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Episode 25-Dee Bost · Johnny's World

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  SPEAKER_00: Coming to you live from the Johnny Packer Eyewear Studios in fabulous Dark Vegas, Mississippi, please welcome our co-host, the best iDoc this side of the Mississippi, BW.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now, welcome a true hero, a CF warrior, whose favorite motto in life is just keep living.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's Johnny.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're good.
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  SPEAKER_03: All right.
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  SPEAKER_03: Johnny here on a brand new episode of the Johnny's World Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_03: Got my co-host right here at BW.
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  SPEAKER_03: What's going on today, Brandon?
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_01: Man, just getting ready for football season, I guess.
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  SPEAKER_01: Getting counting down here.
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  SPEAKER_01: Be here before we know it.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yep, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: It'll be here before we know it.
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  SPEAKER_03: Be here before we know it.
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  SPEAKER_03: Well, uh, we got a great new show lined up for us today.
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  SPEAKER_03: Uh, about to introduce our guest.
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  SPEAKER_03: Um, I know a lot of people that listen to this podcast are Mississippi State fans.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's that's the way we like it.
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  SPEAKER_03: We're we're both bulldogs, and and uh we we we want to introduce Mississippi State people to the podcast, and uh we got a great one lined up today that we think y'all really love, especially for your Mississippi State basketball fans out there.
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  SPEAKER_03: We I'm gonna introduce our uh former Mississippi State Bulldog, D boss, to the program.
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  SPEAKER_03: Welcome, D.
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  SPEAKER_03: Thanks, man.
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  SPEAKER_03: Thanks for having me.
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  SPEAKER_03: How are you doing?
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, we're doing good.
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  SPEAKER_03: We're doing good.
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  SPEAKER_03: Well, well, D, uh, first of all, just tell us a little bit about um how you got started off uh in basketball, how you ended up in Mississippi State, what you're doing now.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh man, when I was four years old, my stepdad um, you know, kind of got me introduced to basketball.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_02: Uh well, actually, I did it myself, but uh, you know, he said once I touched the basketball, I would never put it down when I was four years old.
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  SPEAKER_02: So um after that, I just you know, he put me into like, you know, the boys and girls club and I just kept playing basketball since I was four.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, but yeah, now, you know, um I'm overseas right now.
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  SPEAKER_02: I was um you know, at Mississippi State for four years, three and a half years basically.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um so it froze.
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  SPEAKER_02: Is that right?
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you're good.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: So where where overseas are you?
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh well this year I was just in Monaco.
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  SPEAKER_02: I was in Monaco for the last two and a half years.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh this year this weekend, I'm leaving to go back to uh I'm going to Turkey to Istanbul.
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  SPEAKER_02: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_02: I bet that's a lot different than starting with Mississippi, huh?
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  SPEAKER_02: And a lot different.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh I think 20 months, 20 million plus people over there.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, wow.
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  SPEAKER_01: Were you there in Monaco for that Grand Prix when they have the F1 race and all that stuff?
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh well, you know, this year because of so last year they canceled it because of COVID.
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  SPEAKER_02: This year uh wasn't many people, but yeah, I've been there before for two years actually, when it was um, you know, um uh people when there was a lot of people there and it was a different experience.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, because those cars are like riding through town and stuff like that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Did you actually see some of that?
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh well I actually got to, you know, uh see it from a distance.
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  SPEAKER_02: I didn't get to get up and close personal, but uh it was too much noise.
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  SPEAKER_02: They had certain they had the roads blocked off because you know it's not so big, but uh the principality of Monaco is not big, but it's um it's it's an amazing uh experience.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: But you're from you're originally from North Carolina, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: So um did you grow up like Tar Hills, Duke fan, NC State?
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  SPEAKER_02: No, yeah, I'm I'm from North Carolina, so I was a big, big Tar Hill fan until I uh committed in uh to Mississipp State.
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  SPEAKER_01: And what made you decide you want to go to state?
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  SPEAKER_02: Oh man, man, it was a long process.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, so I was supposed to uh I verbally committed to Mississippi State, but I was still supposed to before that, I was supposed to take some uh visits to Miami, to uh Cincinnati, like Florida State at the time.
