Raising Funds, Uplifting HBCUs, And Building Future Leaders

We’re suiting up in Royal Kente & Gold and rallying the community to fund scholarships for students heading to HBCUs—and then Wayne Bradley rolls in with theme music and a masterclass on turning opportunity into impact. 🎶📸

Wayne shares how a camera, a handshake, and a bold yes at Grambling State University opened doors to campus media, AmeriCorps, and a career that later pivoted into snack distribution—where every box can power a scholarship. From finding gatekeepers and flipping “no” to “yes,” to building a fundraising engine that fits real life, this convo breaks it all down.

He also lays out a powerful pledge—splitting proceeds among A Better Chance for Youth Futures, Inc., Grambling State, a student who lost a parent, and a memorial scholarship honoring an Omega legend—turning friendly rivalry into measurable support. Along the way, we trade classic HBCU stories (Bayou Classic vibes, Spectrum News moments) and brainstorm flavor collabs that bring jambalaya spirit and plant-based options to the snack aisle. 🔥

This episode is part celebration, part playbook—with direct donation links, newsletter access, and a clear path for any team, chapter, or classroom to join the distribution network and raise funds. Culture meets commerce in the best way: every share, every box, every pledge lighting the path for the next scholar to thrive.

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Transcript

Welcome And Gala Theme Reveal

Monique Robinson 0:21

Welcome to a better chance for you television show with your host, Monique Robinson, where we highlight, celebrate, and recognize students from all over the country who are doing great things in the classroom, community, and athletics. Every student deserves an opportunity. An opportunity for hope in a future. So let's celebrate our students, the next generation of teachers, engineers, entrepreneurs, and future leaders. Join us on another incredible segment of a better chance for you to go with your host, Monique Robinson. Hello guys, how are you doing today? You probably can't really see what I got on. I think today I'm doing like back to Africa because it's almost time for our annual Galen. And this year, our theme is Royal Kente and Gold. Now, I have had some of our honores and our icons on for the last couple days. But I must, before I bring on our guests today, I must say we only had the ballots open for two days to dose. And I don't know personally Dr. Melissa Walker, but she has shut our ballots down. So voting is open until May. But however, our goal is$45,000, and that will help us raise money for scholars that are headed to HBCUs, as well as cover some resources they may need while they're on campus or angels-off as well. That was a mouthful. Now I have to bring on our first guest. So he's not a guest, he's kind of like, you know, he lives here. He taught us how to do this. So I'm gonna bring him on first, you know, because I haven't seen him in a while. So let's welcome to the show, Dr. Anthony H. Brown. Bye bye. I gotta put that title on there. That yes, hey, Dr. Robinson, how are you? I'm good. I can't complain. It's you know, look, I'm getting ready. I gotta find McKinte. I see.

SPEAKER_07 2:38

I see. Okay. What is that? I'm out here just in these streets. Well, no, no, no, no, let me take it back. I'm in this house staying warm.

Monique Robinson 2:48

You ain't in the street, it's called up with it.

SPEAKER_07 2:51

I ain't been out there. Look, I sorry, I've been in this house since Thursday. For those who have been, you know, I know by the time you won't watch it, ladies and gentlemen. Um, you know, whenever you watch it, but I've probably been in the house over a week, about a week. I've been in the house for a week. Um I went out for a hot minute on Saturday, and I've been in this house. And I went went outside and sat in the car for a moment. I think I opened the doors and and got some fresh air last night. But not, yeah. Oh, wait, and then now all of a sudden I just got the notification that someone there's shoveling my driveway. So I might be able to pull out in a few minutes after this show is over.

Monique Robinson 3:36

Nope. You know, you just stay in. You know, I ain't going nowhere. Y'all the level three, I'm telling. But um, before we do get started, I do have to wish a very special happy birthday to both my parents. My dad's birthday is the 27th, mom's birthday is the 30th. So, yes, they, you know, a couple days apart. Love them dearly. So, shout out to the Davises, Pamela and Mark. Happy birthday. I can't be there, but they snow then too. They got like 14 inches, but they'll be over there.

SPEAKER_07 4:04

They ain't got no snow. I mean, well, they may have a little bit, but they ain't got no snow. But with all that said, so Monique was just talking about, ladies and gentlemen, the fact that again, we got this annual gala that we've been doing for a couple years now, um, coming up in May 2026. And we got all of these uh different uh categories where people are uh competing for the community awards, uh outstanding alum, outstanding student, uh community organization, so on and so forth. Um, but then we also have our HBCU icons.

Monique Robinson 4:42

Yes, this is our first year for that. I'm excited.

SPEAKER_07 4:45

Yeah, so BET ain't the only ones who can have an icon. We can have one too. And our we are honoring um 11 individuals, one posthumously, um, for some of their meritorious, outstanding work they have been doing. They were nominated by some other of their classmates or somebody in the community for their great work. Many of them are HBCU graduates. We have a couple who are advocates because, like Miss Vanessa Sparks from New York City.

SPEAKER_02 5:17

Yes.

Introducing Wayne Bradley With Theme Music

SPEAKER_07 5:18

She's her daughter went to Clark, Atlanta, but you know, Vanessa has been an advocate for HBCUs, and you know, I had a chance to meet her in person, and we did a couple HBCU events while we were in New York. Um, so you know, we have some people we want to acknowledge and honor. And so we're excited that you know some of them want to actually come on the show because not only are we providing them with a recognition as being uh an HBCU icon in our eyes, we also want to lift up and elevate and celebrate their HBCU, their alma model, or the HBCU of their choice. So we got a special HBCU icon laureate award, right? As the person that can raise the most money of those individuals. And so they all have their, it's like a crowdfunding, so to speak. So they all have their links and they out there gonna try to share with their family and their friends. So if you can't make it to San Antonio in May with us, you can give a donation. And so from time to time, you will see us come on and bring on one of these icons, and so they can maybe share with their family and their friends uh what's happening, what's going on, and why they should uh make a donation. And the donation is like a 50-50 split. So part of it helps support a better chance for youth futures incorporated. We are a licensed nonprofit organization, and that's to help students with our scholarship efforts, um, not just in San Antonio, but those scholarships benefit students going to HBCUs across the country, as well as our send-off that we do do in San Antonio and the Gala that we will also do in May. We want to be able to acknowledge some students at that event as well. Then the other 50%, like I said, goes to their HBCU of their choice.

