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Speaker 1: This podcast is based in large part of the book

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Speaker 1: Born Ready, The Mixed Legacy of Lemby's. Some quotes are

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Speaker 1: narrated by Davon Grady, a podcast producer and the author

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Speaker 1: of the book, from interviews done for the book. Recordings

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Speaker 1: for these comments were not available.

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Speaker 2: Coming out of them.

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Speaker 3: Every lane, he was supposed to come to Kolchfield House

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Speaker 3: and we had banners and everything, and we waited and

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Speaker 3: we waited, and you know, nothing, nothing ever happened, you told.

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Speaker 4: Me, lady.

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Speaker 5: Of course, I'm kind of delirious. I'm not figuring out

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Speaker 5: what he's talking about.

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Speaker 4: Side go look, he's a deliverer room. He swalled out

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Speaker 4: with the floor.

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Speaker 6: It was a seven, maybe seven twenty seven, twenty five.

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Speaker 6: And then someone chased me down on them all and

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Speaker 6: call me come back. It's the news that something happened

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Speaker 6: Lenny with the war drugs like.

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Speaker 7: The The phone rang and it was someone saying that

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Speaker 7: Lynn was sick.

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Speaker 2: He'sa at the hospital. I said what, and so I

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Speaker 2: told my husband. He said what.

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Speaker 5: I kept asking that, so I finally said it. I

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Speaker 5: said it was a drug. And David started frawlling. I

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Speaker 5: mean he he screamed, and at that point.

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Speaker 4: I did drug.

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Speaker 7: I said, it's his heart beating and she said no.

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Speaker 7: So I said, well he's gone.

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Speaker 4: I'll never forget. And I heard the news and I

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Speaker 4: couldn't believe it.

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Speaker 8: I pulled over the side of the road and I

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Speaker 8: cried like I cried like a two year old.

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Speaker 4: Made up next to me.

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Speaker 1: Boys my mixed legacy his final hours.

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Speaker 9: When len Bias came home from Boston the evening before

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Speaker 9: he died, his mother, Lanise, was not home. He greeted

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Speaker 9: the rest of his jubilant family with hugs. He handed

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Speaker 9: out reebox shoes from a big box. Lenn tried to

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Speaker 9: wait for his mother to return home before he went

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Speaker 9: out to visit friends in College Park, but he grew

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Speaker 9: impatient and departed.

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Speaker 2: He saw Ron if he won't belie us.

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Speaker 10: But I never got to see him before he died.

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Speaker 10: I didn't, you know, I was out. And when I

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Speaker 10: had gotten back, and when I had come back home,

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Speaker 10: they said he had just laughed. And I said, always

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Speaker 10: teased him about his long leg. I said that long

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Speaker 10: leg Rappel could have waited for me. And then you know,

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Speaker 10: we went on and you know, they said, well, he

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Speaker 10: said he's going to be back tomorrow. And you know,

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Speaker 10: we're going to do this.

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Speaker 9: That and the other others had hoped or had expected

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Speaker 9: Bias to visit them soon after his return. Tom McMillan

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Speaker 9: was an All American from Marya and in the nineteen seventies.

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Speaker 9: On June eighteen, McMillan scheduled and events supporting his first

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Speaker 9: general election campaign for Congress.

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Speaker 11: We had scheduled a fundraiser and washed it was kind

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Speaker 11: of a unique fundraiser. It was a basketball then, so

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Speaker 11: we had some of the congressmans from my congressman friends

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Speaker 11: coming who were like to play basketball, and parents would

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Speaker 11: Bullets there where when he was going to come right

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Speaker 9: Vicki Bullet had just completed her freshman year on the

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Speaker 4: She was also part of a group.

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Speaker 9: On campus that had set up a welcome home celebration

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Speaker 3: He was supposed to come to Colefield House.

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Speaker 2: You know, we're going to cheer him on.

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Speaker 12: We had banners and everything. Every though. He was on

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Speaker 3: And maybe two hundred, maybe two hundred students at the

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Speaker 3: But I know our whole basketball team was there and

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Speaker 9: Brian Waller grew up playing basketball with Bias at the

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Speaker 9: Columbia Park Recreation Center, also known as the Wreck. Johnny

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Speaker 9: Walker was a coach and mentor of Bias at the center.

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Speaker 9: They joined some of the other regulars at the Wreck

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Speaker 9: Waller had talked with Bias the day before the draft.

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Speaker 9: Bias hadn't said he would stop by that night, but

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Speaker 9: were just hanging out talking and waiting for him to

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Speaker 9: returned to his dormitory suite at Washington Hall after ten

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Speaker 9: with a lady friend who would stop by the visit.

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Speaker 9: Terry Long, Len's teammate.

