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INTERVIEW: Dr. Wes Bellamy and B. Daht Talk ‘Black College Invitational Championship’ + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club morning.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody is d J n V.
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  Speaker 1: Just hilarious.
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  Speaker 3: Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. You got
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  Speaker 3: some special guest joining us. We got the brother doctor
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  Speaker 3: West Bellamy, and we got beat out here.
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  Speaker 4: Welcome, what's what's happening? Thanks for having man, Thanks for
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  Speaker 4: having us. We really appreciate it. Y'all are bringing a
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  Speaker 4: basketball tournament back to Charlotte.
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  Speaker 2: To Charlotte, HEAs no disrespect to see I double a. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but it was better than Charlotte. No respect the ball.
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  Speaker 5: What part like, the party scene was better, but the
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  Speaker 5: games were not being attended. That was the biggest problem
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  Speaker 5: with it being in Charlotte. Nobody comes to the games. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: like everybody out at the day parties turning up, but
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  Speaker 5: ain't nobody in there seeing Johnson C.
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  Speaker 6: Smith gets smacked by Winston Sandem state. I think about
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  Speaker 6: the fact, I.
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  Speaker 3: Think times have change for HBCU sports, and I think
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  Speaker 3: that was the time when people didn't necessarily really go
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  Speaker 3: for the sports. Now more and more people are going
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  Speaker 3: to the sports there, they're broadcasting games more so I
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  Speaker 3: think if they bring it back to Charlotte, I think
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  Speaker 3: it'll be a lot different. I just think the Charlotte,
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  Speaker 3: that whole vibe and that whole scene was a lot better.
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  Speaker 3: It was fun and you got to see so many
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  Speaker 3: different people. I just don't get that from DMV and
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  Speaker 3: I went last year. I just didn't feel that the same.
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  Speaker 4: Well on, we won't shout out show love to Mayor
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  Speaker 4: Brandon Scott in Baltimore and our partners over at Van
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  Speaker 4: Wagoner and SEAAA.
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  Speaker 1: I know they're doing their best in Baltimore. I was
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  Speaker 1: there this year.
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  Speaker 6: I had a good time.
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  Speaker 1: I thought they did really well.
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  Speaker 4: But that's also to your points why we're bringing this
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  Speaker 4: new tournament, the Black College Invitational Championship, to Charlotte, our
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  Speaker 4: own tournament started by you, specifically for us, the Black
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  Speaker 4: College Invitational Championship. We don't have to beg or ask
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  Speaker 4: anybody else to do anything for our HBCUs. We started
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  Speaker 4: this endeavor to do this specifically for us. We'll take
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  Speaker 4: care of all the fees, we pay for travel, lodging.
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  Speaker 4: Every team that comes to participate in the tournament, we
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  Speaker 4: give them an entry fee, and then the winning schools
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  Speaker 4: get twenty five thousand dollars and this is all led
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  Speaker 4: by us put together by us, So we need everybody
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  Speaker 4: to come out of support. Yeah, Trump Gon sign inn
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  Speaker 4: executive order no fundation Carolina.
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  Speaker 5: And that's different from the n C Double A too,
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  Speaker 5: because like teams have to pay to go to the
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  Speaker 5: n C Double A or pay to go to the
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  Speaker 5: n I T and stuff like that. So for Wes
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  Speaker 5: to put in a situation where that b C i
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  Speaker 5: C actually pays the schools to come, like, that's different
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  Speaker 5: right there.
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  Speaker 7: What you just said was actually that's true because all
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  Speaker 7: those years that it was in Charlotte cub A, I
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  Speaker 7: literally only.
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  Speaker 2: Went for the party you number went to one day.
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  Speaker 7: Definitely true.
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  Speaker 1: So what's up? You're coming to Charlotte this shiit is
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  Speaker 1: the game.
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  Speaker 8: I'm coming.
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  Speaker 2: To get together to do this. How did y'all so
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  Speaker 2: so one?
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  Speaker 4: This is an idea that that I have along with
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  Speaker 4: my my real good brother Russell Stewart. We've been talking
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  Speaker 4: about this for about a year and some change. A
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  Speaker 4: real quick backstory, it's gonna sound crazy. We were we
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  Speaker 4: were on a social media platform that shall not be named,
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  Speaker 4: and we saw a bunch of people complaining that a
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  Speaker 4: particular school in Norfolk State didn't get into the n
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  Speaker 4: C double A tournament. They didn't get a large bid
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  Speaker 4: after having a phenomenal season, and folks were saying, man,
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  Speaker 4: damn like the NC DOUAA, they never give HBCUs more
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  Speaker 4: than one school. We never get more than one bid.
