WEBVTT - INTERVIEW: Allen Iverson Talks 'Misunderstood,' Career & Relationships Challenges, 'Practice' Press Conference

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<v Speaker 1>Every day a week, clicks up the Breakfast Club, finish

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<v Speaker 1>for y'all.

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<v Speaker 2>Done morning everybody.

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<v Speaker 3>It's the j en Vy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the God

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<v Speaker 3>we are the Breakfast Club. Lona Ros is here as well.

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<v Speaker 3>We got a special guest in the building.

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<v Speaker 1>Man, another culture like we having a weaker culture.

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<v Speaker 3>Like ai Alanson, Chuck whatever you want to call him,

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<v Speaker 3>Mster seven five seven. He's in the building. New book

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<v Speaker 3>Misunderstood is out right now alan Ovis. Ladies and gentlemen,

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<v Speaker 3>are you feeling man?

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<v Speaker 2>Good life? Life be life in the same fight, different round,

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<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean? I want to how much

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<v Speaker 2>time we got to like me because I don't know

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<v Speaker 2>where it's gonna go. But look, man, friends, all right,

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<v Speaker 2>so I know you know what type of I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm just mean, Jess, But you know, you know how

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<v Speaker 2>you get to know somebody from afar and you get

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<v Speaker 2>basically kind of tell what type of person they are.

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<v Speaker 2>You know what I mean. Obviously I've known you since

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<v Speaker 2>I was in high school and big fan of you,

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<v Speaker 2>bro move close. I'm bad friendships, Man, It's hard, you

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<v Speaker 2>know what I mean? Because when you think about your friends,

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<v Speaker 2>obviously you know you can't choose your family members, you

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<v Speaker 2>know what I mean, you're born into that. But your friends,

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<v Speaker 2>you feel like, you know, y'all got so much in

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<v Speaker 2>common with each other, and you have so much love

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<v Speaker 2>for them because you know they kind of like a

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<v Speaker 2>basically a reflection of you, or you got the same

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<v Speaker 2>type of things in common or whatever, and you just

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<v Speaker 2>grow to love them like family. They become you know,

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<v Speaker 2>the guys become brothers, and your homegirls become your sisters.

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<v Speaker 2>But it's rough man navigating through that, you know what

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<v Speaker 2>I mean. I know how much I love my family,

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<v Speaker 2>my friends. I got so much when I first got

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<v Speaker 2>into the league, you know what I mean. It was

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<v Speaker 2>the entourage, bringing homeboys from where you're from. You trust

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<v Speaker 2>them so much, you love them. You want them to

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<v Speaker 2>go on the ride with you. You want them to

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<v Speaker 2>take this journey, you know through it. It's new to me.

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<v Speaker 2>I've been poor all my whole life, and then snap

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<v Speaker 2>of a finger, I'm rich and famous and it's a lot,

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<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean. So you want to have

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<v Speaker 2>so many people around you that you love me, you trust,

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<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean. And the money man just

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<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean, it's just you know what

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, and it's it's it's so different from me,

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<v Speaker 2>and it's so hard for me because with my athletic

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<v Speaker 2>ability that I was blessed with. I've been like this

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<v Speaker 2>since I was eight years old. Like I always felt

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<v Speaker 2>that I was rich, but I was poor. I always

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<v Speaker 2>been famous, you know what I mean. When I was

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<v Speaker 2>eight years old, I go into barbershop and guys said

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<v Speaker 2>teen eighteen, twenty twenty five years old. Guys like, oh shit,

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<v Speaker 2>there you go. You know that's the one right there,

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<v Speaker 2>that's him. So it's always been that for me. I

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<v Speaker 2>always had that attention, you know what I mean. I

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<v Speaker 2>always been like that. And you know, once I got

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<v Speaker 2>some money, it was no different from me. Obviously I

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<v Speaker 2>could do things with my family and my friends that

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<v Speaker 2>I couldn't do before. You know, that's that goes without saying.

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<v Speaker 2>And I've never had a person you know my nickname obviously,

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<v Speaker 2>you know my name, Chuck. You know, I've never heard

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<v Speaker 2>a person say, you know, once Chuck got some money,

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<v Speaker 2>he changed, Once Chuck got to the NBA, he changed,

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<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean. I've never heard that, you

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<v Speaker 2>know before, because you know, the people that know me

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<v Speaker 2>and love me and the people that I love know

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<v Speaker 2>I'm me, you know what I mean. That's one of

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<v Speaker 2>my biggest fears, or had been one of my biggest fears.

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<v Speaker 2>Of looking in the mirror and not being able to

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<v Speaker 2>recognize you know, well, my mom and the people that

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<v Speaker 2>I loved. Not be able to recognize who I see,

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<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean, meant something to me. But man,

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<v Speaker 2>just the painful lessons of friends not being who you

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<v Speaker 2>think they they are. When you add the rout of

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<v Speaker 2>all evil, any.

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<v Speaker 1>Thing, something something just recently happened.

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<v Speaker 2>It happens, and the reason definitely, it happens all the time.

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<v Speaker 2>But I feel a pendulum swinging in another direction as

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<v Speaker 2>far as how I feel about it, like how it

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<v Speaker 2>used to hurt me. You know what I mean. You

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<v Speaker 2>you tell someone you want to find out if somebody

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<v Speaker 2>your friend, you tell them no one you know, and

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<v Speaker 2>and their reaction with what was said all you know

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<v Speaker 2>what I mean? Chuck a man, I got a business,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, opportunity. I want to start this. I want

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<v Speaker 2>to start that. Man can give me a hundred thousand

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<v Speaker 2>and you don't even have to tell them no. You

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<v Speaker 2>can say not right now, you know later on. But

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<v Speaker 2>these are the same people pay their rent that over

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<v Speaker 2>the years child support. You know what I mean, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>pay your mom rent. You know this that every time

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<v Speaker 2>you go to a jewelry store, you're taking them, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>because the most awkward feeling is you know, for me,

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<v Speaker 2>this is just me growing up, being young and not

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<v Speaker 2>knowing early in the preliminary stages of getting some money.

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<v Speaker 2>You know what I mean, Like I don't want to

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<v Speaker 2>be shining and looking good and my homeboys not. So

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<v Speaker 2>when I go see Manny, you know what I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>they going You know what I mean, when I get cars,

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<v Speaker 2>they get cars, you know what I mean. Like, and

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<v Speaker 2>you know it's just like when you tell them no,

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<v Speaker 2>the way they you know they act. You know, somebody

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<v Speaker 2>saying this, yo, man, what's up with your man?

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<v Speaker 1>They are?

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<v Speaker 2>You know, what's up with the man? Fuck that nigga?

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<v Speaker 2>Dangn You know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 1>Like after reading your book, nobody's your question. You're loyal.

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<v Speaker 1>You'll ever say you took care of me.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm what you've seen, But do you regret that? Because

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<v Speaker 3>I mean, Virginia, that's you everywhere.

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<v Speaker 2>That's where I say the pendulum is swinging. That's that's

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<v Speaker 2>why I say or feel that my maturation is on

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<v Speaker 2>a higher level now because back then, when something traumatic

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<v Speaker 2>will happen to me like that, I see how they

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<v Speaker 2>act for me telling them no, like you know what

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<v Speaker 2>I mean. Like it's like I feel myself not giving

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<v Speaker 2>the damn anymore, Like you know what I mean. Like

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<v Speaker 2>I'm talking about the same people that come to me,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, be at my practice eight o'clock in the morning,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, Christmas Eve, saying what their kids don't have?

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<v Speaker 2>You know what I mean. One thing about the people

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<v Speaker 2>that you love, people that love you or supposed to

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<v Speaker 2>love you, is they know you better than anybody. They

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<v Speaker 2>know my heart. You throw your kids in there, you

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<v Speaker 2>know what I mean. Everybody know Christmas on the twenty

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<v Speaker 2>fifth of December every year, you know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>But man, my kids ain't gonna have nothing, you know

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<v Speaker 2>what I mean, what I supposed to do.

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<v Speaker 4>Something you said in the book that hit me too

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<v Speaker 4>is you was like, man, you was that kid, so

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<v Speaker 4>you understood what it felt it not have when they

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<v Speaker 4>came to you.

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<v Speaker 1>You was like, I gotta do.

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<v Speaker 2>And I had the mother and the father that hustled

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<v Speaker 2>to get us what they could, but they couldn't get

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<v Speaker 2>us things. You know, I wanted op ed for Christmas.

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<v Speaker 2>I wanted certain things and then you wake up that

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<v Speaker 2>morning and it's not there. You know, you may have

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<v Speaker 2>a you know, past sneakers or T shirt and that

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<v Speaker 2>be the only thing you get, you know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>So you know, I ain't never want my homeboys kids

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<v Speaker 2>to you know, look at them crazy And now you know,

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<v Speaker 2>like i've years ago, it's you know, I ran into

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<v Speaker 2>the craziest shit. But years ago, you know, money got funny,

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<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean? And you know I had

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<v Speaker 2>realized at a point like I ain't have the word

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<v Speaker 2>knowing my vocabulary when it comes to people, you know

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<v Speaker 2>what I mean, Like I was so used to I

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<v Speaker 2>never held anybody accountable for why I had to be

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<v Speaker 2>the one taking care of everybody, you know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>I was the one going to work every single day.

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<v Speaker 2>I was breaking bones, stitches on the stitches in my face,

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<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean. And it just it just

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<v Speaker 2>taught me a lot, man. And now you know, I know,

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<v Speaker 2>life be lifeing, But to be still dealing with those

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<v Speaker 2>type of people and caring about how they feel when

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<v Speaker 2>you know what you've done for them, you know, you

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<v Speaker 2>wake up. And some people wake up in their life

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<v Speaker 2>just not where they wanted to be. And the first

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<v Speaker 2>thing you could think of is blame it on Chuck,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, figure out some way that I can blame

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<v Speaker 2>it on somebody else to while my life is not

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<v Speaker 2>what it is.

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<v Speaker 3>You ever have impasta syndrome? And the reason I asked

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<v Speaker 3>if you talk about all that right? And I remember

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<v Speaker 3>the Bowling Alley incident in Virginia, and it feels like,

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<v Speaker 3>regardless of what happened in VA, you always came back

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<v Speaker 3>and you always wanted to show the love. No matter

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<v Speaker 3>what happened. You talk about the people you put on

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<v Speaker 3>the city was against you, and Virginia could have been

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<v Speaker 3>racist back then. It was really racist back then. We

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<v Speaker 3>all seen it, but you still came back to that

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<v Speaker 3>seven five seven to show love.

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<v Speaker 2>I am I am VA. It's me, It's Amy, you

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<v Speaker 2>know what I mean. And the crazy, crazy thing about

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<v Speaker 2>what I was just talking to my man about this

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<v Speaker 2>before we got in here, so I had to do

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<v Speaker 2>all the stuff, you know, all my media runs and

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<v Speaker 2>all that. Yesterday I just signed a thousand books and

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<v Speaker 2>you know, take a thousand pictures, you know what I mean?

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<v Speaker 2>With the people that bought the books beautiful, but I was,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, I was tired, and right after that as

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<v Speaker 2>my daughter's birthday, and I had to you know, she

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<v Speaker 2>wanted to be with me, so I had to, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>take care of her after all of that, and I

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<v Speaker 2>got done. Maybe I started at six, got done like

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<v Speaker 2>maybe ten o'clock. She wanted to go bowling and wanted

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<v Speaker 2>to go to a escapeboarm okay, but I had no

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<v Speaker 2>idea that the escape room was like you're in a

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<v Speaker 2>jail scene, you know what I mean. I'm like, yo,

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<v Speaker 2>this this is your life for real, Like out of

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<v Speaker 2>all the places that she want to go on her birthday,

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<v Speaker 2>bowling in a jail. You know.

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<v Speaker 5>But she's smart because you got to figure out how

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<v Speaker 5>she probably figured out how.

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<v Speaker 2>To get But you know, I'm thinking, like the last

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<v Speaker 2>place I want to be from my memory to jail

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<v Speaker 2>bowling out, you know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 4>So I mean, I want to go back to your

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<v Speaker 4>friend's thing real quick, right because even in the book,

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<v Speaker 4>there's nobody that felt like that was around you that

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<v Speaker 4>didn't help you in some way, shape or form. So

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<v Speaker 4>you was repaying them, like you talk about how when

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<v Speaker 4>you was in jail, they was taking care of your mom.

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<v Speaker 4>And they were the ones that would tell you, you know,

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<v Speaker 4>you know, you're not gonna be hustling, You're gonna be

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<v Speaker 4>playing ball. So it wasn't like you just had a

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<v Speaker 4>bunch of leeches around you. Was there was people that

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<v Speaker 4>looked out for you, so you look back out for them.

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<v Speaker 2>You know what I would have I would have done

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<v Speaker 2>it anyway. Like I ain't never expected like if I

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<v Speaker 2>if I you know, if I look out for one

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<v Speaker 2>of my my homeboys, my home I don't expect you

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<v Speaker 2>to give it back, you know what I mean. I

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<v Speaker 2>ain't never asked for nothing back. You know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>I just feel like me being ahead of the snake.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, it's like me the perfect example. It's like

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<v Speaker 2>me being on twenty one team went to the finals.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm the killer. Everybody know that this is the guy

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<v Speaker 2>gonna put the ball in the basket. This is what

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<v Speaker 2>he do. Now, what we do is compliment him. We

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<v Speaker 2>do everything else. All his deficiencies and things that he

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<v Speaker 2>can't do on the defensive end of the you know,

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<v Speaker 2>of the court. You know, he's leading the league and

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<v Speaker 2>stills year after year. But you got to gamble and

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<v Speaker 2>when he gambled. The ken Bay is there to make

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<v Speaker 2>sure I'm good. The O is there, the block shots

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<v Speaker 2>make sure I'm good. They could do all of the

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<v Speaker 2>things that I couldn't do it, and that's what that's

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<v Speaker 2>what made Voltron, you know what I mean. You put

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<v Speaker 2>all those things together, and that it was me and

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<v Speaker 2>a bunch of dogs, you know what I mean. And

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<v Speaker 2>it's the same thing with my friendship. Yeah, he's the guy,

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<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean, he's like us, but he's

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<v Speaker 2>not like us, you know, he is AI. So we

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<v Speaker 2>got to act accordingly to that. Yeah, he chucked us,

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<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean, but people look at him

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<v Speaker 2>another way. So I have a role, you know, I

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<v Speaker 2>have to do this. This is my part. This is

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<v Speaker 2>what I have to do, you know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>This is what I have to do, you know. And

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know, I don't know if I said that,

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<v Speaker 2>but looking out for my mom financially, it is totally

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<v Speaker 2>different than going around there and checking on you know

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<v Speaker 2>what I mean. It was never no you know, like

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<v Speaker 2>like I did when it came to to that family,

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<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 4>Another thing too, and maybe this could be part of

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<v Speaker 4>what you're feeling right now. It seemed like the whole

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<v Speaker 4>team had a dream.

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<v Speaker 1>It wasn't.

