May 4, 2026

The Sound of Gold with 2BARisingStar founder, Robert Kenneth

The Sound of Gold with 2BARisingStar founder, Robert Kenneth
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Season 2

Musical Talents and how to get noticed. Our present and history has had America's Got Talent, The Voice, ReverbNation, Britain's Got Talent and more. Now meet, 2BARisingStar. No more waiting in line. No more traveling. No more in person competitions. Now, everyone gets noticed, everyone gets a stage!

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Hi, welcome to the Sound of Gold. If you've been

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with me before, welcome back. If you're new, Welcome. My

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show focuses on music, musicians, music venues, music schools, and

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music teachers. And I am here in my music studio,

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in my home and at my piano. I will get

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to play for you a little bit today, but before

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we get to that part, I wanted to talk a

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little bit today about our music world and how we

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have been so connected. I guess in some ways to

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watching television, or some of us watching television and getting

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inspired by shows like The American Idol, The Voice, America's

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Got Talent, and there's so many other shows out there,

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but those are the three I think top. And you know,

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I'm a performer, I'm a musician, and I have friends

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that have been on the Voice. I have friends that

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have been on America's Got Talent, and the steps that

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is required to get onto those shows, you know, it's

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it's a huge investment. It's a huge investment in time.

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It's a huge investment in money and the anxiety that

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goes along with with auditioning. And if you've auditioned for

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like even even if you go for a job interview

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today and it's even not music related, you understand what

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it is to have that anxiety to show up and

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be your best and hope that you're you're accepted. And

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in music there we are as musicians. We are so

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fragile and vulnerable when we perform because we're giving you

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our all. And I am so excited today because I

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have two very special guests on my show and I

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would love to tell you more about this new platform

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called to Be a Rising Star. And this platform will

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help everyone out there, every musician out there, everyone who

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is talented that wants to show up an audition. This

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is going to be so much simpler. Please help me

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welcome mister Robert Kenneth and mister Derek Smith to my platform.

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Lisa, it's certainly your pleasure. We thank you very much

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for the opportunity.

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Derek chime in Lisa as I would have just said,

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thank I'm thankful for being here.

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Lisa, thank you so much.

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Yes, yes, thank you. Now you've invited me on your

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board meeting, and it was so nice to meet so

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many of you. And it sounds like you have a

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lot of chefs in the kitchen. We have a lot

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cooking up, and please please, I don't know who wants

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to go first, but maybe Derek or would you like

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to go first, or Kenneth or mister.

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I'll start off. Thank you. I appreciate it. We welcome

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all of your listeners, your followers.

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How people can actually see us today, me too, are

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very excited.

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I'm sorry call that thought Robert. For those of you

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that are watching us on television, great, you can see

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the three of us if you're tuning in and just listening.

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There is myself, there is Robert, there is Kenneth, and

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there's my cat here too. So sorry, please, I good.

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So look, I'm about to share some unfortunate truths, uh

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and in the music industry, in the filming industry, I

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don't think anybody likes to be judged, so I took

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this into account. We happen to be the only online

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monthly skill based talent search global talent search towardshow that's

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a mouthful, okay, but when you break it down, unlike

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American Idol, America's Got Talent, Dancing with the Stars. So

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you think you can dance, the X Factor, the Voice,

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the four, here's their model. Their model is they picked

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ten major cities, forty to fifty plus thousand people show

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up for an audition. They literally wait in line for

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two to three days.

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It's true.

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They have a ninety second audition for which they're judged

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by three or four people, four people for twenty four

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spots on TV to select one winner. So let's just

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pick on American Idol or America's Got Talent is better.

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America's Got Talent says there's one winter a season, and

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one winner a season makes one million dollars.

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That's what everybody believes. That what's promoted.

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That's what's marketing, right.

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That's half true.

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If you read the small print or go on Google

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and ask how is the million dollars paid? Who will

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be sadly disappointed to know it's paid over forty years.

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That's four zero years.

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That's twenty five thousand dollars a year, not including taxes.

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And the other promise is you'll get a job in Vegas,

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but it's open ended to be for one week, one month,

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six months, and then you're done. As a businessman, I

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looked at this and I thought, let's unpack those numbers.

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What you're really telling me is at four hundred and

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ninety nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety nine people are discarded.

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They're dismissed, and along with that, their hopes, their wishes,

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their dreams are dashed. And so we've come up with

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a platform that we've tested. We're excited, we are going

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to launch. The actual launch is going to be July first.

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For the actual.

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Contest, it's always a month behind. So we're going to

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Gorilla Market as much as we can from the middle

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of May, all the way through May, all the way

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through June. Let everybody upload their videos. But July first, magic, Okay,

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July first is when votes can be ascertained and you'll

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understand how this all plays out in the second. So look,

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there's only two things you can do on our site,

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all from the comfort of your home. No travel, no

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lne no judges, okay, and we can have three hundred

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winners per month. We will have three hundred performance consultants

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in a month, and we can have three hundred charities

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that we plan on donating money too. We can have

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an unlimited number of aspiring artists or creators and the

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only thing they can do is upload a video and

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then tell everybody to vote for them.

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Whoever gets the most votes wins. Do you have any

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questions at this point? I do.

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There's different group quotes of what you said. First of all,

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I want to make mention for charities and for listeners

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out there. If you're a charity that you want to

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be advertised to be a rising star, how would they

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contact you?

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So everywhere on the website, once it's up and running

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as my actual email address, they can contact me by

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phone as long as they meet the parameter.

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And here's the parameter.

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We want seventy five percent or more if any money's donated,

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that go to their cause, not in their pocket, not

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for administration. We use a charity navigator which is well

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known through the industry, and you'll see how we uniquely

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do this as I get more into the details, and

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your next question is is yes.

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My next question is, and we've spoken before, but I'd

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like my audience to understand as well, what has inspired

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your business man. I understand that what has inspired you

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to take this route and why? Why the music industry

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and what happened that really motivated you to make this

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happen for all of us musicians.

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So, uh, Hollywood is fickle. The music business is equally fickle.

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It's the old story. It is not how much you know,

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it's who you know. I wanted to provide a platform

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that would level the playing field. If you've got talent,

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then you should have the opportunity to be seen and heard.

