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The Farron Dozier Show “ Life Towards Sport” · Military Broadcast Radio | MBR Talk

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  When it was in my mother's. Womb, I have called me on my
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  life to do something in the glory of God and marry it like a
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  wife, commit myself to His Word and never be LED astray.
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  And when it's all over, when He comes, I'll be glad to see that
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  day in the morning time. Hey, what's up man?
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  How you doing? I'm.
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  Blessed my brother. I'm good, man.
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  I'm good. Hey Did.
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  You see the game last night. I was your game.
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  But did you see the shot? I lost money from that.
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  Oh man, that shot was. Old man but it.
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  Was good, yeah. What's the name you really want
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  to know? I do.
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  Exhaustion, muscle spasm, Asthmatic issues, unexpected
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  sickle cell trait Titan. Are.
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  You serious? When I was young I found out I
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  had sickle cell trait. My mom's told me but I didn't
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  have no knowledge of it. But when I got older I had a
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  child and the doctor told me my daughter had sickle cell trait.
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  Do you know the fact that both parents have sickle cell trait?
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  There's a 50% chance the child may have the trait and 25%
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  chance the child may have the disease.
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  And that's what's the count, Do you know that 2.5 million people
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  in the United States have sickle cell trait?
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  300 million people globally. I didn't find out I had sickle
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  cell trait until I was in the Army 10 years.
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  Next thing you know, I had a sickle cell trait, exertion
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  site, April cell. I thought that was a.
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  Black gene or something? Nah man, the black community is
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  number 21 out of 36,000 babies are being born with sickle cell
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  disease. It could be Caucasian,
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  Mediterranean, European. You got to read a bloodline.
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  Man. There is an inherited gene in
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  our community that has been forgotten.
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  The name is Sickle Cell trait. WDCONSCT, also known as What's
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  the Count, is out to bring awareness, education and
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  prevention to people all over the globe.
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  Want more information? Call us now at 323-215-5384 or
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  visit WWW dot WDCON sct.org. Miss, we're talking about Mr.
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  Red, White and Blue. Ladies and gentlemen, how you
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  doing this evening? This is the Frondozy Show on the
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  As always, we have a very important spectacular show for
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  you here. Thanks for catching the episode.
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  If you want, you can catch me on Tuesdays at 6:00 PM on KCA radio
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  106.5 FM at 10:50 AM over there today.
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  We just going to get right in it.
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  I got some guests here. I got on my Orcas ABA Basketball
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  Jersey. My, my, my personal one.
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  I'm not a player, but I've been blessed to be a owner of a
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  American Basketball Association team and I got two people here.
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  1 is the owner for, for I forgot how many 20 plus years I would
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  imagine, I think. And then one gentleman I met
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  actually before I purchased the Ventura County Orcas, I actually
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  called him because he was a guest on my sports show a few
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  years ago. And so I picked his brain to
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  find out, you know, what happened with his team.
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  And so he's here as well. So we're going to get right into
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  it because today we're going to talk basketball right from from
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  what I'm up to in the community today.
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  But also I'm going to go back in time and talk a little bit about
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  my basketball identity and even why I'm even doing what I'm
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  doing around this ABA platform, right?
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  So we're going to get into that a little bit on the second-half,
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  But let me bring up my guests. They they talked, they went off
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  the camera. So you seen the PSA sickle cell
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  trade awareness. So if you have any questions,
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  you can make sure you go there and I can offer, you know, some
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  insights. If you know someone that has
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  sickle cell trade and they need this information.
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  Veterans, you know, athletes, this is, this is a global
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  conversation, is not just African Americans, although we
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  are #1 because sickle cell trait combats polaria and the regions
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  of where my ancestors came from, which is a Nigeria Africa area.
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  So yeah, anybody can have this in heritage gene.
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  Hispanics are #2 but you can be Caucasian, Mediterranean, Asian,
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  Saudi Arabian. Stickle cell trade does not
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  exclude anyone because it's not a it's not a skin color.
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  It is a blood condition right, So make sure you go to that
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  website if you have any questions about the sickle cell
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  trade. I am a speaker travel around the
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  city bringing awareness to that inherit to Jean and also rather
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  milosis and we'll get in touch with some of that discussion as
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  well. All right, so I see Mr. Gerald
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  here is on camera. Let me see what's happening,
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  Sir. How you doing?
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  Oh, I can't hear you. Is it me?
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  I can't hear you, my guy. Is it me?
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  Where's my audio at? I can't hear you.
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  All right, we're going to make sure we get that now.
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  I can't hear. Let's see.
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  Is it me? Are you talking?
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  Try again. No, I can't hear you.
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  I can't hear you. Let's see.
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  We're going to drop him down in a minute.
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  I'm over here plugging in my headphones because I I thought
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  it was me like BBD, but yeah. So I'm going to get these
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  gentlemen situated here. We're going to play a quick PSA.
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  I'm going to check the sound quality because we are live on
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  Roku TV as well. So for those of you who are
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  listening and or watching, we are live.
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  Let me see if he's straight. How about now?
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  There you go. I heard something.
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  There you go. I hear you clicking.
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  Are you clicking something? Yeah.
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  Can you hear me now? I can hear you.
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  Yeah. Your camera.
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  I can hear you. Yeah.
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  Good, good. How you doing?
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  It was just a matter of putting on the right mic.
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  I'm good, feeling groovy like a 10 cent movie.
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  Then thank you for taking time out today to, to be a part of
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  this conversation with me, man. I've, I've, I've again, I've, as
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  I opened up the show meeting you a few years ago on my other
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  sports show and then have an opportunity to talk to you after
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  you had had an ABA basketball team yourself and went through
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  that, that, that experience. So I was like, who can I call to
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  get some? Cause what I learned was before
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  you make a, a decision for, make sure you talk to some people
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  who's already been down that road so you can get some
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  insights on how they handled that.
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  So you was you was my, my, my, my, my, my test to that process.
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  And man, you, you, you came through for me.
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  So I thank you for that. Appreciate it.
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  Appreciate it, but I, I feel, I feel like a proud Papa because
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  you've definitely taken it to a whole nother level.
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  Hey, hey, look, they're the jersey right there we got.
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  Multiple teams. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly that.
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  I'm going to talk about that later as part of my identity
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  crisis and how I got end up with from one to three teams.
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  But do me a favor and introduce yourself to the listeners here.
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  Sure, sure. First of all, thank you so much
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  for having me. It's a plum.
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  Please and pleasure to be here with you guys.
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  My name is Gerald E Jackson. I happen to be the Chairman and
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  President ofregal.tv and that's our global television
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  broadcasting network. We've had that since about 2015.
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  My basic background is that I am a business management consultant
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  and I've had my own firm, GE Jackson and Associates for where
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  I'm at about 40 years now since 1986.
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  So that is kind of my bread and butter, what we do.
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  But again, I've added a few pieces to that, the digital
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  media work that we do. And then here lately I added
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  just another piece of that, which is a project that we call
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  St. Pro Basketball.
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  And that is something that's designed to be a unique entity
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  unto itself. It's a little different in how
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  we roll out the game of basketball in that we we took a
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  look at why people watch the game basketball and why some
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  people kind of stopped watching the game of basketball and the
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  feedback we got was it a lot of people were saying the game is
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  just too long. It's really not enough
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  excitement. Some people said, I don't even
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  watch the first half of an NBA game.
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  I just check in at the second-half or I might watch
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  ESPN and see the highlights. So a buddy of mine by the name
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  of Anthony Bingham, he's the other Co founder Super
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  Basketball ball and myself as a Co founder, we yeah, take a look
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  at we spent the game up a little bit, took a post that we did
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  when we walked in the gym, you know, years ago.
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  I think for the most part it's still I got today.
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  You go to work out, you pick five players and you go first to
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  11:50, go to play that game game and and go, you know, first to
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  11 by ones. So we struck tournaments in the
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  same way. They're 210 minute halves and
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  second-half at the first ball stop pitch under the four minute
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  mark, we implement what's known as an Elam ending, which is
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  whichever team is winning at that point, we add eight points
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  to that the winning the leading team score.
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  So for example, if the in the first box we add eight points to
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  50 which becomes 58 and when the ball gets put back in play the
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  first team. I think, I think your computer
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  is frozen, my guy. Let me see if we can get this
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  So unfortunately we will figure out his signal and we're going
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  to play APSA and come back and let him get that situated.
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  us. All right, Gerald, let me see if
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  you ready. You got your signal back.
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  You got your signal back. No, you don't have a signal back
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  yet. Al, you ready to talk up there?
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  Down there, Al, let me see. Al, you ready to talk or we find
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  the C? Here we go.
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  Here we go. How you doing, Sir?
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  How you doing? Sir, we are good to go.
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  Can you hear me? It looks like I'm not working
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  right now. Huh.
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  My mic. My mic working.
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  I I can hear you, but I hear my voice on your end.
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  I think it's Echo. You got echo?
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  Yeah, I don't have a echo. Yeah, I got a echo.
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  I got a echo. OK, let me see.
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  Got some headphones? Headphones.
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  Yeah. So I was going to say maybe
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  these headphones, OK. Cool, cool.
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  Let me see where Gerald is at. Gerald, how you doing?
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  Gerald's still not there. Frozen.
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  Oh, there you go. I'm good, I'm good.
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  Can you hear me now? I can hear you.
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  OK. We're going to get out.
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  Back on the deck. I got you out.
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  I can hear you. I can hear you.
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  No connected on these headphones.
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  Are you still connecting? All right.
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  Again, this is what happens when you are live, ladies and
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  gentlemen. We're going to get it together.
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  Gerald, are you frozen? Can.
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  You hear me now? No, it's.
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  All right, how about how Now I don't know why.
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  Are you good? Can you hear me?
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  Yeah, I can hear you my. Echo.
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  No, the echo's gone. My voice is gone.
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  OK. All right, Gerald, are you?
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  Are you frozen? Gerald, can you hear us?
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  No. Gerald is still frozen.
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  Let me drop down. Gerald.
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  Let me go. There you go.
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  Gerald. Are you there?
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  Yeah. He's frozen too.
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  All right, man, do me a favor. We're not strangers, man.
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  Do me a favor. Introduce yourself.
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  Let them give them some background of the ABA from your
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  perspective of it, man, and we'll work on getting Gerald on
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  deck. So my name is Al Smith.
