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INTERVIEW: Four-Star Guard Kayden Mingo Reveals His College Decision On The Breakfast Club · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club Morning.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody is Steve, j en Vy, Jess Hilarious, Charlomagne the God.
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  Speaker 3: We are the Breakfast Club. Lorna Rosa filling in for
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  Speaker 3: Jess uh and we are taping this on Halloween. That's
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  Speaker 3: why Charlomagne and myself have on these costumes.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have a costume.
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  Speaker 3: It's regular a regularly this regularly on piece on the
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  Speaker 3: regular regular company. All right, well, we got a special
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  Speaker 3: guest in the building. We got the brother Caden Mingo. Welcome,
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, how you feeling, man.
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  Speaker 1: It's a pleasure to be here. It's really a blessing.
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  Speaker 2: Happy to have you. Man. Tell them who Kayden Mingo is.
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  Speaker 2: For those who don't.
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  Speaker 4: Know, Mingo, young kid from Long Island, Farmingville, New York.
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  Speaker 4: Got two brothers, two loving great parents. There's the young
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  Speaker 4: kid trying to be greater.
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  Speaker 1: What he does.
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  Speaker 3: Amazing basketball player, combo guard, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I would say point guard.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, it's it's a blessing to really be noticed,
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  Speaker 4: as you know, with the stars next to her name
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  Speaker 4: and everything, and have my name continued to rise.
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  Speaker 3: And so you know, today is a very special day.
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  Speaker 3: But Before we get into that, let's let's talk about
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  Speaker 3: how you got into basketball and I love for basketball,
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  Speaker 3: because basketball has changed, I'm sure for your pops, you know,
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  Speaker 3: back in the day, you know, playing the part and
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  Speaker 3: and that's how you got your skills up. Nowadays, it's
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  Speaker 3: a lot of training and training and more training. So
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  Speaker 3: let's let's talk about how you how you started your
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  Speaker 3: love for basketball and what made you run and put
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  Speaker 3: in the effort and time to do it.
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  Speaker 4: My pops never really played basketball. He was more of
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  Speaker 4: a football player. So I ain't never getting none of
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  Speaker 4: that from him.
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  Speaker 1: Really. He always be in the gym with us and
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  Speaker 1: help us athleticism athletics a little bit. And then uh,
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  Speaker 1: when I was younger.
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  Speaker 2: Big.
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  Speaker 4: Jersey, but you know, and then when I was younger,
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  Speaker 4: my parents always just had us, you know, with my
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  Speaker 4: older brother because he played basketball he was growing up.
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  Speaker 4: He was in high school when we was younger, and
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  Speaker 4: I will always you know, me and my little brother
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  Speaker 4: would be running around in the middle of the games
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  Speaker 4: and stuff, playing on our own to varsity each other.
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  Speaker 4: So I would really say, you know, just looking up
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  Speaker 4: to him as a role model, that that's that's when
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  Speaker 4: I wanted to play basketball.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I got it from.
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  Speaker 2: When you fall in love with it.
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  Speaker 1: Though in love with it, just take it serious, probably
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  Speaker 1: around middle school.
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  Speaker 4: Around middle school, you know, seeing your name get out
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  Speaker 4: there more and more and more people notice you, it
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  Speaker 4: becomes something you, you know, begin to really have more
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  Speaker 4: of a love for.
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  Speaker 2: I always wonder how you are you keep it from
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  Speaker 2: feeling like a job, like when you are in a
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  Speaker 2: position that you're in. You know you going to college.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure you got pro aspirations. How do you keep
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  Speaker 2: it from feeling like work?
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  Speaker 4: Just just reminding yourself that you do fun. That's why,
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  Speaker 4: that's why you started playing for fun. And it's it's
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  Speaker 4: just a sport. It's not it's not who you are
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  Speaker 4: or anything. It's just something you do.
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  Speaker 1: And what about the grades?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 3: You know a lot of times your grades get you
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  Speaker 3: don't really focus on school because you play basketball so much.
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  Speaker 3: How your grades and how you making sure you all focused.
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  Speaker 1: My father's a principal, sop the principal. You don't play them, Nah,
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  Speaker 1: don't play that.
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  Speaker 4: I've been on hon roll every quarter in high school,
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  Speaker 4: so I would say I'm pretty solid with all that.
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  Speaker 2: You said something just not as powerful. You said, basketball
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  Speaker 2: is just something you do. It's not who you are.
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  Speaker 2: You know. I read a lot of doctor Wayne W.
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  Speaker 2: Dyer The Power of Intention, and that's something that he
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  Speaker 2: always says, you you are, not what you do. You know,
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  Speaker 2: like a lot of us get caught up in that.
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  Speaker 2: When did you learn that mentality?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: It's still something I work on, you know, because it
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  Speaker 4: could become stressful, you know, it up with ups and downs.
