Subscribe
Share
Share
Embed
The worlds of sports and showbiz collide! Featuring in-depth chats with top athletes, entertainers, and industry insiders - all with a Las Vegas twist.
Announcer
0:00:00
This is a KUNV Studios original program.
Wesley Knight
0:00:04
The content of this program does not reflect the views or opinions of 91.5 Jazz & More, the University of Nevada Las Vegas, or the Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education.
Music
0:00:15
Nothing can stop me, I'm all the way up. All the way up. All the way up. All the way up. I'm all the way up.
Music
0:00:22
All the way up. I'm all the way up.
Music
0:00:24
Nothing can stop me, I'm all the way up. I'm all the way up. All the way up. All the way up. I'm all the way up. I'm all the way up.
Music
0:00:30
Nothing can stop me, I'm all the way up. I'm all the way up. I'm all the way up.
Music
0:00:33
I'm all the way up.
Music
0:00:38
Nothing can stop me, I'm all the way up. I'm all the way up.
Music
0:00:40
I'm all the way up.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:00:41
I'm all the way up.
Alexis Levi
0:00:44
We're going to bring you stars. We're going to bring you people that are doing shows and all kinds of crazy stuff in the Las Vegas area and elsewhere. And today I have Dr. Charlie Mack. He let me know it's Dr. Charlie Mack this weekend as he's receiving his award and his degree this weekend. And we got him right before he's going to leave. So Charlie, I'd like to thank you so much for coming to the Sports and Stars and being with me this morning.
Alexis Levi
0:01:08
How are you? I'm doing amazing. And thank you for having me. Oh, we are so excited. You know, I've been reading about you. I know a lot about you. I've looked at your business. I've looked at what you've done to get to Dr. Mac, but we're going to start back a little bit because my guest, my, excuse my guest, my audience doesn't know everything about you and I want to make sure they know who Mr. Dr. Charlie Mac is when we leave this show. Yeah, I love it. I love it. I love it. So tell me Charlie how you got started. Oh my god
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:01:42
When I was a kid You know, I grew up in a small city. So I really was very interested in music in the beginning I wanted to be like, you know, like I guess I guess back then All of the music came from New York. Yes. Yeah, you know some of that some of the like rappers like Big Daddy Kane, Public Enemy, you know, you know, groups like that.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:02:09
Doug E. Fresh and, you know, all of these different rappers, you know, the Fat Boys was another one, Run DMC, you know, they were all big and, you know, Kool Moe D. Kool Moe D, yes. Let me not forget him. We had, you know, I grew up in a small city and we used to listen to a lot of those artists on the radio and I was always Fascinated by you know that culture and I wanted to be a part of it
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:02:33
So, you know when I got I would say maybe about 13, you know, I was able to get a turntable and I Learned how to scratch on a boombox and a turntable. I didn't even have a mixer. I was using the boombox as a fader, you know, the knobs on the boombox and the turntable to scratch. And that was like my first, you know, real introduction. That's where I started. And then from there, I ended up with drum machines. And like my first drum machine was like a Roland. It wasn't an 808. It was because that was the more expensive one. It was one of the cheaper ones that
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:03:08
I could find. But right. And, you know, I made drum beats with that. Someone did actually loan me like a 909 or something, which was popular, almost as popular as the TR-808. But yeah, that was what it was. That's how I got started.
Alexis Levi
0:03:24
Well, you know, I got to tell my audience, I wanted you to say that really quickly and let them know that he is an extraordinary celebrity producer. And when I say that, you know, the crazy thing about it, he told me he had done all these albums and records and things like that. I think it was 7,000 that you own. And I was like, OK, who is this guy? Right. And so the exciting thing for me is to tell the audience kind of how you got there, but also the successes that you have. And we'll get into audience just in a few minutes, the true successes that he's had. So you started out in a small area.
Alexis Levi
0:04:01
I'm saying this for people who just tuned in. You got all the right things, the boombox and the different things.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:04:08
Well, I wouldn't say I had the right things. What I would say was I had the right attitude. That's what it comes down to. At the end of the day, it's not about what life does to you. It's about how you deal with life. Amen.
Alexis Levi
0:04:23
I take that.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:04:24
So my experience was more, I grew up in poverty, you know what I'm saying? Like very, very, like welfare. I grew up very poor. And the truth is I grew up in debt.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:04:42
It was worse than being poor.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:04:44
We owe people, you know, my challenges were more or less figuring out how to grow out of that and actually taking, you know, a lemon and making lemonade. Now I have a whole, I got a lemonade factory. Yeah, I got orchards of lemon leaves and stuff, right? So, but, you know, that was really the turning point for me,
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:05:07
you know, just realizing that I had to take what I had and make it work for me. Now it may not work that way for everyone. Obviously, my circumstances are entirely different than a lot of people, but under the circumstances that I had, I made them work for me.