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Now recently we're very privileged and honored. I can't mention

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the exact name, but we're working with some cruise lines here.

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At South Florida. Okay, okay, well that's very exciting.

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And then we've got other entities that from an employee

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base standard can't mention the name, but they've got like

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eight thousand employees.

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One great benefit to.

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Provide a talent search award show and get the benefits

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going to them.

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That's not costing.

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The the business, which is a rather large business with

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eight thousand employees, doesn't cost them a penny. We're doing

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it for the right reasons. Again, what makes what makes

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us uniquely different?

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Yes? So now do you play an instrument, Robert, or

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are you yeah?

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Here, here's what I would say, Lisa, this is in

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my voice. Don't ever ask me the same. I don't

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know how to read music.

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But I see that.

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Beautiful piano in the in your background. That's absolutely beautiful.

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That's called a screenshot.

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Oh, that's a screen.

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Shut. I did have I used to have a baby

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grand piano. I did take piano lessons. My instrument of

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choice back in the day was trumpet, and I could

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listen and I could play along with everybody else until

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the maestro would say, Rob.

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Can you play this?

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And I'd go, I can't read it, therefore I can't

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play it. But we want diversity, and here's what we

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do uniquely different. I already told you that we upload

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videos out of the comfort of your home. We don't

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have judges. We have performance consultants. And I'll describe what

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they do now. I asked them first and foremost, do

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they have to pay it forward?

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Mindset? If it's all about money, I'm not doing this

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for money.

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I'm doing it because I can't have four hundred and

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ninety ninety nine people disappointed. I want to enhance, improve,

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enrich and empower their lives so that they can hopefully

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achieve and attain more of their hopes, their wishes and dreams.

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That's my legacy.

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My legacy along with Derek, is we want to be

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the best of the best in the history of Power

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Search Awards. You and then we also want to be

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the most lucrative pay out the most amount of money.

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So let's get right into the nuts and bolts. We

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have three ways you can upgo a video. You have

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a one minute video that's gonna be twelve dollars and

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ninety nine cents.

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You have a three minute video, yeah, fifteen dollars in

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ninety nine cents.

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Or you've got a twenty minute I'm sorry, a five

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minute video that's going to cost eighteen dollars in ninety

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nine cents. Don't want to be their promoter, don't want

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to be their business manager. Just want to provide a

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platform where more people can see in the year talents.

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And then I may be a facilitator. I'll work with

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their promoters, I'll work with their managers. We already have

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studios lined up, We've got record labels lined up, we've

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got talent agencies lined up, and it's my intent to

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simply introduce to give them that opportunity. So my performance

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consultants are as follows. Number one, have to have it

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paid forward, mindset to know and remember what was it

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like coming up through the ranks, how tough was it

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for them? How can they make it easier? Number two,

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I asked them, I'll use the two examples, but I'll

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narrow it down to one. You can either work with

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me for one hour a month. That takes away the

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objection of rah, do you know who you're talking with?

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I'm so busy, You're so busy. You don't have one

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hour a month.

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So if it's one hour a month, we agree on

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a flat fee, whatever that agreement is, that's what they're

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gonna get paid.

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Or if they have three hours a month, which is.

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One hour a week the first week week one is

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one hour, week two, one hour a week, three, one hour,

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then I'll give them either a flat fee or I'll

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give them a percentage of the gross revenue for the category.

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Here's the responsibility.

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I must be very positive, very professional, Their.

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Conversation would go something like this, I'll use Derek.

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Let's say that Derek is the guest host, and Lisa,

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of course you're the creative, you're the aspiring artist.

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And what Derek is gonna say is as follows. I

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won't let him say it. I'll say it.

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He's gonna say, Oh my god, Lisa, you are amazing,

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you so talented. I love the way you played the piano.

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You had such heart. Okay, you I had a connection.

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I felt the music run through my body during the

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top twenty. I wish you well going forward. And that's

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always going to say. He's going to also maybe say

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and I'd like you to consider the following. Now, what

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makes us uniquely different is I want piano players to

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compete with other piano players. I want trumpeters to compete

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against trumpeters, which.

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We're wrestling with country wrestling and so on and so forth.

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It always blew my mind.

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How do you pick a winner on TV when you

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have a sword swallow or competing with a ballerina.

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Who's competing with a country western singer and a gymnast,

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and the winner is the sword swallow And I'm going,

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are you seriously?

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It's unbelievable. That's the second thing that we do differently.

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The third thing we do differently is we have four

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different age brackets, twelve and under, thirteen to nineteen, twenty

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and older, and forty five and older. We've covered the

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whole gambing, okay.

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And as you're a change in the feet for uploading

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their content depending on their age.

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No, the age has no specificity.

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It's one minute, three minutes of five minutes.

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That's okay, because there is an overhead cost with regard

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to bandwidth. Okay, So we're not killing anybody here. I

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already know, as you know, for all the years that

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you've performed, there are times maybe you had to pay

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to perform. There are times you had to have your

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hair done, your makeup done, You went out and you

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paid for a new dress, you.

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My highest price is eighteen dollars in ninety nine cents,

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for which we guarantee a two hundred and fifty dollars

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minimum to every winner in every category. So if you

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paid nineteen bucks, which one two and fifty, very nice return.

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First, it's not.

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About the money as much as it is really uncovering

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true talent. Okay, So then I go to my guest,

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my performance consultant, mister Derek. I say, Derek, wow, you're

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the best. I want to do two more things. I

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want to give you an award that you can give out.

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It's called the super Nova Golden Ticket Award.

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And what that means is, Lisa, if maybe you didn't

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week three, or maybe you were in top twenty week one,

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week two and you disappeared in week three, Derek calls

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me up and goes, I want Lisa to get the

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super Nova Award. So I call you up and I go, congratulations, Lisa,

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You're in the finals. Derek gave up this super Nova award.

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Okay. Now, to be clear, you already indicate I'm a businessman.

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How business like would it be if I let you

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go into the finals and you didn't have enough votes

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to get in. You're not going to win slim to none.

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So what I do is the last three days of

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every single month are the finals. Right now, the top

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numbers twenty. We're going to bring twenty people into the finals. Okay,

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everybody in the final. Three hundred out of no, out

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of perhaps even more than three hundred. The reason I

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can have three hundred winners per month is because I

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have approximately eighty different categories. Okay, and with four different

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age brackets, that's three hundred and twenty winners per month.