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  Speaker 4: But I would say I'm still working on it. But
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  Speaker 4: that's what That's something my parents saw me. One of
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  Speaker 4: my high school coaches always emphasized Coach Jay, you always
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  Speaker 4: tells us that remind So I would say ninth grade
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  Speaker 4: is when I got introduced to it.
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  Speaker 1: My parents always let me know about the concept of it.
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  Speaker 5: You know what players inspired you like coming up or
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  Speaker 5: even right now? Like who are your biggest inspirations?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? Right now? NBA players, yes, NBA players, NBA players.
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  Speaker 2: Uh or retired players.
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  Speaker 1: Either.
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  Speaker 4: I was blessed enough to have Mellow in my circle
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  Speaker 4: and play with Kayne since young, so I would say
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  Speaker 4: he's told me a lot and he's took me under
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  Speaker 4: his shoulder. And then right now, I like Tyres Maxie
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  Speaker 4: a lot with Philly and uh, you know how he
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  Speaker 4: operates and how he was able to, you know, at
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  Speaker 4: such a young age, become one of the faces of
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  Speaker 4: the programs.
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  Speaker 2: What do you like about Maxie's game?
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  Speaker 4: Everything he really scored, he passed, he played on or
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  Speaker 4: off the ball.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's similar. It's similar to my name.
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  Speaker 5: You want co MVP. You mentioned Kyane, you want code
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  Speaker 5: MVP at the ACES Hustling Hearts Classic along with Kyanne
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  Speaker 5: winning that, Like, what was that like for you? What
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  Speaker 5: did that mean to you?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? It meant a lot, you know with the ACES.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, with the history of how many players have came through,
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  Speaker 4: and Uh, it was a good game. It was a
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  Speaker 4: It was a good thing that we won the game
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  Speaker 4: because it was real close or thought. And I really
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  Speaker 4: appreciate them recognizing what I did and how I played
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  Speaker 4: and congratulating me with that award.
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  Speaker 2: Do you feel like it should have been a coin vv?
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  Speaker 2: You feel like you just deserved it.
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  Speaker 1: All I felt like was good. Iane played well.
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  Speaker 2: Was also Kyanne busting ass. It's crazy to think I
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  Speaker 2: used to be taller than Kanye. He was never taller
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  Speaker 2: and ye came out out your mind, he came It
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  Speaker 2: was crazy about stuff.
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  Speaker 5: There was that twenty twenty four. How long ago was that?
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  Speaker 5: Because you're about what like five.
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  Speaker 3: Carring with fifteen probably fifteen fourteen, fifteen.
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  Speaker 2: Seventeen, seventeen, sixteen years ago. You've never been that talk.
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  Speaker 5: He never had to go to the cabinets. That's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: What's your relationship like now?
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  Speaker 1: You know what?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're cool. That's my guy, you know, real close
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  Speaker 4: on and off the court. That's my dude.
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  Speaker 2: What advice is mellow give y'all?
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  Speaker 4: He just tells us to be ourselves and don't don't
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  Speaker 4: change for anybody, and just stay confident through everything and
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  Speaker 4: just be level headed.
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  Speaker 2: Is New York full of distractions?
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  Speaker 1: Man?
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  Speaker 2: I feel like New York would be like very full
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  Speaker 2: of distractions for young ball players like yourself.
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  Speaker 4: Uh you could say, so, you know a lot of
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  Speaker 4: different parties and different things going on and people trying to,
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  Speaker 4: you know, get you and you start to get a
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  Speaker 4: name a little bit. But I would say, uh, you
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  Speaker 4: just gotta stay focused and keep doing.
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  Speaker 1: Gotcha got to where you are.
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  Speaker 2: The beauty of it is it seems like you got
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  Speaker 2: a strong circle. You know. I'm sure they keep you
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  Speaker 2: grounded for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Now you made the decision to say that you wanted
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  Speaker 3: to announce what school you wanted to go here on
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  Speaker 3: the Breakfast Club. What made you want to make that
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  Speaker 3: decision to say I want to do it not necessarily
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  Speaker 3: your conventional way, but to come up here and do
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  Speaker 3: it on the breakfast Club. I mean, we appreciate it,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm just curious what the reason was.
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  Speaker 2: The first it's never happened.
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  Speaker 4: That's one of the reasons that it never happened before.
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  Speaker 4: You know, there's been celebrities up here with y'all. So
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  Speaker 4: I was really blessed to have the opportunity. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: it was just the idea that me and my agency
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  Speaker 4: came up with and then we just made it work
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  Speaker 4: from there.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as they asked me, I said, yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Your top finalists were Georgia, Penn State, Virginia Tech, and
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  Speaker 2: wait for what is it about those schools that got
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  Speaker 2: them to be your top four choices?
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  Speaker 4: Definitely. Definitely the relationship with the staff, I would say,
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  Speaker 4: with all the people in those rooms, and you know
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  Speaker 4: the type of people that they are, you know, having
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  Speaker 4: conversations with them, you could get a little bit of
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  Speaker 4: a sense of who they are and the fit with
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  Speaker 4: the school opportunity ahead and uh, just feeling somewhere like
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  Speaker 4: with those for schools, I feel like I could thrive
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  Speaker 4: at anyone.