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  Speaker 4: We need to have our own tournament. So I hit
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  Speaker 4: my friend Josh runs this thing called HBCU nightly shout
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  Speaker 4: out to Josh and was like, Yo, man, we need
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  Speaker 4: to do our own tournament. So we were talking and
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  Speaker 4: things kind of fizzled out, and Yo, this sounds wild.
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  Speaker 4: I had a dream in December of twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 4: I was telling be die.
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  Speaker 1: When I woke up, it was like God telling me, yo,
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  Speaker 1: go do the tournament. Wow.
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  Speaker 4: And woke up, made some calls and we started putting
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  Speaker 4: everything together and lo and behold, less than a year later,
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  Speaker 4: we had the tournament.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 4: I used to I live in Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, and
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  Speaker 4: was traveling back and forth to Charlotte and I would
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  Speaker 4: always hear this one particular voice on the radio.
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  Speaker 1: Yo, then this sounds crazy.
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  Speaker 4: I was telling him I will always hear his voice
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  Speaker 4: on the radio when I was traveling through on this
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  Speaker 4: particular station that shall not.
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  Speaker 1: Be named yeah, that's how we rocked.
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  Speaker 4: So I said, Yo, when we were talking for us
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  Speaker 4: with them together, people were like, well, yo, we need
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  Speaker 4: to get this personal host of this personal host.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like, nah, we gotta get this dude.
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  Speaker 4: B Dot, the dude that was on the Beyonce record,
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  Speaker 4: the dude that's known as the mister Voice of North Carolina.
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  Speaker 4: So when I hit him up and was like, bro,
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  Speaker 4: we need to have you on board, he was like,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I'm everything HBCU. He attended was to Salem
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  Speaker 4: State University. I attended South Carolina State University and Virginia
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  Speaker 4: State University.
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  Speaker 1: So we're all.
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  Speaker 4: HBCU everything, And I mean it's it's really been a
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  Speaker 4: match made in heaven.
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  Speaker 2: You know that, you know, you know you do the podcast.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know maybe you didn't either.
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  Speaker 5: I want to say thank y'all for playing that in
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  Speaker 5: February every day, Like seriously, thank y'all, Charlamagne, and just
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  Speaker 5: like appreciate it.
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  Speaker 7: A lot of things that people don't know that you
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  Speaker 7: put them on to you, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: But you know what I like about that podcast is you.
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  Speaker 4: Tell people about things that they may or may not
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  Speaker 4: know about black history. So tell us the history of
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  Speaker 4: the bc C, but I never even heard of it, honestly,
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  Speaker 4: And tell y'all did this yeah tournament and you won't
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  Speaker 4: because this is the first of his calling you did.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, Like again, West told you, like
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  Speaker 4: this is his brain child and the idea that we
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  Speaker 4: don't have a space to celebrate HBCUs after our SWACK
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  Speaker 4: tournament or CI DOUBLEA tournament or MEAC tournament.
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  Speaker 5: We don't have anywhere else. So an opportunity to have
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  Speaker 5: HBCUs come to a NC double A type environment like
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  Speaker 5: this is the genesis of it.
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  Speaker 6: This is the history of it.
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  Speaker 5: Right now, we're all participating in the history of the
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  Speaker 5: bci C. Last year, again the thoughts were coming to
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  Speaker 5: fruition and having conversations with the appropriate people at the
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  Speaker 5: different conferences.
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  Speaker 6: It's a lot of legwork that had to go into this.
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  Speaker 5: You got to get signed off from the NC double A,
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  Speaker 5: you got to get signed off from each individual conferences.
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  Speaker 5: There were certain conferences that wanted payments, and it was
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  Speaker 5: just a lot going on. So to have it in
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  Speaker 5: a space now where we're actually here, like less than
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  Speaker 5: three weeks away, like this is the genesis of the
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  Speaker 5: bci C. So I'm just excited to be a part
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  Speaker 5: of this black history and bringing something like this to Charlotte.
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  Speaker 6: So you didn't go to DSU, I'm sorry, did you
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  Speaker 6: go to DSU?
