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This bud is for you Undrell Thomas · WDYM What Do You Mean?

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• 1:24
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• 1:26
  SPEAKER_00: Another episode of the WDYM.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm your host, Michael Gillespie.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hope everybody's doing well.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_00: Hope everybody's doing good.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_00: We are in the current gotta do six and three days mode.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm getting I'm trying to get these done.
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  SPEAKER_00: But uh, you know, uh time is the of the essence.
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  SPEAKER_00: So six and three, trying to get to 4T.
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  SPEAKER_00: And without further ado, this episode, this one's going back down memory lane.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_00: I'm calling it This Buds For You! This buds for you.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_00: You know, they say you should always give your friends roses or give your friends roses while they're still alive.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm not doing that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not calling it that.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_00: I'm calling it this buds for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where I tell um I tell a story of someone who's dear to me, and uh tell you basically tell you how I feel about them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'll well, in this case, him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And um it's my friend.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was one of my best friends from when I was a child, and you know, as things grow on as you grow and and you know, you do things, you grow as an adult and everything, you move apart, you fall apart, move apart, but you still that that bond is always there.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_00: I'm talking about my friend Andreel Thomas, uh, known to his friends, me, as Fofu.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_00: Now you may be like, what, what how you call man Fofu?
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_00: Let me tell you something about Foo Foos.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_00: I know two Foo Fus, and those dudes are the toughest, most athletic, strongest people in the world.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_00: That's a that's a that's like the the the rank of general in some neighborhoods.
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  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, Foo, Foo was man, Foo was it was basically the Michael Jordan of our neighborhood.
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  SPEAKER_00: There was nothing that Foo couldn't do, man.
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  SPEAKER_00: And um it was it was weird.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_00: It was weird at that young age.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_00: I'm talking about like nine, ten years old, what Foo can do.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_00: And it sounds weird to me saying that and everything, but I mean honestly, dude was the highest jumper, the fastest runner, uh, can play football, can play basketball, baseball.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_00: Uh he had, we went to uh Cleveland Elementary School in Hamilton, Ohio, and before they tore it down, he had the fastest time in the 40 at 5'3.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_00: Just think about that.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_00: Fastest, strongest, was the most chill dude.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_00: We would this was we we were we were best friends at the time, and we would do the stupidest stuff and not get in trouble for it.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_00: And I don't know how.
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  SPEAKER_00: For example, we used to play Tag, I can't believe I'm saying this.
• 4:07
  SPEAKER_00: We used to play tag in department stores like Kmart, uh Hills.
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_00: If you I know every story, I'm dating myself, but yeah, we used to play tag in Hills and Kmart, and people would be reaching to clothes and we'd be hiding in there and she'd be fill ahead and stuff.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, oh my god! We run out there, and the manager, every time the manager calls, so don't you come back here and you get in trouble, blah, blah, blah.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_00: We would come back the next week and do it all again.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's that's how crazy we were, man.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_00: Uh everything.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, food was just it was I'll tell you one other story.
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  SPEAKER_00: We used to play tag in the woods, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: And that sounds really weird nowadays, but back in the day, we had this one wooded area that was just basically a play, a playground, so to speak.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because we were in the woods so often, we created our own paths, and you know, we knew how we basically knew the woods like the back of our hands.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we were playing tag one day, and I was the person that was it, and I was determined to get foo.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm getting foo.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm tired of him running around everywhere, beating me, out running me, and I caught him in a very good spot, right?
• 5:13
  SPEAKER_00: So, to give you a description of the woods, we had some the creek.
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_00: The creek was in the middle of the woods, right?
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_00: So it was deep.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_00: It was deep enough where you have to take the shallow parts to jump over it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I caught Foo once and I'm on his ass.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm sorry, Cus.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm on his butt and I'm gonna get him.
• 5:35
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna get him.
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  SPEAKER_00: He jumps across the creek, smooth landing, and it's like no problem for him.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_00: I'm telling you, if there was ever a Super Saiyan, Foo was the first Super Saiyan in the neighborhood.
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_00: I'm this is this is true stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: Foo's the man.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the thing that made Foo so cool was he was the first one to stand up to our bullies in the neighborhood.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, we had bullies in the neighborhood, but it wasn't like a typical bully.
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  SPEAKER_00: They like to play baseball.
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  SPEAKER_00: They used to like play baseball all the time.
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  SPEAKER_00: All the time we played baseball.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was so annoying.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_00: It like, for example, like they would come to my house and then like knock on the door.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know it's them.
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  SPEAKER_00: I can see out the windows, it's Ronnie and Kurt.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, yo, I'm not, I'm not, like, I'm not answering the door.
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_00: So my brother would go and answer the door, like, hey guys, hey, hi guys, how are you?
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, is uh Michael here?
• 6:30
  SPEAKER_00: And he will, he would literally, my brother would look at me like, hmm, is he here?
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_00: Is he here?
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_00: And you may think I'm making fun of the voice, but if previous episodes of the WDYM, it's the same voice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_00: So he looked around and say, Michael, yeah, here he is, there he is.
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_00: Michael, Ronnie and Cody here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you want to play baseball?