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Good point. Okay, So at this point you're competing. There

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are no judges. Derek is my performance consultant based on

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skill set to look for. Okay, and now you're in

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the finals. Everybody who's in the finals who had enough

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votes or was nominated. You were nominated because you got

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the Supernova vote starts with zero votes for the last

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three days. So now it's anybody could win, anybody in

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the top twenty.

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Okay. If you win, you win your two hundred and

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fifty dollars or more.

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And I'm going to show you something very shortly, Derek,

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don't let me forget grand Champion.

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So now I also say to Derek, who or what

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is your favorite charity? Derek, who's your favorite charity?

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My favorite charity is the Lapause. I feed the homeless

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here in Arizona.

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Lapause, and they helped the homeless. Okay, great, so I

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call up la Pause. I say hi, my name is

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Robert Kenneth, I'm the CEO of a company called two

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B A rising star Derek Smith is one of my guests,

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or he's my performance consultant. We would like to donate

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money in his name on his behalf, not money coming

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out of his pocket. He gets all the glory, he

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gets all the attention because he deserves it. And that's

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what I do. So we have three moving parts. You're

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either the aspiring artist, you are the performance coach, or

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your charity. Okay it only two things you can do

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is upload a video out of the comfort of your

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home and then socially network and tell everybody to vote

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for you.

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That's it. That's the whole premise. Okay, I love this

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next transition. Oh wait, there's more. Be the more is

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I told you.

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We want to be the best of the best in

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the history of talent search award shows.

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Yes, so want to.

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Be the most lucrative.

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So on our side of the fence, we want to

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reduce homelessness, hunger, domestic abuse, human trafficking, trafficking, you already addiction,

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animal cruelty. We want to bring the arts back into

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the public schools because it's the right thing to do. Okay,

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that's that's phase one. That's the Internet phase two before

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I transition. Derek, you want to chime in to anything

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if I've missed anything.

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Oh, no, your thorough, on my brother, you're super thorough.

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I love it.

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No, you're I'm actually you know, of course I'm missed

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the scrutiny, right, I'm going off everything, pushing all the

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right buttons. But yeah, Robert, you're crushing it.

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Man.

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I have nothing need to add other than the fact

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that I'm you know, one of those gentlemen who loves

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to be in the background, pressing the buttons, as I said,

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architect making this happen. I am really excited about the

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opportunity for individuals who will never even think about or

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have the courage to be within something like to be

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a rising Excuse me, excuse me, America's got talent or

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the voice. Right, there's a I mean you talked about earlier,

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maybe fifty thousand people I love for you know, one

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of those platforms. But then again, what about the millions

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who don't even sign up, who are super out that

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you'll never discover, right because they.

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Don't have the money for travel, they don't have the

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money for a place to stay, or maybe with gas prices. Well,

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it's who it cost me two hundred dollars from here

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to there just in gas alone.

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So and that, and that's why to be a writing

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star is so magnificent. In fact, when the idea came

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to me from Robert, when he introduced the idea to me,

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it was quite interesting because I work in the world

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of social media. I happened to be a social media

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marketing strategist, that's my claim to fame, and I love analytics,

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and so when Robert was explaining this to me the concept,

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my mind thought about the masses and what how does

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this make sense for the masses. And once the light

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bulb went off for me, I was like, oh my god,

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this this is a social media platform on steroids, right,

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because now you have a play platform. Let's think TikTok,

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Let's think cash app, and let's also think America's Got Talent.

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You take the three of those and you put them

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into a hybrid experience, and you're looking at this synergy

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where you can upload your videos for a fee to compete,

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or you can upload those same videos for free on

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what we have it's called showcase mode, and people can

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still celebrate you and like your content. But if you compete,

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they can actually vote for you. So even if I

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don't compete, there'll be individuals worldwide who can see Lisa

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being a virtualso on the piano and vote for you, right.

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And there are a lot of people that love to

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pay it forward and help people. And so I believe

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that the platform, the network, the synergy that's being created

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around to be a rising star, I'm just blessed to

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be a part of it. I'm really excited about all

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the things that's going to happen. More importantly, seeing all

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those winners every single month. It's one thing to talk

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about to be a rising star, there's a whole other

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thing when you spend let's say you put up a

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woman in video.

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And you win five.

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For the bucks I mean, because the pool is the

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pool is, it's upwards of five thousand dollars that you

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can move from, okay, and so you know, to say

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someone's gonna win twenty and fifty bucks, we're talking about

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a person that's probably in third or fourth or fifth place, right,

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not even the first place winner. So you know, the

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sky's the limit, and we're excited about seeing everyone every

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month winning.

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To be realty let me ask a question. So let's say,

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hypothetically speaking, it's July fifteenth, and Susie ces like, oh wow,

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let's check this out to be a rising start, I'm

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going to add I'm going to add my guitared performance

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on on and see if I win. It's July fifteenth,

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it gets uploaded, it doesn't get noticed until maybe the

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next day. Does that still qualify her within that month

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or do you have like a period like you have

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to upload on this date to find out on that day?

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Say question, that's a great question.

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So we're always a month behind Lisa. In your example,

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June or July was already in progress. She uploads her

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video in that month, it goes into the next month,

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so she gets a full month for people to she

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gets the extra two weeks. It'll be up on the board,

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it just won't be in voting context.

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Does that make sense?

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Yes, and only one. Like if susie Q or even

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myself wanted to post something, it's one video. It's not like, oh,

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I'm going to add five videos. No, you just need

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one performance to get the gist of how they're playing.

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Each month or now it's unlimited if you have five

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different videos and you want to upload five one minute videos,

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You're going to pay twelve ninety nine times five, okay,

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And that's okay. But depending upon the timing in which

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you upload your video, you're always.

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A month behind exactly.

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Okay. So the next month is the is the contest.

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If you upload during the contest, the next month and

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so on and so forth.

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Now what about what about the community?

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So for?

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And what I mean by that is, I'm a teacher.