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  SPEAKER_02: But then Mississippi State was my first visit because they was the ones that really, really, you know, showed a lot, a lot of interest.
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  SPEAKER_02: So I was like, okay, let me go here first.
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  SPEAKER_02: So when I went to Starkville to visit, I left Hargrave because I was at military school at the time.
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  SPEAKER_02: I went and visited Startville, went to a party, and I was like, dang, uh this uh this is a a pretty good uh a place.
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  SPEAKER_02: But you know, not knowing though, that's how all colleges was, but you know, I was like, all right, well, I love it here.
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  SPEAKER_02: Then they they they was like, well, you want to verbally commit?
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  SPEAKER_02: I was like, shoot, yeah, hey, I commit.
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  SPEAKER_02: So then once I committed, uh, I didn't know I couldn't take any more, you know, visits basically.
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  SPEAKER_02: Like they was like, well, we don't want you taking no more visits.
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  SPEAKER_02: I was like, oh shoot.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh well, it don't matter, you know, I want to go here anyway.
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  SPEAKER_02: So then like we did the re my mentor at the time did the research.
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  SPEAKER_02: He um, you know, researched like who was coming in, who was leaving and stuff, uh, you know, based on like how I would be able to, you know, fit in and get to play.
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  SPEAKER_02: And uh honestly, out of all the school, I think Missy State was the the one school that you know was the best opportunity for me to come and play.
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  SPEAKER_01: You knew you'd be playing right away.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh yeah, I mean that was kind of like when they recruited me, they told me I would be the you know, starting PG right away, you know.
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  SPEAKER_02: But even though I knew at the time, you know, none of the they are people say a lot of stuff, but you still gotta work for what you you want, but they had already told me.
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  SPEAKER_03: Now that that first year you got you got state, uh that's when y'all won the SC tournament, right?
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  SPEAKER_03: Yep, that was that was the first year, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: My first year.
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  SPEAKER_03: What was that like?
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  SPEAKER_03: Win a championship on your first year.
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  SPEAKER_02: Man, that was probably my second most miracle, well, top three.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's top three for me.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, because the other ones is the one when I got MVP in Poland, and then when I got I won the Euro Cup Cup title this past year, but that was top three moments for me.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, that was it was amazing because I was a freshman and I didn't I didn't really know at the time, understand like you know how big it was.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I didn't, you know, I was playing against a lot of great players at the time, you know, like they had LSU, they had um Tasman Mitchell, they had uh Chris Johnson, they had the uh the shooter, I forgot his name, but uh dang Marcus uh Thornton, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: Him, they had all that they had a lot of great players, and like Tennessee had great players, Kentucky.
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  SPEAKER_02: So I didn't know how huge it was at the time until you know I finally looked back and was like, dang, I won an SEC title over a lot of guys.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that was there somebody that you had to match up against that you just you just hated playing against like every every year, like because I mean SEC West, you gotta play them twice a year, I guess.
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  SPEAKER_01: So was there somebody that you just well not, you know what?
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  SPEAKER_02: Honestly, it was it was never a matchup that I was like, oh, I hate playing against, but it was a matchup like, all right, I know I gotta go out here and I gotta um lock in every time because they don't you know put pressure on and in order for us to win, I gotta at least make them work on one end or make them work more.
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  SPEAKER_02: It was um Arkansas against Courtney Forson, and it was uh Ole Miss, sad to say against Chris Warren.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: Even though I'm saying sad to say uh because Chris my boy, but um, you know, uh it's sad to say old miss.
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  SPEAKER_01: Was it tough to go play up there at the tad pad, or was there was there another place that it was tougher to go to, or what did you think about that?
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_02: I think one of the toughest places to play was um honestly, it was between Kentucky.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_02: I remember my first when I played there, the court was shaking and Arkansas but Walton Arena.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my god, the court was so loud, and there's like eight, I think they fit 18,000 if I'm not mistaken.
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  SPEAKER_02: It was it was that was next level.
• 8:03
  SPEAKER_03: Man, I remember y'all played uh played Kentucky.
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  SPEAKER_03: Was that your senior year at the hump where they had Anthony Davis?
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  SPEAKER_03: Man, that place was rocking that night.
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  SPEAKER_03: I remember that game.
