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Club 520 - Greg Oden on being #1 NBA Draft pick, playing with LeBron James, injury misfortunes · Club 520 Podcast

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  Speaker 3: We got special guests to my left, legend, legend, legend
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  Speaker 3: My dog Bis should be here out the prailes. How
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  Speaker 3: you were nasty, cool and nasty. Let's get into it, baby.
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  Speaker 2: I see you got your work shoes on. Every time
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  Speaker 2: we go out of town. You don't never wear black forces.
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  Speaker 2: They say you be pump faking.
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  Speaker 1: Nah.
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  Speaker 5: you what?
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  Speaker 3: And I'm chilling, bro, happy to be here. I'm glad
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  Speaker 3: everybody came right. I see all My pot was in
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  Speaker 3: the crowd, so that's cool. The force is weak as fucked.
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  Speaker 3: I'm keeping a bean. That'm a week bro. Come on, man, induce,
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  Speaker 3: get on his head.
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  Speaker 5: Get rag all right, let's go. You are you out
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  Speaker 5: of pocket? You real comfortable today?
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  Speaker 1: Go with the show.
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  Speaker 3: Hey man, we got a legend from the east side
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  Speaker 3: of Indianapolis, number one. Pick you know what I'm saying. Legend, legend, legend,
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  Speaker 3: mister Greg, how you doing so? I appreciate you putting
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  Speaker 1: My boy, I'm good and I'm good. Fellas. Appreciate you
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  Speaker 1: all having me. Everybody appreciate y'all coming out. Now.
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  Speaker 2: We got to tell the people we had you. Donna's
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  Speaker 2: hasm on our podcast. You know what I'm saying. He
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  Speaker 2: said he knew about aiding Napolis because of you. He
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  Speaker 2: was scared of the East Side because you had him
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  Speaker 2: in Miami drinking Trinity.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I learned that shit on the West coast.
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  Speaker 5: Damn.
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  Speaker 1: When I was drinking here, I was drinking Tarhoe Indiana.
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  Speaker 5: Woa, I mean you were working meth. Nigga had to
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  Speaker 5: strike up of breaking bad was out there, moving, moving,
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  Speaker 5: and shaking.
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  Speaker 1: Poor hey man. It was my people when I first
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  Speaker 1: moved here. Uh. I moved to terror Hoe when I
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: moved from Buffalo, New York into fourth grade, so I
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  Speaker 1: grew up there. I didn't come to n D till
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  Speaker 1: eighth grade.
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  Speaker 3: So, but how did you like? How would you make
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  Speaker 3: you Donna's hasl? You know what I'm saying, Because that's
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  Speaker 3: a that's a strong nigga. Don't make him look like
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  Speaker 3: he do a lot of shit in his spare time.
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  Speaker 3: How did you make a nigga like that, like lead
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  Speaker 3: a club off the pretrendity.
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  Speaker 1: That ship is nasty, as simple as that. That ship
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  Speaker 1: is nasty, but as strong as fuck. And at that time,
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  Speaker 1: I just like to get sucked up and quick. So
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  Speaker 1: that's what it was. I see your.
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  Speaker 4: Method to do that when you start drinking that though,
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  Speaker 4: when you got drafted.
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  Speaker 1: Un before that high school, high school I had. I
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  Speaker 1: had a nice getaway in high school.
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  Speaker 3: I knew y'all East side was crazy. We ain't doing
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  Speaker 3: none of that west do we y'all still partying together
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  Speaker 3: right now? I see y'all night at All Stars, shout
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  Speaker 3: OUs on my West side niggas. But now I got
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  Speaker 3: a question. So growing up, I seen you, man, you
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  Speaker 3: was in seventh grade. I seen you at Craig Middle School.
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  Speaker 3: You wasn't a number one pick in seventh grade. I'll
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  Speaker 3: tell you that. I was like, man, this dude is tall.
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  Speaker 3: We seen you playing for empty here. You weren't playing
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  Speaker 3: as much. Like when did basketball start picking up for you?
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  Speaker 3: Like when you've seen it? Like the difference.
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  Speaker 1: Actually it was the summer after seventh grade. I grew
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  Speaker 1: up in a boys and girls club, so, uh, while
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: my mom worked late nights I was just sitting there
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  Speaker 1: hooping and uh, seventh grade, I dunked the basketball and said,
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  Speaker 1: why don't I just do this? It's easy, And that's
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  Speaker 1: when everything started looking up for me.
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  Speaker 5: So how tall was you then? Six?
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  Speaker 1: Seven?
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  Speaker 5: Goddamn? Yeah, I'm twelve. Your mama bid and have a change.
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  Speaker 1: She had to walk around with my birth certificate when
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  Speaker 1: we went to au Turnament. But like fifth grade into
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  Speaker 1: fifth grade, I got to like five eleven, and by
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  Speaker 1: the end of sixth grade, I was six six. What's
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  Speaker 1: our shoes? You wear?
• 5:39
  Speaker 5: What's our shoes?
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  Speaker 1: Right now?
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  Speaker 3: We're in nineteen No, I mean, fuck falls, that's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: I'm talking about six sixth grade, we're like thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: What fuck has been in trouble? Ya?