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I'm a music teacher, but I'm also a music student

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as well as a musician. There is in my live

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world outside of the computer. Outside of the computer, you know,

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I have my music friends, and so if I'm out playing,

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I have that support. How does she be a rising

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star support their their musicians who are coming in to

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be a part of this. Do you have a community

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that roots each other on?

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Do you?

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How does this work in that sense?

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So we have a very lucrative opportunity.

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I'm willing to give anybody what is called a promo code.

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In fact, your promo code, Lisa will be number two,

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letter be Lisa and the number one. If there's another

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Leasa that comes in after she's number two, you promote

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market socially network and you tell everybody you know go

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to TB a rising star if they use your promo code,

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they save a dollar off of the uploading fee.

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So, and also let me add to that too, Robert,

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So with the keywords you mentioned, Lisa was community, and

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so we're going to put the responsibility of one's community

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being built on the actual content creator or aspiring artists

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to be a rising star. The platform, the base of

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the infrastructure is founded on the opportunity to give people

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a platform where they can be seen. And we are

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in the background working with certain i we'll call them agencies,

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talent agencies if you will, to help.

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And these are like different phases.

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Once we have the first phase, then we have phase two, three, four, five,

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and that's we'll be able to offer these other opportunities.

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But from the start, it's jump on our platform, win

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a lot of money, get discovered, be seen. Also to

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that point, you know, there's a lot of people right

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now that are uploading their content free every day, for example,

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on YouTube. Robert knows this all to well. On YouTube,

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every hour, they're about eight hundred and thirty three thousand

475
00:28:19.319 --> 00:28:23.240
videos up per hour on YouTube. Okay, and when you

476
00:28:23.279 --> 00:28:26.039
sift through that content, Lisa, what you'll find is there's

477
00:28:26.079 --> 00:28:30.359
a lot of real talent singers, dancwer, the cutest baby,

478
00:28:30.400 --> 00:28:33.559
the cutest dog, someone's funny. Right, These are categories, if

479
00:28:33.559 --> 00:28:35.119
you will, that we have onto be a rising star.

480
00:28:35.519 --> 00:28:38.400
And so there's a lot of content that's already out

481
00:28:38.440 --> 00:28:41.640
there where there's one hundred thousand comments, there's tons of

482
00:28:41.640 --> 00:28:44.640
followers that this art that this content creator already has.

483
00:28:45.079 --> 00:28:48.759
We're encouraging them. Let's repurpose your old content to us

484
00:28:48.839 --> 00:28:51.519
is brand new. Okay, So take that content that you

485
00:28:51.559 --> 00:28:54.480
put up three three years ago that people loved, put

486
00:28:54.480 --> 00:28:57.000
it on to be a rising star, compete, win some

487
00:28:57.079 --> 00:28:59.799
money with that same content, and keep that momentum.

488
00:29:00.559 --> 00:29:02.920
So when it comes to that keyword.

489
00:29:02.599 --> 00:29:09.039
Community, we are outlining ideas to make it more community driven.

490
00:29:09.400 --> 00:29:10.960
But I think by the nature of what to be

491
00:29:10.960 --> 00:29:13.680
a rising Stars is with things like being able to vote,

492
00:29:13.880 --> 00:29:17.480
like comment. Then also to our leaderboard, Oh my god,

493
00:29:17.759 --> 00:29:20.039
a leaderboard that's going to be in real time you

494
00:29:20.079 --> 00:29:22.559
see what place you're in. If you're dropping, you won't

495
00:29:22.599 --> 00:29:24.680
be able to see your votes, but you will see

496
00:29:24.720 --> 00:29:27.480
this kind of a metagame experience that's happening in real

497
00:29:27.559 --> 00:29:31.319
time all the time. It's gonna really have a lot

498
00:29:31.319 --> 00:29:33.799
of people coming back and have a lot of fun

499
00:29:33.839 --> 00:29:34.279
with that.

500
00:29:34.279 --> 00:29:37.759
That's great. Now for our live audience or for all

501
00:29:37.799 --> 00:29:40.279
of our audience who are watching us, we have a

502
00:29:40.319 --> 00:29:42.720
scroll on the bottom of our screen that has to

503
00:29:42.759 --> 00:29:46.359
be a Risingstar dot com. Is there another website for

504
00:29:46.400 --> 00:29:49.400
our listeners who are listening that they could tune in

505
00:29:49.519 --> 00:29:52.480
and get more involved.

506
00:29:53.880 --> 00:29:56.680
At the moment. To be Running Star is our landing page.

507
00:29:56.799 --> 00:29:58.880
It's the number two, not the word to.

508
00:29:59.039 --> 00:30:02.599
The number two. Actually the number two. Be a Rising

509
00:30:02.640 --> 00:30:05.319
Star is the main headquarters at this moment. It's more

510
00:30:05.400 --> 00:30:08.079
or less our launch path landing page by which we

511
00:30:08.119 --> 00:30:11.000
want people to know, Hey, sign up, put your information

512
00:30:11.039 --> 00:30:13.240
on there, because as soon as we launch, we're shooting

513
00:30:13.240 --> 00:30:16.079
out emails to everyone that we're available and that we're live.

514
00:30:17.359 --> 00:30:20.119
But the new website will be on the same to

515
00:30:20.279 --> 00:30:24.799
be Arisingstar dot com. To make it very make it streamline,

516
00:30:24.799 --> 00:30:27.119
to make it simple, so that it's not a whole

517
00:30:27.119 --> 00:30:28.559
new dot com that people have to remember.

518
00:30:28.799 --> 00:30:33.799
Okay, and Jerry, I wanted to ask specifically for audiences,

519
00:30:35.519 --> 00:30:39.240
would you be so kind as to share you and Robert,

520
00:30:39.279 --> 00:30:42.319
how did you connect and what inspired you to take

521
00:30:42.359 --> 00:30:42.960
this road.

522
00:30:43.720 --> 00:30:47.000
So we have a mutual friend and a gentleman by

523
00:30:47.039 --> 00:30:49.000
the name of Denzel Smalls, and he's a good friend

524
00:30:49.000 --> 00:30:52.799
of mine, owns his own television station and he's.

525
00:30:52.720 --> 00:30:55.079
Very well known here in Arizona.

526
00:30:55.079 --> 00:30:58.000
I'm in the state of Arizona and Robert is in Florida,

527
00:30:58.079 --> 00:31:00.960
and so he introduced me to Robert.

