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The Grind, hosted by business entrepreneur Eric James, is a talk show about local business professionals, entrepreneurs, politicians & people of interest, that chose to bet on themselves & embraced the daily hustle that we call the Grind.
#TheGrind, channels the stories behind successful individuals by exploring their ideology of what it takes to manifest a successful business in an ever changing economic, pollical and social media environment.
Wesley Knight 0:00
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Eric James 0:14
Good morning and welcome to the Grind. I'm your host extraordinaire, mr. Eric James. What is the grind? Simply put, the grind is a half-hour conversation that speaks to local business entrepreneurs and explores their take on where our local economy is heading, and asks them to tell us their own story of the sacrifices and work ethic that it takes to have a successful business. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. We're back at it again. Back on hashtag the grind, hashtag the grind, hashtag the grind. All right. So last month I gave y'all a treat. I had my children come on do an incredible show. Their first time on, well, they wasn't the first time on on the radio show, but it was their first time hosting the show and not being a guest on my show, I think they killed it. They were nervous. They were scared. They were worried about how their friends were going to see it and look. They got mad reviews. I think they got social media. We did the TikToks and all the other social media stuff. So I think they really had a good time with it. Then you know that's their summer project. Come help the old man come on the show and help move things forward. So you'll see him again next next summer. But now my son is 14, entering high school. That just means I'm getting old, y'all. But I'm still kicking, still putting it in. I got a good show for you today. I got three incredible guests with me today. I'm gonna start with my good friend here, mr. Antonio. Get it, Blink Freeman. You know you got to put that blink in there that lets you know this man's been in his industry and and well versed in what he does and how he holds it down. My second guest is Miss Angelica Reyes and third Brian Ichikawa told us a funny joke about his email address. I ain't gonna put that on air right now because it's got some curse words and you know we we try to keep it PG up in here on hashtag the grind, but I'm gonna start with ladies first because you know these these gentlemen got to wait their turn to shine and rise. But we have a special guest. She is flown in just this morning from Reno, Nevada. Now I went to school in Reno, Nevada for a few years before graduating from UNLV, which is a much better school. I'm just saying, but you know, we just put that out there. We do kick their butt in in basketball and football when we can. So, Miss Angelica. Now, I've gotten the chance to get to know this this beautiful young lady over the last year or so. She is the president of an organization that I'm also a member in Southern Nevada here called VA Rep Veteran Housing Organization, primarily composed of real estate agents, mortgage agents, realtors, title title reps that advocates for veteran housing, housing initiatives, veterans suicide prevention, among other things. So she is the Northern Nevada president. She is also, and I'm gonna not tell all her story because I got let her tell some of her story. But she is also a mother, a grandmother, a power business broker. Angelica does it all. Miss Angelica, talk to me. Tell people a little bit about yourself.
Angelica Reyes 3:13
Oh, that's fun. I love talking about myself. So I've been in the real estate industry for 19 years. I currently run a team of seven agents. Have ran a team since 2015, and really like I just had a passion for helping new agents because I recall what it felt like the first year not being able to have any support. Top producers didn't want to talk to me because time, you know, commitment to help a new agent, and so I started there, and I actually really enjoy it. So,
Eric James 3:42
well, did you find it hard and being a female in a in a male-dominated industry? But now probably the numbers have evened out more so than in the you know past times. Did you find it hard or extra barriers being a woman in in an industry, becoming your own broker, you know, establishing, breaking down barriers?