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  Speaker 5: Now? I went to Winster Salem State where you saw DSU.
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  Speaker 5: What's DSU?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Lauren, think you talk about be dot from.
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  Speaker 6: The time.
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  Speaker 4: You list.
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  Speaker 6: I'm like she said that was just like you know,
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  Speaker 6: it was like for your information be that went to d.
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  Speaker 4: S U too, But she probably was talking about Brian
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  Speaker 4: Miller and I know that beat out to. It's a
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  Speaker 4: lot of punctuation guys out here in these streets. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: but I know I know as well now, but I
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  Speaker 4: went to Winston Salem State University class of two thousand
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  Speaker 4: and six.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she thinks he talking about.
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  Speaker 6: Other understand them. He just want to mess with Lauren.
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  Speaker 3: But how difficult is it to get the schools involved, right?
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  Speaker 3: Because I DJ a lot of the HBCU events, specially
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  Speaker 3: I like the rivalries, right, the rivalries a lot better
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  Speaker 3: because it's like you always see the Howard Hampton.
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  Speaker 6: You always see the Hampton Norfolk.
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  Speaker 3: You'll see uh Morgan and Howard and you'll see family
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  Speaker 3: in this one. So the rivalries are good because it
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  Speaker 3: gets the people involved, But how are you going to
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  Speaker 3: make sure fans come out and actually want to come
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  Speaker 3: to these games?
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  Speaker 1: Because you said it's so difficult.
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  Speaker 3: And a lot of times we don't get depressed, we
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  Speaker 3: don't get the TV time, we don't get a lot
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  Speaker 3: of those things where people don't necessarily find out about it.
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  Speaker 3: And that's why I like North Carolina too. I think
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  Speaker 3: a lot of colleges, especially HBCUs are in the South.
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  Speaker 3: That's it's easier for people to get there. So how
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  Speaker 3: are you gonna make sure that people get to these
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  Speaker 3: games and these colleges get there as well?
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  Speaker 1: Well. We got a couple of ways.
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  Speaker 4: We have a wide variety of different in game entertainment
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  Speaker 4: opportunities for people, different theme nights. I mean, we got
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  Speaker 4: a Welcome to Charlotte Knight on the first day. When
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  Speaker 4: we're looking at I mean, this is the first time
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  Speaker 4: ever you're seeing different conferences playing each other in a
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  Speaker 4: postseason tournament. So we're thinking that that's also going to
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  Speaker 4: drive attention to the games. When you have the MIAC
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  Speaker 4: versus Swag and then you have the Ciba versus SEC.
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  Speaker 1: Like you again, you've never seen that.
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  Speaker 4: And this is our first postseason basketball tournament, and we know,
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  Speaker 4: like we can't west our Laurel solely on people just
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  Speaker 4: coming to see the basketball games. So we have several
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  Speaker 4: of the games hosted by Nolimon Larry. Shout out to
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  Speaker 4: Nolimon Larry Charlotte. He's gonna be hosting the games on
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  Speaker 4: Thursday and Friday afternoon and in Friday evening, Saturday and
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  Speaker 4: Sunday for the championship games, we got b dot in games.
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  Speaker 4: We have performances, HBCU bands will be participate, paiding giveaways,
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  Speaker 4: and then it's a whole week of events. So Tuesday
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  Speaker 4: we're kicking it off for the golf tournament. Wednesday, we
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  Speaker 4: have an HBCU Sustainability Summit with HBCU presidents from across
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  Speaker 4: the country, followed by an empowerment lunching that'll be hosted
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  Speaker 4: to buy some really cool folks, including the Durant Family Foundation.
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  Speaker 4: Shout out to doctor Yanda Durant and Mama Durant. Then
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  Speaker 4: Thursday through Sunday we have the games. We also have
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  Speaker 4: an educational Day, so we'll be having High School Education
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  Speaker 4: Day with one thousand high school scholars from the Greater
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  Speaker 4: Charlotte area coming on Thursday, about another thousand on that Friday,
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  Speaker 4: and then we have a step show, a culminating event
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  Speaker 4: on Sunday evening.
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  Speaker 1: So again like it's not just about the games. But
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  Speaker 1: make no mistake about it.
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  Speaker 4: If I got one shot at this, if people don't
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  Speaker 4: come and support this year, there will be no year two.