528
00:31:02.160 --> 00:31:02.920
In fact, if I can.

529
00:31:02.839 --> 00:31:05.480
Go a little more granular than that, So, working as

530
00:31:05.480 --> 00:31:08.480
a social media strategist, the handoff was more or less

531
00:31:08.599 --> 00:31:10.519
I know a gentleman by the name of Robert who

532
00:31:10.599 --> 00:31:13.240
is looking for someone who thinks outside of the box

533
00:31:13.519 --> 00:31:16.240
on a marketing social media plane. And I'm like, okay,

534
00:31:16.279 --> 00:31:20.279
I'm your guy. I'm pretty talented. So so I he

535
00:31:20.279 --> 00:31:22.599
introduces me to Robert. Me and Robert in fact, I

536
00:31:22.640 --> 00:31:27.759
remember the date, Lisa seventh, September seventeenth, correct, Robert September seventeenth.

537
00:31:27.880 --> 00:31:30.799
We had our first Google meets call and Robert, Lisa

538
00:31:31.000 --> 00:31:34.440
is explaining to me, Now, Lisa, true story. I'm listening

539
00:31:34.440 --> 00:31:38.000
to Robert explained to be a writing star to me, okay,

540
00:31:38.680 --> 00:31:41.119
and I'm thinking, like a social media guy, like, hey,

541
00:31:41.200 --> 00:31:44.079
I need another client. Right, business is going good. But

542
00:31:44.160 --> 00:31:46.440
sure this guy's going to be a potential client. Let

543
00:31:46.480 --> 00:31:50.240
me listen to him and listen to his plight all

544
00:31:50.240 --> 00:31:53.559
his problems, right, Okay, So he's speaking to me and

545
00:31:53.599 --> 00:31:55.640
I'm like, okay, I don't hear a problem at all.

546
00:31:55.799 --> 00:31:57.559
I mean, that was that was the conversation. I'm like,

547
00:31:57.559 --> 00:31:58.559
I don't hear any problems.

548
00:31:59.200 --> 00:32:03.200
All I heard was ashion empathy for those who don't

549
00:32:03.200 --> 00:32:04.079
have opportunities.

550
00:32:04.480 --> 00:32:05.839
And I was.

551
00:32:05.839 --> 00:32:10.559
Hearing this amazing about this amazing opportunity. But Lisa, truthfully,

552
00:32:10.599 --> 00:32:13.079
I couldn't. I wasn't putting things together because I wasn't

553
00:32:13.119 --> 00:32:16.960
listening correctly in the moment. And so I would say,

554
00:32:16.960 --> 00:32:19.480
maybe five minutes went by, We're going back and forth,

555
00:32:19.720 --> 00:32:22.559
and all of a sudden, the light bulb went off

556
00:32:22.799 --> 00:32:24.920
and I was like, wait, wait, wait, hold up, Robert,

557
00:32:25.599 --> 00:32:29.640
I'm so sorry, and remember remembers this. I said, Robert,

558
00:32:29.920 --> 00:32:34.559
Oh my god, this is a my exact words. I said, Robert,

559
00:32:34.599 --> 00:32:36.119
this is a billion dollar opportunity.

560
00:32:36.200 --> 00:32:36.839
Do you know that?

561
00:32:37.119 --> 00:32:38.079
He said, are you kidding me?

562
00:32:38.160 --> 00:32:38.359
Yeah?

563
00:32:38.359 --> 00:32:41.240
I know that I've been doing this ever right, but say,

564
00:32:41.279 --> 00:32:42.079
how dare you right?

565
00:32:42.440 --> 00:32:47.759
But truly, Lisa, for me, again, it made sense because

566
00:32:48.200 --> 00:32:50.359
my world is social media. My world is looking at

567
00:32:50.400 --> 00:32:52.799
contents by which people can win and how can they benefit.

568
00:32:53.079 --> 00:32:56.160
I have the luxury, Lisa, of working with clients small businesses,

569
00:32:56.160 --> 00:32:59.519
medium sized businesses, and if I can be frank, most

570
00:32:59.519 --> 00:33:01.880
people have no idea how to market anything. I'm sorry,

571
00:33:01.920 --> 00:33:04.519
but that's the truth, Okay, especially when you go into

572
00:33:04.599 --> 00:33:07.759
the you know, the start being scrutinizing what people are

573
00:33:07.799 --> 00:33:10.039
doing and how they're pivoting and how they're not posting

574
00:33:10.119 --> 00:33:10.519
or whatever.

575
00:33:11.359 --> 00:33:13.000
A lot of there's a lot of missed opportunities.

576
00:33:13.279 --> 00:33:15.640
When I saw what Robert is taking with to be

577
00:33:15.680 --> 00:33:18.000
a rising star, and he's making it available for everyone,

578
00:33:18.200 --> 00:33:20.519
how do you create these touch points where I can

579
00:33:20.559 --> 00:33:25.000
sit in my home, upload my content and win real money?

580
00:33:25.359 --> 00:33:25.720
Okay?

581
00:33:27.160 --> 00:33:28.920
And then how do we amplify that, How do we

582
00:33:29.160 --> 00:33:33.240
get at exposure to that while people winning? And then

583
00:33:33.279 --> 00:33:36.640
and then what's the right price entry price point? Because

584
00:33:36.680 --> 00:33:39.759
when I upload content to YouTube or Instagram or LinkedIn

585
00:33:39.880 --> 00:33:40.599
or whatnot, it's.

586
00:33:40.440 --> 00:33:42.279
Free, Lisa, Right, it's free.

587
00:33:42.400 --> 00:33:45.400
But if I have the opportunity of winning significant money,

588
00:33:45.720 --> 00:33:48.720
significant money for a little bit, because in a week's time,

589
00:33:48.839 --> 00:33:51.240
I could I could maybe spend forty bucks at Starbucks.

590
00:33:51.319 --> 00:33:53.319
If I'm not careful, Lisa, right, and.

591
00:33:53.279 --> 00:33:55.640
That's same forty bucks, I could have won one thousand

592
00:33:55.680 --> 00:33:56.920
dollars with my talent.

593
00:33:57.480 --> 00:33:58.599
So we look at it like that.

