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Speaker 2: Man, probably like PJ Brown, old.

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Speaker 1: School p Jack. He was too smart. Yeah, he was

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Speaker 2: Just everything. You know, I always say that just I

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Speaker 3: Yo, man special special special in the day man, we

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Speaker 4: Fellows. I do not want to miss this one. It's

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Speaker 3: It's your Boys Too Rich and.

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Speaker 2: D Males Challenge in the podcast.

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Speaker 1: Season two and how We're thinking of and what we do,

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Speaker 1: Like it was just like how did y'all come up with? That?

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Speaker 1: Is this thing on little script that we kind of

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Speaker 4: We come from an authentic old gee standpoint. You weren't

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Speaker 4: that people don't know. This dude, have my shoes on, right,

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Speaker 4: he just talking hot mess.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: We were just young and wanted to prove ourselves and

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Speaker 2: Man, bought me some hony. Yeah, it's a grace A

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Speaker 2: greyfield grayfield, greyfield, greyfield, greyfield, gravefield. I'm from Maryon and

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Speaker 2: the Marion, Mary Indiana. Yeah, it's small, man, I called

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Speaker 1: I went to Mary Indiana with you and we was

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Speaker 2: Remember that's right, that's when we had that party.

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Speaker 1: We had to use the remote and just moved a

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Speaker 1: what made you choose Marion High School to go to

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Speaker 2: our school mix. Yeah, our school mix. So it's a

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Speaker 1: So you grew up on the history. That's why you

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Speaker 2: Yeah, bro, you know I was a little rough around

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Speaker 3: Talk about what you did as being a big boy,

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Speaker 2: Man, I just think the way I was taught the

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Speaker 2: So you know what I'm saying, Like that type of

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Speaker 1: When you came out, like we always at the McDonald's game,

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Speaker 2: The teams just looking good like that.

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Speaker 2: I said, damn, you know, running with him. LaMarcus was nice.

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Speaker 1: Man. I just I just yeah, I just got my contract,

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Speaker 1: That was just one of the funniest moments that I

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Speaker 1: can kick. And then he random ship as a transcamp

436
00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:43,840
Speaker 1: like random ship out as she did that fucking conditioning test.

437
00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:45,680
Speaker 2: He used to have a conditioning test.

438
00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:50,159
Speaker 1: I think I'd rather run the whole mile in a

439
00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:53,040
Speaker 1: time limit than to do that fucking conditioning test.

440
00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:55,680
Speaker 4: I never was a fan of conditioning tests.

441
00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:56,359
Speaker 1: I never was.

442
00:20:56,480 --> 00:20:59,560
Speaker 3: They don't they don't do nothing the right thing, Like

443
00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:01,480
Speaker 3: we don't we're never gonna do this on the court

444
00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:03,159
Speaker 3: and so many breaks.

445
00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:07,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, a serious conditions.

446
00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:09,000
Speaker 2: He get you right though.

447
00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:10,720
Speaker 1: Yeah.

448
00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:13,119
Speaker 4: So for you when you first got to the league

449
00:21:13,119 --> 00:21:15,639
Speaker 4: and got your bread, what you do, big dog.

450
00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:21,200
Speaker 2: Man, I a truck, buy me a truck, bought mama car.

451
00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:23,400
Speaker 2: Yeah so I did.

452
00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:24,600
Speaker 4: That's our familiar.

453
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Speaker 1: And when you when you see what was the bill

454
00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:28,560
Speaker 1: that you've seen, you was like, I just paid for that.

455
00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:30,199
Speaker 4: Man.

456
00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:35,840
Speaker 2: She got a Lincoln Continental, you know about like fifty Like, man, yeah,

457
00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:37,639
Speaker 2: this is the.

458
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Speaker 1: First was you drove my fan I just got the feedom.

459
00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:44,560
Speaker 1: That year you drove my phedom, and then the next

460
00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:47,800
Speaker 1: year you got your contract. Every since I seen you

461
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Speaker 1: got your contract. You the half phantom at the fanom

462
00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:54,520
Speaker 1: at the finalm like you the phantom boy? You you

463
00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:57,840
Speaker 1: ghost around here? How many fanoms have you got.

464
00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:02,800
Speaker 2: Your family? I got sprung and I had to give

465
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Speaker 2: you one, you know what I mean, And I warded

466
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Speaker 2: myself at one.

467
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Speaker 4: You had had the.

468
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Speaker 3: Bro take my pathers. Talk about him in the twenty

469
00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:16,520
Speaker 3: six said, when I got to go ruin, the cop

470
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Speaker 3: put them talk about your experience in New York.