Monique Robinson 7:09

So, with all that said, we got a lot going on, but hey, it's fun, it's worth it.

SPEAKER_07 7:15

Uh, Monik, you want to introduce our honoree for today?

Monique Robinson 7:19

Our honoree for today is I met actually at uh one of our board members, Leon Fry. I met him at the Alamo Fest. And um, I met our honoree, and it's just been like, wow, you do all this stuff behind the scenes, you know. And so today we have uh we probably should show us commercial first because it's you know it's a whole oh let's show this one real quick. The commercial okay.

SPEAKER_07 7:49

Wait, well, you want to show the video one?

Monique Robinson 7:51

Yeah, we gotta show the video one, or and then we can bring him on with the audio one. Either way, it's a whole vibe. No, let's bring him.

SPEAKER_07 7:58

No, no, let's do that.

Monique Robinson 8:00

Bring him on with the music.

SPEAKER_07 8:01

Let's do it. Let's bring him on with his with his back, with his he got he come in with his own theme music, y'all.

Monique Robinson 8:07

Because he's important, y'all.

SPEAKER_07 8:17

All the way from it. Y'all shows them up.

SPEAKER_08 8:49

Alright. From the wall.

Monique Robinson 9:00

Okay, those are the things that we're gonna do.

Grambling Roots And Work-Study Hustle

SPEAKER_09 9:12

You know, why the music playing just give me the idea what you're listening to. That was what we supported. The live stream of the gremlin, that's the lumber parties with Bayou Classics, and we was trying to tell everybody to log into the stream like they do on Soul Train. So you can see it at all the different parties across the country. So that's what that theme music was for for us supporting and sponsoring the live stream of the Gremlin Bayou Classic parties.

Monique Robinson 9:41

Wow, I love it. That's big time. I mean, but that's not the only thing. Like Anthony, let me tell you, I worked the desk. You know, nobody ever lets me work the desk because they say I'm too silly and I don't pay attention. I worked at this at Mr. Wayne's NFL um fair classic. And I didn't know I was talking the G Man Nation.

SPEAKER_09 10:07

You worked at the G Man Nation. There we go.

SPEAKER_07 10:11

But he wants to make sure you understand where you what table you were working at.

Monique Robinson 10:15

Right. He was like the G-Man Nation. But no, you know, I know football, but I didn't know I was talking trash to like people who like with big deals in football.

SPEAKER_09 10:26

Hey, hey, Fred, you heard of Deion Sanders, right? Yeah. But before Deion Sanders, there was a guy who led the NFL and interceptions, and he's gonna, if he ain't a Hall of Famer, he's on the ticket now, the ballot. And she was up there talking noise about the Cleveland Browns to him, uh the great Everson Walls, just talking noise to her. And he's turned around asking why, who is this lady? She's talking to Everson Walls. I don't care what you say, Cleveland Browns, my team.

Monique Robinson 11:00

I was like, I ain't been nowhere.

SPEAKER_09 11:05

I mean, Pittsburgh Steelers, sorry about that.

SPEAKER_07 11:08

I was wondering what she was gonna say to me. I'm like, like, when did she defend?

SPEAKER_09 11:15

Well, well, same thing, Cowboys and Steelers got that rivalry too, you know, from the Super Bowl years in the 70s, you know.

Monique Robinson 11:22

Well, no, I didn't know, so but it was fun. The event was fun, don't get me wrong. I just didn't realize until afterwards. Leon was like, girl, something with you, you talking trash to people. He was like, next time they enjoyed you, but next time learn who you're talking to. I was like, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_09 11:39

Yeah, we got over about 30 players that played in the National Football League from at that event from Grammar State University, and she just up there giving her ideas on who's gonna win, who's sorry, and all that. And they probably looking at her like, who are you, young lady?

Monique Robinson 11:57

They talked, they enjoyed it, it was fun. We just leave it at that. But how did you we gotta like rewind? How did you get to Granville?

SPEAKER_09 12:07

You well from I'm gonna try to condense this, but as I condense it, I hope to provide some historic education as I tell you how I got there. So we know let's teach the people, okay. Okay, well, Fred, um A5, um, Dr. Brown is my friend, by the way, and I'm an alpha. Um, so I moved from Tampa, Florida to Dallas, Texas, and most of the educators here either went to Prairie View or they went to um Grambler State University. So I was influenced heavily by my educators at Skyline High School who went to Gramlin, and then um I um thought I could just walk on for a football scholarship anywhere, and I wanted to go to Gram, I could just walk on. And once I saw how big and how much time these guys had to put into it, and the way I played football here in Dallas, because I was one of the high school stars here in terms of when I went up against guys that went on to major universities and the planet NFL. Um, I was just as good as not better, but the way I played football, you can't play anymore, and that meant knocking them out, and I was okay with knocking them out, even if I knocked myself out, right? But you can't play like that no more. And and I thought about hey, I don't want to get hurt, I'm um, I'm gonna become a regular student because that's too much pain. So I ended up um not having no money for school, and Dr. Joseph B. Johnson, who had been the president there, the longest standing president at Gramley, he's from New Orleans, and I remember him in my first Lyceum class saying, if you want to go to school here, we'll find a way for you to go to school here. But think about what kind of skill you got for a work study job. Don't come up to me thinking that you're just gonna get a free ride. So I go to the I go I go to the um to to to a meeting to try to meet with him, but I got my own camera, and on this particular day, show you how old I am, Frat. Jane Kennedy, one of the pioneers of NFL sports broadcasting, yeah, visiting Bramley. Yes, remember Jane Kennedy?