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<v Speaker 4>It wasn't you supposed to get on in basketball. You're

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<v Speaker 4>supposed to get on in basketball. And everybody was supposed

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<v Speaker 4>to make it a rap, so everybody was supposed to

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<v Speaker 4>be doing their own thing.

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't have the I didn't have the Lebron James. True,

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't have that blueprint, you know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm like, look, we're gonna get in when we fit in,

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<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean. Like, I've had one of

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<v Speaker 2>my homeboys tell me, like, I'm going to work every day,

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<v Speaker 2>working every day. Mas's supposed to be a superstar by now,

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<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean, going to work. I'm like,

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<v Speaker 2>like I've had incidents like you know, I'm getting ready

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<v Speaker 2>to go on the road and it was a casino,

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<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean. And I go to the bank,

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<v Speaker 2>I get fifty thousand, they got thirty thousand and large

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<v Speaker 2>and twenty thousand and you know, twenties. And I'm getting

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<v Speaker 2>on the plane. My man come, I give him the

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<v Speaker 2>twenty thousand. He looked at it like it was something

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<v Speaker 2>wrong with it because it was all twenties, you know

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<v Speaker 2>what I mean, Like, yo, did this, you know, really

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<v Speaker 2>just that really just happened, you know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>And it's like, you know you can, you can. You're

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<v Speaker 2>thinking you're doing what's right, but you only you're not

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<v Speaker 2>holding people accountable. You being a crutch for him. It's

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<v Speaker 2>like putting a band aid on something, you know what

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<v Speaker 2>I mean. You're not stitching it up, you know what

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, not stapling it, you know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>And they always feel like that, you know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>But like the hurtful part is the response of actually

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<v Speaker 2>saying no, probably because they never heard it, like when

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<v Speaker 2>I implemented that in my vocabulary, like no, what you

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<v Speaker 2>know what I mean? And and like for somebody I'm

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<v Speaker 2>built so different, like somebody just like en be getting

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<v Speaker 2>me a barber, Like that's gonna be something that resonates

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<v Speaker 2>with me forever. I know, we already got a relationship,

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<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean, But still, like I needed

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<v Speaker 2>a barber in New York. My man looked out for me,

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<v Speaker 2>Like that goes long way with me. But you can

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<v Speaker 2>do a million things for somebody, you know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>The first time, you know what I mean, And I

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<v Speaker 2>was warned about it, you know what I mean, Aaron

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<v Speaker 2>Mkey told me. He said, Chuck, just you know what

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<v Speaker 2>I mean. When you when you cut in your grass,

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<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean, and you getting them snakes

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<v Speaker 2>out of there, you ask ask somebody, you know, let

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<v Speaker 2>him ask you for something and tell him no, you

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<v Speaker 2>know what I mean. And I think I'm doing a

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<v Speaker 2>great job of cutting it. But you still got a

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<v Speaker 2>little small you know. The snakes might be gone, but

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<v Speaker 2>some worms in there, some small you know.

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<v Speaker 4>Right now it's Charles Barkley and a whole bunch of

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<v Speaker 4>people saying we was trying to tell him.

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<v Speaker 1>This thirty.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but when you when you like it's just like

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<v Speaker 2>the basketball aspect of everything. I ain't never think that

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<v Speaker 2>I will retire there early, you know what I mean. Man,

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<v Speaker 2>I ain't never had no back up playing Like growing up,

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<v Speaker 2>once my mom told me I could be anything I

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<v Speaker 2>wanted to be. I wanted to be a NBA basketball player,

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<v Speaker 2>and that was it. It was no it was no

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<v Speaker 2>b C. D. It was just that that one dream,

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<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean. I didn't have no no blueprint.

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<v Speaker 2>I ain't even had nobody in my family that went

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<v Speaker 2>to college, you know what I mean, nobody ever been married.

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<v Speaker 2>You know what I mean. Everything was new to me.

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<v Speaker 2>I was. I was doing everything on the fly, you

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<v Speaker 2>know what I mean, So you know my mistakes was

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<v Speaker 2>coming at a rapid pace, you know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>And you know you think you know. Coach Thompson used

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<v Speaker 2>to always tell me, you always listen in to everybody else.

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<v Speaker 2>You're always listening to somebody that's never been to you know,

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<v Speaker 2>from A to Z telling you how to get there,

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<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean. And that's what I was.

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<v Speaker 2>I had everybody that wasn't me and never had the

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<v Speaker 2>experience telling me how to do it.

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<v Speaker 3>You talk about your VC plan right, you see what

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<v Speaker 3>Michael Vick's doing with Norfolk State. Absolutely have you ever

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<v Speaker 3>thought about coaching?

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<v Speaker 2>No? Why not?

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<v Speaker 3>Because they would listen to you, right, especially if you

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<v Speaker 3>go They were definitely listening.

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<v Speaker 2>I've been, I've been one of the players, you know

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<v Speaker 2>what I mean. Yeah, coach make millions of dollars, but

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<v Speaker 2>you got these guys making That's why I take my

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<v Speaker 2>hat off to anybody that coached the NBA. You know

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<v Speaker 2>what I mean, Like you have a unique talent, you

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<v Speaker 2>know what I mean. To have a bunch of guys

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<v Speaker 2>with a bunch of egos everybody come from being a

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<v Speaker 2>man and then you put them on the team and

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<v Speaker 2>everybody got the same goal. And I just don't feel like,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, I can coach you guys A bunch of

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<v Speaker 2>guys that make more money than me. Listen to me

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<v Speaker 2>for what that's why? Is it god given talent? Any

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<v Speaker 2>NBA coach that make it that far blessed?

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<v Speaker 1>Not even NBA coaches.

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<v Speaker 4>You talk about in the book how you filed out

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<v Speaker 4>and you had to be on the sideline and you

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<v Speaker 4>just was watching it from your coach's perspective. I think

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<v Speaker 4>that was in high school, baby, and you was like, damn,

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<v Speaker 4>this is what you see.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>I want to ask you about the title of the book.

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<v Speaker 4>Man, do you think you were misunderstood that the title

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<v Speaker 4>of the book or did people outside of your circle

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<v Speaker 4>just not take the time to understand you.

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<v Speaker 2>You're a smart dude sometimes a lot. This is one

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<v Speaker 2>of my favorite shows. So I you know, I see

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<v Speaker 2>the good days a bad days. I watched Dame come

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<v Speaker 2>up here. It's for real, it gets real. I think this.

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<v Speaker 2>I think they can answer it better. My perspective is,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, they were learning on the fly to It's like,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, with my documentary that's coming out. It was

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<v Speaker 2>like three hours long. I think I cried like two

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<v Speaker 2>and a half hours of I had to keep walking

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<v Speaker 2>out of the theater because you think, you know, when

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<v Speaker 2>it comes to people that love you, you think you

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<v Speaker 2>know how they feel about you know, turbulent times, you

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<v Speaker 2>know what I mean, and you think you know how

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<v Speaker 2>they feel. You think your girl know, you think you

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<v Speaker 2>think you know how your girl feel. You think you

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<v Speaker 2>know how your mom feel, your uncles, your aunts, your homeboys,

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<v Speaker 2>your homegirls. But then when they actually tell you from

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<v Speaker 2>their point of view, how they felt, you know, and

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<v Speaker 2>how they looked at things, and how I didn't see

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<v Speaker 2>how I was fucking up, you know what I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>how they had to try to address me with certain

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<v Speaker 2>things like you know, you driving the car, we we

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<v Speaker 2>riding shotgun, you know what I mean. Like and it's

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<v Speaker 2>hard to tell somebody, you know that's trying to live

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<v Speaker 2>their life, you know what they should do and what

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<v Speaker 2>they shouldn't do, you know what I mean. Like I'm

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<v Speaker 2>twenty one years old, you know what I mean. When

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<v Speaker 2>I got into the league, and at that age, like

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<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean, you couldn't you couldn't tell

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<v Speaker 2>me nothing. You know what I'm saying, Like I'm here,

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<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean. Like the dress code, I'm like,

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<v Speaker 2>I dressed like the dudes, the drug dealers from my neighborhood.

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<v Speaker 2>Like you know, I'm dressing like this because you know

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<v Speaker 2>this is what the old here is from my neighbor

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<v Speaker 2>but this is how they dressed. You know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>I just couldn't afford it, you know what I mean?

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<v Speaker 2>My corn rolls. I got corn rolls because I was

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<v Speaker 2>tired of barber's messing my hair. I was like, damn,

0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:06.000
<v Speaker 2>if I just grow my hair, you know, I ain't

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<v Speaker 2>got to deal with that. You know. Tattoos just got addictive.

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<v Speaker 2>I got one. I couldn't afford him. I would have

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<v Speaker 2>been got a lot of it. And you know I was.

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<v Speaker 2>I was playing everything by ear. Like I said, I

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<v Speaker 2>didn't have My daddy was a hustler, you know what

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<v Speaker 2>I mean. He was in the streets, my mom in

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<v Speaker 2>the streets, Like I didn't have no.

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<v Speaker 6>You know, I sit you down and give you structure.

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<v Speaker 2>Is how you wasn't no Coach Thompson then, you know

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<v Speaker 2>what I mean. Wasn't those people They weren't in my

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<v Speaker 2>life yet, So all of all of that was where

0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:41.800
<v Speaker 2>he was he was, but it was it was he

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<v Speaker 2>was there. You know. When I got to the NBA

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<v Speaker 2>me and his phone calls was you know, we never

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<v Speaker 2>talked about basketball, all right, Yeah, I'm just checking on

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<v Speaker 2>I swamna. It's good out of kids, you know what

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<v Speaker 2>I mean? And that was it. He was allowing me

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<v Speaker 2>and thinking he was preparing me at Georgetown for what

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<v Speaker 2>was they inevitable me going to the league. You can't

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<v Speaker 2>prepare for that, bro?

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<v Speaker 3>How was that pressure though? Cause the nicest player, right,

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<v Speaker 3>But you changed culture. But when you changed the culture,

0:21:15.040 --> 0:21:17.840
<v Speaker 3>the NBA pushed back against it. But you never broke.

0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:20.639
<v Speaker 3>You never folded, even though they could have said, they

0:21:20.640 --> 0:21:22.399
<v Speaker 3>could have banned. AI said now we don't want you

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<v Speaker 3>in our league.

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<v Speaker 2>But you never folded.

0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:26.240
<v Speaker 3>You never back down, and you kept it that way,

0:21:26.320 --> 0:21:27.879
<v Speaker 3>which hurt you at times.

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<v Speaker 2>Why was that they profited off of too? You know

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<v Speaker 2>what I mean? Like I would be on. One of

0:21:33.480 --> 0:21:35.679
<v Speaker 2>the things that hurt me is I was on a magazine.

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<v Speaker 2>They wanted me on a magazine because of my talent

0:21:38.320 --> 0:21:41.160
<v Speaker 2>and who I was, but they airbrushed my tattoos off

0:21:41.520 --> 0:21:44.320
<v Speaker 2>or you want me but you you know, you want

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<v Speaker 2>some of me. I took the ass with it for it.

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<v Speaker 2>But the dress code thing, like I actually was just

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<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean, I was twenty one. Where

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<v Speaker 2>am I going after the game? Going to the club,

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<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean? Before that, you they were

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<v Speaker 2>used to dudes wearing soups, and you know what I mean,

0:22:04.440 --> 0:22:07.320
<v Speaker 2>I was like, damn, Like, I've never worn a soup

0:22:07.400 --> 0:22:09.840
<v Speaker 2>growing up. I'm going to church or to a funeral.

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<v Speaker 2>The only time I put on them in the courtroom.

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<v Speaker 2>Definitely in the courtroom. So I never wore a soup

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<v Speaker 2>to the to the gym, to play, to the to

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<v Speaker 2>the park, sweatsuit, you know what I mean, or whatever.

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<v Speaker 2>You know what I'm saying. So I ain't think I

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<v Speaker 2>ain't think nothing of it, you know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>And then you know I got some money, so the

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<v Speaker 2>jewelry and I always had a fet as me and

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<v Speaker 2>my mom since I was a little kid, you know

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<v Speaker 2>what I mean. It's always been like that. So you know,

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<v Speaker 2>I remember being and and uh in college and my

0:22:48.160 --> 0:22:50.399
<v Speaker 2>teammates like, yo, when you get to the lead man,

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<v Speaker 2>you're gonna get the jewelry, like park, you know what

0:22:52.680 --> 0:22:54.879
<v Speaker 2>I mean, you gonna have the jewelry like puff you

0:22:54.960 --> 0:22:57.200
<v Speaker 2>know what I mean. Yeah, you know, and the first thing,

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<v Speaker 2>like when the first thing I did was come up

0:22:59.080 --> 0:23:02.480
<v Speaker 2>here and went to Tito. You know what I'm saying,

0:23:02.560 --> 0:23:05.960
<v Speaker 2>Like I didn't think nothing. I was living, you know

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<v Speaker 2>what I mean, And David Stern and rested in me.

0:23:08.960 --> 0:23:11.200
<v Speaker 2>They was like nah, because it was all right when

0:23:11.200 --> 0:23:13.600
<v Speaker 2>I was doing it. But then everybody else said, okay,

0:23:13.880 --> 0:23:16.639
<v Speaker 2>like he can do that, we can do this. So

0:23:16.680 --> 0:23:18.960
<v Speaker 2>then everybody, you know, you see Kobe coming in with

0:23:19.000 --> 0:23:21.720
<v Speaker 2>the diamond chains on and the baggy clothes, and you know,

0:23:21.800 --> 0:23:23.919
<v Speaker 2>everybody started doing it. Then the league was like, hold on,

0:23:24.400 --> 0:23:27.520
<v Speaker 2>we gotta do something about that. So it wasn't it

0:23:27.560 --> 0:23:30.800
<v Speaker 2>wasn't anything malicious like and that and that. That whole

0:23:31.119 --> 0:23:33.320
<v Speaker 2>situation showed me a lot and it proved a lot

0:23:33.359 --> 0:23:36.840
<v Speaker 2>to me at a young age about stereotyping people. Because

0:23:37.119 --> 0:23:39.360
<v Speaker 2>you know, when you seen John Gotti, John Gotty kept

0:23:39.359 --> 0:23:42.359
<v Speaker 2>on the two thousand dollars suit, but what was he

0:23:42.359 --> 0:23:44.439
<v Speaker 2>He get busy, you know what I mean. So it

0:23:44.440 --> 0:23:47.200
<v Speaker 2>ain't about what you got on. You watched reservoir dogs,

0:23:47.640 --> 0:23:49.359
<v Speaker 2>what they have on when they when they robbed that.

0:23:50.359 --> 0:23:53.119
<v Speaker 2>You know what I'm saying, so it ain't about you

0:23:53.160 --> 0:23:55.520
<v Speaker 2>know what you got on on the outside, who you are.

0:23:55.480 --> 0:23:57.280
<v Speaker 3>And they said that bother you the most where they

0:23:57.720 --> 0:23:58.560
<v Speaker 3>labeled you a thug.