471
00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:26,479
Speaker 2: New York City, I had, man, I love New York

472
00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:26,800
Speaker 2: was that.

473
00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:33,200
Speaker 4: And we had a crazy two seasons.

474
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Speaker 2: In New York season half tradedline.

475
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Speaker 1: Bro.

476
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Speaker 3: Just think about this though, how sick was the team

477
00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:45,880
Speaker 3: we had in New York with I'm talking about.

478
00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:48,200
Speaker 4: Just with the with the horse play. Now we had,

479
00:22:48,359 --> 00:22:50,840
Speaker 4: we had crew. When it came to like oh Coopers

480
00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:53,240
Speaker 4: in the prime, we had, we'd have been a problem.

481
00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:56,959
Speaker 3: But like when you just think about just Jared Jeffries,

482
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Speaker 3: Nate Robinson, we even had we had Matt for a.

483
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Speaker 4: Minute with Alan.

484
00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:05,080
Speaker 3: They remember they was doing all of that, putting the

485
00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:08,359
Speaker 3: cream cheese under the solder, their shoes, tearing the buttons off,

486
00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:11,159
Speaker 3: they south taping the suits to the ceiling.

487
00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:15,120
Speaker 4: Bro Like, whoever didn't play you what you might don't

488
00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:16,080
Speaker 4: find Like you know what I'm saying.

489
00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:18,960
Speaker 3: They respected the real and we was like, yo, listen,

490
00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:22,040
Speaker 3: touch my stuff, somebody gonna get hurt. So we was

491
00:23:22,119 --> 00:23:24,360
Speaker 3: automatically out of the game. I ain't gonna play with y'all.

492
00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:27,359
Speaker 3: Y'all don't play with me. But them boys, nothing was

493
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Speaker 3: off limits.

494
00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:28,879
Speaker 2: Nothing.

495
00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:34,639
Speaker 3: They put xlax and Eddie cereal. You know, Nate, they

496
00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:36,639
Speaker 3: used to being there bouncing off the wall, didn't he

497
00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:42,359
Speaker 3: Bro like like literally come down. How did they feel

498
00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:44,119
Speaker 3: and deal with that jump?

499
00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:46,040
Speaker 4: You know how long?

500
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Speaker 1: I know how long? You and George Jefferies was friends too,

501
00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:52,160
Speaker 1: just like how me and you played their Like would

502
00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:54,840
Speaker 1: you ever imagine that from y'all playing from high school

503
00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:57,920
Speaker 1: against each other to you meet up with them and

504
00:23:58,600 --> 00:23:59,640
Speaker 1: that's your home boy.

505
00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:01,440
Speaker 2: Friend, You know what I mean? Were good friends, like

506
00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:04,280
Speaker 2: I said, just to come up playing against each other

507
00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:09,080
Speaker 2: and circuit and and being competition and going at each

508
00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:12,760
Speaker 2: other and the vally for the state mister basketball. So

509
00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:14,520
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like I said, nothing but

510
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:15,360
Speaker 2: respect it man.

511
00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:15,560
Speaker 4: It was.

512
00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:19,320
Speaker 2: It was, you know, a great teammates, Yeah, a great teammate.

513
00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:23,760
Speaker 1: You know. Jared was always a nice dude, hilarious nice.

514
00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:27,960
Speaker 4: Jaredy is hilarious, hilarious right now this moment.

515
00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:29,040
Speaker 1: He is hilarious.

516
00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:29,840
Speaker 4: Sick dude.

517
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Speaker 1: When I seen Jared, I was like, I thought he

518
00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:35,840
Speaker 1: was nice, nice, like he can shoot dribble. I was like, man,

519
00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:39,080
Speaker 1: that's my competition, right like Jared and I heard about

520
00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:40,160
Speaker 1: Jeryl Waller.

521
00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:43,320
Speaker 2: Gil Waller while you was one of the reasons.

522
00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:46,080
Speaker 1: I was like, n I ain't no power for I

523
00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:47,840
Speaker 1: ain't gonna be going devo down there.

524
00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:55,000
Speaker 3: I'm putting nothing body out your time and ship like

525
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:58,760
Speaker 3: no at the mixed boy on them get nowhere near

526
00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:00,000
Speaker 3: and all the rebound.

527
00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:02,159
Speaker 1: I was like, no, man, I'm not gonna go on

528
00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:04,240
Speaker 1: him every time when I go hire, that means I'm mad.

529
00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:05,879
Speaker 1: Like nah, I'm mad. I'm tired of him.