Angelica Reyes 3:59
So it's very interesting you say that. In my very first year, I think I was six months into it. I had this gentleman. He was probably in his 60s. He was my mentor. Well, I would call him my mentor at the time. One night, I was like, just like, oh, I feel like I'm struggling. He's like, well, you're gonna have struggles. He's like, you have three strikes against you. And I said, three strikes? What do you mean? He says, you're young, you're a woman, and you're a minority, and I was like, ah, you know, shocked, right? I'm like, but that fueled me. I'm like, I'm gonna prove everybody wrong, you know. If that's what their impression of of what I am is, you know, no way am I gonna have any barriers on myself. So it really drives me. So I don't really look at barriers. I guess as I've moved along in my real estate career, it kind of fuels me. If anyone ever says, "Oh, you're a woman, you know. Yeah, my office at the time, the majority of the realtors were men. There was hardly any women realtors, and over time, you know, I went into leadership roles, and I was the first minority female, actually first minority to have the president role in the local real estate association there in Reno, Reno. Sparks area, so it made me very proud, and I didn't realize what the significance of that was until people actually came up to me and they said, "Oh my gosh, to see a Latina up there! It kind of inspired me to get into leadership roles. So, you know, I do reflect back on those three things that he said, and it just kind of helps me. I
Eric James 5:17
have to ask, you told me that you were primarily raised by your mother, single-family household, five siblings. Where do you rank within the the? I'm the oldest.
Bryan Ichikawa 5:26
Oh, so
Eric James 5:27
now I can assume if your mother was raising you guys individually, she had to work a lot. That means you being the oldest, that means you had to take on almost a secondary maternal role to your younger siblings. Would that be correct. Yes. So, do you think that part of that leadership ability that you display now with your team is from kind of guiding and bringing up your younger siblings in a unique household situation?
Angelica Reyes 5:51
Of course. Yeah. I mean, it makes it really nice though because we're all very, very close because of it. You know, it was hard, but it did. Obviously, there's challenges there when you're young and trying to help your mom raise raise her siblings, but I love it.
Eric James 6:04
You did say you did tell me your mother moved Hawaii, so she was like, "Look, I did my job. I'm out. I'm going to Hawaii. F all y'all kids. I did my job. I'm not messing with these grandkids no more. I'm gonna live it up in Hawaii. What part of Hawaii does the mother live?
Angelica Reyes 6:19
She moved with my brother to Oahu.
Eric James 6:21
Well, your brother was a smart one. I'm moving with Mama. Mama's Mama's coming up in the world. Shoot, we started from the bottom. Now we're here, Mama. I'm going to Hawaii with Mama. So you love traveling as part of what enjoying your your hard work and other thing. But you're a mother of three. You've got four grandkids. Where do you find time to balance all this?
Angelica Reyes 6:40
I honestly don't know. It just happens. Well, I'm an early riser too, so I wake up at four or 5o'clock in the morning, get my day started, and usually don't go to bed until like nine or 10. I hardly sleep, but I feel like you know when you're always on the go and you have different, I guess, businesses and volunteering, and then your family life, it really kind of fuels me. It keeps me going, so I'm gonna ride that roller coaster for as long as I can until I'm too tired.
Eric James 7:03
Okay, so tell me what you. I asked you earlier before the show. What did you feel like was your biggest business mistake that you made? Because I'm I'm an advocate. I've learned from my mistakes. Hopefully, I'm not as I'm launching my newest business, referral growth engine, a new AI tool that I'm working on. That I've learned from my other business successes as well as from my mistakes. So now moving into a new space or a greater space, I've learned from some of those decisions that I made in the past, and hopefully not duplicate them. You mentioned part of what you felt was your biggest mistake was growing too fast, having too much success, or projecting too much success too fast and overgrowing your your business. Tell me a little bit about that.
Angelica Reyes 7:43
Yeah, I um I was with a company that was all about growth and recruiting, and so I started recruiting. I got up to 18 agents on my team, but I didn't kind of take into account how much more admin I needed to offset that I guess time commitment because there was a lot of training that had to be done, a lot of phone calls with the with the newer agents, and I think that was my biggest struggle because I felt like I was never catching up. I was falling behind because I didn't have systems in place. So I think as a team leader, it's nice to be prepared, make sure you have the systems in place and enough business to support that many people. That was my struggle because I went from like 10 agents to 18 very quickly, like within a few months. And although I could support the 10 agents jumping to 18, obviously it costs more money to bring in more business, and I didn't have the systems to let that business flow in.
