched Tia Tia,
last name you and E W In G, or you can just
search search on TV news Star.You can find me on Facebook and then
(14:03):
on Twitter. I'm t N tI A underscore e W I n G
euing and I'm also on Instagram.TV news Star. Thank you for joining
us on the show today and staytuned. Will be right back with more.
Take two. My name is RockKim and I'm sixteen years old.
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My name is Jamonte and I'm fifteen. My name is Ed and I'm fourteen.
Well, why don't you smoke?You can lose one of your lungs
and you can get a hold inyour throat. The reason why I an't
spoke I played basketball in football,and I'll get a lot of air my
lungs for me to able to runup down the court and up down the
field. I think about what itdoes. What if I die earlier than
I expect, or what if thingsstart to happen that I don't want to
(14:46):
happen. A message from FCB Entertainment. The Eyes have a media group and
Tobacco Free Kids. Welcome back toTake two with your host Alexis Nunne and
(15:11):
our guests d McGhee. How areyou doing today? I'm doing phenomenal.
How are you? I am doinggreat on this hot, hot day in
Cleveland. It's always hot in Clevelandin summer. I was told this is
one of the hottest summers we've hadin fifty four years. Wow, how
that means since the hottest summer eversince I've been alive? And you too,
(15:33):
right? Yeah? Yeah, sothat's pretty cool. So I want
to ask you some questions and I'lljust first of all, can you tell
the guests a little bit about yourself? Sure? Again, my name is
Dan McGhee. Everybody can't remember thatbecause it proms and it sounds like a
superstar, right, Yes, Yes, I am and the owner of Serious
Entertainment Serious like the Stars. Ir I you asked because I helped to
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make stars bright like the Star serious. It's serious talent and casting and I
am a casting director, a movieproducer, and a talent manager. Oh,
yes, you do a lot.How long have you been doing this?
I would say I've been in theentertainment industry for probably fifteen years,
(16:21):
but I started in kind of doingthe production and talent management and kind of
the back scenes about five or sixyears ago. What made you want to
get into the entertainment business. Ihave always been an entertainer by nature.
When I was younger, people usedto always tell me, you need to
be on a TV show, youneed to dance, you need to go
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do something, you need to bein front of a camera. So it
was always kind of a passion ofmine. I started out very young in
dance classes, I took acting,I did some modeling, just a whole
bunch of entertainment related at civities.And as I started to grow older and
(17:03):
more mature and I had children,I decided, you know, in order
for me to do what I loveto do, which is, you know,
entertain people, I'm going to haveto you know, switch up a
little bit and try something new.So, um, I had a situation
where I was laid off from ajob and decided, well, what am
I going to do next? Itwas kind of I was kind of at
(17:25):
a crossroad, and I decided togo into the entertainment casting, production management
business with a friend of mine,and we started our first entertainment company and
it was pretty awesome. Oh thatis nice, that is nice. Um,
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what school did you go do?I actually went to Ohio State University,
d Ohio State University, Ohio,and I also am a graduate of
Euclid High School right here really Ohio. Yeah, I want to Muclid Middle
School for us work. Well yeah, I was, yes, I was
actually yes. And then um didyou in Ohio? Say, did you
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take any majors in entertainment? Actuallyno, I did not, was I.
When I started applying for schools,my intention was to major in dance
because again, that that's my passion. It still is. Um and unfortunately
I let um the dance world kindof discourage me. At the time when
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I was going to college. Um, Alvin Ailey was the only black dance
company available really and um that wasin New York. And I didn't want
to move to New York. AndI was a very talented dancer. But
when I got there, I wastold, um, my body shape was
not right for a professional dance andyeah, and so instead of talking with
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my parents about it or you know, just kind of not getting discouraged,
I got a little discouraged and decidedall well, I'll just take accounting then.
And it was a stupid decision now, you know, in hindsight,
it was kind of a stupid decision, but it was a very important one
that kind of shaped the way thatmy life went from there on. I
hate when that's I can't Yeah itis, Yeah, it's pretty It was
(19:25):
pretty disappointing, Yes, it was. I see. Can you tell us
a little bit of things that youare working on right now? Yeah,
I got some great projects in theworks, so um. One of I'm
working on a television comedy show withGiantly Pictures. I can't give you guys
too much information on it because we'restill in pre production stage, but we
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are currently casting for that project.And then also another project that I'm really
excited about that I'm working with thesame production house with is Bleeding Blue,
which is kind of the flip sideof the police brutality, because there is
a lot of that going on,and you know, even though we're not
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saying that it's right for you know, what's going on between our community and
the police, there's also a lotof things that happen with police that are
not you know, the story's nottold through the media. So we want
to make sure that people know that, you know, the majority of policemen
are here to protect us, andwithout them, you know, we be
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in some really big trouble. SoI'm very excited about that project. I
think it's going to get a lotof attention from the right people, and
I think that it will hopefully bridgethe gap a little bit for what's going
on out there in our world today. Do you think that it will be
any angry people about them? Like, Oh, yeah, I'm sure.
(20:52):
I'll tell you. I have conversationswith some of my friends about that project
all the time, and yeah,there are some of them that are are
mad about it, but there's noreason to be mad. There are always
two sides to every story, andto me, part of being an entertainment,
part of being a part of themedia, such as radio newscasting,
(21:15):
even making responsible filming and documentaries andthings like that, we have to be
responsible for telling both sides. Andunfortunately that doesn't happen in our world today
today. It's just one sided.Whatever the hot topic is, we're gonna
stay on that, and whatever themajority opinion is, we're gonna stay on
(21:36):
that, or whatever gets people's attention. We're gonna stay on that, but
if you tell both sides of thestory, then maybe it wouldn't get as
much attention. Thank you for joiningus on the show and stay tuned.
Will be right back with more.Take two. This is Jessica Lavish with
the Outlaws. We know that racismstill exists in our country, but what
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about slavery. Human trafficking, aform of modern day slavery, is where
people profit from the control and exploitationof others by means of force, fraud,
and corrosion. Tragically, no country, community or individual is immune from
the vast injustice. Human trafficking isdriven by demand. Instead of contributing to
the problem, we can be partof the solution if we eliminate the demand,
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we eliminate human trafficking. For moreinformation, follow hashtag demand No More.
Welcome back to Take two, andI would like to thank my guests
to ewing from Cleveland nineteen News andthe McGhee for serious entertainment and you can
follow me on Twitter or Instagram atLady Undersquare lex two one six and see
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you next time.
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