Finding (Black) Love Over Forty with Comedians Del Harrison and Troy Rawlings

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Love, love love. We're on that page today. That's exactly
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the page that we are on. It's not messy Monday,
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it's not black marriage Monday. We're gonna call it meet
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somebody Monday. And I just made that up. But why
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did I make it up? Because Dell Harrison is here.
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Del Harrison is a comedian, she's an artist, she is
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a producer. She always got something going on. Our writer,
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Del Harrison, good.
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Morning, good morning, and app developer, don't forget to mention that.
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Oh yeah, I did forget that, And I'm so happy
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to see you. Happy. You could come in. We'll be
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joined I think by your friend and colleague, fellow artist
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Troy Rawlings in a moment. Pretty sure, but it's you're
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on a mission about dating over forty Yes, dating over
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forty in LA and beyond. Yeah, And so tell me.
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I mean, you're a comedian, you're an app developer. Why
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would you get into the dating space.
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I'm really not into the I don't call it the
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dating I call it the social mixing space because when
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you are you know what I've noticed over twenty years
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of doing stand up is even behind the scenes, many
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people are like super successful. You see them on TV
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and they're going home alone, you know, and they're over
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forty and they've gotten all these accolades, and you know
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that accolades means a little bit. You know, thank god
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you've been able to accomplish them. But you know, it's
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nothing like having that person to laugh on the phone
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with and to talk to, and to get some coffee with,
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and to go hiking with. And a lot of black
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singles in La are missing that.
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You know.
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Well, he's joining us now. For over two decades, comedian, host,
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author and speaker Troy Rawlings has been making the world laugh.
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He's from Baltimore. He lives here now like everybody in
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the whole world. And he's also a radio guy, starting
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radio back in two thousand with a Clear Channel in
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Baltimore and doing professional stand up comedy. Troy Rawlings, Good.
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Morning, Good morning. How are y'all?
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We're blessed? Uh Dell was just telling me this is
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not I should ask how are you? I can't tell
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because you're on the phone, so I can't see ye.
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How you doing.
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I'm wonderful. I was dressed and ready to impress until
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I've come from Recida. So I'm on the phone right.
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Now yes, well, yeah, we figured that part out. But look,
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I mean, you're you have always had a Hollywood a
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mic in your hand, whether it's a comedian's or a
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radio mic, You've always had a mic in your hand.
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You've been on a book tour. Why why get into
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the what did you call it? Dell social international mixing,
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a social mixing, Okay, I call it dating space, whatever
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y'all call it.
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Yeah, I mean it is too. We are trying to
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create black partnerships.
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Right, It's a little bit of it's a little bit
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of everything. It's really you know, what's so funny. People
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get intimidated about social media and I've been doing social
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media and marketing promotion to social media space as well
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as entertainment since ninety eight. That part and people have
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been When social media first started, it was really just
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an extension of the social events, the dating vibe. You know,
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you had your chatrooms, your dating your dating chatrooms. We
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had Black Planet, which blew up everything and every other
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It was almost like every other social media that came
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after at MySpace and everything was kind of copying off
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a Black Planet. But it was the interacting and as
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Thomas went on, we got so tech savvy, that we
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got away from doing the actual social and we used
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to have Black Planet parties in Baltimore. We used to
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throw at the Holiday Inn and so everything was about
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being social and it was kind of fun because you
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could make up a name. You know, Karen Weinstein could
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be Chocolate Thunder eighty seven. You could make up an
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identity until Facebook came along. And then one of the
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things that happened when Facebook came along is that we
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started having different things because all of a sudden, you
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could see the person you had a crush on from
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middle school and their full name was there. So people
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started reaching out the people they hadn't seen in a while.
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But we got away from the social interaction. And when
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Dell Dell has always been the buzz, what's going on that?
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And she was calling me. I was hosting the Vincent
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Los Angeles, hosting the comedy show every Monday night, doing
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different things. She's like, Troy, where is the vibe? I
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was like, Oh, we're going to know where are the
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black men? I was like, oh, well, you had something
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like that. Most of them might be home, they might
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be working. She's like, we need to get out, and
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she kept saying that, and I was like yeah, and
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then she was like, look, I'm working on something. And
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Dell is a set. She's a comedian, she's a singer,
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but she's a savvy businesswoman. But I've known Dell since
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the DMV back in Baltimore and when I was doing
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my comedy shows there. But her energy has always been infectious.
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And the thing that was so great about this is
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that she she was like, we just needed a spot
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to get out. So when I would throw different events,
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she was like, this is what I'm talking about. We
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need something for grown folks to get out and just
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mix and mingle. If we can get together, then we
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can get together.
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And we can get together and get together. We can
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get together.
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But here's the thing. I mean, that's kind of a
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running joke right on the internet that if you want
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to meet a man or you want to meet a woman,
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you got to go outside. But a lot of people,
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but a lot of people number one don't want to
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and number two, I mean, that's and I'm guilty of that.
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Sometimes I'd rather stay home in my socks. But it's
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also true that there's lots of places to go out
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in LA and every big city, you know.
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So.
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Well, you would think it would be that easy. But
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when you are black, successful over forty, you need a
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place to meet with intention and people. Sometimes, you know,
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I feel like the older people get, the more they're
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sitting at home in their head, you know, like they've
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been so successful in all of the decisions and so
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now they can just sit at home make a decision
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on what's out there on the scene. But a lot
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of the times those are just thoughts and little birds
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that are not telling you the truth. You need a
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place to go that you meet someone who is also
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there with intention to meet. And that's really why I
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created Combayer, is because we need to get together. And
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it's not in these you know, drop it like it's
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hot Blake. We don't go those those places anymore. Sometimes
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you're at a live jazz concert and it's it's all
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couples in you, or it may not be all couples
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in you.
