 Let me see. Hopefully my service work in the night. Let me see that the service work in. Forgive me. I'm gonna put that on the thing. See I was sharing that. I'm in the hotel room. So y'all forgive me. This ain't my decoration behind me. I don't have long cause I got to do the Q&A on, on Instagram, on the Instagram story tonight. And so I just got off the road, got to the hotel. Got a business meeting. And so while the premiere was going on, I was on the road so I didn't really get to, you know, watch it too closely. But I wanted to pop in and just, you know, see what y'all thought of it. See how y'all liked it. It was five episodes. The first two episodes were combined. And so if you go to my playlist, you'll see titles, titles, playlists and you can watch the whole thing straight through. I believe I'll leave it up there for a little while. May eventually, you know, we may see about putting it on different outlets. It was great. Wanted more. Yeah. When I first seen it, I didn't watch the whole thing because I wanted to watch it with y'all. But when I first seen it, I was like, this too short. This too short. But when it come to film, you know, time is money. So the longer it goes, then the more it costs. Because that means the more days you got to shoot and all of that. But a special shout out to the director and producer and writer was all the same person, young lady. Non-Soul is what she called. Her name is in the description box. And then to the talent, to the actors, their name is in the description box too. For the movie, I can't remember. Brian and Candice and Nicole, their real names is in the description box. But they did amazing. And I hope they stick with it. But the director, you know, she pulled it all together. I know Ella sound like we need to crowd fund. Amen to that. Now I thought about doing that, but it's just not really my thing. But I know it's no shame in it in film production. I've seen people crowd fund and then go on to win Academy Awards. But I'm hoping the talent, I'm hoping they stick with it, stick with the acting. And we got to understand too that with the young man, that's a tough role to play. You know, I met the young man, talked to him. And whenever I talk to him, real down the earth, he asks me questions about life. You know, he asks me questions about love, about relationships. And that's a tough role to play because everybody watching it and then he becomes the villain. And you know, we hating on him and mad with him. But you know, we'll see what happens with season two. Lord willing, we able to get season two. And yes, soundtrack, shout out to the producers on the soundtrack. And then the whole crew, you know, the camera, the sound, the editing, the gentleman who did the sound, he also did the editing. And then the director's sister, she did set design and costume design and we had somebody who gave their time for the color. So you got to read all the credits for the color correcting. So I'm pretty sure I'm forgetting somebody in there. Had a couple of people working the camera. So when I was on set, we had a couple of people working the camera, somebody doing the sound and then the sisters. The sisters, the director and producer and writer is one person. And then her sister was her right hand helping her kind of do everything. So it was a small little thing. We shot it in the DMV and which was, which was great. At first I was a little worried about shooting in the DMV. Oh yeah, the makeup. Now, I don't know if she, I think she did a makeup too. We shot in the DMV. So first I was a little worried about shooting it up there and Christine, God bless you. Now I'm going to put that fight all towards season two. No, don't donate for the season on Hill, because YouTube takes 30% of it. We'll figure us out of crowdfund or somewhere. We might have to do it through cash out because when you do the little sites, they take a percentage of it. So it's like you raising money on the site and the site taking all the money. But when first shot in the DMV, it was going to be, what does the title stand for? Titles, you know, I came up with the title because we was using a different title, but it was kind of overused. So I just thought about naming it titles and the director agree, meaning titles. You know how women want a title. Women want to be girlfriend. Women want to be what you call it, fiance, women want to be wife. So it's like these women competing for a title. And so that's why I called it titles. Linda Brown, God bless you. Appreciate that. And so, you know, we're going to try to keep it going. Lord willing, came make no promises just because came promise tomorrow, came promise tomorrow. But I was able to produce that from your views. You know, I was able to produce it from your views. And we, I set a budget. And then at first it was going to cost double. But I asked the producer, I say, listen, I told you what the budget was. That was a firm budget. I know I might look like money. I might look blessed and highly favored now. But, but this, this play play. So this is this making me no money. This making me no money. This, this here was tens of thousands of dollars meaning once we crossed 10,000, that was the thing. But then had to pay more for editing. We did a