0:23:59.119 --> 0:24:02.879
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you know what I mean, I'll be cool with

0:24:04.880 --> 0:24:09.960
<v Speaker 2>I'll be cool with, you know, a street dude. Cool

0:24:09.960 --> 0:24:13.080
<v Speaker 2>with that, because that's what I am. I mean, that's

0:24:13.080 --> 0:24:15.560
<v Speaker 2>where I come from. That's all I've ever been around

0:24:15.600 --> 0:24:18.399
<v Speaker 2>my life. That's where I grew up around, you know

0:24:18.440 --> 0:24:23.600
<v Speaker 2>what I mean. But a thug like h nah, that's

0:24:23.600 --> 0:24:25.080
<v Speaker 2>a that's a stretch.

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<v Speaker 1>I was wondering would you change things?

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<v Speaker 4>And the reason I asked that because even in the book,

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<v Speaker 4>you understood you had to wear a suit the court,

0:24:33.480 --> 0:24:35.400
<v Speaker 4>but you didn't want to do it for press conferences.

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<v Speaker 2>In the NBA, I was bad advice like I was.

0:24:38.359 --> 0:24:44.280
<v Speaker 2>I was, you know, I was told to take a uh,

0:24:44.680 --> 0:24:47.840
<v Speaker 2>go to trial and go off whatever the judge say,

0:24:47.840 --> 0:24:51.760
<v Speaker 2>opposed to having a jury. That was bad, you know

0:24:51.800 --> 0:24:53.719
<v Speaker 2>what I mean. Some of that I was getting advice

0:24:54.160 --> 0:24:56.720
<v Speaker 2>from people that never had been through it, you know

0:24:56.760 --> 0:24:59.919
<v Speaker 2>what I mean. I was told that if I was

0:25:00.040 --> 0:25:05.080
<v Speaker 2>suit then they'd be lenient. I was. I was extremely wrong.

0:25:05.240 --> 0:25:07.240
<v Speaker 1>So you wish you to just water I'm not.

0:25:11.720 --> 0:25:14.760
<v Speaker 2>I remember. I remember that same suit. I was a

0:25:14.960 --> 0:25:16.720
<v Speaker 2>in a sale. It was one hundred degrees with no

0:25:17.800 --> 0:25:20.119
<v Speaker 2>fans in there, and the older sale. I was in

0:25:20.200 --> 0:25:23.680
<v Speaker 2>a four man cell with fifteen people, you know what

0:25:23.720 --> 0:25:25.520
<v Speaker 2>I mean, and that suit. When they came got me,

0:25:25.600 --> 0:25:28.520
<v Speaker 2>I was in the corner with my boxes on, you

0:25:28.520 --> 0:25:30.480
<v Speaker 2>know what I mean, soaking wet, and the suit was

0:25:30.520 --> 0:25:32.320
<v Speaker 2>balled up in the corner. When they came and got

0:25:32.359 --> 0:25:34.720
<v Speaker 2>me out of there, I had on my boxes, you

0:25:34.800 --> 0:25:38.000
<v Speaker 2>know what I mean. So I don't know what. Do

0:25:38.080 --> 0:25:41.879
<v Speaker 2>you regret anything? Nah? Because I wouldn't be you I

0:25:41.960 --> 0:25:44.040
<v Speaker 2>am now, you know what I mean? Anybody, if I

0:25:44.119 --> 0:25:47.840
<v Speaker 2>died and came back, I would, Man, I'd rather be

0:25:48.480 --> 0:25:51.520
<v Speaker 2>me all over again. But if I change everything. If

0:25:51.560 --> 0:25:54.360
<v Speaker 2>I knew it was coming, anybody going, if you're going

0:25:54.359 --> 0:25:56.280
<v Speaker 2>down of one way street, you're gonna get on the

0:25:56.359 --> 0:25:57.919
<v Speaker 2>right side of the road. You see the tract the

0:25:57.920 --> 0:26:00.080
<v Speaker 2>trailer coming, and you know it's coming. You know what

0:26:00.119 --> 0:26:04.639
<v Speaker 2>I mean. That prepared me to be the man that

0:26:04.720 --> 0:26:07.040
<v Speaker 2>I am today. I had to take this ass whooping

0:26:07.320 --> 0:26:11.680
<v Speaker 2>with the dress code. So now look at everybody, everybody

0:26:11.720 --> 0:26:13.640
<v Speaker 2>give me my flyers for that. You know what I mean,

0:26:13.720 --> 0:26:17.080
<v Speaker 2>for you got them all these personalities. Why would everybody

0:26:17.160 --> 0:26:20.640
<v Speaker 2>dress the same? You got different basketball games? Why everybody

0:26:21.000 --> 0:26:23.680
<v Speaker 2>look the same? You got different games? And people feel

0:26:23.680 --> 0:26:26.359
<v Speaker 2>good about this. So when you I love it thinking

0:26:26.400 --> 0:26:29.159
<v Speaker 2>about you know when I when when it's time to

0:26:29.480 --> 0:26:31.480
<v Speaker 2>go somewhere, trying to go to the club or whatever.

0:26:32.040 --> 0:26:35.159
<v Speaker 2>I ain't battling with the dudes at the club, you

0:26:35.160 --> 0:26:37.440
<v Speaker 2>know what I mean. I can't wait to meet everybody

0:26:37.480 --> 0:26:40.320
<v Speaker 2>downstairs and see what everybody got on. You know what

0:26:40.359 --> 0:26:43.240
<v Speaker 2>I mean, Like I want to be you know, I

0:26:43.280 --> 0:26:45.840
<v Speaker 2>want to be smoother than my man, you know what

0:26:45.880 --> 0:26:48.400
<v Speaker 2>I mean, Like that make you feel good, you look good,

0:26:48.440 --> 0:26:50.280
<v Speaker 2>you play good even on the court. I wanted to

0:26:50.560 --> 0:26:53.560
<v Speaker 2>look like a superhero like Michael Jordan used to look.

0:26:54.200 --> 0:26:56.879
<v Speaker 2>You know what I mean, Like I wouldn't. I wouldn't.

0:26:56.880 --> 0:27:01.880
<v Speaker 2>I wouldn't. I wouldn't change I wouldn't change anything, man

0:27:01.960 --> 0:27:04.520
<v Speaker 2>in my life, all of these experience, even with the book. Man,

0:27:04.560 --> 0:27:08.960
<v Speaker 2>it's like I love like my girl always talk to

0:27:09.000 --> 0:27:11.399
<v Speaker 2>me about why do you let like what I started

0:27:11.440 --> 0:27:13.399
<v Speaker 2>talking about in the beginning, why do you let that

0:27:13.440 --> 0:27:16.879
<v Speaker 2>type of shit bother you? And I like practice press no,

0:27:17.200 --> 0:27:21.080
<v Speaker 2>just just what my friends, how people you know what

0:27:21.119 --> 0:27:24.240
<v Speaker 2>I mean, It's like why and I don't know, you

0:27:24.320 --> 0:27:26.280
<v Speaker 2>know what I mean? Like I love the people that

0:27:26.359 --> 0:27:28.800
<v Speaker 2>I love and it hurt when they show you who

0:27:28.800 --> 0:27:31.879
<v Speaker 2>they really are because I'm thinking you somebody else, you

0:27:31.920 --> 0:27:34.200
<v Speaker 2>know what I mean? And she like, you know, why

0:27:34.240 --> 0:27:36.200
<v Speaker 2>do you stress out over stuff like that? And one

0:27:36.200 --> 0:27:39.320
<v Speaker 2>of you different. You have a talent and you you're

0:27:39.320 --> 0:27:42.360
<v Speaker 2>blessed to be able to brush that stuff off. It's

0:27:42.440 --> 0:27:46.520
<v Speaker 2>hard for me now. My talent obviously is you know,

0:27:47.400 --> 0:27:51.239
<v Speaker 2>legendary with who. But I think another blessed blessing that

0:27:51.320 --> 0:27:54.040
<v Speaker 2>I have is to be an open book, to be

0:27:54.359 --> 0:27:59.439
<v Speaker 2>someone I'm embarrassed by practice rant I'm embarrassed about, uh,

0:28:00.119 --> 0:28:02.720
<v Speaker 2>not really embarrassed. But it wasn't smart for me to,

0:28:03.200 --> 0:28:07.359
<v Speaker 2>you know, because I remember, you know, people telling me Ai,

0:28:07.480 --> 0:28:11.359
<v Speaker 2>you cannot take care of everybody, and I used to

0:28:11.480 --> 0:28:12.879
<v Speaker 2>let it go on one air and write out the

0:28:12.960 --> 0:28:14.880
<v Speaker 2>other like, yo, you know what I mean. I'm gonna

0:28:14.920 --> 0:28:16.840
<v Speaker 2>be the exception to the rule. I'm gonna take care

0:28:16.880 --> 0:28:19.399
<v Speaker 2>of the people that I love, like that's just me,

0:28:20.119 --> 0:28:20.720
<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean.

0:28:21.280 --> 0:28:25.880
<v Speaker 5>And I think that's why I hurt you so bad,

0:28:25.880 --> 0:28:28.400
<v Speaker 5>because your heart isn't it. You love these people. You know, yeah,

0:28:28.480 --> 0:28:30.879
<v Speaker 5>yeah you're superman, but you still have a heart, you

0:28:30.920 --> 0:28:31.639
<v Speaker 5>know what I mean, And you.

0:28:31.760 --> 0:28:34.639
<v Speaker 2>Like but this is but this is my This is

0:28:34.680 --> 0:28:37.840
<v Speaker 2>my gift, Like this is my gift to this book, this,

0:28:37.840 --> 0:28:41.800
<v Speaker 2>this documentary. My experience is the turbulent, the ups and downs.

0:28:41.840 --> 0:28:46.880
<v Speaker 2>Like if one kid or one adult whatever read this

0:28:46.920 --> 0:28:48.840
<v Speaker 2>book and they can take something from it. I have

0:28:48.960 --> 0:28:51.160
<v Speaker 2>people come to me all the time be like, yo, man,

0:28:51.200 --> 0:28:53.239
<v Speaker 2>you inspired my life. Man, I would have died if

0:28:53.280 --> 0:28:54.760
<v Speaker 2>it was for you. I would have went to jail

0:28:54.800 --> 0:28:56.640
<v Speaker 2>for the rest of my life. You know what I mean,

0:28:56.800 --> 0:28:59.800
<v Speaker 2>Like you changed my life. You know, you inspire me.

0:29:00.280 --> 0:29:02.440
<v Speaker 2>You know your story and this that and the third

0:29:02.560 --> 0:29:05.320
<v Speaker 2>like and that that motivate me. You know what I mean,

0:29:05.400 --> 0:29:09.400
<v Speaker 2>Like to give more, Like to even when you embarrass

0:29:09.440 --> 0:29:12.680
<v Speaker 2>you uncomfortable, you know, talk about it. Somebody might not

0:29:12.800 --> 0:29:14.720
<v Speaker 2>have to go through it. Somebody might. You might save

0:29:14.760 --> 0:29:17.760
<v Speaker 2>somebody's life, you know what I mean, Like talk about it.

0:29:17.880 --> 0:29:20.680
<v Speaker 2>You know what I mean, you might not be You know, man,

0:29:20.720 --> 0:29:22.400
<v Speaker 2>you was on top of the world. You had all

0:29:22.400 --> 0:29:24.240
<v Speaker 2>the money, you know what I mean, all you had

0:29:24.280 --> 0:29:26.840
<v Speaker 2>to do. It's easy for a motherfucker to tell Chuck

0:29:26.880 --> 0:29:29.240
<v Speaker 2>what to do with his easy for somebody to say

0:29:29.320 --> 0:29:33.120
<v Speaker 2>what I would have did? Man, if I was him,

0:29:33.120 --> 0:29:35.360
<v Speaker 2>I would have did. You ain't me, motherfucker. You know

0:29:35.360 --> 0:29:38.880
<v Speaker 2>what I mean. You don't know how. I'm sorry you

0:29:39.400 --> 0:29:41.360
<v Speaker 2>not me. You know what I mean. I make mistakes.

0:29:41.360 --> 0:29:42.560
<v Speaker 2>I'm human just like you.

0:29:42.880 --> 0:29:44.880
<v Speaker 1>That's why we love you, and I love how I

0:29:44.920 --> 0:29:45.200
<v Speaker 1>love how.

0:29:45.240 --> 0:29:48.520
<v Speaker 4>The whole book Misunderstood is literally an explanation as to

0:29:48.600 --> 0:29:52.960
<v Speaker 4>why the whole infamous practice press conference even happened, because

0:29:53.000 --> 0:29:55.840
<v Speaker 4>you was dealing with so much at the time, so

0:29:55.880 --> 0:29:59.160
<v Speaker 4>it wasn't even about you know, those people in the room.

0:29:59.160 --> 0:30:01.080
<v Speaker 1>It's everything else. I was going on outside.

0:30:01.160 --> 0:30:04.040
<v Speaker 2>Man, best friend just just got killed, you know what

0:30:04.080 --> 0:30:07.480
<v Speaker 2>I mean. I'm like, I'm coming in there, But Charla, Man,

0:30:07.520 --> 0:30:12.200
<v Speaker 2>I'm coming in there like like I'm I'm on cloud nine.

0:30:12.400 --> 0:30:14.440
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, yo, I get you know, my kids dealing

0:30:14.480 --> 0:30:17.440
<v Speaker 2>with this, like they going to school every day and

0:30:17.520 --> 0:30:20.120
<v Speaker 2>their class may tell your daddy, don't leave, Tell you dad,

0:30:20.160 --> 0:30:22.440
<v Speaker 2>they don't leave. You know, my wife going you know,

0:30:22.480 --> 0:30:24.840
<v Speaker 2>she out in the city. People tell your husband, please

0:30:24.880 --> 0:30:27.680
<v Speaker 2>don't leave. We love them. So they going through it.

0:30:28.120 --> 0:30:30.280
<v Speaker 2>You know what I mean, my kids don't really understand daddy,

0:30:30.320 --> 0:30:32.640
<v Speaker 2>don't don't get traded, don't leave like I don't have

0:30:32.720 --> 0:30:34.959
<v Speaker 2>no control over it. So when they called me in there,

0:30:35.000 --> 0:30:38.400
<v Speaker 2>it was like, yo, you ain't going nowhere. So I'm like, shit,

0:30:38.480 --> 0:30:40.960
<v Speaker 2>can we call a press conference? You know what I mean? Yeah,

0:30:41.000 --> 0:30:42.800
<v Speaker 2>I got all everybody in there. I get to tell

0:30:42.800 --> 0:30:46.480
<v Speaker 2>the world I ain't going nowhere. This dude just keep

0:30:46.520 --> 0:30:49.960
<v Speaker 2>on asking me about practice, practice, practice, you know what

0:30:50.000 --> 0:30:53.080
<v Speaker 2>I mean. I'm like, practice, Yeah, you know what I'm saying.