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  SPEAKER_03: That was that was my yep, that was my senior year when they had uh was that my might have been my senior year.
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  SPEAKER_03: They had cousins and and John Wall on that 2010 team.
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  SPEAKER_03: I think y'all took that was uh that was the SET tournament game that we lost at the very end.
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  SPEAKER_03: Remember that?
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  SPEAKER_02: Um that was my junior year, wasn't it?
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: I think that was my junior year when we lost at the very end off of uh Miss Free Throw, offensive rebound, put back.
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  SPEAKER_02: We went in OT, and that was just yeah, that we gave my best shot, and we was like, man.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yep, yep.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, because that would have gotten us in the tournament that year.
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  SPEAKER_03: We were it was literally about half of a tenth of a second, tenth of a second personal offer.
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  SPEAKER_02: My second SBC title.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
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  SPEAKER_02: It was half a ticket, tenth of a second.
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_02: We didn't box out, and it it kind of um you know came back to haunt us.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_03: What what about those Kentucky guys like that made it NBA?
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  SPEAKER_03: Which one were what would you say the toughest ones out of those?
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  SPEAKER_03: Because that that they were loaded when you when you were at state with with cousins of Wall, and then you turn around and get uh Anthony Davis.
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  SPEAKER_03: It was crazy.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that was probably the toughest team with John Wall, Demarcus Cousins, right?
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  SPEAKER_02: And they had uh they had um who else they had Eric Bletso, yep.
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  SPEAKER_02: That was probably the toughest matchup, but we gave him a run for our money for their money, and then we just blew it.
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  SPEAKER_02: But that was probably the toughest team I've had to play against far as Kentucky.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_03: What about uh what what about playing under uh Coach Stansbury?
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  SPEAKER_03: What how was that?
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  SPEAKER_03: Was he players coach?
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_03: It seems like it seems like the players bought into what he did and uh seemed like a good guy.
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  SPEAKER_03: Stansbury's a great guy.
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  SPEAKER_02: That was that was my guy, actually.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um love playing with Stans, playing for Stansbury at the time.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, he's he's he lets his players play.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_02: Uh that was the main thing, and that's what I really, really like.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_02: You know, he let the players play, he let us uh get to play our type of game and I mean gave us the freedom, you know.
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_02: Um, it could have been a good thing, it could have been a bad thing, but uh, I've really, really, you know, I enjoyed the most.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_03: Do you uh do you get to keep, I know you're playing overseas, I don't know how much you get to keep you get to keep up with state basketball now, any follow it now.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_03: What we got going on with Coach Howell and everybody?
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_03: Uh I do from time to time, man.
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_02: I be always my own world.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like eight stars out.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_02: But I try to, you know, get online and keep up with it um as much as I can.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I'm I'm looking forward to this coming year.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_03: You know, last year we made it to the NIT finals, and uh seems like when you make the NIT, it's kind of a learning deal, hopefully to build off to the next year.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_03: So hoping for big things coming in.
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_03: We got some new guys coming in and hopefully that'll be great.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_03: But man, the when the hump's rocking, man, you can attest to it.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_03: There's nothing, nothing like the hump rocket.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_03: Man, when it's full fully loaded, everybody there's nothing.
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_02: I think it's man, I used to get goosebumps playing.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_02: See, I'd go walk out there, I see all the people, I'd be like, Yeah.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_02: Yep, it's one of the best places.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, me and Brandon were in college college here in the 04 team when when uh we had Lawrence Roberts and all those guys.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_03: Man, there that the Brandon and I can both attest to it, man.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_03: Those when the I mean, I tell you, man, when the humps rock, people you know, they talk about Kentucky and Ruff and Bud Walton and all that stuff, but I swear we we might be have a smaller arena than those teams, but but when you get packed out and packed house, you you kind of build off that momentum from the crowd, and uh you can just tell the way you guys played.
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's the the the momentum from the hump crowd, whenever they got the the whole state, the whole arena field, man.
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  SPEAKER_02: I I miss it.
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  SPEAKER_02: Like I to this day, I miss it a lot.
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's what I was gonna ask.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_01: Is there anywhere that you're playing now that that is anywhere close to that?
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_01: Like, what's it like as far as the the crowds and things like that in Europe?