premiere then me paying for my flights up there hotel up there and then paying for marketing promotion through Facebook and Instagram. They charge arm and a leg just to get you a little views. Then I did Google, Google ads to boost it on YouTube so that it's going out like that. But then YouTube don't let you make money on the video. The CPM rate is trash. They don't let you make money on that type of stuff for some reason. Like my talking videos, YouTube will pay me. But them kind of videos for some reason, they don't pay for it. So really you just kind of flush money down the toilet just to entertain your audience to say thank you for watching these videos. Oh, the reason why I was a little worried about shooting the DMV and I look for your questions. This about titles on it. It's not a relationship Q&A. It's just about titles is I thought it was going to have all that to you and dear John and you know, I remember going to school with some guys from Baltimore. Man, I do that too. What you going to do? What you going to do? And so the way they talk, I was like, when she said we were going to shoot it, you know, they up there. I'm like, man, I want to hear all that to you and dear. And I know my accent bad, but I didn't want it to sound like episode of the wire. But they, you know, she said, well, no, it is like Howard is people from all over. People talk, you know, it's not just right. I plucked out the neighborhood. So I was like, okay, these compilations. God, God bless you. Thank you. Appreciate that. And so the, the concept for this. Right. I didn't want it in the South either. I didn't want a distinct accent. You know, I want it to be kind of ambiguous on that part. But the concept come from my talks with Tony. If y'all know with the talks with Tony, it's, um, it's a lot of questions coming in. And so the writer, not so she, she actually turned it down. Like she turned it down and the actors right there, they worked out of the DMV, um, the producer, she casted them. She knew them. She had worked with them. So it's some talent up there. You know, it's some talent up there. And I was impressed, you know, because one thing about with the acting, it's hard to watch bad acting, you know, and that's what, that's what my fear was being low budget, which is really high budget for a Webisode because you don't make money on Webisode. So like when Issa Rae did her Webisode, she probably didn't spend nothing. It probably was just a bunch of friends in LA who were in acting class who just agreed to do it for fun, for practice, for exposure. I don't have that luxury because I'm coming in with some sort of a name. So anybody I go to, they're going to want to see some money put on the table. So my wife and I, we paid for it out of pocket. I didn't raise any funds for it. And so it's not something that's little. It's not something that's easy to do, but to God be the glory. I knew it was God. So he, God really was the producer. God really was the producer because all I did was put out that I was thinking about doing a movie based on my book and a woman's influence. And then I had a lot of people writing in. And then nonso, she, she wrote in and I liked her work and I was, I wrote back to a lot of people, had a conversation with a guy, had pretty much agreed to do the movie with him. But then he got real busy. And so things went a different way. And then I had talked to another gentleman on the phone. And then I saw nonso stuff. Her stuff was good. Forgive me if I'm saying name wrong. Nonso, you know how my accent is. And then she sent me something. We set up a call. I missed the call. And then she reminded me and I was like, thank you. I'm glad she reminded me because I get hundreds of emails a day. So it just all over the place and get called up. And she wrote me again. She sent me something that she did. It was in a love space. I liked it. I think it was producing for a wedding, but she made it kind of cinematic. So I was like, you know what? It's a blessing. And when I saw that it was a woman that, so I knew she understand what women go through. She followed the work. So she followed me on YouTube. And that's another thing I like to cast from my support group. Whereas the gentlemen, they didn't follow me. It was a woman who like they sister or they aunt or they cousin told them about the casting. I don't really like giving opportunities to people that's not immersed in my brand and what I'm doing. But this young lady, she had been watching the videos for some months, you know, probably from the pandemic. And so she had a general idea of what I do and how I do it. And so she was able to write it based on my talks with Tony. Tony D. God bless you. Great name. She was able to write it based on the talks with Tony. And I really didn't have any changes. I didn't tell her this till now, but I'm in a space of delegating. So I didn't even read the script. I let my wife read it and my wife only had like one or two changes. And so I told her those one or two changes. She made those couple of changes. And one of them was removing all curse words. If you notice, there's no curse words because I don't curse. So I'm not trying to do like Tyler Perry and throw a word in there or D word in there. And then another one