Divine Dialogue with Ivery Lewis
Nicholas Killian Talks with Ex - NFL star Ivery Lewis about his journey to starting a podcast about the word of God and how it has help him and everyone around him.
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This is Film Center.
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Speaker:Now, here are your anchors, Derek Johnson II and Nicholas Killian.
Speaker:Hello, welcome to Film Center, my name is Nicholas Killian.
Speaker:DJ is not with us today.
Speaker:Derek Johnson, he's a bit sick today.
Speaker:So it's going to be just me today.
Speaker:Today.
Speaker:I want to welcome a very special guest.
Speaker:Would you like to introduce yourself?
Speaker:Absolutely.
Speaker:My name is Ivory L.
Speaker:Lewis, and I am a guy that just likes to work with people.
Speaker:I'm a Potential pastor by trade.
Speaker:And I'm in a position where I get to help out not only individuals, but
Speaker:couples get into a place where they can actually save their marriages.
Speaker:And that when you're talking about marriages, some people shunned.
Speaker:Awesome.
Speaker:Awesome.
Speaker:Also guys, if you guys didn't know, we're in the same office building,
Speaker:we're in the same, we have where our production office is in Westlake.
Speaker:Cause we do take it all around Los Angeles, me and ivory,
Speaker:we've been in the same office.
Speaker:And I've seen it a couple of times.
Speaker:I was like, Oh man, I don't want to bother him.
Speaker:He got something going on.
Speaker:But with it being Memorial day today, I was like, you know what, man,
Speaker:let me see what this guy's doing.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So you are also a podcaster yourself.
Speaker:I am.
Speaker:I am.
Speaker:I have a podcast called university of man.
Speaker:And I also help out with the.
Speaker:company called Rosterbound where we help children get to different
Speaker:schools, different universities, and also get onto rosters for the
Speaker:NFL and all major league sports.
Speaker:Awesome.
Speaker:Awesome.
Speaker:Awesome.
Speaker:And then, so how did you come into podcasting?
Speaker:I just fell into it.
Speaker:I'll be honest with you.
Speaker:One of my best friends, he has been with me ever since college and we've always
Speaker:had this we should do something where people listen to what we talk about
Speaker:because he's that guy and I'm that guy that we've grown up in the church and
Speaker:sometimes you hear people like Stephen A.
Speaker:Smith and everybody else talking a little bit about sports, but what if you
Speaker:put a little faith based conversation?
Speaker:Put a little God in there.
Speaker:Yeah, put some God in there.
Speaker:Yeah, that's what we've done.
Speaker:And then, so where are you from, though?
Speaker:I'm from Illinois.
Speaker:I'm from Illinois.
Speaker:OK.
Speaker:Yeah, I came out here for football, got cut by this small school.
Speaker:Hold on.
Speaker:Let's, you, we glossing over a whole bunch.
Speaker:OK.
Speaker:OK, so you're from Illinois.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:What was the catalyst that got you into, that had you interested in entertainment?
Speaker:Interested in, because this Okay, I was I'm an ex NFL player.
Speaker:I got cut by the Chargers.
Speaker:So I saw a lot and I thought that I wanted to be the next Walter Payton or I wanted
Speaker:to be the next running back of all things.
Speaker:But there was this guy by the name of LaDainian Tomlinson that came from TCU
Speaker:and I went to University of Illinois and I thought that I was better than him
Speaker:until I saw that he's a Hall of Famer.
Speaker:When I got cut, he went on to have a great career.
Speaker:So with that being said, I always knew something was inside of me.
Speaker:And well, hold on, let's not gloss over the fact that you just
Speaker:said you was an ex NFL player.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:I saw the grass.
Speaker:Let's keep it real.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:You an ex NFL player.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:Now journey to become from NFL player to podcaster.
Speaker:Sure.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:What was that?
Speaker:What was that transition like?
Speaker:There's a lot to be How can I put it?
Speaker:The transition was tough Because you go from all of your adult life and your
Speaker:childhood hitting people and or things and getting that out as far as emotional
Speaker:release to Sitting behind a desk and doing a podcast, talking into a microphone.
Speaker:I've always been a people person, but I had to make sure that kept that release.
Speaker:So working out has been something that's been really good for me.
Speaker:And if I don't work out, something's wrong.