Eric James 8:34
How did you pare it down? I mean, just walk in, start firing, you know, get out. You're useless. You're not bringing in any business. What what was the process of saying? How am I going to step this down? Who am I keeping? Who's still valuable to me, or who brings the most value that they're worth keeping on the team?
Angelica Reyes 8:51
So I actually invested in a coach and started to realize who's really committed to real estate because I actually brought on agents that were part timers, but they never came into the office, never came into the meetings, never really participated. Even the follow-up with you know working with clients was poor, and and that's how I evaluated who was staying on and who wasn't. If they weren't fully committed, I realized that my time is valuable as well. So and I explained that to them. You know, I gave them the opportunity, like, hey, this is what I expect. Come in for the training. I'll help you, you know, get some clients and and get systems established. But if you're not putting in the effort, then you know I think it's a good time for us to part ways. Maybe find a team that could support you know your schedule.
Eric James 9:34
She says I think maybe it's time for us to part ways. You know, translation. Get out. Here's your stuff. Here's a bag. Carry your stuff at the door. You're wasting my time. So you think from that perspective? Now you say you're down to what seven agents? Is that correct?
Angelica Reyes 9:49
Seven strong agents. I mean
Eric James 9:50
that's an 11 person drop. One, the space or office space or you know admin space or I mean I think my own office. I just spent three. $300 at Home Depot for ink cartridges because we have five printers with 11. You know that's a lot of transition. You know, did I say 11? We have four printers, but that's a big kind of consolidation down to a much tighter, streamlined team than adding on your your presidency of VA rep, and now that's full of realtors. You must manage personalities well, or how do you think you?
Angelica Reyes 10:24
I've improved. I've improved my systems. I think it was a blessing in disguise because now my agents are producing at a higher level because I have more business coming to them versus me spreading it out over 18 agents. It's now spread over seven. I feel very blessed because I've had several of them with me for see some vary from a year, and I have others that have been with me for like four or five years. So they have the systems in place to where I can leave town or participate in my VA rep role and feel confident that my business will still be taken care of. So
Eric James 10:57
tell me about VA rep because I was going to transition that, and you just made it easy for me. Tell me about VA rep. Obviously, I've stated it before. I'm on the board here in Southern Nevada. That's how we've been introduced to each other here, and we were just in Washington D.C. together, advocating on Capitol Hill. To what I think we visited about 30 different senators with my team, going and politicking for the Nevada was the 21st century housing bill among other bills, trying to get more home purchasing power to the communities and to veterans. Tell me about VA Rep.
Angelica Reyes 11:31
It's really interesting how I was involved for the past five years. I've been working with local veterans and active military to get them into homes. The majority of my business is based off of that, and when the organization was preparing to relaunch the chapter in Reno, I was like, I want to be a member. I want to learn how I could be a better agent. To my surprise, they invited me to be on the board. I wasn't looking to be president at all, but slowly moved up in a short amount of time to that role. But it's been wonderful. I mean, I did not realize what this organization does on a bigger scale. I was always looking at it at a local level. You know what we can do locally, and taking some of these educational classes on how we can understand the VA loan process and what we can do as realtors to make that process just more, I guess, comfortable for our clients. Right? How to understand? You know, they might not. You know, our our clients are a little bit more reserved in their opinions until they feel comfortable and trust you, and then they'll open up a little bit. So maybe the first meeting, you might feel like, oh, maybe we don't connect, but it's because they're reading us. I'm a patriot, so I've never served, but I have so much respect for them through this organization, it's just empowered me to, you know, actually every single one of my team members are members as well. One of them sits on the board with me, and it makes me feel really good that I'm we're doing something back, you know, with the community.
Eric James 12:54
I like that. I like that. Well, where can people find you? Give them give them a little info about where they can call you. Again, she's in Reno, Nevada, where I went to school for a few years before transferring to UNLV. Beautiful area, very family oriented. Where can people find you?