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_02: Man, honestly, I'm gonna tell you the truth.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_02: Europe is on another level when it comes to like atmospheres, um, because there's no there's no limitations.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, everybody is, I mean, it's when it's full, it's full.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_02: Like the team I'm going now in Turkey.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_02: Man, it's just uh man, I played there with a lot of people before, but not when it was full, but like just seeing like online, it's it's a different atmosphere.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_02: But I know in college, you know, certain stuff you can't do.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_02: You can't throw stuff on the court, you can't do certain stuff.
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  SPEAKER_02: But in Europe, man, they throw lighters they throw coins, they throw bottles, especially if they team losing or if the ref's not calling the way they want to call it, man, it's just it's a different level, man.
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  SPEAKER_02: And you wouldn't imagine like how crazy the fans are in Europe, they passionate.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_02: It's it's it's next level.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_02: I when I when we get off the thing, I want you to go to uh YouTube and check it out.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, how do they treat y'all like as far as like the towns you live in and stuff?
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_01: Do they do they recognize y'all and and roll out the red carpet or what's it like?
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_02: Uh we had a team in Monaco where I just came from that was I know I had a couple teams I played on that that you know they treat me like that.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_02: Um so uh yeah, they roll out the red carpet.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_02: It's like you know, you're just like you like over there, you're like the for their team, especially if you're playing well and they like you, you're like the best player.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_02: You're like the LeBron basically.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_02: Let's say LeBron over there, like they love you.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_02: You get what I'm saying?
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_03: Chase, go on.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_03: Well, well, D, uh, tell us about your your friendship with uh with our we have a mutual friend.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_03: That's that he's the reason why I got you on here.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_03: He was like, yeah, he was on uh Kevin Axton's name.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_03: He was on a couple weeks back, and and I was talking to him, he's like, You need to reach out to D boss.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_03: I was like, I love D boss.
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_03: He was like, that's who you need to get on there.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_03: So so yeah, he he's the one that recommended.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_03: I'm so glad that he did because you're you've always been one of my favorite players.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_03: Tell us a little bit how you know Kevin.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_03: Y'all y'all worked that out a little bit.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_03: Is that is that it?
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_02: Uh yeah, so I was living in Flowwood probably what six years ago, I want to say.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_02: Maybe maybe coming back from uh overseas, and I was uh um I actually had just probably, I think it was that year, I had just had one of my worst seasons over there.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_02: And I had changed agents and I was like, man, you know what?
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_02: I gotta get in a gym, I gotta work hard this year.
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_02: I'm about to, I'm about to, you know, take it to another level.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_02: So uh what I did was riding past, I forgot the name of the gym.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_02: I forgot the name of it.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_02: It was on Lakeland.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_02: Was it Knockout Fitness?
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, Nacyout.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_02: I was riding past Knockout um at the time, and I looked and I said, Oh, Nacky out fitness.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_02: It looked like it's it's quiet here, it's not too many people because I don't want to go in a lot of people and uh you know that stuff.
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_02: So I was like, let me go here.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_02: I went in there.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_02: So Kevin, he was being, he was like the manager at the time.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_02: I was so I went in there, he talked to him, got his card, and then ever since then, we was, you know, we set up a workout.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_02: I worked out with him.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_02: I was like, all right, it's all right, you know, I need it, need to do it.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_02: So I was like, let me set up a schedule for the summer or whenever I'm here.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_02: So we was working out probably three, four times a week, and I was just doing like other stuff.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_02: Like he put me in contact with another guy that uh knew someone that put me in contact with a guy that was doing boxing.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_02: So I was just doing like a whole every day, like my workouts consisted of like leaving like 10 or whenever and be gone working out to like three, four o'clock.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_02: And I did that like four or five days a week.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_02: So Kevin was a big part of that.