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  Speaker 5: Thirteen? Well you will get no Georgish. Well you had
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  Speaker 5: to play the fool.
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  Speaker 1: I can barely get them joints now.
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  Speaker 5: I already know that's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: But like you said, everything clicked for you got a
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  Speaker 3: little bit taller once you got to high school, Like
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  Speaker 3: you honestly have one of the best high school basketball
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  Speaker 3: careers of all time.
• 6:15
  Speaker 2: Like it pays me to say this. Shouts and Ellen,
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  Speaker 2: y'all went crazy. Shouts and Mike's still going crazy right now?
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  Speaker 2: How was that going into that school? You know what
• 6:23
  Speaker 2: I'm saying, you clicked up. Your boy, y'all was already nice.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all just dominated all through high school.
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  Speaker 1: He was nice. He was on the front of a
• 6:31
  Speaker 1: like sports illustrated for kids when he was in the
• 6:35
  Speaker 1: second and third grade. So it's playing with with Mike.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it was easy. Like you know, everybody think
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  Speaker 1: that I did something. I might have did a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: but he was type of point guard that you know,
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  Speaker 1: put you in your right spots. He made everybody on
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  Speaker 1: the court better. And uh, you know, after that uh
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  Speaker 1: blunder our freshman year, we finally it finally clicked and
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  Speaker 1: uh yeah, we got three state championships.
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  Speaker 3: All I gotta say, like seeing Mike still playing right now,
• 7:02
  Speaker 3: what is that?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 5: What does that do for you?
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  Speaker 3: Like me watching him still play, I'm like, dang, boy,
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  Speaker 3: he's been playing. He's been great since we were in
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  Speaker 3: second grade, like you said, and he's still killing And
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, it's amazing to see what even like you're seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're seventeen, special man. I mean I'm happy for him.
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  Speaker 5: Man.
• 7:17
  Speaker 1: You know, like ship, I can barely walk down these
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  Speaker 1: stairs without my knee hurting so too, just to see
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  Speaker 1: some guys out there that's our age, you know, still
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  Speaker 1: going out there and Badlin playing at the highest level.
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  Speaker 1: And I want him to win the championship. You know
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  Speaker 1: he deserves it. He'd been playing good basketball for a
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  Speaker 1: long time.
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  Speaker 5: No, that's the fuck. I kind of don't want him
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  Speaker 5: to though.
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  Speaker 3: I kind of like being all no, It's like I'm
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  Speaker 3: the only one that wants so it's like cool.
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  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. Here's yeah, you are. Here's
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  Speaker 5: to be a little bit more meaningful.
• 7:50
  Speaker 1: Though.
• 7:52
  Speaker 5: Why they gonna have an outher party?
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  Speaker 4: Noah?
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  Speaker 5: Because he played guys your guy.
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  Speaker 3: That's why eat this food. I don't like that anyway.
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  Speaker 5: What's crazy?
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  Speaker 1: How did y'all meet though? How did you Mike meet up? So?
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  Speaker 1: I guess his dad got windo me when I was
• 8:14
  Speaker 1: living in terror Hold at the time, and the Speach
• 8:17
  Speaker 1: team pulled up when they were riverside and they all
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: drove down. I want to say, it was like, uh,
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  Speaker 1: seven or eight of them. It was Mike, Curtis, White,
• 8:28
  Speaker 1: re Cheetham, Devin Williams. A little shout out to Devin Williams.
• 8:33
  Speaker 1: I had to get my hair with the straight backs
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  Speaker 1: and you early career. But you know, they all pulled
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: up with coach Mike Conley and they came knocked on
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  Speaker 1: my door, seven black kids my age asking to speak
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  Speaker 1: to me, asked me if I wanted to play basketball.
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  Speaker 1: And I looked at all them right behind my mom
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  Speaker 1: and was like, it's Saturday, I'm watching cartoons and then
• 8:57
  Speaker 1: went back in the house. And then that fill the week.
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: They got me out there playing the men's league. You know,
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: the Riverside teams used to play in the men's league
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: and since then, I want to say that was sixth grade.
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  Speaker 1: Me and Mike Conley played basically every game together from
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  Speaker 1: sixth grade till we got drafted in the league. That's crazy.
• 9:14
  Speaker 5: And we're gonna talk about y'all going to school college together.
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  Speaker 2: But I'll talk about y'all in high school because I
• 9:19
  Speaker 2: had some battles on the low, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we never beat them. We never beat them. They
• 9:24
  Speaker 3: always beat us about five or six points. I remember
• 9:27
  Speaker 3: one time we played y'all. Might have been my junior year.
• 9:29
  Speaker 3: I think it might have been your senior year. We
• 9:32
  Speaker 3: played at l N. I went to the basket. It's
• 9:34
  Speaker 3: the first time I knew I couldn't beat your ass.
• 9:37
  Speaker 3: But I was like, gonna have all my Westside homie
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  Speaker 3: thing in the crowd too. I was gonna tell him like,
• 9:42
  Speaker 3: we're gonna beat his ass. We're gonna figure this shit out.
• 9:45
  Speaker 3: But now I went to the basket and you blocked
• 9:47
  Speaker 3: the shot, and you pointed at my temple and said,
• 9:50
  Speaker 3: what the fuck are you thinking?