was some sage on burner sage or nothing like that. I don't do crystals. I don't do sage. So because I don't know what it is. I don't understand it might be harmless, but I don't do none of that. I do Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ Holy Bible. And so had take that out of there. And that's what I like about being in control of what I'm doing. Because when you go to Hollywood, they gonna put that cursing in there. They gonna throw a little stuff in there. They gonna throw some stuff in there that sacrilegious. That's against, you know, what God got going on. And I really ain't, I really ain't with all that. So if I'm gonna go that route, which it may come, I want to be able to go in with a name as an executive producer to where I got creative control too. And if the Lord keep me here on my YouTube the whole time, then maybe somebody from YouTube might reach out and say, Hey, we're gonna give you a little budget. We're gonna get your budget, you know, so you could produce some stuff. Because YouTube was doing that. They was giving budgets to like production companies to do stuff, you know, for YouTube. But so they might take notice. But then it's anything that Hollywood typically get their hands on, they try to, you know, turn it out. They try to pervert it, try to make it. Some is not. And so that's, you know, that's the dangerous part, which I want to touch on real life. But, you know, not just for the sake of doing ratchetness, just to be doing it. Dr. Elaine, God bless you. I've been driving up here. Yeah, getting ready to go, getting red on me. But y'all got to forgive me. I just say it's gonna get red. Just a little tired, probably just dry, dry, driving with that Al Blonde in my face. So let me see. Thank you. Yeah, I don't like profanity. You know, I don't like profanity. She ain't a major God bless you. And I know it upsets y'all, you know, watching that. That's a depiction. Titles is a depiction of the life that we live. It's very, very real. It gets way more real. It gets way more graphic. You know, it could have been a whole lot more shown. You know, being in that lifestyle, you know, a man will come from out of one woman and go into another woman without showering. Without protection. And so it get real real. The man will come from one woman and go to another woman, but it's out of one woman and to the mouth of another woman with no shower. And so it get real real. A man will put some, put a child in this woman, put a child in that woman in the same night. And the women do dates, you know, a week apart. And you know, and so it get real. And so we actually, you know, nonso she turned it down for y'all. She turned it down because, because if she really would have shown y'all what y'all be looking like in these relationships, you'd have been real mad. But that's what other seasons for. It's gonna get there. Oh yeah. And so I want y'all to realize how real it is now. And so you need to be able to see yourself. Need to be able to see what be going on. Need to see what's happening. You know, need to be able to, because you might be Candace. And then you might be Candace and not know you Candace. You might be Nicole, not know you Nicole. And then the people who, the guys who Brian, they need to see what it's doing to the woman behind the scenes. They need to see that, you know. And so one thing that we really appreciate are the crew and cast and everybody. And myself is the fact that so many people related to it and so many people say they can see themself in it. And trust me, I wanted it longer too. So that was a good thing. That's a good problem to have when you want it longer. But I'd rather it be too short than too long. Because you go too long, then it could be, you know, just too much of the same. Too much dialogue, too much going on. So it's better to have a cliffhanger. And good thing I didn't read the script. I didn't read the script. I didn't tell the director that because I didn't want to. One thing I understand about creating is that everybody have a difference of opinion. So even with showing this film, I had to block a few people from the comments who came in and think they Steven Spielberg, you know, and want to do all this critiquing. Blah! Blah! Don't come on here critiquing this young lady's work that they can't do. I mean, writing the whole dissertation about what should have been different, how it should have been done. I was like, where you put a dollar into this ad? Where you put a second into this ad? Blah! You know, so I appreciate y'all who appreciate the work, who respect the work, who understand, you know, it's low budget. They have no big budget to be able to, you know, spend a bunch of extra time rehearsing and, you know, the actors, they're not getting paid a lot of money that's gonna change their life. It may pay a couple bills or a bill or go toward rent, but it ain't something that's gonna, you know, change their life, where they could quit their job. So, you know, it's like they can't, that would say Siskel and Ebert. So, yeah, the quality was the talent, but meaning low budget, meaning imagine if we had a budget what they would have been able to do. Because it's so many cameras in the space, it's so many levels of editing, it's so many