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Speaker 1: long ass all new original Iron Rapp Reports Stereo Podcast

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Speaker 1: episode I'm here with the three time three Peter three

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Speaker 1: Dingo here with g Moody, Gerald Moody. As I said,

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Speaker 1: to the end of two thousand seventeen, but we can't stop.

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Speaker 1: arrested in Madison Square Garden, Charles Oakley, all his accomplishments

417
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Speaker 1: with the Knicks, Charles Oakley finger pointing at the security

418
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 1: guard and damn near giving a guy whiplash, and Madison

419
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 1: Square Garden puts him up at the top of the

420
00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 1: consideration for Sportsman of the Year. Chris Mullen freaking out

421
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 1: at the garden St. John's first Georgetown Mm hmm on

422
00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:42,440
Speaker 1: some Rocky three ship me. Michael Rappaport, the gringo man Dingo.

423
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:47,400
Speaker 1: I brought a broom into Game three of the NBA Finals.

424
00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 1: I walked the fucking broom into the arena in Cleveland, fearless, fearless,

425
00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:00,000
Speaker 1: Look you got out of here with you. Look, hey, listen.

426
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:01,880
Speaker 1: And after they won the game, and that was the

427
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 1: game when k D made the shot over Lebron, it

428
00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 1: was gorgeous. The three pointer, dribbled the ball up the

429
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:15,640
Speaker 1: court and jaded in his face. And the beauty of

430
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 1: Lebron on that play is that he turned around slow

431
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:21,560
Speaker 1: because he knew it was going in. I mean, you

432
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:23,960
Speaker 1: have to give me consideration for Sportsman of the Year

433
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:29,800
Speaker 1: to have the fucking balls, the balls to get a

434
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:33,200
Speaker 1: grade eight. I'm talking about a heavy weight broom. I

435
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:36,840
Speaker 1: didn't get the goddamn broom at some local drug store.

436
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,280
Speaker 1: I went to a hardware store. That broom was heavy.

437
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:46,080
Speaker 1: I walked that fucker right onto the court. Yeah, that

438
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 1: was stupid. And consequently Game four, what's the name of

439
00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:54,480
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Arena? Who gives a ship? What's the name

440
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:58,320
Speaker 1: of that place? I don't know. Quicken Arena, Quicken fucking

441
00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:03,880
Speaker 1: Loans Arena. This is why you can't take these places seriously.

442
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:06,960
Speaker 1: The only place you can really take seriously is Madison

443
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 1: Square guarding my friends, Oh, you can't say that. As

444
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:13,920
Speaker 1: far as an arena, it's the only arena left in

445
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:18,840
Speaker 1: the NBA that has all its history intact Quicker Loan Arena.

446
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 1: In a few years it could be called, you know,

447
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:26,120
Speaker 1: another bank arena. I walked that fucking broom right to

448
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:30,680
Speaker 1: the court. Clay Thompson made eye contact with me, and

449
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:32,800
Speaker 1: I could tell he was like, what the funk are

450
00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:38,720
Speaker 1: you doing? Game four, the announcer Quicken Loans Arena, this

451
00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 1: is a fact, looking up, said there will be no

452
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:47,480
Speaker 1: brooms allowed in the arena. Oh you see that. There

453
00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:49,800
Speaker 1: will be no brooms allowed in the arena. While they

454
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:53,640
Speaker 1: were up three to games to zero. If they had

455
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:55,680
Speaker 1: one game four, that's called the sweep. We need to

456
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:59,080
Speaker 1: clean this ship hole up. Obviously, they went on to

457
00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:02,560
Speaker 1: win in game five. I was at that game an Oracle,

458
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:08,120
Speaker 1: and all the fans, the gracious fans, passionate fans at Oracle,

459
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 1: the Warriors fans, they all said to me, where's the

460
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:17,080
Speaker 1: fucking broom? I said, I left it at home, but

461
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:29,480
Speaker 1: I got the plunger, you fox, that's a considerization consideration. Um,

462
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 1: we had the inaugural season of the Big Three. That

463
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:38,720
Speaker 1: was so much fun, beautiful, that was so much fun. Obviously,

464
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant m VP Finals gotta be considered as the

465
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:49,960
Speaker 1: UH sportsman of the Year. Lebron James gotta be considered

466
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:52,680
Speaker 1: as a Sportsman of the Year for his tweets towards

467
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 1: Donald Trump when he said you bumm you listen. You

468
00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:00,720
Speaker 1: can say what you want to say about Lebron James,

469
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:03,880
Speaker 1: but the fact that he talks so much shit and

470
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:07,080
Speaker 1: he's so outspoken, gotta consider him a Sportsman of the Year.

471
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 1: And I was jealous. I'm a notorious ship talker. I

472
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 1: was jealous that I didn't call Donald Trump you bum

473
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 1: you myself? Right um. Antonio Cramarti, guest of the Iron

474
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 1: Wrap Ports Stereo podcast, just had his fourteen kid bust

475
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 1: right through the vasectomy. Now I said it then and

476
00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:35,040
Speaker 1: I'll say it now immediately. That's got to be considered

477
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:39,960
Speaker 1: Sportsman of the Year. Oh yeah, yeah, that's medical. He

478
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:43,800
Speaker 1: fucking yo. He he did some ship man. That's unprecedented.

479
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:47,160
Speaker 1: They they snipped you and your sperm said fuck that

480
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:54,240
Speaker 1: has a beautiful family. Great interview right here on the

481
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:58,560
Speaker 1: Iron Rap Ports Stereo podcast. I mean the Anchorage Alaska

482
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:02,680
Speaker 1: sled dogs that test still positive for p D s U.