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  Speaker 4: We got a one year agreement with the City of Charlotte,
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  Speaker 4: is kind of a proven year, yo, Wes. If you
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  Speaker 4: can pull us off and we make it what it's
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  Speaker 4: supposed to be, then we'll be able to do something
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  Speaker 4: moving forward. But if we don't, then there will be
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  Speaker 4: no year too.
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  Speaker 1: So all the.
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  Speaker 4: Parties, it's a trial, all the parties, all the day parties,
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  Speaker 4: the night parties, all the things that individuals are saying
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  Speaker 4: that they want to come for, Like, oh, that's cool.
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  Speaker 4: But if you only go to those things and we
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  Speaker 4: don't come to the games and we don't sell tickets,
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  Speaker 4: we don't put bus in seats, we don't have a
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  Speaker 4: safe weekend, we don't have people come in purchase hotels,
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  Speaker 4: then we will not have a year two. So we
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  Speaker 4: always talk about like us needing a seat at the table,
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  Speaker 4: but yo, we're building our own table. We don't need
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  Speaker 4: anybody else to do anything for us. But when we
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  Speaker 4: do build this.
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  Speaker 1: Table, come eat with your own. And that's what we're
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  Speaker 1: asking everybody to do.
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  Speaker 6: No, no, you good.
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  Speaker 5: I was just gonna just say that they have a
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  Speaker 5: system in place where they're selecting schools, but I hope
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  Speaker 5: politically they do it like where they get schools that
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  Speaker 5: are in that area so that fans of that school.
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  Speaker 5: You did know what I'm saying, Like because North Carolina
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  Speaker 5: Central is like lower in the me ACT, but that's
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  Speaker 5: a team that if they were in the bcl C,
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  Speaker 5: folks are.
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  Speaker 6: Going to come to that. You did know what I'm saying. Customers,
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  Speaker 6: I know.
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  Speaker 1: Points, But I'm.
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  Speaker 6: This the fanet you have to do that. You did
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  Speaker 6: know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 5: So like I hope, I definitely hope that it's attended
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  Speaker 5: the way that it should be, so this can be
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  Speaker 5: the beginning of something.
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  Speaker 6: I'm huge.
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  Speaker 4: How did y'all even get the teams to participate, Like
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  Speaker 4: because it's the first time tournament, Like a lot of
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  Speaker 4: schools be like, I'm cool on.
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  Speaker 1: That even get participant.
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  Speaker 4: So, uh, there's a selection process. So what we're doing
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  Speaker 4: is after every conference tournament. The CE double A just finished.
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  Speaker 4: The sai C is this weekend, So after every conference tournament,
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  Speaker 4: we'll be talking to teams who finished in the top
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  Speaker 4: quadrant and then uh, those individuals are incentivized to come.
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  Speaker 4: So again, we give you five thousand dollars for participating
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  Speaker 4: in the tournament. We cover all food, travel, lodging, and
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  Speaker 4: we're giving you a first class experience. Postseason basketball for
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  Speaker 4: those who don't win their conference tournament is non existent
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  Speaker 4: for us, so it's only incentivized for our season to
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  Speaker 4: continue and then to be a part of something in
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  Speaker 4: Charlotte where a lot of people want to be back
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  Speaker 4: in that city, and then doing something for the culture.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't really hard. As I've been talking to presidents.
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  Speaker 6: And adsly, i just want to say, I just want
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  Speaker 6: to say this.
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  Speaker 5: No, I'm not I'm going to give you your prose because well,
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  Speaker 5: this has been boots on the ground of this. Like
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  Speaker 5: when you asked that question, Charloamne, He's had to talk
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  Speaker 5: to every single head of every the SIEC, the SWACK,
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  Speaker 5: the CI double A, the MEAC, the NC double A
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  Speaker 5: like get signed up. So to answer your question, the
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  Speaker 5: first answer that will be connections, like the way he's
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  Speaker 5: connected to so many different individuals. The people that can
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  Speaker 5: go in rooms that he couldn't go into and speak
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  Speaker 5: for him on behalf of the bci C. Now, yes,
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  Speaker 5: all the things he's saying is one hundred percent correct,
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  Speaker 5: but how do we get teams to sign off connections?
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  Speaker 5: The fact that he knows certain people and he was
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  Speaker 5: able to talk to them, that was able to because
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  Speaker 5: certain people wouldn't even listen and he had to have
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  Speaker 5: certain conversations with other people to come. You know what
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  Speaker 5: I'm saying, Like, so cash, credit or connections, you always
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  Speaker 5: want them connections and he has those.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all got a step show two right? Greek Fraternity?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's the first ever b c C Step show.
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  Speaker 4: So this is the first ever interconference step show. So
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  Speaker 4: you know, you often have step shows and it's like
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  Speaker 4: just bring the best Greek teams, but these are going
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  Speaker 4: to be participating Greek teams and or step show teams
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  Speaker 4: from the different conferences be competing for the b c
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  Speaker 4: C Championship. So everything is not only built around competition,
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  Speaker 4: but including.
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  Speaker 1: All four of our conferences.
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  Speaker 4: Like so for example, when you you go to let's
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  Speaker 4: say you go to the Hampton right or you go
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  Speaker 4: to Morgan State, you don't necessarily interact with people from
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  Speaker 4: Grambling or from Miles College. Uh if you if you
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  Speaker 4: went to Clark Atlanta, you're not necessarily interacting with folks
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  Speaker 4: from Delaware State for example, Like.
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  Speaker 9: Nobody that they do, Amni Jackson.
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  Speaker 4: I'm saying, but again, it's all about really bringing these
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  Speaker 4: conferences together and having an opportunity for our student athletes,
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  Speaker 4: students and an alumni more than anything else, to be
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  Speaker 4: able to intertwine with each other is what it's all about.
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  Speaker 4: That's how we build culture, and in this era right now,
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  Speaker 4: more than any other, we have to make sure we
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  Speaker 4: build with each other, which means we got to spend
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  Speaker 4: time with each other, We got to do things with
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  Speaker 4: each other. We gotta play against each other, we got
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  Speaker 4: to compete against each other, We spend money with each other.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that's all going to enhance us as
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  Speaker 4: we move forward. We more than enough, you know, I
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  Speaker 4: think about how you know on joy Reads last night,
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  Speaker 4: everybody gathered around and she ended up having the number
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  Speaker 4: one showing her demo twenty five to fifty four, Like, then.
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  Speaker 2: Why were we even doing that? The last five years
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  Speaker 2: for her.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like we're more than enough. You just got
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  Speaker 4: to show up. Yeah, and that's what it's about.
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  Speaker 3: Let me ask you, so a lot of these conferences
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  Speaker 3: in these money is the biggest thing. Yeah, has sponsors
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  Speaker 3: came in or with sponsors a difficult thing? Oh no,
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  Speaker 3: it's been difficult. Made The biggest sponsor that came in
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  Speaker 3: and supported you right away that that you could sell.
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  Speaker 4: The biggest sponsor's been Black Voters Matter, which really yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: ironically shout out to my man Cliff and Tasha.
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  Speaker 3: About only sold the companies that sponsored everything else and
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  Speaker 3: these these liquor companies that sponsor these companies. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: he's closes the companies because I see them sponsor everything else, right.
• 13:52
  Speaker 4: And they have been very slow quiet to come and
• 13:55
  Speaker 4: to sponsor this. Just being completely honest with you, that
• 13:58
  Speaker 4: doesn't mean it's not going to happen. Obviously, with three
• 14:00
  Speaker 4: weeks out, it's gonna happen. It's gonna be a first
• 14:02
  Speaker 4: class event. But to be.
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, not for real, like we haven't.
• 14:09
  Speaker 4: But we haven't had we haven't had a lot of
• 14:11
  Speaker 4: the support that you will see with traditional entities.
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: We're not the acc we're not the SEC.
• 14:17
  Speaker 4: Tournament budget absolutely correct, which is even more so while
• 14:21
  Speaker 4: we're saying we need folks to come out to the games,
• 14:23
  Speaker 4: because this is really, i mean pretty much half the
• 14:26
  Speaker 4: tournament I've been paying for out of pocket. Uh like
• 14:29
  Speaker 4: we and this is a I'm not gonna say the
• 14:31
  Speaker 4: amount because I'll be in court, but but.
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: But this is this is a this is.
• 14:35
  Speaker 4: A very heavy endeavor in which we've had to put
• 14:38
  Speaker 4: on and we haven't had the sponsorship support in what
• 14:41
  Speaker 4: you see again from other entities, which is part of
• 14:44
  Speaker 4: why we appreciate y'all for having us up here. I'm sorry,
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: just you.
• 14:47
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I was about to do you have a really
• 14:49
  Speaker 7: really dope videographer?
• 14:50
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 14:51
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, man, Because how you got to do it
• 14:53
  Speaker 7: is you got to package it a certain way. You
• 14:55
  Speaker 7: got to make it look like something that somebody want
• 14:58
  Speaker 7: to get. And to nb's point, they are supposed to
• 15:00
  Speaker 7: be honestly like not quiet about giving money, and sponsors
• 15:04
  Speaker 7: supposed to be coming out out the ass cheeks for this.
• 15:06
  Speaker 7: But you gotta like package that it's real nice, like
• 15:11
  Speaker 7: market it and have like the dopest I'm talking about,
• 15:14
  Speaker 7: really really dope videographers do every day like you may,
• 15:17
  Speaker 7: especially that Step show. That Step show is going excite people.
• 15:22
  Speaker 8: That sounds like I could do that budget the work then.
• 15:36
  Speaker 7: But now I see this being really really big and
• 15:41
  Speaker 7: that's how you get the dos and you know, not
• 15:44
  Speaker 7: even just liquor.
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: But the.
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: We've had conversations. I'm saying, you know, we would love
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: to follow up.
• 15:52
  Speaker 7: Because they're doing the rebranded damn. So they need just
• 15:55
  Speaker 7: as much as y'all need.
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: We got to give.
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: We got to give. Credible credit is due. We have
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: a really sponsorship on We're partner with Van Wagner. Van
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: Wagner is the group that runs a C double A.
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: They produced a Super Bowl shout out to my man,
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: Julius and Brandon in the back.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: They've been they've been really really helpful.
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: But I would I wouldn't be lying if I didn't
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: say that again, we haven't received the same amount of
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: support as others.
• 16:16
  Speaker 6: Either clothing, Jersey, whether it's Pulm or night Yeah.
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: I mean we've literally had conversations with all of these entities.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: Well we have sometimes people.
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: Want to see it done, but I always say, with
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: all these companies me, so we deal with these sponsorships
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: and companies.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: It's difficult.
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: Give me something like, give me a little five stacks
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: just to help me out for the first year, and
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: then when we prove ourselves, then we can go to
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: the table.
• 16:38
  Speaker 6: But what about TV time? Is this gonna be on TV?
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, So we are proud to announce that we have
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: a television television partner with Rise. It's a new network.
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: They're part of Samsung, so we're the first sports entity
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: on their platform network US and Live golf. So Samsung
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: came in as a partner, Samsung through Rise rather they
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: came in as a partner, So we were really happy
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: about that. And they're produce sent as well as streaming
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: and televis in the entire tournament.
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: Really really looking forward to that. Everybody with a go cool.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: Did you reach out to the networks as well and
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: they kind of just fell back as well.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: HBCU go b T.
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what I'm saying. You know, we got
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: We're happy to be with ros and we're.
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: Really no, no, no, HBC, go Wheelhouse.
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: You know what I mean?
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: When I see stuff like that and I work with HBC,
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: you go before and it's it's a black brother that
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: owns that, and I seen them do the football games
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: and they have the budgets, and a lot of people
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: say that that college, you know, especially HBCU games don't
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: do well. But they're only going to do well if
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: we support. And this is the talk support. Yeah, you know,
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: you know Dominican man, shout out. We know you're not
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: Dominican shout out to you.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: You go.
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: I will tell you we had some fruit full conversations
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: for a wide variety of different reasons. We're working through
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: how things can work out in the future, but for
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: this right now again, Rod stepped up. They answered the
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: challenge and they're showing us support. But more than anything else,
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: you know, it's one thing to watch it on television.
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: We need folks to come down to Charlotte and come
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: to the games. And that's why I'm so happy for that.
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: Brothers like b do you know ess Envy Charlamagne for
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: your support, because that's not only being on your platform.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: Brother, I'm not a brother.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: I heard what you just.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Brothers like she went to.
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: What she meant to be that what you mean was
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: a lot.
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: It's a lot going on, y'all. Wow, just had to
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: have a whole baby to put to the creators.
• 18:39
  Speaker 8: Exactly.
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, rough out here, it's a tough It's interesting with
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: the sponsors what I would want sponsors to do, And
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: it's the question I'm gonna ask, how does this tournament
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: help address the challenges at HBCUs faith in regards to funding, media, coverage, recruitment,
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: because sponsors need to know if they are connected with y'all,
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: they are helping with that.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Literally, this is your one stop shop.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: So when we talk about recruitment for HBCUs, our high
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: school education days will be recruitment fairs.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: We have two days of that. Specifically, when you look
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: at creating.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: An environment to show off the best of the best
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: of HBCU culture from the sports environment, the games will
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: be high quality, first class events. The high excuse me,
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: the college bands that will be playing and performing also
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: show you a glimpse of the HBCU culture. And then
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: when you look at the alumni support and those who
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: will be attending the games as well as the accilliary events,
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: you're gonna get everything about HBCU culture at this excuse
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: this specific tournament. When you look at the presidents who
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: will be attending the sustainability summit, the empowerment lunching, when
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: you're gonna have literally five hundred players and stakeholders all
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: in one room. There's no better place for you to
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: be able to have a captive audience to show off
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: whatever it is that you're selling and or supporting than
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: this event. But we understand it's the first year. But
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: when we look at at some of these other conglomerates
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: that have been built, they had support from the beginning.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: And what I'm saying is support us now or support
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: us later. You will support us at support at some point.
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: But our people specifically, we know they gonna have our back.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: And if anything else, we got platforms like this one
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: that will show us love.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: We got people like the folks in this room who
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: will show us love.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: And we got us you know some of this like
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: that the tournament is gonna happen. We already got that
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: part scored away. It's transpiring. And I think that's a
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: testament of we don't gotta beg everybody else to do
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: for us.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: You're having more sponsorship money would be a lot easier
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: for me and my children, because it's because you know,
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: we're paying a lot right now. But we can do
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: this ourselves, and we're doing this ourselves. Now later, they
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: just gonna get taxed. We ask everybody to come on board.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: They didn't, so they're gonna have to pay that fee
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: and pay that tax. But we can do this ourselves,
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: and that's what we're doing. I'm sorry, how much hold
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: eighty three hundred people? Yeah, so eighty three hundred people
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: in the boat, Jingles. We're anticipating around one hundred and
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: fifty thousand people to come to Charlotte over that weekend.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: You know, a multitude of different events. We're not gonna
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: say the thing that Envy's gonna be doing.
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: Uh you you actually told me I.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: Work, But I mean we got We have a ton
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: of events that will be taking place, from day parties
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: to night parties to again philanthropic events. There's gonna be
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: a lot of people who transcend in the city. We
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: just need those folks to come to the game. The
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: city of Charlotte has been great supporters and they've been
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: great partner. Shout out to Mayor Lyles, a council in
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: Smudgie Mitchell or James Smudgie Mitchell, the one hundred Black
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: Men of Greater Charlotte. They've been great partners. A multitude
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: of different people. So this is gonna be a first
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: class event. Like I think sometimes when people associate things
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: with black and and us doing it ourselves, they think
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: second class, and that's due to white supremacy. But we're
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: showing folks that we will put together again a first
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: class event that is put together by us, that is
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: for us, and it's gonna be for the benefit of
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: our people.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: Why the bo Jangles Collegeum, I mean, y'all couldn't find
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: no place.
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: Charlotte Spectrum is super super huge kind of seats is
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: nice enough, Yes.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Welcome and to be real.
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: The BeO Jingles, you know, the city of Charlotte, the
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: Charlotte Regional Visits Authority, they owned the BeO Jingles Coliseum
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: and they've been very gracious hosts. Like Yo tell Us agreed, Yeah,
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: bo Jingles has been dope. I mean, there's there's been
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: a lot of events that have been taking place there.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: They have a first class professional team and they've been
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: really good partners. And if those of you who went
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: to see All double A thought that you had a
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: good time, when you come to Charlotte and see what
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: we put together, you're going to see something very similar,
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: if not even better. And I'm telling y'all come now,
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: because in two three years, when you see this thing
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: on the same level of as some of the other
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: major sports conferences and entities, you're going to be able
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: to say that you were a part of something from
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: the very beginning. So the biggest thing is we need
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: these games to be sold out. Yea, we need busting
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: the seats. Man that the BeO Jingles Coliseum hosts eighty
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: three hundred people. All the floor seats have been bought out,
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: so you know, of course, you know our folks they
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: like yo, we want to sell in the floor. The
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: tickets are very affordable. Tickets are forty dollars per session.