SPEAKER_06 14:28

Oh yeah, before my time. Oh yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 14:32

You see, you don't know, she was the pioneer of women being on the sports broadcast.

SPEAKER_07 14:37

Oh I remember I remember her from the Jet Beauty of the Week, but okay.

From Campus Media To Spectrum News

SPEAKER_09 14:41

Meeting me too, and I remember her from penitentiary. Stop on the floor, but I had a camera because I went to uh Skyline High School, which is a magnet school, learn photography and graphics. So I said, you know what? This is my way to impress him. I'm gonna act like I belong. So I took my camera, went in there, started taking pictures. Um, got made sure I got the president and all the pictures, and he's like, Um, what's her name, boy? Make sure I get in all these pictures, right with Jane Kennedy. So I made sure he got them pictures, and for some reason, Miss Kennedy asked me, Hey young man, where are you from? I said, I'm from Tampa, Florida, by way of Dallas. She said, Oh, she said, make sure I get some of them pictures too. And and I was kind of like in shock that she was talking to me. She said, What's wrong? I said, Uh uh uh you Jane Kennedy. I said, I can't believe it. You so beautiful. It just came out and she came over and kissed me. Oh my god, I thought the president was gonna kick me out of the school, the whole campus, because he turned red. So he came over to me, he said, Boy, you're so lucky. Uh, after this over, let's talk. I want my picture in all the newspaper, the yearbook with Jane Kennedy. So that's how I got my work study job um from the president, proved to him that I can cover stuff, and that's how I paid for my college. So that's how I stayed in grandma.

Monique Robinson 16:05

Wow, okay. That's kind of dope, though. But you did kind of like have a teachable moment though for people that are watching. If you paid attention, he said all you got to do is they give you an opportunity to go through the door. That's what I got for you.

SPEAKER_07 16:18

Right. Do you understand the importance of going through the door or answering the phone? Just checking in. Because that's the opportunity right there. That's big.

SPEAKER_09 16:36

Yeah, yeah. But but I thought you know, you know how you go to class, they need to read out the names and everybody look at you like, what you doing in here? You supposed to be in that financial financial aid line. So, like I said, I kept going to classes like I belong, and then when we had that license, and he told me he grew up in the Calio projects, because a lot of black people, we from public housing, even if we ain't our ancestors, was you know, we call it the project. If y'all don't know what public housing is, we try to use good terms, but the the projects. So, me being from the project, I knew I could connect with this guy because I'm from the projects in Tampa for Florida. He was from the county of projects, so he really impressed me with how he ended up coming to school, worked hard, and how he would help people. And I knew I had a skill, so I said, I'm gonna use that skill to coax him into giving me a job, a work study job. So, you know, a lot of a lot of us have issues like that. Now we gotta figure out how to get to the gatekeepers, we gotta figure out how to get to the people making the decisions, you know, and and that led into me. I became a marketing student. And speaking of finding gatekeepers, prospecting, getting to the money, or getting to that next opportunity. I learned how to influence people to change their uh yeses, I mean their no's to yeses from um going to Grammar State University because if you can make it a grammar, we always had a saying that Grammar. If you can make it at Grammar, you can make it anywhere. And a lot of us have to do those things that take no's and turn them into yeses, take unbelievable situations and turn them into miracles, right? So yeah, I was just saying, yeah. See, we're we're a little different from a lot of HBCU. We were in the country, y'all.

Monique Robinson 18:35

It was worse than Wilberforce country.

SPEAKER_09 18:40

So you know you ain't got you ain't got jobs you can go get to. Go ahead, right?

SPEAKER_07 18:44

He said, hold on, I got to write that down. Turn unbelievable situations into miracles. That is what he said.

SPEAKER_09 18:54

Yes, miracles with with the help of the Lord, with the help of the Lord, yes, yes. So uh from there, um, I learned about marketing. I used at Gram a lot of universities back in the day. He said that you use your skills to what you learned in the classroom. So we had a newspaper, we had a radio station, and I learned how to make sell advertising. I learned how to create newspapers, um, I learned how to create ads on the radio, do sales, and from there, while I was a student at Gramlin, they have a great basketball coach named Pat Bibbs, who was the basketball coach, and her husband, Ezel Bibbs, and this show you how generations at Gramlin help each other. So um I started covering her basketball team, and then she recognized that I could do newspapers along with my friend Vernon Cheek, who is now the vice president of sports for Fox Sports. He's the vice president of marketing for Fox Sports. He and I used to do uh special editions of the Grammar Knight newspaper, sports editions, where we cover the basketball team, soccer team, tennis teams, and stuff like that. So that's how I got my foot in. And then um I started a newspaper with their friend, meaning Coach Bibbs and Ezel Bibbs, who played football with Doug Williams, who became the first black quarterback to win the Super Bowl. He became history. I hear you he became my business partner. Y'all dropping that history. So he became my business partner because I said nobody knows who Wayne Bradley is. And no disrespect to you, Mr. Bibbs, even though you played for the Giants and played in NFL too. Nobody knew who he was, but they knew who Doug Williams was, his best friend, right? So he became my business partner, and we started the first ever full color, not just when I say full color, I'm talking about color, graphics, pictures, news, all that kind of stuff. Black newspaper to be distributed throughout the state of Louisiana, and it was called Spectrum News magazine.

SPEAKER_02 21:09

Oh wow.

