What Happens When Representation Becomes The Program

You can feel it when a city decides to stop “talking about” Black excellence and actually programs it. We’re counting down to HBCU weekend in San Antonio, and we’re doing things differently this year with a real run-of-show that centers culture, family, and students not just a room full of tables. If you’ve ever wondered what it takes to make an HBCU celebration feel meaningful, organized, and alive, this conversation gives you the behind-the-scenes.

We’re joined by powerhouse performer and creative leader Devon Matthews, who breaks down her work as founder and artistic director of Art Noir Productions, an all-Black performing arts organization built to fix a representation gap across dance, theater, spoken word, and more. She shares why training and stage opportunities matter, how young people grow when the standard is high, and why she’s bringing a tribute that honors Black culture and HBCU pride. We also welcome Anthony Harris Brown back as we talk program upgrades, why youth performers belong on an education-centered weekend, and how quickly people underestimate Black kids until the talent hits the mic.

Then the energy shifts to pure community fun with Rod Eckles and the fashion talk, plus a reminder that tickets are moving and the door price jumps if you wait. We also shout out honorees and resources that support college-bound students, including tools like the Common Black College App and HBCU trivia that keeps the history close.

Listen, share this with someone coming to the weekend, and then subscribe and leave a review so more people find the show. What part of an HBCU weekend matters most to you: the awards, the performances, the networking, or the student spotlight?

Transcript

Cold Open And Welcome

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HBCU Weekend Preview

SPEAKER_04 0:55

Welcome, welcome, welcome, guys.

Monique Robinson 0:57

In a couple days, it will be our annual HBC weekend here in San Antonio. So um I told y'all yesterday I have a huge surprise. This year we are doing things totally different. So if you have been in the past, this year we you know we have some things up our sleeve. But before I go into that, we got some guests in the back, and uh one of our guests will actually be here tomorrow, like here in San Antonio. So let's welcome to the show. Y'all know I can't see these buttons, so pray I push the right one. Uh-oh. I think he disappeared on us. Well, anywho, well, we did have Anthony Brown, who will be here tomorrow. Um and he kind of like left us. But I have our guest that will be performing at the HBCU all-star um event, HBCU icon event. And I'm gonna bring them both at the same time because you know the Spurs are kind of like playing, and I think they want to watch the game. I'm not a Spurs fan, but I live here, so I support. But anywho, that's welcome to the show. Miss, I'm gonna say her name wrong. I'm just gonna call her Dev Soul because for a long time I thought that was a real name. There you go. Girl pushing buttons and they ain't even working today. Is it crazy? How are you? I'm doing well. How are you, Monique? I don't know what happened. I was talking and I thought Anthony was still here and he done dipped out on us. Like, how you doing?

SPEAKER_12 2:56

Yeah, they were talking all that trash before we before we came on. So yeah, that's look, now they were tickling me. I'm still very tickled, obviously, because that was hilarious.

Monique Robinson 3:05

Like, I can't even like how you just go uh I'm about to text him right now. Like, dude, you left us.

SPEAKER_12 3:13

Left us, left us, and I introduce, I'm texting to him.

Monique Robinson 3:19

I introduce you too, but anywho, welcome to the show. We've been trying to get you on here for a long time.

SPEAKER_12 3:24

I know, I've been so busy, but I'm here, and I'm happy to be here and to support this initiative. Like, I'm I'm super, super excited.

Monique Robinson 3:34

Me too, and I you know, I didn't introduce you because I always mess your name up. Sometimes I say Devin, sometimes I say Devon, and I'm like, I ain't gonna even mess it up. But guys, this woman is like, you know, y'all know it's hard for me to give give people compliments, you especially in the music area. You you gotta like really bring it, and those who know me personally know I don't just sing with anybody, but she invited me to sing with her. I had so much fun, guys, and you know, she's gonna be performing at the HBCU icon community people's choice awards, and uh she also got some surprises that's gonna be performing with her, but just tell us about yourself, you know, tell us what you do, you know, and things like that, and you know, just just give us a spiel, of course.