Speaker:I'm always off.
Speaker:Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker:So one of the things that's, it's really nice is so you're a bit.
Speaker:Later in the game when it comes to entertainment, cause you was, like we
Speaker:said before, you were an NFL player.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So now, how has that been for you?
Speaker:You said, like you said, you went from hitting people to now you
Speaker:hitting people with questions.
Speaker:Yeah it's different.
Speaker:I'm just happy I had a good upraising.
Speaker:My mother always put me into a position where I had to be a student athlete before
Speaker:I was ever trying to be an NFL athlete.
Speaker:And I was a guy that was a football player that would actually go ahead
Speaker:and take all the seniors when I was a freshman and talk to him about math.
Speaker:So I was in calculus my first year in college.
Speaker:So with that being said, I never really had to worry about the intelligence
Speaker:of it, but I always had to worry about just making sure that I was on my A
Speaker:game because there's times where, you're like, man, why am I feeling like this?
Speaker:Because you have to get something out.
Speaker:You have to hit something.
Speaker:You have to go lift something.
Speaker:Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker:And then, so one of the things that I would ask you is,
Speaker:so you get, how do you go?
Speaker:You're in NFL.
Speaker:You get cut.
Speaker:Now.
Speaker:What do you tell your family and what do you tell your mom about,
Speaker:Okay, I'm going to switch to now I'm going to be a podcaster.
Speaker:I'm going to be in entertainment now.
Speaker:It's still entertainment, just a different form.
Speaker:It wasn't hard because most people know when it's time for you to quit.
Speaker:I think the person that's the last person to know is you.
Speaker:And I think they were just waiting on me to do make that decision.
Speaker:And I went to Cal State Northridge as a grad assistant football coach
Speaker:and they cut the football team.
Speaker:So I'm like, God, what are you trying to tell me?
Speaker:No more football.
Speaker:And I tried it for a couple other teams.
Speaker:But when I talked to my family, when I talked to my friends, they can
Speaker:understand that this is one of my gifts.
Speaker:And let me make sure that I know and everybody else knows a gift is not
Speaker:something that is something that's me.
Speaker:It's given to me and that's God given.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Awesome.
Speaker:And then can you talk a little bit about the podcast that you have?
Speaker:Sure.
Speaker:University of man.
Speaker:So I was a young boy that was raised without his father.
Speaker:Never got a chance to meet him.
Speaker:My partner, his name is Fred Abernathy.
Speaker:He was raised with a father that wasn't always there.
Speaker:He was there from moment to moment.
Speaker:He's now got a great relationship with him.
Speaker:And when we.
Speaker:put it together.
Speaker:We said we want to give all the nuggets that we found out
Speaker:to actually be a good father.
Speaker:So University of Man came into existence and we put that all together.
Speaker:It's a lot of spice.
Speaker:It's a lot of stuff about sports and also tells you cues of what to do
Speaker:when you're a man because we don't want you to have to be the Google dad.
Speaker:Where you're looking up stuff on Google and trying to figure it out, or else
Speaker:you try to talk to the guy that has been the influence in your life and
Speaker:he doesn't always have the answers.
Speaker:We wanna make sure that you have at least a good cue that's biblically
Speaker:backed that can help you out to get you where you need to be.
Speaker:I think there's a YouTube channel where there's a guy that he
Speaker:teaches you like how to tie a tie and like how to tie your shoes.
Speaker:How to do all the things that a dad is supposed to do.
Speaker:And I think it's like wildly popular.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:But like I was, let's go back to what I was saying about, so you not only do,
Speaker:most of the people that come on the show.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:What They've been in entertainment, whether they're a writer, director,
Speaker:actor, or whatever, and usually we ask them about what was their catalyst
Speaker:event into entertainment, which is basically you got cut by Cal State,
Speaker:you said cut the football team.
Speaker:Yeah, got cut off of their administrative team.
Speaker:That was two cuts in a year.
Speaker:Basically the Chargers, then them.
Speaker:And getting into if you want to call it the entertainment industry,
Speaker:I would say that it's a calling.
Speaker:I don't think that anybody in the entertainment industry don't
Speaker:work, they have to work for this.
Speaker:But it's also a calling because you're pushed to do something that's
Speaker:different from everybody else.