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Speaker 2: Was there too.

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Speaker 9: His testimony later during a trial related to Len's death,

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Speaker 9: hinted at where Bias was going. Said Long he had

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Speaker 9: to quote go drain his lizard.

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Speaker 9: We knew what he meant. He said he hadn't been

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Speaker 9: with a girl in three days. Bias stopped by a

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Speaker 9: two thirty am along with Brian Tribble, a friend. Bias

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Speaker 9: We're going to celebrate. Bias then woke up another teammate,

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Speaker 9: David Greg, and told Greg and Long to get some

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Speaker 9: beer from a nearby refrigerator. Long and Greg saw a

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Speaker 9: man of cocaine on a mirror on the desk when

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Speaker 9: they returned to Long's room. After Greg asked Bias and

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Speaker 9: Trible where the cocaine came from, Long said the following.

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Speaker 9: During court testimony quotes, Treble said something about getting it

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Speaker 9: from the bottom of a stash, and they planned to

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Speaker 9: get a kilo the next day. End of course, Long, Greg, Bias,

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Speaker 9: and Treble started snorting the cocaine through cut straws until

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Speaker 9: about three am. That's when Jeff Baxter knocked on Long store.

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Speaker 9: Long told Trouble to put the cocaine away because the

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Speaker 9: players knew Baxter did not use drugs.

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Speaker 5: Andy to some time before I opened the door, and

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Speaker 5: then I talked to followed them as a group. It's

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Speaker 5: kind of just like seating the breeze.

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Speaker 4: At that point he talks, everybody was kind of like elated.

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Speaker 4: I did not.

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Speaker 5: I didn't see the funny they I didn't see the

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Speaker 4: Than head Beer, didn't see the drugs anywhere. Having my

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Speaker 9: Bias, Triple Long, and Greg snorted cocaine until some time

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Speaker 9: after six am. Bias then rested on Long's bed for

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Speaker 9: about five minutes. He then struggled to go to the

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Speaker 9: Long placed a pair of scissors and Bias his mouth

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Speaker 9: to prevent him from biting his tongue, while Greg held

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Speaker 9: Bias his feet. Soon after, Greg woke up Baxter.

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Speaker 4: He told me to come come, then he fell out.

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Speaker 5: Of course, I'm kind of delirious, not figuring out what

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Speaker 5: liver room, lady, the liver room. Yeah, swallowed out on

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Speaker 5: So he really wasn't night there because I'm looking at him,

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Speaker 5: kneeled down, and I'm still looking at him, afraid to

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Speaker 5: touch him, afraid to lean listen to as heard any

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Speaker 4: It's just like right near was he was. I wasn't

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Speaker 5: High stars my whole time when he was unconscious, I

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Speaker 5: was thinking that the necklace, the gold chain that he

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Speaker 5: paramedics tinment, that's the weirdest thing. Well, why would I

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Speaker 5: think that at that point?

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Speaker 4: Who knows?

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Speaker 5: But I was thinking that that that's what the cause was.

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Speaker 5: So weird man, because you know, you think a guy

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Speaker 5: he was perfectly sulted, so always big guns, uh, you know,

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Speaker 5: just perfect, didn't need to get any bigger at all?

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Speaker 5: How could he be laid out on the floor.

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Speaker 9: A short time earlier, at six thirty two am, Triple

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Speaker 13: Yeah, and I.

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Speaker 14: Don't know, never knows Washington Hall?

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Speaker 3: And if he just went to.

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Speaker 4: What are you talking about? What are you talking about?

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Speaker 5: What I'm talking about? Someone ns lands news?

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Speaker 2: What doesn't matter? What his name is? What's the problem?

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Speaker 15: He's not three?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 13: What's the Addresshington Hall or good?

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Speaker 2: Washington Hall?

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Speaker 16: Yes? What's your name? Brian?

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Speaker 3: What true?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 17: Sir?

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Speaker 2: What's your plan number? Brian oh Man.

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Speaker 15: Buys his room?

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Speaker 4: What's the room number?

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Speaker 2: You never know?

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Speaker 5: Just Washington Hall? What's the address Washington Hall?

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Speaker 11: And so I don't know if you're.

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Speaker 2: Address first, there's the Washington Hall?

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Speaker 5: Who uh, hungry hands.

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Speaker 2: And brush showed up there. It's on the light hair side.

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Speaker 9: So please, souls you shun cause you no jo okay.

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Speaker 4: Washington Hall, apartment number eleven at three given a month

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Speaker 4: to lop you can hear it now, s advice you

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Speaker 4: have to give us back to life. Say no way

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Speaker 9: I say, if it's a please don quick like a Washington.