• 9:52
  Speaker 5: Ever since then I wanted to ask you, what the
• 9:55
  Speaker 5: fuck was you thinking?
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: Honestly, I want to say, after like after sophomore year,
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: so junior and senior year of high school, I found
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: the energy drink Boost and I used to drink like
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: two or three of them before the game. And I
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: swear to God, I don't remember nothing. I don't remember
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: none of that, So I apologize. I remember like there
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: was a couple of games I used to drunk and
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: it would be like the call of foul and it
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: would just be like I was, I was on some
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: he was then there three energy drinks. It's crazy. You
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: remember the U was the regional days. Ain't ankle you
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: two games one in the morning, man that shipped out
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: and the next thing I know.
• 10:44
  Speaker 5: We played out every morning and lost every time.
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: Besides freshman year. According that hurts.
• 10:52
  Speaker 5: Me very Yeah, I'm glad they got you because nobody else.
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  Speaker 4: But who is your toughest match up in high school
• 10:56
  Speaker 4: that you can remember?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? Josh McRoberts of course legend it was nice, that's
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: my guy.
• 11:06
  Speaker 6: But the school was Arlington, not the Knights lock and
• 11:11
  Speaker 6: you got one in the crowd any it was Arlington, man,
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  Speaker 6: I want to say.
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: It was like it might have been junior or sophomore year. Uh,
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: junior year.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so we got one win, called it out celebrate.
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: We played them in the second round of sectionals. It
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: was either the second Yeah, that was the state championship. No, yuess,
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: it was talked about it was number one. That was
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: a sectional game. Hold on.
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  Speaker 5: The best teams. Okay, I got you, Yes, that.
• 11:51
  Speaker 3: Was the state We would have been Arlington as though
• 11:53
  Speaker 3: y'all would have. Yeah, we were a dog down. They
• 11:56
  Speaker 3: were smart enough.
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  Speaker 4: I ain't gonna do that till my niggas chill chill out.
• 12:00
  Speaker 4: You're right, Yeah, it was a better.
• 12:01
  Speaker 5: Shout to be shout to Buck.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, they was cheating few though.
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  Speaker 4: And then when y'all played them in that sectional game,
• 12:07
  Speaker 4: you had like eighteen nineteen blocks. Bro, you was gold
• 12:09
  Speaker 4: tender like a motherfucker. You said, niggas go, and I'm
• 12:13
  Speaker 4: glad you're here so I can tell you about yourself
• 12:16
  Speaker 4: and your cheating ass coach, and y'all paid the motherfucker rest.
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  Speaker 4: So shout out to my niggas at Arlington because y'all
• 12:23
  Speaker 4: was really supposed to lose that motherfucker. But we can
• 12:25
  Speaker 4: keep on with this just with the I P s. Bro,
• 12:28
  Speaker 4: you feel me.
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: Don't exist still, so he could talk about.
• 12:36
  Speaker 5: That's when I knew basketball was read.
• 12:38
  Speaker 4: I'm like, man, I hope this nigga turres a skill.
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: But I was on that back then and I got
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: you the blame my ship. Nah, that's that's the motherfucker
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: power drinks.
• 12:55
  Speaker 5: Game.
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: Crazy. That was a crazy guy. Different.
• 12:59
  Speaker 5: I ain't gonna couple comple him to lamar Older, don't
• 13:02
  Speaker 5: do that.
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: They'd be trying to do that in front of my daughter.
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: They'd be like, lamorrow old on my wife's be.
• 13:08
  Speaker 5: Like hell no, don't do me.
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: Like now, I had to get that off my chest. Nigga,
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: I was saving you.
• 13:15
  Speaker 5: Was school system Noah for sure.
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: Now, but I will say in high school that was
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: probably our best games because they they would get us
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: during the regular season and then wet y'all win the actions.
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: You know, so respect respect even though you only beat
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: us like once, Yes.
• 13:33
  Speaker 3: Oh you got they living on that bro, I get
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: text every morth.
• 13:38
  Speaker 5: Was the best team. He over there.
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: His name is Bubby.
• 13:42
  Speaker 5: Shout to Bubby.
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: It was number one though, But you went.
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: Crazy in high school. You know what I'm saying. How
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: was that decision to go to Ohio State? And I
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: wonder what that decision would be now with n.
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: I l Well, decision would have been the same, but
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: I would been getting paid just as much as the
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: quarterback at this time. I mean, and I yel it's crazy.
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: And I think I was talking to Jeff earlier about that.
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: Just the type of talent that's getting the five hundred
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: thousands the millions. Sometimes you'd be like, well, damn, what
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: would we would have got, Like when somebody gonna suit
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: so we can get our back, I can't wait.
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  Speaker 3: Look, you would have got five million off top man.
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: He was the best player in the nation. You was
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: a generational talent like it. We wasn't too many people
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: walking around like you were jumping forty You got a
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: forty foot inch vertical whatever it was, forty inch foot posts,
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: you got forty inch vertical, Like you was going crazy.
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: Like nobody in the world was like you at that time.
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  Speaker 3: You would have got five million dollars easy.
• 14:43
  Speaker 5: That's on the low end. Only easy, bro.
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: I would have took it after taxes.
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: I mean you already got that anyway when you went
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: to a house that we ain't gonna talk about it.
