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SOSA & ROBERTO CRUZ | 1 Da Crew Podcast_Visionary Queen Angela_ THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT · DA CREW Podcast

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Welcome, Welcome, y'all. Have myself on mute, had to un
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mute, had to unmute, So welcome y'all to another episode of The Crew
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Podcast. I am the visionary of the Crew Podcast, and over the next
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fourteen days, we're gonna get an opportunity to meet some extraordinary visionaries that are
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moving and shaking in their own lane, their trailblazers, in their own rights
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tonight, we have a duel. We have a father and daughter duo on
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tonight. I'm telling you, I'm excited to be able to share them with
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you guys. So if you would, if you would take this opportunity to
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share this out in your circle of influence, because you never know what's gonna
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be shared on this show tonight that may be able to touch someone else's life.
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I tell you, in order to see change, you have to be
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that change. And I'm excited. I'm dressed down tonight. I got my
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little, my little hoodie on because y'all, y'all know I used to ball
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a little bit, so I'm about to see this little this little lady on
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tonight. I tell you, y'all, I've seen some clips of her.
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I'm excited for her dad to be on, to be able to share his
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story. I've heard a lot about both of these individuals and I'm just excited
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to be able to share them with you guys tonight. So I want you,
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guys to please take this opportunity to share this out in your circle of
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influence. Of course, I'm gonna move out the way and I'm gonna welcome.
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Welcome, Welcome. How are you guys tonight. I cannot complain.
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I will not complain because it always could be worse. I tell y'all woke
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up on this side of design. So I'm excited. I tell you,
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I've been seeing some clips of this young lady here, and I personally have
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had an opportunity to work with your mom as an author, so I've had
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an opportunity to really hear a little bit about your story, and I'm excited
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to be able to share your story tonight. So, however y'all want to
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dive in, I'm gonna yield and allow you guys to take over the floor.
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So, however you want to take over the floor, I do have
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some clips of some videos of this young lady sitting beside you, So at
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any time you want me to pop them on so the audience can see who
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were talking about and what we're talking about, just let me know and I
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can roll them. But it's all about It's all about YouTube tonight. So
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whatever, wherever y'all want to jump in the floor is yours. Yeah.
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So my name is Roberto Sosa Cruz. Yes, this is my daughter.
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You know, ever since my daughter was born, actually before she was born,
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you know I kind of you know, put into the into the world
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and to the air that you know, I just I always want to,
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you know, like an athletic child. You know, I played sports my
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whole life, and you know, I've been through a lot of things in
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life, a lot of ups and downs, and you know, I didn't
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make it to where I was supposed to be in life in sports. So
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I've kind of been a lot of places, seen a lot of things,
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and you know, I realized the reason why, you know, things didn't
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work out for me. So I always said when I was about eighteen years
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old, you know, when I get older, I'm going to make sure
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I do this with my child. And you know, I had my daughter
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in I really wasn't expecting to have a girl. I always thought it would
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be a boy. But she came out and I named her Sosa. So
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so was has been my names as I was eleven years old, and I
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always knew I was gonna name my child Sosa, but I never knew it
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was gonna be a girl. And you know, once I found out that
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she was gonna be a girl, I already knew she was going to be
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a superstar. So I said, you know what, I'm still gonna name
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her Susa because I feel like so Sa Cruise is like it sounds like a
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superstar name so Sa Cruseed. Like when you hear that name, it's just
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it sounds like she's somebody, and she is somebody. So I stuck with
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it. I said, you know what, I'm just gonna name her Sosa,
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and I just I went with it. So you know, she was
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born and before she was even one year, your mom said. Your mom
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said, she cannot see your face. She wants to see your face,
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to see your face. She can't see me. Yes, can you see
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me? She said, I cannot see your face. No, your face
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is hid. I'm too, I'm too. I can see your chan Oh
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wow, I can see your chance. What I didn't you say? Okay,
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now I think you can see you about now steal your chain? Wow?
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Let me see shut it up? Can you lift it up a little?
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Can you lift it a little? Fun saying hold on? What is
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okay? Okay? Yeah? H yeah, yeah yeah, mind m bigger
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the school boy? Kay? Yeah now let me see h multiple things?
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Kay. I think that's good. I don't think so. Wake your finder
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m hmm, yeah. Are we're working out these technical technical Okay, while
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we're letting him get his camera together, how about I play one of those
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sits of this young lady so y'all can see who we're gonna be talking about.
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Y'all, looky here, missionary on the definition like the dictionary, baby
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turn around for getting a missionary. If they pull up on me with some
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bad interns, you gonna read about it in obituar. I got most soldiers
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in a military, I got most stones in a cemetery, most strings,
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and y'all up February. It's getting hard to put up price on the show.
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Can't even pick it up out now. But right everybody, listen,
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you about to meet a six year old basketball sensation from right here in Atlanta.