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Speaker 11: Hall and Department room Ember eleven at three, right, Uh huh,

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Speaker 11: that's one thousand.

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Speaker 4: One hundred and three.

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Speaker 5: You don't know then, all right, whatever.

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Speaker 16: He wants out, all right, you have an ambulance out.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 9: After the ambulance took Bias to the hospital, Long cleaned

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Speaker 9: the empty beer bottles and cut straws from his room.

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Speaker 9: He emptied them into a dumpster behind the dormitory. The

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Speaker 9: following vivid recollections by Baxter captured the chaos of the

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Speaker 9: next few hours after.

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Speaker 4: This is what I did, was I immediately the terama.

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Speaker 2: Took off.

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Speaker 5: I couldn't find my keys to my car. I couldn't

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Speaker 5: find and saved my life. I don't know where they were.

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Speaker 4: Sometimes, lady, we dropped my cars, head drop his car,

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Speaker 4: so I always do where.

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Speaker 2: His keys were?

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Speaker 5: What I said, I can't find it. So I grabbed

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Speaker 5: his keys, I jumped in his car, and I ran

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Speaker 5: every light. But this is unknown, is what I didn't realize.

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Speaker 5: I read a license. Actually I got it near the hospital,

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Speaker 5: maybe about eight I don't even know how. I don't

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Speaker 5: know how I actually got there. It says, uh, just

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Speaker 5: read it likes my mind was a whole different band.

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Speaker 5: And I get there, everything's going or teammates there, Keith

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Speaker 5: is in one corner, just fry.

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Speaker 4: I mean, we're just we're losing.

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Speaker 9: Derek Lewis, a sophomore on the Maryland team, was walking

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Speaker 6: So that day I said, well, he's uh, he's not

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Speaker 4: Can't forget what's going on.

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Speaker 5: I'm hearing them crubs, but I'm just like he was

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Speaker 6: This is Jeff talking to Terry or David saying, you

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Speaker 4: He said, you can't tell him what happened. He fell out,

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Speaker 5: So I finally said, I said it was a drug

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Speaker 5: You just knew what from Rihanna, Yeah, from he never

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Speaker 9: Bob Wagner was the high school coach for both bias

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Speaker 12: David had asthma sometimes and he could have asked. And

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Speaker 4: David's having a harm.

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Speaker 12: It's why he's you know, Len's gonna die. He's gonna

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Speaker 13: Doctor came down the hall when I was with David,

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Speaker 2: And we got there and.

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Speaker 7: I saw the players outside crying and torn up and

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Speaker 2: I was saying, well, what's going on?

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Speaker 7: And when we got in, they said that Lenn had

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Speaker 2: I said, well, is he breathing on his own? She

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Speaker 7: I said, well he's gone and she said no, he's

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Speaker 7: My spirit I felt what I actually went through, what

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Speaker 2: It wouldn't happen.

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Speaker 7: So it was almost a sense of not a relief,

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Speaker 12: He was already dad.

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Speaker 9: And then you know, eventually I was in the room

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Speaker 9: Johnny Walker, myself and the parents and mister Bias picks

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Speaker 6: He said, you know, I'm still thinking of acl Uh. Yes,

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Speaker 4: Know, then his mom came out. I was sitting in

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Speaker 5: I do remember the spires coming out and kind of

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Speaker 4: I know she was calm as hell. Yeah, I was

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Speaker 5: That surprised me now because of her persoda, but it

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Speaker 5: She controlled her family without a doubt about a guy.

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Speaker 7: She was the glue, gave the official declaration, if you will,

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Speaker 2: And we went in and we looked at him and.

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Speaker 7: And God had given me a strength to stand there,

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Speaker 7: I can remember seeing Adrian's branch, his dad on the

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Speaker 7: And then trying to get my children together, Jay and

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Speaker 2: It was chaotic.

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Speaker 9: News about the death of Bias stunned the vast reaches

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Speaker 16: Van Pelt told me, I saw my best friend's younger

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Speaker 9: Derek Wittenberg played for NC State against lenn He grew

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Speaker 8: I'll never forget it, and I heard the news and

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Speaker 14: Ball was there, you know, ball went out of I

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Speaker 12: My mom's home. I'm home.

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Speaker 14: I remember I'm playing upstairs and I just hear her scream.

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Speaker 12: No way I did anything already. I didn't hit my sister,

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Speaker 14: always like therapeutic for me.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, that was it, you know. I don't even.

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Speaker 14: Remember how my parents tried to explain things to me.

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Speaker 9: Reaction to the death of Bias span the Globe, Michael

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Speaker 9: Jordan and Larry Bird sent flowers. President Reagan sent a

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Speaker 9: letter that read, in part, lens now in our Lord's

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Speaker 9: safe keeping, and we pray that this knowledge will be

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Speaker 9: a source of consolation.