0:30:53.120 --> 0:30:54.920
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, this is not what we're here for. This

0:30:55.000 --> 0:30:58.800
<v Speaker 2>is we I mean, let's rejoice, let's be happy, you

0:30:58.800 --> 0:31:00.960
<v Speaker 2>know what I mean. But it's you you, if you

0:31:01.040 --> 0:31:04.400
<v Speaker 2>know what I know. You got beat writers that write

0:31:04.440 --> 0:31:06.760
<v Speaker 2>every day. And then you know, I was telling steven

0:31:06.800 --> 0:31:10.160
<v Speaker 2>A on this show yesterday, like they want exclusive, you

0:31:10.200 --> 0:31:13.280
<v Speaker 2>turn them down for exclusive the first chance they get,

0:31:14.560 --> 0:31:16.360
<v Speaker 2>kick your back off, you know what I mean. And

0:31:16.400 --> 0:31:18.920
<v Speaker 2>it was him. I'm sitting there looking at him, you

0:31:18.920 --> 0:31:20.800
<v Speaker 2>know what I mean, Like, and if I was, if

0:31:20.800 --> 0:31:24.680
<v Speaker 2>I was prepared, which I wasn't. If I was, I'm like, yo, man,

0:31:24.720 --> 0:31:28.760
<v Speaker 2>I was the MVP last season, the best player in

0:31:28.800 --> 0:31:31.080
<v Speaker 2>the whole world. You know what I mean, coming from

0:31:31.120 --> 0:31:33.959
<v Speaker 2>where I come from, and if I didn't practice, how

0:31:34.000 --> 0:31:35.760
<v Speaker 2>would I be able to accomplish something like that. I

0:31:35.840 --> 0:31:38.720
<v Speaker 2>must be really good, you know what I mean. But

0:31:38.800 --> 0:31:40.680
<v Speaker 2>I wasn't prepared for it like that because I was

0:31:40.680 --> 0:31:44.960
<v Speaker 2>so emotional and angry that him. You know, this is

0:31:45.000 --> 0:31:47.120
<v Speaker 2>about being happy, man.

0:31:47.040 --> 0:31:48.760
<v Speaker 3>That's what the misunderstood is about.

0:31:48.840 --> 0:31:49.000
<v Speaker 2>Right.

0:31:49.600 --> 0:31:51.680
<v Speaker 3>One thing I would I would say about AI is

0:31:51.720 --> 0:31:54.680
<v Speaker 3>if you ever see him out, he's gonna talk to you.

0:31:55.200 --> 0:31:58.840
<v Speaker 3>He's gonna hug you like he's It's funny when people

0:31:58.840 --> 0:32:00.800
<v Speaker 3>say you're from the street or when labeled you a thug.

0:32:00.880 --> 0:32:02.120
<v Speaker 3>I'm like, when you.

0:32:02.040 --> 0:32:03.600
<v Speaker 2>See him out, he's the total opposite.

0:32:03.680 --> 0:32:05.280
<v Speaker 3>He gonna hug you, he gonna ask you how your

0:32:05.280 --> 0:32:07.760
<v Speaker 3>family is right when you used to have a looking

0:32:07.760 --> 0:32:09.600
<v Speaker 3>at it. He gonna kiss you on your forehead, like brother,

0:32:09.760 --> 0:32:11.960
<v Speaker 3>I love you like no, for real, I love you

0:32:12.000 --> 0:32:14.080
<v Speaker 3>and hen and he means it, and he means well

0:32:14.080 --> 0:32:15.520
<v Speaker 3>for all his people. And that's the side I don't

0:32:15.560 --> 0:32:17.880
<v Speaker 3>think people see I love. I was saying something the

0:32:17.880 --> 0:32:18.960
<v Speaker 3>other day. I was like, I was walking down the

0:32:18.960 --> 0:32:20.600
<v Speaker 3>street with Virginia and Charloman was like he was walking

0:32:20.640 --> 0:32:22.720
<v Speaker 3>I was like, I was walking down the street and hey.

0:32:22.560 --> 0:32:23.760
<v Speaker 2>I pulled up and what's up?

0:32:23.800 --> 0:32:25.000
<v Speaker 3>Hop out the car house your family?

0:32:25.080 --> 0:32:27.840
<v Speaker 2>Give me a hug, aful. Yeah, what you're doing tonight?

0:32:28.240 --> 0:32:29.720
<v Speaker 3>You you got you got some of the city eye.

0:32:29.720 --> 0:32:32.280
<v Speaker 3>I'm gonna come then text me later on Yo, I'm sleeping.

0:32:32.280 --> 0:32:34.640
<v Speaker 3>I ain't gonna bring it. I'm like, yeah, but that's

0:32:34.760 --> 0:32:37.520
<v Speaker 3>him with everybody, And I'm like, that's the side that.

0:32:37.520 --> 0:32:40.320
<v Speaker 2>People heard, the people's the people's I look at it

0:32:40.440 --> 0:32:46.480
<v Speaker 2>like I look at it like I watch I watch

0:32:47.120 --> 0:32:49.360
<v Speaker 2>people and how they get down, and I'm like, damn,

0:32:49.400 --> 0:32:51.840
<v Speaker 2>I would never you know what I mean? But Teach's on,

0:32:52.560 --> 0:32:56.320
<v Speaker 2>you know, me being me is, you know, the best

0:32:56.320 --> 0:32:57.840
<v Speaker 2>thing in the world of me. Yes, I wanted to

0:32:57.840 --> 0:33:01.120
<v Speaker 2>be like Mike growing up. I wanted to be like Mike. Yes,

0:33:01.320 --> 0:33:03.920
<v Speaker 2>I didn't want to be him. You know what I mean. Like,

0:33:04.040 --> 0:33:07.240
<v Speaker 2>I love being me. Everybody else is taking up anyway,

0:33:07.600 --> 0:33:09.880
<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean? Like I love, I love

0:33:09.920 --> 0:33:14.080
<v Speaker 2>who I am. I never disrespect my God by wanting

0:33:14.120 --> 0:33:17.240
<v Speaker 2>to be something else. I never disrespect him, you know

0:33:17.280 --> 0:33:20.360
<v Speaker 2>what I mean? By wanting to be somebody else? I love.

0:33:20.440 --> 0:33:22.800
<v Speaker 2>I didn't win a championship, but I'm the people's champ

0:33:23.040 --> 0:33:25.600
<v Speaker 2>I love you know, people coming to me. Ai what

0:33:25.640 --> 0:33:27.640
<v Speaker 2>you're doing here? I'm in Walmartol, I'm a target on

0:33:27.680 --> 0:33:29.520
<v Speaker 2>the grocery store. You know what I mean. What you're

0:33:29.520 --> 0:33:36.760
<v Speaker 2>doing here? Man? Shocky like you security man? That part

0:33:36.800 --> 0:33:40.800
<v Speaker 2>of my life is I just man, I'm not I'm

0:33:40.840 --> 0:33:44.280
<v Speaker 2>not a thug. I'm not a gangster. You know, hurt

0:33:44.400 --> 0:33:46.440
<v Speaker 2>me for what? You know what I mean? What am

0:33:46.440 --> 0:33:48.920
<v Speaker 2>I scared to just? You know what I mean? Like

0:33:49.400 --> 0:33:51.160
<v Speaker 2>what am I?

0:33:51.040 --> 0:33:53.240
<v Speaker 4>I always say, you're the only player who didn't win

0:33:53.240 --> 0:33:56.600
<v Speaker 4>a ring, who feel like a champion because.

0:33:56.400 --> 0:33:59.239
<v Speaker 1>To us, like cham, I got an ring.

0:33:59.760 --> 0:34:04.200
<v Speaker 2>It's it's crazy that you say that because I'm blessed.

0:34:04.280 --> 0:34:05.960
<v Speaker 2>Look at all of the look at all of the

0:34:06.000 --> 0:34:08.239
<v Speaker 2>other things that He's done for me. When I wake

0:34:08.320 --> 0:34:12.800
<v Speaker 2>up every morning when I say my prayer, because I

0:34:12.800 --> 0:34:14.560
<v Speaker 2>don't do it at night, I do it in the morning.

0:34:14.880 --> 0:34:18.120
<v Speaker 2>I fall asleep and forget watching Saving and Son. You

0:34:18.120 --> 0:34:21.839
<v Speaker 2>know what I mean, all night and I'm gone. But

0:34:21.880 --> 0:34:24.360
<v Speaker 2>when I when I pray, I pray for my family.

0:34:24.480 --> 0:34:27.239
<v Speaker 2>I pray for my friends. You know what I mean,

0:34:27.400 --> 0:34:32.320
<v Speaker 2>Keep us healthy, keep us safe, if you know, be sick, curious.

0:34:32.719 --> 0:34:33.960
<v Speaker 2>You know what I mean, I never ask him for

0:34:34.000 --> 0:34:36.360
<v Speaker 2>no money. I never ask him for no opportunity. I

0:34:36.400 --> 0:34:40.200
<v Speaker 2>never just I'll handle the rest. Just keep us safe,

0:34:40.520 --> 0:34:43.399
<v Speaker 2>keep us healthy, and I'll go out. I'll come out.

0:34:43.400 --> 0:34:45.319
<v Speaker 2>I'll go out there and open the door and say,

0:34:45.320 --> 0:34:47.440
<v Speaker 2>what's up world, what you got to got to off?

0:34:47.480 --> 0:34:50.560
<v Speaker 2>What's what's going on today? And then navigate through it

0:34:50.600 --> 0:34:54.360
<v Speaker 2>and tackle it? You know what I mean. Like I'm blessed,

0:34:54.600 --> 0:34:57.239
<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean. So a championship, you know

0:34:57.239 --> 0:35:00.160
<v Speaker 2>what I mean. I'm top seventy five all time. Not

0:35:00.280 --> 0:35:03.720
<v Speaker 2>many players played this game, man, millions and millions and millions.

0:35:03.920 --> 0:35:06.239
<v Speaker 2>I would said that I was told that I wasn't

0:35:06.239 --> 0:35:08.960
<v Speaker 2>even I was too small. I couldn't make it. You

0:35:09.000 --> 0:35:11.680
<v Speaker 2>can't make it in this type of game. And you know,

0:35:12.040 --> 0:35:14.279
<v Speaker 2>and I'm a Hall of Famer, you know what I mean.

0:35:14.440 --> 0:35:16.960
<v Speaker 2>All start scoring champion, you know what I mean. Like,

0:35:17.480 --> 0:35:20.480
<v Speaker 2>I'm just not a champion, you know what I mean,

0:35:20.520 --> 0:35:24.360
<v Speaker 2>I'm not. We came up short to a juggernaut Kobe

0:35:24.400 --> 0:35:28.120
<v Speaker 2>Bryant and Shaquille O'Neill in their prime. You understand, Like

0:35:29.239 --> 0:35:31.600
<v Speaker 2>I'm I'm cool with that, you know what I mean.

0:35:31.680 --> 0:35:34.200
<v Speaker 2>Now I get an opportunity I'm still here. I get

0:35:34.200 --> 0:35:37.799
<v Speaker 2>the root for That's why I want certain people that

0:35:37.920 --> 0:35:40.799
<v Speaker 2>haven't won a championship to win one. I want to

0:35:40.840 --> 0:35:43.239
<v Speaker 2>I want them to feel, you know how, I never

0:35:43.280 --> 0:35:45.919
<v Speaker 2>got the opportunity to feel. So when people talk about

0:35:45.960 --> 0:35:47.759
<v Speaker 2>who you want to win this year, I want to

0:35:47.760 --> 0:35:50.600
<v Speaker 2>see the guys win that haven't done it before. Gotcha,

0:35:50.840 --> 0:35:51.319
<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean.

0:35:51.360 --> 0:35:53.640
<v Speaker 1>You would do things that nobody evident.

0:35:54.200 --> 0:35:57.279
<v Speaker 5>If you did, you would go so viral these days.

0:35:57.400 --> 0:35:59.040
<v Speaker 5>You had your mother bring your head at the game.

0:35:59.040 --> 0:36:01.399
<v Speaker 2>I was not my mom, the it was her sister.

0:36:02.400 --> 0:36:03.040
<v Speaker 2>Think it was Mamy.

0:36:03.120 --> 0:36:06.040
<v Speaker 5>Okay, all right, So that was just what it wasn't

0:36:06.040 --> 0:36:07.680
<v Speaker 5>no time before I was rushing.

0:36:08.840 --> 0:36:12.239
<v Speaker 2>List. First of all, you already know Jess, and I

0:36:12.640 --> 0:36:14.759
<v Speaker 2>know you might have. You might not have joked about it,

0:36:14.800 --> 0:36:17.959
<v Speaker 2>but you you probably joked about it to your home

0:36:18.120 --> 0:36:20.359
<v Speaker 2>girls or your homeboys or whatever. Because I ain't never

0:36:20.440 --> 0:36:23.680
<v Speaker 2>had my head always been long up here. I ain't

0:36:23.719 --> 0:36:30.640
<v Speaker 2>never had no hang time. I ain't never I mean never,

0:36:30.880 --> 0:36:34.800
<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean? And you know if you

0:36:34.840 --> 0:36:38.000
<v Speaker 2>don't put rubber bands in my joint, then they would

0:36:38.040 --> 0:36:41.319
<v Speaker 2>come out. So we were actually rushing. I used to.

0:36:41.560 --> 0:36:43.200
<v Speaker 2>I used to get to the game so late, you know,

0:36:43.200 --> 0:36:44.760
<v Speaker 2>because I used to leave so late. With the traffic

0:36:44.840 --> 0:36:46.200
<v Speaker 2>going to the game, I used to always get called

0:36:46.239 --> 0:36:47.799
<v Speaker 2>into it. And then I used to always had to

0:36:47.880 --> 0:36:54.960
<v Speaker 2>ride on thee so playing it was like first quarter

0:36:55.640 --> 0:36:58.880
<v Speaker 2>and I felt, you know, it was coming out. My

0:36:58.960 --> 0:37:02.520
<v Speaker 2>aunt was stands all like yo, she came and.

0:37:02.440 --> 0:37:04.880
<v Speaker 1>Just fix it up.

0:37:04.880 --> 0:37:08.520
<v Speaker 5>I mean it was simple as that that that photo

0:37:08.600 --> 0:37:10.799
<v Speaker 5>is like so loved and cherished now, But when it

0:37:10.880 --> 0:37:13.360
<v Speaker 5>happened at the time, did you feel like people like

0:37:13.840 --> 0:37:14.160
<v Speaker 5>loved and.

0:37:14.200 --> 0:37:16.040
<v Speaker 6>Cherish the moment? And how did you handle how people

0:37:16.080 --> 0:37:18.239
<v Speaker 6>would come for your family because you are such a

0:37:18.239 --> 0:37:18.880
<v Speaker 6>family person.

0:37:23.560 --> 0:37:28.319
<v Speaker 2>Damn, that's a good question. I don't want to say

0:37:28.360 --> 0:37:33.200
<v Speaker 2>I didn't. I didn't care, but it was like, what

0:37:33.239 --> 0:37:36.959
<v Speaker 2>you're gonna do, Like there's nothing you can you can't

0:37:37.200 --> 0:37:45.640
<v Speaker 2>I'm not gonna change I couldn't change what people think about.

0:37:45.680 --> 0:37:48.799
<v Speaker 2>But this book not gonna change what people think. This documentary.

0:37:48.960 --> 0:37:52.040
<v Speaker 2>Motherfucker don't like you. They don't like you. They hate you.