levels of, you know, color correction. Like they did great, but if they had more time, where they really could, you know, put their foot in it and really do their thing and doing more rehearsals, even get even better chemistry. And then, you know, it's hiccups and stuff like that. So, it was some shots that was missed. It was some missing shots. It was some stuff that didn't get shot. It was some stuff that they had to take out, you know, because you had a little hiccups and stuff that happened. And so, we didn't even, you know, we didn't even mention that. But this stuff that, you know, goes on. How can we help you raise money for season two? You know, I have to figure that out. I have to figure that out. Somebody say Venmo may have to do, well, see, not Joe. Joe and Kamala, they got to wear PayPal and Venmo and all of that got to report. If it's $600, it shouldn't be $600 or more, you know, donation. But if we do that, I may do it like a week or two weeks and you just put, you know, four titles so I know what it's for. And then just earmark it, tally up the budget, share the budget every week with the, with the Bless Tribe and see everybody, you know, name, to put every name into the credits. Oh, new credits will be too long. I have to have a whole budget just for the editor to type all the names in. So we just have to say special thanks to everybody to the Bless Tribe. But honestly, you know, I plan to keep the same budget, but it'll be good to be able to, you know, do it as a teen versus me taking off my kid's plate. And that's what we did this time, but I want to be able to, you know, I want to be able to reinvest. So when you're all watching the videos and it's ads playing, I'm getting paid when those ads play. So the reason why I produced this film is to reinvest the money into content to share the message in a different way. First is just, you know, living off the money and hopefully it get bigger and bigger. So we working on something else, you know, I'm working on something in February that'll be something small. It may not be as long. It may not be as many episodes, it may not be, you know, something else. And then hopefully after that, March, April, you know, I can't just charge the view to video. Well, the thing about it is, it's some people who they in a position to where if they say, hey, Tony, I could donate $10 for the production, to go toward production. Some people may say $100. Some people may say $1,000. And that it take care of the production, but then thousands of people can see it. So this series, you know, it probably on YouTube so far, probably around 50,000 or more, maybe around 50,000 to 100,000 views. Whereas if I charge for it, funds are so tight that even if I charged, even if I charged $1.99, you know, it would, it still would be so few less people that it might be a thousand people that'll pay to watch it. You know, so that's why I'd rather it be free for people to watch it, and then just the blessed tribe can comment. And they say, I'll figure out the donation. If I do the donations, you know, it's some people who have my cash out, you know, thanks to Caramel Kisses, and she got my cash out to get it correct so that people not cash out into other people. But I don't give it out personally on here, and I don't put it on the screen, just because I don't want to get into that. You could get into a bag in spirit, and it's people who they go to ask in, and they never stop asking. So for me, I only want to make it count. And it's a bigger project that I'm working on, bigger than titles that I talk to non-so about. And I may save my crowd-funding efforts for that. Or, you know, do both. But the Lord gonna bless. Like I say, I didn't raise a dime for this first one. So the Lord bless. So I trust that. Now, Roku, can't do Roku just because that's a special app or TV that people gotta have. So that's a very small, where anybody could type in YouTube. Anybody could come to YouTube. Fran, I appreciate that. I appreciate that. And so Pat, I'm telling you to let God fund you. That's right. Yeah, sometimes, you know, somebody being gave a dollar, being a produced something, and it went on award, went on Oscar, and they have me in court. I donated. I donated that Oscar mine. I supposed to have an Oscar. So, you know. But I've seen one of my partners do crowd-funding. And it worked out. I was signed to the right of the chat. Yeah, the thing about that one there, Sheena, is YouTube take 30% of that. So when I do fundraising, I doubt I... If I do fundraising, I doubt I do it on YouTube, because they button will take 30% like Amazon. Amazon now take 40% of my book sales on Amazon. Like my goodness, you helped write the book? Like my goodness, Jeff, you want 40%? You act like you was in the lab writing. And so, YouTube take them a good 30% which you don't really know if they taking 30% because you don't get to see the books. They just say, hey, listen, this year, what you don't really know, how much came in and what YouTube really slid off of them. So you just kind of... And then, of course, cash out don't take nothing unless you want to send cash out die instantly. Cash out don't take a dime of it. They still got theirs free right now. But like I say, Joe and Kamala, Joe and Kamala