• 14:52
  Speaker 5: I know the truth.
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: Hold on, I gotta tell this story because this hit
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: a nerve. I remember one time I was in the
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: locker room. I was talking to Brandon Roy and LaMarcus
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: and I was like, yeah, man, I ain't get paid.
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: All I got was pail grant at Ohio State. Shout
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: out to coach Mada. He do everything the right way.
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: But I was able to get pail grant. So that's
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: my little thousand. Every couple of weeks. Man, these foods
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: laughed in my face, but like belly laughed hard when
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: I said I didn't get paid paid how much you got?
• 15:27
  Speaker 5: Shout out to wait.
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: When after that freshman year, Oh my mama was straight.
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: You only got a thousand in Ohio State.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: I just got pil grant Man get paid.
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: Out of pocket. You gotta talk to Turner.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: So I remember the story ran into this little runner
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: back in the day. It was like agents trying to
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: get guys and uh one night gave me a hundred
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: dollars anything. You know, I'll take care of you. The
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: next day, Jim Jackson comes and talks to the Ohio
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: State basketball team. He's talked to us for thirty minutes
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: and ends on the You know, if you do everything
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: in the right way for Ohio State, the buck gy
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: faithful would love you for life. Man. I had to
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: go back and get that man eight hundred dollars. Man,
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: I did, I really did. I did not take any
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: money while I was at the Ohio State University.
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: Damn fool.
• 16:21
  Speaker 7: Nobody give a fuck about one hundred dollars Jackson. Nigga
• 16:27
  Speaker 7: was getting one thousand dollars every six months. You needed that, honey.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: Was That's actually what I lived off of the draft.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: But no, man is at that time, you know, you
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: couldn't get none in Ohio State. You know, with the
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: Maurice Colorette stuff, it was just right. Everything was on,
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: so you just had to do stuff the right way.
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: You're right Maurice fucked it up for y'all for sure.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: And that year you was there.
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, y'all went crazy.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: In particularly, you went crazy and you had to play
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: without your dominant hand. That's like one of the most
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: amazing feats in basketball. And don't get spoken another. You
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: dominated college basketball with your off heir, respect Bro, I
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: appreciate that.
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: No, that was crazy. He was killing Bro.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: Like, now, it's amazing that you were shooting free throws
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: with your left hand at seven foot You know, big
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: guys struggle at the free throw line and for you
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: to be able to switch hands to do that, that
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: was crazy.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: It wasn't that crazy to me. I just went up
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: there and was like, don't airball to damn sixty seven.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: Maybe that's with the off hand though, that's crazy.
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: That's good though. How was that match up against Florida? Though?
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: In that championship game? Who was your toughest Who is
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: the toughest matchup?
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: You think? Was it?
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: Al Horford or Corey Brewer? Joe kim Nord was on this.
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: Al Horford Corey Brewer joke him, No, little.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: Guard Torian Green, Chris Richards, Maurice Spates, and somebody else.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: I want to say they got drafted or played on
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: it NBA team.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: But ship I had a whip too, Now y'all had
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: a whip too. Jude day Kwan, Mike Mike what was
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: thirty three name? I forgot his name? The shooter that
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: you had? Now outside of Daikwan, who else was on
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: the team? Ron Lewis, Ron Lewis, who had the shot
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: against Xavier? Yeah yeah, Othello Hunter?
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah, was in Atlanta? In Atlanta, Yes, sir,
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: I whole played a long time. Man. Oh she's we've
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: seen him man big fan Oh man.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, crazy crazy wow. Without the balls, just the court,
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: without the spirit, it's only a game.
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: So together with the fast we bring our best.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: He is excited to celebrate the intersection of basketball with art, music,
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: and fashion. Each of these elements and culture represents the
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: ways that players, fasts, and supporters all pay how much
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: of the game, both on and off the court.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: Hennessy and Mitch Well this came together for the Ultimate
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: Drop to show they share love for basketball and the coatre.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Look man Hennessy and Mitchellan That's got together to do
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: a limited collabse for both of them to share how
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: they love the game of basketball. Hennessy's had a long
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: partnership with the NBA, so has Mitchellan This it's only right.
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  Speaker 4: The collection will be available in retail and online stores
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  Speaker 4: and also available in the Hennessy Arena.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: Tours are making stops in San fran marsh Knife, Dallas
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  Speaker 3: March seventeen, in Atlanta March thirtieth. Club five to twenty
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  Speaker 3: will be in attendance doing what we do best, also
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  Speaker 3: having a drink in Hennessy.
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  Speaker 4: Come have your favorite Hennessy cocktail with your guys.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Man and for your next preak game, let's share a
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  Speaker 5: He's a fresh line and the spice of a.
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  Speaker 2: Guyve topped off with ice in assaulted room, mixic, shake
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  Speaker 2: it port and enjoy the spirit of the league Hennessy.
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: With that your spirit is just a game. Please, this
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: is only for the twenty plus and upgroup.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Drink responsibly and so obviously you know y'all went crazy,
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: came up short the national championship, but you end up
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: being the number one pick that summer.
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: How was that summer for you?
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Going from Ohio States to being the number one pick,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Like obviously was always highly were cool, I always talented,
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: But to be official to number one pick, Like, how
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: was that process for you?