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Georgian uncaus Justin Felder has the story. He's comment on one of her
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photos. When I seen that, I'm like, oh my god, this
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is strange. NBA players message me and a lot of people. What's up
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to Stephan carry here? I just want to check in what you hope you're
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doing well. Even Steve Harvey was like, you know, it took me
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this long to become to become known. I've never seen a five year old
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with the abilities that you have and the heart that you had, the game
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that you had. So she's just gonna go off for me, tell me
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of a lot of girls to show you girls can play basketball. But she's
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gonna get a really good plucky she could pose you hear that girl said you
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can play in the NBA with Lebron. Girl. Wow, let's see.
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We gonna see if they got it fixed? Are you seek? Yes?
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Yeah, okay, yes, that is great. Yes, right there,
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it fell back down, go up just a little bit, just a little
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bit. Mm hmm. Okay, that's good. Right there, right there,
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good, right there, right there, that's good. Okay, cool,
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Yes, right there, right there, right there. Awesome, awesome,
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awesome. So now everybody can everybody can see your face. Your mama
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wanted to see your face. I had no clue. I had no clue.
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It's okay, yeah, so it's okay, I tell you technology.
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Yes, so you can go ahead. We apologize. You know, stuff
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happens. It gave them an opportunity to see who we're talking about because I
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had some clips. So they got an opportunity to see exactly who we're going
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to be talking about. So if you want to go ahead and flowishrs whoever
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I want to talk, it's all your yes. Sure. So yeah,
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I really loved basketball so much. It's really fun to do, and I
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loved just working hard. Yeah, and I'm nine years old and my first
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name is so sur Cruse And guys, Super and Golden came out yesterday,
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episode seven and you have to watch that. Guys. It's really cool right
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now. So that's my websities that I'm featured in. And she's a I
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don't know what happened. We are always somewhat having some technical difficulty because the
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enemy do not like for us to apparently share all of this goodness. I
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tell you, these two have an amazing testimony. They have an amazing journey
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that they are on, and I'm just excited about what's going on. We
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gonna get it together. We gonna get it together. They gotta come back
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on. I don't know, I don't know what's going on, but yeah,
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hopefully they'll jump back on. I don't know, miss thing. Would
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you like to come in the studio? You have the link, you can
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come in if you would like, and you maybe could share a little insight
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until they come back, if if you want, if you're in a position
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that you can come on. Y'all know we keep it pushing. I'll tell
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you, they have an amazing story here they come, here, they come,
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here, they come. I gotta wait for their mics in their video
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to connect. I tell you, the enemies just don't want us to to
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be great, but they can't stop greatness. I tell you they trying to
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come on, y'all. We gonna see what happens here they go. Welcome
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back, Welcome back, welcome back. Hey, sorry about that. It's
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such a what happened? Major technical difficulties right now. You don't have much
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help right now. It's just me and it's okay. Look it wasn't.
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We're used to it over here because something always happens over here on the network.
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So I guess I should have told you that when we first come on,
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it's always something. It's like the enemy don't like for us to share
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good stuff, and I know it's about to be some good stuff being shared
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tonight, so it's like he just keep us distracted with this internet. Last
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night, it was thirty minutes before we can even go live because it kept
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just kicking us out and just kept doing all kind of crazy stuff. But
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it's okay, guess what we keep pushing you know, quit, I'm telling
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you I used to run suicide, so you already know he runs a lot
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of suicide. No, Sosa, So you know, Yes, I played.
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I played basketball. I actually played basketball at Morris Brown College in Atlanta,
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right there in Atlanta in the early nineties. So I used to could
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hoop. Now, I ain't gonna say I was no Sosa, but I
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could ball now, and then I was a post player. I wouldn't.
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I went with all the dribbling. I could handle the ball, but I
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wasn't with it. I played the I played the four, but I could
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rotate to the five and the three if I had to, But mainly four,
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main a little bit of side. See. Yeah, I'm finally that
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and and a half. Okaya, definitely. Yeah, we're praying for that
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half. We're praying for Sosa to get to at least five or nine.