483
00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 1: Remember the Anchorage Alaska Sled dogs that were on that ship. Yeah,

484
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,600
Speaker 1: they are trying to win the race? Man, who who

485
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:14,480
Speaker 1: who thought they would test the dogs? You know what

486
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 1: I'm saying, I don't fault those guys. You're trying to

487
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 1: win the race. You know who? Who who think they're

488
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:23,840
Speaker 1: gonna the dogs are gonna be tested? I agree? Let

489
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:28,720
Speaker 1: them dogs run. Yeah. Patrick Ewing finally got a head

490
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:35,200
Speaker 1: coaching job at Georgetown resigned emphatically from the Charlotte Hornets.

491
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:38,600
Speaker 1: Immediately he said, fuck you, Michael Jordan's the gig is up.

492
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:40,920
Speaker 1: You're not gonna You're not gonna keep playcating me with

493
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 1: these bullshit jobs. There's so many incidents. Darryl Strawberry, we

494
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:48,320
Speaker 1: just anointed him into the stick Man Hall of Fame.

495
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 1: The man admitted to to skiing in between the innings

496
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 1: while he played for the New York Mets. Yo. The

497
00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:01,320
Speaker 1: fact that this guy had the stamina to freak off

498
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 1: in between innings when he played for the New York

499
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:08,279
Speaker 1: Mets and then go back out there, run the bases,

500
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:13,640
Speaker 1: catch fly balls, hit home runs. Gotta be considered sportsman

501
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:17,960
Speaker 1: of the year. Yeah, in between innings? What what if

502
00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:21,120
Speaker 1: there's three and now? I mean, damn, that's like a

503
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:28,759
Speaker 1: sexual maniac. Yeah, he's you can't wait. I mean, look,

504
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:34,759
Speaker 1: there's been so many different outstanding performances by different sportsmen

505
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:39,160
Speaker 1: of the year, and before we give the actual sportsman

506
00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:42,360
Speaker 1: of the year, I have to say Monetti yea. The

507
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:46,319
Speaker 1: sporting event of the year in my opinion, was the

508
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:51,920
Speaker 1: Mayweather McGregor fight. And and the reason why I say

509
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:56,239
Speaker 1: it's a sporting event of the years because obviously it

510
00:34:56,360 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 1: wasn't the best fight ever, but as far as what

511
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:06,319
Speaker 1: the expectations of it were, the showmanship of it, the

512
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:10,360
Speaker 1: circus element of it, and living up to a great

513
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 1: night it did. Yes, you know, Mayweather kicked McGregor's ass easily,

514
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:22,719
Speaker 1: but the fact that it was so built up and

515
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 1: it was so promoted and there was so much ship talking,

516
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:30,319
Speaker 1: and the fact that it took the nine rounds and

517
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 1: that there was some drama involved, and although Mayweather was

518
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:36,839
Speaker 1: in control of the whole fight and I was there,

519
00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:41,759
Speaker 1: that to me is the sporting event of the year

520
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:44,360
Speaker 1: for the two thousand and seventeen I am Rapp Reports

521
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 1: Stereo Podcast because listen, the NBA Finals were more exciting.

522
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:54,960
Speaker 1: The NBA Finals were more of a mainstream thing. But

523
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:59,400
Speaker 1: as far as the iron Rapp Reports Stereo Podcast the

524
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:06,759
Speaker 1: amount of racial attacks, the amount of scrutiny that me

525
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:13,200
Speaker 1: publicly supporting and wanting Floyd Mayweather caused and inspired the

526
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 1: Mayweather McGregor fight. Monetti not only did it, that was

527
00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:25,080
Speaker 1: the reason why we created the now infamous, worldwide famous

528
00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:29,759
Speaker 1: shame game that I do with the young shooter. Motherfucker's

529
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:36,200
Speaker 1: were so vile, so offensive, so bent out of shape

530
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 1: that I wanted Mayweather to kick McGregor's ass. And motherfucker's

531
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 1: were so offended, so bent out of shape that my

532
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:52,760
Speaker 1: response with the now infamous Moody beats the bag pipes beep.

533
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 1: We made a theme song, and I believe you titled

534
00:36:56,239 --> 00:37:00,840
Speaker 1: it go the fuck Home Anyway. Now Now go to

535
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:03,640
Speaker 1: fun home, Now go to funk home. Now listen. This

536
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:07,360
Speaker 1: is an old new Iron Rapp Reports stereo podcast. Unlike

537
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:11,759
Speaker 1: some of our other friends in the podcast world, we

538
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:14,840
Speaker 1: came with all new heat on this year end episode.

539
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:19,640
Speaker 1: But because it was the sporting event of the year,

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00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:25,840
Speaker 1: Miles and Jordan's please play to go the fuck home, bagpipes,

541
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:37,040
Speaker 1: please rant after the Mayweather McGregor fight. Yeah, let me

542
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:43,799
Speaker 1: tell you something. There's no participation trophy, all right, Like, oh,

543
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:48,759
Speaker 1: he fought with courage. I don't give a fuck. They said, Oh, well,

544
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:52,320
Speaker 1: he hit him once. He's getting paid two hundred million dollars.

545
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 1: He should hit him once. He hit him once. If

546
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:57,319
Speaker 1: if if, if, if you pick it, if you get

547
00:37:57,320 --> 00:37:59,360
Speaker 1: paid a hundred and fifty million dollars or whatever, the

548
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:02,759
Speaker 1: fun kind of McGregor got paid, you damn right better

549
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:07,320
Speaker 1: hit him once. Oh he's so tough. He didn't go down.

550
00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:11,799
Speaker 1: That's because the ref saved his fucking ass. Yeah, he

551
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:13,760
Speaker 1: was about to be knocked out of the ring, knocked

552
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 1: the funk out of the ring by a guy who's

553
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:19,879
Speaker 1: twenty five pounds lighter than him. Oh, it was an

554
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 1: early stoppage. Oh you know Connor for courage and fuck that.