Speaker:You're pushed to be somebody that's outside of the norm and I just, I
Speaker:believe I've been called to do it.
Speaker:And what was the initial conversation like with your business partner?
Speaker:How did it start?
Speaker:You were just like, Hey man, let's start a podcast or what?
Speaker:No, we actually were doing the Bible in a year and we would put it on.
Speaker:video and we would actually literally have synopsis is every week we talk about it.
Speaker:We're like, you know what?
Speaker:This would be great to actually put on the podcast.
Speaker:Three years later, we finally started and that was this January.
Speaker:So pretty excited about it.
Speaker:How did it take three years to start the podcast pandemic?
Speaker:Other things and my partner actually just recently received a kidney.
Speaker:So he had some health issues and some other things and his story is tremendous.
Speaker:Yeah, he motivates me every time I talk to him.
Speaker:And sometimes we haven't filmed because he was going through getting
Speaker:that kidney for the last three weeks.
Speaker:And it's just been a great story to follow.
Speaker:Awesome.
Speaker:And so it's, I think a great way to spread the message of the Bible is
Speaker:you've heard of the action Bible, right?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:If we gave that to kids instead of no offense, instead of the regular Bible.
Speaker:And if we just gave them the action Bible, it's the 20 bucks and give it to kids.
Speaker:It's like a comic book.
Speaker:I'll even say this.
Speaker:If we wrapped it into something that wasn't necessarily what you would
Speaker:call the Bible, but tell the stories with certain people, like I have this
Speaker:vision and it's always been crazy, but I want Snoop Dogg to play Jesus.
Speaker:You want Snoop Dogg to play Jesus?
Speaker:I really do, why?
Speaker:Because that story can touch other people.
Speaker:It can touch the people it needs to be touched.
Speaker:It doesn't matter who's doing it, it just matters that it's being done.
Speaker:I think there was a show on Adult Swim, it was called Black Jesus.
Speaker:Black Jesus, now that was a bit much.
Speaker:I think it would be more to the vest, I think he was doing a bit much.
Speaker:Corey Holcomb is a good guy, but come on now.
Speaker:He took it to the extreme and yeah, we'll leave that alone.
Speaker:You sit there and you're like, okay, my partner's going
Speaker:through the kidney transplant.
Speaker:We want to start this podcast.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:What is the conversation like with your wife saying, Hey, I'm
Speaker:pivoting from being an NFL star, from being a coach at a university
Speaker:to now I'm going to be a podcaster.
Speaker:Tell me what that conversation looks like.
Speaker:There's kind of another career that's already still being done, but it was an
Speaker:easy pivot because she knows my partner.
Speaker:And I think she knows our heart and that was tough.
Speaker:It was tough to actually have the conversation.
Speaker:And she listened to the first podcast.
Speaker:She was like, Ooh, it needs some work.
Speaker:Hey, at least she was honest.
Speaker:She was real with it, man.
Speaker:She was like, Oh, and, but I think.
Speaker:The growth is going to come.
Speaker:It's just about making sure we have content and the message that's out there.
Speaker:Like I was saying, off, off air was the fact that your greatest
Speaker:superpower is the fact that it's just starting and nobody's listening.
Speaker:So you can go through all the growing pains.
Speaker:By yourself.
Speaker:And then by the time people, by the time people start listening to it,
Speaker:they're going to be like, Oh, wow.
Speaker:And then also people really like to grow with something.
Speaker:So you have people who are already going to like it as a polished podcast,
Speaker:but you're also going to have your friends that have liked it because
Speaker:they see the evolution of the podcast.
Speaker:Agreed.
Speaker:Agreed.
Speaker:He actually had, he got his hair cut in Chicago and they, they Said that he has
Speaker:a podcast so they put it on while he was getting his hair cut and everybody in
Speaker:the whole barbershop listened So that was pretty dope and then so you guys
Speaker:have been going since January Yep, ever since you guys just started and then
Speaker:how long have you been how long have you been in the office here since January?
Speaker:No, we've been in the office for almost two years Oh, you've been here
Speaker:in this office for almost two years.
Speaker:What else do you do besides the podcast?
Speaker:I help people with their finances.
Speaker:Yeah, we were, so you're a financial analyst?
Speaker:You could say that.
Speaker:I just, for the sake of my licenses, I'll just leave that out.
