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S1 Ep27 | Young Brothers: Living Legends of Atlanta · The Guuuzan Show

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_01: One of the things that I need an explanation for, and maybe I don't, but every shot I match I've been doing, people start hollering before the ball gets on the ground, and they don't stop hollering until the end of the game.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_03: Welcome back to another episode of the Goozan Show.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_03: I'm your host, Bragg Zan.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_03: Sat next to me as always, Joe Freihaufer.
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_03: We are clearly not in the studio.
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  SPEAKER_03: We are on location.
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  SPEAKER_03: We are here at the Andrew and Walter Young family YMCA Center as we get ready for the GA100 pitch opening.
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  SPEAKER_03: But before we get to all the festivities outside, we've got two special guests on the podcast today.
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  SPEAKER_03: Ambassador Andrew Young and Dr.
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  SPEAKER_03: Walter Young.
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  SPEAKER_03: Thank you so much for sitting down and joining us.
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  SPEAKER_03: We were just a part of the mini pitch opening with the initiative of GA100 with Atlanta United, and we're so uh honored to be able to be here with you today.
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  SPEAKER_03: And um, you know, community, when we talk about YMCA, we talk about the word community and what it means.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_03: What what what does that word mean to you guys?
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_01: Well, for me it means the YMCA and New Orleans, but the YMCA and Atlanta.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_01: And it it means that uh any way you put forward, they're gonna get together and do something.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_01: It'll be a game, it'll be a a conversation, uh, but I think people were meant to communicate with each other, to share ideas and sometimes just a hug and kiss and say it's good to be alive.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_01: In fact, one of the things that uh I need an explanation for, and maybe I don't, but every soccer match I've been to, people start hollering before the ball gets on the ground, and they don't stop hollering until the end of the game.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_04: I I absolutely agree.
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  SPEAKER_03: I I'm I think it's the passion they have for their team, for their players that they support.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_03: But honestly, I'm I'm not entirely sure.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I've seen it a good hollering, and then I've seen some bad hollering as well.
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  SPEAKER_03: Some some choice words, uh, of course.
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  SPEAKER_03: But Dr.
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  SPEAKER_03: What what what about you?
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  SPEAKER_03: At a young age, what what what does the word community mean to you?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, community is is is it's what made me the what I am today.
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  SPEAKER_00: I grew up in the YMC and I learned about 85 and 87 years ago.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm 92 now.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think I was about five or six when I joined the Y.
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  SPEAKER_00: I learned that the Y was founded in England in 1850.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was founded uh to support young people who came in from the rural communities to the big city, and uh and uh it invented games for them and uh community uh events, uh, you know, basketball was uh invented there, uh volleyball, and uh now soccer is coming to uh the United States, but I prefer uh to call it global football because uh actually it's it's a it's a global sport.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think the if the name is incorrect, I think it should be global football.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'd like to start off the naming it global football because you know I've been all over, all over the world, in Europe, Africa, South America, Caribbean, and everywhere I've gone, they've been playing kicking the ball.
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  SPEAKER_00: And to me it was football.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when I came when in America, in my own own country, they call it American football.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, actually, uh, what you call soccer is really a global football, and I think I think that's what the the way it uh the name should be.
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  SPEAKER_02: Dr.
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  SPEAKER_02: Young, if we could start with you, when you think back to that five-year-old you that just started going to the YMCA, what fueled you at that age?
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  SPEAKER_02: Did you always know you wanted to become such a leader alongside your brother?
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  SPEAKER_02: Did you guys really push each other from a very young age, would you say?
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  SPEAKER_00: No, the Y pushed us from a young age.
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  SPEAKER_00: We didn't know anything.
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  SPEAKER_00: We learned everything at the Y.
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  SPEAKER_00: From uh the people like yourselves who uh consulars and and leaders of the Y, I can still remember the names of some of the people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh Joe Beslin taught me how to swim, Mr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Harris taught me how to do tumbling.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm going back eighty-seven years, and I can still remember names.
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  SPEAKER_01: Elliot Mason.
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  SPEAKER_00: Elliot Mason, I can still remember the names.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, what you guys are doing now to these kids, they will remember for their lives if you do it properly, and I know you are.