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At least five Okay. Yeah, so I'm pretty much. When Sosa was
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not even one years old, I was training her brother in football, and
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Sosa would she would get down and do push ups and do sit ups and
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she wasn't even one years old. Yeah, she was walking at like nine
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months, and she was just doing things that you know, I've never seen
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babies do before. Her athletic abilities were just abnormal, and it was just
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like it was just so much. It was basically just God given, you
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know, God just put these abilities in her from the beginning, and I
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just noticed it and it was just like, wow, is my my dreams
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really coming true? And it was just like she wanted to work out,
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she wanted to do things, she wanted to be active, and I just
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saw the athletic ability in her. And then, you know, when she
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was one two years old, I bought her a little basketball hoop, would
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buy her her little basketball sneakers, a little Kyrie's and Jordan's and she would
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you know, shooting the hoop and she would have so much fun, and
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you know I would. She went to her first basketball game at six months
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old. By the time she was four or five years old, I took
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you away to Atlanta Dream Game and they let me go in the court and
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I was just you blame And that's what I really wanted to know, that
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play basketball. Yeah, So at five years old, we went to an
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Atlanta Dream game. They played against the Chicago sky And at this game,
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they let her come in the court and she was dribbling the ball. She
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was looking so beautiful, had the biggest smile on her face, and I
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think I think that was the moment she was like, this is this is
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for me. Right, ever since that day, it's just I mean even
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before then she was locked in, but ever since that day, it was
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like she knew this is what she wanted to do. When I was five
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years old, and you know, we were we were working and putting in
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work that you know, average kids her age wouldn't be doing. But it's
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like she was able to do it. She wanted to do it, and
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like, you know, the focus that she was showing at her age was
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something I've never seen before. I didn't have that. I'm the oldest of
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nine kids. I've never seen any of my brothers or cousins and any kids
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around me. I've never seen what she was able to do. So when
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she was five years old, you know, I was training her five years
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old, she was doing one hundred push ups. So at five years old,
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I'm like, you know, I think you're I think you're ready to
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go to to play on the team and to go to a trainer. So
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I took her to a trainer. And you know, usually trainers they don't
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want to you know, they don't want to develop kids. I shouldn't say
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training develop. They don't want to develop kids. You know that at that
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age, because you know, it's basically like a waste of money. You
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know, they're not really focused yet, it's not they don't know what they're
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doing. So I took Sosa to the trainer and so, so she got
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down on the ground, she did one hundred push up straight, five years
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old, and he said, oh, I'm taking her, I'm gonna I'm
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gonna develop, I'm gonna train her. So he worked with her and ever
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since that moment, we just took off. So we were working, developing,
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putting in so much work. You know, I would record videos of
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her. I started her social media page when she was four or five years
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old, and we would just post all her videos and you would just see
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you know, her leveling up every day every day, just getting better at
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what she was doing. We just we would add add, you know,
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different drills to her her workouts, and she was just getting better. And
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you would and in these videos you could just see the focus and It's like
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it's like, Wow, that little girl on five years old and she's able
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to focus like that and concentrate and just put that work in that grown people
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do. So this is around COVID time. This is she's still five years
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old, before she turned six. This is it's like COVID Like I'd say,
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like March April time she turned six May tenth of that year of twenty
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twenty. So this is about eight March April of twenty twenty, she's still
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five years old. You know, we're in the house. It's COVID.
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The kids are out of school now, nobody can go outside. We can't
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do anything. You know. After a while, I'm just like that,
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we can't go to the gym. We can't do this, We can't do
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that. It's time for us to go to the park and put some work
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in. It's like we've been in the house for weeks, Sosa hasn't dribbled
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the ball. We were losing our minds. So we went to her her
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actually it was her school at the time. They have a basketball court in
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the back, and we went there and we started doing the drills that we
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do. You know. I started off Sosa, she was doing two ball
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dribbling drills, so she would like dribble two balls at the same time.
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And I actually recorded her, you know, dribbling two balls, you know.
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Like I said, this was her first day back out, so she
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was very focused and eager to just get out there and put in work.
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She was very determined and just ready to go. So and we got that
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video. Yeah, that's the video that like that video right there. I
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got that video. I posted that video right there and then the world just
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went crazy, like it went. I'm talking about hundreds of thousands and millions
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of views viral like everyone in the basketball world and beyond seeing that video.
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Okay, cool, look this guy your missionary of the definition like the dictionary.
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Maybe turn around for getting the missionary. If they pull up on me
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with some bad intentions, you're gonna read about it in obituate. I got
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most soldiers in a military, I got most stones in a cemetery, I
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got most strings, and y'all in February. It's getting hard to put a
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price on the show. Can't even figure up out now. But wow,
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okay, so so that video right there, that's that's that's that's not the
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video that went viral. So that video right there is kind of recent,
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the video that went virus. She was a five year old little girl.
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She has on like a pink hoodie and she's outside at the park dribbling two
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balls. It's the one with Steve Harvey. Yeah, it's on there.
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Yep, it's on there. She's counted. She's like one, two,
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is it on the legacy? I didn't want to think it's on Harvey.
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I think it's on the one with Steve Harvey from some six Yeah, but
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yep, the click not everybody listen, you bought to meet the six year
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old basketball sensation from right here in Atlanta, Georgia. Justin Felder has the
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story Carlo, and he's commented on one of her photos. When I seen
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that, I'm like, oh my god, this is the NBA players and
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that's just me and a lot of people. What's to Stephen Curry here?