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  I am the founder and owner operator of Nova Star
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  Basketball, which has rebranded to Nova Stars of Southern
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  California. I am also the regional chairman
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  for the West Region of the ABA American Basketball Association.
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  I've been a team owner since 2020.
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  I started the Nova Stars in 2004, so that's what, 22 years
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  now and just owning the team. I started coaching in the ABA
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  around 2007 and I became A-Team owner in 2012.
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  So that's a little bit of history of me and my A/B AI
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  guess intro, not the journey, but just the intro how it came
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  about, right? Started the team though from a
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  movie set from the Coach Carter movie set, right?
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  My friend Antoine was filming Coach Carter at the time.
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  We put the team together and he told me that they had a whole
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  crew on set of D1 basketball players that were auditioning
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  for the movie and they were actually running hills in
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  Northridge and having practices running suicides.
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  He said it was legit practice. It wasn't Fugazi just for the
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  movie that these guys could actually play.
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  So we decided to put a tryout together and, and that's how the
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  Nova stars came about. So that's a little bit of
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  background on me. My, my, my career path has been
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  mortgage and real estate. You know, I, I got my license in
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  real estate in 1998. So, and I've been in the
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  mortgage business up until maybe about 3-4 years ago and just
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  decided to take a break from that for personal reasons and,
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  and such. So that's that's a little bit
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  about my background up until now.
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  You know, we got Gerald on the other line here.
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  You know, what do you want to say about his approach to you
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  for the Pro Street Bar? What was that?
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  What was that conversation about?
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  What was that like for you? Gerald approached me with this,
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  with this initiative, and we were just brainstorming because
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  I had a similar initiative that I'm working.
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  It was a little bit different. So we just decided to collab a
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  little bit because we're in the offseason right now.
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  We don't have anything going. Felt it would be a good
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  opportunity to get some exposure for a few of our teams that have
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  been kind of lying around stagnant without doing anything,
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  no action. But I talked to the team owners
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  on a regular basis, so I know that they're moving around in
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  the offseason, they're active, they got players at their
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  fingertips that are available. So I just helped him put a
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  couple of pieces together so that we can do a street ball, a
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  Pro Street ball event to showcase a few professional
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  basketball players that are not getting the same notoriety and
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  exposure as a lot of the other content creators and pro
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  players. But they're still good
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  basketball players that can produce, that can perform, that
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  probably can be scouted as well. They're in different circles and
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  on different platforms and they don't get the same exposure as
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  those other guys that we all see on a regular basis because those
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  guys have a little bit more of an end on how to get their brand
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  out, how to get their faces in front of fans and things like
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  that. So this was something that we
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  both were talking about, and then we're doing it for the guys
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  that don't get that type of exposure and don't get that type
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  of opportunity. You know, so when you first hear
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  about it, you might look at it and say, well, you know, that's
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  not much, it's not a lot there, blah, blah, blah.
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  But you don't know me. You don't know Gerald, and you
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  don't know who we know and the type of people that will, you
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  know, most likely come through and bless this platform.
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  You know, when you're looking back at just the people that
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  I've been in contact with throughout my basketball career,
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  you know, I had guys that I started with before they became
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  famous, you know, Larry Williams, who everybody knows
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  now as Bone Collector, you know, I didn't know him, his bone
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  collected. When he came to me, he was
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  introduced to me as Speedy because that was his nickname
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  around the town around here. He hadn't gotten the name Bone
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  Collector yet, you know, So guys like that, guys that everybody
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  knows, Sick witty. Sick Witty was one of the first
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  guys that I met in the basketball community in Southern
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  California back in 96 or 7 or something like that.
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  So, you know, there's connections to people that have
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  played on those platforms, whether it's been through
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  content creation or whether it's actually been on a professional
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  platform, right? You know, there's other guys
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  that have played for me that have played for NBA teams like
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  Doug Thomas. You know, right now he's
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  coaching big men over in Japan or China.
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  One of them, you know, he's just got that gig and this is 25
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  years later and he's still going at it.
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  So you've got a lot of people that are going to be showcased
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  on this platform just to tell us.
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  We know who I know who Gerald knows.
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  Those are the things that are more important, that brings the
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  validity, that brings the excitement that the things that
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  people want to see on a basketball court together, right
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  When you look around the basketball community right now
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  locally here in Southern California, you've got, you
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  know, the Drew League is active right now, it's summertime.
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  You've got Mecca active right now.
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  They've got a cash prize on their league.
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  You've got VBL active right now. Venice Beach, you know,
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  summertime. Everybody likes going and
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  playing in Beach, so there's a lot of basketball, you know,
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  going on and there's a lot of great players that are in on
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  these platforms being showcased. So, you know, we have a a lane
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  as well that we're trying to showcase and we're trying to
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  bring to the public. And and that's what Pro Street
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  ball is about, you know, the same thing.
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  We've got the same relationships as all those guys that you see
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  at True League and C at Mecca and C at VBL.
• 27:35
  Those are the guys that we know. They play for us, They play for
• 27:39
  me most. Almost half the league in the
• 27:41
  Drew League play for me, OK? I can look around on every
• 27:46
  basketball team and find one player on that team that have
• 27:49
  had a uniform on that I own before, OK?
• 27:53
  So that's how deep our roots are in basketball around Southern
• 27:57
  California. That's how much familiarization
• 28:01
  that we have with the top players that are available at
• 28:04
  this time of year, right? So here's the sweet spot to all
• 28:08
  this, right? Mecca, Drew League, VBL, You see
• 28:15
  them on TV. Nope.
• 28:18
  Over here? Nope.
• 28:20
  So we got a little bit more of an edge because we have
• 28:24
  television that we can bring you these guys just like you see the
• 28:28
  other guys on television that are well known and highly
• 28:32
  marketed and you hear their names everywhere you go, right?
• 28:36
  So that's the thing that we have with Pro Street Ball that the
• 28:41
  other guys don't have with their summer league platforms.
• 28:45
  They're great platforms, lot of high level players.
• 28:49
  The gyms are semi, you know, packed, but they have consistent
• 28:53
  fan bases and traffic throughout the day at those facilities,
• 28:56
  right, But they only they only bring traffic for the the people
• 29:05
  that have the bigger names right, that want to be seen.
• 29:10
  So it's a matter of making time to show up, right?
• 29:14
  Scheduling your day to go and support these guys to go show
• 29:18
  up. But with River Eagle TV, you can
• 29:22
  have access at these guys at your fingertip, OK?
• 29:26
  So it's not like like making plans and things like that to
• 29:30
  schedule your day or trying to carve out and cancel on people
• 29:35
  because you can't be there because you want to come
• 29:37
  support. Your.
• 29:38
  Your family or your people that you want to see on the
• 29:40
  basketball court? No, if you want to see somebody
• 29:43
  in our section that we are familiar with, just basically
• 29:47
  all the guys that get the hype all summer, but you don't see
• 29:49
  about it unless it's a highlight reel, right?
• 29:52
  But you'll be able to see them on a regular basis just watching
• 29:55
  the broadcast on River Eagle TV, right?
• 29:59
  We got this championship game coming up on Saturday.
• 30:02
  It'll be no stars against Dogs, you know my team.
• 30:07
  So that'll be a great game to be showcased because your coach,
• 30:12
  LG, you know, me and him go a long way back.
• 30:16
  I coached him, played against him in championship games when
• 30:21
  he was a player, and now we're coaching against each other.
• 30:25
  So full circle, I know this, I know the fabric of LGI, know
• 30:30
  he's a high level elite competitor, right?
• 30:33
  So you got him and me playing in this championship game on
• 30:36
  Saturday morning. Like Gerald told us earlier with
• 30:40
  the Elam ending rules in the 10 minute halves, that's going to
• 30:44
  just generate defense, generate additional activity on the court
• 30:49
  because it's a fast game, fast pace and it's going to end fast,
• 30:54
  right? So some of the players are a
• 30:57
  little, you know, misguided because they don't get a lot of
• 31:01
  time on the court. They got to wake up early to
• 31:03
  come play this game. It's probably going to last 30
• 31:06
  minutes and it'll be over with so.
• 31:09
  They're a little butthurt. About that.
• 31:10
  But you know, the game itself and the way it looks and when
• 31:13
  it's played and the action and excitement in that 15 minute
• 31:18
  window or wherever it's going to be, it's more action-packed in
• 31:24
  that moment than you can catch watching a full length NBA game.
• 31:31
  That's the other side to the trade off for a short compact
• 31:34
  game versus a long drawn out extended game, right?
• 31:38
  Sure. You know, so I know I've been
• 31:41
  talking. Yeah, that's good.
• 31:43
  No, it's good. This is this is the can you?
• 31:46
  Guys, can you guys hear me OK? Yeah, go ahead Gerald.
• 31:50
  Let let let give us some more background of of your platform.
• 31:53
  Well, Al did an amazing job, an outstanding job kind of painting
• 31:58
  the picture of of how we do it and what we do with street pro
• 32:01
  basketball in our tournaments. One thing that I want to
• 32:05
  emphasize is that in this process of introducing what is
• 32:12
  essentially a new brand of basketball, what I'm personally
• 32:16
  finding out and it's OK, it's OK because it's all a part of the
• 32:20
  process. It's all part of the journey is
• 32:22
  when you introduce something new, you have to establish and
• 32:25
  prove that concept. And when you compare that with
• 32:28
  something that's tried and true, you're going to get serious
• 32:32
  comparisons. And so you got to kind of pay
• 32:34
  your dues. You kind of have to show why
• 32:37
  this makes sense. For example, St. pro basketball,
• 32:40
  the question is often asked why, why are you doing 10 minute
• 32:44
  halves? You know, it's not like the
• 32:46
  traditional game of of what's going on.
• 32:49
  Well, that's expressly why we created this brand that has
• 32:53
  unique feel to it. You have to either be first to
• 32:56
  market or you have to find yourself being best in the
• 33:01
  market. So even if you're not the first
• 33:02
  one in the market, if you create something that's the best in the
• 33:04
  market, a better mousetrap if you will, you're going to
• 33:07
  attract a fan base and customers.
• 33:09
  So we're going to have to pay our dues a little bit.
• 33:11
  Fortunately, I was a former NBA free agent back in the late 80s.
• 33:14
  So I mean, I know all about it in terms of, you know,
• 33:17
  preparation, work ethic, conditioning, competitive
• 33:23
  fierceness on the court. And when you step on the court
• 33:25
  to win, not just to play, not just to play, but when you talk
• 33:29
  about champions, champions don't enter the gym to participate.