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_02: You know, he helped me um, you know, because the next year, the following year, I had that's the year I got the MVP.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_02: And Kevin, um, that's we we we really like we really got out there at that summer, uh, that summer.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_03: He'll put you to work.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_03: Uh uh when I go in there, and he'll he'll work out with you.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_03: And man, he he's one of the best.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_03: So um, I know y'all y'all did a good job with that, everything.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_03: I'm happy to happy to have friends that are friends, you know.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_03: That that's really cool how that works.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_03: And he's a state Mississippi State fan, so that kind of helps it out even better.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_02: You know how some people go to Mississippi State, they diehard Mississippi State fans, you know, basketball, football.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_02: He's a diehard Mississippi State fan for tennis.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_02: Uh he would have been a fan for hockey, but nah, he's a he's a big, big uh state alumni and a fan.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_02: So he's a huge, huge.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_03: Awesome.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_03: Brandon, you got anything else you want to ask with D about?
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_01: I was just gonna say, when you um after you finish playing, you think you want to stay in basketball, coaching or something like that, or you think you want to just do something totally different?
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_02: Oh man, uh that's a good question.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_02: Everybody asked me this.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_02: But right now, if you had to ask me right now at this point in time, if I wanted to be a coach, I would say no.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_02: Not right now, but I think I'ma still want to be around basketball.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, because like right now, my son is three, so I'm still like he loves basketball.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_02: But I think in order for me, I gotta be around him a little bit to watch him grow because when I'm in Europe, it's like they come, they leave.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_02: So it's it's it's a big, big adjustment for me.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_02: But right now, no.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_02: But I think when I finish, I want to uh probably get into it.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_02: I was actually joking with uh Oscar Miskelly um a while back.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_02: Like, yo, man, come on, I need you, I need to get in, I need to try to be the coach uh soon in Mississippi State.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_02: Uh I was just joking with him, and he was just like telling me what I needed to do, the steps I had to take to uh to be a coach, but I was just joking with him.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, could you see yourself going back to Mississippi or you think you want to stay in Europe or what part of the country you think you want to go to?
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_02: That's a good question.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_02: I only reason I would come back to Mississippi to coach is if I had a chance to like go be a grad assistant, then become a head coach or assistant at Mississippi State.
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but I think if it wasn't Mississippi State, I would probably go be somewhere in Europe.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_02: I would want to be somewhere in Europe and be a coach.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_03: Awesome.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_03: We'll have to watch we'll have to Google that when we get off here and find out about the Europe basketball league.
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_02: I'll take you a couple, I'll text you a couple fan bases.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_02: When I'm going to this year, Turkey to to look to research and man, you're gonna be like, wow.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_03: That's awesome.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_03: Are there a lot of players from the SEC that that you play against in Europe or that you played in college against?
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_02: Normally, like recently, actually, I played with uh one was on my team.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_02: He was uh Wilfrid Will Yugete, he played at Florida, he was my teammate for two years.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_02: Um Chris Warren, I just played against him this year, but I played against him in previous years.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_02: Um who else can I think of?
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, it was so many.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_02: Like who else have I played against over there?
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_02: That was uh SEC.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, Irvin Walker, he was at Florida.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_02: Nick Kalathis, he was at Florida.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_02: I played against I played against a lot of guys, man, that was in the SEC in Europe.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_03: Are there any state missing state guys over there that you ever play against or in your team or anything?
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_02: I honestly I haven't even oh I played against in the umric ourman.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_02: Oh yeah, yeah.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_02: Eric Holman.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_02: I played against him um this past, was it this past preseason?
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_02: I think this yeah, this past preseason I played against him.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_02: Cool.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_02: Um I think he's probably really the only one only one I played against at Mississippi State.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_03: Awesome.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_03: You're you're uh I can't thank you enough for coming and joining us today.
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_03: This is awesome.
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_03: Hopefully, our viewers will learn a little about Europe basketball and and uh they'll remember you finally from your days at Mississippi State and bringing home that SCT championship and and uh tournament championship in 09 and come so close in 10.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_03: And you're uh you're a fan favorite among all the Bulldogs.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_03: And uh if you ever come back, if you ever get back over at the start, what hit us up and let us know.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_03: We we'd love to uh we'd love to see you.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_02: Gotcha, man.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_02: Thank y'all for having me.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_02: And you know, tell all my Mississippi State fans and the alumni, Hale State.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_02: Absolutely.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_02: Well, good luck, Mr.
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_01: D.
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_02: Appreciate it.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_02: All right, thank you, man.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_02: See you.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_02: All right, all right, see ya.
• 20:50
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• 20:53
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