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You know, you know exactly, And and why do we
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know that song When we're out here doing such great work,
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we're doing so so many positive things, why are we
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not in those spaces with the person?
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And it's because once the career has taken over, it's
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it's really hard to know where to go to meet
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those other like minded individuals.
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So okay, I mean I'll buy that. I I kind
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of feel like there's more to it than that.
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But what do you mean by.
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There? There is a thing where he's talking about just
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the people having in their mind, and it's like, well,
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I don't want to have this. I saw somebody Today's
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a guy named Maron Golden. He speaks a lot on
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financial and stuff, but he says something key. Our perception
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is everything. If you stay in your mind, I don't
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want to go out because I don't feel like dealing
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with ABC and B versus saying in your mind, I
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want to go out because I'm gonna meeed some good
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people tonight. Guess what happens. Whatever your perception is is
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what you're gonna have. Let me say this about successful too,
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because they'll say something key. And I think sometimes when
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people hear successful, it was like, well, I ain't making
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the money I won't make I'm not doing this, I'm
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barely getting by this, that and the other. No, you're successful.
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You go to work every day, you have a place
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to stay. You might be driving a car getting where
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you need to get. You might be active in your community.
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You're a good person. You need to get out and
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a lot of times our life if you spend eight
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hours and this is back when people were working eight
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hours a day, pandemic hits. People started staying in the
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house and going to work. When that happened, it went
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from people working eight hours a day to an average
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of twelve to fourteen hours a day. Yeah, they were home.
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I mean, that's part of what I was going to say,
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And we can continue this part of the convo when
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we come forward. It's easy to just say, you know what,
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I got a pile of work to do. I'm not
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gonna go out and sit in at.
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That's what talked to you say every night, and that
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is what happens with the single You honey, you got projects,
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you got success, you got deadlines, you got meety, but
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you need to be intentional about making new building community
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as you get older. It is not just a loneliness
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thing that blacks over forty experience. The Senses in twenty
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twenty four listed four hundred and fifty thousand singles over forty,
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over black and over forty as living alone. That is
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not just loneliness. That is isolation. Isolation is a health
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crisis that leads to depression, It leads to stress, it
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leads to cognitive decline.
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Gog Now, I got a little aimin corner and a
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little challenge for you on that. We'll look at those
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both when we come forward. Yeah, La, you call it
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a mix and mingle Monday. That's what we're doing today,
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KBLA Talk fifteen eighty Right, all right, Dell Harrison is
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in the studio with me. We're streaming on the youtubes
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right now, and Troy Rollins is on the phone. A
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double dose of comedy, a double dose of production, and
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all kinds of all the many things you be into.
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So you have now started a spot where people can mix,
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mingle and be intentional. You've said over forty you said
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we always have a meeting of this or that, and
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I guilty as charged a lot, And Troy you said
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something that I also working on changing, which is going, Oh,
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I don't want to go see a bunch of raggedy
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jokers that don't have nothing to say and you know,
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don't take care of themselves. You know, you know the
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conversation though you've had it with your girlfriends, These men
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be pathetic. Why is it that men don't take care
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of themselves and blah blah blah blah blah. But are
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we manifesting that.
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I think that we are manifest All of those things
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are not true. I was just telling you on the
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break that last time we had this it's called the game. Yes,
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but last time we had the come by game mix
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it match, we had so many success And I'm talking
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about men in suits, men who are retired.
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Men came and drinks.
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The men got there an hour before all the women
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got there. The women were running late and the men
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were there, And I'm talking about these were very nice,
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very nice gentlemen who literally just said we need something
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like this, And so I just decided to come. And
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first of all I was giving there were you could
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get in for a discount. Most of the men bought
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the ticket full price, so they you know, you have
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a a longing to meet someone with intention. And it's
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not just women who are like, well the men, it's
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good black men that are like where are the women at?
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And they want to meet somebody and they don't go
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to these places. You know, again, probably because everybody's at
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home being like a somebody want to go dig me
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you know this Internet separates us too.
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Yeah, that is true, Troy. I wasn't to be To
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be fair, I wasn't laughing because I didn't believe her.
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I was laughing because it's my show. I'll lie if
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I want to.
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No, that's not why I was And that was a
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woman's song too, written by Quincy Jones.
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I want to but No.
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What I was saying was what The reason I was
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laughing is because I'm always calling people out on this
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show for believing stereotypes, and I think Dell was just
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doing the same thing to me. And that's why I
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was laughing. I was laughing at myself because I know
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that it's unlikely that that is true. And I also
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know what you said, Troy, that you know would be
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just finished with Sahara Ali. Focus on what you want,
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not what you don't want. But yet when it comes
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to relationships, there's a real trap there.
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I think, Well, it's one of the one of my
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missions in life. I write forchine magazine article called dea Troy.
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It's like it's like deer Abby, I'm telling my age. Also,
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my book, my first nonfiction book, is called but Think
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Honest Conversation for Play for data, I think I gave
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you a copy. But with that being said, my mission
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is kind of to help men and women communicate better
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in love. So when me and Deal started talking about this,
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I was like, yeah, because the misconception is that we
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all talk a certain way about each other, and some
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guys do have a fear of oh man, we're going
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to be ripped apart. When I first started doing my
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events twenty years ago in Baltimore and DC area with
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my partner Yonder writing partner Yonder, one of the first
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things we saw is that when you bring men and
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women together to have a fun conversation about you know, intimacy, fun,
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no batter or the sexiest bs, they're already different.