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I just want to check in what you ope, your do well? Even
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Steve Harvey was like, you know, it's me this long to become to
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become known. I've never seen a five year old with the abilities that you
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have and the heart that you had, the game that you had. So
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she's just gonna go off from here that that is so amazing. How how
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did that make you feel? I felt great and happy. Yes, yes,
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wow, you're definitely amazing. I tell you your work. I'm telling
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you you you're exactly right. When it comes to work ethics and her,
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it's passion for her. She because when I first started playing basketball, I
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started playing because my coach wanted me to play. She was my pe teacher
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and she wanted me like it wasn't about passion, and I grew to love
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the game. But she loved the game so much to she picked it up.
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And and wow, people, she's so young, she's nine years old.
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Now wow, you know a lot of people they're they're so wild,
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you know about her skills and stuff like that. But like for me,
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what does it for me is just like, like the way she works and
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the way she focus is just that right there is what like drives me.
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It's like, wow, this is so amazing. You know, I love
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you. Though she's very she's one of them. She's I mean you you'll
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never find nine year old girls as skillful as she is in basketball. But
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to me, it's the way that she works, the efforts that she gives
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and it's just like, you know, she's in the gym working with high
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school girls, high school boys and top I'm talking about top of the Country
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Division one girl basketball players and w NBA basketball player. She trains in the
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gym with all of these levels of talented players, and she's always the hardest
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working every single time. She's the hardest worker every single time. And that's
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what I love. And that's how I know, you know she's gonna be
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and get to the point that she wants to get to because of her work
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ethic and her passion, how much she loves it. She's just not gonna
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let you work harder than her. It's just not gonna happen. That's that's
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just what's in her. So when when when the video went viral, you
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know, her Instagram blew up. It went all the way to thirteen point
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two thousand followers, It went crazy. I mean everybody was sending me messages,
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NBA players, w NBA players, I mean, Gabrielle Union, I
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mean like people, you know, you know, you know how women are
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when they see when they see another woman doing their thing, especially a little
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girl doing her thing, and she's doing something that you know, you don't
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see too many girls doing when they see that, they're gonna show love.
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So the women that was showing my go to love at that time was it
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was it's so crazy, like they were like, oh my god, you
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know, they were posting my daughters videos on their pages. It was just
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so amazing. And first, I think we had first the first people that
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had Fox five News. They were the first people that contacted me and they
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came and they did an interview with us, and it was it was really
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amazing. You know, that was first big you know, they had the
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all the you know, the news cameras out there in the van and all
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of that stuff out there for her. It was a big thing and it
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was just so amazing. At that time, she was still five years old,
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and you know, we were on the news Fox five News, and
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after that it was Access Hollywood, and after that it was Steve Harvey Show,
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and then you know, Sports Illustrated was posting her. ESPN, you
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know, every every big major basketball media outlet. You know, they were
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capta into her. I mean like people in Germany, Africa, people all
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over the world were contacting me about my daughter's video that went viral, and
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it was just so amazing. So all of this was happening around in the
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springtime, the spring summer of twenty twenty. We were we were filming all
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these shows and doing all these interviews and you know, creating content every single
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day and just working hard. And this was you know, March, April,
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May, June, and then everything was just taken off. And then
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December came and I lost my eyesight and went blind, just like that,
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and that like changed our whole entire world, changed our whole entire life.
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Rab my girl. Yeah, yeah, it definitely. You know, it
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affected my daughter in a major way. You know, she was so used
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to me watching her and paying attention to every detail and just being right there,
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you know, working with her, you know, doing what we have
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to do, you know, not even with basketball, but just regular life.
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You know, this is my girls. You know, my whole entire
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life is revolved around my daughters. You know that's just what it is.
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I don't my whole everything I do is revolved around them. Nothing else matters
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to me. I mean, you know, other things matter, but you
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know what I'm saying. Without then I'm nothing. I don't I don't do
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I don't really do anything. For myself. I live for them and that's
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just how I do. So, you know, me loos on my site
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affected them in a major way at first. So I'm in the hospital bed,
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so I rewinded a little bit. I was in December. I was
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getting these headaches and I'm not I don't like taking pills for some reason,
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I just don't like pills. So I don't like taking pails. I don't
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like medicine, none of that kind of stuff. So I would get these
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headaches that I didn't take anything, and they were just getting bad and bad
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and bad. So the second week, the headaches were causing me to vomit.