• 33:34
  Champions. Walk in the gym to walk out
• 33:37
  having won, getting the chip, getting the trophy, winning the
• 33:40
  game, whatever it may be. It's a whole nother mindset as a
• 33:43
  champion. And so as far as being willing
• 33:47
  to take on that battle, if you will, of folks saying, well, you
• 33:50
  know, what's the 10 minute game? It's, you know, yada, yada,
• 33:52
  yada. Well, here's the thing.
• 33:53
  What especially, you know, going back to that, attempting to
• 33:56
  build a better mousetrap. I don't think it would have
• 33:59
  served us well to come out with a brand that is played the same
• 34:05
  time length as every other basketball game because we're
• 34:07
  just a new face in the market, but nothing different.
• 34:11
  So what does that do? It gives us an opportunity to
• 34:14
  show another way of doing it and then we have to earn that fan
• 34:18
  base. If you're going to come with a
• 34:20
  different flavor, that flavor better have some taste to it and
• 34:23
  it better have some stick ability.
• 34:25
  So people want to taste it again and again.
• 34:27
  So you have to you have to earn that if you will.
• 34:30
  Like I tell players when I was mentoring different players,
• 34:34
  when you, when you desire to be a champion and if you're blessed
• 34:38
  to get into a championship game, my first recommendation is
• 34:43
  obviously you know, you didn't get there by accident.
• 34:45
  You went through a lot of teams to get to the championship game
• 34:48
  #1 so you, you deserve to be there.
• 34:50
  But here's the thing that usually cuts through, clarifies
• 34:53
  and defines who's going to win that championship.
• 34:57
  If you are not already an existing champion, you very well
• 35:01
  might be playing a team who's won a championship or might be
• 35:04
  the defending champions. So they haven't decided answers.
• 35:07
  They've been there and done that and they're expecting to do it
• 35:09
  again. If you have not won a
• 35:11
  championship and you're playing against the champion, my advice
• 35:15
  has always been before you step on that court, you better had a
• 35:18
  mindset. I came here to win and I'm
• 35:19
  willing to compete. You got to take the
• 35:21
  championship. They're not going to give it to
• 35:22
  you. You got to take it right.
• 35:23
  So you got to believe you're a champion before you win a
• 35:26
  championship and how you step into it.
• 35:28
  So with street pro basketball, I was saying, and I was sure with
• 35:31
  Anthony, the other Co founder, we got to build that brand.
• 35:34
  But here's what I believe will happen.
• 35:36
  We'll we'll develop a following because why are people going to
• 35:39
  like this? They're going to say, well, and
• 35:41
  number one, you don't have to stick around all day to see the
• 35:43
  game because it's about, you know, 30 minutes and from the
• 35:47
  tip, from the tip to the chip to the to the winners, about
• 35:50
  roughly 30 minutes, give or take.
• 35:52
  Then secondly, and I think this is going to work on our favor.
• 35:56
  It's high octane action. You know, it's literally old
• 35:59
  school. It's going to the gym.
• 36:00
  You have no guarantee you walk in that gym, you put five
• 36:03
  players together and it's, you know, 1st 211 by ones.
• 36:06
  And so you're scrapping, you're getting it in because what you
• 36:09
  got you if it's a good gym with good players, you got 40 other
• 36:13
  players sitting in that gym waiting for they got next down,
• 36:15
  next down. So the ground is always playing
• 36:17
  in that environment. You want to walk in and do what
• 36:20
  we call hold the court down. You want to play 4, maybe five
• 36:24
  games without losing, so you can come to your and just hold the
• 36:28
  court down and play till you get tired and then you know, I'll
• 36:32
  give you my spot. If we I'm going to play so we
• 36:34
  can win, then I'm done. But once we win our team still
• 36:37
  on the floor and my man, I'm going to give you my spot.
• 36:39
  So you can say so you want to hold the court down.
• 36:41
  So I I think what's going to work to our advantage is that
• 36:44
  once people see that high octane action and we have the E
• 36:47
  lamenting at the first ball stoppage at the four minute mark
• 36:51
  in the second-half, teams will become be competitive right on
• 36:55
  through because they want to stay close to each other and
• 36:57
  they want to win, if not pull away.
• 36:58
  But when the elim ending gets implemented and say, for
• 37:02
  example, if it's 50 to 46, for example, ball stoppage goes out
• 37:05
  of bounds or coach calls a time out under 4 minutes in the
• 37:08
  second-half, then we're going to add eight points to the team
• 37:11
  that's leading that score. It becomes 58 in that example.
• 37:14
  So when that ball comes back and play, believe me, it's it's it's
• 37:18
  champion against champ. The the heart of a champion is
• 37:21
  going to rise cause king. When they come back on the
• 37:23
  floor, they know it's no overtime.
• 37:25
  It's first to 58. So that's why the teams want to
• 37:27
  stay close during the game. So when we get to the Elam
• 37:30
  ending it it's just, you know, straight downhill.
• 37:33
  It's like we got to and and I tell you what else happens.
• 37:35
  The third thing, which I think we're going to build up a
• 37:38
  basketball audience. We got to do that first.
• 37:40
  Excuse me, not a basketball audience, but basketball
• 37:43
  players, the competitors. We got to do that first.
• 37:45
  And then secondly, we're going to build the artists.
• 37:47
  Here's how we're going to, I believe, build, build the buy in
• 37:51
  from the players. It's because when they
• 37:52
  understand the competitiveness of it, they're going to say this
• 37:56
  is what we play for. This is like that, the whole
• 37:58
  octane where things ramp up even more.
• 38:00
  Now what happens when that goes down, fellas?
• 38:03
  Ball comes back and play first team to the target score wins.
• 38:07
  What happens when that ball comes back and play with
• 38:10
  championship level players are elite went women and men
• 38:13
  players. What happens coaches guess what
• 38:18
  you're going to start hearing hey protect the ball.
• 38:20
  Make sure that we get some on every trip get back on D you
• 38:24
  it's no more you don't have any you can't take plays off you
• 38:28
  can't take trips up the floor. Everybody's there.
• 38:30
  The highest skill levels are starting to come out.
• 38:33
  The passes are crisper, the focus, get the shot, follow the
• 38:36
  shot. Everything amps from a skill
• 38:38
  level you you it sharpens because you can't afford to have
• 38:41
  a 2 blank trips because you might just lose the game because
• 38:44
  you you know, just fall behind. So from a basketball competitive
• 38:48
  perspective, I think that's why players 25 to 35, men and women
• 38:53
  around the country, I think that's why they're going to buy
• 38:55
  into it because it's not just basketball.
• 38:57
  It's like we get a chance to show our very best skill set.
• 39:00
  And then at as the Elam ending kicks in, you're going to find
• 39:03
  out who can handle that pressure best, who still make shots that
• 39:07
  money shot down the stretch. So I think that's where the
• 39:10
  competitiveness will kick in from the the buying from the
• 39:13
  players. And then as those games are
• 39:15
  played and televised, I think the audience through our social
• 39:18
  media or our public, our, our, our PR agencies and our
• 39:25
  television commercials rate, I think the audience will start
• 39:28
  liking it because they'll like, I, I like seeing these.
• 39:30
  You don't have to wait all day in, in this case for Southern
• 39:33
  California, in the exhibition games, we're doing those in the
• 39:35
  morning. But in the regular tournament
• 39:37
  games, those will all be played in the afternoon.
• 39:39
  So players will have a chance to wake up out.
• 39:42
  They'll get a chance to to wake up.
• 39:44
  And. Give.
• 39:45
  The message on the corner at two or three in the afternoon.
• 39:48
  But I really, I really like the fact that number one, we got to
• 39:51
  challenge herself as an organization to ask answer the
• 39:54
  question, is this worth seeing? I think the competitiveness on
• 39:57
  the court will will answer that question emphatically yes.
• 40:00
  And I think as far as an audience, I think people will
• 40:03
  want to. You look at it as must see, must
• 40:05
  see TV because it's super competitive, but the proof will
• 40:08
  be in the pudding when you start having NBA players and WNBA
• 40:11
  players tuning in to watch the game and talking about it on
• 40:14
  ESPN. When it gets to that level, you
• 40:16
  know, we made the debt that we want to make, but we got to earn
• 40:19
  that. We got to earn that.
• 40:21
  Yeah, thank you for that. And again, I definitely look
• 40:23
  forward to being there with Coach LG and the IE Dogs
• 40:27
  competing against the Nova Stars.
• 40:30
  Give us some more background as far as some of the key reasons
• 40:34
  on your why you're doing this. I know from my perspective, the
• 40:38
  sickle cell trade conversation is very, very important to me as
• 40:41
  far as the sickle cell trade myself being a carrier and the
• 40:44
  disease community. So you got people can come
• 40:47
  actually be a part of your program, right, with their
• 40:48
  causes. And and so talk about that real
• 40:51
  for a little bit, right? Yeah, that that was all a part
• 40:54
  of the initial thought process process in terms of to your
• 40:58
  point, the why. Again, that was, you know, in no
• 41:01
  small part because of my marketing background.
• 41:03
  I thought about it. If we're going to bring a
• 41:05
  basketball tournament to to, you know, the the buying public
• 41:10
  around the nation, it needs to be more than just basketball
• 41:13
  because people can TuneIn and watch basketball in a lot of
• 41:16
  places, NBA games, WNBA, stuff like that.
• 41:19
  So I wanted to give the people a reason to support what we're
• 41:24
  doing. So in every tournament, in every
• 41:26
  city, we're going to give a portion when we do the
• 41:29
  championship games on Saturday, that's what we call the
• 41:32
  championship Saturday. In the actual tournament, there
• 41:35
  are up to 8 teams, 8 women's teams and eight men's teams that
• 41:40
  compete on Friday in the preliminary rounds.
• 41:43
  And then when we get to the final four on Friday and the two
• 41:45
  teams that win, the two women's top, the two top women's teams
• 41:49
  and the two top men's teams that play on Friday, they will
• 41:52
  advance to play a single championship game on Saturday,
• 41:56
  which we call Championship, Championship Saturday.
• 41:58
  And those games are, are televised on our pay-per-view
• 42:01
  channel for $9.95. So, so the why became, you know,
• 42:05
  why would somebody want to pay to watch a basketball game and
• 42:07
  say they could watch it for free on TNT or, or, or whatnot.