Campaigns, AmeriCorps, And Media Shifts

SPEAKER_09 21:10

So we did that until I pissed off Ezel Bibbs' wife, who was the coach. Remember, I told you Coach Bibbs, the basketball coach? So we started growing, and then we wanted to move the operations to New Orleans. Now you know she wasn't gonna let her husband go back home to New Orleans where he's from, right? So she was like, Look, if either y'all run the paper from Grammys, are we gonna shut this down? And I say, I ain't finna cause no problem. So long story short, I had a friend named Destro Booth who was working on his doctoral degree from and he's a capper. At first I didn't like him because of that, but we became very good friends. Oh, forgive him. We just go keep on the bread list. Yeah, yeah, we became very good friends. And anyhow, he knew um then Governor Clinton. I thought I used that for my resume to work on his campaign. Uh to try to get him to buy advertising in all the black college newspapers, right? So I went to an event, met him, and this guy walks over, and this white, supposed to be white, right? They say his name is Governor Clinton. He gives me a soul brother handshake, pull me to him, like we like he won the boys on the campus. And I looked at Dex, I say, This dude act like a black man. I say, Well, he'd be good to put on our resume, on my resume that I worked on the campaign. So, long story short, I got an appointment to work for Ameri Corps, working under his um um administration, going out helping people throughout the United States. I was in the Army Reserve, so I had access at uh Aberdeen Proven Ground to a lot of equipment, whether that be they need some of the students, it's kind of like a Peace Corps, but instead of you going overseas, you were serving your country. If you had a doctor's degree, if you became a nurse, it was a teacher we were going on missions to help America, right? So from there, after that was over, I went in back into the media business and started selling TV, radio, and billboards, was doing great, and then they invented something called Facebook where you can advertise for free. So, therefore, now when they told me you got to sell a million dollars worth of advertising this month, I couldn't do it because everybody was advertising free on this new thing. First, it was MySpace, then it became Facebook, but everybody could advertise for free. So the company started giving us severance packages. Newspapers started going out of business, and I started wobbling and weaving, trying to figure out what's my next move. I still was held in the in the old days of doing print and radio and TV until I said, I'm gonna get me a CDL, I'm gonna buy me some trucks, I'm gonna do that. That can't go out of business, right? So as I was doing the trucks and stuff, I still had that desire. I'm gonna go back to my promotions dates. I still had a desire to dribble and dabble in promotions. So in Florida, there are some well-known people who uh I did promotions for and did concerts with my boy Freddie Germain and Underwood Records. So they got a guy named Crazy who was big down there, and then after Crazy, we had a guy who y'all all know as T Pain out of Tallahassee, Florida. Have y'all ever heard of T Pain? Okay, you know T Pain?

SPEAKER_06 24:34

I know T Pain.

SPEAKER_09 24:36

I'm talking about T Pain, the one that won won the um um the Mad Finger. Okay, yeah, but I'm just trying to follow the storyline here. Okay, so so we weren't with T Pain doing concerts. Um, he became big, and our other girl who we helped become big, but then she she got so big too. She started trying to go up online flight. We used to get up for 2500, then she was ten thousand dollars a show, but y'all remember my neck, my back, Kaya.

Monique Robinson 25:05

Hey, hey, that was damn back in the day.

SPEAKER_09 25:10

So those are yeah, my neck, my back, Kaya, and then also uh Terrence Lee got pushed out there. Thanks behind me for the do the marketing. We also started promoting and doing concerts with Drew Hill before they became big. So uh tell me what you want. We had them before they was big.

SPEAKER_07 25:30

They can't do it before it's prices, ain't today's prices.

SPEAKER_09 25:33

Yeah, so so so I double and dabble in those areas. So I I I know I knew how to do it, and I had the first event at a venture island for black people that's part of Busch Gardens. Me and my friend Fred uh Jermaine Allen, it's a water park in Tampa, and we just blew it out. Adventure island, yeah. So we just blew it out the water. So I knew I know how to do that stuff. Now I took all that stuff that I knew how to do, transferred it to now. I'm in the distribution.

SPEAKER_07 26:05

I was wondering, like, this is going where is this? This taking us to the chips now.

SPEAKER_09 26:10

Yeah, yeah. So we go back into we're going back into all the skills that I used to help other people sell their business or get people to attend their events. So now I take all that to learn to say, hey, I need to use what I used to push.

SPEAKER_07 26:26

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_09 26:27

I need to use what what I learned to push my chips. So I'm in the distribution business now after watching Master P and um one of our own Grambling alumni, uh E40, who I knew in school, they own rap snacks, right? I try to get it. I try to get a deal with E40 and with Master P and for weeks and weeks. And and James Lindsay, who was a big-time guy out of the club, he's from Cleveland originally. I read a thing on him. He was a big-time guy executive with um General Mills. But he's the one who really was the guy who helped pull together Snoop Doggy Dog and E40 and Master P to start rap snacks. So they they ain't been paying me no attention. I've been trying to get in touch on them for two years. I say, you know what? Forget that. I'm gonna start distributing other people's snacks. Start that it's hard to find snacks, and I'm gonna build my reputation, and they're gonna have to call me.

SPEAKER_07 27:26

Like, why?

Promotions, Concerts, And Distribution Pivot

SPEAKER_09 27:28

We need you. Okay, so now I'm distributing this famous brand out of New Orleans. It doesn't it don't have a lot of um called Ti Weez, Elmer's T wee's, it don't have a lot of stores. So I hold it up to the screen.

SPEAKER_07 27:42

Hold it up to the screen so everybody can see it again. Okay.

SPEAKER_09 27:54

See okay. So this product, these are the original Cheetos when you buy the Lay's brand called like Chester Cheetos, right? So these are the original ones that was made in 19. I wanted to get the year right, I believe it was 1946 at the Chicago World Fair. So they don't have they have a lot of people grew up on it in Mississippi. And ever since I started carrying the brand for three years now, we've been expanding. We've been helping little league football teams make money. We've been having the little chip leaders on the teams make money. Um I just helped Grandma State University make some money through the alumni association through these chips, and we also gonna give people opportunities to grow and have their own distribution through my company, which is called Urban Distribution. Our subcompany is called goodsnacks.com. That's G-U-D-E Snacks.com. So now I'm looking to create opportunity for people just because nowadays, regardless of what it is, you need a budget and you need something to sell. Y'all never seen that movie Baby Boy? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:15

Yes.