Alexis Levi
0:05:22
So. Yes, yes, I would definitely see you work. Now, how long ago was that when you started?
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:05:26
Oh my God, I must have been, like I said, 13 years old. Okay. When I got my first turntable. Now, that was, I mean, it was a raggedy piece of nothing.
Alexis Levi
0:05:37
Yeah, but you've been in the business now for a long time.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:05:40
That's a great question. So what is that? What does that actually mean? So when you think about, I don't equate me actually doing music as me being in the business. That's not how I actually determined my term of doing business.
Alexis Levi
0:05:56
Well tell me.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:05:57
I determined it like when I actually started to take it seriously. Okay. You know what I'm saying? I mean, I would say maybe around 2005 is when I actually took it seriously. Okay. I mean, of course I was serious before then.
Alexis Levi
0:06:12
Almost 18 years, 19 years almost.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:06:13
Yeah, almost 20. Yeah. We're coming to 25. Yeah. We're coming up, you know what I'm saying, on 20 years. Yeah.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:06:19
So, you know, and for a lack of a better explanation, it was really more out of necessity than it was out of just the sheer desire. It's a lot of energy that goes into getting to where I was to where I am now. But again, it wasn't as serious as I thought it was. People always think that they're serious
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:06:40
until they know that they're serious. That's the difference. You don't know until you actually know. Some of us are just floating around here in outer space like we don't know what's going on. You know what I'm saying?
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:06:53
Right, so yeah. So that's good. So I want to talk about not only your accolade of becoming a doctor, we're going to save that for a little bit. Sure.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:07:02
But I also want just you to say, because I don't want to get it wrong, what Charlie does is he places music, not only is he a producer, okay He places music on some of the hottest movies and TV shows that we all watch such as the housewives and things of that nature Sure, I can go into it. Yeah
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:07:22
so Realistically I have I'm a music producer. So that's where I started. Okay, you know, I say, you know, I produce a lot of records I have over seven thousand six hundred registered titles by myself I control a catalog of upwards of ten thousand pieces of music. I published about 80 different acts worldwide, multi-genre, hip hop, country, rock, pop,
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:07:44
classical, you name it. I have artists in multiple countries, right? Signed under my publishing company. So from there, you know, we've streamed nearly a billion pieces of music on film and television. Now the difference is, with film and TV say for instance a show like love and hip-hop
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:08:06
You know that show may pay Around $10 per second for something that airs the first running like so the first time it airs the brand new show airs today That that earns about $10 per second. Mm-hmm So if you get 30 seconds of your music playing on that show, it's about 300 bucks It could vary, you know, it might be 100 bucks, it might be only, you know, five or 10 or whatever.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:08:29
It could be, it varies, it depends on the viewership and the ratings and, you know, the advertising and others that determine what you actually make. But the difference from, say, a Spotify where there's only like a 10th of a cent per stream. So in order to get $10, you know what I'm saying,
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:08:48
you're gonna need at least a thousand streams, 10,000 streams or something, in order to get $10. It's ridiculous. Varying that and comparing nearly a billion streams on film and television to nearly a billion streams on Spotify, still both considerably a lot of money, but not nearly as much by
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:09:11
comparison. That's where we are with that and it's it's every network you can think of. Yes Fox MTV MTV vh1 bt cmt because we do country music. Yeah. Well, yeah ESPN even though they don't really pay royalties the same way that most of these networks do HD TV discovery network history channel
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:09:32
I mean, we go through pretty much every network that you can think of, the ABCs, NBCs, all of them, you know, pretty much, you're right. Everything that you can pretty much think of network-wise, we have music on some show right now. Like, I've been watching, just recently, looking back at some old episodes of Growing Up Hip Hop.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:09:54
Now, Growing Up Hip Hop is a show about celebrity artists, you know, like hip-hop artists and their kids now are trying to get into the business and doing stuff in the business. What I realized was, and shout out to this man, he gave me an opportunity some years back even before I got a chance to work with Jamie Foxx, which I'll tell you about. This guy by the name of D'Tari Turner. Dottari came through my very good friend, Grant Carter,
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:10:27
which is also one of the producer directors that I work with probably the most. He's actually out in Houston, Texas. He actually lives in Beverly Hills, but he goes back and forth. Well, Dottari actually is the producer,
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:10:42
executive producer of Growing Up Hip Hop. Did not know at the time when he hired me to work on a show called My BFF, a film called My BFF, did not know that I was already placing music in his
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:10:55
show.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:10:56
Wow, that's crazy.
