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Takin' A Walk - Music History with Buzz Knight
"Takin ' A Walk with Robin Lloyd: Memories from Dick Clark's Caravan of Stars"
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Buzz Knight
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I'm Soledad o' Brien and on my new true crime podcast, Murder on the Towpath, I'm taking you back to 1964 to the cold case of artist Mary Pinchot Meyer.
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Robin Lloyd
She had been shot twice in the head and in the back.
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Soledad O'Brien
It turns out Mary was connected to a very powerful man.
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Robin Lloyd
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Soledad O'Brien
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Buzz Knight
Go. Taking a walk.
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Robin Lloyd
But I tell you one thing about James Brown. He was instrumental in the way I dressed. He said to me, well, you look good, but you dress like a mortician. I wear a black morph suit with a white shirt and black tie. And from there he says, put you some pinks and some greens and red on that boy, because 50% is what you look like when you hit that stage, you know? And he was right.
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Buzz Knight
Welcome to the Taking a Walk podcast where your host, Buzz Knight speaks with musicians and insiders who've been part of making music history. On this episode, a man who was friends with Marvin Gaye, the Supremes, James Brown, Ike and Tina Turner, and so many more. His name is Robin Lloyd, and he was known as Round Robin. He was part of Dick Clark's Caravan of Stars, which traveled the country playing shows in conjunction with Dick Clark's American Bandstand. Robin's a colorful storyteller whose new book is called A Believer's Perspective, and it highlights his deeply spiritual journey. Here's Buzz Night with Robin Lloyd on the Taking a Walk podcast.
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Robin Lloyd, welcome, sir, to the Taking a Walk podcast.
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Robin Lloyd
Oh, thank you. It's good, good to take this little walk with you.
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Buzz Knight
All right, well, since it's called taking a walk, Robin, I want to ask you, if you could take a walk with somebody, living or dead, who would you take a walk with? And where do you think you'd take a walk with that person?
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Robin Lloyd
I'd probably take a walk with a good friend of mine, but I don't know if you know H.B. barnum. H.B. barnum was. We've known each other for about 62 years, and he was Aretha Franklin's conductor arranger for a number of years. But he also, he did a lot of arranging for a lot of people, but we've remained friends and we spend a lot of time together.
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Buzz Knight
It would be HB Barnum and somewhere out in the LA area maybe.
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Robin Lloyd
Yeah, he lives in Woodland Hills. He moved from Mulholland after being there for 60 years and finally moved.
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Buzz Knight
And HB has had some fairly notorious, in a good way, work in his career, hasn't he?
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Robin Lloyd
Oh, yeah. He's arranged for Barry White, whom I went to school with, and we were, you know, from age 14 till they passed HB Barnum, Hal Wilson. He's arranged for the Four Tops, which Holland Dojian. Holland. I don't know if people know, but Brian Holland now moved from Vegas and he lives here in Texas. And we, we, we, you know, we get together every now and then, and he's arranged for them a number of people. Lou Rawls, you know.
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Buzz Knight
Sure. Oh, my God. All legends. All legends. Well, we're going to talk about your new book, A Believer's Perspective, in a little bit, but I wanted you to take us back. First of all, what was the first moment you remember in. In your life that deeply connected you with music and that kind of told you you were going to lead a life that was heavily involved with music?
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Robin Lloyd
Well, for me, I would imagine it was probably when I was nine years old. We lived in Los Angeles all my life in Texas. But the guitar player for Believe It Or Not, Ray Charles, we rented the house at 42nd Place in Long Beach Boulevard, and he lived in the little house. And I said, mom, why do we live in the big house? And he lives in the little house? Well, he traveled a lot, but he needed somebody to watch, and so we lived there. And I would always. When they come off the road and at that time, I had no idea who Ray Charles or they just knew this band. And it. It struck me and I. I wanted to be. I wanted to be in the band first. I wanted to play guitar and piano and whatever. But it goes back to the end. But I was always around musicians for some reason. You know, Lowell Folsom was a blues player. I was just always around a lot of musicians in that time. It's probably like in the 50s was probably like being in New York with. I have friends like Lil Anthony, the Imperials, you know, we still. He lives in Florida and, you know, Clarence lives in Vegas. And we get together every now and then, but we just kids, you know, we didn't even think anything about it. We was just having fun and that's it, you know. No, there's no magical formula to it. It was just. That's what I wanted to be, a musician.