555
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 1: He got his ass kick. He got his ass kick.

556
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 1: Some people were saying, oh, well, why why is this

557
00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:36,960
Speaker 1: gonna count for Floyd's fifty and old record. Let me

558
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:40,040
Speaker 1: tell you something. If Floyd Mayweather loss, you damn well

559
00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:46,520
Speaker 1: be sure that the one loss would have counted. Yeah,

560
00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:52,120
Speaker 1: everything to discredit everything too, to be little a guy

561
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:58,440
Speaker 1: who has never lost. He's never Yes, the one wind counts.

562
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:01,359
Speaker 1: He's fifty and old. Keep the those fucking bagpipes going,

563
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:06,040
Speaker 1: and the white privilege was in effect. The white privilege

564
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 1: was in effect because you know, damn well, if Floyd

565
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:13,160
Speaker 1: was gonna get his ass kicked, and Floyd was in

566
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:16,560
Speaker 1: trouble the way Connor was in trouble, they wouldn't have

567
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 1: stopped it so early. They wouldn't let him get fucking

568
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:23,319
Speaker 1: kicked up and down the aisle. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They

569
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:25,839
Speaker 1: don't want him to fly out at every ring. They say, oh,

570
00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 1: well Connor made a hundred million dollars. You think he cares, Yes,

571
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 1: he fucking cares. So now now you Irish, Now you

572
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:35,879
Speaker 1: you Conor McGregor fins so, so you're fighter with all

573
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:37,880
Speaker 1: the heart and the courage. He's only doing it for

574
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:41,880
Speaker 1: the money. Make up your mind. Of course he cares

575
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:43,759
Speaker 1: that he lost. Of course he cares that he woke

576
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:47,960
Speaker 1: up with half his fucking face swollen this morning from

577
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:50,520
Speaker 1: that little guy, from that little guy with his little

578
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:56,360
Speaker 1: head and his little hands. Take your fucking lucky charms,

579
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:03,919
Speaker 1: take your fucking guinness stout and take the fucking bus

580
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:11,279
Speaker 1: back to Ireland. Let the horns play. Let the horns play.

581
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 1: I mean the music, the ranting, the raving, and the

582
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:20,799
Speaker 1: fact that people on Twitter we're calling me an N

583
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:27,000
Speaker 1: word lover. Fucking race trader, You fucking race bader. You

584
00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:30,719
Speaker 1: hate being white, you love black cock. I mean the

585
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:37,720
Speaker 1: most vile shit. It's always percolating underneath, that's always there.

586
00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:40,960
Speaker 1: This is how these motherfucker's feel, and most black people

587
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:46,239
Speaker 1: know it. We're very clear on Mayweather's out of the

588
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:50,000
Speaker 1: ring stuff. I made it public. I was rooting for Mayweather.

589
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:56,960
Speaker 1: I was rooting for the boxer. This ain't Rocky nine, motherfucker. Yeah.

590
00:40:57,120 --> 00:41:00,600
Speaker 1: They had their drums, they had their uh me zick everything.

591
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:02,640
Speaker 1: They were Really this is a really big thing. This

592
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:05,719
Speaker 1: is like Jack Johnson and Jim Jefferies. It's like that

593
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:08,440
Speaker 1: type of ship. You thought that, you thought that that

594
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:12,400
Speaker 1: fucking clown was gonna beat the best boxer in the world.

595
00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 1: He was twenty five pounds heavier, ten years younger. He's

596
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:20,479
Speaker 1: so lucky that the referee stopped the fight and didn't

597
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:23,359
Speaker 1: get him knocked the funk out of the ring. We

598
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:26,640
Speaker 1: needed that imagery to shut these guys up. But but

599
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:31,640
Speaker 1: Dana White, Floyd Mayweather, Connor McGregor, and all the people involved,

600
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:37,840
Speaker 1: they saved Connor McGregor. They saved him from that imagery

601
00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 1: because as great of a career that Manny Pakia has

602
00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:45,360
Speaker 1: the image of even being knocked off cold sleeping on

603
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:49,600
Speaker 1: the canvas, and McGregor was five seconds away from getting

604
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:52,719
Speaker 1: knocked the funk out of the ring. They did a disservice.

605
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:55,800
Speaker 1: They did him a service, and they did a disservice

606
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:58,319
Speaker 1: to the fans so they could finally say, shut the

607
00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:01,759
Speaker 1: funk up. Because if Mayweather was on the verge of

608
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:04,839
Speaker 1: being knocked out of the ring, guarantee you they would

609
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:09,000
Speaker 1: let that ship go. Trust me, if McGregor was gonna

610
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:11,040
Speaker 1: knock out Mayweather out of the ring, they would have

611
00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:15,719
Speaker 1: let it go until he was fucking beat into a pulp. Yeah,

612
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:20,919
Speaker 1: McGregor could have actually went outside the ring and beat

613
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:25,320
Speaker 1: his ass some more. Absolutely, they would let the fans

614
00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:32,200
Speaker 1: stomp him. Yeah. The Mayweather McGregor fight also inspired the

615
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:38,719
Speaker 1: now infamous Connor McGregor Sr. Liam McGregor skit that me

616
00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:45,000
Speaker 1: and Dean Collins, a young shooter created. People were passed. Really,

617
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:49,320
Speaker 1: Oh my god, the Connor McGregor senior ship. Gerald, I

618
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:56,359
Speaker 1: didn't know. You don't understand. Motherfucker's are so offended, man,

619
00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:59,799
Speaker 1: that's great comedy. I don't know, I don't know what

620
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:06,719
Speaker 1: these people who talking sick animals, sick animals. So the

621
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Speaker 1: Mayweather McGregor fight, in my opinion, two thousand seventeen, for

622
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:14,319
Speaker 1: all that it gave us, all that it gave us

623
00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:18,920
Speaker 1: at the Iron Rapports Stereo Podcast again it inspired the

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Speaker 1: shame game and inspired McGregor Senior and his fictional younger

625
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Speaker 1: brother Liam McGregor that people take seriously and get offended by.