Alexis Levi
0:10:57
It happens like that.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:10:58
It happens like that. It happened with Kurt Franklin's show and his wife, Tammy Franklin. I met them at an event, I think it was Hollywood Confidential at like a Hard Rock out here. And it was an interesting thing. I was trying to pitch the director of the show. And after the fact, so the irony of it is, you know, me and I only travel, I've traveled
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:11:28
very light. I only usually have maybe one or two people with me or something like that. So me and my friend, we get on the elevator. Now we were already talking to this guy inside the event, but he got away from us because everybody was crowding in trying to get out, right? Yes. And it was only one way out, one elevator up and down. It was crazy, right? So we get on the elevator to go down, we get out, we get off the elevator to get onto another elevator to go back
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:11:49
up in the parking garage, and we go up like a floor and this guy gets on the elevator. Yes. Because he got off on the wrong floor. Ironically, right? So what do I do? I get an opportunity to give him my elevator pitch.
Alexis Levi
0:12:01
Right? Right, yeah, you're in an elevator.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:12:04
So I go in, I go hard, I'm like, I'm telling him all these wonderful things about what I've done and how I can help his show. And he was like, yeah, man, that's great. You know, that's wonderful. And that was it, you know what I'm saying?
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:12:14
So he gets off the elevator, you know, me and my friend, we get off the elevator, we go and we leave. About two weeks later, I get my statement from BMI and the show is on my statement. I already had music in their show.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:12:25
Wow, that's crazy.
Alexis Levi
0:12:26
Now, you know, I want to talk about this because I've seen this firsthand. I want to tell my audience I have never seen a producer that is able to diversify more than Charlie Mack. Okay. And what I mean by that is usually if someone's doing hip hop, they're doing hip hop. If they're doing R&B, they're doing R&B. If they're doing pop, they're doing, you know.
Alexis Levi
0:12:47
I have seen this man do country music, classical music, I mean just every genre of music. And I think that's one of the reasons too why you had so much success, right? Because you can pretty much float with anybody.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:13:00
Pretty much.
Alexis Levi
0:13:01
Talk a little bit about how you do, how do you get to do a country music?
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:13:06
So okay, the story is my father, I grew up, my father's a mechanic, ace mechanic, many cars, many vehicles in his possession or whatever. He's always working on a vehicle or something. And usually when I went to visit, because I didn't grow up with him, but when I went to visit, he'd be working on a car
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:13:24
and in the background, there would be like Patsy Cline playing or like Hank Williams Jr. I grew up in a rural area in a sense, you know what I'm saying? So that's what it was, you know,
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:13:35
they like cowboys, right? So that is the eclecticness that I draw from those energies, you know, from my, you know, from my upbringing, you know what I'm saying? So, you know, when I go to, you know, my grandmother, my mother's place, you know, they playing Parliament and Funkadelica and stuff like that, you know, so I'm getting all of this different, you know, all this different music, you know, so. Yeah. So that's where that's where that
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:13:59
essentially, you know, comes from. It's as far as, I mean, from by the grace of God. Yeah, you know, that's really you know
Alexis Levi
0:14:04
That's my career Yeah, well you have the says we're on a Sunday. Let's go ahead and say this You told me something about the fact that you know I said, how do you do this Charlie and he said something to the effect of I asked that I had
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:14:17
I prayed for. And it is essentially, in my view of it, it is essentially one of those things where they say, be careful what you pray for, because you just may get it. That's the other side of it. Not just that, be careful what you pray for, but you just may get it. So sometimes you don't know what you're praying for, and you don't really understand what
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:14:50
that prayer is, because it could turn into so many other things There's so many things that has to happen and connect in order for that prayer to actually come to pass. Yes
Alexis Levi
0:15:00
Yes. Well, you know, it's been amazing watching the journey just in the short time that I've known you and of course You know you are part of our team, you know and the great thing is I mean you met us you met me off LinkedIn and then we started talking and then Obviously, I was doing a some a Super Bowl, right, you know So, you know for my guests or my audience that doesn't know everything that I do I'm always in the middle of sports and entertainment
Alexis Levi
0:15:28
I don't care what I'm doing whether it's for a client for my personal love of it and You know to meet somebody who's done such amazing things We had to bring you on the show. Thank you. No, we had to bring you on the show. Thank you. We had to bring you on the show. Now, I've got to ask you, because if I was out there listening, I would want to ask you,
Alexis Levi
0:15:46
out of all the people that you work with, who is your favorite person? Don't do that.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:15:51
I got to.