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Buzz Knight
So there was never, probably, I'm guessing, a plan B in your career. It was always going to be. There was plan A or nothing.
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Robin Lloyd
Well, plan B was I have a business law degree and I went to college. I got my Associates of Arts degree in business law and Music was my minor. I made my first recording when I was 14 and it's on YouTube now. It's called Teenage Little by George and Jean. But I had a manager, Shelly Berger, who was the manager for Skandorian Shame. And they had. Each manager was assigned to five different people. My manager was Shirley Berger, who you may not know, but he left Scandia and Sheen to manage one group, the Temptations. And he wanted to take me with him. And I said, well, no, that's a soul group. I'm a pop artist. I was with Caravano stars, Dick Clark at that particular time and. But we remain friends also. But he used to tell me, he says, do you want to be a record artist or an entertainer? I said, I want to make hit records. And he said, I can't use you. I said, why? And he said, because a record artist is only as big as his last record. But an entertainer will take one record and work all the time. And that is what gave me my plan B of I have to make this a business. And it was a business then. I thank Shelley Berger for that and HB Born, those two people.
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Buzz Knight
So what led you to this amazing part of your journey? The Dick Clark Caravan of Stars. First of all, tell everybody what the Dick Clark Caravan of Stars was and how you got to it.
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Robin Lloyd
Well, most people don't realize, but you can. Yeah, it's a lot of hits out there on YouTube. But the caravan of Stars, where everybody that you saw that appeared on American Bandstand, the reason that we came into your home every week, he got this great idea like you are, you know, bringing everybody together and talking this conversation. He says, if I can bring these artists into your home every day, I can bring him into your town. And we had a winter tour, a summer tour and a fall tour. And he would get together and where there was three tours, one would be crisscross, one would go. Because different artists had different hit songs in different parts of the town, you know. And the most popular one was the summer tour, which I did. And that's how he got. That's how we did that. But there was people like I traveled with Danny Ross and the Supremes, Gene Pitney, Freddie Cannon, Major Lance, who is daughter is Keisha Lance, who's the mayor of Atlanta, Georgia at this particular time. Just different people. The Shirelles, the Coasters, the Drifters, Little Anthony and Imperials. Brenda Holloway. So these are people that I travel with. And it's a 90 day one nighters, one nighters. You got one day off and you appear like for instance, that we appeared in Pittsburgh at the Syria Mosque. The next night we'd be in Wheeling, West Virginia, and we travel there and we'd come back and spend the night in Pittsburgh and then we'd travel on to the next place, which would be somewhere in Washington D.C. you know. But it was. It was fantastic. We would travel, Tom Jones is a bunch of us, and then we would meet. The three tours would meet for one big show in Montreal with Bill Shannon, and it was the Crystals, you name them, and it was like 37 acts. And if you ever get a poster, my daughter, who is now voice actress for Disney, Mellow lady, she's the voice of Tiki Rocky's Ladybug, she got a hold of this poster and we were appearing and you could see 18x. And on the 18x was the Shirelles, the Coasters, Gene Piddly, Brian Highland, you know, you name it, it was Brenda Holloway, $2.50 pre sale, $3 at the door.
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Buzz Knight
Unbelievable.
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Bomhan
Wow.
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Buzz Knight
Now, Robin, how many songs would each act do? Did it depend on who the act was?
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Robin Lloyd
I got to do three songs and for instance, Lynn Anthony Imperials, they got to do four, you know, and different things. But the like. For instance, the Crystals, they did two songs, the Shirelles got to do three songs. So it was that way, you know, Brendan Holloway did two. The show lasted. I mean, we hit the Allentown, the county fair in Allentown, Pennsylvania, you know, and, you know, show started at 8. The last act left at 11 o'.
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Buzz Knight
Clock, you know, Must have been a production nightmare for the people putting it together to keep it flowing.