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  SPEAKER_02: Would you guys do classes together?
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  SPEAKER_02: Would you do sports together coming up?
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  SPEAKER_02: Were you pretty competitive, would you say, as brother?
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, we had a basketball goal in our backyard.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, and actually the elementary school we went to uh had a gym had a um got a a shop, and um the uh manual training guy uh was a friend of my parents, and so we convinced him to let us use the shop at school to build a basketball bag backboard and figure out how to mount it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um I I remember because New Orleans is below sea level and we dug the hole um down about three feet to put the post in.
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  SPEAKER_01: They called us for uh lunch and we we stopped and went in to eat lunch.
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  SPEAKER_01: We came back that po was full of water uh just rising up from underneath and and so we we had to figure out how to get bricks and stones and gravel to put it down deep so it stayed uh stayed stable.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it it uh well we didn't I mean New Orleans was a uh we live right downtown.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was a crowded city.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh but our neighborhood too was we had an Irish grocery store on one corner, an Italian bar on the next corner, the Nazi Party headquarters was on the third corner where they were highland Hitler, and then there was a Chevrolet repair shop around the fourth corner, and we were right in the middle.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um the two of us, and we had a cousin who lived with us, and we were the only three black kids in the block.
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so um we had to learn very early to get along with everybody, and my daddy's uh motto was don't get mad, get smart.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you lose your temper in a fight, you lose the fight, and always try to give the other fellow the benefit of the doubt, and you want to solve problems together, you don't want to always be the winner, uh, and you don't want to cheat.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_01: You you want you want to do the best you can, but you do the best you can by helping each other.
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  SPEAKER_03: Such wise words, absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_03: As you guys both grew in your careers and and throughout society and your impact on society, what would you guys say?
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  SPEAKER_03: How has uh Atlanta uh you know basically the history of this city, how has that changed in creating a better, a better today tomorrow?
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, I came here in 1961 61.
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  SPEAKER_01: And one of the first problems we took on was trying to develop a mass transit system.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_01: And so we had to organize the whole metropolitan area uh to get people to vote for a one cent sales tax.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um and if you put up one cent, the government would put up n nine nine cents.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so it's nine to one and but you had to you had to be willing to put up your share.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_01: And uh we started out negotiating with each other, saying first of all, you can't have a rapid transit system that's just where white people have different treatment than black people.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_01: Everybody's gotta be the same.
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  SPEAKER_01: But you can't just let white people build it.
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  SPEAKER_01: You have to have black people, brown people, Asian, Hispanic, whatever.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that it has to be a community-wide uh project.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we negotiated all that and finally we won by just it was in two counties, Fulton and DeCal, and we won by only 400 votes in two counties.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_01: And um we went through an amazing process.
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  SPEAKER_01: The people who lived in east-west uh DeCow County uh and Fulton said, Oh, th they just wanna get the rich white folk from Buckhead to the airport fa fast.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're not really worried about us.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're gonna build it first to Buckhead and then they're gonna forget about us.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_01: And so we voted to build it from east-west first.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then poor people said, well, we already paying more than our share.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_01: Uh and so the mayor then, uh Sam Marcel, uh agreed that we would lower the bus fare from 55 cents to 15 cents for 10 years to show poor people that we wanted to do everything fair.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so it was the process that well, we also agreed that 30% of all the work would be done by minority and female-owned companies.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it was the negotiation really set the pattern that we followed leading at in Atlanta right on through the Olympics and right on up through the World Cup last year last month.
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  SPEAKER_01: That uh everything we do here, in fact, with the Olympics, we raised two and a half billion dollars.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh 41% of it went to minority and female-owned companies.
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  SPEAKER_01: So everybody felt like they they got a a fair shake.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the same thing was true with FIFA.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um it it has helped us the more we've pulled together, the better we get it.
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  SPEAKER_03: You mentioned the Olympics.
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  SPEAKER_03: In in your opinion, what what does sport do for cities and and communities in general?
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  SPEAKER_03: We talked on the YMCA and and your your youth and and what it meant to be able to be a part of the why.
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  SPEAKER_03: What do you sports?