• 42:11
  Here's here's what we added to give a portion of that $9 away
• 42:15
  to worthy charities and underserved children's causes
• 42:20
  and organizations. So in this case with the game
• 42:23
  that's going to take place on on Saturday, August 8th, a portion
• 42:26
  of that $9 is going to be donated to the Boys and Girls
• 42:28
  Club of of Carson. Another portion is going to be
• 42:33
  donated to the Sickle Cell Disease Research Foundation of
• 42:35
  Los Angeles. And then we're also going to
• 42:37
  take, in this case, the exhibition game, 60% of however
• 42:42
  many tickets we sell, we're going to equally divide that to
• 42:46
  both teams in the exhibition games.
• 42:48
  So of that $9, a portion of that is actually going to go to both
• 42:53
  teams. Now that's the exhibition
• 42:55
  situation. So when we start traveling
• 42:57
  around the country, it's going to be reduced to 40%, but that
• 43:01
  will go to the Champions. So it's going to get to that
• 43:04
  competitive level you're planning to win.
• 43:05
  There is going to be a really, really nice in every situation,
• 43:08
  just like Saturday, there's a really, really nice coaches
• 43:12
  Championship trophy that we're going to get to the coach of the
• 43:15
  winning team and then the players get paid.
• 43:18
  We're also going to appreciate both teams for being in the
• 43:22
  building because we're going to have a consolation award for the
• 43:26
  coach that doesn't win. So it'll be a really nice
• 43:28
  Championship coaches trophy and we're going to have a
• 43:33
  consolation award for the coach that doesn't win so.
• 43:38
  How should like that one? Yeah, it will be.
• 43:44
  I, I, I personally think it's going to be a great game on
• 43:47
  Saturday between the Dogs and the Nova Stars because both
• 43:50
  teams are highly skilled and it's a championship game.
• 43:53
  So a game is a game, but a championship game, it's just
• 43:56
  another gear, another level that comes out of the players because
• 44:00
  it just means a bit more when you're playing for a
• 44:02
  championship, everything is on the line.
• 44:04
  So I'm, I'm excited to see it, see it play.
• 44:06
  But to your point, as we go across the country, we're going
• 44:09
  to move move that around to identify organizations in each
• 44:13
  city. Like for example, in September,
• 44:17
  we'll be in Baton Rouge, LA playing the tournament in in
• 44:21
  October, we'll be in Atlanta, GA playing St. pro basketball
• 44:24
  tournaments. We'll take a break November,
• 44:27
  December, not going to try to compete with the holidays.
• 44:29
  We'll just let that happen. And then in January we'll we'll
• 44:33
  revived the tournaments will play in Miami in January,
• 44:37
  February will be in Cleveland, OH, March will be in Chicago,
• 44:40
  IL, April will be in Dallas, TX, May will be in San Francisco, CA
• 44:47
  with the tournament. And then in June, June 18th and
• 44:50
  19th of 2027, all of the different cities, all the
• 44:55
  Champions, the men's team champion, the women's team
• 44:57
  champion from all those different cities are going to be
• 45:00
  brought to Southern California in June of 2027 to play a
• 45:04
  national championship tournament.
• 45:06
  So I like to call it, it's like the experience would be like the
• 45:09
  NCAA tournament on steroids because it won't just be
• 45:11
  players, it'll be all champions by on Friday for the preliminary
• 45:17
  rounds and the, and the Champions that rise to
• 45:19
  championship Saturday, they've all won across the nation.
• 45:22
  So it'll be all champions in the building.
• 45:25
  So, and in every city, you know, I'm going to do the research and
• 45:28
  identify a charity. It could be, you know, we'll
• 45:31
  just do the work, you know, to find out a deserving charity and
• 45:35
  and children's organization. So we can donate a portion of
• 45:38
  those proceeds. So now when people thinking
• 45:40
  about buying a $9 ticket, it's like not just basketball, but
• 45:44
  it's for a good cause. So you'll have both energies
• 45:47
  going. You'll have people that may not
• 45:48
  be really great basketball fans, but they'll say I like what you
• 45:52
  guys are doing. I'm a buy a ticket.
• 45:53
  I may not watch the game, but I like, you know, the 'cause that,
• 45:56
  you know, my $9 is going to. And you have basketball fans who
• 45:59
  want to serve a good cause, but they also want to see great
• 46:02
  basketball. So that that'll be what that's
• 46:04
  going to. Be yeah, I appreciate that
• 46:07
  because for me, you know, as as an advocate for health and
• 46:10
  safety, both of those causes for our children, definitely for the
• 46:15
  Boys and Girls Club, I mean, providing those resources,
• 46:18
  providing those skills, but also not just the skills, but the
• 46:21
  social emotional conversations that that go along with that,
• 46:24
  right. And then also the health and
• 46:26
  safety with the sickle cell research that needs to be done.
• 46:29
  So sure, I appreciate both of those awarenesses that you have
• 46:33
  for that. So I'll make sure that I share
• 46:35
  this with my community on both aspects so that they can have a
• 46:39
  choice to chime in or check it out.
• 46:42
  Most most definitely on our. On
• 46:45
  ourwebsite@stprobasketball.net, we actually have a, a, a area on
• 46:50
  the, on the website where people can make suggestions.
• 46:54
  So when we're coming into their city, they can say, hey, you
• 46:56
  know, be, be aware of this organization or that
• 46:58
  organization. So we want that, we, we want
• 47:02
  those suggestions. We want that buy in and we're
• 47:04
  looking for that those leads as we go into the different cities.
• 47:10
  Big Al you got anything man you want to add to the conversation?
• 47:13
  Did we miss anything? No, you guys just hitting it,
• 47:17
  hitting it all, really, to be honest.
• 47:19
  I mean, it's been good. Like, like Gerald was saying, we
• 47:23
  have to do something different that is not going to look the
• 47:26
  same, feel the same and have the same expectations, you know, to
• 47:30
  get people involved. So they'll realize that there's
• 47:33
  some new movement going on in the basketball community and
• 47:38
  people should most likely slow down just a second and pay
• 47:41
  attention to the new movement, right?
• 47:44
  Because there's, there's going to be a lot of stuff happening
• 47:47
  here in the future. If you ask me, basketball is
• 47:49
  changing. People are getting tired of of
• 47:52
  the same process that we witnessed year after year
• 47:56
  watching players get snubbed that they they want to see
• 48:00
  advance guys that don't get drafted, that, you know, fans
• 48:05
  and spectators feel like we're better players than some of the
• 48:08
  guys that did get drafted, right?
• 48:11
  Where are those guys? We say that they went to the G
• 48:14
  League, right? OK, well, what are you doing?
• 48:16
  G League? How come we don't know?
• 48:19
  How come we don't see? Right?
• 48:22
  So that's deliberate. Obviously it's there's no need
• 48:26
  in trying to talk softly around that.
• 48:29
  The NBA is just hiding those guys because they know if they
• 48:33
  let them go, there goes another league that they got to compete
• 48:37
  with, OK? Because those guys can make
• 48:40
  another league that are in the G League, right?
• 48:44
  It's just nobody wanted to step out on that ledge when it was
• 48:47
  talked about because they didn't have the money.
• 48:50
  They had the money, the NBA had the money, had the money.
• 48:55
  So that's what turned it into. They are hiding those guys for
• 49:02
  the most part. Yeah, unfortunate, but
• 49:06
  something's got to change. People are just getting tired of
• 49:08
  it. It's getting old, and we don't
• 49:10
  want to see it no more. You know, the G League is
• 49:13
  turning into more of a joke than a serious platform for upward
• 49:17
  mobility, right? Nobody ever comes out of it.
• 49:20
  It's almost like a a pit of endless failure in that thing
• 49:27
  because when you go there, you ain't coming out.
• 49:32
  Get it? And to be honest, the only
• 49:36
  reason, the only reason you seen Brownie go back and forth so
• 49:40
  many times, it's because of his daddy and the fact that they're
• 49:43
  pushing to try to make him a professional basketball player
• 49:47
  when he's not, he ain't he ain't going to be.
• 49:50
  I don't care what people talking about trying to support him and
• 49:53
  talking about, oh, it's he's great because shut up.
• 49:59
  I know. Basketball, he ain't great.
• 50:01
  He shouldn't have been in the NBA.
• 50:03
  It's too many other guys that you screwing over just because
• 50:06
  he got a a name and a father that's taking care of him.
• 50:11
  And I don't care how much you think that nepotism is great for
• 50:14
  this kid. He is screwing over other people
• 50:18
  and that's what I can't get past when you screwing over other.
• 50:22
  People, you lost. Me on that forever.
• 50:26
  OK, so you could preach to me. About how he.
• 50:29
  He deserves a shot because of blah blah blah, but he needed
• 50:34
  two more years in school, you know?
• 50:37
  But back to the story, the reason that you don't see the G
• 50:40
  League growing and advancing is because they don't want those
• 50:43
  guys to, you know? Now give me the address so they
• 50:48
  can find out tomorrow. For.
• 50:52
  Carson. We're at Carson's.
• 50:55
  Oh, we're in Carson at veteran Park.
• 50:57
  I know Veteran park has like 19 locations.
• 51:00
  So when you put it in your map or your your, your MapQuest,
• 51:04
  Google whatever you doing, put in the one at Carson.
• 51:08
  The Carson location for Veterans park.
• 51:10
  I don't have the street address but it's definitely Veteran's
• 51:14
  Park in Carson. I believe Gerald has the street
• 51:17
  address. You have to unmute, mute his
• 51:19
  mic. He can give you the exact
• 51:22
  coordinates for that location. I wonder if that's the Sports
• 51:31
  Complex. Yeah, it's Veterans Sports,
• 51:35
  Veterans Sports Complex, and it's 22400 Minnetka Avenue,
• 51:41
  MONETA Ave., Carson, CA 907 45. So it's basically like, for
• 51:50
  example, if you're on the 110 Freeway heading South, you get
• 51:54
  off at 223rd, make a left and you'll go about two blocks and
• 51:59
  you'll be at Minetka Ave. So it's it's literally like 2-2
• 52:03
  lights east of the 110 freeway, but it's right off of 223rd and
• 52:08
  Monaca. Soon as you get to 223rd and
• 52:11
  Monaca Giant Park location, the gym is right there on the
• 52:14
  corner. So you just pull right in the
• 52:16
  parking lot and walk in the gym. But we will have it pretty
• 52:20
  tricked out on August 8th because we're going to have a
• 52:24
  huge balloon display and an 8 foot by 8 foot banner say
• 52:28
  welcome to Championship Saturday.