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: It was a whirl wind. Uh shit, just going through
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: the draft process and everything you gotta do, especially knowing
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: you could be one or two. Just always doing interviews,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: just going here and there, never really getting the time
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: to yourself to sit down. But I remember at the
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: draft like, right, you know, after we got called, I
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: remember running to Joe Kim. He was like, GYO, were
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: gonna turn up in the city where we going? And
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: motherfuckers Portland was like, yeah, you got an hour to
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: say by to your family, We got a jet, we
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: got a whole parade set up for you the next day.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: So I will say I missed out on my turn
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: up night with all the draftees in New York, but
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: that parade in Portland and being the number one pick
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: and seeing everything in that city what could have been
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: was definitely an experience I will never forget and so
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: thankful for it because it changed my life for sure.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: And obviously that Portland team obviously when you playing, you
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. Despite the injuries, y'all had some
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: really talented people on the team. Y'all definitely like one
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: of the wonder of teams. How was it to play
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: with like a LaMarcus Artists and to have a Brandon
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: Royo squad because y'all all was super talented.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: Yes, we were just super young and I rarely got
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: to play with him.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: You know, I played like seventy six games I read together.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Damn it might have been seventy two for real. Yeah,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: but those dudes were so talented. You know, Brandon roy
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: always walking in what app Greg out then? He never
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: just called me Greg. He always had to say my
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: full name. That's my guy in LaMarcus. Man, just what
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: one of the most unstoppable games. So either you're gonna
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: stop me going to this hook, I'm gonna do this
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: time around Jay. He was just so smooth and uh,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: you know, I really wish I was healthy enough to
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: be able to help build what Portland had. Man, we
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: had some guys coming into Steve Blake's, the Andre Miller's,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Gerald Wallace Is you know it.
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: Was hello gs.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: No, we did get as, but that was necessary back
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: then though.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, playing with Marcus Canby, Joe Chris Billa, Damn
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Lames right that. Hey, man, dude, I learned a lot.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: I just wish I was out on the floor.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: I've seen an interview with Brendan Roy. He was talking
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: about how when you first got there, you were just dominating.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: He was like, it was so impressive to see you
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: like he was like, I knew I was gonna win
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: two A three championship with him. He was so good,
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: and it just took me back to like you in
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: high school and seeing you in AU. I'm like, bro,
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: he was so dominant, So I knew what he was
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: talking about.
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: You.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: You was the man. Like everybody around here know you.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: We know how dominant you are. So the injury sucks
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: part of the game. But yeah, you definitely was one
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: of them dominant for sure.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: You was on the cover of College who was like,
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: I know, college football coming back this year, niggas is
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: geeked about that. But you was going to cover one
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: of the best basketball games. Ever, how was that? And
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: did you get paid for that?
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: I should I get paid for that? No? I think
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: I took the honor. Now. I was.
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: I was an agent in fucking college.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Have no agent in college?
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: Man oh Man man tapping and kids I got, y'all.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, just being able to look back
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: at that. I mean I think it was the last,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: maybe one of the the second to last, like college,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: you know, putting college players on you know, so it
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: was it was nice. Have you.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: Have you gone back and see what we look like
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: in them games? Noy? Somebody randomly like Instagram even I
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: was bad boy, Nah homie did a real of all
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: of your graphics from like college to two week them
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: first two K graphics.
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: It's crazy. And they had a moll I'm sick of
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: this ship.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Bro.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: Wow, look I know we interview on Greg. What made
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: Joe Lamers get a mohawk that you was up? Why
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: are you getting the mohawk? Corney ass?
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: Y'all laughing at this ship? It was I was, I.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Was living a way. I was living in Atlanta. Bro,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: he gotta die.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: I ain't get that ship, nigga get it died, But
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: I did ask for a designer.
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: Hell, no, obould you play each other in high school?
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: How was that? Did y'all catch the gave each other
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: in the pros?
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: I got to play against Greg every time he walked
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: up to me, Like, how the hell you get to Atlanta.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: I'm in Portant. He was saying to me every single
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: time I seen him. I'm like, Ship, I can't get
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: in the game. Fuck me in Atlanta. I'm gonna get
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: in like.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: I used to Hey, I ain't gonna lie. It was
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: you and out Horford Man. And after that was in
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: the Sierra video, I was hating every time I've seen y'all, nigga.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: I was like, I.
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: Want about playing, I'm worried about party.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: I'm injured, man, I got free time on my hand.
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: Some Goodies was a nice video, spectacularly back in the day.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: How was that though, watching Brendan Roy, who because he
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: got stopped his career got stopped with injuries to men,
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: How was that we talked about him before on the show.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: I think Joe Johnson was better personally, but Brendan Roy
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: was a dog for sure.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: I mean they're both really good. But Brandon, it was
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: just so natural to him out there in Portland that
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: gave him the nickname the natural Man, Like he was
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: just do things that you just nobody was even thinking of.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: You know, He's just I mean a lot of guys
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: from that Seattle area got game like that. They can
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: just score man. They just bucket getters. And it was
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: just such a good dude. You know, I wish he
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: could have played a little longer as well.