Devin Matthews And Art Noir

SPEAKER_12 4:28

Welcome everybody. My name is Devin Matthews, that's Devin like Kevin with a D like David, and no, I'm not a boy. Um, my mother named me Devin after a character on All My Children back in the day. So that's where my name comes from. It's just Devin, five letters to syllables, Matthews with one T. Uh yeah, born and raised right here in San Antonio, Texas, proud product of the east side of San Antonio. I'm a professional performing artist, um, singer, dancer, actor, all the things, slam poet. What I've I pretty much have done every facet of performing arts. I am so honored and excited to present what we do here in San Antonio for the HBCU icon awards and people, iconic and people's choice awards. Um, I am also the founder and artistic director of Art Noir Productions. We are an all-black performing arts organization, 501c3. We are black ballerinas, black clowns. We have a black circus show, black tumblers, black everything, every genre, um two to 102. Anyone that identifies as black um can perform and be trained to perform with us um free of charge here in the city of San Antonio. Um and I founded this organization because of lack of representation. Um, we have uh here in the community, we have a couple of businesses who support us, and we have uh many of the parents' support. Um, but big shout out to my husband, Pastor James Matthews, um, and those diligent around us who help me get these kids and young adults and adults prepared to perform and do different things. So I'm so excited to present what we are gonna do in honor of our culture and in honor of the awards for this year. Um, I'm also the founder of Dev Soul Band. Um, Dev Soul is not performing before everybody's already asking me and thinking, expecting a set. My band is not performing. I have more than one band. Um, Dev Soul will be 20 years old this year. We are your ultimate live band experience, RB, Soul Jazz, Neo Soul. Um, and we have played and performed all over this city, and we have opened for Jagged Edge, for Chico DeBarge, Duelet, Um, Eric Roberson, next, uh Rose Royce. I've played with um on the jazz spectrum with Kyle Turner, um, our own Billy Ray Shepherd, Marion Meadows, um, and R I P to the one and only Michael Ward, the violinist who is from San Jazz Violinist from San Antonio. Um, uh gospel. I'm a worship leader. I am the proud member now of Greater Second Baptist Church in Segin, Texas, um, by way of Greater Love Missionary Baptist Church here, Pastor LJ Gillespie Sr. And I grew up in my home church, uh, which was founded by my great-grandfather, the late Reverend Rufus Wilson at Mount Sinai Baptist Church. So I'm a church baby, a church kid. I love, love, love Jesus, um, which led my love for Jesus and music led me to start the Revelations Gospel Project, which is another community endeavor that Miss Monique is a part of. Ha ha ha, you know what I'm saying? That's my girl. It's so funny. Like I thought you were a stand-up comic, but like really that's your personality, and this is mine. So um I just look forward to to working um with you on this event and to meeting all of the amazing people and showing that we have some real talent in San Antonio, that we have chops, and that although we are a predominantly um Hispanic uh city, that we do have representation for the culture. And y'all are gonna see that in a big, big way this Saturday. So if you have not gotten your tickets, do me a favor and go ahead and grab them because it's almost sold out. And then I mean, I can't I can't put you on a list. Do not call me or text me or message me. I can't help you. I can't, I can't, not on this one, unless you want to perform with me. So if you want to come perform with me, that's basically that's the only reason you need to call me. That's the only reason you need to call me is if you're going to come to work. You want to come to work, you get to a costume and come on. Uh other than that, I can't. I can't. My line, all lines are disconnected um on that day. Because you you know how it is, Moni.

Monique Robinson 9:10

Hey, it's like that. And we have people now that are like, hey, how I get a room? I'm like, look, you better call the hotel directly because I don't know right now. But we gotta take a quick, quick, quick commercial break. And I got a couple questions. I'm gonna pick your brain since you won't put me on the land. Pick your brain right after this. Right, we'll be back.

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Anthony Returns And Program Overhaul

Monique Robinson 10:33

Yes, uh, if you watch a commercial and you paid attention, that is Mr. I'm sorry, he's Dr. Dr. Deacon. He's got like a thousand titles. But uh the most important title is this is my brother from another mother. Like he uh took me under his wings and I, you know, he usually be like, cut it out, cut it out. But a lot of things that I do is under his um direction, training, um, the the rough patches, but I'm about to bring him back. I guess he got our message like dude, you just left. I introduce you. So welcome back, Mr. He usually got theme music. I don't know if he got it.

SPEAKER_08 11:19

Not today, no theme music today because I'm it's it's all packed up. It's it's it's already packed in the suitcase on my way to San Antonio.

Monique Robinson 11:28

Yeah, Mr. Anthony will be in the building. This is our fifth year.

SPEAKER_08 11:33

Has it been?

Monique Robinson 11:35

Oh my god. Let me think. The first year I had the outfits.