0:37:52.040 --> 0:37:55.319
<v Speaker 2>They hate you. They don't find some reason, you know,

0:37:57.200 --> 0:37:59.880
<v Speaker 2>they don't find some reason to to not like you.

0:38:00.040 --> 0:38:02.239
<v Speaker 2>That's what you deal with. And it's like I had

0:38:02.239 --> 0:38:04.839
<v Speaker 2>to learn that early, like you know what I mean,

0:38:05.000 --> 0:38:09.760
<v Speaker 2>like like for real, like everybody not gonna love you,

0:38:09.760 --> 0:38:11.520
<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean. You just concentrate on the

0:38:11.560 --> 0:38:15.240
<v Speaker 2>ones that do. You just appreciate the ones that that

0:38:15.239 --> 0:38:16.960
<v Speaker 2>that like you. You know what I mean. I mean,

0:38:18.520 --> 0:38:21.359
<v Speaker 2>they gonna say crazy shit, you know what I mean.

0:38:21.440 --> 0:38:24.839
<v Speaker 2>I heard somebody say Michael Jackson can't sing, you know,

0:38:25.680 --> 0:38:28.960
<v Speaker 2>like I mean, I've heard it. So when when you

0:38:29.480 --> 0:38:32.319
<v Speaker 2>ranking people and you know what i mean, ranking where

0:38:32.600 --> 0:38:35.920
<v Speaker 2>AI stand in this and and and you know what

0:38:35.920 --> 0:38:38.279
<v Speaker 2>I mean, like you're paying attention with the comments and

0:38:38.320 --> 0:38:41.640
<v Speaker 2>what people say, and man, listen, you're gonna be hurt

0:38:41.680 --> 0:38:44.400
<v Speaker 2>for a while. Like the comments even on Instagram, Like

0:38:44.760 --> 0:38:49.120
<v Speaker 2>I posted a picture of my daughter up there, and dude,

0:38:49.200 --> 0:38:52.600
<v Speaker 2>I'm looking at the comments for whatever reason, you know

0:38:52.600 --> 0:38:56.040
<v Speaker 2>what i mean, Like I need my ego stroke anymore,

0:38:56.600 --> 0:38:59.880
<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean? Look at man, fuck that

0:39:00.040 --> 0:39:02.759
<v Speaker 2>a uggly bitch. You know what I'm like. Damn, Like

0:39:03.120 --> 0:39:05.239
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, Okay, I don't do the comments no more,

0:39:07.960 --> 0:39:11.000
<v Speaker 2>fran Son. You know what I'm saying. It's like it's

0:39:11.040 --> 0:39:14.680
<v Speaker 2>like people going, you know, that's what that's what they do.

0:39:14.680 --> 0:39:17.759
<v Speaker 2>Because a lot of a lot of times people we

0:39:17.800 --> 0:39:19.799
<v Speaker 2>talked about that earlier, they wake up and they mad

0:39:19.840 --> 0:39:24.000
<v Speaker 2>at their own life. And you know, that's just that's

0:39:24.040 --> 0:39:26.960
<v Speaker 2>the world we the world we we live in. That's

0:39:26.960 --> 0:39:31.200
<v Speaker 2>the reason I can't be a commentary. Yeah. Yeah, Like

0:39:31.239 --> 0:39:33.759
<v Speaker 2>I'm not getting up there talking bad about nobody. Man.

0:39:35.560 --> 0:39:38.880
<v Speaker 2>I just I just that's just not something that because

0:39:39.239 --> 0:39:42.319
<v Speaker 2>if just think about it, if you're an NBA basketball player,

0:39:42.400 --> 0:39:44.400
<v Speaker 2>you never get in the game, everybody think you are

0:39:44.400 --> 0:39:47.480
<v Speaker 2>bum Put them in again, how you get there first

0:39:47.480 --> 0:39:50.680
<v Speaker 2>of all? Right, and then put them on the court,

0:39:50.880 --> 0:39:52.680
<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean, with anybody else. Put them

0:39:52.960 --> 0:39:55.120
<v Speaker 2>in the y m c A. Put them on the court,

0:39:55.200 --> 0:39:57.160
<v Speaker 2>on the college court, you know what I mean, high

0:39:57.160 --> 0:40:00.279
<v Speaker 2>school whatever it looked like Michael Jordan out there, you

0:40:00.360 --> 0:40:03.719
<v Speaker 2>know what I mean. And I just respect everybody that

0:40:03.840 --> 0:40:06.120
<v Speaker 2>made it because I know what I actually went through,

0:40:06.840 --> 0:40:09.279
<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean. I went through a lot

0:40:09.560 --> 0:40:11.640
<v Speaker 2>to get there, Like I ended up being the first

0:40:11.640 --> 0:40:14.560
<v Speaker 2>pick in the draft, and a couple of years ago

0:40:14.719 --> 0:40:17.800
<v Speaker 2>I was getting released from from jail, you know what

0:40:17.840 --> 0:40:21.160
<v Speaker 2>I'm saying. So I don't know, I just I just

0:40:21.239 --> 0:40:24.759
<v Speaker 2>I just respect people that that that want to do

0:40:24.800 --> 0:40:28.520
<v Speaker 2>something and don't let nobody stop them trying to do it.

0:40:29.080 --> 0:40:32.000
<v Speaker 3>Also that I've seen an interview you gave up drinking

0:40:32.040 --> 0:40:35.640
<v Speaker 3>six months ago that point where you said it.

0:40:35.600 --> 0:40:38.439
<v Speaker 2>Was it was I'll be lying if I would say

0:40:38.480 --> 0:40:41.480
<v Speaker 2>it just just stopped the brother. You know what I mean.

0:40:41.719 --> 0:40:44.600
<v Speaker 2>It was it was situations. You know what I mean.

0:40:44.640 --> 0:40:48.360
<v Speaker 2>I you know, where is my ship at? You know

0:40:48.400 --> 0:40:50.200
<v Speaker 2>what I mean, Like I know I put it here.

0:40:50.880 --> 0:40:52.800
<v Speaker 2>You know what I mean. It's the same thing having

0:40:52.800 --> 0:40:55.920
<v Speaker 2>certain guys around you. Everybody when when when they your people,

0:40:56.040 --> 0:40:58.960
<v Speaker 2>your people know when you're drunk, y know, just chill man,

0:40:59.040 --> 0:41:05.640
<v Speaker 2>just yeah, somew more glasses. Damn man, Hey, yo, man,

0:41:05.760 --> 0:41:07.759
<v Speaker 2>fucked up right now? Man, God, damn, I need you

0:41:07.800 --> 0:41:10.200
<v Speaker 2>to you know what I'm saying. Man, My this is

0:41:10.239 --> 0:41:14.680
<v Speaker 2>going on. That going on. Man. I need you waited

0:41:14.760 --> 0:41:17.640
<v Speaker 2>till I get this in because let me just talk

0:41:17.719 --> 0:41:20.360
<v Speaker 2>about when I get nice man, will give you the

0:41:20.400 --> 0:41:26.560
<v Speaker 2>shirt up. I went to sleep glass nine twenty five

0:41:26.600 --> 0:41:31.560
<v Speaker 2>thousand on me, you know, but I got twelve hundred.

0:41:34.760 --> 0:41:38.520
<v Speaker 2>What my sniggers, what my man? You gave such and

0:41:38.520 --> 0:41:43.760
<v Speaker 2>such your your your your little sniggers. You gave your sister,

0:41:43.840 --> 0:41:48.280
<v Speaker 2>your your uh your uh, your your first cope. You

0:41:48.280 --> 0:41:50.160
<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean, like and I mean, that's

0:41:50.200 --> 0:41:54.200
<v Speaker 2>just that's just small ship compared to the real you

0:41:54.280 --> 0:41:56.320
<v Speaker 2>know what I mean. Not feeling well? You know what

0:41:56.360 --> 0:41:59.040
<v Speaker 2>I mean. I mean, I did all this and I

0:41:59.080 --> 0:42:02.120
<v Speaker 2>was having fun last night to wake up feeling like this,

0:42:02.840 --> 0:42:05.880
<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean. Then my responsibilities you you

0:42:05.960 --> 0:42:08.160
<v Speaker 2>know what I mean. You're missing flights and you know

0:42:08.200 --> 0:42:11.040
<v Speaker 2>what I mean, I mean, just a it's a pluthor

0:42:11.080 --> 0:42:13.840
<v Speaker 2>r of things. Man, you just drinking, you know what

0:42:13.880 --> 0:42:18.040
<v Speaker 2>I'm saying. Like I sat to evaluate him, like what

0:42:18.080 --> 0:42:22.600
<v Speaker 2>good does it do for me? You understand? Like you

0:42:22.800 --> 0:42:24.520
<v Speaker 2>I mean, you can you can have fun with your

0:42:24.520 --> 0:42:27.080
<v Speaker 2>own boys, your homegirls, you know what I mean, without that,

0:42:27.719 --> 0:42:31.160
<v Speaker 2>And I found out that that's something I you know,

0:42:32.320 --> 0:42:34.200
<v Speaker 2>got to get used to as well, you know what

0:42:34.239 --> 0:42:37.239
<v Speaker 2>I mean, because I don't like being around a bunch

0:42:37.280 --> 0:42:40.480
<v Speaker 2>of drunk people. And I ain't like we can't have

0:42:40.560 --> 0:42:42.600
<v Speaker 2>a conversation. Like I'm talking, I'm trying to get you

0:42:42.640 --> 0:42:45.600
<v Speaker 2>to understand something, but I'm talking to somebody drunk. You

0:42:45.680 --> 0:42:47.160
<v Speaker 2>know what I mean. You ain't trying to hear nothing

0:42:47.200 --> 0:42:50.560
<v Speaker 2>I'm talking about. We ain't we All conversations not gonna

0:42:50.600 --> 0:42:53.359
<v Speaker 2>matter until some other time, you know what I mean.

0:42:53.400 --> 0:42:55.920
<v Speaker 4>And so Bron call you right now and he said, hey, man,

0:42:55.960 --> 0:42:56.879
<v Speaker 4>hennersy got this bag.

0:42:58.120 --> 0:43:01.560
<v Speaker 2>God damn by no bag. I've been there and I

0:43:01.560 --> 0:43:04.880
<v Speaker 2>don't had it long. I don't experienced having millions and

0:43:05.600 --> 0:43:08.520
<v Speaker 2>losing like and I'm not talking about I've always been

0:43:08.560 --> 0:43:11.840
<v Speaker 2>a millionaire, you know what I mean. I'ma make millions regardless.

0:43:12.160 --> 0:43:16.400
<v Speaker 2>But for me, once I done hit the pinnacle. You know,

0:43:17.040 --> 0:43:19.920
<v Speaker 2>ten million a year is not enough for me, you

0:43:19.960 --> 0:43:23.000
<v Speaker 2>know what I mean, Like it is not enough. Like,

0:43:23.320 --> 0:43:26.320
<v Speaker 2>but at the same time, if I want the lottery,

0:43:26.400 --> 0:43:28.080
<v Speaker 2>if I hit one of them joints that went up

0:43:28.080 --> 0:43:31.319
<v Speaker 2>to a billion or something like that, the last thing

0:43:31.360 --> 0:43:36.279
<v Speaker 2>I would want is for anybody to know, you know

0:43:36.320 --> 0:43:40.520
<v Speaker 2>what I'm saying, Like, man, that's that's the last thing. Like, man,

0:43:41.000 --> 0:43:43.600
<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean. But like I wouldn't. I wouldn't.

0:43:43.640 --> 0:43:46.759
<v Speaker 2>I wouldn't say And I talked to God about it.

0:43:47.520 --> 0:43:51.160
<v Speaker 2>I asked them to help me be strong. I ain't

0:43:51.160 --> 0:43:53.839
<v Speaker 2>go to no AA or nothing like that. Like I

0:43:53.840 --> 0:43:56.440
<v Speaker 2>I was like, Okay, I'm not I'm not doing it.

0:43:56.560 --> 0:43:59.759
<v Speaker 2>And that's what it wasn't. The crazy thing about it

0:43:59.800 --> 0:44:03.120
<v Speaker 2>is I've been with her for fifteen, for thirty five

0:44:03.200 --> 0:44:07.239
<v Speaker 2>years and since I was fifteen. And it's crazy part

0:44:07.280 --> 0:44:10.880
<v Speaker 2>about it is she said when I told her I

0:44:10.920 --> 0:44:15.319
<v Speaker 2>was stopping that after that she prayed on it. And

0:44:15.360 --> 0:44:17.239
<v Speaker 2>she said that was the only time that she ever

0:44:17.960 --> 0:44:20.319
<v Speaker 2>prayed on it. Like I said it plenty times in

0:44:20.320 --> 0:44:22.600
<v Speaker 2>the past, and she said that was the only time

0:44:22.640 --> 0:44:25.319
<v Speaker 2>that she prayed on it. And I was authentic with it.

0:44:26.000 --> 0:44:27.719
<v Speaker 4>Was there ever a time in your life where you

0:44:27.760 --> 0:44:29.960
<v Speaker 4>truly felt like a kid, because because when I read

0:44:29.960 --> 0:44:32.040
<v Speaker 4>your book, it feels like you never got the opportunity there.

0:44:32.800 --> 0:44:36.880
<v Speaker 2>Well yeah, well yeah, I remember, Like I like you,

0:44:37.040 --> 0:44:39.719
<v Speaker 2>people talk all the time about, Man, I was it.

0:44:39.760 --> 0:44:43.560
<v Speaker 2>How tough was it? You know, growing up poor? You

0:44:43.640 --> 0:44:46.600
<v Speaker 2>know what I mean? Like it was the best, right,

0:44:46.680 --> 0:44:49.080
<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean? Like you know what I mean,

0:44:49.120 --> 0:44:52.080
<v Speaker 2>because everybody around me was it won't like everybody you know,

0:44:52.200 --> 0:44:54.520
<v Speaker 2>it was only until I got to high school and

0:44:54.560 --> 0:44:57.800
<v Speaker 2>I'm wearing like I had two what three pair of

0:44:57.880 --> 0:45:01.600
<v Speaker 2>pants and my and one of was my sister's, you

0:45:01.640 --> 0:45:03.680
<v Speaker 2>know what I mean. You know it was, it was

0:45:03.719 --> 0:45:06.719
<v Speaker 2>bad And I'm looking at it's called farmititing you know

0:45:06.760 --> 0:45:09.960
<v Speaker 2>where I'm from, You know what I mean? You see

0:45:10.000 --> 0:45:12.520
<v Speaker 2>the kids on farmiting, they come in their dressed like

0:45:12.560 --> 0:45:15.080
<v Speaker 2>they got the polo and the guests on. And you

0:45:15.080 --> 0:45:20.000
<v Speaker 2>know what I mean, I'm like, damn Ja Bows and

0:45:20.000 --> 0:45:22.520
<v Speaker 2>the dudes. It was that was competition for real, you

0:45:22.560 --> 0:45:23.959
<v Speaker 2>know what I mean. They come up with the act

0:45:24.040 --> 0:45:28.520
<v Speaker 2>legends and you know what I mean, Like it was,

0:45:28.600 --> 0:45:31.600
<v Speaker 2>it was. It was tough. But you know, before then,

0:45:31.640 --> 0:45:34.200
<v Speaker 2>it was like, man, you know what I'm saying, Like

0:45:34.680 --> 0:45:37.120
<v Speaker 2>all I wanted, all I wanted growing up was a

0:45:37.120 --> 0:45:40.239
<v Speaker 2>pair of Jordans. That's it. I ain't give a damn

0:45:40.280 --> 0:45:42.520
<v Speaker 2>I go to school. I haven't God, damn pampa on.