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So that's when I checked myself into the emergency room. And you know,
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at the time, you know, I was waking up and I would
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wake up in the morning and I would have blurred vision at times and I
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would just you know, rub my eyes and everything would be cool. I
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went to the emergency room one time before and they just said, uh,
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they didn't really tell me anything, Like, they didn't really say anything was
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really wrong with me. They didn't really tell me that I had a problem
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or anything like that. It was just nothing. So I went to the
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emergency room this time, and I'm like, yeah, it's my eyes are
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blurry. I have this crazy headache. It's causing me to vomit. I
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can't bear it. I can't take it anymore. So you know, I'm
30:32
in the hospital and at this time I'm still able to see. And a
30:37
day or two goes by and I still have this crazy headache vomiting. To
30:41
give me all these pills, they don't. They can't. They can't take
30:45
the headache away from me. They don't know what's going on. So finally
30:49
they give me something called a lumbar puncture. It's like a spinal tap,
30:52
and they put a needle on my spine and they drained out all this fluid
30:57
in my brain out. They were doing this, I'm laying on the I'm
31:02
laying on the on the bed, and the doctor and like, mister Kruz,
31:04
I've never seen this much fluid on a person's brain in my entire time
31:11
of being a doctor. The fluid on your brain just came out like a
31:14
waterfall. I said, whoa. And immediately when he stuck that needle on
31:18
my spine and the water started draining out of my brain, the headache just
31:26
went away. At the time I was. At this point in time,
31:29
I was kind of like losing my sight, and I promise you I didn't
31:33
even care. My headache was hurting so bad. I didn't care about my
31:37
eyes. I'm like, I don't care about my eyes right now. Can
31:41
you please just get this headache away. They put the needle on my back.
31:45
Immediately, boom, the headaches were gone. So they drained all the
31:49
fluid out as the dager going by. You know, my eyesight, I'm
31:56
still able to see a little bit, but my eyes blow and I'm having
32:00
trouble seeing. Then the optimologist comes to see me and he gives me a
32:08
he dilates my eyes. He dilates my pupils. And when he dilates my
32:13
pupils, I wasn't able to see anymore. So I'm like, yeah,
32:16
I can't see right now. He's like, yeah, in a few hours,
32:20
you should be able to. You'll be fine. You know, it's
32:22
doing what it's doing. Whatever the dilation of pupils does, it was doing,
32:25
you know. And he's telling me, he's checking me out and he's
32:29
saying that at this point in time, they told me that I have,
32:31
you know, high blood pressure. I really didn't know that I was living
32:34
with high blood pressure for a long period of time, and he's telling me
32:37
like, yeah, mister cruise, if you don't take care of yourself and
32:38
get your blood pressure down, in two years, you'll be blind. This
32:42
is what he's telling me at this point in time. So he dilated my
32:46
eyes, and you know, after he dilating my eyes, I was never
32:52
able to see again. I don't know. That wasn't that wasn't supposed to
32:58
be the case. You know. What he told me was that if I
33:00
don't take care of myself in two years, I won't be able to see.
33:05
But that day I wasn't able to see it again. So while I'm
33:08
in the hospital, I'm going through it, you know, I'm trying to
33:12
understand what's going on. I was in the hospital for about two or three
33:15
weeks. It's COVID time, and I wasn't able to have no visitors.
33:20
I'm just in the hospital, not knowing what's going on. I can't see.
33:23
It was it was real crazy. You know. I've been in a
33:27
lot of experiences, a lot of situations in life, and that was pretty
33:29
much one of the worst ones. I would say it was worse than being
33:31
in jail, not gonna lie, losing your sight, you're blind. All
33:37
these people were coming in and out the room. You don't know what's going
33:39
on in the hospital bed. I can't have nobody come up there and see
33:43
me. My mom can't come see me. I can't see my kids.
33:46
It was just crazy. And actually during this time period, while I'm in
33:51
the hospital at the time, my wife sois mom. She calls me and
33:55
she says, Instagram is going to delete socialism and Socialist page because they're saying
34:00
that she's too young. I'm like, are you kidding me? We just
34:05
put in all this work. Her Instagram, her social media account not up
34:09
to almost fourteen thousand followers. We know, we were constant, We're connected
34:15
with all these people through this page right here, and they're trying to delete
34:17
her page. And it was like I lost my I lost my eyesight,
34:22
and I lost her Instagram, her Instagram account at the same exact time.
34:27
It was. It was it was crazy. After we put all her put
34:30
in all that work. At this time, you know, she was six
34:32
years old, and uh we had her Instagram for about two years and we
34:37
did a lot of things on there, and they deleted it. You know,
34:42
we we know for a fact it wasn't because she was too young,
34:45
you know, somebody hated on somebody did something to get it deleted, because
34:50
it's just no way they would just delete my daughter's Instagram account. Nothing but
34:53
positivity, you know, motivation, inspiration, you know, coming from a
34:58
five six year old girl, there's nothing negative about it. It's nothing but
35:02
love being shown, and they just deleted it, saying, oh, she's
35:05
too young to have Instagram. There's millions of kids under thirteen years old with
35:08
Instagram pages, and you know they just deleted hers. So it was so
35:16
much, you know, so I lost the Instagram, I lost my eyesight.
35:21
We had to figure out how to adapt to this new lifestyle and how
35:24
to just make things work, you know, right, so saying, yeah,
35:28
so what do we do? So basically we practice every day, put
35:31
it in this work so that I can get better, and just like that.