SPEAKER_08 11:40

It's been a couple years. I'm excited about being here. Listen, we need to help me wrap this up because I gotta get the bags if I'm gonna make the six o'clock flight.

Monique Robinson 11:46

Oh, yeah, you gave it to your flight when I playing with you. So uh we welcome back.

SPEAKER_08 11:52

Listen. See, the thing is, I'm gonna go back real quick. I why do I take the first flight in the morning? Because that plane is already here, it's already in the city of where you're departing from because it had to land last night. So it's not gonna be late. The crew is here, they slept overnight.

SPEAKER_12 12:09

I love that.

SPEAKER_08 12:09

Don't nobody it's the first one. The first one is always gonna be on time.

SPEAKER_12 12:15

I love me a red eye. I'll get on one in a minute.

SPEAKER_08 12:21

But anyway, listen, Devin, listen. You say don't call me right now. We ain't let's unless you call me about a gig, we ain't got time. Pretty much. What you said was money talks. Now I'm gonna leave it at that. What you said was money talks.

SPEAKER_03 12:37

Well, that's a word right there.

SPEAKER_08 12:40

I'm gonna let you rep, I'm gonna let your husband think on that lady. That's a word.

Monique Robinson 12:43

So, but Anthony, this year we got like things different. So we're gonna start the program. You know, we got like a choir, they're gonna do uh we got choir coming, a little ensemble. I say ensemble, ensemble. We got some kids performing this year. I know.

SPEAKER_08 13:00

Okay, I'm excited. I've been wanting students, listen, I always told, I mean, Rob Monique, from the first time we start playing it, like kids on program is gonna bring parents, parents are gonna buy tickets, but more importantly, we're talking about education, and and if we're highlighting the importance of HBCU in education, why not have young people on program?

SPEAKER_12 13:21

Right. And I don't want people to get it get it twisted. You know, I have remember when I was in high school in the the San Antonio Youth Ensemble was a choir that I was a part of here, community gospel choir. We went all over the country, and you know, every year for you know, downtown San Antonio, we had the Christmas tree lighting, it's a big, big deal on the river and all this, you know, downtown San

Why Youth Performers Matter

SPEAKER_12 13:41

Antonio. And our choir, I remember we ministered down there for the Christmas tree lighting. And I'll never forget that a news station here, I won't call them out. A news station referred to us as at-risk youth.

Monique Robinson 13:54

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_12 13:55

And I went, I remember I was a junior in high school, and I went out, I told my mother, I said, why are we referred to as at-risk youth? Uh I understood what that meant, but we were not that because we were black. We were overachievers. We were straight a student. Um, many of us, um, like for example, me, I won the science fair every year while I was in school. Um, I won every bike rodeo. I like I was learning two and three languages. I I didn't understand why, but I knew why. And so my mom said, Does this really bother you? I said, Yes, I'm offended. She called the news station on behalf of me and said that my teenage daughter, my teenage daughter sang with the choir last night. Y'all referred to them as at risk. What are they at risk of? That's what I she asked me what I wanted to know. So just because you see black skin, you assume, and because we're from the inner city that we have major problems, major life problems that we are in the system or have been in the system, or just because you see a choir of black children are performing, black children performing. So I just want to be very clear that everyone that's coming um to the uh to the gala and to the awards this weekend, um, and it's our mostly our people, right? So I know they're not gonna have that thought process, but I can pull any one of the talents to the side at any given moment and tell them to perform in in their capacity and they will blow your mind. Every last one of them. Every child, teen, and adult will blow your mind. You guys are we we're pulling the cream of the crop for everyone coming into our wonderful city and showing you what we can do. It's it's definitely not gonna be uh we are not the poster child for performances just because we are have this melanated skin. No, we are operating in black excellence. I accept I expect nothing less, and they they know that. So we're gonna give you guys a wonderful, wonderful show. We're gonna praise the Lord. It's gonna be a wonderful night, and I just cannot wait to meet and see everyone. So support my girl, support this endeavor, support this these doctors. I need to go, I need to buy because I want to be doctor too. I want to be, I want to be a doctor. I want to be Dr. Matthews.

Monique Robinson 16:15

Go for it, get in MC because you or theater, do something because you're back, the girl basically. Now, Anthony, this is the one that got me out to sing because you know I don't be singing like that no more.

SPEAKER_08 16:26

Oh, this is the one who had you in the MLK choir.