594
00:33:58.599 --> 00:34:01.559
With the conversation I had with Robert, I kind of

595
00:34:01.559 --> 00:34:05.680
became like Robert's shadow. Right, Maybe not a big I

596
00:34:05.680 --> 00:34:08.000
should say that, but I mean I was like I

597
00:34:08.039 --> 00:34:10.320
was kind of stalkingy, but he doesn't know that, and

598
00:34:10.400 --> 00:34:14.599
so we just had We just had this amazing Uh.

599
00:34:14.800 --> 00:34:16.880
I kind of look at it like a Steve Jobs Wisney,

600
00:34:16.920 --> 00:34:19.039
that type of experience between he and I. He's a

601
00:34:19.079 --> 00:34:22.480
true visionary. I learned a lot speaking with Robert, how

602
00:34:22.639 --> 00:34:23.400
things about things.

603
00:34:23.800 --> 00:34:23.880
Uh.

604
00:34:24.039 --> 00:34:26.480
Despite the fact that, yeah, there's a small, you know,

605
00:34:26.599 --> 00:34:29.480
five year age difference between Robert and I, right, Uh,

606
00:34:30.159 --> 00:34:35.119
you know, his mind is very attractive and so it

607
00:34:35.199 --> 00:34:39.800
matches the day's psychology of gen xers and gen zers

608
00:34:39.840 --> 00:34:44.400
and how people are looking at content, how uh launch content?

609
00:34:44.440 --> 00:34:46.039
How do we market and so on? So with to

610
00:34:46.159 --> 00:34:48.599
be a rising star for me, it was like, Okay,

611
00:34:49.000 --> 00:34:50.800
I need to be a part of this. I can

612
00:34:50.840 --> 00:34:51.480
bring all.

613
00:34:51.360 --> 00:34:53.039
Of these skill sets to the equation.

614
00:34:53.320 --> 00:34:57.079
I want to work alongside you because people and sometimes

615
00:34:57.119 --> 00:34:58.639
Robert wants people to win into a fault, and so

616
00:34:58.679 --> 00:35:00.320
that's become just so wonderful.

617
00:35:00.559 --> 00:35:06.000
That's wonderful. So hypothetically, not hypothetically, but we have the

618
00:35:06.000 --> 00:35:09.679
people out there that let's say, or I'll just use

619
00:35:09.719 --> 00:35:12.159
myself for an example. Let's say I go ahead and

620
00:35:12.199 --> 00:35:16.440
I upload a video. I pay my twelve ninety nine,

621
00:35:17.159 --> 00:35:21.920
and you know, it's real money, real time. But I

622
00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:26.280
have this whole month to wait for somebody to evaluate

623
00:35:26.400 --> 00:35:31.880
my performance. And then you call me, I get an email,

624
00:35:31.960 --> 00:35:35.440
I get I get a text message, Oh I want money. Okay, great,

625
00:35:35.840 --> 00:35:40.039
So you know, just like you mentioned Robert, you know

626
00:35:40.719 --> 00:35:43.440
that million dollars is twenty five a year? Is that

627
00:35:43.679 --> 00:35:45.800
two fifty like something i'll see next year?

628
00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:46.280
Is it?

629
00:35:46.599 --> 00:35:48.159
Do you have that all set up yet?

630
00:35:48.280 --> 00:35:49.440
Or is it all set up?

631
00:35:49.840 --> 00:35:54.159
Everybody gets paid two weeks after the month. Okay, they're

632
00:35:54.440 --> 00:36:00.639
acknowledged on the website. Congratulations Lisa, your photo, your video.

633
00:36:01.400 --> 00:36:04.880
By the way, if you win, when you win, that

634
00:36:05.159 --> 00:36:10.559
video cannot be used in that category again. You could

635
00:36:10.559 --> 00:36:13.239
take it and put it into some other category. As

636
00:36:13.239 --> 00:36:15.880
long as it's applicable. We have no problem.

637
00:36:16.280 --> 00:36:18.719
And we're saying clearly two.

638
00:36:18.679 --> 00:36:22.599
Hundred and fifty dollars is the minimum that you could win,

639
00:36:22.920 --> 00:36:24.119
not the maximum.

640
00:36:24.280 --> 00:36:29.440
Now, once they're they're uploaded, is their ownership in that?

641
00:36:29.920 --> 00:36:32.920
Do you own that video? Do you own that contact?

642
00:36:32.920 --> 00:36:36.199
Do you do you have the right to copyright their work?

643
00:36:36.519 --> 00:36:39.360
Or is it like I can post my video and

644
00:36:39.400 --> 00:36:42.639
then I'm free to go on to post it elsewhere

645
00:36:42.719 --> 00:36:43.880
if I want to do that.

646
00:36:44.280 --> 00:36:48.840
Yeah, So we're very insistent we want the artist to

647
00:36:49.000 --> 00:36:53.880
retain one hundred percent of the intellectual property. It's theirs.

648
00:36:54.280 --> 00:36:58.559
They're really borrowing it for the purpose of the competition. Okay,

649
00:36:59.079 --> 00:37:03.960
we are very pro aspiring artist or a creator versus

650
00:37:04.159 --> 00:37:05.840
I said in the beginning, I don't want to be

651
00:37:05.880 --> 00:37:09.840
their promoter. I don't want to be their manager. I

652
00:37:09.920 --> 00:37:14.239
do want to guide them eventually. Look no different than Facebook.

653
00:37:14.639 --> 00:37:18.719
Facebook of old had two pictures of two women, which

654
00:37:18.760 --> 00:37:21.199
one did you want to go out with? A very

655
00:37:21.280 --> 00:37:26.119
far cry from what it is today. Today's to be

656
00:37:26.199 --> 00:37:30.800
a rising star otherwise known as two bars number two

657
00:37:31.079 --> 00:37:34.280
letter b a RS two bars. To be a rising

658
00:37:34.320 --> 00:37:38.039
star is going to go through a journey and a

659
00:37:38.079 --> 00:37:41.480
metamorphosis because that's what we do in business.

660
00:37:42.360 --> 00:37:44.679
So if you'll allow me. How much time? Do we

661
00:37:44.760 --> 00:37:45.920
have a.