SPEAKER_09 29:16

You remember on there when um what's my guy? Tyrese said he learned to be you gotta be a seller, not a buyer. So hopefully our communities will learn how to be sellers and not buyers, you know. So that's a long story short. What I've come to, um, what I've been doing last three years, and um anything dealing with marketing. We also have a I got an off company with a friend of mine school, fellow Ohio's of yours. His name is Yuri Averett. He went to Gramlin State, and he is awesome in the marketing business in terms of making jingles, in terms of making websites, in terms of uh making apps that sell tickets to events. Um and just helping to get your messages out there if you want people to buy your book, if you want people to attend your event, if you want people to you want people to want to set up a website to sell your snacks, he does it all, right? So if we do jingles, which you heard that jingle tonight.

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Hey, you can get your copy right now. You just go to Amazon. Um, boom, it's right here. Um, you gotta see the one you get is gonna have some more labels on it because we actually won some awards. We actually won like four awards so far for some outstanding work. So I'm excited about the fact. Again, just go to Amazon.com or you can go to barnesandoble uh calm and just go to the book section and look up inspire me moments. This is one you got to get. And again, like I said, the cape has always been in you, it's not in your closet. You out here saving the world. All right, hey, let's get back to the show. Um, Moni, what's good, sis?

Monique Robinson 33:13

Nothing. I was just sitting here being taken to school by, you know. I know Wave been school, but we ain't done. No, he is taking me to school. I'm sitting here like, what is that? What is that? What is that too? So yeah, but you know what? I have a new book out too. I don't have it in yet. I can't wait till it comes in, but it is uh my social emotional learning for young people series. Um Shine Bright Little Star, and now we have Sensational Shaitan, which is actually a true story. It's about me, honestly. My middle name, those who know, my middle name is Shaitan, and it was about my first time singing in public because I used to hide behind the couch and sing.

SPEAKER_07 33:58

Oh okay.

Monique Robinson 34:00

So it's it's cute. I mean, and the the Arthur, um, the artist that did the um scenes in the book, the illustrator, he made he took my baby picture and that made the face of the um the character. So it's it's real cute.

SPEAKER_07 34:19

Oh, that is so cute.

Monique Robinson 34:20

All right, but it's on Amazon right now.

SPEAKER_07 34:22

All right, well, and then we also, you know, we are working on volume two of Voices of Education. I don't know, I don't know if I want to be in that book. That them questions, them questions.

Monique Robinson 34:34

Them questions are hard, even for me. But we I do want more male teachers. So if you are a male educator, you don't even have to be a teacher, but if you are in some form of education, we do want your voice. So if you're interested, please, please, please. Um, the information is in our newsletter, yeah. But uh, we gotta give Mr. Wade back.

SPEAKER_07 34:56

I know, let's get on by let's let's by five. Let me cue up his his um his theme music. Let me cue up his theme music.

Monique Robinson 35:09

I'm right.

SPEAKER_06 35:14

One of our eighty iconic dogs give it up to my brother.

SPEAKER_07 35:57

All right, so anyway, welcome back, Wayne, to the show. Um, listen, you were schooling us on some some good information about the history of how you got the business started and how you met Jane uh Jane Kennedy and so many other things. Now, from what I learned also is that you have a connection to my alma mater, Bethun Cookman University.

SPEAKER_09 36:20

Yes, I do, so my grandfather went to Tone Kuchman, and because of the Tone Kuchman in Florida and young, playing in what they call the Florida Classic, my uncle was a pioneer in Tampa and civil rights leader named Moses White. He is credited, according to my cousin, he is credited with starting the Florida Classic. And just a little information about him, he owned hotels and things like that in Tampa doing segregation when uh Rachel's and uh what's the uh Jackie Robinson, um El Fitzgerald, but all they used to come down to perform, they could perform in front of white people, but they couldn't stay in their hotel. They just had to stay in my uncle's hotel and my uncle's restaurant called Cozy Corner, right? On Main Street in Tampa, which is not Main Street anymore, it's Moses White Boulevard. But you know, a lot of stars who came down to perform for the white folks, they couldn't stay in the hotels even though they was a star.

SPEAKER_07 37:34

They were just getting good, too.

Monique Robinson 37:39

So Moses White, his uncle started just like no, the Florida classic Florida classic is your school in fame, right? Yes, wow, that's a lot. That's that's a big deal.

SPEAKER_07 37:57

And now it had to have to be an honor and have a street named after him.

Monique Robinson 38:02

That's what I thought I heard when he before he that's what he said.

Fundraising Challenge And Scholarship Pledges

SPEAKER_07 38:06

You heard he you that was that was um that was you know that was a little flex. Yeah, by the way, my uncle Boulevard, you know. It used to be Main Street. You heard that look that was a that was a slight flex.

Monique Robinson 38:21

Yeah, that was a flex, a big flex.

SPEAKER_07 38:23

That wasn't like in here talking about okay, come on, Wayne.

SPEAKER_09 38:28

Sorry about that. I went offline, but but uh anyhow, that's our connection to us being Florida HBC. Well, I consider my all my family went to FanMe, and my granddaddy went to Bethune Cupman, and I also got a chance to work with a guy named Glenn Cherry. The Cherry is well known up in Bathune and Daytona. I think their father was a commissioner or city council member.

SPEAKER_06 38:55

Um they used to uh they they had a they had a place right around the block from Bethune.

SPEAKER_09 39:02

Right, they had a newspaper.

SPEAKER_06 39:04

Yeah, yeah, you know the cherries.

SPEAKER_09 39:09

Yeah, so you know, I connect with it once one semester.

SPEAKER_07 39:14

Okay, see the times and um uh what was the radio? I can't remember the radio station's name, but yeah.

Monique Robinson 39:25

You said you interned Huh?