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: We have two games on Thursday at twelve and two,
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: then you have evening games at six and eight. That's
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: the same model for Thursday and Friday. So we start
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: off with the MEACT versus Swack teams and the CIBA
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: versus sei C on Friday, then the MEACT versus Swack
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: Championship games on Saturday, and then the ciuble AA versus
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: si C Championship games on Sunday. And it's men and
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: women in sixteen teams. Yeah, so we don't leave our
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: sisters out. You know, Jess, we don't leave the sisters out.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you.
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: I'm with you.
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: We don't leave the sisters out because it's support for
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: our ladies to have the opportunity to showcase their talents
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: as well.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: And we're hoping we're gonna have a few more surprises.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: Where to go to get ticket You can go to
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: ticketmaster dot com, or we prefer you go directly to
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: our website www dot Black College Championship dot org. You
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: can put it in any search engine, look us up
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: on Instagram. You'll see all You'll see the history of
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: this coming together. You'll be able to follow the journey
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: and man, we just need your support.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: Again, there's a lot of folks talking about how what
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: we need to do for each other. There's a lot
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: of discussion about, you know, what may be going on
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: in other areas or entities in the world, or specifically
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: in our country. But if you want the opportunity to
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: be able to support your own it's with this. Even
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: if you can't make it, you can buy a ticket.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: Buy a ticket. We're gonna have, like we said, we
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: have high school education that we can give a ticket
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: to a kid like we have people who we can
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: who we can put the butts in the seats for,
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: but we need your support.
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: They can't, they cannot, they can't doubt your execution.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: So like executed.
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: I'm not a person who like going begging for no sponsorship,
• 24:31
  Speaker 7: doing none of that.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: I understand. But y'all can do this ship. Y'all can
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: do it.
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: And and after it's executed this year, everybody gonna be
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: on y'all dicks, you know what I mean, just trying
• 24:40
  Speaker 7: to give Oh, this is great, this is great, but
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: that like you said, your text is and this ship
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: won't be It's gonna be big.
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you're still having some difficulty transitioning to radio and
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: not cursing a lot of stuff.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Work. I don't even come to work.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: You went to the d su Brandon with the D
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: That's what Lauren was trying.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: She was she just.
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: Found that out.
• 25:13
  Speaker 9: Laura.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Wait, I don't know.
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: It's nothing that I don't know.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: The su w.
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: W W dot Black College Invitational Championship dot org or again,
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: you could just put in b C, I C and
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: any of your search engines.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: You'll see us come up the write ups all the information.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: Again, make sure y'all come down to Charlotte. The weather
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: is gonna be nice, it's gonna be a first class event.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: B Do is gonna be on the mic, No Livan, Larry.
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: We got a couple of other special guests man that
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: that will be there in attendance too. You know a
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: few friends of mine who will be in the city
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: during that time, So you don't want to miss it.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be a good time if you.
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: If this is not a success, can't blame the white
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: man on this one. This is on us. That it's
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: on us, It's one hundred percent on us. But we
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: know it's gonna be a success. Like you always talk
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: about the intentionality with our words and the positivity that
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: we're putting in the atmosphere.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: It's gonna give us. It's gonna yield the results that.
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: We're looking for and we don't need any charity Like
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: this is gonna be a first class event with first
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: class basketball. And it's the same weekend as the March Madness.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: So what we tell people also, you can't make it
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: down to Charlotte, Yo. You can download the app, the
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: Samsung Television app. You can put it on. You'll be
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: able to put it on your phone. You can watch
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: it on your television the same way. Y'all can't wait
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: to watch March Madness. This is HBCU March Madness. That's
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: for our school, So come out and support or watching
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: tune in. It's gonna be a success because I'm hearing
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: casual people talking about the same thing.
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: I told him, y'all, like, that's more like we I
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: was asking about ticket sales and whatnot, and I was
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: just like, the ticket sales isn't as important as the
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: conversation about him. When you got folks just organically talking
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: about Yo, I heard about this event.
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: Da da da da.
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: That right there was way higher than just what you
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: see y'all ticket sales right now. So I'm enjoying that
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: too for show.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: All right, well, doctor west Bellamy and beat out, y'all.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: I'll see y'all down there as the Breakfast Club. Good morning,
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: Wake that ass up in the morning.
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: The Breakfast Club