Alexis Levi
0:15:52
Don't do that.
Alexis Levi
0:15:53
I know that they're going to get somebody mad, right?
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:15:54
No, no, no. No one's going to get mad. It's just so hard to pick. I would say you.
Alexis Levi
0:15:58
Oh, yeah. You're playing it safe. He is. Good answer. Good answer. Good answer.
Alexis Levi
0:16:06
Okay. Okay. Thank you. I know that you have some amazing things that you just did because I'm looking at your bio. Let's talk a little. Can we talk a little bit about Kulmogi and the event you just went to?
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:16:16
Absolutely. So a few weeks ago, it's been like back-to-back things happening, but a few weeks ago, there was an event called Paid in Full Foundation. I started to bring the book. I should have, but I didn't bring it. Paid in Full Foundation is basically, it's a foundation that supports old school hip hop. And at this event, this year, it's called the Hip Hop Grandmaster Award. Kool Moe Dee and Grandmaster Kaz and Roxanne Shante all won and I was able to attend and it was a bunch of wonderful people some of the people that I
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:16:54
Mentioned Dougie Fresh was there. Yeah Scarface from the ghetto boys was there I got to meet a lot of these people e40 was there, you know, shout out to shout out to 40. Yes. Yes Yeah, let's see. Of course kumod. Eric rock him. Yeah, and rock him, you know, I'm saying it's great guy And Terry Crews was the host. DJ Jazzy Jeff, one of my idols that I grew up with.
Alexis Levi
0:17:18
Yeah.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:17:19
The DJing thing, I actually got to meet him and talk with him. So yeah, it was a lot of wonderful people. Roxanne Shante, of course, and Green Master Kaz, and Nas, and Steve Stout, and you know,
Alexis Levi
0:17:29
all the big names were there.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:17:30
Yeah, and a lot of wonderful people participated and made that happen. So congratulations to all of the recipients. I look forward to seeing this go even much further next year.
Alexis Levi
0:17:40
Yes, yes. Well, we're excited, you know, even about our new show, Sports and Stars, you know, here in Las Vegas. We'll be able to cover things like that. We'll be able to interview them next time. Hopefully, you got to bring them in. And, you know, I mean, this is a dream of mine, right? To be able to talk, you're starting us off in a great way. Hey. And I guess, I don't know how many minutes we have left, but at least a couple more questions.
Alexis Levi
0:18:11
Is that okay? Sure. Okay. So, where does Charlie go from here?
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:18:17
So right now, I have a few businesses that I'm working on. Of course, there's the sports show, Next American Sports Pro, we're working on, which is going to be huge. It already has a lot of legs, not just a few. That's big. I'm also doing, I got a new Christmas movie, actually,
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:18:38
that I'm working on before the end of the year. They're actually filming it during Christmas time to make it more authentic. Okay. So that's- And I love Christmas, so you know.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:18:48
Of course, of course. I can't wait for that right so that's happening You know because I've been very successful doing Christmas movies hip-hop family Christmas hip-hop family Christmas wedding starring MC light red man neo
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:19:01
Carrie Hilson Terrence J Sarah McNeil Bow-wow was in the last one Cassie was in the last one. Yeah. So yeah, it's been great.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:19:15
Yeah. It's been great. Christmas is, you know, it's wonderful.
Alexis Levi
0:19:19
Yes, yes, yes. Well, you're having a big Christmas this year.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:19:23
I am.
Alexis Levi
0:19:24
And we're going to talk about this Dr. Mac.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:19:27
Yes.
Alexis Levi
0:19:28
Yes. I like that.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:19:30
It has a nice ring.
Alexis Levi
0:19:31
It does. It does. Thank you.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:19:34
Tell me a little, tell me and my audience a little bit about that. So I'm getting two doctorates, a doctorate for philosophy and humanitarianism and a doctorate of philosophy in humanitarianism, and a doctorate in philosophy of music and arts. I'm being awarded this by Leaders Esteem Christian Bible University out in Houston, Texas. They're also awarding me with a Lifetime Achievement Award
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:19:54
and a Joe Biden Presidential Medal.