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  SPEAKER_00: The sports really uh build character.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think uh going back, Andrew was talking about New Orleans when we grew up.
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  SPEAKER_00: If somebody had given us a ball that says taught us how to kick it from from me from here to you, I would have been us a good we would have been good soccer players, you know, because we played uh we ran track, we played football, we played basketball, we played baseball, we played marbles.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whatever you gave us, we played.
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  SPEAKER_00: So actually, if we had had the opportunity back in the 30s, the 1930s, we would have been pretty good soccer players.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me call it global football players.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna keep, I'm gonna I'm not gonna forget that.
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  SPEAKER_03: I love that.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's amazing.
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  SPEAKER_03: Obviously, we're here with the GA 100 uh pitch opening, and to be a part of this is is truly historic and and really special.
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  SPEAKER_03: Uh what do you hope to leave for the next generation?
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  SPEAKER_03: We saw all these kids out on the pitch today.
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  SPEAKER_03: We saw you interacting with them and and just the hugs and the love uh that was being shared out on that pitch.
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  SPEAKER_03: But but what do you hope to leave for the next generation?
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  SPEAKER_00: I hope that we can uh reach out to this whole community and teach them how to kick that ball and teach teach them how to get it in into those uh goals.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, you know, the the thing to be build character at the same time is that it's no fun if you're kicking the ball to yourself.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you've gotta have you've gotta learn to share the ball.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um I never am sure what football players are doing when they're going in so many different directions and and you kick the ball.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, they wait till the very last minute to kick it toward the goal.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh and uh I um I went to Europe when I was nineteen and um that's the first time I got on a soccer pitch or football, we called it.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was in Austria.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh there were a bunch of guys I was working with uh uh p people who had come from um behind the iron curtain and uh Walter was over there as a dentist.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh and um he was uh well we we just got got in the slow and did what had to be done.
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  SPEAKER_01: I w I was very proud of him because he went to a little orphanage.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_01: Uh he was a dentist and um they weren't doing anything for the kids' teeth.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_01: And he heard that there was uh it was an aircraft carrier and off the coast of uh Italy, right off the coast of Naples, yeah.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_01: Naples.
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  SPEAKER_01: And he called out there and um and asked if they had equipment he could borrow.
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  SPEAKER_01: And when they found out that there was a Catholic orphanage and nobody was fixing kids' teeth, they sent a whole dental office from this aircraft carrier into.
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  SPEAKER_01: You remember that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, I do.
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  SPEAKER_00: That was Custom Attorney, Cassumaturney orphanage, right on right in uh the coast of David.
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  SPEAKER_01: He used his vacation to to fix everybody's teeth for free.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I want to thank the Dav the Navy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, I had been I had just gotten uh released from the Navy.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_00: I served, uh the Navy sent me to school and I served uh uh in the Navy and I was just uh released and uh I was I hadn't opened my practice in the United in Atlanta or New Orleans yet.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh Andrew was he was with the United Council of Churches, so he was going to uh uh uh a youth convention in Italy, northern Italy, and he said, uh asked me to go with him, and I did.
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  SPEAKER_00: And while I was there, I met Emanuele Santi, who was uh a great celloist, one of the greatest celloists in the world at the time.
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  SPEAKER_00: And his family had an orphanage in in Naples called Castle Materna, Castle Materna, and uh he said they had a clinic, but they didn't have any uh dentists.
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  SPEAKER_00: So uh he asked me when I come down and volunteer to serve, and I went down and they didn't have any supplies or equipment, but there was a naval battleship in the Mediterranean, and he gave me a boat and they took me out there since I had been in the Navy, I asked them to donate some uh materials and equipment so I could treat the children, and they did.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_00: It was very supportive.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I stayed there a while and volunteered and worked on the children, and when I came back to America, I started I continued and I followed up, I continued to write letters to the kids.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_00: And they wrote letters, we we we wrote letters back and forth.
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  SPEAKER_00: This was back in 1960, and sometimes I still wonder what happens to those children that and that I served back in those days.
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  unknown: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_02: When you think about obviously both of you have traveled all over the world, Atlanta just had the world in its backyard for this World Cup.
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  SPEAKER_02: If we think about Cabo Verde, Saudi Arabia, Spain, D.R.