35:36
Yeah, so we didn't. We didn't take too much time off.
35:38
So I'm not gonna lie I didn't. I didn't let you know, I
35:42
didn't let me being lyed. I wasn't gonna let that, you know,
35:45
interrupt and interfere with you know, everything, that I have going on with
35:50
my children, with my daughters, I couldn't let them. I couldn't let
35:53
this affect them, you know, even though I knew it affected Social because
35:55
you know, with me training her, us practicing, I couldn't fix what
36:01
needed to be fixed because I couldn't see. So I needed other eyes to
36:05
be around. I needed other people to be around to help us. And
36:08
you know, I would be out to go to her games, and you
36:12
know, after games, you know I would, I was. I'm so
36:15
so I always trained social, but I'm not a coach. I'm not the
36:17
person on the sideline that's like coaching the kids and doing that kind of stuff.
36:22
You know, I just trained my daughter, and even though I'm not
36:27
a coach, I'm coaching her the whole game. I'm telling her the whole
36:30
game, coaching her, you know, the whole entire game from the sidelines.
36:34
And I wasn't able to do that anymore. So it was like,
36:37
you know, she wasn't able to hear my voice, she wasn't able to
36:40
hear her dad talked to her anymore. So it was like now she's on
36:45
her own out there. Now she has to figure it out herself. And
36:52
I'm it was rough at first. You know, she kind of lost a
36:54
little passion for the game for a while because you know, I wasn't there
36:58
with her, you know, through what we do that we've been doing since
37:01
day one. And it was rough. It was a rough, rough period
37:05
of time. And then you know, and it was rough. It was
37:13
rough right right. She had a lot of anxiety. You know, she
37:17
was having problems sleeping, and she was using the bathroom a lot. It
37:22
was, it was, it was rough for her, like it was rough
37:25
for She's my girl, she's my world, and you know, things changed
37:30
so fast, so we had to adapt fast. I didn't let it wow.
37:34
You know, it was down for a little minute, you know,
37:37
trying to figure it out. But I promise you I got I got out
37:39
the hospital the week of Christmas. So let's I'm not sure what day Christmas
37:45
was on that year, so let's just say Christmas was on a Thursday,
37:47
and now at the hospital on Tuesday, and you know, not too far
37:53
after that January and nothing, at no point did she miss anything. Right
38:00
right after Christmas break was over, she was right back out there. You
38:04
know, we had to figure it out. Even though we're still rough on
38:06
her. We were right back out there. She was right back playing with
38:09
her team, right back working, and we were just trying to figure it
38:13
out, you know, to make it to get to the point where we
38:15
can still do what we do. So, you know, I got a
38:16
little bit of help. I had my brother around, my brother Lonnie,
38:20
my brother Ray. You know, they were there to help me out and
38:22
help us out to get to where we needed to be. And you know,
38:25
to just keep eyes on Sosa and just make sure she's doing you know,
38:30
the proper things to get better. And we made it through the storm.
38:37
We made it through the storm for real. I mean up to this
38:40
point right now, we're good. Wow. So how can how can individuals
38:50
follow and support you guys? Because I know that you guys probably could use
38:55
some some some support. So how can people support and follow what you guys
39:04
are doing? Yeah? So selling your Instagram instu so s O s A
39:13
and then two and then cruz yep so so so two crews. That's her
39:17
instagram. You know, on on her Instagram, you you can actually in
39:22
her in her bio is the link to the documentary. You could just you
39:29
know check her out there, just you know, follow her show her some
39:32
love and just watch her on her journey, because it's gonna be something that
39:36
you've never seen before. Everything about her, it's it's all new. You
39:39
know, this is not something that people have seen before. The things that
39:43
she does, the way she works, just the life that she lives.
39:45
She's a phenomenal girl. You know, just outside of basketball. She does
39:51
what she's supposed to do. And you know, her teachers love her.
39:55
Man, she loves God, and she's just a a great, great,
40:00
great child. She's nine years old right now, in fourth grade. Right
40:07
now, we're actually trying. I'm in the process of, uh, you
40:12
know, putting her into private school. It's a very very good school in
40:15
our area. And you know, they have phenomenal programs, you know,
40:21
academic programs, phenomenal athletic programs, and it's just like a great, great
40:27
environment, a great great environment, you know. Man. Like so telling
40:36
about how how do you like the school? Oh my gosh, I just
40:38
love like the like how big the gyms are, and like the teachers and
40:44
the school is called Holy and yes they have they they offer everything there and
40:50
and it's very diverse, you know, and it's basically ran by black people.
40:53
Also and that's a very important tool. So you know, like the
40:55
principal the school, you know, people that are the finistry, the people
41:00
that are running things. You know. And in the beginning, your daughter
41:05
was telling us about oh yes, my documentary was telling us about something that
41:13
just released. Yes, so right now. So so that's basically what I
41:17
do. Okay, so we got at Yeah, So I act, and
41:23
uh, right now, I'm currently in a show called Silver and Gold.