530
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:14,200
Speaker 2: You know, you know he's playing straight with his elbow. Gee,

531
00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:17,879
Speaker 2: what was so different?

532
00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:20,560
Speaker 1: I know it seemed like you moving around in two years.

533
00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:24,520
Speaker 4: For each other. You go to.

534
00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:29,560
Speaker 1: Memphis, you go to Memphis in it it clicked like

535
00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:32,280
Speaker 1: I always liked Mark Gasol game, like when I was down,

536
00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:35,320
Speaker 1: I was thirty year before you. I always liked Mark Gasol.

537
00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:40,439
Speaker 1: I didn't believe in Conley until Lion o'holland's believed in Conley.

538
00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:42,360
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like, I ain't gonna say

539
00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:44,160
Speaker 1: I didn't believe in him. I knew he was nice

540
00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:47,160
Speaker 1: and he could play, and then I thought Kyle Lawry

541
00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:49,520
Speaker 1: was better than him at the time. But once he

542
00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:53,680
Speaker 1: got the opportunity to play like he was way better

543
00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:56,840
Speaker 1: than what I thought. He was, like, like, like way better.

544
00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:58,320
Speaker 1: I was like, oh no, he supposed to be here.

545
00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:01,359
Speaker 1: He played d he gets steals. So when you got

546
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:04,840
Speaker 1: to Memphis, Like what clicked that y'all kind of clicked

547
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:08,080
Speaker 1: together and y'all start winning games. Y'all won't do Nobody

548
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:09,600
Speaker 1: think y'all gonna make the playoffs.

549
00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:12,040
Speaker 2: No, I mean we almost, you know. The first year

550
00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:15,600
Speaker 2: I got there, it was like forty games, I think,

551
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:19,600
Speaker 2: like twenty something more better games, so we was close

552
00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:21,959
Speaker 2: to the ninth eighth spot for us, you know, from

553
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:25,040
Speaker 2: a team going from twenty two to twenty wins then

554
00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:28,960
Speaker 2: forty something wins, So that was big, man. I think,

555
00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:31,359
Speaker 2: like you said, just you know, Mike is a special player,

556
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:32,920
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. Like I said, I'm both

557
00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:36,399
Speaker 2: ends and Mark two, you know what I mean. You know,

558
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:38,639
Speaker 2: legitimate one of the best centers you know, in the

559
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:41,440
Speaker 2: last couple of years to be argued that can be argued.

560
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:44,480
Speaker 2: So it was just like the right spots, the right

561
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:47,879
Speaker 2: players in each spot, and he had Tay come in,

562
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:49,600
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. So it was just I

563
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:51,000
Speaker 2: think everything he missed.

564
00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:54,160
Speaker 1: The perfect like y'all just greed and grimy like today,

565
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:57,359
Speaker 1: it was like a perfect player to bring in with

566
00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:01,600
Speaker 1: how you mark and kind of kind of unfolded.

567
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:05,040
Speaker 3: The best part about y'all, I felt like was the

568
00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 3: way y'all fit the DNA of the city.

569
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:08,679
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, Like.

570
00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:12,360
Speaker 3: Y'all all blue collar dudes, work hard, like y'all fit

571
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:15,320
Speaker 3: the whole. Like that's why I feel like the city

572
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:16,680
Speaker 3: loves y'all the way y'all did.

573
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:17,600
Speaker 4: Like you come there.

574
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:20,159
Speaker 3: It used to be rocking, Like when y'all was at

575
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:23,240
Speaker 3: y'all prying with that thing, y'all had that thing cranking

576
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:26,600
Speaker 3: and it was all about you know, gritting, grind, the

577
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:30,119
Speaker 3: grindfather Ta and all that, and it was you felt

578
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:31,920
Speaker 3: that like you know what I was when you played

579
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:34,920
Speaker 3: in certain arange, y'all had had built something like when

580
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:37,760
Speaker 3: you came in there, you felt what y'all had going

581
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:38,480
Speaker 3: on in the city.

582
00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:41,720
Speaker 2: Rock with coaches and they used to tell us, tell me,

583
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:44,840
Speaker 2: the players man, like they didn't want to come and play,

584
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:48,320
Speaker 2: like they don't want to come in. You know, when

585
00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:51,199
Speaker 2: you was coming to the forum, it was you got

586
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:54,399
Speaker 2: time up tight, like it's like you know what I mean,

587
00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:56,600
Speaker 2: Like it ain't gonna be easy, so get your rest,

588
00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:58,280
Speaker 2: and you know we was ready, man.