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_00: Like, no, I don't want to play baseball, bro.
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  SPEAKER_00: What's wrong with you?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like, he'll be out in about five minutes.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I gotta come out, play baseball.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, man.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_00: Guess what you're gonna do?
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_00: You're gonna get Eric down the street.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's gonna play baseball.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna get Fred.
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna get Cody, Jared, the whole neighborhood.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_00: We're playing baseball today.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, man, I don't want to play no baseball, man.
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_00: So you playing baseball, we're gonna beat you up.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_00: So I didn't go get my glove and baseball back because I'm playing baseball that day.
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_00: So I would go down, get Eric, and here's a funny story.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_00: I said, hey, Eric, you wanna come out and play uh basketball?
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_00: And he came out like, yeah, we gonna play basketball?
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_00: I said, Yeah, Eric, we playing basketball today.
• 7:24
  SPEAKER_00: He said, We playing basketball, huh?
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_00: I said, Yeah, playing basketball.
• 7:27
  SPEAKER_00: Come out, Rodney Kirk come out, yeah, we playing baseball.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, man, Michael, why'd you do that?
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_00: I said, man, it ain't my fault.
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  SPEAKER_00: They threatened to beat me up.
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  SPEAKER_00: I can't, I ain't getting beat up by two people.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just not cool.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I tricked them because they were gonna beat me up.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sorry.
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  SPEAKER_00: I didn't mean it.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_00: This is what happened.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the neighborhood.
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  SPEAKER_00: They want us to play baseball.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know why I'm playing no daggone baseball.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not at all.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that was how they bullied us in the baseball.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we finally get everybody out to play, and the last person they got was Foo.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they like, yo, Fool, you playing baseball?
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_00: And Foo was the first one, like, nah, I ain't playing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And even Foo was just cool, like, nah, I ain't playing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, oh, you can stand up to the bully?
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  SPEAKER_00: And they didn't say anything.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were just like, Oh, okay, we don't need fool, be five on four.
• 8:15
  SPEAKER_00: And we play baseball for like eight hours.
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  SPEAKER_00: While Foo just sitting here chilling, watching eating ho ho's or something.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was like, man, come on, fool, you're supposed to save us all, man.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's like, nah, I ain't playing football.
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  SPEAKER_00: I ain't playing baseball no more.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_00: I ain't playing baseball.
• 8:27
  SPEAKER_00: And he stood up to the bullies, man, and it's like, that's amazing.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't know we could say no, man.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_00: So that was that, right?
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_00: And uh the thing is, like, Ronnie and Kurt, they would leave for the summer, go to Texas, and it'd just be me and Foo.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_00: And all me and Foo did, all we did was just play football.
• 8:48
  SPEAKER_00: Because everybody loved football in the neighborhood.
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_00: We used to play uh two completions first down, you know, in the street, anywhere.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_00: We all played football.
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_00: We all enjoyed football that much, right?
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_00: And uh that's what we did.
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_00: Me and Foo we used to play football so much.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_00: We used to we made this play called the Desmond Howard, where we throw the ball so far that you have to dive to catch it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm surprised none of us didn't break no ribs or anything, but we practiced that for hours, hours all the time.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_00: Me and Foo talk on the phone every day.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_00: And it was like nothing we talk about, nothing like seriously.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_00: We talk about the Michigan, Ohio State game that's gonna play where Michigan back in the day where Michigan used to win all the time, you call it Michael.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_00: That's the way you call me.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_00: Michael.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_00: Guess what?
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_00: Like, what man?
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_00: Michigan won today.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_00: Like, man, I don't care.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_00: I don't care.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_00: So, I mean, we did everything.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_00: And it was not just, you know, the football, baseball.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_00: We played baseball, but not as not as much.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_00: You know, we played football, and then we did something, we did something that that was just completely genius.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_00: We played American Gladiators.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_00: Now you may be like, what's American Gladiators?
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_00: American Gladiators from the early 90s, we did everything.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_00: This is the intro to American Gladiators.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_00: You had to you had to be alive to see this, and it was great.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_00: Huge athletes, gets fast athletes, gets fast normal athletes versus bodybuilders.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_00: And they're playing joust, powerball, maze, running, running the eliminator.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_00: We did all that.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_00: We did all that.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_00: We even tried to put, we even tried to put a uh what do you call it?
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_00: A zip line in for these two trees in the middle of this uh in the neighborhood.
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_00: The little peach, I don't know what kind of tree, crab apple trees, right?
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_00: We tried to put a zip line, and I'm sorry to tell this, Fool.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_00: We put the zip line up between the two trees, and we did, we got all the parts we thought we needed.
• 10:53
  SPEAKER_00: So me and Fool's looking at each other like, yo, why don't you go first?
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_00: So now I ain't going once you go first.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_00: So now you go once you go first.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_00: So now I'm not going while you go first.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_00: And eventually Fool did it, and the thing fell, and he busted his butt on the on the grass, on the floor, and on, you know, on the on the grass, right?
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_00: I said, Dow, and he survived it.
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_00: He didn't break no bones or nothing.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_00: I'm telling you, fool was almost indestructible.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_00: One of the events that that uh fool did, we used to ride roller skates or uh skateboards, not roller skates, skateboards, right?