41:28
I play a character called Sosa Grena. And this is actually my first,
41:32
you know, my first role, my first time ever acting while while being
41:37
blind. This is not my first time acting, but my first time as
41:40
a blind actor. And I'm not gonna lie, man, I'm I'm I'm
41:47
pretty good. Pretty good. I didn't think I was gonna be this good.
41:52
It was rough. But if you guys, you gots, you gotta
41:54
check the show out. It's called Silver and Gold. It's basically like it's
41:59
a high show. It's like it's basically like a twenty twenty three version of
42:04
like a Black Bonnie and Clyde. And I play a character who basically,
42:07
you know, I bring the jobs to the crew. I have all the
42:10
ins and outs, the blueprints you know, I have the information to the
42:15
jobs that we're gonna pull. You know, I play like a really you
42:17
know, serious character. And you know, my team that I work with
42:25
in the show, you know, up to a certain point, they don't
42:29
even realize that I'm blind. So I'm trained so well in the show to
42:34
move as a regular person. So the people that I work with, they
42:37
don't know that I'm blind. So you know, I wear my glasses.
42:38
They just think that I'm trying to be cool and wearing glasses. But I'm
42:42
actually wearing my glasses because I'm blind, but they just don't know it.
42:45
And you know, in the show, just I do a lot of things,
42:46
you know, fight scenes, all types of things, all kinds of
42:52
scenes, and if when you're looking at it, you'll never know I'm blind
42:55
until the point of the show where we tell you that I'm blind. And
43:00
it's an amazing show. You have to check it out. It's on the
43:02
streaming service called Jarro. Like I said, The Silvering Goes. The first
43:08
season was directed by a good great friend of mine, a land Halls.
43:13
He's the director, the writer, the producer. He's kind of like a
43:16
you know, like a a Donald Glover he's like he's like a like a
43:22
Donald Glover kind of guy. You know, he writes it, he acts
43:23
in it. He's a phenomenal, phenomenal just just a just a phenomenal person,
43:29
you know. Uh, he does wonderful, wonderful things in the in
43:31
the film industry. And you know, that's very my close friend and I
43:35
acting everything that he does. My daughters are in the show episode seven.
43:40
It was just released on Monday, and that's basically like my standalone episode where
43:46
basically the whole entire episode is revolved around my story, and I have my
43:52
daughters in the story and and in the end the episode, and they're acting
43:55
so everything that I do, I put them in it, and I'm not
44:00
gonna lie. I'm very very proud of this. I'm more proud of this,
44:02
you know, besides my daughter. I'm more proud of this for me
44:06
than anything because I put it in a lot of works. I didn't think
44:08
I was gonna be able to do it because when Alan Jay originally wrote the
44:14
script, I wasn't blind. I was a regular person at the time.
44:17
He didn't write it for a blind person. And then, you know,
44:22
fast forward in December, I lost my eyesight and it was like he was
44:25
gonna have to recast my role, but he wrote it specifically for me.
44:31
And you know, I'm just laying in the bed and I'm just thinking,
44:34
I'm like, man, I could still do this, Like this is a
44:37
way that we can still make it happen. And I called him, I'm
44:40
like, yo, bro, I want to still do it, man,
44:44
I want to still try to play this role. And he says, I
44:49
don't want nobody else to play this role. But you and I did it
44:53
so quick. We were He wrote all the scripts. You know, we
44:59
have the rehearsals, rehearsal, this is where, this is where, you
45:02
know, everything just became so like, like so so great for me.
45:07
I've always been a music person my whole entire life. You know, you
45:12
know my mom, if you ask my mom, you know, as a
45:14
young boy, I always loved music. I would write down the lyrics to
45:16
the words and I would just listen to the songs very closely. I was
45:21
very, very very into music my whole entire life. My mom, she
45:23
was, she was an MC in high school. Her name was Madam miss
45:28
and you know she had me at a young age and you know, around
45:30
her time is when hip hop was, you know, first coming out,
45:34
and she was a she was an MC. So I've basically just been around
45:37
hip hop and music black music my whole entire life. So when I went
45:44
to rehearsal for the very first time, you know, we were trying to
45:45
figure out a way for me to be able to learn my lines. So
45:52
we came up with a solution the first rehearsal. So we were all everybody
45:58
that so let's just say there's four people in the scene, and you know,
46:00
we have a script supervisor. He's the person that you know, helps
46:04
us with the script. So you know, everybody in the scene, they
46:08
would you know, say their lines, and then when it was my turn
46:12
to say my line, the script supervisor he would tell me what to say
46:15
and then I would repeat the line and we would record the whole thing and
46:21
he would send me the notes. So we record all the scenes with everybody
46:24
saying their lines, and I would just go home and just listen to it
46:28
like music. I would just put it on and just listen to it like
46:30
I would listening to like a like a NA song, or a jay Z
46:32
song, or a Biggie song, And I was just listening to it,
46:38
and we will rehearse twice once a week, actually once a week every Thursday.