Angelica Reyes 13:09
You can find me on my Facebook, Angelica Reyes, Realtor, or you can follow us on our VA Rep Northern Nevada Facebook, Instagram, or VA Rep.org. Just look under Nevada, Northern Nevada, and our chapter information is there.
Eric James 13:24
All right, I'm gonna come back to you. I got a few more questions I want to know about these grandkids and and some of you. I love them, but we're gonna switch over to Brian Ichikawa, and he is has a unique place on my show. He's my first return guest on the show that I've had, and we had a cancelation because I actually had the president of NAREB local chapter here in Las Vegas, Nevada, scheduled to be on the show today. But she hurt herself, got injured last night, and last minute cancelation. Brian was kind enough to jump in, but he's got a new business venture which made it perfect for him to come back on the show, and he's going to talk about a new concept of Vegas. Now, having grown up here in Vegas, Vegas. When I grew up, there was about 200,000 people in Vegas, and so it was a very smaller, you know, community. Now we're at like 3 million. So things like what Brian and his business partners are bringing or coming to the city really didn't exist, or I hadn't heard of it back then, or I don't think it really existed in the sense that of what they're doing now. So it's a really cool concept that he's going to talk about, and it's a really different. It shows you how scaled Vegas has become in its luxury aspects and other aspects of the community. Brian, tell him a little bit about yourself, but tell me about this stacked auto stack does stack auto lofts.
Bryan Ichikawa 14:45
Well, I'll preface it. It came about because I, as you know, I have the auto repair shop, and we work on primarily exotic cars, Ferrari and Lamborghini, Bentleys, and things like that. And you would find people with these million dollar cars stored in the airplane. Or we had people storing cars at the U-Haul storage center. You know, it's not the ideal situation, not climate controlled, not not secure really, other than a little padlock. So you know, it's all over the city. That's how they're doing it. And so I had a phone call, and someone was telling me, "Were you aware about these car condos, I said if anyone should know, it should be me, and I don't know anything about it. The guy goes, they're almost built, and it's a customer of mine. And I go, we go look at it, and it well, it's it's it's a fortress. It's 29 individual units. They're all under just under 4,000 square feet, but they are being decked out. They're like man caves, and so, but people are putting in some very significant cars. I mean, there's some that are American muscle, but there's there's someone storing cars that's the collection's over $40 million. Wow! So it's it's it's one of those things where someone says they'll look at it and they'll say it's not worth the price, and they start at a million and a half dollars. So and they'll say that makes no sense, and it doesn't. But does it make sense to spend $30 million on a car? And it and depending on the car, you know, it's a collector's fees. It's like buying coins or anything else. You know, there it's a it's something people aspire to have, or some people just buy it as an investment.
Eric James 16:16
Now, now my understanding from what you've told me about it, and I checked out the website and stuff like that. It says designed for cars built for moguls. Nevada First Auto Loft Community. It's it's a combination think cigar lounge, liquor locker type of thing. But it also has a social or community aspect to it, where you can go hang out. You can meet other car enthusiasts or other car owners-is that correct?
Bryan Ichikawa 16:42
Correct. Yeah, and it has a clubhouse. There's, like I said, there's 29 units, and you know most people are going to be storing multiple cars, and you're surrounded by think about it-the elite of the car collecting community. It's going to be there, and we had a situation. I wouldn't call it a situation, but we had people inquire about it, and lady wanted to buy one. She was she's okay with the price. I go. What are you gonna put in here? Says dogs. Dog daycare. Says it's not quite what we want. But there's no.
Eric James 17:08
Wait, wait, wait, wait. I'm saying money talks. I mean, if she wanna, but I didn't say no. We didn't say no. But it didn't
Bryan Ichikawa 17:14
quite go with the the whole thing because it's it's the zoning is kind of strict about it because you're not allowed to live there full time.