0:45:43.080 --> 0:45:46.200
<v Speaker 2>As long as I got you know what I'm saying,

0:45:46.239 --> 0:45:50.160
<v Speaker 2>Like it was, it was, it was, It was nothing

0:45:50.200 --> 0:45:53.440
<v Speaker 2>to me. I was a kid, man, I mean, I

0:45:53.560 --> 0:45:56.000
<v Speaker 2>was a guy. I didn't I had the childhood, man,

0:45:56.000 --> 0:46:00.520
<v Speaker 2>I don't. I don't have no excuses on anything that

0:46:01.840 --> 0:46:04.640
<v Speaker 2>happened in my life. I don't have no one to blame.

0:46:05.239 --> 0:46:07.439
<v Speaker 2>I don't have I don't, man, I don't. When when

0:46:07.480 --> 0:46:10.879
<v Speaker 2>things don't go right, you know what I mean, When

0:46:10.960 --> 0:46:13.440
<v Speaker 2>when you ask somebody to do something for you, you

0:46:13.520 --> 0:46:15.600
<v Speaker 2>know what I mean, they don't do it? How mad

0:46:15.640 --> 0:46:17.799
<v Speaker 2>can you get with them, but I'm not doing it.

0:46:17.840 --> 0:46:20.000
<v Speaker 2>Do it yourself, you know what I mean, or don't

0:46:20.040 --> 0:46:22.839
<v Speaker 2>don't don't put that on them. You know what I'm saying,

0:46:22.880 --> 0:46:27.080
<v Speaker 2>Like I just I just I concentrate so much, like

0:46:27.239 --> 0:46:30.640
<v Speaker 2>we just you just heard me going about the seventh

0:46:30.760 --> 0:46:34.160
<v Speaker 2>soning like and my my girls say, like, how do

0:46:34.200 --> 0:46:37.040
<v Speaker 2>you watch this every day? You know what I'm saying,

0:46:37.040 --> 0:46:39.359
<v Speaker 2>how do you watch good times every day? Like I love,

0:46:40.760 --> 0:46:43.839
<v Speaker 2>I love my gangster ship like I love you know

0:46:44.080 --> 0:46:46.040
<v Speaker 2>all of that, you know what I mean. But I

0:46:46.160 --> 0:46:52.439
<v Speaker 2>just like to like and I and I. It ain't

0:46:52.520 --> 0:46:56.080
<v Speaker 2>that bad. You ain't you know, obviously dead, that's one thing,

0:46:56.120 --> 0:46:58.840
<v Speaker 2>But you ain't in jail, man. You ain't blind, you

0:46:58.880 --> 0:47:01.359
<v Speaker 2>ain't deaf, you know what I mean. You got all

0:47:01.360 --> 0:47:04.480
<v Speaker 2>your limbs. Like what you complaining about? You know, that's

0:47:04.520 --> 0:47:07.080
<v Speaker 2>the one thing I try to control in my life.

0:47:07.200 --> 0:47:09.600
<v Speaker 2>Just complaining about shit all the time. You know what

0:47:09.680 --> 0:47:13.400
<v Speaker 2>I mean, Like I mean it and it don't it

0:47:13.480 --> 0:47:15.799
<v Speaker 2>don't do no good. I mean for you to do it.

0:47:15.880 --> 0:47:18.880
<v Speaker 4>There's not one excuse in that book. All of this

0:47:19.040 --> 0:47:20.760
<v Speaker 4>is accountability throughout the whole.

0:47:21.239 --> 0:47:23.239
<v Speaker 2>I ain't making none, man. And then because that's the

0:47:23.320 --> 0:47:26.200
<v Speaker 2>easy way for somebody to look up to Alan Norblinson

0:47:26.560 --> 0:47:29.000
<v Speaker 2>have to have a cop out, you know what I mean,

0:47:29.160 --> 0:47:32.000
<v Speaker 2>easy way, you know what I mean, complaining about something,

0:47:32.040 --> 0:47:36.399
<v Speaker 2>man do it. And I hate when people think that

0:47:37.280 --> 0:47:41.360
<v Speaker 2>like that it's arrogant and that's cow. I've always been confident.

0:47:41.400 --> 0:47:44.480
<v Speaker 2>I ain't. I mean, I've never been arrogant. I've never

0:47:44.560 --> 0:47:48.080
<v Speaker 2>been cocky, just confident, you know what I mean. And

0:47:48.440 --> 0:47:55.480
<v Speaker 2>the one thing about like just just people just it

0:47:56.040 --> 0:47:59.080
<v Speaker 2>bothered me that you don't think that this is your world,

0:47:59.400 --> 0:48:02.560
<v Speaker 2>This is your world. It don't mean you're not being arrogant,

0:48:02.600 --> 0:48:04.879
<v Speaker 2>You're not being selfish thinking, you know what I mean,

0:48:05.080 --> 0:48:06.879
<v Speaker 2>Like you're the only one that matter in the world,

0:48:07.200 --> 0:48:09.120
<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean. But it's yours. This is

0:48:09.160 --> 0:48:12.880
<v Speaker 2>your life. Everything happens, you know, you the one you

0:48:12.920 --> 0:48:15.839
<v Speaker 2>ain't going nowhere. You might see everybody go before you,

0:48:15.840 --> 0:48:17.320
<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean. It's gonna hurt when people

0:48:17.360 --> 0:48:20.600
<v Speaker 2>go or whatever. But this is this is the one

0:48:20.640 --> 0:48:23.200
<v Speaker 2>shot that you got, you know what I mean, to

0:48:23.280 --> 0:48:26.399
<v Speaker 2>be happy to make these decisions and live with them,

0:48:26.640 --> 0:48:28.720
<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean. You concentrate on making mistakes

0:48:28.719 --> 0:48:33.400
<v Speaker 2>and hopefully you don't make the same mistake twice and

0:48:33.400 --> 0:48:36.359
<v Speaker 2>and live your live your life. Man, you got one

0:48:37.200 --> 0:48:41.000
<v Speaker 2>shot at this. Man. Ain't nothing wrong with being you, Man,

0:48:41.760 --> 0:48:44.439
<v Speaker 2>Ain't nothing wrong with it. Man, you can't be everybody else.

0:48:44.480 --> 0:48:46.320
<v Speaker 2>You can't. You know what I mean. You can't worry

0:48:46.320 --> 0:48:49.560
<v Speaker 2>about worry about what you can control. Man, You know

0:48:49.600 --> 0:48:51.719
<v Speaker 2>what I mean? Like I want some money. I want

0:48:51.719 --> 0:48:53.759
<v Speaker 2>to be the richest man in the world. I want

0:48:53.800 --> 0:48:55.399
<v Speaker 2>all the money. You know what I mean?

0:48:56.120 --> 0:48:57.800
<v Speaker 4>Yes, you know how you missed that on some money?

0:48:58.160 --> 0:49:02.480
<v Speaker 4>Not registering AI how much time with.

0:49:07.239 --> 0:49:12.040
<v Speaker 2>I got? I got the real guy? But register the sleeve,

0:49:13.040 --> 0:49:15.480
<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean? Like like like if I

0:49:15.680 --> 0:49:19.560
<v Speaker 2>get that copy written, like the sleeve, man, everybody with man,

0:49:19.680 --> 0:49:25.000
<v Speaker 2>people playing golf wearing the sleep. I seen R Kelly

0:49:25.000 --> 0:49:27.840
<v Speaker 2>had sleeve on. So what Kelly fell off the stage?

0:49:30.160 --> 0:49:31.640
<v Speaker 2>You know what I mean? The man got a sleeve

0:49:31.680 --> 0:49:36.239
<v Speaker 2>on in the video, yo, Man, like du like the

0:49:36.320 --> 0:49:39.560
<v Speaker 2>Steve is it's part of people, Like it's this it's

0:49:39.600 --> 0:49:42.680
<v Speaker 2>a swag. I'm wearing it. Like the whole reason I'm

0:49:42.680 --> 0:49:44.759
<v Speaker 2>wearing it because I'm hurt, you know what I mean.

0:49:44.840 --> 0:49:47.399
<v Speaker 2>Like it's a it's a it's a it's a lot

0:49:47.400 --> 0:49:53.120
<v Speaker 2>of opportunities that that were there that I passed up on.

0:49:53.640 --> 0:49:56.000
<v Speaker 2>But like I don't look at it like that. I

0:49:56.000 --> 0:49:59.520
<v Speaker 2>think now what like now where you're going at? Now?

0:49:59.560 --> 0:50:01.600
<v Speaker 2>What you're gonna do? You know what I mean? Like

0:50:01.800 --> 0:50:04.719
<v Speaker 2>every time God opened my eyes, I'm just you know,

0:50:04.920 --> 0:50:08.359
<v Speaker 2>I'm just trying to think positive. But life be life.

0:50:08.600 --> 0:50:12.160
<v Speaker 2>Like you know, you get a phone call, you know, hey, man,

0:50:12.320 --> 0:50:14.839
<v Speaker 2>like like, yo, I need you to do this. Bro,

0:50:15.040 --> 0:50:17.000
<v Speaker 2>you're asking me for this, you know what I mean?

0:50:17.080 --> 0:50:20.120
<v Speaker 2>Thousands of dollars. Christmas is a couple of days away.

0:50:20.640 --> 0:50:22.080
<v Speaker 2>Like why you ain't ask me this? You know what

0:50:22.120 --> 0:50:24.960
<v Speaker 2>I mean? Man, I'm asking you. You know, can you

0:50:25.000 --> 0:50:26.920
<v Speaker 2>do that? All right? I'm gonna do it for you,

0:50:26.920 --> 0:50:32.640
<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean. I ain't saying you know,

0:50:33.160 --> 0:50:36.720
<v Speaker 2>and all the people that I'm talking about, they certain

0:50:36.719 --> 0:50:38.279
<v Speaker 2>people are not gonna get upset because they know I'm

0:50:38.280 --> 0:50:40.600
<v Speaker 2>not talking about it, you know what I mean. But

0:50:41.160 --> 0:50:43.719
<v Speaker 2>you know, like like dude, you know I say, Yo,

0:50:43.760 --> 0:50:45.960
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna do it. I take care of that, you

0:50:45.960 --> 0:50:48.040
<v Speaker 2>know what I mean. You're my man, I take care

0:50:48.040 --> 0:50:50.080
<v Speaker 2>of that. You know what I mean. I said, But

0:50:50.120 --> 0:50:52.040
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna do it with my card, put it on

0:50:52.080 --> 0:50:54.880
<v Speaker 2>my car, so send me the information. Don't like that.

0:50:55.200 --> 0:50:57.360
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna do it on my car. Oh no, no, no,

0:50:57.760 --> 0:51:01.320
<v Speaker 2>I need cash, man, I need cash. What was doing Megas?

0:51:01.360 --> 0:51:03.160
<v Speaker 2>It's gonna be taken care of Vegas.

0:51:03.160 --> 0:51:05.960
<v Speaker 1>Can't be choosing it didn't take care difference than it's

0:51:05.960 --> 0:51:06.319
<v Speaker 1>a lie.

0:51:06.360 --> 0:51:10.400
<v Speaker 2>Then I got called a clown and no, yeah, crazy,

0:51:10.520 --> 0:51:12.600
<v Speaker 2>like I'm talking about I've been and I've been. This

0:51:12.719 --> 0:51:16.319
<v Speaker 2>dude was my homeboy since I was like thirty. I

0:51:16.320 --> 0:51:20.920
<v Speaker 2>mean like it's been thirty thirty eight years man, and

0:51:20.960 --> 0:51:21.640
<v Speaker 2>been homeboys.

0:51:21.760 --> 0:51:24.879
<v Speaker 1>You went above and beyond my brother, because anybody.

0:51:24.600 --> 0:51:27.439
<v Speaker 5>Ever tried to like come to you and say, look,

0:51:27.760 --> 0:51:30.600
<v Speaker 5>look my bad. I was tripping like back then. I

0:51:30.680 --> 0:51:32.680
<v Speaker 5>kept asking and acting and accent and you were doing

0:51:32.760 --> 0:51:34.720
<v Speaker 5>and I just I took advantage for you as anybody

0:51:34.800 --> 0:51:38.080
<v Speaker 5>ever come to you to take accountability one person.

0:51:38.120 --> 0:51:42.040
<v Speaker 2>You are incredible because it just happened. It just happened.

0:51:42.600 --> 0:51:46.080
<v Speaker 2>And my man was telling me that the same thing

0:51:46.120 --> 0:51:49.120
<v Speaker 2>you just said. He told my man that my man

0:51:49.200 --> 0:51:53.360
<v Speaker 2>told me and it was like went on death is

0:51:53.560 --> 0:51:55.600
<v Speaker 2>And I was like, man, yes, I heard him say

0:51:55.640 --> 0:51:58.040
<v Speaker 2>that before. And he keep doing it. You know what

0:51:58.120 --> 0:52:00.719
<v Speaker 2>I mean, Like you keep doing it? You know what

0:52:00.760 --> 0:52:03.520
<v Speaker 2>I mean, like the hardest, the hardest part, Like the

0:52:03.560 --> 0:52:09.400
<v Speaker 2>hardest part is when it's a homeboy or homegirl and

0:52:09.440 --> 0:52:11.920
<v Speaker 2>you want to cut them off because of how they

0:52:11.960 --> 0:52:14.680
<v Speaker 2>treat you, not because of how you treat them. You know,

0:52:14.719 --> 0:52:17.160
<v Speaker 2>they think you're treating bad, treating them bad because you

0:52:17.280 --> 0:52:21.480
<v Speaker 2>implemented that word no in your vocabulary. But the hardest

0:52:21.480 --> 0:52:27.520
<v Speaker 2>thing is when it's somebody that you love. The hardest

0:52:27.560 --> 0:52:32.480
<v Speaker 2>thing is questioning yourself, like, damn, am I wrong for this?

0:52:33.120 --> 0:52:35.520
<v Speaker 2>Am I going too far? You know what I mean?

0:52:35.640 --> 0:52:38.800
<v Speaker 2>Like you always try to look at yourself and feel

0:52:38.800 --> 0:52:41.600
<v Speaker 2>like if you could have did something wrong, I mean,

0:52:41.600 --> 0:52:43.560
<v Speaker 2>if you I'm sorry, if you could have did something right,

0:52:43.960 --> 0:52:44.560
<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean?

0:52:45.800 --> 0:52:46.720
<v Speaker 1>Not wrong boundaries?