626
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Speaker 1: And the great content that it gave us online, the

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Speaker 1: great episodes of the Iron Rapports Stereo podcast. That is

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Speaker 1: the Iron Rappaport sporting event of the year. And now

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Speaker 1: I have to say, Now I have to say, there's

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Speaker 1: no more waiting, no more delays. Who the two thousand

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Speaker 1: seventeen I Am rapp Reports Stereo Podcast Sportsman of the

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Speaker 1: Year years? All these guys, great rate performances, great work

633
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Speaker 1: all season, so much went down two thousand seventeen year

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Speaker 1: in sports, but there could be only one Sportsman of

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Speaker 1: the year one the two thousand seventeen I Am rapp

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Speaker 1: Reports Stereo Podcast Sportsman of the Year is Chris Forrester.

637
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Speaker 1: A lot of you at home are saying, who Chris Forrester?

638
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:38,440
Speaker 1: Motherfucking Chris Forrester. The offensive line coach of the Miami Dolphins,

639
00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 1: snorting that good booger sugar. Oh yeah, this is terrible

640
00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:53,440
Speaker 1: talking that ship to his stripper boom before a meeting

641
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Speaker 1: with the Miami Dolphins. You, my friend, man, have everything

642
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Speaker 1: it takes to be the Iron Rappaport Stereo podcast Sportsman

643
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Speaker 1: of the Year. Congratulations, Chris Forrester, former offensive line coach

644
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Speaker 1: of the Miami Dolphins. If you forgot this incident, Miles,

645
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:16,400
Speaker 1: just give me a little clip of him talking that

646
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Speaker 1: ship to his boom right before a meeting with the NFL.

647
00:45:22,719 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 1: Miss you thinking about you? How about me going to

648
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Speaker 1: a meeting and doing this before I go? There's this

649
00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:38,720
Speaker 1: big grains falling. But I miss you. I missed yourla.

650
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Speaker 1: What do you think crazy? No, Betty, it's gonna be

651
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Speaker 1: a while before we can do this again, because I

652
00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:56,000
Speaker 1: know you're gonna keep that baby. But I think about you.

653
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Speaker 1: What I do it. I don't think about how much

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Speaker 1: I miss you, How how we got together? How much

655
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Speaker 1: of fun? Don't us so much fun? You think right now?

656
00:46:12,719 --> 00:46:16,120
Speaker 1: I wish I was looking at this. Yo. You can't

657
00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:18,279
Speaker 1: give this guy no mother, He's the god Damn, who

658
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:20,479
Speaker 1: are we supposed to give it to Tom Brady, Kevin

659
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:24,719
Speaker 1: de Brand, Don James. He is the he's our kind

660
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Speaker 1: of guy. He's no bo, he's fucking wild. The award

661
00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:32,520
Speaker 1: is sent out, he's got the cup, he's got the trophy.

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00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:37,360
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Gerald, damn Yo, you're promoting drug usage. You

663
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:42,439
Speaker 1: give a guy award who's snorting in the fucking locker room.

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Speaker 1: You're promoting drug usage with the award. I have to

665
00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:53,960
Speaker 1: the gentleman from Brooklyn have to resend that war award. Sorry. Listen,

666
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Speaker 1: I am out on a limb. If you want to

667
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Speaker 1: come home and get an interview on the Iron Reports

668
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Speaker 1: Terry Podcast to collect your award. You are the wildest

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Speaker 1: cowboy in the world of sports. Two thousand seven teen miles.

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Speaker 1: Let me get some funk. When we get right back,

671
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Speaker 1: we are going to give the sick fuck of the

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Speaker 1: Year award. All right, we're back. The controversial Sportsman of

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Speaker 1: the Year award has been given out. Listen. If you

674
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Speaker 1: want to file a complaint, you know where to find us.

675
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Speaker 1: I am Rapp Report Podcast at gmail dot com. You

676
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Speaker 1: know where to find me in Monetti and the Dust

677
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:48,319
Speaker 1: Brothers on Twitter, Instagram, social media. Uh now we're gonna

678
00:47:48,360 --> 00:47:51,279
Speaker 1: get right to it. The Iron Rapports Stereo Podcast two

679
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Speaker 1: thousand seventeen six Fuck of the Year Award. This award

680
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Speaker 1: is earned, not given. It's called the sick Fucking a Week.

681
00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:03,759
Speaker 1: This guy is really sick. Lock him up? How could

682
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Speaker 1: you do it? Don't let him out? Damn who you

683
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:09,880
Speaker 1: fuck the door? You want to fuck the door? Why

684
00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:12,960
Speaker 1: would you fuck the dog? Why would you fuck your

685
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:17,560
Speaker 1: girlfriend's dog? Sick fuck the sick funck of the Week.

686
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Speaker 1: It's earned and not giving. You didn't what no, no, no, Monetti,

687
00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:32,839
Speaker 1: Please state one more time you do not know who

688
00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:35,280
Speaker 1: the winner is. Now I'm looking forward to hearing issue

689
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 1: because there's there's there's some doozies out there, man, all right,

690
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:42,799
Speaker 1: I mean there were so many contenders. We had Patricia

691
00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:47,120
Speaker 1: and Spain forty four years old and her daughter Misty

692
00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:51,320
Speaker 1: Spain from Oklahoma who are estranged and then got married.