589
00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:02,119
Speaker 1: You know about uh the year y'all went to the

590
00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 1: conference finals, Like didn't nobody have y'all going y'all popping

591
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:11,120
Speaker 1: first round, pops on second round, pop to go there far? Man,

592
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:12,680
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, you being one of the

593
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:16,960
Speaker 1: best players. Like what clicked that year? What click with y'all?

594
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,239
Speaker 1: That It was just like, man, we we we got

595
00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 1: opportunity to go to the championship and and once you

596
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:24,080
Speaker 1: go to the championship, it's like rolling the dust man. Man.

597
00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:26,840
Speaker 2: Just everybody I think, like around the time too, Mike

598
00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:29,680
Speaker 2: starting to get this confidence in, you know, marking, you know,

599
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:32,920
Speaker 2: just everybody was just clicking and we all was. Everybody

600
00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:34,840
Speaker 2: was good friends. You know, we carried about each other

601
00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 2: and you know what I mean, spent time with each other,

602
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:40,680
Speaker 2: team being stuff together, and you know, we got along

603
00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:43,520
Speaker 2: real well and we pushed each other and man, we

604
00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 2: our confidence was high, you know what I mean. And

605
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:48,200
Speaker 2: you know I thought that was gonna be the year.

606
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:50,160
Speaker 2: But man, that was you know, the best experience for me,

607
00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 2: you know, of my career, you know, going there.

608
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:55,760
Speaker 1: And going to Memphis, it was like another home. Especially,

609
00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:58,880
Speaker 1: I know, you got like brothers, just like family members.

610
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:02,040
Speaker 1: Yeah in Memphis, so I know that's all kind of yeah.

611
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 2: I came into us, Yeah, I got family life and

612
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 2: just man, it was just like you said, the team

613
00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:09,720
Speaker 2: and just the city still. Man, you know it's home.

614
00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:11,800
Speaker 2: You know what I mean for me, just the love

615
00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:13,800
Speaker 2: and you know what I mean, just everything.

616
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:15,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love the what you do. You know what

617
00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:18,800
Speaker 3: I'm saying, you what you intier. I know y'all was

618
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 3: heavily in the community there. How you did everything paying

619
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:26,720
Speaker 3: for people bills, power, like just giving back, doing drives

620
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:30,120
Speaker 3: and giving food and different holidays and stuff. Just talk

621
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 3: about how that is. Like I know you grew up

622
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 3: similar to how we did, not having much. So you

623
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:36,880
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. Talk about how that made you

624
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:38,840
Speaker 3: feel to be able to do that for Memphis and

625
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:39,720
Speaker 3: how they embrace you.

626
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:44,040
Speaker 2: Man, just like you said, just you know, being able

627
00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:47,959
Speaker 2: to relate, you know, just that and being a blessing,

628
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 2: you know, because you give a blessing, receive the blessing.

629
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:52,600
Speaker 2: You know That's how I feel. And I still get back.

630
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 2: I still do my holiday. I still play to do

631
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:57,840
Speaker 2: the light bills every year, so this thing will continue on, you.

632
00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:01,000
Speaker 4: Know, no, right, super, I know you still do.

633
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:03,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, So you know I'm still you know, heleen the community.

634
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:06,240
Speaker 2: So you know that's how's all it's gonna be man.

635
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:11,200
Speaker 1: Start cutting bench. I wanna ask you, but shee Wallace,

636
00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:17,640
Speaker 1: Tim Duncan Kim going that would you start? Who would

637
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:19,400
Speaker 1: you bench? And who would you cut off your team?

638
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:30,000
Speaker 1: Wallace Kim going that and Tim Duncan, I.

639
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:33,520
Speaker 3: Know you battled it all though. Yeah, that's the one

640
00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:35,080
Speaker 3: thing that he could say. But when he did this

641
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 3: thing in the league, it wasn't that that that powderpuff power.

642
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:42,040
Speaker 3: For he was playing all grown men with a seven

643
00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:48,160
Speaker 3: foot of sitting there. Man, he so long he gotta man,

644
00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:49,840
Speaker 3: she duncan.

645
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:52,200
Speaker 1: Grown men.

646
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:57,440
Speaker 2: O cat for real. Man, that's tough right there. Man,

647
00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:05,200
Speaker 2: I mean he can go either way right start probably dunking.

648
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 2: Start dunking. Had she come off the bench? Cocka Yeah,

649
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 2: I had to cutcag on this round. Okay, I respected,

650
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:17,600
Speaker 2: I got the ticket.

651
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 1: On this one.

652
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 4: Hey, man, talk to me about your next piece, man,

653
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:23,280
Speaker 4: I like, I like your next piece. What's you sound

654
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:25,480
Speaker 4: like a little? You got your entertainment thing going on?