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You can see that.
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Fists were baled up already, their shoulders were tight. And
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then I'm a comedian and I don't mind embarrassing myself,
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so I start talking and everybody started laughing and stuff,
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and I started telling embarrassing jokes about me, and then
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the ice broke. So Delle said, Troy, we need to
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have a place where the ice breaking has already happened.
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She's a comedian, so she knows, like we had Garrek Dixon,
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the first one was the character The Great Job. I'll
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be there for this one. But this is my vein
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to help men and women communicate better in love. I've
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never had a problem communicating with a young lady, and
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when I talk to guys that have issues, women will
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come out to an event.
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Dominique's wait, we got a little Cox light bubb is on.
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I'm like, what Dominiqu's light bulb is on? I can
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see you.
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No, because he just said, I think I gave you
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a copy and maybe you have me mixed up with
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Tammy mag I ain't seen that book.
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No, No, maybe I didn't.
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Maybe you didn't. Yeah, maybe you have me mixed up.
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With Adela Cruz. I don't know. I ain't seen that book.
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Oh you like you got me mixed up with another
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light skin radio host. That's the bottom line. It was
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someone light skinning on radio, but it wasn't me. Okay.
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In any case, you you were piling on to that
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point about focusing on what we want, not well we don't.
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Yeah, you know, Dominique. People believe that the Lord, because
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you know this is a zen A track what you
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Want manifesto, They believe the Lord can bring them the job.
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They want. They can believe the Lord. They can bring
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them the car they want, They can believe the for
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the Lord to get in the rooms that they need
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to get in and pitch the screenplay. But when it
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comes to relationship, that is where the devil takes hold
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on people and they just can't possibly believe that it
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is a black man out there that won't you you
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know what I mean? And even and guess who else
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does it? To us our own people, I will say, well,
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I want me a successful man. I want this, I
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want that, And other black people will be like, but
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is he gonna want you though, yea ain't gonna want me?
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This the man the Lord send for me. They And
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that's what happens also too when you spend time alone,
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because that's what happens. Idle time is devil's workship, and
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that's what happens with people. They they they're soul zoned
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in to the success. But the real success is the
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time that you're gonna spend on the couch on the
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phone with somebody you know, fulfilling your absolute heart and
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your soul. And you know it's also too, it's a
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part of the reason why you know, at the event
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we made it so that you can't talk about what
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you do because you're not what you do, you are
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who your spirit is.
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Yeah.
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So it's one of those things.
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Where which is not easy, but it's fun because all
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of a sudden, the girl will tell you you're not
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supposed to talk about what you do. I'm like, I'm sorry,
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because it's so ingrained in you.
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It's hard to talk about it everything else.
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Because you've been programmed that way. But it's in LA
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that's what we do. Hey, how are you? What do
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you do?
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Hey?
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How are you? What you moved to LA for? But
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the thing about it, too is when you go to
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these other towns and people have been married for forty
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eight years and they're only you know, it's because they
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have been talking about other things. They've been talking about exactly,
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because they've been talking about other things, honey, and those
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other things connect you. And that's really where I'm seeing
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a need for us, you know, as these fun you
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know you you think about the black singles, I know,
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fun amazing people who are out changing the world. They
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deserve a person. We deserve a person. I am the
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number one customer, you know.
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You know what though, and I think it's true. We
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do it to each other. Well, you know, oh, you're
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a what is the term? You're a leftover woman? Or
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you know you're that's that's the Kevin Samuels that if
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you're over thirty five.
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And Samuels is dead. I just want you to know.
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That, and that if you're over thirty five you're not married,
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you're a leftover woman, and that you know, we whatever
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we say, they're scrubs or there's a reason that you
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know that these old dudes are broke down and whatnot?
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What what if a person went through a divorce, what
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if their wife died?
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But I mean, aside from all of that, there's also
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the media narrative and the social media narrative because you know,
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these these girls ain't loyal. Yeah, to nerve it out.
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Every old song and adage.
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M Well, that's where it comes from.
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No, that is programming.
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Uh huh, that's.
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Where it comes from. It's it's true, you're right, but
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that's the thing where you have to get people together.
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And I think it's dope because you have a black
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sister who immediately reached out to black men and said, hey,
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I know y'all think like me. I know we know
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that there's some phenomenal people out here. I know we're
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we're floating in a single atmosphere and we know some
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great single people. Why don't we just invite people to something?
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And that was one those people. Also, if y'all get
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there early enough, there's gonna be some some refreshments. She's
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just she makes it like it's the house at the
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Wealth that doesn't We were ordering food and it was
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food dead.
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I was like, what you doing we need.
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So it's old school.
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In La.
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One of the things that are very much different. I'm
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gon gonna take a break. One of the first things I
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did when I got here started doing first Sunday dinner
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gatherings because no one was cooking, No one was bringing
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people together on Sundays. No one was having people at
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their house. Nucleus of black folks were but the consensus was, oh,
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let's go out, and everybody was starving artists, but no
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one was bringing people to their house. And that energy
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is the same thing that's happening at these events that
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come by.
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Alrighty well, I'm torn here because we got cuamell from
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Guardina where we only have a few seconds here, so
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we'll go to Quamel after News, Traffic and Sports, and
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and you'll tell us real quick how we can be
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down with this party.
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Yes, I need to see you there too, Dominique, you
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can't do another meeting. You need to put that paperwork
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down and get to the well on Thursday March twelfth. Now, seriously,
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a lot of people need to put the paperwork down
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and get somewhere. And actually the app that I built,
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it's it's this mixer is a part of the app
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called Come by Ye and that's what the app does
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is it's a social club that tells you where the
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black singles are, so you can learn that by check in.