Speaker:Sure.
Speaker:You have to get all these different things, but yeah, I just, I really have
Speaker:a huge passion with within my church.
Speaker:That's why the goal is to actually be in the pastoral role and
Speaker:help out where possible to make sure that people come to Christ.
Speaker:So that's my real passion.
Speaker:Of course.
Speaker:And then, so would you ever start like a financial podcast?
Speaker:Biblically based, I think so.
Speaker:Yeah, biblically based financial podcast.
Speaker:Yep, I think so.
Speaker:That's been in the hopper for a while.
Speaker:That's been in the hopper for a little while?
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:How did you guys come to start this podcast and not your financial podcast?
Speaker:I wanted to write a book about six years ago on how to take a
Speaker:child from child to a millionaire.
Speaker:And how to actually have, if you have a baby, you can actually
Speaker:make this child a millionaire or multimillionaire in their thirties or
Speaker:forties if you start saving correctly.
Speaker:And I got a lot of pushback.
Speaker:What was the pushback for?
Speaker:There's just red tape.
Speaker:There's a lot of things in the industry that you can and can't say.
Speaker:Like what?
Speaker:That's why I'm being vague because you can be in a position where you're what's
Speaker:happening in 2020 could be completely different as far as a concept in 2024.
Speaker:So what you put in a book has to make sure it's very vague or vague
Speaker:enough to be able to cover all the things that are happening.
Speaker:Somebody knew we were going to have a pandemic.
Speaker:If you go back to 1989 and you talk about Google, they
Speaker:look at you like you're crazy.
Speaker:But now you're in 2024.
Speaker:Google is like one of the biggest conglomerates out there.
Speaker:But it wasn't even on the Fortune 500.
Speaker:It wasn't there.
Speaker:I would think that the core principles of making a kid who into
Speaker:a millionaire doesn't really matter if it's the 80s or if it's the 2024.
Speaker:I'll go back to what you just said.
Speaker:I got reprimanded by God and I'm like, why are you putting up all this red tape?
Speaker:I just want to put it out.
Speaker:He was like, you're going to write a book and it's not going to be about me.
Speaker:And I was like, ah, so it changed everything that I was thinking about.
Speaker:And it's man and money and power and all these different things are great,
Speaker:but why not make sure that you're talking about what the truth is,
Speaker:which is biblically based and putting those things into a place to be.
Speaker:Did you ever start to write out the book?
Speaker:Oh yeah.
Speaker:Is it done?
Speaker:Or do you have just the outline done?
Speaker:The outline and most of it.
Speaker:It's not complete.
Speaker:I wouldn't put it out.
Speaker:You wouldn't oh, so but you have written most of the book.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Have you like gone to like publishers?
Speaker:No, it's not ready.
Speaker:But have you showed it to people?
Speaker:I've showed it to two people and they liked it so far one being my wife
Speaker:and The other one is now deceased.
Speaker:But yeah, your wife is very honest As we've said.
Speaker:She's a CPA.
Speaker:She's a CPA.
Speaker:Oh my gosh.
Speaker:What did she say about your finance book whenever she saw it?
Speaker:So being that she's in this same realm of the industry.
Speaker:Being the wife that I have, she is, I'm the head of the household,
Speaker:but she's the neck and the body.
Speaker:It shows me everywhere I need to be.
Speaker:And the more that I talked to her, the more that I knew I needed to work on it.
Speaker:I'll put it to you like that because I was super excited and I'm a go action type
Speaker:person and I'm big picture and she's in the trenches, everything, all the nuances.
Speaker:So it was good to be able to have her say that.
Speaker:So you would say that you're the spearhead and she's the stick.
Speaker:Oh yeah.
Speaker:Oh yeah.
Speaker:She gets the job done.
Speaker:And she likes to take that stick and beat you with it.
Speaker:I don't think she beats me with it, but we've learned our
Speaker:strengths and our weaknesses.
Speaker:I'll make her do things that are out of her comfort zone.
Speaker:She makes me reevaluate things that would be a bit much.
Speaker:And then where do you want to take this podcast?
Speaker:Honestly, I want to take it to the masses, and like I said, I think
Speaker:it's going to have different layers.
Speaker:Where it's going to be for children, it's going to be also for adults.