655
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:26,320
Speaker 1: Man?

656
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 2: Endless entertainment man, endless man, no trend to this end.

657
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:33,040
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.

658
00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 3: You're a business man, money bag yo, yo, money the

659
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:40,720
Speaker 3: man behind the man?

660
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:46,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, yeah, yeah, you know what I mean. It's

661
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:48,440
Speaker 2: been a blessing man. You know, one of my best friends,

662
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 2: you know Marcus, you know, my business partner, you know

663
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 2: what I mean, running for me and you know we

664
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 2: just came together with you know, with Bagg and Man

665
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 2: doing the city and no Bag one of the best

666
00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 2: artists out there, you know me and you know what

667
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:00,880
Speaker 2: I mean.

668
00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:02,479
Speaker 1: Definitely right.

669
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 2: So we just pushed this thing. Man, I want this

670
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:08,280
Speaker 2: thing hole man, I won't try to get some push

671
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 2: inside man, trying to make this thing like the rock,

672
00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:11,120
Speaker 2: you know what I mean?

673
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:14,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, did you ever see yourself being a owner that

674
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 3: a music label, being a man.

675
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:19,200
Speaker 4: Like yeah, you.

676
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:25,800
Speaker 2: Say with the new cash money, you know what I'm saying.

677
00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:30,959
Speaker 1: In the charge you definitely you definitely got some stuff going.

678
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:34,120
Speaker 1: I love his ad letter. Uh uh kid.

679
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,560
Speaker 2: His talented man, little brother talent and means special. And

680
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:39,040
Speaker 2: you know he just gotta keep pushing, like I tell him,

681
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 2: just be positive, just life man, just being a good

682
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:44,280
Speaker 2: person and you know, just living writing, you know what

683
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:45,360
Speaker 2: I mean, just doing right.

684
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:48,520
Speaker 4: So you know that's what he who told me that

685
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 4: was your I was like, you know, we listening like

686
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 4: you know this z boy. I was like, what you mean?

687
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 4: He's like, you got am, I'm like for really like okay.

688
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:59,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah man, So you know been a blessed man.

689
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:01,440
Speaker 3: So what you being in the music in you in

690
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 3: the music business, your business man in the music business

691
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:06,560
Speaker 3: preferred being to the hip hop.

692
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 4: Let me give me your give me your top five.

693
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:10,640
Speaker 4: Let me hear your top five hip.

694
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 3: Hop album I love I love hip hop all time though, Like,

695
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 3: don't talk about like your your favorite you on you

696
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 3: gotta go to a be stranded on the island.

697
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:22,400
Speaker 4: What's the five CDs you wanna take? I said, CD, I'm.

698
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 2: Five albums, you know definitely, you know all money bag

699
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:29,840
Speaker 2: for show, you know, like it in but you know

700
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 2: everything you know, listen to pop man. You know I

701
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 2: grew up in the air listening CE Bowl, you know

702
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 2: what I mean, snoop, you know what I mean, three six,

703
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 2: everything that's.

704
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 1: Free.

705
00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:46,960
Speaker 2: You know what I mean, freed, Yeah, dog Pound, m

706
00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:49,720
Speaker 2: c a EM all that, you know what I mean.

707
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:53,240
Speaker 1: So it will be your albums. Like if you stranded

708
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:56,720
Speaker 1: on the island, what would be the the five albums

709
00:33:56,760 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 1: that you you would need to listen to? Straighten on

710
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:01,160
Speaker 1: this up man, listen.

711
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:05,600
Speaker 2: To mixtapes, albums, I know you just you know, I know.

712
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:10,440
Speaker 4: Fresh off line while.

713
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:20,799
Speaker 2: More back in the head mixed really man, Tupac all

714
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:30,479
Speaker 2: eyes on me, lives on me? Uh too hardless bad? Yeah,

715
00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:35,160
Speaker 2: probably the old little bit Keith sweat and uh Merry

716
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 2: go round, you know jas you know, come down, you

717
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:42,879
Speaker 2: know what I mean, put a little smooth and its.

718
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:46,839
Speaker 4: And wrong James vibe. You're coming to the locker room

719
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:50,240
Speaker 4: here in the hot wrong.

720
00:34:54,480 --> 00:35:00,160
Speaker 2: Man. It's a lot bro probably aromatic and now uh

721
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:01,000
Speaker 2: it's that jay.

722
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:07,080
Speaker 1: Z h reasonal doubt. Yeah, you purchased a team with

723
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:07,720
Speaker 1: al Hering.