SPEAKER_09 39:29

Which interned there.

Monique Robinson 39:34

Wow. That was a full circle.

SPEAKER_09 39:38

I interned at the Florida Sentinel, which was really started in Jacksonville, and then when the fire um got the um to the the paper had a fire, they moved to Tampa. So I interned at the Florida Sentinel, but I learned these I I met these people when I was in Tampa in well as a first job in between going to another. Opportunity. I got a chance to meet the Cherries, Glenn Cherry, because he bought WTMP, which is a radio station in Tampa. They bought up 50 stations across the country. And I got a chance to work with him on some marketing projects too. In which I did a booklet, and they had a Black History Month program at uh Bush Garden. So that's how I know the Cherries.

SPEAKER_07 40:23

Okay, yeah, them are some good people. I know them.

unknown 40:26

Okay.

Monique Robinson 40:29

Wayne, he's a plug, he's the connector.

unknown 40:32

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 40:35

That's my connector. When you got the phone call, I'm assuming was it Grambling? Was it Leon who nominated him? Monique. So when you got the phone call or email that said we were going to recognize you as an HBCU icon, what was your initial reaction?

SPEAKER_09 40:55

I'm sorry, I'm so blatantly honest, right? I was like, oh my god, somebody recognized me. All this stuff I've been doing for Gramlin, and then nobody recognized me, and my pockets hurting. I'm so happy somebody knows Wayne Bradley. So I was happy. And then when they told me what y'all tell me is Leon, I say, Oh, well, me and me and Leon been working hard, investing money, time. I can see him knowing the struggles that we go through. So I appreciate appreciate him.

Monique Robinson 41:27

So now I can't tell him to say it's just him because when we we throw names out there, we we talk as a committee.

SPEAKER_09 41:35

Okay, okay. Well, you knew me. You knew some of the stuff I've done too.

SPEAKER_07 41:39

So right, and I'm not I didn't know any. I mean, I I knew one person. I know not take it back. I knew three people on the list, but uh most of the people I did not know when we talked about it. Like, I'm like, I don't know. All they say was he a frat brother.

Custom Chips, Partnerships, And Product Ideas

SPEAKER_09 41:52

Okay, no, no, oh, oh, oh, she said he's a frat brother. Well, you should have known being alpha that I'm doing some kind of community work, right? Yeah, yeah, you're doing the work there. That but that's what we do, that's what we do, right? Right. So so so I wanna since we I don't want to just talk about me. Um, since we're talking about the overall event, I want to get down to this girl who I'm kind of want to compete against, even though we're not in the same thing. We both went to Gram State. So, y'all have another person who uh Monica claims, I mean Monique claims is tearing up the scenes with supporters of this event named Melissa Walker. So, Dr. Melissa Walker, I went to college with her at Gramlin. We good friends. Let me tell you, to get up with you, I'm gonna have to bribe people. So, what I'm gonna offer y'all when y'all click on my link to support this organization as well as to support Gramlin State. When you when you sub when you give sixty dollars, I'm gonna give you a whole box. A whole box that's normally$48 in chips when you donate$60. So it's hard to find these chips. This box costs$48. Now, only thing you're gonna pay for, you gotta pay for shipping. But again, the box is$48. So you make a donation, half that money is gonna go to it's a better chance, right? And then the other half of that money is gonna go to Gramlin State. But I'm gonna tell you a little story why you should donate. We have a senior at Gramlin State University, his mother just died. Uh um Sharon Ellis and her brother, who's her brother's a Sigma, just met him. They did a great thing by along with the Gramlin National Alumni Chapter, they helped him out with some of his scholarship money. But when you uh lose a mother and you're the only child and there's nobody else, then when we say grand fam, I hope we really mean grandfam and y'all support because I plan on either giving the other half of that money to him and his educational um endeavors, or I plan on giving that money, some of the money to him and some to the Grammar National Alumni Association. So, y'all help me out, even though Melissa is y'all home girl, y'all delta girl, and she's a medical doctor, and I know she got a big heart, she probably done stuff for y'all. Then I'm gonna have to just bribe y'all. I'm gonna give y'all these two in a whole box, and I'm even gonna give you assorted flavors, right? I'm gonna give you the hot, the cheese, the caramel, 60$60 donation plus shipping. So, really just say, let's just say$80, and you're gonna get a$48 box. How about that, Melissa Walker? Can you beat that? And Melissa told me she loves PB.

SPEAKER_07 45:02

Let me also say now, you know that you're not in two separate categories, right?

SPEAKER_02 45:08

Yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_08 45:09

I don't care. I don't care. I get tired of hearing Melissa Walker, all the good things she be doing for Gremlin all the time. I just tired of hearing her name all the time.

SPEAKER_02 45:20

Oh boy.

SPEAKER_09 45:22

But I digress, I digress. I'm gonna cheat though. I'm gonna cheat. I'm not gonna. I'm gonna cheat. See, see, see I'm a cheat on I'm gonna cheat on the donations, and I'm gonna cheat on my diet right now. See this Carmel popcorn? I'm gonna cheat.

Monique Robinson 45:38

See what I'm doing with you.

SPEAKER_09 45:40

Oh my god.

Monique Robinson 45:42

What makes it so bad is that y'all are not even in like you compete with the icons. She's competing with the people that's people's choice. Y'all in two separate categories.

SPEAKER_07 45:55

He wanna be the one that raises the most money for great on behalf of Grambling.

SPEAKER_08 45:59

Got it. Okay, I'm an out. I'm an alpha man.

SPEAKER_07 46:01

I know it's a million. He wants to say that ultimately he stealed this grammarite raise more money than her. Right.

Monique Robinson 46:10

Got it. Right. Okay.

SPEAKER_09 46:11

But but but she does have me beat because she do have me beat because it's a million deltas from Grambling, right? So she might beat me, but I got for even for you, Deltas.

SPEAKER_07 46:25

You know how you said y'all. Even in the city of T.