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_00: So we did the skateboards, but we didn't ride them to traditional way because we were black, and we don't we don't ride that way.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_00: We rolled belly on the skateboard and rolled down the hill, right?
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_00: That's what we did.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_00: Shut up.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_00: That's just what we did.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_00: And uh we rode down the hill, no problem.
• 11:43
  SPEAKER_00: Foo rode one time and fell, hit his face, right?
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_00: We didn't see foo for like three or four days.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_00: And it was like, next thing you know, he was fine.
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_00: He was like, it's like, what's going on?
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, what's wrong, Foo?
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_00: Like, nut, man.
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_00: We used to race the bus.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_00: How do you race a bus?
• 12:01
  SPEAKER_00: As soon as we see the bus coming around the corner, we gone.
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_00: Running, running, running, running, running.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_00: And who gets who finished first?
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_00: Foo.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_00: So this dude is nearly indestructible, man.
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_00: And I can't believe it.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_00: I can't believe how I don't know, how strong, how gifted Foo was, right?
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_00: So the reason why I'm telling the story is because we had this one event, and and to this day, anytime I talk to Foo, I always remind him of this day.
• 12:33
  SPEAKER_00: So one year prior, we had the first teachers versus students basketball game, right?
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_00: And one of the neighborhood bullies, Ronnie, was in the first game, and he's talking hella junk.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, Yeah, guess what?
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_00: When we go in this game, I'm gonna we I'm gonna win.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_00: We gonna win, and it's not gonna be no more teacher versus student games because they're gonna wanna quit after the first one.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_00: And, you know, then we're not gonna play.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_00: Not gonna play.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_00: So the first game was played, we're all there, and Ronnie's throwing airballs up, missing, and everything.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_00: So it's like they eventually, they eventually lose, right?
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_00: They lose.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_00: So we know that foo's up next year, right?
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_00: And the same thing happens, teachers versus students, and this team, this team that Foo had was was stacked.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_00: It was stacked with talent and everything.
• 13:30
  SPEAKER_00: But you know, adults playing kids, it's the advantage is always gonna be on the adults.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_00: Duh, right?
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_00: So the first half of the game, this the teachers are killing the students, right?
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_00: It's like 30 points, like 20 points.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, maybe 20 point difference where the students are losing, right?
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_00: And so the way it was split, the way I think it was split, it was that uh Foo played the first and third quarters, and the other students played the second and fourth quarters.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_00: So there the students are down, and like the whole student body's there cheering them on and everything.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_00: So him, Foo, and the other kids on the team started making a comeback.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_00: They started making a comeback, and it was like the place was set on fire, right?
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_00: And Foo's taking over.
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_00: Foo is is doing his thing, doing what Foo has done in the whole the whole neighborhood process.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_00: He is scoring, he is shooting, he is doing it all.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_00: So it's it's like this 15, 20 point lead is now down to two points, or it's tied, right?
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_00: And this moment where one of the kids, I think it was Chris Atkins, one of the kids on the team was a student, shot the ball and missed it.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_00: Pooh came out of nowhere, grabbed the rebound, and literally his head was above the rim.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_00: His head was above the rim.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_00: If he would have dunked it, the place would have went on fire.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_00: The place would have been on fire.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_00: But he laid it in.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_00: And every, I swear to God, every time I see fool, this is what I say.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_01: Coulda dunked.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_01: Should have dunked.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna play it again.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_01: Could have dunked.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_01: Should have dunked.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_00: Shoulda dunked.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_00: Shoulda dunked.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_00: And he did.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_00: And every time every time I talk to him, if I'm about to get off the phone, yeah, yeah, hey fool, uh, guess what?
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_00: I'll talk to you later.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_00: Hey man, fool, guess what?
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_00: What?
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_00: He should've dunked it.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_00: Every time.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_00: Every time.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_00: That was that's one of the core memories I have, and uh to this day.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_00: I will never let him forget he should've dunked it.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_00: So after that, he goes to another school district and he plays basketball with Fairfield, I believe.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm and and this is the part where I admire him so much for this, man.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_00: And um he sacrificed like he sacrificed so much for his family and stuff like that.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_00: I thought like whatever he wanted to do, if he wanted to play NFL, if he wanted to do NBA, if he wanted to do cricket, you know, soccer, whatever, there's nothing that Fu could not have done.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_00: But he sacrificed, and you know, I admire him for that, and it's not forgotten, and it's you know, and again, why I'm doing this is because it needs to be addressed.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_00: Like this is how much I appreciate the childhood that we had together because these core memories uh that I have as big as the big some of the biggest ones is with my friend Andrew or Foo Foo.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_00: But uh yeah, so buddy.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you, man.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for being the first Super Saiyan that I ever saw, man.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_00: It's just you're amazing, bro, and I just want to let you know that.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, you're one you're a cool dude, bro.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_00: With that being said, this is my first this buzz to you, and this is counting as an episode.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_00: I'm your host, Michael Gillespie of the WDYM.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_00: Peace out, Boy Scout.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_00: Peace.