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You can also learn that on the app they has
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there is hotspots. It's already in the Google play Store
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and it's coming to Apple on to the test flight
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on Apples. So but you can go to the website
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which is already up and running working Come by Ya
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dot app, ko n b Ye dot app and check
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in because that's you don't have to sign to check in,
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but you do have to sign up to get a disc.
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Okay, we'll get more on that after News Traffic and
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Sports on KBLA Talk fifteen eighty. I can see that
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with three radio talents and two comedians and uh and
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the skeptic all on the mic. Right now, we need
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to go right to this phone because we will eat
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up this whole entire clock. Let's go to Quamel calling
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us from guardena good morning, Cuomel.
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Helload Yeah, heload here, Hello there, and hello down.
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We've we've met before, heymel.
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Yes we yes, yes, we met before at a poetry
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spot and yeah, no, let's let's let's let's get into it,
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because I want to talk about what what I've seen
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be a thing is the mentality aspect. I think a
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lot of us, yeah don't know that. There's these places
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where it's just like, you know, we just got to
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have the mentality of being being a little more open
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minded and kind of listening and not judging as y'all
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are talking about which the events. So I've come across
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the mentalities that seem not very oriented towards meeting someone,
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not very orient towards getting to know with an excitement
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to possibly start going on a journey where it's kind
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of they're still in the mentality of their their how
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they were with their ax, or how they were with
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their baby daddy or baby Mama or something like that.
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And it's kind of fundy duddy issue, you know what
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I mean. Uh, maybe both maybe both you del and
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U twelve experienced this and yeah, but they just don't
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come off very datable. So to get out of the negative,
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it's a thing of all of us kind of go
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on a trial and error session. You know where we're
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because we're seeing back just baddies of of our age
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and even older, all kinds of places, you know, at
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at at Walmart, at lamurr at at poetry spots, at
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you know, at some bars, some hotel, hell, you know,
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all kinds of places. So it's a matter of our
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mentality when we go in. If y'all want to if
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you were, if you to were DOMINEDI want to speak
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to that for a second. I stay on the line.
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Do you say baddies like bad nice looking women? Did
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you say we see baddies everywhere?
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Yes? Oh yes, all the way, all the way. Now
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I'm like, no, no, that eye out. You got to
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have that eye out to know who's out there, like
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I mean, you know, not be on like some trying
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to cheat it every term, but just kind of knowing like,
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oh man, this looks down here, you know, quality houses,
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like I mean, you know, being able to murder on
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the Sunday. I've been talking. I was talking this about
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my forty something Bredren over the weekend. Like they out there,
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the farmer's market, stay out there. So it's like, I.
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Mean, okay, so so shory, where were you going with that?
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Well, I wanted to say that he's right, He's right,
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He's absolutely right. One of the biggest things, and the
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reason I mentioned perception and that I really like to
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help men and women communicate better in love because, like
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you said, Dominique, because of the media, because of what
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we see, especially because of clickbait and how fast we
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get things and how that that swipe left and all this,
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and and there's so many things out there, and we're
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so quick to put stuff out there, especially if you
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sexton and texted, and just we're used to things moving
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so quickly that having a basic conversation seems strange. They're
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still women. I'll be like, hey, I get your number.
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What's your last name?
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Oh?
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My last name? You want my government? But I'm wait, wait, wait,
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you got warris. I just want my phone. I got
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three opications?
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Yes, And you know, what the tenth I and I've
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been guilty of that, and I think a lot of
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people have been guilty of that. And it's because you,
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first of all, if you've ever dated online, you meet
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people who are side chicks specialists, you know what I'm saying.
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They're out with a whole family at home, you know,
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trying to meet people. And I'm like, you know, brother,
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if you would put this much effort into your your relationship,
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you wouldn't even need to meet anyone on the side.
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00:26:11.480 --> 00:26:14.759
So you have these things. But then also I think
483
00:26:14.880 --> 00:26:18.759
I do think you're right, Troy, where you're such you're
484
00:26:18.839 --> 00:26:22.440
used to such a fast turnover that you forget to
485
00:26:22.599 --> 00:26:25.680
make a coffee date with someone. You forget to make
486
00:26:26.119 --> 00:26:29.720
let's go hiking and let's just see what each other
487
00:26:30.039 --> 00:26:32.680
is about. You forget that the person may just be
488
00:26:32.799 --> 00:26:36.000
a great person, but not your husband or not your
489
00:26:36.039 --> 00:26:39.680
wife and so and and we have to remember to
490
00:26:39.759 --> 00:26:42.319
focus on meeting a great person.
491
00:26:43.240 --> 00:26:46.559
Like like that. You can also expand your social and
492
00:26:46.599 --> 00:26:49.400
business network. It's doesn't have to always just be your
493
00:26:51.079 --> 00:26:53.240
or your wife, you know. Yeah, it's a good point.
494
00:26:53.720 --> 00:26:57.400
And you mentioned this on Combaye, which is co O
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m b Y e K O m b K bye
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00:27:02.799 --> 00:27:07.240
dot app. Yeah, okay, you mentioned this that there's this
497
00:27:07.319 --> 00:27:09.480
battle of the sex's going on on the internet, which
498
00:27:09.559 --> 00:27:12.960
also translates into real life to some degree.