46:43
We would rehearse all together, the whole cast. So the first rehearsal
46:47
we record the lines. The second herd rehearsal, I know all my lines,
46:53
So by the second rehearsal, I'm the only person that knows their lines
47:00
and I'm the blind guy. No one else knows all their lines but me,
47:04
and to me, I'm not gonna lie me. Learning my lines this
47:07
way it was ten times easier than learning lines reading them. So just listening
47:13
to the listening to the words, and listening to the lines, I was
47:17
able to memorize it ten times faster and it just it brought It made my
47:22
acting ten times more and more better. And it was a lot of work.
47:28
I'm just so proud of it. And I would love for you guys
47:30
to check out Super and gold Man. It's an amazing episode. Gotta check
47:37
It's an amazing, amazing season, the whole entire season right now. He
47:42
has seven episodes out. You gotta check it out. Yeah, well,
47:54
we're definitely gonna be checking it out, so know that we're gonna be making
48:00
it out. Yes, and I definitely want to thank you guys for stopping
48:06
by and sharing with us on tonight again, SUSA, if you will please
48:09
tell us how we can reach out and support you so that we can follow
48:15
you on Instagram. Okay, tell me yeah s O s A. Then
48:27
two cere eaz so say two crews. Yep, you can check out.
48:31
You can go to her Instagram. You'll see all of her of her videos
48:36
of her working and putting in that work and having a fun, great time.
48:38
You know, we don't just work. We go to games. She
48:42
goes to what do you do? Tell them what you're doing a regular bation,
48:45
what you basically with practice and stuff, and then when game time be
48:50
coming up, I'll be like shooting on those people, killing them, like
48:52
you know what I'd be doing. And what else do you do for fun?
48:55
Like, oh yeah, basically cool jumping houses, playhouse and go play.
49:02
They love to go. She loves to go to the jumping houses and
49:05
the trampolines, and you know, we go to those type of places every
49:09
single week. I make sure that she has more than She definitely has a
49:15
wonderful life as a child, and people's people see her videos because you know,
49:20
I don't have a Sosa's instagram isn't you know, just an instagram for
49:23
a cute kid. This is like an instagram for a person that's motivated and
49:29
working to be something. You know, We're not just like on there just
49:31
like taking little cute pictures and cute outfits like, No, this is not
49:37
that at all. This is straight a little girl who's motivating and inspiring people
49:43
and trying to be great to achieve all the goals that she wants to achieve
49:46
in her life. So that's what we post on her instagram. They don't
49:49
see. They don't see all of the jumpy house stuff and the movies and
49:53
the parks. They don't they don't see all that type of stuff. So
49:57
people think that all Sosa does is work card but do you what do you
50:02
do so much funds O day? Yes, every day. Yeah. So
50:14
Sosa's instagram is Sosa to Cruise s O s A the Number two Cruise,
50:22
And my instagram is CEO Underscore, s O S Underscore, CEO Underscore,
50:29
s O S Underscore. And you know, all of the content from my
50:34
show is on their content from Sosa, you know, with her training and
50:37
her games and you know, everything that we do. You can find everything
50:42
on there. You know this is you know, she has her she has
50:45
her merch, she has everything, she has hoodies, she has shirts,
50:49
she has leggings everything. You know, she's a she's a brand herself,
50:52
so she has her own brand. You know, we have to you know,
50:57
she's different, so we do different things. Thank my girl. Yeah,
51:06
so check us out. Well. I definitely have enjoyed you guys on
51:08
tonight and we definitely will be doing that. I have shared your links and
51:16
we'll be following you guys, and anytime y'all want to come back, just
51:22
come on back and give us an update. Definitely, definitely, we have
51:29
a lot of updates. We do a lot, so there's a lot of
51:31
updates we have. Well. I look forward to seeing what y'all have going
51:39
on in twenty twenty four, and we definitely will be bringing you back.
51:45
I hope that y'all have a wonderful rest of twenty twenty three and I look
51:49
forward to seeing you out there on the court young lady. Y'all have a
51:52
great evening and be pleased to have a great night. Thank you. Aight,
52:01
everybody, listen, you about to meet a six year old basketball sensation
52:05
from right here in Atlanta, Georgia, who went viral with the ball handling
52:08
skills on the court. Check her out. Get up, Let's go harder,
52:23
hard harder, Let's go. Let's go. Well, since they live
52:27
in the neighborhood, I invited so Say and her dad Roberto to stop by
52:30
the house for a little one on one. How y'all doing today? Doing
52:34
great? Doing great? How you doing pretty