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Robin Lloyd
We had a band, you know, you brought your music. The band was Jimmy Ford. Excellent musicians, you know, young musicians at that time. But they in turn did whatever they did. When I wasn't on tour with the Clark Caravan, I was on tour with James Brown and that's what he'd do. They'd pick up different artists, the same formula. I was, you know, west coast artist and I did 12 or 14 days with Patti LaBelle. At that time they were called Patti Labille and the Bluebells. But again, it was just fun. But it was our job, you know.
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Buzz Knight
Yes.
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Robin Lloyd
My journey was when I realized that I was just doing it for the money. It was no longer fun.
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Buzz Knight
Yeah. Which took you on another part of the journey which we're going to talk about. I just want to touch a little bit more on a couple aspects of the Caravan of Stars, but I want to touch on working with James Brown. Were you ever fined by James Brown? For not, you know, playing the notes right or whatever.
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Robin Lloyd
No, I wasn't part of his bed now. His band was. But I was an act. When he'd pick up certain acts, like we had Bobby Freeman, we had the Fifth Dimension, we had Myself and I did three songs. But I tell you one thing about James Brown. He was instrumental in the way I dressed. He said to me, boy, you look good, but you dress like a mortician. I will black mortal his suit with a white shirt and a black tie. And from there he says, put you some pinks and some greens and red on there, boy, because 50% is what you look like when you hit that stage. And he was right. I started dressing with colors. You always hear certain things. But he was really instrumental in helping certain people. You know, they all have their thing, you know, I travel with Ike and Tina Turner. I've opened up for the Righteous Brothers, you know, Diane Carroll at the Playboy Club. And so we always. I was an intervener, you know.
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Buzz Knight
Yes, yes. So back to the caravan again. So talk about your experiences in the caravan with. With Marvin Gaye.
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Robin Lloyd
Well, I'll tell you, Marvin Gaye was a. He was a gentleman. I mean, he had his quirks, but he was. He was always shy. You know, we did one tour with him, but Ian, Marvin Gaye was. How can I say it? You know? You know, people want to hear certain things, but if Marvin Gaye that I know would not be the Marvin Gay that you would know, you know, I mean, we would sit down and. And. And. And eat certain places and do certain things, but it was just a bunch of us kids. We were kids, you know. So what I knew of him was different from what everybody else would know, you know. Then after the tour, he became something else, you know, that Marvin Gaye. I didn't know, you know, I didn't know the James Brown. I knew the James brown from the 60s and 50s and. But I didn't know the James brown from the 70s. They change. It's just as I've changed the round robin, you know, from American man stand. I transition into writing a book. You know, I never drank or smoke. And somebody said, why not? I said, I was just too cheap. I couldn't spend my money. Yeah.
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Buzz Knight
We'll be right back with more of the Taking a Walk podcast.
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I'm Soledad o' Brien and on my podcast Murder on the Towpath, I'm taking you back to the 1960s. Mary Pinchot Meyer was a painter who lived in Georgetown in Washington, D.C. every day she took a daily walk along a towpath near the E and O Canal. So when she was killed in a.
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Robin Lloyd
Wealthy neighborhood, she had been shot twice in the head and in the back behind the heart.
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Soledad O'Brien
The police arrived in a heartbeat. Within 40 minutes, a man named Raymond Crump Jr. Was arrested. He was found nearby, soaking wet, and he was black. Only one woman dared defend him, civil rights lawyer Dovey Roundtree. Join me as we unravel this story with a crazy twist, because what most people didn't know is that Mary was connected to a very powerful man.
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Robin Lloyd
I pledge you that we shall neither commit nor provoke aggression.
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Soledad O'Brien
John F. Kennedy. Listen to Murder on the towpath with Soledad O' Brien on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.
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Buzz Knight
Welcome back to the Taking a Walk podcast.
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And then Ike and Tina Turner was such unbelievable performers. Certainly. Did you get a sense though, of the complexity of their relationship while you were out with them?