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: Man.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: So talented man, and he carried you know, the teams
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: we did have. It wasn't a long time, but you
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: know he was He just did things. Man. Sometimes I
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: find myself going back and watching Brandon Roy's top ten
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: players on YouTube. Hey, man, that was cold.
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: He was. He was right behind Kobe if he ain't
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: get hurt. Nah, he was like that, No, I love
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: Brendan Roy game.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: You putting me right behind Kobe's crazy.
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: But he was like, yeah, that's.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: That's crazy.
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: I'm doing a lot. You're doing a lot today.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Okay, you may not got to Atlanta, but you definitely
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: got to play in Miami.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: I did. It was one year Lebron's last year, and uh,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: you know, I learned a lot basketball wise and off
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: the court wise, just with being with all those Hall
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: of Famers and great players for a long time, and
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: then basketball wise, man, I've never seen basketball at that level.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, basically, you were seeing guys playing at the
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: top of their game, and were talking about Hall of
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: famers playing at the top of their game, and I
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: will say to me, Lebron James is the best player
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: to play the game, even though I love Jordan, I
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: love Shack, and I think Will Chamberlain is the main
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: But watching Bron do it like out there, like watching
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: him get sixty three points in the game and I'm
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: getting four points playing sixteen minutes, tired as hell, game over,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: he dancing around. I'm about to die, my leg about
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: to fall off off of sixteen minutes Like the man
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: just had crazy energy, man, And I'm that That year
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: in Miami was good and I didn't go out that
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: much because I knew I didn't want to get in trouble.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: So I told myself I could have one cheap meal
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: and I can't go to South Beach until the end
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: of the season.
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: Oh he was locked in.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, couldn't have been me.
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: Boy was outside movie track to home my jersey or
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: for real for heat?
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: Now, Bro, that's Mike. Don't do that. Man, I'm trying
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: to add my name. So what's up with your charities?
• 28:12
  Speaker 8: Now?
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: What charities you're working with?
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Now? So the first one right now coaching at Butler,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: A big charity is called a kid Again is throughout
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: the country, but basically a kid again. They provide adventures
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: for families that have kids dealing with life threatening illnesses,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: So basically something for the whole families just to get
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: their mind off of being in the hospital and dealing
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: with whatever illness.
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: That is.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: So a kid again. It is a great organization right
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: here in the city. The Coats mess with it, Pacers
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: mess with it, Butler messes with it. So if you
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: all want to check that out, or if you have
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: people who are dealing with life threatening illnesses and just
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: need something, need a community, you guys should look them up.
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: Now that's dope.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Bro.
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: Did you get into coaching?
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Honestly, I just kind of fell into it just trying
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: to be around basketball. You know, in my career it
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: was basically taken away from me with all the injuries,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: so just trying to be around the game. Went back
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: to Ohio State to get my Bassador's degree, and you know,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: just was going to practices every day. And then I
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: just figured, you know, I got a lot to offer
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: some of these young kids. I know the game, I
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: got experience in life and the ups and downs of
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: being a pro played college at the highest level. So
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: it's something that I kind of just pursued.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: You talk about coaching, Could you ever ever see him
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: being a high school coach?
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: Knowing him as long as you know.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Him, I think so. I think so because these kids
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: needed this these days. Man. Honestly, you need somebody like
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: that's gonna go out there and it was gonna show
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: them and probably cross them over and cut them out
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: at the same time, because they really do not listen
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: these days. You need somebody that that's proven, an NBA champion,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: that can go out there and tell them, you know,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: what they need to do to get to that level.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go ahead give him and his props
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: as the NBA champion.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: He is appreciate that. I think they took my ring
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: back though, Yeah, they took my ring back. The Bucks says, They.
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: Tell me, yeah I did.
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: They don't with you, he said, he still got to
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: deal with Pearents bro at the college level.
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: I would imagine.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: I mean, there's a lot of money being thrown around now,
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: so you know, if you don't feel like your son
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: in the best situation, they probably gonna complain a.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Little bit, you know what I mean.
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: But it's a tough environment right now.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: You think that hurt the game. G I don't what
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: you're talking about. N I L yeah, I uh no,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: because the players should have been getting paid a long
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: time ago. I just think it needs to have a
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: cap on it because right now it's kind of the
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: have and half not. You know, the big school can
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: just you can throw five hundred thousand at a player
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: that's gonna be your twelfth man, you know, out of Kansas,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: when this kid can be your best player, and the
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: most you can give him is two hundred thousand at
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: a small school gotch So it's just you know, and
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: then the transfer portal was gonna add to that because
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: you got all these good kids going and sitting the
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: bench at a big school and then they're gonna transfer.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: They don't go somewhere else, maybe a smaller school that
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: didn't recruit them. They're gonna dominate. So now another big
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: school comes in saying you can be the man. So
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: now they transfer again. And then another thing that's happening
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: is these kids ain't finishing out. They spring, they spring turn,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: so now they're dropping out of school early and then
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: trying to catch up. So a lot of them are
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: not gonna finish their degree.
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: Gotcha.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: And another thing, they don't get any financial education. Like
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: all these kids at a young age are getting all
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: this money and nobody is really telling them what to do.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: You know, a lot of these kids are paying agents,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: h Lee. I mean like in the NBA. Like in
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: the NBA, you're only playing like three four percent, and
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: a lot of these kids, or even the parents or
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: even the families from where these kids coming from don't
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: even know. So it's gonna be a lot So in
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: the long run, I think it is going to hurt
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: the game until we get some cap on it.