499
00:27:14.039 --> 00:27:16.839
I feel like I don't even maybe I need to
500
00:27:16.880 --> 00:27:20.039
like hijack, you know, to too white people's phone to
501
00:27:20.079 --> 00:27:23.559
see if it's going on in other races, because I
502
00:27:23.640 --> 00:27:26.599
just feel like it's there to divide us, you know
503
00:27:26.640 --> 00:27:29.640
what I'm saying. You got things like, oh, you know,
504
00:27:30.200 --> 00:27:32.799
a viral video because a girl says, oh, he tried
505
00:27:32.799 --> 00:27:35.000
to take me to the cheesecake fact And I'm like,
506
00:27:35.279 --> 00:27:38.599
where is this guy at because I love the cheesecake factory.
507
00:27:38.640 --> 00:27:41.680
Please take me to go on a happy hour, you
508
00:27:41.720 --> 00:27:45.440
know what I'm saying. And I feel like those are
509
00:27:45.559 --> 00:27:48.759
the videos that go in the algorithm, and so they're
510
00:27:48.839 --> 00:27:54.960
basically returning people back to this divisive state. And no,
511
00:27:55.680 --> 00:27:58.839
the average person wants someone and wants to be together,
512
00:27:58.920 --> 00:28:02.000
and they want someone in their community. And so that's
513
00:28:02.119 --> 00:28:05.400
the whole reason that you know, Troy came out. The
514
00:28:05.480 --> 00:28:09.480
last time, Troy called people from the event and made
515
00:28:09.519 --> 00:28:12.680
them get over there, and like, we literally had an
516
00:28:12.720 --> 00:28:15.640
even number of black men and women and these were
517
00:28:15.680 --> 00:28:19.519
these were suit wearing. Then we had a nonprofit organization,
518
00:28:19.599 --> 00:28:23.480
the NBA Moms just happened to be there at the
519
00:28:23.599 --> 00:28:26.440
let and their people started joining the event. So some
520
00:28:26.480 --> 00:28:30.279
of our people met their people because they started sending
521
00:28:30.319 --> 00:28:32.319
people over like Oh, she needs to be over here,
522
00:28:33.119 --> 00:28:36.240
he needs to be over here. So it's a need
523
00:28:36.440 --> 00:28:39.400
and it's and it's some real traction that has happened
524
00:28:39.480 --> 00:28:42.119
just from having the first one with.
525
00:28:42.200 --> 00:28:46.839
All the bs about relationships and the man of sphere
526
00:28:46.960 --> 00:28:49.160
and the whatever you call the girl is sphere where
527
00:28:49.160 --> 00:28:56.519
people talk smack about men online, do you think, Troy,
528
00:28:56.559 --> 00:29:02.720
from your perspective, do you think there are a group
529
00:29:02.759 --> 00:29:06.039
of sincere men out there, black men out there who
530
00:29:06.079 --> 00:29:10.079
are just actually looking for their match and just don't
531
00:29:10.680 --> 00:29:14.200
know where to find it, or maybe they're being hampered
532
00:29:14.240 --> 00:29:16.200
by some of the things you said, like I can't
533
00:29:16.240 --> 00:29:18.720
give you my name, or you know, you can't have
534
00:29:18.759 --> 00:29:21.680
my Instagram handle until we have our first child or
535
00:29:21.720 --> 00:29:22.400
whatever it is.
536
00:29:24.000 --> 00:29:26.400
You remember the old thing we have a first child?
537
00:29:26.559 --> 00:29:28.599
Do you remember the old saying birds of a feather
538
00:29:28.839 --> 00:29:31.960
flock together, Yes, sir, And people say stuff like if
539
00:29:32.039 --> 00:29:34.680
you look at the five closest people you can kind
540
00:29:34.680 --> 00:29:37.440
of determine your future. All those things, All those things
541
00:29:37.480 --> 00:29:40.559
are true. Like I have a group of guys, like
542
00:29:41.000 --> 00:29:47.119
the guys I know, good professional men, wholesome guys. I don't,
543
00:29:47.279 --> 00:29:50.799
you know, I don't really frequent cats that cheat on women.
544
00:29:51.119 --> 00:29:53.400
I don't frequent cats that don't take care of their kids.
545
00:29:53.640 --> 00:29:57.960
I don't frequent people who aren't professional. I'm really not
546
00:29:58.359 --> 00:30:02.920
into drug drinking. And you know, I like a nice
547
00:30:03.079 --> 00:30:04.920
drink every now and then. I might do a cigar
548
00:30:05.079 --> 00:30:08.039
once in a blue moon. But my circle is who
549
00:30:08.079 --> 00:30:11.640
I am, and that is the nature of the guys
550
00:30:11.680 --> 00:30:13.400
that I know what. So I know a ton of gods.
551
00:30:14.279 --> 00:30:16.720
I've been doing my Sex Love Relationship comedy tour and
552
00:30:17.039 --> 00:30:19.799
Taboo talk to and all this stuff for twenty two years,
553
00:30:20.079 --> 00:30:24.799
so I've seen it all. The women will run down everything,
554
00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:30.240
the misconception and to really speak on what Dell said.
555
00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:32.519
And I'm a hip hop brat, I was Morning semi five.
556
00:30:32.559 --> 00:30:37.079
I'm a hip hop brat. But we have the only
557
00:30:37.240 --> 00:30:39.680
music I try to listen. And I said, maybe I'm tripping.
558
00:30:39.720 --> 00:30:41.839
I'm the country music talk about some hard times, but
559
00:30:42.920 --> 00:30:47.079
we have one of the only musics that the young
560
00:30:47.160 --> 00:30:51.000
men and women in hip hop talks so degradingly about
561
00:30:51.000 --> 00:30:53.920
each other, and it goes up through a thing and
562
00:30:53.920 --> 00:30:57.920
then it carries over into culture more and more and more.