Monique Robinson 16:28

No, not that one. Yeah, that was MLK, wasn't it? What was it? No, the what event we sung for. What do we sing for? Oh shoot, we sang for the mayor thing.

SPEAKER_08 16:40

Oh, okay.

Monique Robinson 16:41

You see, you get me in trouble on live. See how you do, but no, I don't sing with that one. I sang with her, um, and it was really fun.

SPEAKER_12 16:48

Revelation's gospel project. We we sang for the mayor's, the mayor's dream ball, um, which is a part of Dream Week San Antonio, which is the largest community-driven, um, giving community-supported function or event in the country. It is the largest, absolute largest. Um, you have three weeks.

Monique Robinson 17:11

The time was head that day, though.

SPEAKER_12 17:13

The time was head, three weeks and hundreds of events and programming um all across San Antonio for those entire 21 days. It's amazing.

Monique Robinson 17:22

Right. But this year we have, so we starting off, you know, I just want you to visualize this, Anthony, because we never done this. We start off with the choir, the, you know, the the traditional, you know, worship side, and and showing that you know, you can have all phases and touch our lives and still have a good time.

SPEAKER_08 17:44

And Dad, by the way, real quick, so you know, this is our birthday party.

Monique Robinson 17:47

It is. She told me I'm man.

SPEAKER_08 17:50

Okay. This is this is the this is the close of our birth month celebration.

SPEAKER_12 18:01

Oh, well, I thought he was a Gemini. Okay.

SPEAKER_08 18:04

No.

Monique Robinson 18:05

May second.

SPEAKER_12 18:06

His birthday May 2nd.

SPEAKER_08 18:08

We'll share some love with the Geminis, but yeah, my birthday's in two weeks.

SPEAKER_12 18:12

So I'm just like, I don't know.

SPEAKER_08 18:15

Then you lost me. So it's our first month. So this is this to the week after you make sure we go out with a bang.

Monique Robinson 18:24

Sorry. I mean, your husband's birthday is in May, I think.

SPEAKER_08 18:29

He's April's. All right, so people singing, they're gonna lift us up. They're gonna they're gonna they're gonna take us up and take us in.

Monique Robinson 18:35

Yeah, she's gonna start shouting and stuff, and then you know.

SPEAKER_12 18:38

Well, the young is it's gonna be it's gonna be um how old are you? It's gonna be Monique's age group singing and stuff. My my babies are gonna dance and um and do a tribute to pay homage to black culture and hbcu culture and all of that through dance. So you're gonna, I don't wanna spoil it. I can't, I don't want to spoil it.

Monique Robinson 19:01

She won't tell me. I tried to ask, she won't tell me you're not gonna spoil it.

SPEAKER_08 19:05

Don't tell me to let people know again is listen, you still got time. We got a little bit of room. Um, there's a few more tickets left for the HBCU icon and people's choice award. Um, you see the QR code here on the flyer, but we can make sure we put this uh link also in the description. So if you're still catching us before uh the end of the weekend, you can still try to see if you can get in.

Monique Robinson 19:30

Yeah, I mean, because at the door is gonna be a hundred bucks, and once we meet capacity, we will not do like last year. Right last year, y'all was standing. No, we're not doing that. No, you don't get your ticket, you paying a hundred dollars until the seats run out, right? Wow, we're not doing that. That's amazing.

SPEAKER_08 19:48

So I love the sellout, but but we had a great time last year, but we looking for a better time this year.

Flea Market Fashion And Fun

Monique Robinson 19:54

That part, and then we're gonna end now. This this is funny, Deb. How we met this guy is I was a you know Eisenhower flea market, right? Okay, I took Anthony there because he came in town, and Anthony is wanted to shop till you drop. If you go shopping with him, just forget it, just get you a chair and sit down.

SPEAKER_08 20:11

Somebody like, oh, I mean, oh, this is cute. I look, I was struggling the whole entire flea market. I didn't pack like I'm gonna be there for three weeks. I'm telling you now. I I love it every minute and no telling what else I'm going to buy when I get there. We don't need to get together because I have I have somebody I need him to meet because I struggle with you, never know, the weather, the mood, the the feeling, the vibe.

SPEAKER_12 20:35

Great. If you need a if you need a bag or a backpack or a belt or something like that, I got somebody that can get it for you off the boat.