Speaker:It's going to be specifically for marriages.
Speaker:I think that's one of the callings, because I've been with my wife for
Speaker:a significant amount of time, and we've had a great, that's my love,
Speaker:that's my passion, that's my baby.
Speaker:And if I can show people that marriage is dope.
Speaker:Then other people would actually do more versus just trying to
Speaker:figure out how can I get a prenup?
Speaker:What you can do is you can try out a bunch of thing different things on your podcast
Speaker:Sure, see what sticks and then do that because that's what we did That's what we
Speaker:did with Film Center because originally what we were doing was we were doing
Speaker:facts and statistics And why did this?
Speaker:Do this.
Speaker:And why did this do that and why, what were the moves that were made and made
Speaker:this successful and not, and then what we started doing was we started doing
Speaker:interviews and the fans really liked interviews a lot more than the data.
Speaker:Analytical statistics of why, what made what if you, if the fans are listening
Speaker:right now, if you go back, sure.
Speaker:We talk about Harry Potter, we talk about Sonic vs.
Speaker:Mario, we talk about That's why the intro is the way it is.
Speaker:Because that's originally what it was.
Speaker:And then we found out It's not that people didn't like it.
Speaker:Sure.
Speaker:But once we started interviewing people, the numbers went way up.
Speaker:And we were like, oh, okay, we can just make this an interview show.
Speaker:I love it.
Speaker:We can just make this a And that was one of the, that was one of the perks.
Speaker:You've watched ESPN, obviously.
Speaker:I think that the commentators on ESPN would probably be my
Speaker:I could really get into that.
Speaker:I love sports.
Speaker:I also love Obviously you love sports.
Speaker:You were ex NFL star.
Speaker:It's hard to get me away from that.
Speaker:That's why it's another part of the story, what we talk about on University of Man.
Speaker:Because Let's face it, I would say 60, 70 percent of adults, especially
Speaker:men, women, it doesn't matter.
Speaker:They've gotten something from a sport, whether it's good, bad or indifferent.
Speaker:And I'd like to embellish on some of the good things that come out of sports.
Speaker:So what you could do, oh, you are big pro NFL superstar, man.
Speaker:Maybe not superstar.
Speaker:I told you, I saw the grass, very well manicured.
Speaker:You know the statistic, less than 1 percent of college players go pro.
Speaker:You were that less than 1%.
Speaker:What you could do is you could bring the, you could bring your friends
Speaker:from the NFL, have interviews.
Speaker:I'd listen to that.
Speaker:I'd listen to some NFL players talking about, hey man, this is
Speaker:what was going on in the NFL.
Speaker:And this is how God humbled me and grounded me.
Speaker:And just play with that formula.
Speaker:I like that a lot because I recently just had a conversation
Speaker:with the, I call him doctors, Mr.
Speaker:Jackson.
Speaker:He played university football.
Speaker:Oh, he played at the university of Illinois football and he was
Speaker:a couple of years older than me.
Speaker:He was a running back and he actually brought out and I don't want to butcher
Speaker:his stuff, but CTE is a big deal, right?
Speaker:And a lot of people are talking about that right now, but he had a cooling hat.
Speaker:And he would actually go around and really talk to all the individuals.
Speaker:And I think his message is getting across to the big 10 specifically.
Speaker:I think Penn state took it over, but his message was, you can really save
Speaker:people's lives and their quality of life.
Speaker:If you actually have something that cools down in your head and your
Speaker:brain can't do two things at once, it can't be cognitive and also overheat.
Speaker:So it's going to go ahead and make sure that you're not overheating.
Speaker:But if you take that function away.
Speaker:Now it can heal itself.
Speaker:So if you actually do that within six hours or eight hours of having some
Speaker:type of traumatic brain injury, then your brain has a whole lot better
Speaker:chance of being healthy and successful.
Speaker:And even if you need to go on some type of therapy where you do it
Speaker:like twice a week, twice a day, sometimes It's encouraged to do.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:No, that's to bring him on.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Got me thinking now.
Speaker:Exactly.
Speaker:You could have, NFL and God, man.
Speaker:And because I'm sure NFL and God, and then go ahead and interview all
Speaker:of your ex friends and NFL players.
Speaker:I'd listen to that kind of ton of them.
Speaker:Yeah, you got me thinking about business plans over here, my guy.