Eric James 17:24
Okay,
Bryan Ichikawa 17:24
and so and we cannot have animals there full time. You know, so it's odd because you look at our hours operation. It's four a.m. until three a.m. They can't do 24 hours now
Eric James 17:34
because it's a lounge type setting. Is there alcohol like that? Is there like an actual social social? No. Well, here's the thing:
Bryan Ichikawa 17:40
they wouldn't allow us to have a kitchen. They wouldn't allow. I mean, it was just really strict. But like, we're having a big grand opening event next month, and so we're having to bring stuff in.
Eric James 17:50
What's the date?
Bryan Ichikawa 17:51
Well, we're we're we're waiting for this. I need one piece of fall in the place, and that's the certificate of occupancy. Okay. Once I get that green light, I'll be good. You know. But like you know, we've had this happen before, and when I was telling you earlier, you know they they keep throwing stuff at us, and they're running out of stuff to throw. They're gonna have to eventually
Eric James 18:08
let let you open the yeah.
Bryan Ichikawa 18:09
You know it's uh it's done. It's ready to go, and you and it's it's very very unique. You know it's not there's it's not like something that you want to just dabble in, but people are getting it, and surprisingly, out of 29 units, 11 are in contract now.
Eric James 18:26
Well, I know a good insurance guy. If you need one, I know this guy. He calls
Bryan Ichikawa 18:31
you at 10 o'clock in the morning. You know, hey, we need you here.
Eric James 18:34
Yeah, like I said, Brian was gracious to sub in for our other guest that that got injured. I'm injured reserve. There you go. So we pulled him off the injured reserve lifts, and he he was grateful enough to jump in here. I've got a couple buddies that have too many cars for their own garage. One of my buddies, past guests, a local lawyer, Travis Buchanan Law. He has a lift in his garage because he bought one too many cars. So now the the car the the electro the hydraulic lifts up, so he can fit a car beneath it. And then the other day he's just talking to me about what he wanted to get next. I'm like, where are you gonna put it? I gotta send him to Brian. So once you guys have the date for this, I'm gonna bring my buddy. He's got a yeah. We'll
Bryan Ichikawa 19:16
invite everybody. You know, we're gonna have a there's gonna be a couple 100 people there.
Eric James 19:19
He's got a Bentley, a Ferrari, and a Mercedes, or maybe sold the Mercedes and got some. But he's got enough cars that he he he'll bring he'll bring through and come in and and kind of help support. Or I don't know if you're spending that kind of money, you need support. But at least come come over and enjoy the moment. So all right, we're gonna come back to you, Brian, because of course we want to talk a little bit more about your repair, your high-infer facility, and also your real estate mortgage guy in that industry as well. So you and Jelica kind of are going to talk and network on the side while we talk to my third guest. Then I'll come back to you too. Now my third guest should be sitting in my seat, or I should have been invited on his show, or. To his award show, but you know some folks are like that. They don't treat you like your family, but we're gonna treat him like he's family, and still, still, still give him the love that he appreciates because he's been in the street. Antonio Link Freeman, who's been in the the entertainment industry for longer than I can even sniff on playing with this thing, but he got an award show and other things coming up, but the the one thing I'm gonna get to him because I'm gonna tell him Bricktown is in the house. So he's from OKC and he knows what I'm talking about. He's from Bricktown, and OKC is a unique area in Oklahoma City. That if you ever visit, it's a really cool kind of comparison. Would be you know the canals of Venice and and San Antonio Riverwalk type of thing. Most folks don't know about it because OKC is a pretty small town. But you know you got the Thunder there and other things. Now how he became a Dallas Cowboy fan based on his story, having grown up in OKC, having moved LA, and then lived in Santa Barbara, all places. He's trying to. He's trying to rep the Cowboys. We're gonna talk about the. We're gonna get to some facts because I'm confused. All right, mr. Blink Freeman, talk to me. Who you at? Where you at? What you about? Talk to me about all your stuff, and and and because you know I know your family, so don't tell me no lies. Because I'll call. I'll call Mama and and I'll call folks. So talk to me.