662
00:37:45.840 --> 00:37:48.239
Couple more minutes, because then I'd like to play a

663
00:37:48.280 --> 00:37:50.840
little bit of piano. It's a Monday afternoon, and I

664
00:37:50.880 --> 00:37:53.199
know in Arizona might be a little earlier in their day,

665
00:37:53.199 --> 00:37:56.039
but it's still Monday, and so I do want to

666
00:37:56.039 --> 00:37:58.960
play a little something. But please we share.

667
00:37:59.559 --> 00:38:02.199
I'll give you real quick. So there's three other parts.

668
00:38:02.679 --> 00:38:07.840
Number two is we want to do local, live, nationwide contests.

669
00:38:08.039 --> 00:38:10.679
I don't care if they're karaoke, I don't care if

670
00:38:10.719 --> 00:38:15.320
they're outdoors or indoors. That's phase two. Phase three is

671
00:38:15.360 --> 00:38:18.400
we're going to take all the winners in each of

672
00:38:18.440 --> 00:38:21.519
the months, in each of the categories, and we're going

673
00:38:21.559 --> 00:38:24.519
to look for a grand champion where they get paid

674
00:38:24.559 --> 00:38:25.159
more money.

675
00:38:25.480 --> 00:38:28.400
And can you see this?

676
00:38:31.239 --> 00:38:35.119
I think with your oh yes, yes, are you see that? Yes?

677
00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:39.039
That is the statue the award.

678
00:38:39.639 --> 00:38:43.840
It's seventeen and a half inches high, the tallest award

679
00:38:44.440 --> 00:38:49.920
in all of the award shows, and it weighs ten pounds.

680
00:38:50.079 --> 00:38:52.280
And then you're going to have that ship to the

681
00:38:52.679 --> 00:38:54.440
to the winner.

682
00:38:54.920 --> 00:39:00.199
Well, that's mine for the company. I will eventually have

683
00:39:00.360 --> 00:39:05.920
them built with plaques. Winter Country Western TV A rising

684
00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:11.360
Star and the date that's part of their Grand Championship prize.

685
00:39:12.599 --> 00:39:15.880
And then the last part, Lisa is I know that

686
00:39:15.920 --> 00:39:17.679
you're much younger than I am.

687
00:39:18.039 --> 00:39:22.079
As Derek was alluding to, there's only a five year difference.

688
00:39:22.719 --> 00:39:26.880
I happen to be seventy five this month and Derek

689
00:39:28.199 --> 00:39:34.000
thank you. And Derek is in his early fifty fifty two.

690
00:39:34.280 --> 00:39:34.719
All right.

691
00:39:35.320 --> 00:39:39.559
There's a synergy and an energy that is just natural.

692
00:39:39.639 --> 00:39:42.320
He and I feed off of one another. It's really

693
00:39:42.360 --> 00:39:47.239
wonderful to work with him. So Phase four is for

694
00:39:47.320 --> 00:39:53.159
those that remember Ed Sullivan at Sullivan Captured Sunday nights,

695
00:39:53.199 --> 00:39:57.880
eight o'clock to nine o'clock live, live audience, bear Stage

696
00:39:58.119 --> 00:40:03.559
three cameras. He was responsible for helping our careers with

697
00:40:03.800 --> 00:40:07.239
Elvis and the Jackson five and the Beach Boy Topo

698
00:40:07.400 --> 00:40:11.800
g JO. I will either go to the Sullivan family

699
00:40:12.119 --> 00:40:15.519
see if I can negotiate something with them. If I can,

700
00:40:15.639 --> 00:40:18.880
it'll be called the Ed Sullivan Show presented by Robert Kenneth.

701
00:40:19.440 --> 00:40:21.719
If not, it's a Robert Kenneth's show.

702
00:40:22.360 --> 00:40:23.960
Let's do it.

703
00:40:25.480 --> 00:40:30.199
Let's do It's at and for our listeners again, it

704
00:40:30.360 --> 00:40:33.519
is to be a rising start. The number two b

705
00:40:33.800 --> 00:40:36.599
a R S to be brief.

706
00:40:37.239 --> 00:40:42.840
It's number two letter BES and boy a risingstar dot

707
00:40:42.840 --> 00:40:45.440
com the an acronym two bars.

708
00:40:46.039 --> 00:40:48.920
Love it, love it well. Thank you so much, gentlemen.

709
00:40:49.000 --> 00:40:51.559
It's been a pleasure having you on the show today.

710
00:40:52.000 --> 00:40:54.960
And again, as I mentioned just a couple of minutes ago,

711
00:40:55.039 --> 00:40:58.679
it's Monday. Uh, it's towards the end of the day

712
00:40:58.679 --> 00:41:01.719
on the East coast, it's midday on the West coast.

713
00:41:02.360 --> 00:41:06.599
And I just will it's my pleasure to play something

714
00:41:06.960 --> 00:41:10.719
for my audience. And I don't have anything memorized. I

715
00:41:10.760 --> 00:41:13.920
don't have anything prepared. I just kind of pick up

716
00:41:13.920 --> 00:41:17.320
the energy from our conversation and from everyone tuning in.

717
00:41:17.719 --> 00:41:20.400
And of course I'm also in my home studio, so

718
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I'm comfortable and I whatever's flowing through me is flowing

719
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through me. It's gift of God. So to fac relax.

720
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If you're driving, don't close your eyes. If you're in

721
00:41:30.320 --> 00:41:32.559
a space and a place where you can just sit

722
00:41:32.639 --> 00:41:36.480
back and close your eyes, do so, and then we

723
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will we will say our good yes.

724
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M h m.

725
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Hmm.

726
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Brovo have a special request. I'm gonna put you on

727
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the spot. Okay, I need something E D M high

728
00:43:39.039 --> 00:43:41.599
energy let's close it out with a big bang.

729
00:43:44.280 --> 00:43:48.559
I'm a little bit more yeah, I'm a little bit

730
00:43:48.559 --> 00:43:56.599
more of meditational bitter music. Okay music, next time, next time.

731
00:43:57.079 --> 00:43:59.119
Thank you, thank you for that. That was beautiful.