SPEAKER_08 20:44

Oh Lord, I love a good belt. No, no, and a good little backpack. A little because just a fool with y'all too. I ain't got time. Come on, come on, come on, come on. Anyway, so we met this guy at the time.

Monique Robinson 20:57

I was buying a shirt. Next thing I know, he in there modeling and taking pictures like he lived in San Antonio.

SPEAKER_08 21:04

I love it. I love it. Oh, baby, we ripped the runway last year. Listen, we would listen, we had so much fun at this particular clothing store. There was a customer came into the store, saw what I was wearing, and said, We want to buy that. That means that is what's up. Again, it wasn't the outfit that was on the rack. They said, No, no. We want one that he's wearing right now.

Monique Robinson 21:32

Now, mind you, I love it. We went to the mall, rolling those mall. It ain't sitting around taking pictures and doing a whole photo shoot.

SPEAKER_08 21:42

We did a whole photo shoot in the mall. I can't wait. We're doing it again, Ryan. I think I'm gonna come by Thursday. I'm glad I gotta work the whole day. So that probably spent my whole day at the mall doing a photo shoot. So tell me, I'm just gonna come ready. Anyway, Monique, why don't we bring on our next guest?

Rod Eckles Joins The Party

SPEAKER_08 21:58

Um, listen, we ain't gonna I know that you got that we talked about this. It's Tuesday night. But thank you for hanging out with us for just a little bit.

Monique Robinson 22:07

Y'all, OG, Raw Echo. HotMess.com. Hotman. Put him up top.

SPEAKER_08 22:16

He didn't put this here, um, this old headset in, and he didn't change his audio out. Nope. Mm-mm. Uh-uh.

Monique Robinson 22:28

Ain't nobody here.

SPEAKER_08 22:29

No, sir.

Monique Robinson 22:30

See being funny. He might can't hear us and he's trying to act like he can't. See, this is a double. That's when he get for teasing me earlier.

SPEAKER_09 22:40

That is when he gets fat teasing me earlier. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_08 22:46

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, y'all.

SPEAKER_12 22:52

Dr. Dr. Brown, Dr. Robinson, Dr. Eccles. He ain't no doctor.

SPEAKER_08 23:01

Don't judge him like that. Dr. Phil. We will be able to do it. It's been a pleasure. I look forward to Saturday. If you're listening, also for hey, we got the meet and greet on Friday. If you want to come hang out with us, do some HP. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_12 23:15

I might I might come and do something for y'all for your birthday. We'll see. All right, then.

unknown 23:20

All right.

SPEAKER_12 23:21

All right. Take care. Thank y'all. See y'all this weekend. Y'all get your tickets. Don't play. All right. Bye.

SPEAKER_08 23:28

Yes, Ra, we can see you waving, but we can't see anything.

Monique Robinson 23:33

Like, what's wrong with you?

SPEAKER_08 23:35

I don't know, Child. Listen, what we're gonna do is why he's trying to figure that out. Why? Um, listen, ladies and gentlemen, we'll be right back.

SPEAKER_07 23:45

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SPEAKER_00 24:45

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SPEAKER_04 25:10

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SPEAKER_01 25:19

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SPEAKER_08 25:49

Everybody,

Upsize Fashion Storytime

SPEAKER_08 25:50

I was having some difficult difficulties.

Monique Robinson 25:55

What happened? What you know?

SPEAKER_08 25:57

What happened was my phone rang. I was on the phone. I'm gonna hold you. My ride to the airport. My ride to the airport called.

Monique Robinson 26:04

Oh, okay. Well, you we gotta get you in the bed. I don't know what is going on with Ryan.

SPEAKER_08 26:08

Let's check out and see if let's let's see if this old player right here is back on the block.

Monique Robinson 26:13

Freaking hilarious.

SPEAKER_08 26:14

No, we can't hear nothing he's saying, ladies and gentlemen. I don't know what's happening.

Monique Robinson 26:23

But guys, we can hear you now.

SPEAKER_08 26:26

There we go. You hear me?

Monique Robinson 26:28

Hold on, mute.

SPEAKER_08 26:29

Yes, you can.

SPEAKER_11 26:30

Yeah. I don't know why y'all playing with me. He couldn't hear you the first time, sir. Man, y'all playing with a y'all playing with a pimp. Don't be playing with me like that.

Monique Robinson 26:39

This is a family show. We don't have any.

SPEAKER_08 26:41

Ladies and gentlemen, this is the OG Rod Eck. I'm retired.