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Robin Lloyd
Yeah, they lived in Baldwin Hills and my apartment was in Baldwin Hills, so I was really close to Ike a lot, you know, and Tina. So we rehearsed a lot and we did shows together. And there was a club, big, big chain of clubs called the Cinnamon Cinder Clubs, which we all play. It was sort of like the Whiskey and Go Go. You know, there were a bunch of Whiskey Go across the country, Playboy Clubs and so that circled in that cycle. We all played either together or we were crisscrossing. But Ike and Tina Turner was really. The complexity of that. He was really strict on his musician. You think James Brown was strict? Ike Turner was really strict. You know, he wouldn't find you. He'd just get rid of you. And people say, well, I don't think he likes me. Ike said, oh, he likes you. He just doesn't like your playing.
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Buzz Knight
Yeah. Unbelievable. And did you have a sense of seeing Diana Ross and the Supremes at that moment, of how big an act they would ultimately become?
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Robin Lloyd
Really, no one knew because at the time, they were the. If you look at a poster, their name was on the bottom. Thirty days later, they were on the top. That baby, baby, we used to sing on the bus. No hits, no hits. When we going to get. And that became number one. And we were eating crow, you know. Oh, man. But I stayed friends with Mary Wilson until she passed away. You know, we talked once a week. My wife was friends with her at HB and all of us. So we talked until she passed away, you know, But.
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Buzz Knight
So, yeah, you got this. This yearning. You were very successful. But there was something that wasn't just right in. In your life, which was that pivotal moment that sort of led to your next chapter. Can you. Can you talk about that move and the feelings behind that move?
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Robin Lloyd
Yeah. And I hate to sound clicheist, but, you know, I had a successful career in entertaining, making money, but something was missing. It just. It just wasn't there. I was. I was working for money. And I just. At that particular time, somebody said to me, either you work for money or you make money work for you. And I had nothing going other than just nothing. And I went to church. You know, my family always went to church. But I stopped and went to church one day, and it's. Something said, something is missing. And I started writing little things and. But basically that's what happened to me. Something was missing. You know, you can have everything. It's like, you know, money can buy you a house, but it can't buy your home. You know, it can buy you companion, but it can't buy you love. These things like money can't buy you love when you start to think that. My book that I wrote is called A Believer's Perspective. And it's a different perspective, but it's different how I look at things. But it's how the spirit, my religious beliefs, talked to me. And it said, you know, you can't take any of this with You. And I started to. I went to Vegas one weekend and I went to church with Lou Anthony and. And Clarence Collins to their church. And I said, they were in church. And then when I saw HB he was playing keyboards when he wasn't on the road, we were waiting for church, and I saw Brenda Holloway and these people always going to church, and they were happy. And I said, I want some of that. You know, little things like that slowly changed me. But I never smoke or drink, and I didn't go to clubs when I was not on the road. I was at home, you know.
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Buzz Knight
So you started writing down these. These wonderful, simple, beautiful revelations and observations all based around your spirit and the spirit of God. And ultimately, I think you said, I got to put this out to the world so more can. Can read it. Is that right?
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Robin Lloyd
Yeah, I did. But I met a young man that's a young man because he's younger than me. But Paul Lambert. And Paul Lambert, like, you have your talk. I have a weekly blog that I write. And he said, man, this is really fantastic. It's a different idea. For instance, like I tell people, your Christian character will always speak louder than words. You know, I just did little things that I would say, you know, little things. As a believer, we are called to walk, you know. You know, like Christians. It's what you do, it's not what you say. You have. Most people say, oh, I'm a Christian. Oh, I believe in the Lord. Well, if you do those things, you don't have to say, and I just wrote little things. But Paul said, let's write this down. And we did, and we put the book out. It's doing quite well. A Believer's perspective. It's on Amazon.com or even download it on Kindle Books, but it's doing good. Matter of fact, we're going to be doing the second book next year. And it's an easy read. It's not 300 pages. It's not the Bible, where it's different chapters. It's an easy read. You can read it in a couple of days. But what happens? And I have Pastor Tyrone here in the Dallas area in Plano, Texas. He bought 25 books. And they have what they call a Christian bingo night, and they give out the books. And I did a book signing and another pastor of Mount Olive, and they use different things that I say. You know, they said, for instance, I realized that. Do you realize there's two days in a year that you can never do anything about? You know what that is?
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Buzz Knight
No.
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Robin Lloyd
Yesterday and tomorrow you can only do something about today. Little things, little things like that are in there, you know. And it's just, it doesn't beat you down by saying the thou and what you do. It's just, and it's just little humorous things, you know.