Speaker:And then so with you In your podcast, University of Man.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Going forward.
Speaker:Sure.
Speaker:What would you say is the plan for the next six months for you?
Speaker:Ironically, we just talked about doing interviews for the summer and bring on
Speaker:different individuals from pastors to obviously now maybe football players
Speaker:and some other things, but just really ramping up and doing things,
Speaker:I would say more of the right way on the backend and making sure we have a
Speaker:good product to get out and something I think everybody will be proud of.
Speaker:And then also going where we would have not just the podcast, but
Speaker:have it where you can see us live.
Speaker:You have the, like a video show.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:So you would want to do it on YouTube?
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Like a video YouTube show?
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:And then, yeah, that would, that'd be incredible.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And then you could have all your NFL star players.
Speaker:Sure.
Speaker:Who doesn't want to watch an NFL player talk about, both of them talk
Speaker:about their days and then put God in top of on top of that and then
Speaker:put a mix a little finance in there.
Speaker:I was in grad school, man.
Speaker:You'd be surprised.
Speaker:My cohorts did not necessarily think that football players need to
Speaker:have conversations, but I get it.
Speaker:The thing is, especially with football and entertainment,
Speaker:they're intertwined so much.
Speaker:It's true.
Speaker:Sports in general, but also the thing is, that's a whole world
Speaker:that none of us are privy to.
Speaker:True.
Speaker:for good reason.
Speaker:I'm sure there's some crazy things that happened behind
Speaker:that happens behind the scenes.
Speaker:It's the same thing in entertainment.
Speaker:People who listen to this show, they want to know because a lot of this
Speaker:is entertainment is smoking mirrors.
Speaker:True.
Speaker:I would imagine that the NFL is a bit of smoking mirrors as well.
Speaker:No comment.
Speaker:I'll leave that as it is.
Speaker:No offense or anything.
Speaker:There's probably some crazy stuff that go on behind the scenes.
Speaker:for what it's worth.
Speaker:The young men that get 2030 50 million put in their pockets at 18 19 2022.
Speaker:They're doing their best the best they can.
Speaker:And I just I look back and I say, wow, how many potholes did you miss?
Speaker:And I just I don't see how I look at somebody like LeBron James and
Speaker:not saying that he's spotless, but he doesn't have a ticket.
Speaker:And to be able to be the man from 14 all the way to now 39, it's
Speaker:just, it's a great feat to see.
Speaker:And he's brought all his friends with him and he didn't forget about them.
Speaker:He said, I want you to come, but you also have to go back to
Speaker:school and do something with me.
Speaker:Or else you can't be with me.
Speaker:You got to provide value to me.
Speaker:You've got to bring value to the crew.
Speaker:I think Ludacris was talking about one time.
Speaker:He said, yeah, my best friend from the, I sent him to chef school.
Speaker:And now he makes my meals.
Speaker:He's from Champaign, Illinois, man.
Speaker:And he went to Atlanta.
Speaker:So I think, isn't it true?
Speaker:He had it was on an interview that he was like, yeah, man, I sent my friend
Speaker:to like the best chef school I can find.
Speaker:And now he's a chef for me.
Speaker:There's nothing that can replace loyalty.
Speaker:And when you have loyal, good friends that have been around you through the
Speaker:thick and the thin, another person would be Kevin Hart, like you can
Speaker:see in the entertainment, I'm just speaking on entertainment, but you have
Speaker:people that are around the plastic cup boys or whatever they're called, they
Speaker:will tell him that you're messing up.
Speaker:Cause it's for the betterment of everyone because they all have something
Speaker:that little red wagons to pull.
Speaker:Do you have any degrees of separation from Kevin Hart,
Speaker:friends of his or stuff like that?
Speaker:Or are you signed like NDAs and stuff like that?
Speaker:I'll leave it at that, but let's just say that I know somebody that's
Speaker:helped him out with some stuff.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Hey man, if the podcast gets big enough, you can have Kevin
Speaker:Hart on the podcast, man.
Speaker:I'll say this.
Speaker:My second podcast is roster bound.
Speaker:And we're right now in the, we say from the cradle to the grave where
Speaker:we're looking for kids all the way through that get to the NFL, that get
Speaker:to play major league soccer and they get to do all those different things.