Antonio Freeman 21:23
That's right. Well, first of all, good morning. And before I start, I want to go ahead and I didn't know how many guests we're gonna be here this morning, but I am gonna give you this here. This is coming here. This from one of our. Now
Eric James 21:33
he knows we're on the radio, so y'all can't see this. Can't see it, but I had
Antonio Freeman 21:36
I had to do because if I didn't do it now, I was gonna forget. But we
Eric James 21:40
do have our cameras here because we do do clips for social media. So I'm gonna I'm gonna put them up to the camera so my my staff or my team can see it and and put this on. What I got a button here that says Black Music Awards: The New Era Staff Blinker. Does this mean this gets me into the war show? Absolutely. Oh yeah, I'm showing up. I'm gonna act out and I'm gonna show up late like he was to my show and I'm gonna act out like Rick James and and the Dave Chappelle show they should have never gave y'all folks money and we we got oh I thought this with this other one again y'all can't see it but they explain it it's a it's a it's it's not a pin but it's a magnet okay and I thought it was a superhero. It's got kind of a superhero metallic female versus type of concept, and it's another entertainer. Really cool stuff. I let my other guests take a quick look at it, but don't take my staff in because I'm going to the awards show. Talk to me. Tell me about the awards show. Tell me about your history,
Antonio Freeman 22:39
sir. All right. Well, thank you for having me this morning, Eric. So the Las Vegas Black Music Awards actually has a long history here in Las Vegas. It actually started in California through the founder, actually, and he ran into someone down in Los Angeles once the show got going a couple of years, and then that gentleman said, "Hey, we need something like this in Las Vegas, and I remind you, this was over 25 years ago, and they did it and came through and started putting on these local award shows to help recognize individuals of talent here in Las Vegas. But the thing was, during that whole span of time, they kept it in a specific demographic. They didn't really open it up to. Now they tried it a few times, but it just didn't work. So what they were doing was like, if you like, you're visiting and you would come to Las Vegas. The first thing you would want to do is go to a show at a hotel or something like that, and you'll see the third version of the Temptations, or you'll see you know another group, the you know I don't know so many different names out there of performances, right? These are Tribune artists, and then you have other, you know, second string artists, and you know, you got Diana Ross's look alike and perform. Sometimes it might even be Diana. Back at the well, she still, she still touring. I still see her
Eric James 23:53
with that same hairdo. Everybody knows her. She ain't got that much hair no more. Stop lying. Over the years pass, right?
Antonio Freeman 24:00
So, so they recognize individuals that just fit that piece there, and it it wasn't really serving to the younger demographics that continue to come through the funnel of music in here in Las Vegas, and that's been going on again for the last 20 plus. So, the reason why I tell that story is very important because if you were to ask someone today, have they heard of the Las Vegas Black Muse awards? If they're under 25 or so, they say no. Never heard of it. Mind you, this thing's been going on for over 25 years in the city of Las Vegas. So the founder and I had a conversation. Long story short, my company took it over, and we start running it in a different. Now, what year was this? This was three years ago. Yeah, five years ago, we worked directly with them. Three years ago, it was signed over to us, and we've been running it since by adding again. You see on the the butt it says the new era. So we decided the only way we're going to keep this going for another 30 years or so was to bring in the younger demographics, the ones that are right behind those who are already got their 15 and. 20 awards, right? We
Eric James 25:02
got to get rid of some of these legacy people and bring in some new energy. Bring in some
Antonio Freeman 25:05
new energy. It's like y'all did y'all thing. You got it. Good job, right? You you a 65 year old rapper still
Eric James 25:12
trying to put down that track from 19. It is real. It is
Antonio Freeman 25:15
happening, and you see the same performers on there. And so, and it's not to discredit what they've done or what they're doing. It's to make room for the younger people that's coming right behind you. The next generation. They and one thing I had several conversations with with older talents, and they missed the the point. And here's how I know for sure they missed the point because at the 60 or 60 plus, it was a joke, but it's funny, right? It's real. They still want to get recognized. They still want to. And I, well, you you forget this younger person was you. You started off just like this person is trying to start 30 years ago. So why are you not allowing this individual pass the baton? Pass it on. Teach them. So I've invited several of the older talents to come speak on our panels to participate more, and I said, "Well, I don't. I want to be on stage. I don't want to be on a panel. I was like, "Why? Why would you? You have so much to give, so much value, so much experience. This young man or young woman needs to hear from you. They need to hear your voice. They need to hear some of the things that maybe you can shortcut some of their experiences. They don't have to fall down so many times.