• 52:31
  Kiss FM will be outside the building.
• 52:34
  They'll be broadcasting so they'll be doing a prize
• 52:37
  giveaway. So it's going to be lively and
• 52:39
  festive outside of the building. Then when you come inside, we
• 52:42
  got the DJ going on and the teams will be warming up.
• 52:45
  We're going to do a a video tribute to Ronnie Laws.
• 52:48
  Ronnie Laws will be present. He and his family will be able
• 52:50
  to do a halftime video tribute to Ronnie Laws.
• 52:54
  He'll be in the building with us, so yeah.
• 52:56
  But the address is 22400 Minetka Ave., Carson, CA 90745.
• 53:05
  About 70 miles from my house. Road trip but no thank.
• 53:13
  You both go. Ahead.
• 53:17
  No, thank you both for for for coming on and and sharing this
• 53:20
  platform. I prom this basketball.
• 53:23
  Like I said, I'm, I'm with you because I mean, in my day,
• 53:26
  that's what 24 hour fitness was, that's what you went to the
• 53:28
  parks. I went to the park like 3 * a
• 53:31
  week to play that, you know, first one to 15, first one to
• 53:34
  11, you win, you stay on. Like, you know, it's like what
• 53:38
  the first one to 11 by 1. I mean the those we, we know
• 53:41
  those games, right? Those are exciting, you know, so
• 53:44
  I like, I like the way you put that together.
• 53:47
  And I don't, I guess I don't think people will be concerned
• 53:49
  too much about it's a short time frame because it's basketball,
• 53:53
  right? It's it's high octane.
• 53:55
  And it it it addresses a a need that that has got to be
• 53:59
  addressed because when you have, you know, to AL's point, you,
• 54:03
  you have like the G leagues kind of hiding people away and stuff
• 54:07
  like that. But at the same time, when you
• 54:09
  have players that can play and players that want to play men
• 54:12
  and women, it doesn't take all day to show what you got.
• 54:15
  You know, that conversation before you step on the court,
• 54:17
  people that kind of like to talk game recognized games.
• 54:21
  So you know, that stuff gets shut down pretty quick.
• 54:23
  The more cat is talking about what he can do or who he is.
• 54:26
  Everybody listening to him say, all right, let's put it on the
• 54:29
  floor. Let's lace them up.
• 54:30
  Let's see what you got. Enough of that talking.
• 54:32
  Let's see what you got. So with the with the 210 minute
• 54:36
  halves, it really gives people the chance to, you know, show
• 54:39
  what they got and and go move on to the next thing.
• 54:42
  You don't have to be there all day.
• 54:43
  And a lot of times players kind of have that, you know, rite of
• 54:46
  passage where they think, you know, I'm the best.
• 54:48
  I'll be around. I'm going to, you know, play the
• 54:50
  regular season till we get to the playoffs.
• 54:52
  Then I'm a step it out. I don't I don't know as a
• 54:54
  champion level player, you can turn it on and off like that.
• 54:57
  I think you got to stay in practice, play your game,
• 55:01
  highest level all the time. And this version of St. pro
• 55:05
  basketball, to its credit of the name, it's like what we do
• 55:09
  first, first to 11 by ones. It gives you that, that
• 55:14
  commonality to say we're here to to play, to get that work out
• 55:17
  and move on to the next day. Yeah.
• 55:20
  Big Al, you got anything mention ABA, anything.
• 55:24
  Just won't leave it at that at the Pro Street ball.
• 55:28
  Yeah, Yeah. We'll just leave it there.
• 55:30
  I mean, it's it, it, it's something that's good.
• 55:33
  And I think people need to kind of focus there.
• 55:36
  I, I don't want to dilute that with ABA information on this
• 55:40
  particular conversation, you know what I'm saying?
• 55:43
  But I do, I do want to have one other thing for Ron and that's
• 55:47
  this is important. We talked a little bit about,
• 55:49
  you know, sharing the wealth on the $9 ticket for championship
• 55:54
  games, the Shree Pro Basketball Championship, Saturday games.
• 55:58
  But I, I do want to say this, and this is a credit to both Al
• 56:01
  and yourself, It does open the door.
• 56:05
  We have a platform, we have a stage now that opens the door
• 56:10
  that needs to be open because there are other things that are
• 56:14
  talked about that I I think are incredibly important,
• 56:18
  incredibly, incredibly strategic and incredibly necessary.
• 56:22
  So for example, and we won't, you know, try to cover it right
• 56:26
  here this red hot minute. But what I'm saying when I use
• 56:28
  the term other things, Al has shared with me some things that
• 56:31
  he has been developing, some incredible things, which I'm
• 56:35
  sure he can expound on at a later point, but some of the
• 56:38
  things that he has in mind to enhance the game, the the
• 56:41
  scouting, the different things like that.
• 56:43
  Now with this television platform we have, we can bring
• 56:46
  those things to light. And not only will the people
• 56:49
  involved with street pro basketball benefit, but people
• 56:51
  around the country and other leagues, even dare I say to the
• 56:54
  NBA level, they can be made better because of ideas that
• 56:59
  this man has in his head that he's developed.
• 57:01
  And we're going to bring those to light and to and to you for
• 57:04
  Ron, I would say this, the health and Wellness piece, you
• 57:07
  and I have already talked about that as we move around to
• 57:10
  different cities, we're going to implement some of those seminars
• 57:13
  prior to the Friday preliminary rounds getting tipped off.
• 57:17
  And we have all the players who are still, you know, in the
• 57:20
  tournament, no games have been played yet.
• 57:22
  They're all still eligible to work to get to a championship.
• 57:25
  But prior to tipping it off, prior to getting the basketball,
• 57:28
  we're going to talk about health and Wellness.
• 57:30
  How's your health? How's your mental Wellness?
• 57:32
  We we're going to do those seminars.
• 57:34
  So it's going to be more than just basketball, but it's a
• 57:36
  platform where we're, we're not going to block that out.
• 57:41
  We're going to be inclusive and not exclusive.
• 57:43
  So I love that about St. pro basketball as well.
• 57:46
  People are going to learn a lot. They're going to be exposed to
• 57:48
  some great ideas, great structural strategic plans.
• 57:51
  And I'm, I'm looking very much forward to supporting that and
• 57:56
  getting that on the Airways on television for both of you and
• 58:00
  for the rest. Of the league, Thank you,
• 58:02
  because there you speaking my language because that health and
• 58:04
  safety piece, that mental health and mental toughness.
• 58:07
  We talking about players chasing that hoop dream still and then
• 58:11
  30s, you know, and 40 year olds, which is not right or wrong,
• 58:13
  good or bad. But then how can you take your
• 58:16
  knowledge and information and give that back to that next
• 58:19
  generation to help them develop, right?
• 58:20
  Or even your peers that might, you know, be hard, like they
• 58:24
  want to put the shoes, they want to take the shoes off, but they
• 58:26
  just don't know how they going to feel after that.
• 58:28
  You know, that last laces taking that, you know that one shoes
• 58:31
  taking off office like so we can have those conversations about
• 58:34
  what's next, but ultimately your health and your safety is is
• 58:38
  your your body. A lot of us don't pay attention
• 58:40
  to our body. We push ourselves to the Max and
• 58:43
  then we think it's just muscle cramps when there could be other
• 58:45
  stuff going on with your health and and your health is wealth.
• 58:48
  If you really believe that, because if you don't have your
• 58:50
  health, you're not going to play well, you know, and so I
• 58:54
  appreciate you for allowing me to include that part of that
• 58:56
  aspect to the program. And so I look forward to to
• 58:59
  being a part of it for sure. Yep.
• 59:02
  And then just to kind of piggyback on that, since Gerald
• 59:06
  did bring it up, he he's right. I do have a couple of things
• 59:10
  that I'm working on that is going to enhance the game.
• 59:14
  I'm really excited. We're getting close to
• 59:16
  finalizing it. I was hoping to be done with it
• 59:19
  by July 15th, but we got to push back and we're looking to try to
• 59:25
  get this thing done here in the next couple of weeks.
• 59:30
  Provided that gets done, that means you'll see software that's
• 59:36
  going to put any sports program in the the sport of basketball
• 59:43
  on steroids. OK, With all the ups and downs
• 59:48
  that I've experienced, with all the pain points that I've
• 59:52
  learned in my 30 years playing this game, I put some things
• 1:00:00
  together to kind of, you know, eliminate those pain points,
• 1:00:04
  right? Nobody wants to go through
• 1:00:08
  trying to get something done and, and run into struggle and
• 1:00:12
  run into obstacles, right? Especially the the low level
• 1:00:16
  obstacles like the easy stuff. Nobody wants to have that pull
• 1:00:20
  you back. So obviously, you know, that's
• 1:00:23
  where we started with our software.
• 1:00:25
  We started with making sure that we have.
• 1:00:28
  Mold over and ran over all of those small obstacles that kind
• 1:00:33
  of, you know, stunts the growth of a a business, a basketball
• 1:00:37
  team that's trying to get off the ground.
• 1:00:40
  And we're talking about, you know, ball clubs and pro teams,
• 1:00:44
  OK, like the AAU clubs, the the teams that have a purpose, have
• 1:00:50
  a brand and built their brand. And they need to manage
• 1:00:53
  structure on the inside from logistics, keeping track of
• 1:00:58
  things like being able to monitor your players health,
• 1:01:02
  right? Having your players have tools
• 1:01:06
  to monitor the health, nutrition and all the things that they're
• 1:01:09
  going to need in order to become, you know, great at what
• 1:01:13
  they do. So yeah, it's a lot of stuff
• 1:01:16
  happening right now. And with all that going on, I'm
• 1:01:21
  excited, like I said, to just witness it all.
• 1:01:25
  You know, just being a witness to it has been a different level
• 1:01:31
  to me, I guess you could say. You've been at it for a while.
• 1:01:35
  Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And I don't want to discount the
• 1:01:40
  fact that you gentlemen are veterans.
• 1:01:42
  So this is a military veteran platform.