563
00:30:58.240 --> 00:31:01.519
And when you're battling that, you kind of gotta it's
564
00:31:01.559 --> 00:31:03.400
amazing because you were like, Yo, we don't all talk
565
00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:06.000
like I'm in my interview Cassie Hughes and she was like, Troy,
566
00:31:06.079 --> 00:31:08.319
I've never been at the restaurant seen some black women
567
00:31:08.400 --> 00:31:11.119
throw or drinking somebody's face and jump up and slapper.
568
00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:14.000
I don't know where these people come from. So that's
569
00:31:14.079 --> 00:31:18.160
reality TV. That's and they call it reality TV, but
570
00:31:18.279 --> 00:31:22.240
anybody just in the industry, no, it's scripted. So and
571
00:31:22.359 --> 00:31:25.400
if we keep putting those things out before us and
572
00:31:25.480 --> 00:31:27.880
we don't have more things like come by a, then
573
00:31:27.880 --> 00:31:30.240
that would seem like it's a perception. But we just
574
00:31:30.279 --> 00:31:32.640
have to We just have a different battle, just like
575
00:31:32.720 --> 00:31:35.880
civil rights and everything else. We gotta do better and
576
00:31:35.960 --> 00:31:38.319
making sure we talking it. We just need to be
577
00:31:38.359 --> 00:31:41.720
more loving one to another. People aren't loving each other.
578
00:31:42.079 --> 00:31:44.200
That's the biggest thing. Being loving, Hey, how you doing this?
579
00:31:44.640 --> 00:31:45.440
You call somebody?
580
00:31:45.720 --> 00:31:47.480
Not that you always got to call somebody pet name,
581
00:31:47.519 --> 00:31:49.279
but being loving, pulling out a chair. I had an
582
00:31:49.279 --> 00:31:52.640
old video. I had the whole video the other day
583
00:31:52.680 --> 00:31:55.319
on walking the right side of the street so that
584
00:31:55.400 --> 00:31:58.000
a car won't jump the curb and hit the girl first,
585
00:31:58.000 --> 00:31:59.799
that it hit and kill you before it killed a girl.
586
00:32:00.559 --> 00:32:03.319
But I mean, I don't want to be on that
587
00:32:03.480 --> 00:32:07.000
street either too. I just want to say I got you.
588
00:32:07.160 --> 00:32:11.359
But even, but even, like even the simple thing of
589
00:32:11.519 --> 00:32:15.400
asking a woman on a date, I sometimes feel sorry
590
00:32:15.559 --> 00:32:21.000
for the younger women because at least the forty fifty
591
00:32:21.440 --> 00:32:24.799
sixty something year old dudes know how to ask you
592
00:32:24.839 --> 00:32:29.960
on a date. And from what I'm hearing that they don't.
593
00:32:30.359 --> 00:32:33.519
Oh no, they're being asked. They are No. I just
594
00:32:33.640 --> 00:32:35.599
was in New So that's a lot. Let me tell
595
00:32:35.599 --> 00:32:35.880
you something.
596
00:32:36.079 --> 00:32:37.839
I'm believing the hype all over town.
597
00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:43.240
I'm talking about believing, and because we're at the we
598
00:32:43.519 --> 00:32:49.400
are scrolling the hype dispenser all day. But the thing is,
599
00:32:49.519 --> 00:32:53.000
but the thing is is I just went to New York.
600
00:32:52.799 --> 00:32:54.440
For my mom's birthday.
601
00:32:54.480 --> 00:32:57.000
Wait, hold on for a second. I just went to
602
00:32:57.039 --> 00:33:02.680
New York for my mom's birthday to a restaurant that
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00:33:02.880 --> 00:33:07.279
was extremely expensive. It caused US one sixty eight per
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00:33:07.359 --> 00:33:09.640
person to eat. This was an out tip. I hope
605
00:33:09.680 --> 00:33:13.720
that it was delicious. And guess what, honey, these these
606
00:33:13.759 --> 00:33:15.880
people would not be in business if it wasn't for
607
00:33:16.119 --> 00:33:19.039
young black people. Honey. They was it rolling in there
608
00:33:19.359 --> 00:33:24.000
with like the the black The thirty to some year
609
00:33:24.079 --> 00:33:27.359
old black woman had a thirty something year old black
610
00:33:27.400 --> 00:33:31.000
man taking her to this restaurant. So they being asked
611
00:33:31.039 --> 00:33:33.680
out on a date. And it's the people who are
612
00:33:33.759 --> 00:33:39.079
feeling worthy are attracting the ask and they're also positioning.
613
00:33:39.119 --> 00:33:42.319
And that's what that's why we've started this right here,
614
00:33:42.839 --> 00:33:45.759
is because when you're out, and when you're younger, you're
615
00:33:45.759 --> 00:33:49.119
out anyway, you're meeting people, you're at the places. And
616
00:33:49.680 --> 00:33:53.640
when you get older, you know, you do hunger for
617
00:33:53.759 --> 00:33:56.920
your career and your finances to be up, so it
618
00:33:57.000 --> 00:34:00.000
causes you to work more. But they are still places
619
00:34:00.200 --> 00:34:03.400
out there that you can We we are creating a
620
00:34:03.440 --> 00:34:05.519
place that you can go and you can meet someone.
621
00:34:05.839 --> 00:34:08.760
But then when you come here, don't even worry about
622
00:34:09.039 --> 00:34:13.480
the crab house date. Worry about the coffee date. First.