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Buzz Knight
What role did this serious car accident that you had put, put it put into this. That was a perspective builder, wasn't it?
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Robin Lloyd
I had a real bad accident and I was on my way to the Kentucky Derby to the racetrack and when I woke up, I couldn't talk there was on life support. They gave me 24 hours. Sort of like Jesus saying hey chunky, hey fat boy, can you hear me now? You know, you're going too fast, you know, and as I was there, just little things. I'd start to write little notes, things would come to me, all kinds of things. Like I wrote a thing called welcome to Flight 2024. And it starts off welcome to Flight 2024 where your captain is the great I am co pilot is Jesus. The flight crew is the holy Spirit and your who be serving by the angels of mercy. Please make sure that your attitudes and blessings are secured and locked away in an upright position. All self destructive and doubt devices should be turned off and put away. There's no baggage on this plane. Should you lose altitude under pressure, reach up and pull down a prayer, you know, prayers will automatically be activated by faith. Once your faith is activated, you can help other passengers. So there will be no baggage allowed on this flight. Our God, the captain has cleared us for takeoff. Our destination is greatness and beyond. Feel free to share this Flight 2024, you know, do little things like that, you know.
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Buzz Knight
Oh, that's wonderful. Wow. So as if your life was, was not interesting enough with the various parts of the journey, the Dick Clark caravan of stars. Ultimately your move and your, your writings there became this point in your life where you became a builder.
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Robin Lloyd
Yes.
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Buzz Knight
And, and then there's another astounding part of it I'll, I'll ask you about, but first of all, talk about.
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Robin Lloyd
Your.
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Buzz Knight
Move into being a builder.
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Robin Lloyd
Well, I run a company here in the Metroplex. It's called Krose Construction Inc. Which is we do, we develop and build luxury home custom homes and been doing that for the last 40 plus years. I got into business when I got married. I wanted to build a house and the guy that was building the home, I asked him, I said sue, how do you do this? And he said well you just hired this person and that person. He says can you put a jigsaw puzzle together. I go, well, yeah. He said, sort of like a puzzle. A builder doesn't use hammer nails. He just knows what people to call. And I go, I can do that. And I built my home. And I realized that he had more time, more time, more time. And I started the company, and it is still. I was the first minority to be on the COVID of Builders Architect magazine in 1995, and they had been in existence for 63 years. And I've been on the COVID three times in the last 40 years. But in the meantime, you know, I went back to, you know, if this is the company, run this when I wanted to go back to music. But. And then when that wrecked happened to me, something said, hey, you got to start living, giving, and you can't be here, be there. You know, you weren't born with eight arms, just two legs. Since that accident, I have concentrated on writing once a week in this book, which makes me happy. So it's like somebody has a hobby. I got a happy hobby. It's writing these Christian little antecedents, you know, and then the company runs, you know, is working. But that's basically what has happened to me with that, the home building business.
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Buzz Knight
You know, it must have made you incredibly proud being the first minority builder to be, you know, featured on the. On the COVID of architecture magazine.
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Robin Lloyd
What.
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Buzz Knight
What a. What a amazing, amazing outcome.
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Robin Lloyd
Well, yeah, also. Yeah. I'll tell you what, as I was doing it, I have met people that tell people, you know, I got this home that was built by round robin, you know, and I said, no, I want you to buy a home because it's a good home, not because it's, you know, and it's amazing. But the thing of being the first is being recognized because it was good, a good builder. You know, I don't look at it as like the first minority. Even though people say that I wanted to be the good builder, I was recognized as being good as I was a good entertainer, as I was a good person. And he says, you're a good builder, you know, and I build this home, and my motto is, I don't build a house. I build a home as though I was going to live in it. That's how I built it.
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Buzz Knight
Amazing. Well, Robin, in closing, is there one lesson that you could pass that at 81 years old, still keeps you passionate, happy, energized? What's the key to that?