• 1:01:44
  So just want to acknowledge you too as well for paving the way
• 1:01:49
  for me. You're a little bit older than I
• 1:01:50
  am, so I want to say thank you for paving the way for myself
• 1:01:52
  because I had a great career outside of my sickle cell trade
• 1:01:56
  exertion. But thank you gentlemen, for for
• 1:01:59
  for that part of your life aspect.
• 1:02:00
  We didn't touch on that today, but you know, I think I think
• 1:02:04
  we're good. I want to relate to that
• 1:02:07
  basketball athlete. If y'all can, you know,
• 1:02:09
  entertain me for a second with this last piece, that that
• 1:02:12
  identity, that mental health, that mental toughness coming out
• 1:02:16
  of that camouflage uniform is no different coming out of that
• 1:02:19
  Basketball Jersey of them football jersey of them soccer
• 1:02:22
  cliques, right? So that's the part that for me,
• 1:02:26
  it gives your, your platform gives that extension to that.
• 1:02:31
  OK, maybe I don't have to quit. Maybe I could get out there for
• 1:02:34
  10 minutes. Maybe I could keep my body in
• 1:02:36
  shape for a, for a 30 minute game instead of trying to run up
• 1:02:39
  and down the court like myself, who I can only go to 24 hour
• 1:02:42
  fitness and maybe play half court.
• 1:02:45
  You know, if I'm feeling good, I might do one full court, but I'm
• 1:02:48
  not running back and forth. But just the mentality I believe
• 1:02:51
  is something that's the perfect outlet for the for the mind to
• 1:02:54
  be able to connect itself to instead of just taking the
• 1:02:57
  jersey off and sitting at home like back in the days, you know,
• 1:03:02
  and, and that's difficult for, for for us when you still have
• 1:03:05
  life left. So anything about that aspect of
• 1:03:08
  it, you see the transition from camouflage to jerseys and that
• 1:03:13
  relatedness and that for those athletes, in your own words.
• 1:03:20
  I would weigh on that for just a moment and say it gives rise to
• 1:03:24
  the importance of of what I would call having a circumspect
• 1:03:30
  perspective on not only the game, but on your life.
• 1:03:33
  And usually, you know, the ambition, for example, to get to
• 1:03:38
  the NBA is so intense. And when you, when you have the
• 1:03:41
  talent and the ability to do it, you've watched the other guys
• 1:03:45
  who did it and you know, there's, there's me go there.
• 1:03:48
  You feel like, you know, I've seen other guys that aren't as
• 1:03:50
  good as me that are in the league.
• 1:03:52
  So I know I need to just keep grinding and I'll, I'll crack
• 1:03:55
  that code and get in there. And you give it 100% to do that.
• 1:03:59
  However, you become so sometimes you become so absorbed and doing
• 1:04:04
  all the stuff you got to do to be your very best that it is
• 1:04:08
  literally consuming the process. So what happens is other stuff
• 1:04:12
  suffers. You get so focused and so
• 1:04:15
  committed to quote UN quote, getting to the league that you
• 1:04:18
  just get consumed by. So if in fact, you do get to the
• 1:04:21
  league, now you want to stay there.
• 1:04:23
  You work so hard to get there. You don't want to think about
• 1:04:25
  anything else. But how long can I stay?
• 1:04:27
  How much money can I make? Can I win a championship?
• 1:04:29
  And everything becomes second to that process.
• 1:04:33
  So, so I, I think to kind of create more inclusion and not so
• 1:04:39
  much exclusion the earlier we can start helping young men and
• 1:04:43
  young women to understand if you're a great basketball player
• 1:04:47
  or great anything, great baseball player, soccer player,
• 1:04:50
  football player, tennis player, boxer, so forth and so on.
• 1:04:54
  That's a beautiful thing. But that's not all there is to
• 1:04:57
  life. You're a human being who has
• 1:04:59
  talent athletically, for example, but you want to in
• 1:05:03
  include more things in that ecosystem so the earlier we can
• 1:05:06
  start giving people a reason to see, OK, I see when I'm doing my
• 1:05:11
  workouts, when I'm focused on this particular goal, I can
• 1:05:14
  spend time to that, but I also need to commit a certain amount
• 1:05:17
  of time to my health, my Wellness.
• 1:05:18
  What am I going to do? What do I like doing when I'm
• 1:05:21
  not playing basketball or my particular sport?
• 1:05:24
  And that's what I mean. That's what I mean by stuff gets
• 1:05:25
  lost because people are so consumed trying to do what they
• 1:05:27
  do. They don't.
• 1:05:29
  That's the only thing they do. So if you try to talk to them
• 1:05:31
  about something else, they almost get scared.
• 1:05:33
  It's like, I've already done this for so long.
• 1:05:35
  I don't know what else I want to do.
• 1:05:37
  When you ask them, what are you going to do when you stop
• 1:05:39
  playing? I don't know.
• 1:05:39
  I don't even want to think about it.
• 1:05:41
  See, that's, that's, that's an issue.
• 1:05:43
  We, we have to get in there before people reach that point.
• 1:05:46
  So more and more people will start saying when they're asked,
• 1:05:50
  what do you want to do after this is done?
• 1:05:52
  Well, I love doing this, I love doing that.
• 1:05:54
  So I'm looking forward to getting into that more.
• 1:05:56
  If they had, they're already doing it, not waiting until they
• 1:05:59
  can't play anymore. But.
• 1:06:00
  Now it's allowed. Do it before you get to that
• 1:06:03
  point. So that's we have a, we have a
• 1:06:04
  stage, we have an opportunity to help them understand.
• 1:06:08
  And if nothing else, not not trying to throw shade, not
• 1:06:11
  trying to discourage anybody, but if nothing else to say,
• 1:06:16
  eventually, if you're grown, you're going to have a family.
• 1:06:18
  So it behooves you to understand how to blend the process.
• 1:06:21
  You have kids, you have a wife. If you're a male or if you're a
• 1:06:24
  female, you got a husband and potentially kids.
• 1:06:26
  So even if you're great at what you do, you still want to spend
• 1:06:29
  quality time with your family. And so this is a part of it too,
• 1:06:32
  just like you spend quality time with your family, spend quality
• 1:06:35
  time with yourself learning who am I beyond my sport?
• 1:06:38
  And we have an opportunity to help them, help them understand
• 1:06:41
  that message. Thank you.
• 1:06:42
  Thank you. Please jump.
• 1:06:44
  In real quick, guys, because I got to get off here, I'm about 5
• 1:06:47
  minutes late for my training that I got with my interns.
• 1:06:50
  But that's exactly what the software that we created is
• 1:06:54
  going to do. It's going to keep everybody in
• 1:06:57
  tune with mental health, physical health, the nutrition
• 1:07:02
  side of things, the workouts, all that stuff is going to be
• 1:07:08
  included in the software. So we'll talk about that more.
• 1:07:11
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was. About to bring that up because
• 1:07:13
  Gerald mentioned it during the podcast section.
• 1:07:16
  So I wanted to throw that in before we got off, but.
• 1:07:19
  Thank you for your time, Al. Appreciate you, man.
• 1:07:21
  Thank you so much for your time. All right, all right.
• 1:07:23
  Appreciate you guys talk soon. Thank you.
• 1:07:25
  Yes. Sir, see you Saturday.
• 1:07:28
  Gerald, man, thank you for your time as well for sharing what
• 1:07:31
  you're up to. Man, again, you have been a
• 1:07:33
  huge, a huge encouragement in my life.
• 1:07:36
  Like I said, this is the team that I purchased the Ventura
• 1:07:38
  County Orcas and now we got the dogs and now we got the
• 1:07:42
  Riverside County Mavericks, so. You know.
• 1:07:44
  That that platform, those platforms for me is what we're
• 1:07:48
  talking about in this last part of the show these.
• 1:07:51
  Guys. Are chasing that whole dream,
• 1:07:52
  which is not right or wrong, good or bad, but what's next?
• 1:07:55
  And I want to do that space where they can come here, chase
• 1:07:59
  that. If you want to go overseas, you
• 1:08:00
  want to get to the G League or wherever you're trying to go to
• 1:08:03
  stay in shape. But if you really think you're
• 1:08:06
  done, let's have that conversation and figure out how
• 1:08:09
  we take your skills. And you're trying to put some
• 1:08:11
  camps together for the generation behind you.
• 1:08:14
  Maybe your son is playing ball or whatever that is.
• 1:08:16
  And now how can we transition? Include that in your life,
• 1:08:19
  right? Like you said, they for me,
• 1:08:21
  inclusion, exclusion is not just an activity, but it's the
• 1:08:24
  emotional experience of being included and excluded and to to
• 1:08:28
  feel emotionally excluded. Look at our country on another
• 1:08:33
  level, right? And the emotional exclusions
• 1:08:35
  that we go through and in this social justice and all these
• 1:08:38
  conversations of the way the world is pointing to.
• 1:08:41
  That's just one aspect. But what is that?
• 1:08:45
  You know, where, where's, where's your mind at as far as
• 1:08:47
  giving that information back? And we can like basketball ain't
• 1:08:50
  going nowhere. It's, it's, it's changed.
• 1:08:52
  The game's changing, You know, we can get back to the
• 1:08:55
  fundamentals of the game and get back to that.
• 1:08:57
  And and then maybe even teach these children the next
• 1:09:01
  generation, hey, you know what, maybe use basketball to get to
• 1:09:05
  that college, to get that degree to what you care about, right?
• 1:09:08
  Not just to play ball and chase the A/B ANBA, but or maybe even
• 1:09:14
  you know what, coach, I don't, I actually, I don't want to play
• 1:09:16
  ball. Actually you, you've opened my
• 1:09:18
  eyes that I can actually go over here and do things with the,
• 1:09:23
  with the mental toughness that I, I got from basketball.
• 1:09:25
  So because a lot of times athletes are afraid to even quit
• 1:09:28
  because or, or stop playing because the family dynamic is on
• 1:09:32
  the pressure of you got to get this.
• 1:09:34
  You got to go to this college so you can play, but the child
• 1:09:36
  might not even want to play ball no more.
• 1:09:38
  Yeah, yeah, That's so true. So.
• 1:09:40
  Where's that space to to say that, hey, you know what, coach?
• 1:09:42
  I don't think I really want to do?
• 1:09:44
  I'm only doing this because my dad or my mom.