724
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:08,440
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, and.

725
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:14,160
Speaker 1: Got an Australian team. Like that's that's big for us,

726
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:15,440
Speaker 1: like for somebody.

727
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 2: In the on this box, you know what I mean, Like,

728
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 2: let me get the sky. Let this sky. You know,

729
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:27,719
Speaker 2: you know we were rough around Edges man, but you

730
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 2: know we real and we show people bespecting get a

731
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:32,160
Speaker 2: person strut for our back. So you know, it's just

732
00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:36,239
Speaker 2: been a blessing man, knowing people developing relationships man, and

733
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:38,319
Speaker 2: just being able to, like you said, step is something

734
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:38,960
Speaker 2: totally different.

735
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:40,560
Speaker 1: You know, got a lot to give, you know, a

736
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:42,680
Speaker 1: lot of knowledge to get you know what I'm saying.

737
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:43,880
Speaker 1: While we're still.

738
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:46,839
Speaker 2: Sitting into the youngsters out there. You know, great ex

739
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:48,719
Speaker 2: I talked to a lot of the young players from

740
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:50,040
Speaker 2: every team I played on, you know what I mean.

741
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:53,320
Speaker 2: Last two here's Memphis King. So just you know what

742
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:56,520
Speaker 2: I mean, just being positive, teaching everything. Ship.

743
00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:59,440
Speaker 1: We've been through everything. We've been through ups and downs

744
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:00,880
Speaker 1: around the callers, you know.

745
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,200
Speaker 4: Man, definitely a dope example for sure.

746
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:06,440
Speaker 1: With Australia. That's on my bucket list. So I gotta

747
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:08,040
Speaker 1: go out there and catch the game with you.

748
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:09,840
Speaker 2: Got to come on.

749
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:12,759
Speaker 4: Down, man. So man, I heard that you got a

750
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,400
Speaker 4: younger one this out here tearing.

751
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 2: Up the court. Yeah, man, shout out man, my baby Mkelly.

752
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:20,879
Speaker 4: Man, how that feel?

753
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:21,120
Speaker 2: Man?

754
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 3: I seen I seen like a little Clipper songs Kobe

755
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 3: daughter and Mama academy. I said, wait a minute, is

756
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:30,680
Speaker 3: that because you know the exact man?

757
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 2: I say, Yo, Yeah, Man, she she's doing good. Man,

758
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:36,960
Speaker 2: she's my baby man fourteen. And you know Kobe, he

759
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:39,480
Speaker 2: the coach, he out there teaching him. And that's a blessing,

760
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:41,840
Speaker 2: you know, to have a goat. Yeah, be able to

761
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:43,560
Speaker 2: work with your daughter and you know what I mean.

762
00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:45,560
Speaker 2: So it's all the blessing and she loves it. Man,

763
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:48,640
Speaker 2: She's a good kids straight They student. That's awesome, bro,

764
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 2: And you know she takes care of business.

765
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:53,439
Speaker 3: Fall in love with the game that you fell in love.

766
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 3: I'm giving to hear straight student. That's that's really good

767
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:00,560
Speaker 3: business right there.

768
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:02,800
Speaker 2: She's going to see her can so you know what

769
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:05,280
Speaker 2: I mean, she hooping and my baby.

770
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:08,400
Speaker 1: When you came up, who was it that you was

771
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:09,840
Speaker 1: like patting your game.

772
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:14,480
Speaker 2: After calming on Sea web players like that? She you know,

773
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:18,360
Speaker 2: Duncan Dutchman like you know what I mean, Duncan Like

774
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:20,799
Speaker 2: you know post guys. You know I said, the game

775
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 2: has changed now, you know it's different from we played

776
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:25,280
Speaker 2: shoot threes?

777
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:26,920
Speaker 4: Handled about that? Then you want to be a.

778
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 2: Real powerful Yeah, get your ass on the block, meaning

779
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 2: so what you canna do?

780
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 1: Yeah? Coming up when we was coming up, like who

781
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:38,279
Speaker 1: did you sing? Like you know if our age group, like, hey,

782
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 1: you ball? Who was the hitters that you've seen? You

783
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 1: was like, man, that boy that can go?

784
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:46,800
Speaker 2: Man, it was Carlos Hurt. Carlos Hurt from Houston, Houston.

785
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:51,480
Speaker 3: Who was somebody you saw that you was like, Yo,

786
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:55,120
Speaker 3: this dude is a straight up walking bucket. Even I'm

787
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:57,680
Speaker 3: talking about like maybe being high school, college or even

788
00:37:57,719 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 3: in the NBA. Somebody who might have didn't get in

789
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 3: the game play a lot. But like you know when

790
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:03,759
Speaker 3: you see somebody probably like yo, smart, like.