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  Speaker 2: And when you're sitting around with your circle, like when
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  Speaker 2: you're talking about things that the school has, what's a
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  Speaker 2: non negotiable for you? Like this school has to have
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  Speaker 2: this for you to go mm hmm. The girls nah,
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  Speaker 2: all of these girls know what I mean, the girls girls?
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  Speaker 2: The difference between girls and the girls. I go with you, man, nowhere,
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  Speaker 2: I gotta go, Okay, Uh, what's the question negible? What
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  Speaker 2: school have to have?
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  Speaker 4: We never really talked about that, but I always just say, uh,
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  Speaker 4: I feel like as far as the coaches go, I
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  Speaker 4: feel like me as a family, me and us as
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  Speaker 4: a family, we feel like we have to have somebody
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  Speaker 4: in position and guiding me. That's a godfearing man.
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  Speaker 2: I do have a question.
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  Speaker 3: You know a lot of these players, like yourself go
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  Speaker 3: to these colleges.
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  Speaker 2: And they want and done.
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  Speaker 3: Is that what you're thinking right now? Is is that
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  Speaker 3: what's on your mind?
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  Speaker 4: I would love to go on and done, but it's just,
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  Speaker 4: you know, all God's time, however long it takes, or
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  Speaker 4: even if I don't play in MBA, you know whatever, Just.
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  Speaker 2: What about the academic side? You know, you know what
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  Speaker 2: you would want to study?
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  Speaker 1: I was thinking of finance and psychology.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Well at the time is now, ladies and gentlemen, Caden
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  Speaker 3: Mingo is about to decide and disclose what school he
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  Speaker 3: wants to go to. Before you do that high school.
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  Speaker 2: The hats got all four of the hats did it
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  Speaker 2: on TV?
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  Speaker 3: They got all that stuff right now, Well, Caden Mingo
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  Speaker 3: is about to decide what college he is going to
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  Speaker 3: take his talents to. It is between Georgia, Penn State,
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  Speaker 3: Virginia Tech, and Wake Forest.
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  Speaker 2: Let's give the mike to Caden Mingo. What do you
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  Speaker 2: think this big? Let's speak?
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  Speaker 6: Okay, Prince State, make sure you get all congratulations.
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  Speaker 1: What was it?
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 5: Of all the four school spend State? What was the
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  Speaker 5: the side.
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  Speaker 1: In factor for you know?
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  Speaker 4: Just like we talked about, I felt like it was
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  Speaker 4: the best fit, best opportunity, best all the play and
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  Speaker 4: also the best relationship. But the coaches, especially Coach was
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  Speaker 4: the head coach, and I just feel like this is
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  Speaker 4: the best place I could thrive in the place I
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  Speaker 4: can thrive the most.
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  Speaker 2: You got any partners there, like anybody that's already playing it.
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  Speaker 4: Already playing Yeah, no, not really. Mason Blackwood coming with
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  Speaker 4: me though, that's my job. He played in New York
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  Speaker 4: versus New York with me.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, you're gonna make some noise next year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we're going to try.
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  Speaker 3: You make sure you send us some jerseys and congratulations
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  Speaker 3: for sure.
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  Speaker 1: That's a lot I love.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think too far into the future. I know
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  Speaker 2: that you got NBA aspirations, but you gotta go a
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  Speaker 2: Penn State first.
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  Speaker 5: I got a friend that with the Penn State and
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  Speaker 5: then when he played there, he went right to the NFL. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: Devons Steel, yep. So it's a great school.
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  Speaker 3: Well, ladies and gentlemen. Kayden Mingo, if you haven't heard
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  Speaker 3: his name, look him up. He's from Long Island, four
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  Speaker 3: star guard Combo. He is going to Penn State next year,
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  Speaker 3: and he sauld you support this brother.
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  Speaker 2: And all that, and do you just like you guys,
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  Speaker 2: seem like you got a real stable situation. You got
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  Speaker 2: your family, you got your girl. You're gonna be good.
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  Speaker 5: He got God, he said God.
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  Speaker 2: Fit say that again. You got a white woman, now,
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  Speaker 2: don't you're right?
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  Speaker 5: But just I'm just telling you, all right, do you
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  Speaker 5: learn a lesson today?
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  Speaker 2: A couple I was good telling them the truth. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: they're gonna be praying on you. I'm telling you.
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  Speaker 6: You know that.
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  Speaker 2: I know you're putting them I know his daddy putting
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  Speaker 2: them on it. Listening to your father.
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  Speaker 1: We're happy for you.
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  Speaker 3: Congratulations Jesus Christ, ladies and gentlemen, it's Caden Mingo. It's
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  Speaker 3: the Breakfast Club. Good morning, Congratulations, wake up in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: Breakfast Club.