• 1:09:47
  You know. And, and, and walk away with
• 1:09:49
  confidence, walk away with encouragement and walk away to
• 1:09:52
  another direction. Like, you know what, I can
• 1:09:54
  actually be a part of the game and not be the guy on the court
• 1:09:57
  shooting the jumper. Maybe I can get a job in the
• 1:09:59
  staff, you know, So there's other ways that I believe that
• 1:10:03
  basketball like for me as an example, becoming an owner of an
• 1:10:07
  ABA team and and my identity is is connected to this uniform.
• 1:10:12
  It's connected to this jersey. So I still get to live out that
• 1:10:14
  life basketball to be part of the game.
• 1:10:17
  I can't shoot the three all the time, but you know, maybe I can
• 1:10:20
  at least I go to the games there, you know, so that that
• 1:10:25
  identity for me is is still being fulfilled even as a ABA
• 1:10:28
  team owner. So joining forces with you and
• 1:10:31
  that street ball and talk about traveling.
• 1:10:33
  Yeah, good. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:10:35
  Bringing some awareness, Yeah. So thank you for your time.
• 1:10:39
  Any last words you want to say before I let you go?
• 1:10:42
  Just just want to express an extreme amount of gratitude and
• 1:10:46
  appreciation for you to show what you're doing, your work,
• 1:10:49
  your, your passion for what you do and, and your integrity and
• 1:10:53
  how you go about doing it and the consistency that you employ
• 1:10:58
  as you do it. So just a, a big giant thank you
• 1:11:01
  to you, you know, for having me on today.
• 1:11:04
  I appreciate that, but also a heartfelt word of encouragement
• 1:11:11
  to say continue in that which you have been assured of, stay
• 1:11:15
  at your post, keep keep sending the message out.
• 1:11:18
  Stay on message, stay on point and keep sharing and caring and
• 1:11:23
  and keep sharing the love that you're loving that you're
• 1:11:26
  giving, because a lot of people are are daily benefiting from
• 1:11:29
  it. And and that's a beautiful
• 1:11:31
  thing. So, you know, thank you for
• 1:11:33
  having me and also thank you for doing what you're doing and keep
• 1:11:35
  on doing it. Yeah, to God be the glory man.
• 1:11:37
  Thank you for that, Gerald. I'll see you in a couple of
• 1:11:39
  days. Yes Sir.
• 1:11:42
  Game time championship Saturday. All right, take it.
• 1:11:46
  Easy. Thank you.
• 1:11:46
  All right. He's out.
• 1:11:48
  All right, ladies and gentlemen, I didn't think that was going to
• 1:11:52
  go, but they worked out and hope you hung in there with the
• 1:11:55
  technical difficulties. But this is what happens when
• 1:11:58
  you are live broadcasting. Anything can go.
• 1:12:02
  You don't panic, you adjust, you make the changes and you pray
• 1:12:06
  that those who watch this though, who's listen, this is
• 1:12:10
  real life. You know, this is not edited.
• 1:12:13
  I'm not going to go back and chop that up and take that out.
• 1:12:15
  This is what it is. This is real life.
• 1:12:17
  This is on the court. Live broadcasting as a as a
• 1:12:20
  retired Army veteran who still has a basketball dream he's
• 1:12:24
  chasing as part of the ABA process and working with
• 1:12:28
  children and youth sports, right.
• 1:12:30
  So I'll play a PSA, come back and talk about my little my I'm
• 1:12:33
  gonna say my little but talk about a little bit about, you
• 1:12:35
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• 1:12:38
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• 1:15:13
  Fronde de Jose show on the military broadcast.
• 1:15:15
  Radio network. That's right, MB radio.
• 1:15:19
  So I just want to touch on, you know, why this conversation is
• 1:15:22
  important to me as as a retired Army veteran, you know, being
• 1:15:28
  able to transition you. Know for me transition and
• 1:15:33
  change. Was very difficult.
• 1:15:34
  It was it was it was it was something else for me.
• 1:15:37
  If I could say it is a kind way. But I want to talk about my
• 1:15:41
  basketball identity, how I even got, you know, to to be able to
• 1:15:44
  put this ABA jersey on it and support these players in the
• 1:15:48
  conversation that I care about only because, you know, I grew
• 1:15:53
  up around basketball. My uncle played ball, you know,
• 1:15:57
  so I, I have that in my family. And one of the big things, you
• 1:16:02
  know, with, with that was being in the backyard with my Uncle
• 1:16:05
  Kelly, playing basketball, watching him getting the ball
• 1:16:09
  out the net for him as he was, you know, practicing in the
• 1:16:12
  yard. My grandfather put up a
• 1:16:13
  basketball goal in the backyard. So just being a part of that
• 1:16:18
  culture, part of that environment with him seeing that
• 1:16:21
  I, I got a picture of myself, you know, shooting.
• 1:16:25
  Somebody took a picture of me shooting the basket.
• 1:16:27
  You know, I was able to play when when because he never
• 1:16:30
  missed. So I was able to get on the
• 1:16:32
  court on the on the patio when when he was was done exercising
• 1:16:37
  to get his shots up. And so there's a couple of
• 1:16:39
  photos of me, you know, in the backyard shooting.
• 1:16:41
  But I really didn't have a basketball identity until for me
• 1:16:48
  was it was transition, it was change.
• 1:16:51
  It was during the time where back in my day you went to 6th
• 1:16:55
  grade was elementary school and junior high was 789.
• 1:16:59
  And so 7th grade I was in a magnet program that that bust us
• 1:17:05
  in the city of South LA to the Valley.
• 1:17:09
  So I was able to go to school in this transition into a white
• 1:17:14
  school per SE in the Valley for, you know, for that culture.
• 1:17:18
  And so I did a year there in the Valley.
• 1:17:21
  And then we end up moving like The Jeffersons from from from a
• 1:17:26
  decent part of LA to a much nicer Hancock Park area of LA
• 1:17:31
  and end up going to school down the street.
• 1:17:34
  So imagine, I don't know if you can put your imagination in, in,
• 1:17:38
  in this conversation, but imagine going from elementary
• 1:17:43
  school, right, the transition to your high school, which is that
• 1:17:48
  whole transition and change, and then going to then another
• 1:17:53
  school the next year and another transition and change.
• 1:17:57
  And, and for me it was, it was the experience of being the new
• 1:18:01
  kid on the block, right? And, and I didn't know this at
• 1:18:04
  the time, but I had already been dealing with at least 2 year
• 1:18:11
  old, 5 year old, 6 year old, 8 year old, 11 year old.
• 1:18:17
  I'd already been dealing with those emotional decisions and of
• 1:18:20
  identity crisis that I've that stories that I made-up already
• 1:18:23
  the 2 year old, the five year old, the six year old, the 11
• 1:18:31
  year old, that's four decisions that I already made.
• 1:18:34
  So by, by junior, by, by by 8th grade, I was already dealing
• 1:18:41
  with my own emotional issues around just social emotional
• 1:18:47
  traumas. I'm not good enough, I'm not
• 1:18:48
  worth it. I feel abandoned.
• 1:18:50
  My dad doesn't love me. My mom can't trust my mom like,
• 1:18:54
  you know, my I can't. My peers laughed at me when I
• 1:18:56
  was reading in the second grade. Now this is all in the back.
• 1:18:59
  I can't. I didn't know this at 13 years
• 1:19:02
  old. I didn't know this, but this is
• 1:19:04
  playing back after I did the healing in these areas of the
• 1:19:07
  stuff that I discovered that was going on with me at 11, right?
• 1:19:11
  And then I go to this school, new school in 8th grade and I
• 1:19:15
  walk on the campus through those gates and I, I don't know
• 1:19:20
  anybody. I think I was, I think I was
• 1:19:23
  told that my friend Corey went to that school.
• 1:19:27
  I think, I think somehow I knew that, but I didn't know where to
• 1:19:30
  find him. But I think I knew Corey was at
• 1:19:32
  least there at that school because his mom and my mom, our
• 1:19:36
  families were friends at that time.
• 1:19:38
  So I walk on campus and I'm lost.
• 1:19:44
  I'm looking around. I don't know which way to go.
• 1:19:46
  And all I see is these this basketball courts over here on
• 1:19:50
  the yard and guys playing ball, you know, before class.
• 1:19:56
  And so I walk over to the basketball.
• 1:19:58
  Court. Put my backpack down and step on
• 1:20:03
  the court. Missed shot comes, I get the
• 1:20:06
  ball, I step out. Step back, take me a little
• 1:20:09
  jumper like I was doing in the backyard of my grandparents
• 1:20:12
  house and hey, the basketball identity is created, right?
• 1:20:18
  The basketball identity is created, but from what though to
• 1:20:24
  to? To get a sense of belonging.
• 1:20:28
  To get connected to be accepted, right?
• 1:20:33
  I don't know that at. 14I. Don't know that at 13, All I
• 1:20:36
  know is that I found, I found my tribe.
• 1:20:40
  I found some people that I could, I could shoot a little
• 1:20:43
  bit, you know, So I'm, I'm good. So guess what for?
• 1:20:47
  Ron is now on the basketball court before school recess,
• 1:20:55
  lunch and after school 4. I'm on the court four times a
• 1:20:59
  day before school. Recess.
• 1:21:04
  Lunch and after school. Now I'm sweating.
• 1:21:08
  All the way up before. I'm sweating before.
• 1:21:10
  Period. I'm already sweaty for first
• 1:21:13
  period but looking. Back at that for myself, I can.
• 1:21:18
  Point to that. That's where that basketball
• 1:21:21
  identity got started. But it was not started because I
• 1:21:23
  wanted to play ball. It was because of my wanting to
• 1:21:27
  be included emotionally. It was the sense of belonging to
• 1:21:32
  be accepted by my peers. It was all of these emotional
• 1:21:36
  things that my identity was able to capture and connect to that I
• 1:21:42
  could at least walk on the campus.
• 1:21:44
  And I know that if I don't know anybody, I know the guys that's
• 1:21:48
  on the court. And when I will walk through the
• 1:21:50
  class and hallways, guess what they say, hey, for you going to
• 1:21:53
  be out there at lunch, you going to come out there and recess?
• 1:21:56
  I'm going to see you after school, right?
• 1:21:58
  We go play 21. We go play 5 on five, right?
• 1:22:00
  That was, do you see the emotional state of that?
• 1:22:07
  I didn't have no I want. To go to the NBAI.
• 1:22:09
  Didn't have that was. Not that was not in my, in my,
• 1:22:13
  in my thought process. It was How do I?
• 1:22:18
  Connect to my peers. And not feel like I'm alone.