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: Now.
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: I remember you came to talk to us in the NBA.
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: You came to Minnesota. I was in Minnesota and you
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: came up and told us about your experience when it
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: came to financial stuff. And you doing that and sharing
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: that kind of info with the kids. Man, it's big
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: because right now it is an environment where everybody is
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: just getting a lot of money, buying scat packs and
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: all types of stuff, and that money can last them
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: and give them a really good head start on life.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: But I don't think they see it yet because everybody
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: think they going to the NBA. So you saying that it's.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Big, Yeah, I've been working with this company as your
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Core for about four years now and just teaching financial
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: literacy to athletes and entertainers, and we're moving to the college,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: but we're also still doing professional athletes and entertainers and
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: it's definitely a lot, it's definitely needed. And uh, you know,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: when I would go and talk, I had a lot
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: of horror stories. So I kind of come in as
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: a you know, an ex athlete that can kind of
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: tell these guys to you know, basically be better with
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: their money. Don't do what I did. And I'll just say,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: I like to tell this one story. It was like,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: you know, when you was young, you was getting your checks,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: you knew it was coming. It was being director positive.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: And all I knew was that my money was on
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: my card and I can get whatever I wanted off
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: my debit card at any time, and it was gonna
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: be there next month. Well, shit, I'm in the club
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: one day and I'm a credit card didn't work, and
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: it's like one point thirty in the morning, and it's
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: to the point where I wasn't as engaged with my
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: financial people, so I didn't even know who to call,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Like if I was going to call the back of
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: the car. I wasn't even know my own security number
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: to even verify myself because I just had people handling
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: that for me. So the biggest thing we like to say,
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: and the financial literacy, as the person who's making the money,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: be as engaged. Know where your money is coming from
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: and where it's going. Know who the people are that's
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: handling your money, because you don't want to be stuck
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: in the club like me emailing the financial guy in
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: California and it's two in the morning.
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: You know, get you back now. Ooh, that's that happened
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: to me at Louis Vauton one time. I was in
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: there trying to purchase something for for one for p
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: I don't say pee, So I'm trying to purchase something
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: for pe.
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: Tricker route tricker. Why didn't get in my car? My
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: card decline?
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: I was in a letter.
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: I was at the store called Jeffreys my card decline.
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: I leave because I'm embarrassed. I go to the bank.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: I gonna get like twenty thousand. I got it, but
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm buying stuff all you woke. That's stupid shit.
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: But that happened to me too. Now, kids, need them
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: stories though, bro.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: Especially like you said the transfer report of the n
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: IL so crazy is that they can have these agreements
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: for money, but they don't have to fulfill them because
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: there's nothing back in those situations like bigger companies, you
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: can do that, but it's so many horstords of kids
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: that in transferred places promises money but they ain't performed
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: that they were supposed to perform them and they ain't
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: get that bread.
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: But you can't suit nobody for that shit.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: And I think that's the most important thing going forward
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: is to where to protect these kids growing up. Now, Yes,
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: it's a lot of money throw on their face, but
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: none of this shit is actually like solidified there. So
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: y'all having a company is saving a lot of people.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And another thing on on that is, well, if
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: you're gonna come in and say I need my money guaranteed,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: and we're gonna come in and say, well then I
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: need fifteen points a game sure, and that's gonna start
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: messing with it again.
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: So that's tough.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: Get rid of the NIL though, Bro, Oh, I don't
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: know about that. You get rid of it, bro, I
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: need to get paid. You get paid, I'm saying, though,
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: like you said. Well, I'm not gonna say get rid
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: of it, but put a cap on them. Like he said, though, bro,
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: because why these kids don't be worth that what they're
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: getting for real?
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Het get paid.
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: He but I'm saying, though, Bro, a lot of kids
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: be cold at a small school. And like he said,
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: the dude could be the twelfth man on kids is
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: getting found on the bands. I ain't count nobody's bread.
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: I'm just saying, like, spread the money. So it's not
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: as Sianna can't compete with dude. You know what I'm
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: saying with the nil. So that's why it's tough for shit.
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: Fuck it.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: If I'm if I know I ain't going to the
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: league'm getting biggest bag.
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: I can't out the gate. I grew out a bitch.
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: Respect bro. We can move on. I don't want to
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: get into my spill.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: I go here.
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: You you can do it, man. We're good for sure,
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: all right.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: Greg.
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: I gotta ask you, what's the best team you've ever
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: been on?
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: Uh? The Miami Heat team?
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: Oh that easy?
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: Twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen. I mean we made to the
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: NBA Finals. Not gonna lie.
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: I think you out of pocket, saying Bron better than
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: Jordan though, oh.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no no. I grew up with Jordan's.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: I'm saying the person I've literally seen with my own
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: eyes do it. So that's when I go, Bron is
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: my goat because I've actually seen it. Now, I grew
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: up on Jordan. I love Jordan. I think he's the
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: greatest thing, like everybody else, like I would tell my
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: daughter Michael Jordans, but for me personally, it's Lebron because
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: I've seen him do stuff that, like, I ain't think
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: it's possible.