732
00:43:59.599 --> 00:44:02.239
Thank you so much, Thank you so much. So we

733
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have a couple more minutes. So in closing, gentlemen, is

734
00:44:06.280 --> 00:44:09.639
there something you'd like to share with us to our

735
00:44:09.679 --> 00:44:13.920
audience and also to my audience out there. Please tune

736
00:44:13.920 --> 00:44:16.280
in with me next week. I have another special guest.

737
00:44:16.320 --> 00:44:18.000
I'm not saying who it is. You kind of have

738
00:44:18.079 --> 00:44:21.360
to stay tuned and find out. But in the meantime,

739
00:44:21.840 --> 00:44:24.360
to be a rising star. It's been a pleasure having

740
00:44:24.400 --> 00:44:28.000
you on today. And please, in closing, what would you

741
00:44:28.119 --> 00:44:29.360
like to share with our audience.

742
00:44:30.239 --> 00:44:32.559
I'll give one suggestion, Derek, you can come up with

743
00:44:32.599 --> 00:44:39.199
a second. Derek made a very interesting point. Absolutely for free,

744
00:44:39.320 --> 00:44:43.079
we have a showcase mode does not cost anybody any money.

745
00:44:43.679 --> 00:44:46.440
We are going to take the top two in any

746
00:44:46.559 --> 00:44:51.480
category that has the most likes and for free, no cost,

747
00:44:51.840 --> 00:44:54.920
we'll bring them over into the competition mode and if

748
00:44:54.960 --> 00:44:57.039
they win, they win the money.

749
00:44:57.400 --> 00:44:57.679
Nice.

750
00:44:58.280 --> 00:45:04.119
Nobody has anything close to what we're offering. We're offering

751
00:45:04.199 --> 00:45:08.000
more winners. We're offering more money, we're giving greater opportunities.

752
00:45:08.360 --> 00:45:12.400
We have the four different venues, the Internet, the local lives,

753
00:45:12.440 --> 00:45:17.400
the year end live streaming, and hopefully a TV. So

754
00:45:17.599 --> 00:45:18.559
that's my addition.

755
00:45:18.719 --> 00:45:23.719
Derek, I'll just add that I believe it's very important

756
00:45:23.960 --> 00:45:28.039
that when individuals consider to be a rising Star that

757
00:45:28.599 --> 00:45:33.480
they understand that it is a social media platform. Okay,

758
00:45:33.920 --> 00:45:38.239
but it's a social media platform that is intentionally a disruption.

759
00:45:38.920 --> 00:45:42.719
That's the intention here. We're not trying to make friends,

760
00:45:43.159 --> 00:45:47.599
were really not. We're truly trying to give every single

761
00:45:47.679 --> 00:45:50.760
person that believes that they have an ounce of talent

762
00:45:50.840 --> 00:45:55.079
the opportunity to showcase it and show it. Okay, and

763
00:45:55.719 --> 00:45:58.280
I believe, I do believe in you know, you got

764
00:45:58.280 --> 00:46:00.199
people that win, and sometimes you don't always win. But

765
00:46:01.119 --> 00:46:03.599
where we live in today and with what we're with

766
00:46:03.639 --> 00:46:05.960
what we're building it to be a rising star, there

767
00:46:06.000 --> 00:46:08.679
can be more than one winner, right, People can walk

768
00:46:08.719 --> 00:46:13.079
away and really be worthwhile and share their successes and

769
00:46:13.119 --> 00:46:18.800
grow and become famous and fabulous on a platform like

770
00:46:18.840 --> 00:46:21.239
to be a rising Star. So totally the audience with

771
00:46:21.320 --> 00:46:25.519
that be encouraged by what we're offering. We love you

772
00:46:25.800 --> 00:46:28.480
and we want the absolute, absolute best for you, and

773
00:46:28.519 --> 00:46:29.880
so yeah, we're gonna have a good time.

774
00:46:30.159 --> 00:46:33.480
That's awesome, awesome, Well, gentlemen, thank you so much again,

775
00:46:33.599 --> 00:46:35.920
and I'm so excited to be a part of to

776
00:46:35.960 --> 00:46:37.800
be a rising start, and I look forward to getting

777
00:46:37.800 --> 00:46:39.719
more involved in it as well.

778
00:46:40.280 --> 00:46:44.239
And it's a very solid sounds like a very solid

779
00:46:44.800 --> 00:46:49.480
business platform opportunity for what is this is like a

780
00:46:49.519 --> 00:46:50.320
brand new baby.

781
00:46:50.719 --> 00:46:55.239
This is something we need as our world is changing

782
00:46:55.440 --> 00:46:59.840
by the moment with technology and with the know how

783
00:47:01.079 --> 00:47:03.760
of like not the musician.

784
00:47:04.079 --> 00:47:06.239
I mean, I don't know much about computers, but I

785
00:47:06.280 --> 00:47:08.239
do know how to play a piano, and if I

786
00:47:08.400 --> 00:47:10.960
have this platform to show up on and to share

787
00:47:11.000 --> 00:47:15.599
my talent, it just makes it so much more welcoming

788
00:47:16.039 --> 00:47:19.559
and easy for me to do that from home or

789
00:47:19.599 --> 00:47:22.960
from from a local stage or so thank you for

790
00:47:22.960 --> 00:47:27.199
making this happen, Robert, thank you Derek for seeing the

791
00:47:27.719 --> 00:47:31.480
light behind this. And I'm excited.

792
00:47:31.639 --> 00:47:34.639
Thank you very much. We appreciate that.

793
00:47:34.960 --> 00:47:38.280
Thank you, yess have a beautiful evening and we will

794
00:47:38.280 --> 00:47:42.320
be in touch, enjoy, thank you, thank you, and to

795
00:47:42.360 --> 00:47:48.639
my audience out there, thank you for tuning in. And

796
00:47:48.800 --> 00:47:52.679
I look forward to seeing you next week. As I mentioned,

797
00:47:55.440 --> 00:47:57.960
tune in to find out who my guest is next week.

798
00:48:00.039 --> 00:48:03.960
I always have such wonderful guests, and I look forward

799
00:48:04.000 --> 00:48:08.039
to every show to be here for you and to

800
00:48:08.159 --> 00:48:12.159
share all that we get to share to inspire you

801
00:48:13.800 --> 00:48:15.360
to express yourself musically