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  SPEAKER_02: Congo all coming to the Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
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  SPEAKER_02: What was it like for you both to see Atlanta, as you said, Ambassador Young, really pull together and make it such a festivity of humanity?
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  SPEAKER_02: What was that like to take in this past summer?
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, I I've always known Atlanta to be uh an Olympic city, maybe, or soccer city.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a world-class city.
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  SPEAKER_01: And and everybody gets along and we enjoy each other.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um if you go to a baseball game, there'll be a Japanese, you know, thing with chopsticks, and they'll have a barbecue from Texas, and they'll have um, you know, Italian restaurants.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, we're we're truly an international city now.
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  SPEAKER_01: And and everybody can come here and feel at home and be treated fairly.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it it has well, believe it or not, the metropolitan area of Atlanta is a six hundred and some billion dollar economy, which puts Atlanta, the city of Atlanta, on the same, we're in the same league as Norway, the nation, and uh or Singapore, which is a rapidly growing uh Asian economy.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we're keeping up.
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  SPEAKER_01: Our airport is almost twice as big as the second largest airport.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're first, and um I think the last count I heard there was a 140 million passengers a year.
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  SPEAKER_01: In second place was Beijing in China, and it was 80 million passengers a year.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we were almost twice as big as the second place.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_01: We're as large as um Heathrow and um LaGuardia put together uh in New York.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um it just uh we've taken this space and we've brought people together, and it it hadn't always been easy, but um we always have realized we're stronger together, uh playing as a team.
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  SPEAKER_01: In fact, our Olympic song was the world has one dream to play as one team.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_01: Uh that uh and I forget what the rest of it was, but I think one of the reasons we won the Olympics was we took about a hundred kids um that were 12 to 15.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_01: Uh and I think one of the the football, I mean the uh chicken franchises sponsored them and they were singing as everybody c walked into the the stadium to get the vote.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_01: Uh and um I don't know how many nationalities we had then and and that group, but uh we've always had people from all over the world coming to Atlanta and doing well and getting along.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_01: And um well, needless to say, I enjoy the city, even though I grew up in New Orleans, but New Orleans had that same kind of flavor.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_01: Uh being right there at the mouth of the Mississippi, uh it poked in people from all over Europe and Latin America and down from the cold weather in Chicago.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_03: Joe and I are in awe listening to to you guys speak, and and we have one final question.
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  SPEAKER_03: Um you know, you guys have done and seen so much around the world.
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  SPEAKER_03: You your impact is is everywhere uh across uh this country and so many others around the world.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_03: What is it that keeps you guys going?
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_00: I th I think God put us here for a purpose.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: You know, we have a purpose in life and you have to find that purpose and as you find that purpose you grow in spirit and truth.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_00: And let me say that uh you know, Atlanta's a great city and the best thing that Atlanta United did was to come here 'cause you could be one of the greatest teams in the world right here in Atlanta.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_00: And like Dr.
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  SPEAKER_00: King says, keep on, keep it on.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_01: But like when we got here in the 70s, uh I think I came in 61.
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  SPEAKER_01: He came in later on.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_01: But this was a segregated city.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_01: And um it was racially divided, and we didn't know which way we were going.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_01: But um and I and I give Coca-Cola credit because the lady who came up with the idea, she came up with a slogan, a city too busy to hate.
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_01: And um that's pretty close to what the way my daddy raised us.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_01: My daddy was a baseball player and a dentist, and he used to say, Don't get mad, get smart.
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_01: If you lose your temper in a fight, you lose the fight.
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  SPEAKER_01: You gotta stay calm and work together.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that uh that worked for us growing up in New Orleans, and it certainly worked for us here in Atlanta, and um well in the course of my travels, uh, I counted up one time and I'd been to 151 countries and about 200, you know, and um but I had been um well working with the United Nations, but I started off with the church and um and the Olympics and the Olympic United Nations and uh World Cup soccer and and before long I'd been just about everywhere.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_01: Haven't been to having having been south of Brazil, uh so I I missed Argentina, uh, but I knew who Pele was.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um and I knew about Pele kicking the ball, making a soccer ball out of garbage, tape wrapping it up and kicking in the alley and playing, you know, and then one of the reasons they were such uh deft footmen was they didn't have any way to run run wide.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_01: They had to go through.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_01: And they they learned to do with their feet what we used to try to do with a basketball.