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: No Lebron cold he he he probably is. He like
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: one a. And when Michael Jordan like not in the system,
• 37:28
  Speaker 5: like he by itself because like.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: Mj everybody wanted to be j not everybody want to
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: be Bron, Like that's not everybody want to be Bron Bro.
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: Like we still look.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: You look in the crowd right now, it's Jordan's everywhere,
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: Like everybody wear Jordan's. Everybody still want to be George.
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: I got Jordan's on. I don't know what the fuck
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: you got on.
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: But everybody as today.
• 37:52
  Speaker 8: As I got you, brother, go ahead, you deal.
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: Man, my nigga, the real I don't, but I think
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: on the court though, it's kind of hard to be
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: like Lebron James, that's what he's saying, Like, you don't
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: train your kid to be like a Lebron because he's
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: definitely a once in a lifetime type of talent.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: He's saying.
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: Influential wise, Jordan's more impactful. I would say, more relatable,
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: you know what I mean.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: As a big man. I got to ask you how
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: you feel about Yokis from the NBA right now.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: I'm proud of it. Jokis is me and Jeff was talking.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: He got that game and he's going to play if
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: he wanted to for twenty five years and can still
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: dominate it as long as he can move. Man, his
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: IQ of the game and just the things he can
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: do with his body and lack of athleticism, it is
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: just amazing. And I think a lot of these kids
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: coming up need to take notice of the skill and
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: just the IQ of the game to be that type
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: of dominant player, not just being athletic.
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: It's gonna get you there for sure, all right, before
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: we get out of here, obviously I know who you're
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: taking the Temple Wolfs Nuggets, but who you got Small
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: game seven Pacers, Knicks. I got Pacers, my nigga Joe
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: Joe Nix and seven Bro.
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: I got Jaylen Bronson.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: Well, I've been saying I think the Knicks are the
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: better team technically, that scophon I am. I'm all in
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: on the Pacers right now.
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: Man, I like the Pacer. I but the guard playing
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: at the Gordon game seven.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: Right now, I think the Knicks is just too banged
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: up for me to see him.
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: But that crowd gonna be crazy, you know how the
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: atmosphere is a lot of people shrinking them kind of
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: environments and it's gonna be.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: New York in New York, and that's thank you.
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: I know, I know they did something yesterday. They went
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: to some bar or something.
• 40:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's over what bro? Yeah, it's oh you know
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: my model.
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: Males Turner, Teama Turner, Britney Turner, Nixon seven.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: Bro. No, I don't know that.
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: Nixon seven.
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: It's o g back Nah, don't matter, Pasture of seven.
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: I alread you talking about masters score.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: Going gonna ask what's one of the most craziest environments
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: you played the basketball game?
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: Yeh uh, Michigan State. Man, Michigan State. We went out
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: and we was warming up before the game, and it
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: got quiet. Craig, how was War two?
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: Damn?
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: I'm nineteen at the time.
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: I was like, you look thirty.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: How did somebody you look? Hey? So nobody said nothing
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: on my team and I respect him for it. But
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: when we went in the back, was like, hey, did
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: y'all hear what they said about Craig?
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: I go like, yo, you gotta get burst certificate. Bro
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: pro demned every one of the Africans. Bro, yeah, you
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: said Greg is real passal.
• 41:07
  Speaker 5: Twenty.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: My African is crazy?
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: No, my face is crazy.
• 41:14
  Speaker 5: It's crazy. Oh, by fun, I'm willing my.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Disrespectful No, I look at it like this. They told me.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: When I was sixteen, I looked thirty five. I was
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: twenty one. I looked thirty five. I'm thirty six right now.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: You look hopefully when I'm fifty, you look look forty five.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: Oh you got braids, so I can't. I can't do
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: them no more. So shout out to you, you old
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: niggas that you don't know. I ain't haf his braids
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: before you cut them off, you know? Is that why
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: I'm just in my little space right here. You're going
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: to put them holes out them crazy. The real last is, hey,
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: you know what, y'all right crazy, I'm gonna start heating again.
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: That's yeah, Yeah, Jeff, you got to bring back the
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: pipe brades by this ship barely hanging over this is
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: a shout out to you, the real lead.
• 42:13
  Speaker 5: My ships were like nipsy brod under that I hate.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: I got the definite will man, that's what they gave
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: before they put that soul in in.
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: Who got the soe in the here? You asked question?
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: We out.
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: Mike?
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: Any one question Mike?
• 42:38
  Speaker 5: We can't we get don't no sound language? Oh, come on,
• 42:41
  Speaker 5: freaking Mike. Three questions?
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: Anybody Carmo shirt on?
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: Sorry Mike, Mike got every canky version of Nike they got.
• 42:56
  Speaker 5: I'm actually had no socks on. Questions, questions, anybody got questions?
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: No, but damn Mike shot forget.
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: Good And we appreciate y'all. Man, y'all been a great crowd.
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: G Yo, appreciate you pulling up my boy about to
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: get a party back rock.
• 43:19
  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying.
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: We got food over here. The bar is back open.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: Food that is back open. Enjoy y'allselves, have a good time.
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: Turn this bitch up. We appreciate you all rocking with us.
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah.