Speaker 1: M hm.
Speaker 2: Hmm.
Speaker 3: What if y'all will come to you from the Pump
Speaker 3: Gala twenty twenty four, the Beverly Hilton, all the smoke
Speaker 3: black carpet, and we got our guy Chris here today,
Speaker 3: Chris Brother.
Speaker 4: Pleasure having me, appreciate having me guys. Man, this is
Speaker 4: the owner of creator owner a fat Head. Yeah, first
Speaker 4: time saying myself.
Speaker 3: Isn't that no scot heead here man shine?
Speaker 5: I don't, God damn it. So you took the world
Speaker 5: by storm with this. When did you guys launch fat Head?
Speaker 5: We bought fat Head actually, okay, yeah it was. It's
Speaker 5: an eighteen year old brand. Okay, formerly owned by Dan
Speaker 5: Jilbert for a long time. We bought it last year
Speaker 5: and we're here to bring a batman. Okay, excuse me,
Speaker 5: they bought it. But great.
Speaker 3: I remember it took the world by storm and I
Speaker 3: was still impressed when I came down and and saw
Speaker 3: my little fat in.
Speaker 4: Man, you guys look sharp, unbelievable. So what else are
Speaker 4: you into so fat In?
Speaker 2: What else?
Speaker 4: Fat d?
Speaker 2: Is it?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 4: I'm I'm focused on fat D one hundred percent of
Speaker 4: the time.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 6: I retired from football and it was seven I worked
Speaker 6: for a head counter for eleven.
Speaker 4: Years and then, uh, we're fortunate up to the group.
Speaker 4: Life at it, life after sports. Yeah, so what's your
Speaker 4: goal with that? Take it to the moon?
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 6: You know we're we have a lot of licenses in
Speaker 6: sports and entertainment.
Speaker 4: You know, we're we're expanding into music and gaming. Oh really, okay,
Speaker 4: we bought a.
Speaker 6: Technology company to make uh these these decounts come to
Speaker 6: life with a R and AI and yeah, man, we're
Speaker 6: here to We're here to get back to the culture again.
Speaker 4: We need all this smell deca. Let's partner something now
Speaker 4: and that all the smoke decap for my golf car.
Speaker 4: I want to go deck you out. Yeah, though, I'm okay,
Speaker 4: I gotta start somewhere.
Speaker 3: I was a hater move, but I like it. Maybe
Speaker 3: I was just jealous, you know the reason why I'm starting. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 4: So Chris Man, thank you for coming out tonight. We
Speaker 4: appreciate you.
Speaker 2: Luck.
Speaker 4: We want to connect and all of a sudden, a
Speaker 4: bunch of a man studio appreciate it. Thanks, guys. What's
Speaker 4: up now? We're here with Jeff.
Speaker 3: Hamilton oh Man, one of the most designers we've never seen.
Speaker 3: What you've done for culture, from jackets to just fashion overall.
Speaker 4: Where did all that start? Where that inspiration come from?
Speaker 4: It was a total accident.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 8: My my background was I grew up in UH.
Speaker 2: I was one in Africa, in Morocco and moved to France.
Speaker 8: My biggest dream was to become a CPA, and then
Speaker 8: I moved to America because.
Speaker 4: I just loved the American culture.
Speaker 3: And UH, one thing led to the other.
Speaker 8: And I found it against James the men as the
Speaker 8: first license.
Speaker 4: You have the brand and UH and then you came
Speaker 4: to the.
Speaker 8: Down in necess and I found my passion like like
Speaker 8: like like you guys in your front, even if you
Speaker 8: didn't get paid to play basketball, we still shoot buckets.
Speaker 8: You know me, I'll design even say, please.
Speaker 7: My love, I'm honored to say that I have a
Speaker 7: jump out with the jacket the right way. A lot
Speaker 7: of guys buy them, but I want a championship the
Speaker 7: all of us, our own personal jacket I still have.
Speaker 2: I want to thank you for my jacket, I.
Speaker 4: Brother, I give it to you.
Speaker 8: I remember the lesson, you know, and and you don't
Speaker 8: have to say something that I changed my whole reception
Speaker 8: of of what top was, you know, because when you
Speaker 8: guys won the championship, I don't know a few were
Speaker 8: with them.
Speaker 5: When against New York it was like seven years before, right, Like.
Speaker 2: I do not know it was Uh, I want to
Speaker 2: know three.
Speaker 8: I want to three right after the Kobe one. Originally
Speaker 8: I had brun one for for Tim and Uh and
Speaker 8: David and Buck.
Speaker 2: Said no, weird team.
Speaker 4: It's a team or nothing. And I kind of like
Speaker 4: that really can open moment because at.
Speaker 8: The time I used to do for Michael and Scotty
Speaker 8: and I would do Kobe and and and Shack and
Speaker 8: you know, maybe Jerry and of course I had my
Speaker 8: you know, the same pictures of Kobe.
Speaker 4: When you look at the trophy with Dagon, all you
Speaker 4: see on the reflection you always see me. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: mean that big, right, So I.
Speaker 3: Mean that's an iconic obviously with the path of my
Speaker 3: brother rest in peace.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's such an iconic photo. It was voted last
Speaker 4: year the most iconic piece of fashion really in sports
Speaker 4: issue period.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 8: So for me, like that's some of the things that
Speaker 8: kind of like drives me.
Speaker 2: You know, you know that we all love money, we
Speaker 2: love the business.
Speaker 4: But for me to be able to wake up in
Speaker 4: the morning and be.
Speaker 8: Creative at the same time, also knowing that I'm building
Speaker 8: up a legacy for my my grandson for me that
Speaker 8: that's why I love it.
Speaker 9: TI.
Speaker 3: So Pop didn't let you just give him to Tim
Speaker 3: and Tony? How long did you make jackets for everyone
Speaker 3: right there?
Speaker 4: But the next time they won? No, no, no, you did
Speaker 4: it for the whole team.
Speaker 8: That inspired me to do that, and then I started doing
Speaker 8: it four So when when in two thousand and two
Speaker 8: when the Lakers one in Jersey, I.
Speaker 4: Did for the whole team, Oh, I love.
Speaker 8: It, including Phil Jackson, nobody, and then after.
Speaker 4: That so I had to see if sure and damn
Speaker 4: maybe maybe that was I was sitting on the course
Speaker 4: of dude at the final A History of Greatness. Well,
Speaker 4: we don't want to keep you too long. We appreciate you.
Speaker 4: Thank you. Look fly tonight.
Speaker 2: We have our own mescal, which would be We'll be honest.
Speaker 3: You can sign a bottle for us, I'll be.
Speaker 4: Honest, man, that's a rap.
Speaker 3: Jeff Hands within the iconic fashion designer, We're here at
Speaker 3: the Pump Guy at twenty twenty four with a twenty
Speaker 3: year NFL VET. The one and only Darryl Green. He
Speaker 3: still might be jack, but at one time was definitely
Speaker 3: the fastest man in the league. Yes, so I look
Speaker 3: at you, I see you. I can see a big
Speaker 3: fan first time meeting in person.
Speaker 4: With all due respect, you're not that tall, You're not
Speaker 4: that big.
Speaker 3: But to play twenty years at the highest level and
Speaker 3: be great at it. Uh, where did the bluff and
Speaker 3: football come from?
Speaker 10: Well, I'm five eighty three quarters, So I want to
Speaker 10: just get that clear so people can be clear.
Speaker 2: Right. Uh, you know, back in the day sports or football?
Speaker 10: Should I say what's called extra curricular activities? What sports was?
Speaker 10: Because I'm born in eineteen sixty. So you played touch
Speaker 10: on the street, tackle on the glass, you played that
Speaker 10: pe down the street, knocked on the door. Hey we're
Speaker 10: playing you know, so you know you just you You're
Speaker 10: a kid. Now it's a different ball game. Everybody thinking
Speaker 10: I'm about to be a fro. I'm in I'm five
Speaker 10: years old, you know, but uh, that's kind of where
Speaker 10: I got started. And I started football officially, I guess
Speaker 10: as a junior in high school on the JB ten
Speaker 10: and oh B Yates Yates d j's OK, and uh,
Speaker 10: then I made the varsity in my senior year.
Speaker 2: Uh and uh B Yates, B Yates again. Yeah, B
Speaker 2: Yates again.
Speaker 7: He's saying that Yates historic school in Texas, especially in
Speaker 7: the Houston area.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and then uh, no scholarship, no scholarship, gotta walk
Speaker 10: on at n ai A.
Speaker 2: That was great a high school.
Speaker 10: A kid that I grew up with the same last name,
Speaker 10: was in the homeroom all the way through, went to
Speaker 10: college with me five hours away. He was gonna ride
Speaker 10: home with a guy from Yates. That's twally I'm saying this.
Speaker 10: I missed the ride.
Speaker 2: I was crying.
Speaker 10: I was homesick. They got kid got killed in a car.
Speaker 10: I dropped out of college. I went home. A year
Speaker 10: and a half later, I went back to that college,
Speaker 10: walked on again, two time, walk on, and was drafted
Speaker 10: in the first round. So I mean, dude, I don't
Speaker 10: even know. I can't even that. Ain't gonna beat my chest,
Speaker 10: don't what could I say? It was just a mercy
Speaker 10: and the grace of God. So I went to Washington,
Speaker 10: d C. You met my wife and been there for
Speaker 10: the two years. So I mean, yeah, it's kind of
Speaker 10: a it's not a story.
Speaker 2: It's when I said when I hear it.
Speaker 10: I'm like somebody else hearing this story. I can say
Speaker 10: it every day and this, yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: You matched up against some of the greatest receivers of
Speaker 3: all time, who were some of the matchups you look
Speaker 3: forward to going with.
Speaker 10: Well, I only covered the best guy, like you said,
Speaker 10: but I'm kind of a weird guy. If I gotta
Speaker 10: play you, you that dude, and you don't play, I'm
Speaker 10: not mad, you know. You know, man, when you're playing
Speaker 10: that best guy every game, you don't really you don't
Speaker 10: have no time outs because every player it might might
Speaker 10: be that guy.
Speaker 2: This is the dude.
Speaker 10: So you know, I just kind of had a way
Speaker 10: about myself that I'm gonna be prepared to be successful
Speaker 10: every play, every game, every time, and no matter who
Speaker 10: I'm lining up against, Brothers, that that other guy, or
Speaker 10: that guy. I'll tell you something that I heard. I
Speaker 10: was telling somebody today. They said, well, you know, guys
Speaker 10: that talk crap. Maybe y'all talk crap, and this might
Speaker 10: be in your face, but I think if you really
Speaker 10: talk a lot of crap, at least in football, I
Speaker 10: always thought you really just almost not that really sure,
Speaker 10: And I heard I only heard this, i'n't read it.
Speaker 2: I heard that Muhammad Alist said the same thing.
Speaker 10: That crap, even shalking wasn't really about what we thought
Speaker 10: it was. It was about him commit taking his step
Speaker 10: over the time. And I'm okay with that. That's saying
Speaker 10: this sounds self serving, but I've never I always felt
Speaker 10: like I'm gonna win.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 10: I'ma win anyway. So boy, that's because I was prepared.
Speaker 10: So I don't even really talk a lot of crap.
Speaker 10: But I'm okay, if you line up out here, I'm
Speaker 10: gonna win.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 10: I don't mean, of course I didn't win every time,
Speaker 10: but that was my mentality, that involuntary mentality.
Speaker 2: That I'm gonna kick his butt anyway. So show up
Speaker 2: if you want to show up. If you don't, I
Speaker 2: don't really care who.
Speaker 4: You are going up against.
Speaker 10: Jerry Rice, Jared Rice, Jared Rice, his offense and his
Speaker 10: two halls bank quarterback a lot.
Speaker 2: That was tough. And uh, I did enjoy that. I
Speaker 2: did enjoy that. Jared Rice.
Speaker 10: You know, he probably want to kill me because I've
Speaker 10: been saying this around the country that Jared Wright wouldn't
Speaker 10: shake your hand and say what's up? You know, after
Speaker 10: the game. The game, and maybe y'all are like that,
Speaker 10: but I'm not like that.
Speaker 4: He was about business.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess he was, and I respect that. But
Speaker 2: after the game, can we say what's up?
Speaker 10: I mean, when win I told him, I said, man,
Speaker 10: one day we're gonna be retire.
Speaker 2: Oh I want to say hello.
Speaker 10: It was about you know, people are gonna talk about this,
Speaker 10: but anyway, I think it's a lot better now.
Speaker 2: But yeah, man, I played against a lot of them.
Speaker 3: Last question, what was your secret to last in twenty
Speaker 3: years in the NFL when the average player is about
Speaker 3: two and a half years.
Speaker 10: My whole lifestyle, Yeah, I'm one white thirty nine years.
Speaker 2: Didn't want to didn't want to go to play for
Speaker 2: no other team.
Speaker 10: Wasn't oh yeah, just throw to work, go home, cut
Speaker 10: the yard, hang out with your kid. I'm not that dude.
Speaker 10: I never was that dude. I was never I ain't
Speaker 10: that dude. I just yeah, it's it's like that earlier
Speaker 10: story that my whole life is like I can't beat
Speaker 10: my chest. I can't hold my balls and beat my chest.
Speaker 10: I don't even know how I explained this. I got
Speaker 10: nothing to explain. Like five to eighty three quarters started late.
Speaker 10: How do you walk around beating your chest? I'm just
Speaker 10: I was grateful for it, but yeah, I just never
Speaker 10: could get to that place where I.
Speaker 2: Felt like, man, I'm mad.
Speaker 10: Dudes, man, you know what, I can't even wake up
Speaker 10: and let's God wake me up to them, right, hear you?
Speaker 2: Right? That's just been my philosophers.
Speaker 4: I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Before you get out of here, can you say one
Speaker 3: thing to the pumps Dana and there, uh.
Speaker 10: David, appreciate you guys, Dan and David for bringing the middleman.
Speaker 2: Out here from DC.
Speaker 10: This is fabulous and and well with these guys too.
Speaker 2: So uh no, thank you so much.
Speaker 10: Wish you all the best and all the people that
Speaker 10: you're supporting.
Speaker 2: I'm with you all the way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we appreciate you man, your night, pleasure to meet you.
Speaker 10: Found appreciation you hotown, yes, sir, and I love me
Speaker 10: my homie, yes, sir.
Speaker 3: So what I've been messing with for a long time.
Speaker 3: One of the coolest really smokes down are people I've
Speaker 3: ever met.
Speaker 4: Cass. Thank you for joining us right now.
Speaker 3: You have been around LA culture, but particularly basketball for
Speaker 3: a long time.
Speaker 4: You've crossed over and now you're everywhere.
Speaker 3: Nda everywhere you name it from there? Where did your
Speaker 3: passion for photography come from?
Speaker 4: When?
Speaker 11: First of all, thanks for having me. I've loved this podcast.
Speaker 11: I've been watching you guys grow. I love everything I know,
Speaker 11: but I but I'm glad to be here, Like I
Speaker 11: love it honestly for me, like my dad used to
Speaker 11: take pictures of meet my brother when I was growing up,
Speaker 11: just like on some like capturing memory stuff, and so
Speaker 11: as I got older, I played basketball. But to me,
Speaker 11: I was so drawn to like capturing the lifestyle of
Speaker 11: my teammates, the guys team, and then it eventually turned
Speaker 11: into a job when social media started coming out the
Speaker 11: NBA lockout twenty eleven, So it was kind of like
Speaker 11: something I was already passionate about and then through social
Speaker 11: media I was able to turn it into a career.
Speaker 3: So obviously, I know you're very humble and you take
Speaker 3: your craft serious. But when did you kind of know
Speaker 3: that you had made it?
Speaker 11: Ooh, I still feel like I never taught of you
Speaker 11: like that, because they.
Speaker 4: Are That's what I mean.
Speaker 3: But you're really everywhere though, everybody loves the work for itself.
Speaker 3: So when did you kind of feel better? When did
Speaker 3: you start getting recognized when you weren't working.
Speaker 11: How long ago was that, I would say a couple
Speaker 11: of years after the NBA lockout, So like twenty thirteen.
Speaker 4: I gave someone a business.
Speaker 11: Card and they have my watermark on it, and they
Speaker 11: were like, oh, I know this name.
Speaker 4: Like they didn't know what.
Speaker 11: I looked like, but they knew my work, they knew
Speaker 11: my name, and I was like, oh, okay, like this
Speaker 11: is it. So you know, I think I think that
Speaker 11: was a big part of it for me, like getting
Speaker 11: to shoot you know, amazing players and then like you
Speaker 11: guys showed love. You guys were the first ones that
Speaker 11: were like, no, we rock with you. Like the Black
Speaker 11: football games, you were shooting it. I remember one time
Speaker 11: I came up to you and I asked you.
Speaker 4: To sign a photo.
Speaker 11: I sec at you and you're like, where'd you get
Speaker 11: this photo? I was like I took it and You're like, oh,
Speaker 11: this is dope. So to me, like those moments are
Speaker 11: like Okay, I've made it or I'm on the right path.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So you shot a lot of legendary people. What have
Speaker 3: been some of the favorite people You've been able to
Speaker 3: get behind.
Speaker 4: The lens force?
Speaker 11: Ooh, I always feel like, it's really cool when I
Speaker 11: get to shoot someone like I shot Steph Curry for
Speaker 11: All Star Weekend in LA and getting to see like
Speaker 11: how hard he works, how humble he is, Like stuff
Speaker 11: like that was really cool.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 11: Now I've been shooting even boxing, I've been shooting international.
Speaker 11: I went to euro League games last year. So I
Speaker 11: don't know if there's one particular person I really I
Speaker 11: like all my LA Cali people like I feel like
Speaker 11: those are the like my base, the people that were
Speaker 11: around the lockout, the Drew League, that kind of stuff.
Speaker 4: So well, thank you for your time. Tell these people
Speaker 4: right here where they can find you.
Speaker 11: You can find me on Instagram, Cassie Athena Photo and
Speaker 11: Cassie Athena everything else.
Speaker 4: Cassie Athena check me out. We appreciate you. Thank you,
Speaker 4: lug with everything.
Speaker 11: Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 4: Welcome to the Black Carpet.
Speaker 3: Trevor Reza eighteen year NBA Pro Black, ten year NBA
Speaker 3: BRO eighteen.
Speaker 4: Year NBA Pro NBA Champ. What's up, Bro?
Speaker 1: I was like, man, life is beautiful and here in
Speaker 1: a place a lot of beautiful people.
Speaker 3: So for you as don't know a lot of you
Speaker 3: do know, but Tramp's in all this folk family. Now,
Speaker 3: he made a couple of appearance at the end of
Speaker 3: the season, but we're really going to get him into
Speaker 3: the mix, uh this upcoming season. Uh why did you
Speaker 3: want to get into the content face.
Speaker 2: Because he brought out that's just try something new man.
Speaker 1: I just it's a new laying. I enjoy talking about sports.
Speaker 1: I enjoy talking about life and the world. I feel
Speaker 1: like I got a lot to offer. You know, someone,
Speaker 1: Yeah and pleus. You guys already got the blooprint and
Speaker 1: you know, did the footwork already.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, come in and bless us. Your son Taja
Speaker 4: Reasons one of.
Speaker 3: The top twenty twenty six twenty six in the country.
Speaker 4: What has it been like seeing his growth, his development?
Speaker 3: I remember when we were still playing and him and
Speaker 3: the twins were little, like five or six years old.
Speaker 3: Now we're seeing our kids trying to prosper. Your kids
Speaker 3: one of the top recruits in the country. What has
Speaker 3: it been like kind of developing that in that fine
Speaker 3: line between teaching and instructing, but then also being dad.
Speaker 2: It's been fun. It's been an experience.
Speaker 1: We had good days, we got bad days, we got growth,
Speaker 1: we got sometimes we get pushed back. But the good
Speaker 1: thing about being a father and raising a son that
Speaker 1: has potential is you cut out all the bullshit that
Speaker 1: comes with everybody else outside noise. You know, I've been
Speaker 1: here for eighteen years. You want to do it. This
Speaker 1: is kind of how you do it, you know. And
Speaker 1: I don't really let people that don't know what they're
Speaker 1: talking about tell him about basketball. Yeah, you know, whether
Speaker 1: it be good or bad, all that, none of that
Speaker 1: shit matters because while they talking good about you today,
Speaker 1: tomorrow they're gonna be talking bad.
Speaker 3: About exactly before we get out of your favorite Kobe memory.
Speaker 1: Favorite Kobe memory, Well, one of my Kobe memories was
Speaker 1: I think we were playing in Golden State one year
Speaker 1: at the Whole Oracle and he had pulled his growing
Speaker 1: in like the third quarter.
Speaker 2: We finished the game with like forty four.
Speaker 3: And is playing and is playing on a pull growing.
Speaker 2: Team.
Speaker 4: Oh, you just didn't know.
Speaker 2: You probably remember.
Speaker 4: All that, but we appreciate you. Welcome to the family, obviously,
Speaker 4: I'll joy yourself tonight.
Speaker 3: Jack has been a great couple of days, some amazing interviews.
Speaker 12: And ship Man.
Speaker 3: We owe it all to these two guys to our left.
Speaker 3: I've known them Ray when when were thirteen fourteen we
Speaker 3: went to a fourth.
Speaker 9: Of everybody met them as teenagers.
Speaker 3: Fourth of July Pump Party. I got me a couple
Speaker 3: older hoes from the party. I've been known Dana and
Speaker 3: David Man over thirty years, and two the most solid
Speaker 3: individuals I've ever met. Will give you the shirt off
Speaker 3: their back. Always looked out for a lot of people.
Speaker 3: Anyone wanted to take the lead and tell them why
Speaker 3: we're here this weekend and talk about your thank you,
Speaker 3: your parents.
Speaker 13: We're here and Carol Pump Foundation honor my mother and
Speaker 13: father and start twenty fourth year. Our Pump Foundation is
Speaker 13: given way over thirteen million. I say given away, not rais.
Speaker 13: And that's our legacy for mom and dad and north
Speaker 13: Ridge Hospital, the community we live in. We have three
Speaker 13: wings named after him, the Harold and Carroll Pump Oncology,
Speaker 13: the Pump Family Infusion Center, and the Carroll Pump Woman Center.
Speaker 13: So our legacy is in place. We've planned thousands of
Speaker 13: seeds and obviously here we are twenty four years later.
Speaker 13: The seeds have grown.
Speaker 3: Now has the gala growing over the years, because you
Speaker 3: guys have the biggest stars in the world at your events.
Speaker 12: Well, you know what, it's funny, Matt. You know, Dana
Speaker 12: and I when you.
Speaker 14: First start, we don't really know what we're doing, but
Speaker 14: being twins, we just throw it out and sticks. And
Speaker 14: our first year we honored John Wooden and looking back,
Speaker 14: one of the great college coaches of all time. Then
Speaker 14: we had in the early days, Pat Summit, and you know,
Speaker 14: it's just grown from there and looking back, the greatest
Speaker 14: of them all, Muhammad Ali, Hank Aaron, Denzel Washington, Sandy Kofax.
Speaker 14: But Dana can share the story. There's stories behind getting
Speaker 14: some of the big celebrities.
Speaker 13: The one year we went, uh, Laila Ali said, my
Speaker 13: stepmom says she'll meet meet with you. So I called
Speaker 13: Lannie and she goes, yeah, we're in Phoenix, come and
Speaker 13: meet Muhammad and I.
Speaker 12: We take them to.
Speaker 13: Houston's and we get to lunch and Lannie goes, wow,
Speaker 13: you guys are really cute.
Speaker 12: Girls don't say that often. We got this one, you know.
Speaker 13: So Lannie says that Mohammad would like to know who
Speaker 13: you're honoring. And at the time we never talked to Hank,
Speaker 13: Aaron and Denzel, but sometimes you got a head fake
Speaker 13: in say we got you know, Hank Aaron and Denzel Washington.
Speaker 13: They looked and said, that's incredible. We walked outside of
Speaker 13: the restaurant and said, we ain't never talked to them,
Speaker 13: but we got it. We got it done. Sometimes you
Speaker 13: got the little head fake, you know.
Speaker 3: So to me, what is the what is the secret
Speaker 3: sauce to getting in? And I mean, obviously you guys
Speaker 3: are great communicators, but what is the secret sauce getting
Speaker 3: in with all these people?
Speaker 12: You know what?
Speaker 14: You know, the first thing, they're going to get double
Speaker 14: team if Dana and I get an opportunity. We flew
Speaker 14: up to meet with Joe Montana and Dana and I
Speaker 14: were excited.
Speaker 12: We didn't really have an in with him.
Speaker 14: And we sit down at Willie mccovey's sports bar and
Speaker 14: we said to Joe and his wife. We said, Joe,
Speaker 14: we need one more comeback.
Speaker 12: It was done.
Speaker 13: What do you need me to I think I think
Speaker 13: our real secret sauces you got to get the wifes
Speaker 13: involved or their girlfriends. They moved the needle. I like
Speaker 13: the dominique. You know, it's been hoodwinking me for twenty years.
Speaker 13: I met the new girlfriend at the All Star of
Speaker 13: the Wife. Yeah, I went up and kissed up. You know, hey,
Speaker 13: I'm Dana pumping. She liked us, and she goes, oh,
Speaker 13: we're doing this.
Speaker 3: So Dana, obviously, you know, helped us get every guest
Speaker 3: we had this weekend. It's just funny you say that
Speaker 3: because he sent me girlfriends, daughters and wives numbers like here,
Speaker 3: you want to get ahold of Dominique. Here, hit this,
Speaker 3: you want to get a hold of so and so.
Speaker 2: Hit them.
Speaker 14: I'm just like, you know, Matt looking back twenty four years,
Speaker 14: he's spent a great journey and to honor all our heroes,
Speaker 14: everyone's heroes. I remember Dana and I went to go
Speaker 14: spend a couple hours with Hank Aaron and we're.
Speaker 13: Like, god, damn, this is Hank Karen right then, Dana
Speaker 13: and I facts. I love when people tell us you
Speaker 13: can't do it. He don't like to do it. They said, oh,
Speaker 13: Sandy ain't gonna do nothing. I said, okay, let me
Speaker 13: figure out how we can get to him. I mean,
Speaker 13: we just tried to resonate, you know, if we have
Speaker 13: to say we're Jewish. You know, I had a black
Speaker 13: heart up and saying, look at my kids.
Speaker 2: We're going to make it work. Make it warm.
Speaker 13: But hey, you know, Nolan, you know, like people that
Speaker 13: don't know us will say, well, they're full of shit.
Speaker 12: No, no, no, no.
Speaker 13: We couldn't have got where we got by not reciprocating our.
Speaker 12: More. Our logo is you help people to help you.
Speaker 12: That's how we go period. It does. And you know,
Speaker 12: next year is going to be the twenty fifth year
Speaker 12: we've heard about the White Party.
Speaker 14: And you know, Dana has two young kids. They're still
Speaker 14: trying to figure out why they have two daddies, and
Speaker 14: I keep saying on their own. You know, after next
Speaker 14: year we're going to decide what we're going to do
Speaker 14: moving forward. But Dana and I it keeps us in
Speaker 14: tune with everyone, and we're passionate. This is this is
Speaker 14: an amazing thing. We're in the red zone tonight. I'm
Speaker 14: fired up.
Speaker 13: You know, when I leave here, it's on we go
Speaker 13: down there. You know, Smoky, how'd you wrangle Snoop?
Speaker 3: We've been hugging on the phone for a couple of
Speaker 3: weeks about that deal relationships.
Speaker 13: And you know, I really do feel if we can
Speaker 13: get in front of people and tell our story about
Speaker 13: mom and dad, and you know, when people start making calls,
Speaker 13: we're legit, we're you know, and I have five hundred publicists.
Speaker 13: These girls call you hey one, so and so, like
Speaker 13: I never heard of them. You know, you just we're
Speaker 13: fired up for tonight.
Speaker 3: Let's take it back obviously, you know the event is amazing.
Speaker 3: But we met you back in the day. You know,
Speaker 3: talk to us a little bit. How you guys got
Speaker 3: into basketball, Adidas particular, and just how many kids you
Speaker 3: guys helped get to the next level.
Speaker 14: You know, Matt, like, now it's changed, as we all
Speaker 14: know how the game is. Dan and I got into
Speaker 14: the game where there weren't a lot of players in
Speaker 14: the games, and there was two of us and may
Speaker 14: rest his soul is he Washington had a great platform.
Speaker 14: And then the new kids came in, the two young twins,
Speaker 14: and you know.
Speaker 12: We started the pumping run. Our first big.
Speaker 14: Star was a c Earl from the Earl. He had
Speaker 14: fifty in a game. No one believes that he did
Speaker 14: have fifty. And you know, growing up, I remember going
Speaker 14: to Shamanad High School and Saint Sean Camp and you
Speaker 14: know gog yeah, going to uh Vegas to the North
Speaker 14: South Gym to see all the big players.
Speaker 12: And then Dana and I were.
Speaker 14: Able to build our own platform, and you know, we got.
Speaker 12: A lot of help.
Speaker 13: But you know, we started with our day camp, like
Speaker 13: Lamar Murray was there, all the Murray's. That was our
Speaker 13: little day camp. Then we started the West Coast All
Speaker 13: Star Camp. We had thousands of kids and they came
Speaker 13: to our thing. Then we started the first Juco camp.
Speaker 13: Then we started an executive search firm where the Pumps
Speaker 13: hired you know, colleges coaches like Bruce Pearl and you know,
Speaker 13: then we were hustling tickets for all the schools and
Speaker 13: now the school now the schools are big in the
Speaker 13: ticket business and I kind of looked like we were
Speaker 13: pioneers and we were way ahead of our time. We
Speaker 13: leveraged our relationship with the Didas and you know, definitely
Speaker 13: Sonny Vackiro was our mentor and George Rawvin that paved
Speaker 13: the way and legitimized us. You know, when we were
Speaker 13: doing exhibition games, you got to remember we probably had
Speaker 13: five hundred kids. Gelan and mcgoy, McCoy playing on the team,
Speaker 13: I think Ray did, but we played the different colleges
Speaker 13: and it was all about one thing relationships. Then we
Speaker 13: started a coach's retreat and we flew in athletic directors
Speaker 13: once again, getting games, getting tickets, getting anything done is
Speaker 13: about relationships. So I look, we were way ahead of
Speaker 13: our time. We did a lot of good in basketball,
Speaker 13: you know, and you know our legacy, you know, we
Speaker 13: did real thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they always looked at.
Speaker 14: And the thing is we were cowboys, you know, the
Speaker 14: Pump Brothers. You know, early on, you know, a DS
Speaker 14: and like, who are these aggressive young kids? But you know,
Speaker 14: Dana and I, you know, yeah, there was no but
Speaker 14: we knew how to push, and you know, we built
Speaker 14: a great platform. Looking back, our first big recruiting camps
Speaker 14: were a cal Cal Poly Pomona, and I just remember
Speaker 14: all the great kJ Roberts was a great player, Omar.
Speaker 12: Gibbons, these were all great players from all around.
Speaker 13: Then we look at our team, Paul George, Clay Thompson,
Speaker 13: all the holidays. You know, we've had so many NBA superstars,
Speaker 13: Mario Chalmers. I remember we were in Vegas and this
Speaker 13: Alaska team beat the shit out of us, and the
Speaker 13: next day I said, oh no, we're starting an Alaska run.
Speaker 13: And then they did the Ed Manning deal with Danny Manning.
Speaker 13: They hired the dad and that's how Mario went there.
Speaker 3: Any remember those stories with Kobe or t Meck.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I was working for arm tell him and I
Speaker 13: flew to Philadelphia and Bruiser Flint. His dad said, hey,
Speaker 13: let's go watch him, and Arn told me to go
Speaker 13: watch them. I watched him and I said, let's go
Speaker 13: at half. This boy better stay in cool. Oh really,
Speaker 13: little did I know that I do? So he spoke
Speaker 13: at ours at the West Coast All Star Camp.
Speaker 12: Is a great story.
Speaker 13: I picked him up off the Marriot, off of Roastcrans
Speaker 13: not there no more by the old Houstons, and Kobe says,
Speaker 13: pick me up at five hop was gonna get some
Speaker 13: shots up with him. I show up at five thirty
Speaker 13: and he checked me. He said, Pump, don't ever be late.
Speaker 13: And here's a kid that was sixteen years old checking him.
Speaker 12: Man.
Speaker 13: And then when I would see him, you know, I
Speaker 13: never had a great relationship with him, but I mean,
Speaker 13: he was just so driven off the charts. And you know,
Speaker 13: when you think about Tracy McGrady, you know, now you
Speaker 13: know everyone would know about him, but he went to
Speaker 13: Sonny Vaciero's camp.
Speaker 14: No one knew how knew about him. Yeah, he had
Speaker 14: one of his handles, Alvin H. Smith, Alvin Smith, and
Speaker 14: he blew up and went down there.
Speaker 3: Remember that summer Florida flash Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, sixteen.
Speaker 12: Yeah, he did that on everybody.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was before we knew him.
Speaker 3: There was there was the summer he was put on
Speaker 3: the map we played.
Speaker 14: Yeah, and you know it's it's it's really hard for
Speaker 14: that to happen today because there's so much social media.
Speaker 14: But it was a great story and you know, I
Speaker 14: love you know, I've been wrong. I told Sonny, hey,
Speaker 14: there's a kid in Diamond bar California, Keith Van Horne.
Speaker 12: I said, I don't think he can play. Well, I
Speaker 12: was wrong. He was a ten year plus player.
Speaker 14: And you know, I think the most important thing is
Speaker 14: our platform was given has helped so many kids, even
Speaker 14: if it's a Division three, Division two, that's what it's about.
Speaker 14: And you know what, there's some great people now it's
Speaker 14: in their hands.
Speaker 13: We missed the relationships like when Klay Thompson blairbirths, he's
Speaker 13: still mister Pump when he sees us and we just
Speaker 13: met mom and dad. They got a He was with
Speaker 13: Pat Barry and they play with us.
Speaker 9: And it's genuine though. That's I think that's why you know,
Speaker 9: you guys know who you are. While people don't mind
Speaker 9: pulling up y'all know, that's why I do because every
Speaker 9: time I seen y'all, y'all the same people, the respect
Speaker 9: has always been the same, So there's no need not to.
Speaker 4: AU.
Speaker 3: What do you think of the current AU state?
Speaker 12: What do you guys think?
Speaker 13: Crazy?
Speaker 12: Crazy? I'm not a big fan of it.
Speaker 14: You know, I do think, you know, the kids were
Speaker 14: getting taken advantage for years. I do think they have
Speaker 14: to have someone policing what's going on because it's really
Speaker 14: the wild, wild West, and you know, I do feel
Speaker 14: like players should get paid some type of money in college,
Speaker 14: and I think they are going to get paid, and
Speaker 14: I just think they need to come with some kind
Speaker 14: of form to uh where it's kind of an even
Speaker 14: thing for the BCS schools and uh you know it's
Speaker 14: here and if a coach doesn't want to play by it,
Speaker 14: you're not going to get plays over.
Speaker 3: Last question, your five top five people you haven't got
Speaker 3: that you still want to get Brady.
Speaker 13: Brady Brady for sure, Lebron dreams, Lebron for sure, Serena
Speaker 13: Williams Serena.
Speaker 12: Two more Obama. Oh, we're gonna honor a white person.
Speaker 12: One dime y.
Speaker 2: You didn't know the pumps. You think we were Washington?
Speaker 12: What's that? Jordan already?
Speaker 13: Now you know what we want our goal and we
Speaker 13: try every year, but I get stopped. The Dream Team.
Speaker 13: It would be the biggest night in sports history. We
Speaker 13: would scalp every ticket and get ten times or about it. No, No,
Speaker 13: we want to honor the Dream Team for the twenty
Speaker 13: fifth anniversary. We could sell out the we do a
Speaker 13: Netflix special. It would be big money. You gotta let
Speaker 13: the guys eat on the bone.
Speaker 12: But let them eat.
Speaker 14: But like Dana and I, we would need a Magic
Speaker 14: Johnson to help.
Speaker 13: Spirit or the guy at Fanatics. We need someone. Yeah,
Speaker 13: we need a real whaler man. This is your motherfucking
Speaker 13: camera here. Tell them what you need, Michael, if you
Speaker 13: ever want to help two young Jewish kids, and I
Speaker 13: gotta use go Jewish Na.
Speaker 9: We have the doc connection, the best doc connector in
Speaker 9: the world on our team.
Speaker 14: Yes, being he can connect all of that what I'm.
Speaker 13: Saying, it would be great for this city. Magic, I'm
Speaker 13: sure you're gonna watch this You've been my boy since
Speaker 13: we're little kids, and you stepped up.
Speaker 12: For the dinner tonight.
Speaker 13: You do so much but the dream team, but I
Speaker 13: want to it's not just David and Dana. We want
Speaker 13: our city, this city to celebrate, celebrated.
Speaker 3: Absolutelyful man. We want to thank you guys and definitely
Speaker 3: give you your flowers because again you told us a
Speaker 3: little bit about what you do, but there's just so
Speaker 3: much shit that no one sees or hears about this
Speaker 3: that you guys do. You guys always have had the
Speaker 3: biggest heart since you know, me and Ray were thirteen
Speaker 3: fourteen years old, and just really appreciate you having us
Speaker 3: and everything you do. And we hopefully we can make
Speaker 3: this an annual event with you guys.
Speaker 9: So I don't go to events like this, but last
Speaker 9: night I had one of the best times of my life.
Speaker 2: You. I appreciate you to invite me.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I don't appreciate you guys.
Speaker 14: Back her tell everyone for twenty four years we've had
Speaker 14: a board.
Speaker 2: Prince. Hey, that's a wrap, ain't that?
Speaker 3: David Pump. We're here at the twenty twenty four Pump Gala.
Speaker 3: If you missed it.
Speaker 2: Sorry, well check my pictures.
Speaker 9: My Instagram.
Speaker 3: Try to be here next year. Man, We'll see you
Speaker 3: guys again, hm.