• 1:22:22
  To not feel like I'm on my own, To not feel like there's
• 1:22:25
  something wrong with me. And basketball became my.
• 1:22:29
  Space where I felt like. There was nothing.
• 1:22:31
  I was. I was.
• 1:22:32
  I was in and and and. So when you look at the
• 1:22:38
  different. Aspects of why we play sports or
• 1:22:41
  how we get into these conversations and you peel those
• 1:22:44
  layers off NBA college might be there, but what's underneath all
• 1:22:49
  of that? What was the drive to that?
• 1:22:54
  And so when you look at that for sports and basketball, we'd look
• 1:22:57
  at the same thing as military soldiers and veterans, a lot of
• 1:23:03
  us. Put that.
• 1:23:05
  Camouflage uniform on. That identity at at. 171819
• 1:23:09
  years old and if you end up doing 19 to to 25 or 19 to me
• 1:23:16
  like 43 years old from 19 to 43, that's the biggest gap of my
• 1:23:21
  life. So all I did was go.
• 1:23:24
  From a basketball identity. To a soldier identity and I
• 1:23:29
  still play basketball because the basketball now because my
• 1:23:31
  stress relief, right? Because it's an emotional
• 1:23:34
  release for me. The basketball is an emotional
• 1:23:38
  release for me. It's not that I got it.
• 1:23:41
  I'm playing because I want to play.
• 1:23:43
  I'm actually playing that because that's where I let my
• 1:23:45
  stress out. When I'm worried and I got
• 1:23:47
  stressed, I go and leave it all on the court and imagine that
• 1:23:56
  you have an. Inherited gene and and and you
• 1:23:58
  experience this. You experience this condition
• 1:24:00
  like rhythm myelosis, where you have skeletal muscular damage
• 1:24:04
  and joint damage, and now you can't play basketball anymore
• 1:24:09
  and you can't. Exercise like.
• 1:24:12
  The 19 like the 13. Year old.
• 1:24:15
  Like the 14, like the 19 year old body.
• 1:24:20
  And now what do I do? That was my transition, so not
• 1:24:26
  was only my military. Identity was trapped in that, in
• 1:24:28
  that. Rank and that camouflage, but
• 1:24:30
  also my basketball identity was connected in there too because
• 1:24:35
  now I can't play and all I wanted.
• 1:24:37
  To do was play. Basketball, that's my stress
• 1:24:41
  relief and not having that ability to.
• 1:24:45
  Play and get on the. Court I internalized a lot of
• 1:24:49
  those things, the pressures, the stressors, the career coming to
• 1:24:54
  an end like I can articulate it to you today because I've done a
• 1:24:57
  lot of work around those areas to be in front of this camera
• 1:25:01
  with you today and so. We can talk about the work, we
• 1:25:07
  can talk about it. What?
• 1:25:08
  It looks like but unless you apply those things to your life.
• 1:25:14
  I use personal development classes.
• 1:25:16
  I use. Cognitive behavior therapy.
• 1:25:19
  I use Caldwell's LBI solutions. I use grief counseling and grief
• 1:25:25
  management and grief support group.
• 1:25:27
  And ultimately I use the word of God.
• 1:25:30
  I use the Bible, the Bible principles, the biblical
• 1:25:32
  principles, and when I got to that point of using.
• 1:25:36
  The word of God. And all the stuff that the world
• 1:25:39
  has to say, and filtering those two conversations together,
• 1:25:44
  guess what? A lot of things didn't
• 1:25:47
  transition. Over to the word so then.
• 1:25:49
  If it didn't transition in the word for me, then I had to let
• 1:25:52
  that go. But I.
• 1:25:55
  Still use that because God created everything.
• 1:25:58
  For his good. So even the stuff that's in the
• 1:26:00
  world that they use, guess where it comes from comes from it
• 1:26:07
  comes from. Comes from the word.
• 1:26:10
  We think therapy came from where you think those came.
• 1:26:12
  Those conversations came from Maslow's hierarchy.
• 1:26:15
  I use Maslow's hierarchy chart with the Bible to challenge
• 1:26:22
  Maslow's hierarchy chart and the Bible and my view of life and
• 1:26:30
  what the world had to say about my.
• 1:26:32
  View of life. I use the Bible, Maslow's chart,
• 1:26:37
  My view of life and what the world's view of my life is about
• 1:26:41
  four areas and I was able to find.
• 1:26:46
  A level of peace. Because I realized that Maslow's
• 1:26:49
  chart was about the basic needs of surviving life for human
• 1:26:53
  beings. But the word of God says.
• 1:26:57
  Seek ye first the Kingdom of. God, Kingdom of Heaven and all
• 1:27:02
  this other stuff will be added. So then I had to read that and
• 1:27:05
  figure out, well what is this other stuff he talking about
• 1:27:07
  that's going to be added if I seek the Kingdom first?
• 1:27:10
  Well, guess what? That pointed to all the stuff
• 1:27:13
  that Maslow was talking about. Food, shelter, clothes, water,
• 1:27:19
  air, reproduction. It's at least six.
• 1:27:25
  You might find different categories.
• 1:27:27
  It's at least six categories that Maslow says that these
• 1:27:30
  basic needs have to be met for human being to experience.
• 1:27:36
  To. Experience not to not to do to
• 1:27:40
  experience safety and security. And if you experience, if you
• 1:27:43
  get all those complete in your life connected and and all
• 1:27:46
  worked out, then you can experience being.
• 1:27:50
  Safety and security. Now, what happens if one of
• 1:27:54
  those. Is out what?
• 1:27:55
  Happens when shelter comes out. What happens when water comes
• 1:27:59
  out? What happens when clothes come
• 1:28:02
  out? What happens when reproduction
• 1:28:05
  is not there? What happens when air is not
• 1:28:08
  there? What happens when food is not
• 1:28:10
  there? You're not going to experience
• 1:28:12
  being safety and security in your soul.
• 1:28:21
  You're not. I mean, you can, but it's going
• 1:28:24
  to be temporary. So that's what I had to do.
• 1:28:27
  I had to get to. That work.
• 1:28:28
  I had to do that work. So that's my basketball identity
• 1:28:32
  here today after 13 years, about to be retired in the military,
• 1:28:37
  and I can't play ball like I used to.
• 1:28:39
  I do my best, my mind says no, my mind says yes, but my body,
• 1:28:45
  my body's telling me no. But I'm still not afraid to get
• 1:28:49
  out there if if I really feel comfortable that day, I really
• 1:28:51
  feel like I've had enough water that day.
• 1:28:53
  If my back is not hurting too bad or my joints aren't hurting
• 1:28:57
  too, I'm not inflamed too bad. I would go.
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  But to be honest, even if I'm in that state, I'll still go
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  because sometimes the trade off of mental freedom, the.
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  Trade off. It's actually go play right And
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  it shoot around, come home. Now I might be down for a couple
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  days physically, but my mind is so free.
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  My mind is so free. So sometimes if you see me out
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  there, that's the trade off that day that I'm willing to, I'm
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  willing to give that I'm willing to give up that pain for some
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  level of mental peace. And and I have to choose those
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  battles. I don't take on the whole war,
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  but I definitely pick my battles every day.
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  And some days I don't leave the house if I'm in pain.
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  I don't I'm. My body is.
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  So yes, I look good. I know I look, I look good.
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  But my, my injuries are internal.
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  You can't see them. Can't see them.
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  It's my. Body.
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  Now you might notice. How I walk and even you might
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  not, you might hear a. Couple moans and groans.
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  Every now and then, because I really protect it.
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  I was trained not to show my pain, and that's one thing that.
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  Says as veterans, we got to be able to.
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  Take that layer off and ask for help, ask for support.
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  All right, so I'm going to play another PSA and then I'm going
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  to get out of here very, very, very important conversation that
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  you've heard today. I hope you heard something for
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  yourself today because for our veteran community, very, very
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  important for people to understand how mental toughness,
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  your body, your health, all of that is important.
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  All of that is important. And the mental toughness aspect,
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  I'm not, I'm not any of that. I'm just a patient advocate.
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  I'm a patient advocate, so I'm going.
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  To play this PSA. And then I'm going to come back
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  and I'm going to wrap up the show again.
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  Thank you for tuning into the Front Door show on the Military
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  I'm a retired Army Sergeant. First class, 24 years.
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  One day my knees just started hurting and then my shoulders
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  started hurting and my hips started hurting and my hands and
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  my wrists and then next thing you know my whole body was
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  inflamed like I could barely walk.
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  We're trained through basic training, suck it up and drive
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  on. We don't really complain about
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  how we feel as far as pain. My friends and family would see
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  me and they would ask me if I'm in pain.
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  I'll be like no no, no I'm not I'm fine, I'm fine.
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  I end up going to a. Rheumatologist she put some
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  fluid out of. My knee and she was like, oh,
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  you have arthritis? And then that was it.
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  Like what? And so that began the additional
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  physical journey of my body and trying to manage it.
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  Sometimes when I look in the mirror, I see that 19 year old
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  body that joined the military. And then I want this 51 year old
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  guy to have that body back. And I have to remember that that
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  that body is not here anymore. When I started to talk about
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  what I was dealing with in my aches and pains, I've had fellow
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  colleagues and other soldiers like, yeah, man, my shoulder, my
• 1:32:34
  knee. I would say to my my veterans
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  who are dealing with something similar, it takes a level of
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  courage or confidence to do the research and figure out what
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  works best for you. Create a plan with your provider
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  and talk to them and maybe try different things to see what
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  helps your pain levels. That same courage that you have
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  to defend this country that we use, use that same courage to
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  take care of your health. Yeah, me.
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  That was me. That's something.
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  Ain't that something No beard, 51 years old and I manage
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  arthritis. Shout out to the Arthritis
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  Foundation for allowing me to be a part of that campaign.
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  So it's real life. So thank you for tuning,
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  listening today. I pray that you've heard
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  something for yourself as a as a part of our community.
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  I hope you learn something for yourself and hope you.
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  I don't, I don't like to say inspired, but you know,
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  sometimes you got to be encouraged, right?
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  Sometimes inspiration is not enough, sometimes motivation is
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  not enough. Sometimes coping skills are not
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  enough. Sometimes you just got to go
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  figure out what is the root of your issue, What is the root of
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  that 'cause, right? And if you willing to do the
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  work to get to the root of that, there's freedom on the other
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  side, there's transformation on the other side and you get you
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