Alexis Levi
0:19:58
So, yeah. Ah, that is so good.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:20:00
Yes, I'm very excited about it.
Alexis Levi
0:20:01
Congratulations.
Alexis Levi
0:20:02
This is good.
Alexis Levi
0:20:03
This is wonderful. Yes.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:20:05
Thank you.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:20:06
Thank you for sharing that with us.
Alexis Levi
0:20:07
I know that that's something you're going to be leaving tomorrow, and when I see you next week, you'll be booflaged. I'll be loaded. Yes. Okay. Absolutely.
Alexis Levi
0:20:13
Which is great.
Alexis Levi
0:20:14
I love to hear about everybody's success.
Alexis Levi
0:20:15
Thank you.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:20:16
We work hard, and we work smart, and you're always giving back.
Alexis Levi
0:20:17
I've got to tease you a little bit.
Alexis Levi
0:20:18
I'm going to tease you a little bit. I'm going to tease you a little bit. I'm going to tease you a little bit. We work hard, you know, and we work smart and you're always giving back. I got to tease you a little bit about you and DJ Thump. I want to tell the audience, you know, not the other side, but just the genuine side
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:20:41
of you. And so tell me a little bit about that Christmas. Oh, last year, last year, we had a thing called Thump-A-Claws and shout out to DJ Thump. That's my guy. Thump Thump. We went to a community not far from UNLV,
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:20:57
the university in Nevada. We donated toys, me along with Sedgwick Crear, which is a councilman, I think he ran for mayor this year, and a number of other businesses. God, I wanna say the lady from Grits Cafe, she was also involved.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:21:15
They donated the tree. And then the culinary union donated food. They brought a bunch of food. And I basically filled up the trunk of my car with Barbies and Hot Wheels, toys and stuff like that. And I mean, it was great.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:21:33
I went to Walmart and just loaded up.
Alexis Levi
0:21:35
Loaded up.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:21:36
All kinds of stuff for the kids. And we wrapped them and we put it together So the kids would actually have a Christmas Yes, and these children really had not they weren't going to have a Christmas because they they were underprivileged Yeah, yeah, they just they were barely trying to live, you know, let alone worry about a toy Yeah, you know so they were super excited. We got some games handheld things, you know
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:21:56
To go with it You gotta have that. You can't be like, give a toy and all of a sudden nothing's there. That was done with another radio station. But at the same time, you know, it was really done with love. Everybody that actually participated was there for the right reasons, not just for status or fame or recognition or anything like that, even though it made the news.
Alexis Levi
0:22:18
Yeah, it did make the news because I was thinking, I said, you know, I heard it from you, and I don't watch so much TV, so I wasn't sure it made the news, but I'm glad it did. Yes It should yes, it was it was a great thing. That is so good. You know Charlie you are just a Picture of what a celebrity should be okay. You've been blessed
Alexis Levi
0:22:39
You know you put your work in And you give back and you're always kind to people and think about people and that's really important in this day and age Especially right now. You know it's not about what side you're on. It's not about any of that. We're all breathing and, you know, living, you know, together. And so I love the fact that you shared that with us.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:23:03
That's so cool.
Alexis Levi
0:23:04
Thank you.
Alexis Levi
0:23:05
Now, you know, what I'd like to do is have you feel free to at least give us maybe your Instagram so that everybody can go see who you really are and see some of the awesome things that you do.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:23:18
On Instagram, I'm at MacamillionDollarMan. You can find me there pretty much if you look up Macamillion, you're going to more than likely find me. It's a black and white logo, an M with an A inside of an M. You can find me that way. I'm pretty, well, I'm a recluse. I don't go out much. I don't like going places. I like to stay in. I like to create. But yes, if you're, if you're looking to find me on
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:23:50
LinkedIn, you can find me. Another one of my links is who's the hottest rapper. That's something that I've done for many, many years. And I've developed a lot of great relationships through that business as well. But my core is Mac a Million Dollar Man. That's a website, that's Facebook, that's Instagram and so on and so forth.
Alexis Levi
0:24:21
So we talked a little bit, I want to go backwards a little bit, not backwards, but just segue. We talked a little bit about Next American Sports Pro. Yes. Okay, and I want to talk a little more about that. You're the music supervisor, you're the associate producer in this particular show.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:24:37
Can you tell us a little bit about the show? So the show is basically, it's American Idol for sports. There's about 12 different sports currently, more sports to be added, I'm sure. But yes, it requires a variety of disciplines in terms of music and creativity and from a visual standpoint,
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:24:59
you want things to look a certain way, but then they also have to sound a certain way as well. Audio is very important. Okay.