0:52:46.719 --> 0:52:49.959
<v Speaker 6>My brother, I got a question for you. You talked

0:52:49.960 --> 0:52:52.600
<v Speaker 6>about your wife to wanna praying over. You decided not

0:52:52.640 --> 0:52:56.719
<v Speaker 6>to drink anymore as a husband. What have you discovered now?

0:52:57.000 --> 0:52:57.480
<v Speaker 2>Boyfriend?

0:53:00.920 --> 0:53:01.400
<v Speaker 6>Boyfriend?

0:53:01.400 --> 0:53:05.440
<v Speaker 4>I mean, we got divorce, so you married the boys

0:53:05.440 --> 0:53:07.920
<v Speaker 4>and y'all got right back together like six months later

0:53:08.000 --> 0:53:08.239
<v Speaker 4>or something.

0:53:09.160 --> 0:53:12.120
<v Speaker 2>I mean, I want to do I want this point

0:53:12.160 --> 0:53:20.200
<v Speaker 2>to be made because you think I'm who I am

0:53:21.440 --> 0:53:24.760
<v Speaker 2>and I was out of control. I was out of control.

0:53:25.600 --> 0:53:30.799
<v Speaker 2>And this threat was there for years, for years and

0:53:30.880 --> 0:53:33.120
<v Speaker 2>years and years and years and years, and it's like

0:53:33.160 --> 0:53:37.080
<v Speaker 2>the boy cried wolf, like whatever, I heard that before,

0:53:37.640 --> 0:53:40.920
<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean. And then it was like

0:53:40.960 --> 0:53:43.280
<v Speaker 2>she got to the point where like, yo, I gotta

0:53:43.280 --> 0:53:46.839
<v Speaker 2>show this motherfucker. I gotta do something to show him

0:53:46.840 --> 0:53:50.960
<v Speaker 2>I'm serious. And that's what happened. You in that courtroom

0:53:51.280 --> 0:53:54.839
<v Speaker 2>and you're looking over there and you see number one

0:53:55.440 --> 0:53:58.480
<v Speaker 2>right there, and you're looking down at that paper and

0:53:58.520 --> 0:54:01.399
<v Speaker 2>them tears hitting that that page and they don't say,

0:54:01.560 --> 0:54:05.200
<v Speaker 2>you know, I've been Georgetown versus Georgetown and it's been

0:54:05.239 --> 0:54:08.359
<v Speaker 2>a scrimmage or six's versus sixes, and you're looking at

0:54:08.360 --> 0:54:12.320
<v Speaker 2>the stat sheet whatever, I'm looking at Iverson versus Iverson,

0:54:12.880 --> 0:54:17.040
<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean, And like, yo, shit is real,

0:54:17.360 --> 0:54:23.839
<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean? Like, and did you wear suit? Look?

0:54:23.840 --> 0:54:26.040
<v Speaker 2>I really was defiant then, you know what I mean,

0:54:26.160 --> 0:54:28.719
<v Speaker 2>Like you got me in here, you know what I mean.

0:54:29.280 --> 0:54:31.839
<v Speaker 2>And I had a judge and judge was vicious, like

0:54:32.400 --> 0:54:33.520
<v Speaker 2>I couldn't do nothing right.

0:54:34.000 --> 0:54:36.920
<v Speaker 6>Even in that moment you were defined. Yeah, I'm no, no,

0:54:37.360 --> 0:54:38.759
<v Speaker 6>it is your interview. I was just gonna say, even

0:54:38.800 --> 0:54:41.240
<v Speaker 6>in that moment, you were defined, and I guess upset

0:54:41.320 --> 0:54:43.040
<v Speaker 6>even though you knew, because you said you knew you

0:54:43.080 --> 0:54:45.640
<v Speaker 6>were out of control. But so like in that moment,

0:54:45.760 --> 0:54:48.319
<v Speaker 6>why are you defining upset if she's just doing what

0:54:48.360 --> 0:54:50.319
<v Speaker 6>she thinks is going to help, I guess, to get

0:54:50.360 --> 0:54:51.759
<v Speaker 6>you to a better spot for her.

0:54:53.080 --> 0:55:03.640
<v Speaker 2>I was selfishly thinking about my demid because I know

0:55:05.760 --> 0:55:07.960
<v Speaker 2>in my heart and in my mind that I can't

0:55:08.000 --> 0:55:10.600
<v Speaker 2>live with our You know what I'm saying, like I

0:55:10.680 --> 0:55:14.240
<v Speaker 2>know it, like I know it. I took, I took

0:55:14.719 --> 0:55:17.919
<v Speaker 2>her love for me for granted, you know what I mean,

0:55:18.000 --> 0:55:20.600
<v Speaker 2>Like as far as she loving me so much that

0:55:20.680 --> 0:55:25.360
<v Speaker 2>I felt, like you know that she would never she

0:55:25.360 --> 0:55:28.319
<v Speaker 2>would never go go nowhere like this is all I've known.

0:55:28.360 --> 0:55:30.799
<v Speaker 2>This is the only love that I've ever known, as

0:55:30.800 --> 0:55:34.000
<v Speaker 2>far as like, I've never loved someone like this in

0:55:34.040 --> 0:55:36.160
<v Speaker 2>my life, you know what I mean? Then, a lot

0:55:36.160 --> 0:55:38.920
<v Speaker 2>of times, you know, all women would say, or even guys,

0:55:39.000 --> 0:55:43.239
<v Speaker 2>you know, anybody that's you know, logical about anything, how

0:55:43.280 --> 0:55:45.640
<v Speaker 2>you love her so much and you do the things?

0:55:46.480 --> 0:55:48.360
<v Speaker 2>And I don't have an answer.

0:55:48.480 --> 0:55:51.080
<v Speaker 1>We never do though, as men, we never do. We

0:55:51.080 --> 0:55:52.360
<v Speaker 1>don't know why we do the dumb.

0:55:52.200 --> 0:55:55.480
<v Speaker 6>Shit we do so how has not drinking and you know,

0:55:55.719 --> 0:55:57.720
<v Speaker 6>it seems like you're, you know, your focus is different

0:55:57.760 --> 0:55:59.759
<v Speaker 6>in this time of your life. How has that made

0:55:59.760 --> 0:56:01.560
<v Speaker 6>you go As we discover each other in a relationship.

0:56:01.640 --> 0:56:07.680
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, I'm I'm I'm uh, I'm Claire Huxtable. I'm

0:56:07.719 --> 0:56:13.480
<v Speaker 2>in Cliff. I'm Cliff Huxortable. Now like i'm I'm I'm

0:56:13.680 --> 0:56:16.560
<v Speaker 2>I kind of get a feeling like I'm the guy

0:56:16.640 --> 0:56:19.160
<v Speaker 2>like I felt always felt like, you know, I was

0:56:19.200 --> 0:56:21.759
<v Speaker 2>the guy she always wanted you know what I mean,

0:56:21.920 --> 0:56:25.040
<v Speaker 2>wanted to be, you know, wanted me to be. But

0:56:25.160 --> 0:56:27.880
<v Speaker 2>I really feel like that guy now, Like I feel

0:56:27.920 --> 0:56:34.680
<v Speaker 2>like it's not the Huxtables around there obviously, but like

0:56:34.880 --> 0:56:38.920
<v Speaker 2>she loved you know this me, you know, because you

0:56:39.080 --> 0:56:42.200
<v Speaker 2>always getting this me. It's hard to take advantage of

0:56:42.239 --> 0:56:44.960
<v Speaker 2>somebody that can see ship clear as hell, you know

0:56:44.960 --> 0:56:48.279
<v Speaker 2>what I mean, opposed to being nonchalant about everything, you

0:56:48.280 --> 0:56:52.520
<v Speaker 2>know what I mean, Like it's you know, my homeboys

0:56:52.520 --> 0:56:54.759
<v Speaker 2>says a different Chuck. Now, you know what I mean.

0:56:54.800 --> 0:56:59.520
<v Speaker 2>I see, I see what's going on, you know what

0:56:59.520 --> 0:57:01.400
<v Speaker 2>I mean. All stuff that I used to, you know,

0:57:01.480 --> 0:57:05.279
<v Speaker 2>not pay attention to, I'm paying attention to it now.

0:57:05.520 --> 0:57:08.120
<v Speaker 2>You know what I mean, And I just think, you know,

0:57:08.320 --> 0:57:13.400
<v Speaker 2>by me making this decision, it's so much better for

0:57:13.560 --> 0:57:16.960
<v Speaker 2>not just myself, everybody around me. I can help better.

0:57:17.240 --> 0:57:19.880
<v Speaker 2>My advice is better, you know what I mean. Like

0:57:19.960 --> 0:57:22.440
<v Speaker 2>I'm a better friend now, I'm a better family member.

0:57:23.200 --> 0:57:25.920
<v Speaker 2>You know this shit is clear, you know what I'm saying.

0:57:26.040 --> 0:57:31.120
<v Speaker 2>Like I promise you I'm the smartest man in the

0:57:31.160 --> 0:57:34.200
<v Speaker 2>world because I know him not you know what I mean,

0:57:34.680 --> 0:57:37.600
<v Speaker 2>I know him not like, but I know how if

0:57:37.600 --> 0:57:40.080
<v Speaker 2>it's a certain feel of you know how we need

0:57:40.080 --> 0:57:42.560
<v Speaker 2>some help, help, and you know what I mean, opposed

0:57:42.560 --> 0:57:46.720
<v Speaker 2>to just just doing it all way and thinking we know, no, man,

0:57:46.760 --> 0:57:49.600
<v Speaker 2>we gotta go to we gotta go to this person,

0:57:49.600 --> 0:57:51.160
<v Speaker 2>We gotta go to that person. We gotta do it

0:57:51.200 --> 0:57:53.120
<v Speaker 2>this way, we gotta do it that way, you know

0:57:53.120 --> 0:57:55.240
<v Speaker 2>what I mean. Put your ego aside. Man, We're trying

0:57:55.240 --> 0:57:56.600
<v Speaker 2>to get it done. We need to get it done.

0:57:56.800 --> 0:57:58.800
<v Speaker 2>But we're gonna get it done right. And it's just

0:57:59.520 --> 0:58:02.320
<v Speaker 2>an everlution of me. It took long, you know what

0:58:02.360 --> 0:58:04.320
<v Speaker 2>I mean, But I just think about it, like, Yo,

0:58:04.360 --> 0:58:07.320
<v Speaker 2>you embarrassed. You know, first, it was embarrassing that you know,

0:58:07.360 --> 0:58:10.160
<v Speaker 2>talking about that seen the ship went viral yesterday and

0:58:10.600 --> 0:58:14.760
<v Speaker 2>you embarrassed, you know, with the whole thing. But it's like, damn, bro,

0:58:14.920 --> 0:58:19.320
<v Speaker 2>that's another thing that you know, by you being you

0:58:20.080 --> 0:58:22.960
<v Speaker 2>and being comfortable in your own skin, it's gonna help

0:58:22.960 --> 0:58:24.840
<v Speaker 2>somebody else. Somebody might make that decision.

0:58:25.040 --> 0:58:26.480
<v Speaker 1>Right somebody's trying to be sober right now.

0:58:26.520 --> 0:58:29.160
<v Speaker 4>You know what I'm saying that whatever time, because I

0:58:29.200 --> 0:58:31.560
<v Speaker 4>didn't get it from the book where anybody recommended therapy

0:58:31.600 --> 0:58:33.880
<v Speaker 4>to you, because it was clear you was my girl.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, like you need some help, you know what I mean.

0:58:37.200 --> 0:58:39.480
<v Speaker 2>You don't remember what was? Are you coming to a

0:58:41.080 --> 0:58:43.800
<v Speaker 2>get up that ship? You said last month?

0:58:44.840 --> 0:58:46.160
<v Speaker 1>You know what I mean?

0:58:46.600 --> 0:58:49.400
<v Speaker 2>Just starting ship, you know what I mean? And then

0:58:49.400 --> 0:58:51.680
<v Speaker 2>she used to be like you ran you running around

0:58:51.680 --> 0:58:55.320
<v Speaker 2>with all these dudes all day long and y'all drinking

0:58:55.360 --> 0:58:57.960
<v Speaker 2>and have a ball, and you come in here fucking

0:58:58.000 --> 0:59:02.800
<v Speaker 2>with me. I'm talking about where your piece is at? Man,

0:59:03.240 --> 0:59:04.959
<v Speaker 2>You know what I mean, because you going but women

0:59:05.080 --> 0:59:07.800
<v Speaker 2>know you leave that house. Man, we tackling the world

0:59:08.280 --> 0:59:12.200
<v Speaker 2>like you. It's going down. It's hard for me, like

0:59:12.240 --> 0:59:14.360
<v Speaker 2>I said, to go to the grocery store, to go

0:59:14.400 --> 0:59:16.840
<v Speaker 2>to Target, Walmart. I gotta be all and irvus and

0:59:16.840 --> 0:59:18.800
<v Speaker 2>every day I walk in the house, and one thing

0:59:18.840 --> 0:59:22.880
<v Speaker 2>about it, everybody, everybody out there, if you think about it,

0:59:22.920 --> 0:59:24.720
<v Speaker 2>somebody gonna see you and feel like this is the

0:59:24.840 --> 0:59:28.040
<v Speaker 2>last opportunity that I'm ever gonna get to see him

0:59:28.160 --> 0:59:29.880
<v Speaker 2>and this is my moment. That's what you know what

0:59:29.880 --> 0:59:33.360
<v Speaker 2>I mean? When they see oh shit, it's like and

0:59:33.400 --> 0:59:36.440
<v Speaker 2>then you you somewhere and you're paying for something, and

0:59:36.480 --> 0:59:39.320
<v Speaker 2>then you finish and you turn around and you see

0:59:39.320 --> 0:59:41.880
<v Speaker 2>so many people. You see cameras and then you see

0:59:42.000 --> 0:59:44.600
<v Speaker 2>and they do the ship sho like like getting ready

0:59:44.600 --> 0:59:51.120
<v Speaker 2>to jump rope. You see everybody, like everybody everybody time,

0:59:51.560 --> 0:59:53.360
<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean. And it's like it's like

0:59:53.640 --> 0:59:55.600
<v Speaker 2>it's like, bro, you want to be you want to

0:59:55.640 --> 0:59:58.760
<v Speaker 2>like you wanna it's so much you go out when

0:59:58.800 --> 1:00:01.720
<v Speaker 2>you come in the crib man to be you know

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<v Speaker 2>what I'm saying, Like fall on, you know, on the

1:00:04.520 --> 1:00:08.280
<v Speaker 2>couch and and and you have made it through the storm,

1:00:08.680 --> 1:00:11.080
<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean. Because like my fans, like

1:00:11.320 --> 1:00:15.200
<v Speaker 2>they they got real love man, you know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>But some of them, when you can you can distinguish

1:00:18.960 --> 1:00:22.360
<v Speaker 2>a fan, a truth fan, and just somebody that you know,

1:00:23.120 --> 1:00:25.439
<v Speaker 2>give a damn about how nice you was on the court,

1:00:25.600 --> 1:00:28.280
<v Speaker 2>because a truth fan, give a fuck about you. You

1:00:28.360 --> 1:00:30.320
<v Speaker 2>know what I mean, Like you feed them feeding my daughter?