693
00:48:51,680 --> 00:48:58,600
Speaker 1: True sick fox we had in South Carolina at the

694
00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:03,799
Speaker 1: Harris Teeter supermart. A former disgruntled employer was arrested for

695
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:13,080
Speaker 1: spraying brown diar readjuice on the produce. I mean, these

696
00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:15,560
Speaker 1: are some of the definitions of true sick fox. Two

697
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Speaker 1: thousand seventeen, was I mean some of the sickest fox

698
00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:23,799
Speaker 1: I've ever heard of? Yeah, no doubt. We had the

699
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:28,920
Speaker 1: German man who got his dick stuck in a five

700
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:33,280
Speaker 1: pound dumbbell and had to be rescued by the firefighters.

701
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:37,759
Speaker 1: That guy won the sick fuck slash dumb funck of

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00:49:37,760 --> 00:49:42,680
Speaker 1: the Week That week. We had Cedric Chelks of Florida

703
00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:51,680
Speaker 1: sat on his gun and blew his loaf off. Remember him, Yeah,

704
00:49:51,719 --> 00:49:56,359
Speaker 1: geez man Cedric Jolks. He was on probation. Now he's

705
00:49:56,400 --> 00:50:00,360
Speaker 1: going to jail for having an unlicensed gun and he

706
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:06,200
Speaker 1: has half a dick. Sorry, my friend, sorry fml fml FML.

707
00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:10,040
Speaker 1: There was the twenty seven year old man in Jackson County,

708
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:14,520
Speaker 1: Oregon who was arrested and accused of a sexually assaulting

709
00:50:14,560 --> 00:50:22,239
Speaker 1: a chicken, sexually assaulting a chicken, public indecency, menacing disorderly

710
00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:28,200
Speaker 1: conduct for trying to arouse and gratify the goddamn chicken.

711
00:50:28,280 --> 00:50:34,520
Speaker 1: Leave that chicken alone. Man Damn Rupert Harris, fifty three

712
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:37,120
Speaker 1: year old dude from Austin, Texas, tried to lure a

713
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Speaker 1: female pit bull into a backyard to sexually assaulted with

714
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Speaker 1: bacon and tried to fuck the pit bull, but got

715
00:50:48,560 --> 00:50:53,200
Speaker 1: his loaf bitten clean off. Good for you. You sick

716
00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:56,799
Speaker 1: fuck you. That's what the that's dog harassment and that's

717
00:50:56,840 --> 00:51:00,439
Speaker 1: what they do. They will bite your ship off, good

718
00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:04,520
Speaker 1: for you. There was the daycare workers in Jersey who

719
00:51:04,560 --> 00:51:06,919
Speaker 1: created the fight club for four and five year old

720
00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:11,840
Speaker 1: Remember these lunatics. We had the two brothers in Naptown

721
00:51:11,880 --> 00:51:17,960
Speaker 1: in an, Indianapolis who were kissing the bats brothers brothers.

722
00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:23,920
Speaker 1: Imagine you and Dean Moody court in a fucking dumpster. Oh,

723
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Speaker 1: don't say like that. I'm just saying this out. You

724
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Speaker 1: gotta think out nuts. These not having listen. You want

725
00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:32,680
Speaker 1: to be gay, I don't care what you are. You

726
00:51:32,719 --> 00:51:37,200
Speaker 1: want to make out in a dumpster? Okay, cool, you're

727
00:51:37,200 --> 00:51:39,279
Speaker 1: making out in a dumpster with your brother. Can't you

728
00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:41,319
Speaker 1: guys find somebody else to do this ship with. I

729
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:44,879
Speaker 1: mean you gotta be on some ship. Yeah, you gotta

730
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Speaker 1: be a brain altering alters chemistry, so you begin to

731
00:51:48,840 --> 00:51:51,440
Speaker 1: look at your own brother as something that you could bag.

732
00:51:53,560 --> 00:51:57,719
Speaker 1: They were taken by a dumpster. They then punched a

733
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Speaker 1: woman in the face, broken the cars, and can tinued

734
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Speaker 1: making out. Ah. They just couldn't keep their hands off

735
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Speaker 1: each other. The batshit crazy brothers. That's what they're, the

736
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Speaker 1: bats brothers, that's their names. Be a t z in

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Speaker 1: San Salvador. This took a lot out of a lot

738
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Speaker 1: of people in San Salvador, in the National Zoo and

739
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Speaker 1: San Salvador. Remember Gusta Fito, The killing of the innocent

740
00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:36,360
Speaker 1: Hippoponymus Gusta Fito is now considered a national treasure. That

741
00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:40,279
Speaker 1: was sad. They still haven't. They still haven't brought the

742
00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:45,840
Speaker 1: killers to justice, justice for Gustafito. That really that was

743
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:52,000
Speaker 1: that was hard to deal with. The two gay gentlemen

744
00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:57,880
Speaker 1: in Clifton, New Jersey, who had sex, who had sex

745
00:52:57,960 --> 00:53:02,399
Speaker 1: on a bed display at bed bath and beyond. They

746
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:05,680
Speaker 1: were in a bed bath and beyond and started freaking off.