Alexis Levi
0:25:07
Yeah, no, we're excited about it. As you guys know, or you may not know, Charlie and I worked together on that project, and I'm the executive producer. But it wouldn't be anything without the music and just the genius of Charlie Mack. I've been doing production for a long time. Okay. And you can tell when someone steps in the middle of your project and is bringing a gift that you just thank God for, You know, I always look at things in a way of timing, as we talk about a lot.
Music
0:25:36
Of course.
Alexis Levi
0:25:37
And I look about, you know, sometimes getting out of my own way and letting God work on things and make sure that it gets to the finish line on his timing, not my timing. Well, I say sometimes we don't know what we need until we know that we need it. Yeah, yeah. That is so true. That is so true. And, you know, one of the things that I will say about that project, and I'm sure the many more that we are going forward with, is that all of this stems,
Alexis Levi
0:26:10
as you were talking about some of the things from your past until now, all of this stems about us helping other people.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:26:15
Absolutely.
Alexis Levi
0:26:16
You know, I mean, from helping the Christmas people to now helping athletes.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:26:19
Right, so these athletes are gonna benefit tremendously because they could end up in a professional league based on what we do for them through this process. And it's a reality show, yes, but it's a real show. It's a competition, you know, so, and it's per sport, so it's separated. So each sport will be a season.
Alexis Levi
0:26:38
Yes, yes. And just for clarity. They compete towards each other. So basketball will compete against basketball, football against football. And we just did an MMA tryout, guys. We do tryouts before the actual project.
Alexis Levi
0:26:50
Right. And so we just did an MMA tryout this last weekend. And boy, it was amazing. Randy Couture and his team really rolled it out for us. Wonderful people. They rolled it out for us and made everything.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:27:04
And they did a great job.
Alexis Levi
0:27:05
Yeah.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:27:05
Shout out to Juan.
Alexis Levi
0:27:06
Yeah. Shout out to Juan. Shout out to Kim. They are amazing. And we're just blessed to have the people working with us.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:27:15
And that's how most people have been with this particular process. Oh, yeah. Most people have been very accommodating and forthcoming, you know, with help and support.
Alexis Levi
0:27:26
Yeah, yeah. And, you know, we love that. We have about seven interns. I have a couple from UNLV, a couple from Syracuse, you know. And I mean, it doesn't happen, projects don't happen without people.
Alexis Levi
0:27:38
That's right. You know, and people that are in the right space at the right time, and we're so excited about that. And so let me ask you really, really what I wanna know before you leave today. We got about two minutes.
Alexis Levi
0:27:50
He just two-minuted me. Where do you go after you come back with these doctorates? What are you gonna do on that space? So, I do wanna do, ironically,
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:27:59
being in a place of higher education, I want to do something with that. Potentially starting some type of course or, you know, because people don't, there's no, there's no class for the music business itself. Yes. You know, you can learn how to produce and record and all of that, but that doesn't, that doesn't teach you how to actually do
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:28:20
the business of music. Yes. And that's what a lot of artists lack. They may have the talent to actually create the music, but they don't know how to monetize it. And that's what I'd like to see something like that. I like to do, I plan to do something like that.
Alexis Levi
0:28:33
Yeah. Well look where we're at. We're at UNLV, one of the top universities. And we're excited about this new opportunity with Sports and Stars. So, you know, maybe they're listening and they see that Charlie Mack, extraordinaire, wants to do a course here. He lives here in town and we want to help him do that. And so let's make it happen.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:28:51
Right. Accredited.
Alexis Levi
0:28:53
Let's make it happen. You know, I like that. And so I want to make sure that I thank you so much for coming. I want to make sure that you know that we appreciate you and we hope that you'll come back and update us.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:29:05
Maybe.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:29:06
Oh, come on now.
Music
0:29:07
You've got to update us.
Dr. Charlie Mac
0:29:08
I'm just kidding.
Alexis Levi
0:29:09
And you also got to come do this course. I know some higher ups here. We'll make it happen. We'll see what we'll see how that looks. Okay. I love it. Thank you so much. Well, thank you again for coming to Sports and Stars with Alexis Levi. I am the one, you are the one, and we are doing this Stars with Alexis Levi. I am the one, you are the one, and we are doing this
Alexis Levi
0:29:24
together. We're bringing you the best in sports and entertainment.
Transcribed with Cockatoo