Eric James 26:22
Now, one guess I'm curious is if they're going to be on the show. Well, the IBMC, so in my notes, mr. Freeman used to be in a rap group back in his college or younger days. And there's two for the acronym: Intelligent black men crew, and there's a second. I don't know how you get two, but illegal businessmen crew. I guess depending on who they were and performing in front of, if they went to the neighborhood, the hood, they was illegal black men. But they were if this was in your college days, you were in Hancock College of Santa Barbara near Salvane and stuff. Then I guess if in front of those folks, those nicer folks, they was intelligent black man crew, so they flipped up the script on it. We ready for them. So, so what's the odds of us getting a little freestyle here today?
Antonio Freeman 27:16
Oh, the odds are zero, my
Bryan Ichikawa 27:18
man.
Antonio Freeman 27:19
Zero.
Eric James 27:21
I need you and Brian to tell me where they can find you. You start in first. When is the show, and and and and how to where where folks can watch it? What's the what's the situation?
Antonio Freeman 27:30
Absolutely. So, Las Vegas Black Music Awards 2026 will be held at the Ahearn this year. Well, this is our third year. We'll be there, and you can find all the information you need on that.
Eric James 27:41
And what's the date again?
Antonio Freeman 27:42
august 23.
Eric James 27:43
august 23. We try
Antonio Freeman 27:45
to have it always on a Sunday.
Eric James 27:46
And at what time?
Antonio Freeman 27:47
So red carpet starts at four.
Eric James 27:49
4p.m. So my buttons getting me into the red carpet. Absolutely. All right. All right. Red
Antonio Freeman 27:54
carpet and VIP. And
Eric James 27:56
website or anything for Las vegasblackmusiawards.com. All right, Brian. Where can they find your your your the stack? It's
Bryan Ichikawa 28:04
a stack dot Vegas. That's our website.
Eric James 28:06
Stack simple, clean stock. Not yeah, that was me. Yeah, that's smart about it. So again, time goes by so fast on the show. I also last talk track and time today. I had my notes here. Got to talking, Miss Angelica, in from Reno, Nevada. Thank you for coming in. She just flew in this morning on a late night, early morning flight, but she gets up at five, so we're not going to give her no pass on that. She's going. We're going to hang out here this weekend with some of the other board members from VA rep, and then do some networking. There is also a conference, a originators conference, we're going to be going to because the grind doesn't stop. Brian, hey, I need the date. Once you have it locked, I'm gonna bring some folks. If I gotta bring the snacks, then we'll bring the snacks. We're gonna enjoy that, and I am gonna wear my pin proudly to the the award show. And and sir, I'm gonna get you to do that freestyle one of these days because we're gonna go back to the illegal businessman crew and really throw it down. So I'd love to have time to ask everybody more questions, but my engineer is pointing at me that it's time for me to get off this air. So I am gonna say hashtag the grind, hashtag the grind. Thank all y'all for coming out. Have a great day, everybody. Enjoy your day. Be blessed. Be safe. And thank you for listening. Thanks for listening to the grind. Again, my name is Eric James. We hope that today's show was two parts entertaining with a dash of education. Feel free to reach out to me at my office at 702-836-0953. And remember to always stay on your grind.
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