SPEAKER_11 26:45

I'm retired. Yeah. I'm retired. I'm saved. I'm saved and full of the holy water right now.

Monique Robinson 26:54

Oh Jesus. That's scary.

SPEAKER_08 26:56

What what what brand of grandmoney? I'm quite sure it was blessed before you even put your lips on it.

SPEAKER_11 27:08

Hey, but hey, hey, I just want to say I'm honored to be part of Help Brothers Come Up. Hey, it's gonna be a great time. Hey, it's gonna be a great time. We're gonna be a great show. We're gonna have some fun. We're gonna do some great things. Can't wait till you come to the store tomorrow. You come to the store tomorrow.

SPEAKER_08 27:33

I need you to make sure you have on the right colors and don't be putting on somebody else's.

SPEAKER_11 27:36

Hey, you need to get there tomorrow. Because I had somebody I had somebody looking at their suit today. Hey, and you know my wife. Hey, you know my wife.

SPEAKER_08 27:47

I'll be there Thursday. I'll be there Thursday.

SPEAKER_11 27:49

Hey, you know my wife. When somebody says they're gonna pay $750 for something, she's gonna sell it.

SPEAKER_08 27:53

Oh, I wasn't paying that much.

SPEAKER_11 27:56

Oh, I wasn't charging you $7.50, but that's what the price is on it. That's what she was gonna pay.

SPEAKER_08 28:01

Oh my goodness. So she probably leave myself alone.

SPEAKER_11 28:06

She'll sell it in a heartbeat.

SPEAKER_08 28:08

So, Rod, listen, we were telling Dev earlier about the store and how we came in and did a whole photo, uh whole photo shoot in the mall. But let everybody know where you're located. Store, hours, all that kind of great stuff.

SPEAKER_11 28:21

So Anthony is my Anthony is my premier model. Um he came into when we was at the road, when we was at the uh Eisenhower flea market, hey, he just wanted to just glow. He wanted to put on clothes, he liked to twist and turn and get his, he liked to he like to get his picture taken. He should have been a criminal because he could have got his picture taken a whole lot if he just kept getting arrested. But other than that, hey, he's a wonderful model. So every time he comes to San Antonio, we put him in some clothes and we taking pictures, and we having, man, we having hella fun. We're gonna do a little dancing and all that stuff. And the thing about it was he was telling y'all about he had on an outfit. So he had this outfit on, and the man said, I want that outfit right there. So as soon as he took it off, I passed the outfit to my wife, and my wife sold it to the man. So then Anthony came to the register trying to ring y'all, and he said, What my other outfit is? And I was like, What other outfit? The one I had on first. I said, Oh, my wife sold it.

SPEAKER_08 29:34

Off my back, ladies and gentlemen. She sold the outfit right off my back.

SPEAKER_10 29:40

Hey, Anthony took that. Hey, Anthony took that outfit off and it went straight to the register. That was bad. I was there. That was pretty bad. Hey, I said, wait, why would you do that? That was and she said, Well, I ain't know he didn't say he was buying it.

Monique Robinson 29:55

That was mystical.

SPEAKER_11 29:56

If it took me forever to take it off, I said, I said, eight out of ten things that Anthony put on, he's gonna buy.

SPEAKER_08 30:07

Listen, I'm I'm scared.

SPEAKER_11 30:10

And she said, Well, that was number nine, so you probably weren't gonna put that one on.

Monique Robinson 30:14

Uh uh, you didn't even have to take stuff home because we're stuff home.

SPEAKER_08 30:19

We sure did. We shipped everything back home.

SPEAKER_11 30:23

Hey, but but hey, we're gonna have a lot of fun this time.

SPEAKER_08 30:29

I know. So, ladies and gentlemen, if you don't have your tickets, so you heard about the fact that Dev and her choir and her young people are gonna be performing, uh, opening up the show. Hi, your boy, your cousin, it's your friend, it's your everybody's favorite uh all-around good guy. I'm coming all the way from Cleveland, Ohio to San Antonio, Texas, once more and again to be with you. This year, celebrate our icons and all of our award, awardees, plus just just some, you know, just take care of the sights, take in the sights and sounds. Then I'm going shopping, but then we got this brother right here. Hot miss a whole comedy routine we're gonna show up and show out with. Yeah.

Monique Robinson 31:08

Hotmiss.com.