SPEAKER_09 46:30

We got a crap, brother. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. So I need y'all to pull out y'all. I need y'all to pull out y'all pockets, brush. I need y'all's support. Oh, you know what, y'all? I got an idea. Hey, this is gonna make big news. This is gonna make big news. So there was no mega when I was in school. His name was Funky D. And Funky D. And I hate it. That's bad. I can't know I know his real name, but he just passed, right? And everybody went to Gram Estate know uh, you know, I'm saying for a 10-year period afterwards and a five-year period before we got there in 87, right? They have heard of Funky D. So Funky D just passed. So if y'all also help me, any Omegas that listen to this, if y'all help me, again, I know I want to keep a portion to help the student who lost his mama, but I will donate this money to create book scholarships, the funky D, or whatever funky D real name is, right? Scholarship. So to deal with you deltas, right? I'm calling all omegas to help me. So omegas help me with this fundraiser, and we could do something in funky D's name too. So now, Melissa, with the power of the Alphas and the power of the Omegas, I'm telling you, gonna have some competition now.

SPEAKER_02 48:06

Yes, Lord, mercy.

SPEAKER_07 48:08

Awesome. All right, so now, ladies and gentlemen, you see the link um on the screen down here at the bottom, and we'll also make sure this link is available in the description of the YouTube or Facebook. Um, just go back and watch this on the replay. So you can just click on his link. You know, we do have links for every for each one of our icons.

SPEAKER_09 48:31

Or you can just okay.

SPEAKER_07 48:35

Now hers is totally different. She even has the same platform. The icons are only on this platform. So you'll have a chance, or if you receive our newsletters, uh, you will also have a chance to click on the link and you'll see the person's image, and you can click on their image in the newsletter and also give directly to that person uh in general. Now we'll know the winners when we get to the big award event in May. Now, before we talk about May a little bit more, I want to go back to the chips real quick because you said you were talking earlier about they come in different flavors. Uh you got the Cheetos kind of version, and there's like a like a Dorito kind of chip version, like a nacho chip version.

How To Join Fundraisers And Next Steps

SPEAKER_09 49:17

But well, no, that's another product. Oh, thanks for right that well. On that product, I may start carrying it again. I used to have that at Bucky's in 7 Eleven's, and it's made out of Tampa, Florida, and that was called Outlaws, right? You might see those at Bucky's, right? I remember the Outlaws. Yeah, that's a new chip that they just built a factory in Ocala, Florida. And hopefully, with the right connections with groups and things, we can we can bring together a team because I need big orders where if you got an organization and you want to have your own chips, we can print those bags and have the Doritos in there. If you got, like for instance, HBCU football, right? Some of the former players, um, people like Andrew Poncho Glover, who, if if you can pop up the flyer, I do a lot of stuff with him, and he does a lot. He played for the Saints and for the Vikings. And I had a a concert. There, there he is, right there. I had a concert with Cecily Wilburne, who's big in the Southern Soul, who's on the right that I sponsored. And the girl on the left is gonna be a big comedian. Her name is um um gosh, my mind gone. Ooh, my mind is gone. Uh C Renee. Yeah, her name, her name is C R. So she's very, very funny. But Cecily Wellborne is kind of like the if not the top, the first lady of um of um Southern Soul music, the boots on the ground type music, right? So we had that event. So we had that event with Poncho and Poncho. You as you can see, you see my Chi Weiz up there for sponsoring it. But we had this event, and uh Poncho is known for cooking jambalaya. So I told Poncho, let's make a Chi Weiz or a chip that tastes just like jambalaya. So he said he wanted to call it jambalaya. So it's opportunities like that where we want to create uh brands of chips for former NFL football players to play the HBCUs, and um I think it's my myth.

Monique Robinson 51:32

Yeah, I'm sitting there like trying to process that. Like, how is that gonna be?

SPEAKER_09 51:35

Yeah, okay. Now get this. I told y'all, well, I told y'all about E40, or didn't tell you. So I've been trying to get with E40 to get his sausages, right? Um E40 had these sausages in the 7011s, right? And some Costco's out on the West Coast. So the sausages are called got collard greens and oxtail flavor in it.

Monique Robinson 52:02

Like a sole roll.

SPEAKER_09 52:03

Yeah, yeah, but it's a salt roll, yeah.

Monique Robinson 52:08

I know.

SPEAKER_09 52:09

Yeah, it's called Boon. His brand is called Goon with a spoon, right? He has ice cream, he's got all this stuff, and I hope this gets to you, bruh, because I'm building, but I'd rather build with a black-owned company with HBCU ties, right?

SPEAKER_07 52:26

I need that to be some vegetarian or vegan options. I need you some plant-based or some of that. I need somewhere because I don't mean hey, hey, we on this broadcast, so I know it's gonna get to E40.

SPEAKER_09 52:40

You know, this is your boy Wayne who did your um promotion in Dallas on your spirits because he does wine and spirits as well. Uh, if you remember his song Slurkane, yep. So E40, my frat brothers say they need a vegan option, a vegetarian option. So get them collard greens together with some um with something in there, you know, some kale or something.

SPEAKER_07 53:03

Something, but you don't know. All right, so now we also want to share. You also got another promo video that talks about some of the chips and things. I want to make sure people know about some of it before we get up out of here. So let's check this out, ladies and gentlemen.

SPEAKER_08 54:20

Yes.

SPEAKER_07 54:23

Real quick, let everybody know before we get up out of here. An organization can go to your website at goodieg-uds.com. Right. And they can sign up. So they got like a football, little league football team, cheerleaders, a school group, the boy scouts, whoever wants to sell, they can actually, they can actually become a distributor, um, a wholesaler, and they can become they can sell this as a fundraiser.

Monique Robinson 54:50

He got me thinking. Right.

SPEAKER_07 54:53

Just like double good popcorn. If you ever seen that, double good popcorn. I'm tired of that. Oh, wow. So again, how you I want to make sure good pop good snacks.