Speaker:That's probably my second, like we just talked about with sports.
Speaker:That gives me the itch to be able to talk about that.
Speaker:I spoke with a guy that's going to basically Ivy league school, Harvey
Speaker:mud, and it's a D three school, but he's he looks like the rock.
Speaker:And he's a big kid and he wants to be an engineer and just listening to
Speaker:like where people are and where they want to be, that gets me excited.
Speaker:That gets, that gives me the itch.
Speaker:And then what was this podcast named?
Speaker:Rosterbound?
Speaker:Yeah, you can go and check it out.
Speaker:It's a great website.
Speaker:And so this is an empowerment talking to kids, you said?
Speaker:Talking to kids that want to either go to certain schools or want to go to colleges
Speaker:or actually we follow them through.
Speaker:So we follow them through say junior high school, all the way through
Speaker:their final destination, which could be office job, or it could be a
Speaker:university or it could be the pros.
Speaker:Nice.
Speaker:And then so the.
Speaker:How long have you been doing that podcast?
Speaker:That actually started this year also.
Speaker:In January as well?
Speaker:No, that started probably two months ago.
Speaker:Two months ago.
Speaker:And what was the conversation like to start that podcast?
Speaker:That's been two years in the process with one of my good friends, Christopher Davis.
Speaker:And we just put some hard deadlines on some stuff.
Speaker:And we got it off the ground.
Speaker:So I'm excited about that too.
Speaker:And then how do you choose The people that you're going to have on the podcast.
Speaker:Great question.
Speaker:What we do is we find people that are phenomenal.
Speaker:Like we find, we found a sock a woman that plays soccer.
Speaker:She's going to college or she actually, this is our first year in college.
Speaker:Finishing.
Speaker:She's a roster bound athlete.
Speaker:We found another football player from Sierra Canyon.
Speaker:He was going to Harvey mud and we're just trying to give those you don't have to
Speaker:be the guy that's going to Michigan or to USC, I want to hear the other stuff too.
Speaker:I want to hear why you're doing this because you want to be an engineer.
Speaker:I want to hear this because you want to be a lawyer.
Speaker:And to be able to have your friends and family see that, then
Speaker:it's, I'm following my nephew.
Speaker:I'm following my cousin.
Speaker:I'm following my brother.
Speaker:That's my football brother.
Speaker:Look at him see.
Speaker:And what's the, how are you, , how do these people come on your radar?
Speaker:We are doing a nationwide search.
Speaker:First, it was just something that happened in Los Angeles area.
Speaker:We're doing nationwide searches and we have a website where if you know
Speaker:somebody that's a star go ahead and put them on, or you put their information
Speaker:in, and then we actually give them opportunity to get interviewed.
Speaker:And what's the website?
Speaker:Roster bound.com.
Speaker:Roster bound do bound.com?
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:Awesome.
Speaker:And so you have a God, Godly podcast and then you have a roster bound podcast
Speaker:and then together you just the man.
Speaker:I feel good.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:You're just the man.
Speaker:Listen, thank you so much for coming on the show.
Speaker:I do.
Speaker:And you're putting a little God in our life, man.
Speaker:It's our, it's always appreciated, especially on Memorial Day.
Speaker:But is there any way people can follow you?
Speaker:You have Instagram, you have websites, whatever you want to plug.
Speaker:My name is Ivory, I V E R Y.
Speaker:And you can follow me on Ivory40.
Speaker:com, Bible Bootcamp, you can check that out, obviously Rosterbound, and my last
Speaker:thing is University of Band, you can find us currently on Spotify, but we'll
Speaker:be on YouTube and a couple other places.
Speaker:Those are the main mediums that you can find me, but I'll end with
Speaker:this, I think I listened to Terrence Howard, and he said something that
Speaker:I've lived my life by, and he said that in everybody, find a little God.
Speaker:They have a little guy to them and you talk to that person and he tweaked
Speaker:it and said that make sure that they see the God in you first while
Speaker:you're talking to the God in them.
Speaker:Let's just find a way to do something great and it's a great day to be amazing.
Speaker:Happy Memorial Day.
Speaker:Amen.
Speaker:Amen, man.
Speaker:Thank you so much.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:This has been Film Center News.
Speaker:I'm Nicholas Killian.
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