SPEAKER_11 31:09

I'm gonna I I'm gonna be a stage criminal. I'm gonna rob everybody of their sad faces and give them happy faces and have them.

SPEAKER_08 31:18

Love it. We love it.

SPEAKER_11 31:19

I'm gonna steal their tears, have their tears all over the flow. You're gonna have to call maintenance in midway through so you can mop up because everybody's gonna be crying.

SPEAKER_08 31:29

I can't for real. I love it.

SPEAKER_11 31:32

I cannot. For real, for real.

SPEAKER_08 31:34

We love it. We love it. All right, uh, anything. Are you gonna sing?

SPEAKER_11 31:38

Are you gonna sing, Monique? Yeah, I'm singing. I just can't wait to hear your lovely voice. You sing with the choir, Monique. Monique, you want to sing one of my songs?

Monique Robinson 31:49

I'm singing with if you come Friday to karaoke, I'll I'll sing again. I'm gonna sing two times this week. No, I want you to sing one of my songs. I'm scared to sing one of your songs. Is his song uh appropriate?

SPEAKER_08 32:05

He said, Did you? He said, Oh, he said, did I write a song? What's the song about Rod?

SPEAKER_11 32:10

I wrote a whole album, Money.

Monique Robinson 32:12

Oh Lord Jesus. I'm scared to know.

SPEAKER_08 32:14

Now, what genre? This is RB, hip hop, and R B R R M B.

Monique Robinson 32:19

R B. I'll send you the link. Okay, I'm gonna listen to it and know if it's if it's uh family appropriate. You know, we're black.

SPEAKER_08 32:29

What is Ron? Oh my goodness, I can't believe it. This man talking about here that wrote a song. Okay, well, uh, anything else we want to share with the people, Monique, before we get up out of here?

Monique Robinson 32:39

No, we just definitely need to make sure if you're interested in coming, please, please, please get your ticket now. Because if you want to pay at the door, we are only going to sell tickets until the seats run out. So we have X amount of tickets left. And if you miss school, you miss out. They will be a hundred dollars. They will be a hundred dollars at the door. So um, yes, that is our our graduation and congratulations to all the graduates again.

SPEAKER_08 33:11

But oh, do we want to give a shout out to some of our honorees?

Honorees Shoutouts And Ticket Warning

Monique Robinson 33:15

Yes, big shout out to uh Miss Kimberly Douglas. I believe she is from the Southern University, and she is a woman of Alpha, Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated.

SPEAKER_08 33:31

Oh, so we got Devet Marby, business organization of the year. Come on, Miss Devet. Talking about the Natural Hair Society. I love it. Who else we got? We also what was this? I didn't know about oh, this is our scholar.

Monique Robinson 33:51

Yes, this is Autumn Wiggins, and which is really unique about Autumn is her cousin won uh the scholar of the year for uh last year, so she's winning HBCU Bound Scholar of the Year this year.

SPEAKER_08 34:04

Oh wow, and then we got Ronald Gordon.

Monique Robinson 34:10

Yes, he does our send-off, he's a DJ for our send-off every year, and he is really DJ this Friday.

SPEAKER_08 34:16

He's DJ DJing this Friday for the meet and greet.

Monique Robinson 34:19

Yes, at the karaoke.

SPEAKER_08 34:21

Yes, and then finally we got Dr. Melissa Walker.

Monique Robinson 34:26

Yes, Dr. Melissa Walker is one of my sorority sisters. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta, sorority incorporated, San Antonio Alumni chapter, and also a two-time graduate of the Grambling State University.

SPEAKER_08 34:41

I love it. Now, again, ladies and gentlemen, we got a lot of things happening. Um, shout out to the artist who recreated this image right here. All right, listen. Let's see if we can get Rod back. Uh let's see if we can get Rod back on the camera.

Monique Robinson 34:59

I don't know what Rod is doing.

SPEAKER_11 35:01

Is he back, sir? Y'all keep sending me backstage like I'm a uh we're gonna put you on timeout because you be cutting up. Like I'm a stripper or something. You coming out to the stage. Stop doing me like that, y'all.

SPEAKER_08 35:13

We don't know all right, so we can't wait to see hear some of your new music, sir, that you're gonna draw.

Monique Robinson 35:19

Play it for me when I come to the store this week.

SPEAKER_11 35:22

I yes. I have some good stuff.

SPEAKER_08 35:25

What time you open on Thursday?