say no, 40% not $40. Joe and Kamala say they need to see what coming in. So, hey, thank you all so much. I just want to shout out to the cast and crew from Nonzo and the actors and her sister and the cameraman and the sound guy who was also the editor. All their names and everything they at handles is in the description box. Which all can see that I'm not in the world's greatest with names so I'm tired right now. I've been on the road. I can't remember everybody's name but I got to get over to Instagram to the Q&A. And on the Instagram, you're going to see you'll see some new happening too. You know, supporting the coaches and the authors from TonyGastonAcademy.com You'll see some support in there. So on the Instagram story when you see me if you able when you see me post a coach or author they have taken in invested in a brand to get some more exposure. Oh, $40. That ain't nothing for that reference. Thank you. God bless you. Hey God bless you. And y'all forgive me if y'all Yeah, so y'all watch their titles again. Go to the watch the titles again just so you know get a few views and shout out to the moderators who come on here and help and be posting all the information for y'all shout out to the moderators on here. But being that I don't want to do the Q&A too late tonight I got to get on over there and do that. Destiny, God bless you. God bless you. I appreciate you. Need to watch this. We're going to keep pushing titles. We got how to put it on Netflix or how to put it on Prime how to put it on the cable on demand put the whole thing on there figure out how to do that and they may they may pay you for the streams or downloads or how people watch it. I'm not sure how that work. Can't do Roku just because everybody ain't got Roku and then the site that I saw to get on Roku they charge you Vimeo, they got a thing now the way you get on Roku and all the other outlets but they charge you $500 per outlet per month. So you get on eight outlets, you paying $4,000 a month. Now Roku itself might have something where I could upload it on there but so I'll look into that and see if the producer can help me get into that. We might put it into some film festivals too see if it win a couple of awards and then keep on going and Lord willing get the episode too but it's kind of right now I'm leaving it on the writer because that's her brain child she looked at the message and then she put the message from the YouTube videos she depict that and I didn't read it because I didn't want to police her I didn't want to you know have too many changes and try to all that because I know from being a writer if I let somebody read my, if I let 10 people read my book all 10 people gonna say do something different and so that's why I just wanted to let her do her thing because my dad he's a director and in his mind if you want to do it I let him see episode one he had so much feedback I said I'm not doing this again because then it made me want to say something it made me want to make the changes because everything sound good to me so you know I said no just let her do it so she really you know her and the actors that was on there y'all just y'all saw stars in the making some time down the road whether it's a year five years ten years y'all gonna see them doing big things and be able to say hey the first place I saw they work was on titles and we'll have that and they'll be able to look back and probably laugh at they self critiquing their skills from when they when they Oscar but you could tell that talent that young at that level because I think even the writer director and producer she is like in her 20s like 25 or something you know so they stay young and the talent too they all and they I think in their 20s so they young so they got a lot of talent gonna do we'll definitely do big things if they stick with it hopefully they do Terry my support email is support at TonyGascans.com support at TonyGascans.com Asia it's not a Q&A like that we just we just doing the show thing we just doing a post show it's not a Q&A God bless you I really don't know how to answer to that question if I did I would go ahead and answer I ain't got the answer I also appreciate you hey God bless y'all let me get on over here to IG again shout out to the moderators on here and shout out to all the cast and crew thank y'all so much the one young lady that was her name Nicole I didn't even get to meet her in person I didn't get to meet her at all because I wasn't a part of the rehearsals I met Candace and I met Brian that's not their real name but I didn't meet the other young lady because she was out of the country when we did the screening in the DMV so hopefully we'll be back to the DMV y'all got any connections in the DMV for places to shoot or anything like that email in to support if you got a rich uncle or auntie who you know they hit the lotto and want to help be an executive producer email in to support you want to be an executive producer and the Lord to been good to you not listen don't be an executive producer with your bill money okay you got to be above and beyond okay you got to so listen I ain't gonna be able to do this if I got to not pay my light bill so I did this from the Lord blessing but God bless y'all and we'll talk soon