747
00:53:08,120 --> 00:53:11,239
Speaker 1: The whole area had to be fumigated because one of

748
00:53:11,280 --> 00:53:17,040
Speaker 1: these animals had crabs. Oh oh, it just keeps getting

749
00:53:17,320 --> 00:53:22,799
Speaker 1: How did you pick it? Listen, gee, how did you

750
00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:25,000
Speaker 1: pick the winner? Look at that? How are you gonna

751
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:29,520
Speaker 1: sunk somebody? Yeah, never mind, go ahead, listen. I haven't

752
00:53:29,520 --> 00:53:32,040
Speaker 1: slept in four days trying to figure out who should

753
00:53:32,040 --> 00:53:37,800
Speaker 1: be the winner. The amount of the amount of thinking thought,

754
00:53:39,920 --> 00:53:43,839
Speaker 1: the number crunching, the fact checking the verification. I had

755
00:53:43,840 --> 00:53:46,319
Speaker 1: to fact check against my own will to give this

756
00:53:46,360 --> 00:53:52,960
Speaker 1: award out, because you see how competitive it is. Yeah,

757
00:53:53,280 --> 00:53:56,400
Speaker 1: the seventeen the seventeen year old girl who tried to

758
00:53:56,440 --> 00:54:00,879
Speaker 1: sexually assault force a guy to have sex with her

759
00:54:00,920 --> 00:54:03,480
Speaker 1: at knife point. How are you gonna perform when you

760
00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:08,600
Speaker 1: got a knife at your throat? I'd be like, you

761
00:54:08,600 --> 00:54:11,040
Speaker 1: don't need that knife, baby, If you put the knife down,

762
00:54:11,080 --> 00:54:12,840
Speaker 1: I could make it happy with the knife there. I

763
00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:18,160
Speaker 1: got nothing for you. Yeah. Clifford Ray of Detroit, Michigan,

764
00:54:18,320 --> 00:54:23,600
Speaker 1: R I P R I P. This dumb sick fuck

765
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:28,400
Speaker 1: was watching porn on his phone while driving. Climax, lost

766
00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:33,080
Speaker 1: control of his car, crashed the car, and died. Clifford Ray,

767
00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:35,520
Speaker 1: R I P. You went out with a bang. He

768
00:54:35,560 --> 00:54:40,799
Speaker 1: didn't even get to experience the full orgasm. Skeets keats keats,

769
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Speaker 1: keats keat. Michael Rappaport of Baldwin, New York. Remember Michael

770
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:53,160
Speaker 1: Rappaport of Baldwin, New York. Yes, this guy's a two

771
00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:57,400
Speaker 1: to three time loser. There's an actual guy named Michael Rappaport,

772
00:54:57,600 --> 00:55:00,759
Speaker 1: same spelling as I have Old One, New York and

773
00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:06,560
Speaker 1: Long Island arrested for selling heroin and crack two years

774
00:55:06,800 --> 00:55:11,279
Speaker 1: prior arrested for using counterfeit bills. You might say, well,

775
00:55:11,320 --> 00:55:13,000
Speaker 1: it's not that sick. The fact that his name is

776
00:55:13,040 --> 00:55:17,600
Speaker 1: Michael Rapp Report is sick enough. I got enough problems

777
00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:19,600
Speaker 1: on my own. I don't need some fucking other Michael

778
00:55:19,640 --> 00:55:26,360
Speaker 1: Rapport get me mixed up in this ship. Sky Samuel

779
00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:30,239
Speaker 1: from Columbus, Mississippi working at the drive through. Remember this

780
00:55:31,760 --> 00:55:39,919
Speaker 1: put her spit and her menstruation blood on cheeseburgers. Yo yo,

781
00:55:40,239 --> 00:55:45,960
Speaker 1: yo yo, nice. Always be nice to those people, Sky

782
00:55:46,120 --> 00:55:54,360
Speaker 1: Samuel from Columbus, Mississippi. You, my friend, are a sick fuck. Okay, you,

783
00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:56,120
Speaker 1: my friend, are a sick funk, and I want to

784
00:55:56,160 --> 00:56:01,000
Speaker 1: tell you came in third place. You got the fucking

785
00:56:01,200 --> 00:56:11,480
Speaker 1: bronze medal. Congratulations, Sky Samuel. Bradley Hubert of Pensacola, Florida

786
00:56:13,680 --> 00:56:16,359
Speaker 1: was accused of having sex with a pit bull for

787
00:56:16,520 --> 00:56:23,400
Speaker 1: three years straight. Oh, three years with one dog. I

788
00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:25,759
Speaker 1: don't know what it's about these dogs, man, I don't know.

789
00:56:25,920 --> 00:56:30,640
Speaker 1: They're attractive to some people. I don't know. The silver medalist,

790
00:56:30,719 --> 00:56:33,040
Speaker 1: the second place winner for the Sick Funk of the

791
00:56:33,120 --> 00:56:38,600
Speaker 1: Year Timothy Blake of Marietta, Georgia, who was choking his

792
00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:42,120
Speaker 1: chicken in a parking lot, put his ski in a

793
00:56:42,239 --> 00:56:52,840
Speaker 1: syringe and then squirted it on a woman in the store. Horrific.

794
00:56:54,320 --> 00:56:57,680
Speaker 1: I'd be horrified. Uh, I don't know what I would do.

795
00:56:59,080 --> 00:57:01,080
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know how you bounce back

796
00:57:01,080 --> 00:57:06,440
Speaker 1: from that. That's the second place winner, none of these guys.

797
00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:11,040
Speaker 1: I mean, we had Harvey Weinstein, we had Donald Trump,

798
00:57:11,560 --> 00:57:15,040
Speaker 1: we had fucking Kevin Space, we had one sick fuck

799
00:57:15,160 --> 00:57:18,160
Speaker 1: after the other, sick fuck after the other, sick fuck

800
00:57:19,160 --> 00:57:23,320
Speaker 1: after another sick fuck. But the soul winner. And I

801
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:26,800
Speaker 1: knew this guy was the winner when I brought him

802
00:57:26,840 --> 00:57:30,360
Speaker 1: to the people's attention a couple of months ago. The

803
00:57:30,520 --> 00:57:41,680
Speaker 1: veterinarian named Dr James Thompson, who sexually assaulted three hundred dogs.

804
00:57:43,040 --> 00:57:47,600
Speaker 1: The veterinarian where you go to bring your dog your

805
00:57:47,640 --> 00:57:50,800
Speaker 1: animal when they're sick, when the owner of the pet

806
00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:55,520
Speaker 1: is vulnerable, yea, you bring your dog to the vet.