SPEAKER_09 55:12

G you yeah, G hold on, brother, brother Anthony. I know you up in Cleveland, but I need you to say it like we said in the snack south. Good uh G U D N.

SPEAKER_07 55:22

Good snacks, yeah, snacks, right?

SPEAKER_09 55:29

Right, they go back, and they can go. You've been up north, you've been up, you've been back up north too long.

Gala Logistics, Local Flavor, And Closing

SPEAKER_07 55:35

You talk too proper and to become um a fundraising agent um to help support their cause, right? Right for doing that for our young people or for our organizations that want to do that. Listen, um, I want to say anything. Well, before we get up out of here, uh Wayne, is there anything else you want to share with our viewing audience about you becoming an HBCU icon? Um, are you I'm I don't know, I'm hoping you're bringing the family or somebody to come down with you to celebrate. Look, we're gonna have a great time. We're gonna have a great time. Well, it's my birthday. By the way, so Monique, it's our birthday the entire month. So this is how we're gonna birthday month.

SPEAKER_09 56:16

Well, we're gonna have to do something down there. So I, you know, I know I'm not a part of the committee, but because I think of tourism and how to get people to do it. We're gonna contact. I want people to know.

SPEAKER_08 56:35

Oh, yeah, we're gonna go out and talk about so we're gonna make it part of 20 people, right? Hold on, they come home for so broad. We're gonna make fun of these people, right? Yeah, and and hopefully we got you covered.

Monique Robinson 56:53

You ain't gotta worry about the entertainment.

SPEAKER_07 56:56

We can just we might we may go kick it at the Alamo. So tell me this. I've been there a couple times. I'm gonna take you to the flea market where they got the good sales. If you want to get you a new suit, I got a clove here right in San Antonio, Texas. They'll hook you up with a brand new outfit. If you need one, we can go to the Alamo. We're gonna do the thing. We're gonna have it, we're gonna have a good time.

Monique Robinson 57:21

But yeah, make sure you book your room, though, using that code so you can stay at the official host hotel.

SPEAKER_07 57:28

Because I'm getting in the pool as soon as I get them. That's the first thing I do.

Monique Robinson 57:31

Really?

SPEAKER_09 57:34

Oh, where's where the where are you gonna be at and put out the code again? Uh, for where what hotel and what time and all that?

SPEAKER_07 57:44

We will send you all that information once more and again. We're not gonna belabor the time with the people. Uh, for everybody else, listen, we're gonna make sure you have all that in your email with the follow-up, with everything so you'll need to know for you, your family.

SPEAKER_09 57:57

Oh, what kind of food? Hey, Brett, Brett, last question. What kind of food? What kind of food? It's gonna be hotel.

SPEAKER_07 58:04

I'm a vegetarian, I don't eat much. He don't eat much. Yeah, I know. I can't now now. Imagine I can say, well, you in you in Texas, so of course, you know, you know everything. You know, San Antonio, they're gonna treat you right, they're gonna treat you right with the food. Now they're gonna they're gonna treat you right.

Monique Robinson 58:22

It's the same type of service that you provided at your illustrious event with the uh the Grambling uh football alum.

SPEAKER_09 58:33

Okay, okay. Well, I appreciate y'all having me on. I hope that people go and donate uh to my link when I start sharing it. And um remember, uh, this money that I'm gonna raise, I'm gonna be talking or calling on the Omega from Gramlin State University to call me, get in touch with me, I'll try to get in touch with you. Half of this money I'm gonna donate to Funky D, the Omega who just died, uh beloved Funky D. And the other half I'm gonna donate to a Gramlin student who just lost his mom having a tough time, and the other half goes to a better chance, right?

Monique Robinson 59:11

Correct.

SPEAKER_09 59:12

So it's gonna my my money gonna be split up three ways. So I need to have a donate.

SPEAKER_07 59:17

You gotta raise the big money, Doc. You gotta raise the big money.

SPEAKER_09 59:20

Oh, yeah. And and just get this my chi weeds, a whole box is$48. So if you send me$60, you're gonna get a box. No, you won't send$80 because you want to pay for it, they're gonna include shipping, right? Right, right, right. But really, you only paying$60, but you're paying for your shipping. So it might even not cost you$20 for the shipping, but whatever it costs you for the shipping, you pay for it. But we're just gonna put it at$20. So we're gonna be asking for$80. You get a box of chi weeds that normally run$48, and I will even give you different flavors in there. So do a variety pack for it. Yeah, variety pack for you. Right. So this is Huh?

Monique Robinson 1:00:04

I said it's for a good cause.

SPEAKER_09 1:00:06

Oh yeah. You're gonna want to eat these chips anyhow, so you might as well go here and support a good cause. Yes. So I appreciate y'all.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:14

Man, oh man, oh man. It's going to be had again. Um uh the last weekend in May, right after the holidays. You know, again, for more information, you know, stay tuned to your newsletter. Look at the links are below in the description for more information. Hey, I'm Dr. Anthony Brown. It's been a pleasure to come here and be a part of Monique's show today. Stay tuned because we're probably gonna bring some other icons. They're gonna come in here and talk some trash and see how much they can raise and um advocate and things of that nature. I'm gonna get out of the way and let Monique give us our closing thoughts and so we can go.

Monique Robinson 1:00:51

It has truly been an amazing time. A time was had on this show, so I know it's gonna be a time had in May. Um, please, please, please uh look at the newsletter this weekend if you can. We may end up doing it depending on the weather. We may do it virtual, but we will have our um annual African American History Fair at uh the NDI the Beholder Um art gallery if weather permits. If not, we will go virtual. But thank you so much. Um thank you, Wayne, for coming on. Thank you, Anthony, always for being, you know, the best mentor, thought partner, bestie ever. Um, so I can't wait to see how this voting goes because the challenge has been initiated. Until next time.

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