BIG BANK TAKE LITTLE BANK

(VANN DUKE AND SAMMY AUTOBIOGRAPHY)
During my high school years I was starting my semi pro ventriloquist career in show business,I was on the hustle and bustle,the daily grind of SHOW business!.one day me,Michael,Marcel,Rome and Michael sister name Sondra was sitting at my kitchen table and Sondra was bragging about her golden bird fried chicken pay check,where she worked.so she said she wanted to play the game called big bank take little bank,this game is a street hustlers game,where who ever has the most money in their pockets at the moment take the person money that has the small amount of money.so Sondra lay her golden bird fried chicken pay check face down on the kitchen table and I lay one of my ventriloquist shows pay checks face down on the kitchen table,Michael,Marcel and Rome counted to three!, one! two! Three! and me and Sondra turn our paychecks face up at the same time.well Sondra started crying and me,Marcel,Michael and Rome started laughing.she was crying real tears,but we are all teenage friends,plus she would HOOK us up on the golden bird fried chicken for free when her boss was not around."golden bird fried chicken" was so darn good! wow and those French fries were also tasty but the strawberry soda was the best in the summer time.in my days as a teenager,a teenage person could open up a bank savings account,and that's how we had bank accounts with our parents.in the hoods and ghetto there were other street hustlers games like "big bank take little bank" 1.dice..2.three cards...3.get like me..4.pitching pennies....

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( 'PONY UP')

being poor can be a life experience, having nothing to work with could be a empty space in your life.. a person committing a crime is because of those two reasons mentioned,I was a poor little boy looking up at my mother, she was successful and kept the knowledge to herself, I wanted to be successful, it looked good! it smells good! and I wanted to taste success but I had nothing to work with,I had a empty space of wanting to be a writer in my life. hanging out with my friends making money moves was basically youths survival tools in the hoods and ghettos for my generation...this autobiography is written for poor people and the have nots, I am hoping to open the readers mind to a view to hopes and dreams in the art of ventriloquism.. my little brother could dance,he was a poplocker dancer, I was wishing something I could do, I wrote many manuscripts unpublished as a youth

I tried, I tried, I tried so many different arts and hobbies,one day in a shopping mall my mother sign me up for baking cake school.. playing sports was never my thing unless it was street ball,that I enjoyed concerning sports..oh yeah girls! if girls is a sport, sign me up! ha! ha!.. I had nothing to work with, so being a hustler was all I had to work with, not to mention a very great imagination in creativity but how do I use it in a empty space, how?..did I like being a hustler with my friends, no!..did my friends provide peer pressure, no!, the boy with the biggest cheese get the girl and being a hustler is a street job and a career for some with a retirement plan in the state prison or six feet under...in the hustlers world they're buyers and sellers, sellers are looking for a come up and buyers are looking for a good deal tax free..just think a five hundred dollar jacket for two hundred dollars, back in the day Kenwood car radios were the money ticket those things were sold hot on the streets of the hoods and ghettos, if a hustler had a Kenwood car radio he was set for the day unless he was greedy and didn't know when to sit down and shut the fuck up, lay low...selling weed was another street job but the beautiful ones hurt you everytime -hurt your pockets..selling live chickens to a buyer now flocko was a unforgettable memory of my childhood,Marcel favorite buyer, a car battery was my friend Ray Ray come up to the auto body shop, I don't mention Ray Ray much in my autobiography but he was a ride and die friend from elementary school to high school...and a true hustler for a Jack move, he didn't smoke, drink, or fuck just money moves twenty four seven, this nigga always had hustler job going, just baking bread! teenage street successful right there, RAY RAY my boy!..now don't get it twisted I know I am writing this story in a different generation and might find it offensive but guess what,the generation after you are going to say the same about you..this is my generation if you didn't work you didn't eat, so being a young black male during my generation the wind was always blowing against you and you had to keep pushing forward until you get a breakthrough, shit! We had to create our on jobs to survive in the hoods and ghettos as teenagers, if you were a boy or a man in during my generation people really looked down on you if you were a looser that's why we hustle, hustle to win..so you need to fill that empty space with be coming a ventriloquist, I guarantee you, your empty space will be filled with adventure, ideas, riches, love, fame, joy, excitement, mystery,freedom, creativity and most of all "imagination".

I tell you a secret, I learned to read and write like a business person from the art of ventriloquism, looking up words in the dictionary, listening to audio cassette tapes on speaking and I learned pronunciation of words,if I was going to be in show business,I needed to learn SHOW business,the art of ventriloquism didn't just teach me how to speak with out moving my lips, it teach you how to sit and stand, it teach you how to dress such as wardrobe, the art of ventriloquism has so many authors teaching something, famous ventriloquists giving you their secrets in their books.... the art of ventriloquism had the knowledge that my mother kept to herself..let's talk about that book the holy bible, don't be afraid of it, that book has knowledge in it..and knowledge is power..also the art of ventriloquism will open your creative mind that will lead you into other fields in life, such as comedian television host Johnny Carson started out as a ventriloquist,he admitted it on his show when interviewing world famous ventriloquist Edgar Bergen but Edgar Bergen already knew Johnny Carson started out as a ventriloquist, look at world famous radio show Howard stern he also mentioning  his ventriloquism days..I am very proud of being a ventriloquist, and hanging with Sammy keep me out a lot of trouble..I am writing from my heart in this segment of 'PONY UP'...ventriloquism is more than ventriloquist dolls, dummies and puppets, it's all about you,yes you,what can you do in a empty space in the art of ventriloquism: Charlie McCarthy joking with Edgar Bergen says "it's not what you done for the art ventriloquism, it's what you done to it!"

So PONY up to the art of ventriloquism, we need another Otto and George, we need another Shari Lewis, we need another Jerry lane...we need your style of creativity here and now in the art of ventriloquism, let your imagination be seen through the art of ventriloquism, let your voice be heard through the art of ventriloquism, dazzle us with your charm, wit, and humor through the art of ventriloquism, teach us through the art of ventriloquism, you'll fill the empty space in your life through the art of ventriloquism....for me,it saved my life and give me a reason to live..I was so happy when I dropped the street hustlers thing and picked up the art of ventriloquism.

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