807
00:57:56,400 --> 00:58:01,800
Speaker 1: And Dr James Thompson was having set true relationships with

808
00:58:02,080 --> 00:58:07,640
Speaker 1: up to three hundred dogs and was filmed with nineteen

809
00:58:07,760 --> 00:58:10,680
Speaker 1: of them. Give me the sick funk of the Year,

810
00:58:10,680 --> 00:58:19,640
Speaker 1: Award music. Oh Man, Dr James Thompson, you are the

811
00:58:19,720 --> 00:58:25,040
Speaker 1: sickest of all the sick two thousand seventeen sick fucks

812
00:58:25,080 --> 00:58:29,480
Speaker 1: of the week. Consequently, Dr James Thompson, you are the

813
00:58:29,600 --> 00:58:37,000
Speaker 1: sick fuck of the year. Moody, I'm sorry that you

814
00:58:37,040 --> 00:58:39,040
Speaker 1: have to find out what the rest of the listeners.

815
00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:46,080
Speaker 1: Obviously you had some some some questions and some feedback

816
00:58:46,880 --> 00:58:50,200
Speaker 1: on the sportsman of the year. Are we in agreeance

817
00:58:50,240 --> 00:58:55,480
Speaker 1: that Dr James Thompson is the two thousand seventeen sick

818
00:58:55,880 --> 00:59:01,640
Speaker 1: fuck of the year. Undoubtedly, absolutely, this guy. You bring

819
00:59:01,680 --> 00:59:03,600
Speaker 1: your dog in there. You can't go in there to

820
00:59:03,680 --> 00:59:06,840
Speaker 1: the room where he's examining and he's wearing out your dog.

821
00:59:07,080 --> 00:59:09,680
Speaker 1: You have no idea when you get home and then

822
00:59:09,760 --> 00:59:12,720
Speaker 1: this got Yo. Man, he's sick man, he should be

823
00:59:12,840 --> 00:59:16,280
Speaker 1: uh committed. There you having, Folks. When we come back,

824
00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:19,240
Speaker 1: we are going to talk to the six time world

825
00:59:19,360 --> 00:59:25,160
Speaker 1: champion in four different weight classes. Yo. This guy's an icon.

826
00:59:25,400 --> 00:59:28,240
Speaker 1: This guy's a Hall of Fame boxer, hall of fame athlete,

827
00:59:28,680 --> 00:59:30,680
Speaker 1: one of the greatest fighters, one of the greatest ship

828
00:59:30,720 --> 00:59:34,160
Speaker 1: talkers of old times. When we come back, Pensacola is

829
00:59:34,200 --> 00:59:49,600
Speaker 1: really in the house, Roy Jones Jr. Stay with me, Pecola. Hello,

830
00:59:49,720 --> 00:59:55,640
Speaker 1: It's Pensacola in the motherfucking house. Roy, it's my craft report.

831
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Speaker 1: How are you doing, man? I'm good. How you doing?

832
00:59:58,520 --> 01:00:00,520
Speaker 1: I'm doing good, man, I'm doing good. What's going on

833
01:00:00,600 --> 01:00:03,000
Speaker 1: with you? And just taking you and doing my thing?

834
01:00:03,080 --> 01:00:05,720
Speaker 1: You know how that go? Um? All right? Well, I

835
01:00:05,720 --> 01:00:07,120
Speaker 1: want to talk to you about a bunch of stuff.

836
01:00:07,120 --> 01:00:09,760
Speaker 1: But you know, one of the things that people seem

837
01:00:09,840 --> 01:00:13,360
Speaker 1: to forget, uh and I never forgot it is how

838
01:00:13,400 --> 01:00:17,000
Speaker 1: big of a basketball fan you are. I remember when

839
01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:19,360
Speaker 1: you played in the in the in the game, uh,

840
01:00:19,400 --> 01:00:22,800
Speaker 1: the same day as a fight. So so, uh, what

841
01:00:22,840 --> 01:00:25,240
Speaker 1: do you What is your take on the NBA this season? Like,

842
01:00:25,280 --> 01:00:27,960
Speaker 1: who's your team, who's your players? Where's your head at

843
01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:30,600
Speaker 1: with the NBA right now? Champ Yo, this is an

844
01:00:30,600 --> 01:00:34,360
Speaker 1: extraordinary season. Uh my team right now, I don't really

845
01:00:34,400 --> 01:00:37,360
Speaker 1: have a full team. But what I really realize or

846
01:00:37,440 --> 01:00:40,120
Speaker 1: feel like is that I don't feel like no, no

847
01:00:40,200 --> 01:00:43,040
Speaker 1: team gonna completely de goo to state yet. Yeah. I

848
01:00:43,040 --> 01:00:44,800
Speaker 1: do feel like Okay, so he can give them a

849
01:00:44,880 --> 01:00:48,600
Speaker 1: run if they stay together and keep playing unselfish basketball

850
01:00:48,840 --> 01:00:51,280
Speaker 1: and they take advantage of whoever has owned that particular

851
01:00:51,400 --> 01:00:53,400
Speaker 1: night they learn how to do that, they can't get

852
01:00:53,440 --> 01:00:55,919
Speaker 1: more for their money because they do have a real

853
01:00:56,080 --> 01:00:59,880
Speaker 1: legitimate big three as well. And right now, you know,

854
01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:04,280
Speaker 1: it's like the Greek freak is just unbelievable. Okay, he's unbelievable,

855
01:01:04,440 --> 01:01:08,720
Speaker 1: Um Carrie ever unbelievable. Damon Little is definitely one of

856
01:01:08,720 --> 01:01:12,240
Speaker 1: my favorite point guards. He and McCollum are probably one

857
01:01:12,240 --> 01:01:16,000
Speaker 1: of the best backcourts in the NBA Right now. Ben

858
01:01:16,040 --> 01:01:20,400
Speaker 1: Simmons and Jordan b are really making some headway. Right now.