791
00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 4: Like he's like for real, Like we don't like he

792
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:09,040
Speaker 4: don't get in the game, but he'd be killing everybody.

793
00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:11,920
Speaker 4: Coach don't like him. Michel Wood was.

794
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 2: Like that, especially you know, younger years. He was in

795
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:18,759
Speaker 2: Portland and you know he's playing, but he's playing front

796
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:21,360
Speaker 2: some dogs and like I said, coach, cheefers play. You

797
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:23,800
Speaker 2: know he's gonna go with vets, so you know what

798
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:24,080
Speaker 2: I mean.

799
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:26,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, we used to play one on one.

800
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:30,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, Cotell get bucks Man. A lot of guys get

801
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:30,719
Speaker 2: buckets Man.

802
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:35,840
Speaker 1: Hot the guy. Do you remember Jeron Harper? Yeah, he

803
00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:40,279
Speaker 1: was hard. She was hard. Jaron Harper was real boy.

804
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 2: Jeron from South Carolina somewhere.

805
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 1: Okay, remember's wrong. He was a little rough off the heads,

806
00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:47,239
Speaker 1: but he was like us.

807
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:47,640
Speaker 4: He was.

808
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:53,440
Speaker 1: Our class, that two thousand class. You gotta pick two

809
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:56,279
Speaker 1: other players to play with in your three on three.

810
00:38:56,880 --> 00:38:58,759
Speaker 1: Who is the two other players that you will play with?

811
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 2: Omark Cook?

812
00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 1: Oh was nice?

813
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 2: Omar probably Eddie Griffin and it was nice and like

814
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 2: we all was nice to you. You know what I

815
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:20,760
Speaker 2: mean Mark, we had Marcus Taylor, We had a squaw.

816
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:21,400
Speaker 2: We had a class.

817
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, we had a nice class. Michigan, Miss Brown, Jared Jefferies,

818
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:39,959
Speaker 1: Gerald Wallace, Mario Austin. Yeah. Andre Brown likes to think

819
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:44,800
Speaker 1: when you were with the Sacramento Kings, like man, seeing

820
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:47,480
Speaker 1: like them all the young talents they had out there,

821
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 1: and like man, how they was progressing, and you to

822
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:52,000
Speaker 1: be on the bench to give them them jewels. Who

823
00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 1: was like a couple of players that many.

824
00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:58,040
Speaker 2: A young boys. Man, my young boys. You know, I

825
00:39:58,120 --> 00:39:59,879
Speaker 2: still talk to a lot of them. You know, I'm

826
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:02,200
Speaker 2: go down there and catch 'em, catch 'em games and

827
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:04,880
Speaker 2: practice with 'em, you know what I mean. So just

828
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:08,480
Speaker 2: great guys, man, They got a great you know what

829
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:10,920
Speaker 2: they doing down They got a great young core. You

830
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:15,080
Speaker 2: know Badley, you know Harry and you know Dearn.

831
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:15,680
Speaker 1: You know what I mean.

832
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 2: Guys like fox Boy's noise. Sac Sacramento though, you know

833
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:23,759
Speaker 2: what I mean. And you know they got a good

834
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:26,400
Speaker 2: owner and you know r Lotty doing great job. I

835
00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:29,920
Speaker 2: just everything about the organization, man is.

836
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 1: It's on the up and up. I got another funny store,

837
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:36,440
Speaker 1: you know. Paul Allen rest in peace, Paul Allen. He

838
00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:38,600
Speaker 1: used to have these planes. You know, he wanted the

839
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:41,799
Speaker 1: richest owner, if not the richest owner. Boy and one

840
00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:45,320
Speaker 1: of his planes used to have a dining room, table,

841
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:49,760
Speaker 1: a bedroom, bathroom. It wasn't like the usual team plans

842
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:53,600
Speaker 1: that we ride. It was like a mansion.

843
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:55,640
Speaker 4: It was like a ma I think so.

844
00:40:57,120 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 6: Took a shiite the man's throw flame the throne room.

845
00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:06,040
Speaker 1: I don't know.

846
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 4: If you're going the bathroom in the in the role.

847
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:16,240
Speaker 1: It's a little.

848
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:18,880
Speaker 4: To the rest of the play.

849
00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:21,439
Speaker 1: I didn't want to let who did it. I forgot

850
00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:29,239
Speaker 1: who did it with somebody? Me and z Bo. This

851
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:30,440
Speaker 1: is my partner in crime.