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_03: Unbelievable.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_03: Ambassador Young, Dr.
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  SPEAKER_03: Young, thank you guys both so much for for joining us, for inspiring us, continuing to inspire so many uh throughout this community and and so far beyond.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_01: Let me thank you because anything that uh keeps the citizens of Atlanta um shouting and cheering and uh screaming for hours and hours on uh uh and I don't think we had a single fight that I knew about with the with the World Cup here.
• 25:35
  SPEAKER_01: It was such a success.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_01: And there were there were a lot of country rivalries that could have exploded on any street corner or in any stadium, but I think we had a knock on wood, we had a wonderful, peaceful time, and everybody had a good time, and almost everybody either spent a little money or made a little money.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_00: We tell the people you all come.
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_03: Absolutely.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_03: Fantastic.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you so much.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you, Daniel.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you, thank you.
• 26:10
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• 26:15
  SPEAKER_02: But we're gonna do this community feature style because, of course, in honor of GA100, it was electric to be out there with all the kids, to have such powerful guests who have been so ingrained in the Atlanta community and the legacy that has now become this city over all of the years of Andrew O'Walter.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_02: Incredible to have them on here with us.
• 26:31
  SPEAKER_02: Uh and Brad, it'd be right to just shout out GA100 that we're now 25 mini pitches strong across Georgia.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_02: That is so cool to say out loud.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_02: Big shout out to Spencer and our community impact team for that.
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_02: Brad, you've done a bit of everything with the club.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_02: You've been a unified ambassador, you've done a lot of projects with Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, and it feels like going from Birmingham in the UK, moving to Atlanta and just falling in love with what the city and community is.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_02: Is there a specific story that you can think of in all of your years of trying to give back to the A that has stuck with you most?
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I mean, it's such a good question.
• 27:04
  SPEAKER_03: Um I think I've always talked about as a professional soccer player, as a professional athlete, we have a platform and to be able to utilize that platform for good and and impactfulness and and you know, you want to create change for the better and provide opportunity and memories.
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_03: Um and so when I think about impact and I talk about community um and how a club is ingrained in the community and and the community ingrained in a club, you know, for me, I've been very fortunate, as you mentioned, Joe, to work with so many different organizations over the years.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but one that stands out is uh our ability to work with kids.
• 27:45
  SPEAKER_03: And specifically um, you know, at the early stages of Atlanta United, uh, we were a part of childhood cancer awareness.
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_03: And there was a young boy, uh Owen Clemmy.
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_03: And uh Owen was a part of our program, um, had a VIP experience here at the training ground.
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_03: Um, and ultimately he he lost his battle to cancer in his since past, uh, but his legacy lives on, and and it lives on through us as a club, through his family still working closely with Atlanta United, um, but then also impacting other kids and their families.
• 28:25
  SPEAKER_03: And so when I think about Owen's legacy, when I think about the work that we do with children's health care of Atlanta and the ability to change um whether it's for a day or for a year, or hopefully uh through the work of medical professionals and being able to change the the course of a a young child's life.
• 28:48
  SPEAKER_03: Um, you know, I I think there's so much room for good.
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_03: And so for me to be able to be a part of Owen's story, for him to be a part of Atlanta United, um, for me, those are the most special moments that that carry the most weight because um, you know, I'm I'm a I'm a softie for kids, and and obviously being a dad myself, um, I see the innocence of of children, um, and to see some of the the challenges that that kids face um daily to then, like I said, be able to create some sort of uh excitement and happiness, whether that's for a day or or or for a lifetime.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_03: Um, you know, for me, those are those are the best types of of impact stories.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_02: It's the butterfly effect that you've had for all you've done off the pitch.
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_02: Want to say thank you to you.
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_02: Huge thank you to Ambassador and Dr.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_02: Young for hopping on the Guzan show.
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_02: This has been the community feature edition of the Home Depot Mailbag, always delivered on time, just like Home Depot delivered.