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Robin Lloyd
Here again, I found out that God has a purpose and a passion and a plan for everybody. Sometimes we are selective in Listening. And we have a me mentality. Once you get rid of that me mentality and realize, like, you and I are talking, you know, you're not talking to a minority. We're just two people talking. And we have some. We have something in common, and that is the basic of being happy is finding that common thread that'll sew you together. You know, my. My book, the Believer's Perspective, meeting Paul and even talking to you. You know, Buzz, I know that I'm going to see you again and talk to you again, you know, whether it's on this show or not, you know, but that's the common thread of finding your purpose, and your purpose is not to go out and how much money you can make and politics yourself. Sort of like, I've never heard so many people, Democrats, Republicans, da, da, da, da. How about just America? How about this is president of the United States. How about Buzz and I, two guys talking.
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Buzz Knight
I love it. I love it. Robin Lloyd, thank you for being on Taking a Walk, for passing on your wisdom, sharing your story, and continuing to inspire us for what you do every day. It's really amazing, and I know we'll meet again.
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Robin Lloyd
Well, thank you for just saying, come on, take a walk with me. Because as I was talking to you, a lot of these things I had forgotten, you just pack them away and you just like, you know, like an old trunk of clothes, you open up, you go, oh, yeah, I remember when I wore that suit. Talking to you is making me unpack some things and say, yeah, I remember that.
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Buzz Knight
Yeah, that's the greatest compliment anyone could pay me. Thank you so much, Robin. It's a joy. You're a treasure.
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Robin Lloyd
Tell somebody to go out and get this book, A Believer's Perspective. I'm gonna hug that on Amazon.com go get it.
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Buzz Knight
A Believer's Perspective. Thank you, Robin.
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Robin Lloyd
Thank you.
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Buzz Knight
Thanks for listening to this episode of the Taking a Walk podcast. Share this and other episodes with your friends and follow us so you never miss an episode. Taking a Walk is available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, and wherever you get your podcasts.
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Unknown
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Soledad O'Brien
Brien and on my new true crime podcast, Murder on the Towpath, I'm taking you back to 1964 to the cold case of artist Mary Pinchot Meyer.
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Robin Lloyd
She had been shot twice in the head and in the back.
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Soledad O'Brien
It turns out Mary was was connected to a very powerful man.
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Robin Lloyd
I pledge you that we shall neither commit nor promote aggression.
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Soledad O'Brien
John F. Kennedy Listen to Murder on the towpath with Soledad O' Brien on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.
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Bomhan
Yo, K Pop fans, are you ready? It's your boy Bomhan and I'm bringing you the K Factor, the podcast that takes you straight into the heart of K Pop. We're talking music idols, exclusive intern views, and even the real behind the scenes K Pop stories. Plus you, the fans, you're part of the show and you can get a chance to jump in, share your opinions and be part of the conversation like never before. And trust me, you never know where we might pop up next. So listen to the K factor starting on April 16th on iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast. This isn't just a podcast, it's a K Pop experience. Are you in? Let's go.
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Buzz Knight
Go.
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Unknown
I want you to ask yourself right now, how am I actually doing? Because it's a question that we rare ourselves. All of May is actually Mental Health Awareness Month and on the Psychology of your twenties we are taking a vulnerable look at why mental health is so hard to talk about. Prepare for our conversations to go deep.
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Robin Lloyd
I spent the majority of my teenage years and my twenties just feeling absolutely terrified.
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Unknown
I had a panic attack on a.
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Soledad O'Brien
Conference call knowing that she had six months to live.
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Bomhan
I was no longer pretending that this.
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Robin Lloyd
Was my best friend.
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Unknown
So this Mental Health Awareness Month, take that extra bit of care of your well being. Listen to the psychology of your 20s on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Bomhan
My husband has a secret son from a past partner. Hold up, Sam. How do we know?
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Buzz Knight
Have we done the DNA test?
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Bomhan
Well, John, luckily its mother may have a DNA test week on the OK Storytime podcast, so we'll find out soon. And this wife writes, my husband received a Facebook message from a woman saying that he is the father of a five year old.
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Robin Lloyd
Whoa.
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Bomhan
At first he didn't remember her, but then he realized they had a one night stand right before we started dating. Wait, but do we have proof he's a dad? To hear the explosive finale, listen to the OK Storytime podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Buzz Knight
You're listening to an iHeart podcast.