852
00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 4: Me and z Bo.

853
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:35,840
Speaker 1: We opened the cast, were in the living room. We

854
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 1: opened the cabins up. We just see a.

855
00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:41,480
Speaker 6: Bottle of We don't even know what it is. Gotta

856
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:45,200
Speaker 6: be because the bottom looks it was a crystal battle.

857
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:47,919
Speaker 6: They not report whatever it is inside the crystal joint.

858
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:53,080
Speaker 6: Zebo killed it. The whole playing ride. We stipping that

859
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:57,800
Speaker 6: and they wonder where we get where we get drink from.

860
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 4: Looking for it?

861
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:03,319
Speaker 1: Like man, man, can't let them take that plate over.

862
00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:06,000
Speaker 2: Bob is a good guy, man, good man.

863
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:08,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was a real good man when we went

864
00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 1: to his house thover. Ain't there been nothing like it before,

865
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 1: like the Secret Service. Everywhere. You couldn't even go outside

866
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:17,480
Speaker 1: of where you're supposed to be at. Somebody pop up like,

867
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:24,280
Speaker 1: yeah you need to go there, bushes and all that stuff.

868
00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:27,799
Speaker 1: You need to go that way, follow them. No, y'all

869
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:30,920
Speaker 1: stay in one group. No, we want to leave all.

870
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:35,200
Speaker 2: Y'all leave sticking around looking around.

871
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 1: No shirt.

872
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:39,279
Speaker 3: So before we wrap up and get you out of here, man,

873
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Speaker 3: courtesy of our generous sponsors Hennessy.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, just the vso be very special though a special.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, appreciate that, bro shout. Appreciate that. Man, Thank you,

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Speaker 2: Thank you, gentlemen, thank you too.

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Speaker 1: If I want to commend you, you was in my class.

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Speaker 1: So it's like I seen you ever since I was

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Speaker 1: fifteen years old, and you know, you come up and

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Speaker 1: you got the ones that you root for. If you

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Speaker 1: can't go there far you want them to go for.

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Speaker 1: So when I was I couldn't play or our retired

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Speaker 1: to see you go to Memphis and do your thing.

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00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:20,239
Speaker 1: Average twenty points, ten rebounds most of your career in

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Speaker 1: this league. Like man, I commend you, like man, we happy,

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Speaker 1: we root for you as well, and you definitely should

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Speaker 1: be a Hall of Fame. Like whether anybody else said, again,

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Speaker 1: everybody know that you should be a Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 1: So I hope you make that. I remember the time

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Speaker 1: when you was averaging twenty and ten when I got

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Speaker 1: there and you wanted to make the All Star team.

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Speaker 2: Man, so many times they robbed me, and then they

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Speaker 2: robbed you because you had better numbers when the big

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Speaker 2: man that was making the All Star team. And when

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Speaker 2: you finally made to Memphis, Man, I was so proud

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Speaker 2: of you, man, and everything that you're doing and what

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Speaker 2: you did in your career. Man us as a whole, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I would you know your family, bro were proud.

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Speaker 1: I was proud proud of you.

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Speaker 4: Go and say I just I'm even more proud you

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Speaker 4: know how, just like you know you.

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Speaker 3: Just from the growth and showing how you are you

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Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, entrepreneur, businessman, really getting it in

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Speaker 3: on your side and just showing. I feel like you

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Speaker 3: one of the biggest greatest examples for kids from our

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Speaker 3: communities to see, you know what I'm saying, somebody who

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Speaker 3: really did did some stuff and you know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 3: But still at the end of the day, show like

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Speaker 3: you can do some stuff and make mistakes and still

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Speaker 3: man in a major way and be a solid, solid

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Speaker 3: individual and how your game on points.

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Speaker 4: So you know what I'm saying, super.

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Speaker 1: Boy, I know you one of the real ones. And

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Speaker 1: when one of the real ones kind of make it

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Speaker 1: through it and then have to like bullshit nobody or

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Speaker 1: do it the wrong way or sneak to get to

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Speaker 1: your spot, you learn everything you get, no sucker showways.

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Speaker 1: Tip our head off to the geez, the few of

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Speaker 1: us that are out there doing this and doing our things.

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Speaker 1: So man, like I said, Hall of Fame, z Bo,

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Speaker 1: that's what you is on our show. You holler names Bo.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate every other thing.

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Speaker 1: On talk about.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate that love love for show. So appreciate man. Knumb ahead,

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Speaker 2: I'm coming back, No man, I got to have you

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Speaker 2: back straight up.

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Speaker 4: H m hm.

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