623
00:34:13.920 --> 00:34:16.480
You know, let's get someone to have coffee with, since
624
00:34:16.480 --> 00:34:18.880
you already got your own money. Let's get someone to
625
00:34:18.920 --> 00:34:21.840
go hiking with. Since you already got the bag, because
626
00:34:22.119 --> 00:34:23.880
you know, we're a whole bunch of already got the
627
00:34:23.920 --> 00:34:28.119
bag people. You know, even if the bag has has
628
00:34:28.159 --> 00:34:30.719
nothing shown up all the way you you've been chipping
629
00:34:30.760 --> 00:34:33.119
away at the bag. So the bag is coming. But
630
00:34:33.159 --> 00:34:36.320
we still have the wealth mentality. So since you already
631
00:34:36.320 --> 00:34:38.800
have the well, just come out and get the coffee date,
632
00:34:38.880 --> 00:34:41.960
the hiking date, the phone buddy, like start there and
633
00:34:42.000 --> 00:34:45.440
getting to know a great person, because that's that's really
634
00:34:45.480 --> 00:34:48.159
what why we're doing it. I'm sorry to interrupt your joy.
635
00:34:49.199 --> 00:34:52.679
No oh, no, no you no, I was. I was just
636
00:34:52.800 --> 00:34:56.880
I was just gonna add on the thing of being
637
00:34:56.920 --> 00:34:59.400
a foodie loving food restaurants.
638
00:34:59.440 --> 00:35:00.280
We don't tell you.
639
00:35:00.320 --> 00:35:01.840
We did a event of the friends of mine, a
640
00:35:01.840 --> 00:35:03.800
friend of mine's house of a night, but you could
641
00:35:03.800 --> 00:35:06.079
have easily paid two hundred dollars a person to go.
642
00:35:06.199 --> 00:35:10.239
But it was a free event, open bar, great fun.
643
00:35:10.360 --> 00:35:13.960
We went Burbank a brother who owned the house.
644
00:35:13.679 --> 00:35:13.880
You know.
645
00:35:14.039 --> 00:35:16.199
But we had a great time. People came out, some
646
00:35:16.239 --> 00:35:19.480
people from Kumbaya came out. So but the thing is
647
00:35:19.519 --> 00:35:22.280
so funny is that, like she said, just meeting people
648
00:35:22.840 --> 00:35:25.519
and get rid of it. This it's hard for a
649
00:35:25.559 --> 00:35:27.679
younger man is trying to ask somebody on a date.
650
00:35:27.760 --> 00:35:30.119
He's excited, he got his little job. He's doing this,
651
00:35:30.360 --> 00:35:32.280
go to ask girl there, and then he opens up
652
00:35:32.280 --> 00:35:34.480
his phone and sees, hey, better not ask me the
653
00:35:34.559 --> 00:35:38.000
cheesecake factory and he's like, man, chief head factory.
654
00:35:37.760 --> 00:35:38.159
Is a joint.
655
00:35:38.199 --> 00:35:39.840
I was going to ask for that. Maybe I don't
656
00:35:39.840 --> 00:35:42.400
know if I'm ready yet. Yeah, guys can pull back.
657
00:35:42.480 --> 00:35:45.800
I think Garrek mentioned this before. Guys can pull back
658
00:35:45.880 --> 00:35:49.320
if we don't think we're in the right position enough.
659
00:35:49.800 --> 00:35:52.440
But the biggest thing you have to do. And fellas
660
00:35:52.480 --> 00:35:55.320
if you've been having that scenario coming to a place
661
00:35:55.440 --> 00:35:59.079
like the well for Kumbaye. It's even ground. It's a
662
00:35:59.159 --> 00:36:01.559
basic place you can come out and get. It's not
663
00:36:01.960 --> 00:36:04.679
over expensive, it's not. It's a nice place to come.
664
00:36:05.079 --> 00:36:08.320
You can just sit down and have a conversation. Come by, hey,
665
00:36:08.800 --> 00:36:11.039
come by, come out here. Sound like an old Negro
666
00:36:11.159 --> 00:36:13.360
spiritual when you say it's quick, but come by here
667
00:36:14.440 --> 00:36:16.920
and sit down. Come by here, sit down, talk to
668
00:36:16.960 --> 00:36:20.960
this woman, and then you're talking to different people. Everybody
669
00:36:21.039 --> 00:36:26.039
I talked to the last month were amazing people. It
670
00:36:26.119 --> 00:36:29.320
was a vibe. People stuck around, people met different people.
671
00:36:29.639 --> 00:36:31.639
It was a vibe and did I did I meet
672
00:36:31.719 --> 00:36:35.760
miss romantic Nod But I met some great people and
673
00:36:35.840 --> 00:36:39.599
did some networking and met some great guys. So it's
674
00:36:39.679 --> 00:36:44.480
just coming out and getting rid of the all the bs.
675
00:36:44.480 --> 00:36:46.840
So I called the Battle of sexist bs, so you know,
676
00:36:46.960 --> 00:36:48.960
all of that stuff, getting rid of all that stuff
677
00:36:49.000 --> 00:36:51.079
and be in the atmosphere and it's a it's a
678
00:36:51.119 --> 00:36:51.639
great vibe.
679
00:36:52.400 --> 00:36:56.800
Absolutely well, said Troy Rawlings and Del Harrison and I
680
00:36:56.880 --> 00:36:59.039
peeped that, D and D I peeped that. That didn't
681
00:36:59.039 --> 00:37:03.320
go by us. We'll continue this conversation about how, where
682
00:37:03.320 --> 00:37:05.440
and why it might be time for you to meet
683
00:37:05.480 --> 00:37:10.159
somebody O KBLA Talk fifteen eighty. Indeed, Del Harrison is here,
684
00:37:10.239 --> 00:37:12.719
Troy Rollins is on the phone. Thank you, Carmel. We
685
00:37:12.719 --> 00:37:15.519
appreciate the inside. I can't believe how fast time goes
686
00:37:15.800 --> 00:37:18.039
when you're on the radio. You said you had some
687
00:37:18.079 --> 00:37:20.159
great results people meeting people.