SPEAKER_11 35:27

What time I open Thursday? When you get there. I'm gonna get there by 10 30.

SPEAKER_08 35:32

Are you gonna the last time you told me that we had to wait another hour?

SPEAKER_11 35:35

Well, I get there early because I work on my podcast.

SPEAKER_08 35:40

Okay. All right. So I'm gonna get there at 10 30.

SPEAKER_11 35:44

12. No, I'm gonna earn 10. Me and 10. We don't ride in the same car. Now 10 will get there at 12. I get there at 1030.

SPEAKER_08 35:51

Okay, so I'm gonna get there around 10.30.

SPEAKER_11 35:53

So if you get there early, we can we can go ahead and be doing our photo shoot and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_08 35:58

I have to come earlier. I can try to come earlier.

SPEAKER_11 36:01

I have all my skinny clothes laid out for you.

SPEAKER_08 36:04

You know what? That's awesome. Listen, anything else you want to share with the people, Rob, before we get up out of here? So y'all are gonna finish packing.

SPEAKER_11 36:13

Hey, hey, I just want to tell everybody look, make sure that y'all be there. Uh, bring all your donations to help brothers come up. And we're gonna have a great time. And man, we're gonna do some things that y'all have never seen before. I'm gonna be a good boy this today, this time. But next time y'all see me.

SPEAKER_08 36:36

We should make you a you should make you a sign or a t-shirt that says help brothers come up.

SPEAKER_11 36:41

Yeah, that's a moneymaker. Help brothers, help brothers come up. Yeah. Yeah, I really thought that's what HBCU said for. I'm always seeing them doing donations, so I thought, you know, they were helping brothers come up, you know. I I thought that you know officially I think I think y'all stole, I think the y'all stole the acronyms.

SPEAKER_08 37:08

Wow.

SPEAKER_11 37:09

Yeah.

Monique Robinson 37:11

I cannot with you. I can't. I give up, but I'm glad that you come in, and I look forward to seeing this wonderful act. But people, we are doing things totally different. Uh, we are totally focusing on family and making a total program this year instead of you know, you know, sitting around the table just eating. So just letting you know, a time will be had this year.

SPEAKER_11 37:36

And y'all get y'all tickets. Stop waiting around to the last minute. Get your ticket because we're gonna sell out. We'll sell out, even though we got 300 seats left. We're gonna sell out. We're gonna sell out. Hey, just quit playing with us.

SPEAKER_08 37:53

Right, right.

SPEAKER_11 37:55

Uh, Pastor Monique, my wife says she texts you.

Monique Robinson 37:58

She did. I don't know when I became a pastor. I know that I'm I don't know that.

SPEAKER_11 38:05

Hey, it it does fit, it does fit the evangelists. I mean it fits the thing.

Monique Robinson 38:10

Okay.

unknown 38:10

Thank you.

SPEAKER_11 38:12

It fits the thing, like a pasta brown now. I started getting one of the things.

SPEAKER_08 38:19

Oh, we brought a word tonight, though. We had a coach.

SPEAKER_11 38:21

I started getting one of them coaching suits. Hey, if you wear this suit that I'm giving you to the coaching convention, they're gonna put you out.

Monique Robinson 38:29

Okay, you know what? On that note, Anthony got a flight to get.

SPEAKER_07 38:35

I do.

Monique Robinson 38:36

We will see you sometime this week, Mr. Rye. Anthony, be careful. Make sure you get some rest. Did you get your dress yet? Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 38:44

Oh, okay. Hey, for everybody that don't have nothing to work, y'all come in upsize fashion in a rolling note small and get you a fit. Hey, if you ain't got nothing Africa, just come get you a tuxedo and y'all can be like the house Negroes. You know, y'all can be like y'all worked in the big house on the plantation. And that's still African now because when the Africans first got to America, you know, some of them weren't out in the field, they worked in the big house. So I got tuxedas for you, and you still be in corn, you know, in coordination with the African tire. Y'all coming upside fashion, rolling no small.

Monique Robinson 39:21

All right, guys.

SPEAKER_08 39:22

Matter of fact, meet me there on Thursday.

SPEAKER_11 39:25

Hey, that'd be the whole situation. Meet Anthony on Thursday. We're gonna see y'all later. I'm out of here. Peace.

SPEAKER_01 39:33

All right.

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SPEAKER_01 39:36

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Monique Robinson 40:01

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