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Speaker 2: We received cards from.

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Speaker 7: President Reagan and Nancy the Bush's tip.

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Speaker 2: O'Neil everybody on the hill.

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Speaker 7: We received personal CODs from people all over the world,

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Speaker 7: from the highest point in government everywhere, from around the world.

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Speaker 9: Long time Maryland sportscaster Johnny Holliday had performed in live

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Speaker 9: theater that prompted Lenise Bias to ask him to sing

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Speaker 9: at Lynn's funeral service at the University of Maryland Chapel.

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Speaker 9: More than one thousand people attended.

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Speaker 13: And I said, I don't, I don't. I don't think

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Speaker 13: I could do that. It'd be too emotional, too difficult

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Speaker 13: to do. After I thought about it for a while,

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Speaker 13: I said, you know, this is this this is quite

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Speaker 13: an honor to be asked to do something like this

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Speaker 13: and as emotional as it was going to be, And

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Speaker 13: it was yeah, I'll try, was my response. I'll try

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Speaker 13: to get through it. And I said, what song do

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Speaker 13: you want?

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Speaker 2: Going to sing?

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Speaker 12: The Lord's Prayer?

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Speaker 13: WHOA not an easy song. It's not the same as

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Speaker 13: a Broadway musical. And as I sang the song to

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Speaker 13: this very day, I remember thinking about everything, but what

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Speaker 13: I'm looking at is a casket being rolled down the

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Speaker 13: aisle with the family just in such an emotional state

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Speaker 13: following behind the cast. And I got through the song,

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Speaker 13: and as I look down, Missus Bias is walking behind

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Speaker 13: the casket and she goes.

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Speaker 9: Holiday makes the sound of Lanie's Bias blowing a kiss.

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Speaker 13: And that's when it all went to pieces, and I

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Speaker 13: know I broke down. I got through the song though,

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Speaker 13: I did, okay.

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Speaker 9: The Bias family invited the Reverend Jesse Jackson, a civil

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Speaker 9: rights activist, to be part of the day, in large

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Speaker 9: part for his work against drug abuse. He spoke at

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Speaker 9: a memorial service for Bias and cole Fieldhouse that was

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Speaker 9: attended by some eleven thousand people. Jackson compared the drug

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Speaker 9: problems of the nineteen eighties to the ku Klux Klan,

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Speaker 9: a prominent racist group in the early twentieth century.

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Speaker 17: You at the KKK have the shadow of there and

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Speaker 17: the rope have never killed as minute of our young people.

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Speaker 17: As the pusher of dope. The camel burn quickly, Oh

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Speaker 17: how bright wants to globe As we celebrate that life,

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Speaker 17: these of us stand and give land by at the

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Speaker 17: tremendous round of applause, Let's do it for Lemna.

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Speaker 9: Earlier at Len's gravesite, Jackson said, today we celebrate his

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Speaker 9: life and legacy. Tomorrow we begin to face the political

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Speaker 9: and legal implications of what has happened, and there would

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Speaker 9: be many.

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Speaker 2: He was to kiss me out coming out of him.

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Speaker 2: Every land he's improved. You can't get too high. The

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Speaker 2: funeral is my main craft.

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Speaker 4: And the people say up the brind to the boys.

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Speaker 4: Next on Lumbia's a Mixed.

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Speaker 14: Legacy where one of the greatest college basketball players in

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Speaker 14: the country has made massive headlines two years before.

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Speaker 12: That's not a cloud that gets.

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Speaker 6: The pays quickly because.

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Speaker 9: The national conversation around kids and drugs really revved up

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Speaker 9: after Bias his death.

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Speaker 15: When it was a job and a family kind of

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Speaker 15: atmosphere working at the university at that point. But then

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Speaker 15: after Lenny died, of course you got this tragedy, and

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Speaker 15: like you said, the domino fell.

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Speaker 12: You were being criticized. The whole university seemed to be

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Speaker 12: against us.

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Speaker 4: And they were thinking that we were bringing the university

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Speaker 4: as a whole down.

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Speaker 9: So the initial phase was this isn't happening.

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Speaker 12: And then as the reality started to set in, You're

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Speaker 12: had all the finger pointing where did this go wrong?

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Speaker 2: Lefty?

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Speaker 9: Should you have known this?

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Speaker 12: You know those are your boys. It was like a

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Speaker 12: house of cards that were crumbling.

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Speaker 14: And there was no way to stop it.

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Speaker 1: This podcast series is based on the book Born Ready,

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Speaker 1: The Mixed Legacy of Lemby's published by Go Grady Media.

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