688
00:37:20.400 --> 00:37:24.679
Yes, we did. We had Like I said, the NBA
689
00:37:24.760 --> 00:37:28.840
Moms was there. They sent you know. One of the
690
00:37:28.920 --> 00:37:32.119
guys just came over and he was like, what is
691
00:37:32.159 --> 00:37:34.000
this you know, and I was telling him it's a
692
00:37:34.199 --> 00:37:37.400
it's a social mixer. For black Singles over forty and
693
00:37:37.440 --> 00:37:39.400
he was like, shoot, I want to participate. I want
694
00:37:39.440 --> 00:37:42.280
to meet someone. And now this guy doesn't even live
695
00:37:42.280 --> 00:37:45.559
in town, but he's been Him and a friend of
696
00:37:45.559 --> 00:37:49.679
mine met and they've been communicating. Uh and now when
697
00:37:49.679 --> 00:37:53.920
he comes back to town, they're going out. And then
698
00:37:53.960 --> 00:37:56.880
I went to the party again. I went to the
699
00:37:56.920 --> 00:37:59.880
party that Troy invited me to and I saw some
700
00:38:00.079 --> 00:38:02.559
when they're Troy had invited her there, and I just
701
00:38:02.639 --> 00:38:06.960
hugged her so hard because this is a woman that
702
00:38:07.159 --> 00:38:17.360
came to begin a friendship. Yes, no, and no, because
703
00:38:18.159 --> 00:38:22.280
I'm doing that the whole reason. I want us to
704
00:38:22.400 --> 00:38:26.719
have the male in Honey, I'm odd on girls' night out.
705
00:38:26.760 --> 00:38:29.119
I don't know about you, but I am odeed on it.
706
00:38:29.480 --> 00:38:31.719
I don't want to see another pack of women to
707
00:38:31.800 --> 00:38:35.360
save my life out here, you know what I mean.
708
00:38:35.960 --> 00:38:38.480
We deserve the men we deserve.
709
00:38:39.000 --> 00:38:39.239
You know.
710
00:38:39.840 --> 00:38:42.000
Somebody just sent me a video and it was just like,
711
00:38:42.400 --> 00:38:45.599
meet your next sore row or your next sis right here.
712
00:38:45.599 --> 00:38:48.159
And I'm like, Sis, I don't need to come there
713
00:38:48.920 --> 00:38:52.239
for the rest of my life. Okay, I've never been there,
714
00:38:52.320 --> 00:38:55.000
and I'm not coming. I don't want to meet you
715
00:38:55.039 --> 00:39:00.719
know it's healthy to have the opposite gender interaction. That's
716
00:39:00.760 --> 00:39:02.840
why the Lord made us, That's what he made us for.
717
00:39:03.199 --> 00:39:06.800
And so that's that's my whole why you know.
718
00:39:06.920 --> 00:39:09.039
So this is taking place. The next one is at
719
00:39:09.039 --> 00:39:13.239
the Well that's coming up Thursday, Thursday at five thirty.
720
00:39:14.559 --> 00:39:17.519
All right, it's so intentional for those of us who
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don't like to be on late. I mean, I have
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a good excuse. I have an early morning show, but
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some of y'all don't still don't like to go out
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like me too. Try we we We just got about
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a minute here. What do you want to say?
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Bring your butt out to the Well on Thursdays, I
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playing five thirty.
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Get there, ladies.
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I'm trying to tell you get there early because the
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God is gonna be there. God's gonna be there. It's
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gonna be food there early. Because they all don't know
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how to not make people eat. Uh, it's a it's
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just a good time. And what's that book? Somebody had
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a book called It's just a damn Day? Actually, anybody
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anybody's in an email. I even send you my book free,
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you get to eat book free. I just send it
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to Dominique. Since she said another. I'm gonna find that
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picture with you holding the book.
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And.
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Also make sure you bring those receipts.
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Joy and and get tickets on event. Get tickets come
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by a mix and mix and match k O m
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b y E mix and match dot event, bright dot com.
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Just search k O m b y E on event
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right and you will come up on the tickets.
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I love this. I love that you're making moves on
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not just on behalf of yourself, on behalf of all women,
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black women and men and all men. Thank you, Troy.
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I love that you're doing that too. But everyone's welcome, right,
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anyone can come.
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Anyone can come. We will not shun you, honey and Troy.
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I love that you said. You know, being successful doesn't
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mean you have to be a billionaire or even a millionaire.
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It just means you got to be on your back.
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Yes, yes, that's what we're all about.
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Guess what you successful.
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Let'll tell you something. If TAGI is on TV crying
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about money, we know you crying about money too, Okay,
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so so come.
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Come cry into your drink at the well Thursday March twelve. Yes, indeed,
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real quick event right.
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Come by you mix and match dot event bright dot com.
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Got it, Grab a.
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Ticket and you can get if you sign up for
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the app, which is free, you can get a ticket.
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You know, you can get a discount on the ticket.
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So come by y dot app KO, m B y
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eat that app.
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Gotta leave it there. It's time for Tavis Smiley to
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grab the mic. Troy Rawlings and Del Harrison, thank you both.
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Thank you so much. Yes, indeed, this has been fun. Okay,
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I'm gonna look for the book anyway, It's time for
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Tavis Smiley. Like my mama, the late Great Diane da
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Prima used to say, history is now. Like I always say,
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we're making it together until tomorrow. Mix and mingle, one
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Love