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<v Speaker 2>You know what I mean. I'm in the restaurant and

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<v Speaker 2>stick a piece of paper and paying them. Sign this

1:00:36.000 --> 1:00:38.439
<v Speaker 2>right here, Ai, you know what I mean. Hold on baby,

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<v Speaker 2>let me and this and I you know I love women,

1:00:42.240 --> 1:00:43.680
<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean to death. I love all

1:00:43.720 --> 1:00:48.080
<v Speaker 2>my fans, but women fans are they don't like taking no.

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<v Speaker 2>You know what I mean, Dude, tell you know all

1:00:50.720 --> 1:00:53.200
<v Speaker 2>the time. But me somebody you don't know, tell you

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<v Speaker 2>know you go crazy in a minute. I'm feeding my

1:00:55.960 --> 1:00:57.800
<v Speaker 2>daughter right now. Now, Well fuck you there in Ai.

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<v Speaker 2>Kobe Bryant better than you anyway. Tell me I'm gonna

1:01:01.640 --> 1:01:03.800
<v Speaker 2>burn these shoes I bought. I brought your shoes. I

1:01:03.840 --> 1:01:06.040
<v Speaker 2>bought your jersey. I'm like, I ain't say no. I

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<v Speaker 2>just said, let me finish my daughter, you know what

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<v Speaker 2>I mean. Like it's it's it's just it's crazy. I

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<v Speaker 2>remember I was at David Buses with the kids. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>on the phone talking to my mom and a lady

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<v Speaker 2>walked up to me and she was like, hey, let

1:01:19.160 --> 1:01:22.040
<v Speaker 2>me talk to you iself. Hold on, man, I'm talking

1:01:22.040 --> 1:01:24.439
<v Speaker 2>to my mom on the phone right now. What's your

1:01:24.480 --> 1:01:30.120
<v Speaker 2>mom more important than your fans? Yeah? I was like yo,

1:01:30.600 --> 1:01:32.600
<v Speaker 2>I was like yo, I was looking let me just

1:01:32.600 --> 1:01:34.040
<v Speaker 2>get away from you. You know what I mean. But

1:01:34.080 --> 1:01:37.600
<v Speaker 2>that's like, you know, all in the nutshell man being

1:01:37.680 --> 1:01:42.240
<v Speaker 2>a celebrity. Man, you say that because people think about

1:01:42.280 --> 1:01:44.640
<v Speaker 2>the money and the fame and the talent or whatever.

1:01:45.120 --> 1:01:48.880
<v Speaker 2>Man you say you want this life and whatever. Man,

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<v Speaker 2>you really man, A lot of people, if they would meet,

1:01:51.800 --> 1:01:53.720
<v Speaker 2>would have been jumped off a building and put a

1:01:53.760 --> 1:01:55.120
<v Speaker 2>pistol to their head and blew it off.

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<v Speaker 5>By Now, that's the crazy thing. Little John said that

1:01:57.240 --> 1:01:59.479
<v Speaker 5>same thing when we had him. He said, you gotta

1:01:59.560 --> 1:02:01.520
<v Speaker 5>be built, you gotta have tough skin. This is not

1:02:01.560 --> 1:02:04.160
<v Speaker 5>an easy industry to be in. But your influence was

1:02:04.200 --> 1:02:07.360
<v Speaker 5>crazy because I'm telling you, Allen evinceins, I was getting

1:02:07.400 --> 1:02:09.200
<v Speaker 5>them and I was getting bitches and I wasn't even gay.

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<v Speaker 2>In middle school.

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<v Speaker 5>I would come get my hand braided. And that's good,

1:02:12.880 --> 1:02:14.440
<v Speaker 5>you told me hand on hang time. I didn't either,

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<v Speaker 5>put the bitches ain't no, because I had the absence.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, so your time in Philly, right, I mean influencing

1:02:23.240 --> 1:02:26.280
<v Speaker 6>impacts and everything you did. But Philly embraced you so

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<v Speaker 6>much and the person you aren't meeting you I get

1:02:28.640 --> 1:02:31.640
<v Speaker 6>it now, but you know, Philly don't embrace everybody. What

1:02:31.760 --> 1:02:33.680
<v Speaker 6>was your time like there? Just in like what were

1:02:33.680 --> 1:02:37.680
<v Speaker 6>you doing? I guess to lean into that or like

1:02:37.720 --> 1:02:40.080
<v Speaker 6>I don't know, like did you feel the okay? They

1:02:40.160 --> 1:02:41.880
<v Speaker 6>love me here like when you walk out onto the

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<v Speaker 6>streets and not at first because people, you know, Philly

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<v Speaker 6>is tough.

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<v Speaker 2>The toughest and they called it his brotherly love. That's

1:02:50.160 --> 1:02:54.640
<v Speaker 2>about it. My relationship, not in the beginning, but I

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<v Speaker 2>think I have I would I would say Michael Jordan

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<v Speaker 2>and uh Chicago, Steph and a state who else you

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<v Speaker 2>know said the Bay Area now probably Shay in Oklahoma City.

1:03:12.920 --> 1:03:16.680
<v Speaker 2>I think I have the best relationship with a fan base,

1:03:17.400 --> 1:03:20.920
<v Speaker 2>I think in sports history, you know what I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>Like that's that's crazy. And Kobel Kobe, you know what

1:03:25.560 --> 1:03:29.960
<v Speaker 2>I mean. They watched me grow up. I was twenty

1:03:30.000 --> 1:03:32.560
<v Speaker 2>one years old when I got there, Like they watched me,

1:03:33.000 --> 1:03:35.920
<v Speaker 2>you know, go through my ups and downs. But I

1:03:35.960 --> 1:03:37.880
<v Speaker 2>played every game like it was my last. And if

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<v Speaker 2>you know Philadelphia, that's all they really want like I could.

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<v Speaker 2>I was telling Steve yesterday, like I could be out there,

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<v Speaker 2>I can go oh for Winfrey from the field, you

1:03:49.400 --> 1:03:52.240
<v Speaker 2>know what I mean. But they knew that AI played

1:03:52.320 --> 1:03:54.120
<v Speaker 2>as hard as he could, you know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>I could look in the mirror after the game every

1:03:56.240 --> 1:03:59.480
<v Speaker 2>game I played, hurt, sick, whatever, and look at the mirror,

1:03:59.520 --> 1:04:01.800
<v Speaker 2>and I know I felt bad, you know, I felt good.

1:04:01.840 --> 1:04:04.960
<v Speaker 2>I upset about not playing well, but I knew that

1:04:05.040 --> 1:04:07.440
<v Speaker 2>I played that game like it was my last. People

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<v Speaker 2>in Philadelphia love that, and all relationship has been that,

1:04:12.000 --> 1:04:14.000
<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean. Since I've been retired with

1:04:14.280 --> 1:04:18.800
<v Speaker 2>fifteen years now, and the relationship is still the same.

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<v Speaker 2>You walk in the building, it's the same feeling. And

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<v Speaker 2>then the people in Philadelphia are used to me outside

1:04:25.800 --> 1:04:35.760
<v Speaker 2>of being in that arena, barbershops and everywhere. Applebee's. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>I was a.

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<v Speaker 6>Little younger, so I came a little bit after.

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<v Speaker 2>You weren't there.

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<v Speaker 6>Weren't in Fridays when I was there. But yeah, Club

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<v Speaker 6>Fridays was a thing.

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<v Speaker 2>It became the third largest Fridays in the country, you

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<v Speaker 2>know what I mean, Like it was really a club,

1:04:47.560 --> 1:04:49.760
<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean. Line, they started checking out

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<v Speaker 2>ideas you had to get you had to have reservations

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<v Speaker 2>and you know what I mean, Like it was it

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<v Speaker 2>was crazy, you know what I mean. Philly. I love Philadelphia.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean I love it, you know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>But it's just just like Virginia. I can't never like

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<v Speaker 2>live there, you know what I mean. Like when I retired,

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<v Speaker 2>I went to Florida, like trying to get away from everything.

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<v Speaker 2>Then it's just meet her and the kids and no family,

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<v Speaker 2>no friends, like nah, you know what I mean. So

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<v Speaker 2>I moved in Charlotte. It's close to Virginia, but you know,

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<v Speaker 2>I can never go live there again. But people have

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<v Speaker 2>worried of me the damn death, you know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>Like we're close. My mom could drive or our flight.

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<v Speaker 1>Right it saying you gotta wrap I do.

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<v Speaker 4>Got one last question, man, you changed the entire culture

1:05:35.240 --> 1:05:37.920
<v Speaker 4>of basketball, but to me, you change black culture. You

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<v Speaker 4>also change hip hop culture from your fashion to your

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<v Speaker 4>attitude to just your authenticity.

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<v Speaker 1>When you see how the NBA in the.

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<v Speaker 4>World embraces individuality, Now, do you feel celebrated or do

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<v Speaker 4>you still feel misunderstood?

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<v Speaker 2>Nah, it's I get the opportunity, Like this is opportunity

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<v Speaker 2>for me, you know what I mean, Like all of

1:06:02.280 --> 1:06:07.560
<v Speaker 2>those years you wanted to you know, you wanted this.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh man, you got me wrong, you know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>Talk about it to your family and your friends. Man,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm misunderstood. Man, they don't They ain't getting it, you

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<v Speaker 2>know what I mean. It ain't like that. And then

1:06:19.040 --> 1:06:22.800
<v Speaker 2>this platform and then all the other big platforms, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>just you guys giving me an opportunity to come up

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<v Speaker 2>here and ask me shit that I want to answer

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<v Speaker 2>that that I want the world to know, you know

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<v Speaker 2>what I mean. I want them to know that it

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<v Speaker 2>ain't like that. It's like this, you know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>Then you're hearing it from someone else, you know what

1:06:37.640 --> 1:06:41.480
<v Speaker 2>I mean, someone else telling who Alan Iverson is. Then

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<v Speaker 2>just to have the opportunity to do it in the

1:06:44.120 --> 1:06:48.640
<v Speaker 2>excitement about it is the long wait because now I

1:06:48.680 --> 1:06:50.840
<v Speaker 2>finally get a chance to Man, you was wrong. You

1:06:50.920 --> 1:06:54.600
<v Speaker 2>had me fucked up like that ain't what it is,

1:06:55.200 --> 1:06:57.200
<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean? And going through your career,

1:06:57.240 --> 1:07:00.480
<v Speaker 2>you can't explain to everybody every situation it don't, you

1:07:00.480 --> 1:07:03.080
<v Speaker 2>know what I mean. And this book took years, you

1:07:03.120 --> 1:07:05.160
<v Speaker 2>know what I mean. The documentary took years to do

1:07:06.040 --> 1:07:10.320
<v Speaker 2>and man, I just I'm just happy that I get

1:07:10.360 --> 1:07:14.680
<v Speaker 2>an opportunity to to tell my story or write my

1:07:14.800 --> 1:07:19.000
<v Speaker 2>story and and help and help and help somebody, you

1:07:19.080 --> 1:07:22.480
<v Speaker 2>know what I mean. Just like you know Michael Jordan

1:07:22.720 --> 1:07:25.120
<v Speaker 2>did for me, you know what I mean, Like he

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<v Speaker 2>If it wasn't for no Michael Jordan, it would not

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<v Speaker 2>be the Allen Iverson and everybody in the world. Know, Like,

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<v Speaker 2>I literally like he gave me the vision. Man Like,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm like, I want to be like him, you know

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<v Speaker 2>what I mean. That's who I want to be. Him

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<v Speaker 2>and Michael Michael Jackson. I want all the dudes to

1:07:43.120 --> 1:07:45.080
<v Speaker 2>love me, you know what I mean. I want all

1:07:45.080 --> 1:07:46.960
<v Speaker 2>the girls to love me, you know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>I want to put that in one you know what

1:07:48.840 --> 1:07:51.520
<v Speaker 2>I'm saying. And I want to be you know, uh,

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<v Speaker 2>not just a basketball player, but just big all the way.

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<v Speaker 2>And I didn't I didn't get this vision until until

1:08:00.360 --> 1:08:02.280
<v Speaker 2>I started to take care of what I had to

1:08:02.320 --> 1:08:07.000
<v Speaker 2>do on the basketball court and then becoming a cultural icon,

1:08:07.200 --> 1:08:10.000
<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean. Okay, all these rappers, all

1:08:10.040 --> 1:08:12.560
<v Speaker 2>these people in the world that want to just express

1:08:12.640 --> 1:08:15.360
<v Speaker 2>themselves the way they want to express themselves. Now they

1:08:15.360 --> 1:08:18.160
<v Speaker 2>get an opportunity. Man, he can do it. Man, Ain't

1:08:18.200 --> 1:08:20.160
<v Speaker 2>nothing wrong with what I'm doing, regardless of high look.

1:08:21.000 --> 1:08:25.040
<v Speaker 2>Regardless high look. Everybody talk about that that runway walking

1:08:25.080 --> 1:08:27.400
<v Speaker 2>into the game. I'm watching it, you know what I mean.

1:08:27.520 --> 1:08:30.120
<v Speaker 2>I don't like everything up there, but I just love

1:08:30.200 --> 1:08:34.000
<v Speaker 2>their confidence of walking in there, like, yeah, I'm doing

1:08:34.040 --> 1:08:37.360
<v Speaker 2>it today, you know what I mean, And like just

1:08:37.520 --> 1:08:43.240
<v Speaker 2>my story. All I want is for people to get

1:08:43.240 --> 1:08:46.280
<v Speaker 2>out of it. Man, It's all right to be you.

1:08:46.760 --> 1:08:50.120
<v Speaker 2>It's all right, you know what I mean. It's things

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<v Speaker 2>that's gonna happen in your life and it's gonna be tough,

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<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean. But that's when you're gonna

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<v Speaker 2>lean on number one. You're gonna lean on him, gonna

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<v Speaker 2>lean on God. You don't. You don't ask them, uh

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<v Speaker 2>any you don't question him at all, you know what

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<v Speaker 2>I mean. Whatever happened happened, I ain't. My grandma told

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<v Speaker 2>me when I went to jail, that bowling alley thing.

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<v Speaker 2>I said, Now, why are they doing this to me?

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<v Speaker 2>If they know I didn't do what they said? I

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<v Speaker 2>did question, never questioned God, and I've never done it

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<v Speaker 2>since then, you know what I mean? Whatever he do?

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<v Speaker 2>You know what I mean. I'm cool with it, you

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<v Speaker 2>know what I mean. He driving this car and I'm

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<v Speaker 2>gonna just sitting there, ride shotgun wherever he take me.

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<v Speaker 2>That's where I'm going, and I'm gonna live with the results.

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<v Speaker 2>So that's that's the only thing I want. I just think, man, live, man, laugh,

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<v Speaker 2>love man. We love you brother, you out right now.

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<v Speaker 2>I got God.

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<v Speaker 1>It's the Breakfast Club.

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<v Speaker 3>Good morning, every day, up waking.

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<v Speaker 1>The Breakfast Club. You're finished for yar dumb