859
01:01:21,480 --> 01:01:27,120
Speaker 1: People are hard on Alazo ball because he's really living

860
01:01:27,160 --> 01:01:30,640
Speaker 1: down the reputation that the data put up out in

861
01:01:30,640 --> 01:01:33,040
Speaker 1: front of him. He's really gotta he had to grow

862
01:01:33,080 --> 01:01:35,320
Speaker 1: through that first and that people don't understand. So he's

863
01:01:35,360 --> 01:01:38,240
Speaker 1: not the normal, uh situation for a rookie. He's a

864
01:01:38,280 --> 01:01:41,280
Speaker 1: rookie who father put him in a real bad situation

865
01:01:41,680 --> 01:01:44,360
Speaker 1: coming into the league. Now, what is your take on that, Roy,

866
01:01:44,360 --> 01:01:47,680
Speaker 1: Because you know, when you talk shit, you were obviously

867
01:01:47,720 --> 01:01:49,280
Speaker 1: the one that had to back it up, you know,

868
01:01:49,520 --> 01:01:52,560
Speaker 1: in your prime of being a fighter. It's like fighting

869
01:01:52,600 --> 01:01:55,240
Speaker 1: is very simple. You talk shit, you either back it

870
01:01:55,320 --> 01:01:57,840
Speaker 1: up or you get your ass pete Uh you know,

871
01:01:57,880 --> 01:02:01,000
Speaker 1: there's no sort of in between, there's no there's no guiding,

872
01:02:01,240 --> 01:02:03,960
Speaker 1: there's no middle room. Um. You know the one fighter

873
01:02:04,080 --> 01:02:07,480
Speaker 1: um from Philly, Um, young fighter. His father talks a

874
01:02:07,480 --> 01:02:09,240
Speaker 1: lot of ship. What's the kid's name, the Philly Fighter,

875
01:02:09,320 --> 01:02:13,800
Speaker 1: light skinned kid Garcia. Now his father did that, but

876
01:02:13,840 --> 01:02:17,400
Speaker 1: not to the levels of of Lanzo Ball. What is

877
01:02:17,400 --> 01:02:20,600
Speaker 1: your take on that, just in terms of forget what

878
01:02:20,720 --> 01:02:22,560
Speaker 1: like what you just said, because in my opinion, I

879
01:02:22,600 --> 01:02:24,840
Speaker 1: agree with you, like his father puts such an X

880
01:02:24,840 --> 01:02:28,120
Speaker 1: on his back. There's no room to breathe. If he

881
01:02:28,200 --> 01:02:31,160
Speaker 1: does something good, it's highlighted. If he does something bad,

882
01:02:31,200 --> 01:02:35,480
Speaker 1: it's highlighted. Um. I personally think, you know, he should

883
01:02:35,480 --> 01:02:39,160
Speaker 1: have he should have stepped away after he got drafted

884
01:02:39,240 --> 01:02:41,960
Speaker 1: because I got I think got draft he should have

885
01:02:42,000 --> 01:02:44,040
Speaker 1: back all way off and left for long counter because

886
01:02:44,280 --> 01:02:46,640
Speaker 1: you are to play in a bad situation. But but

887
01:02:47,080 --> 01:02:48,400
Speaker 1: the other said, you gotta look at that us a

888
01:02:48,400 --> 01:02:51,760
Speaker 1: two hit of four because without all the talking about it,

889
01:02:51,880 --> 01:02:53,880
Speaker 1: maybe you wouldn't even got drafted as haws he did.

890
01:02:54,040 --> 01:02:57,120
Speaker 1: I agree, all the talk got him where you got.

891
01:02:57,160 --> 01:02:58,960
Speaker 1: You got him what you wanted, which was a beautiful

892
01:02:59,000 --> 01:03:01,360
Speaker 1: and brilliant thing. At that point, I think you should

893
01:03:01,360 --> 01:03:03,400
Speaker 1: have back back and said, you know what, I'm sorry

894
01:03:03,400 --> 01:03:05,480
Speaker 1: for anything that I've said that may have been disrespectful

895
01:03:05,520 --> 01:03:07,240
Speaker 1: to anyone. I was just trying to make sure my

896
01:03:07,280 --> 01:03:10,000
Speaker 1: son got drafted and got the opportunity he had that now,

897
01:03:10,040 --> 01:03:11,640
Speaker 1: so I'm just gonna be cool and let it go.

898
01:03:11,800 --> 01:03:13,760
Speaker 1: He is on him that he got taken ago. We

899
01:03:13,800 --> 01:03:15,960
Speaker 1: gotta go. That would have made people back off and

900
01:03:16,000 --> 01:03:18,160
Speaker 1: give him a fair chance to be a rookie. But

901
01:03:18,200 --> 01:03:21,040
Speaker 1: because he kept on going and made it really, really tough.

902
01:03:21,080 --> 01:03:23,320
Speaker 1: And that's why this kid is having such a hard

903
01:03:23,360 --> 01:03:25,120
Speaker 1: time night and night. Not that he had a hard

904
01:03:25,120 --> 01:03:28,479
Speaker 1: time that everything is getting super magnified that he does

905
01:03:28,600 --> 01:03:30,920
Speaker 1: because of that. Nothing that they did a crazy thing

906
01:03:30,960 --> 01:03:33,120
Speaker 1: because they got him pasted. So it's a two hits,

907
01:03:33,160 --> 01:03:35,560
Speaker 1: two hitters for I have a son that plays basketball,

908
01:03:35,640 --> 01:03:38,480
Speaker 1: is in high school right now. My son, Okay, he's

909
01:03:38,520 --> 01:03:40,680
Speaker 1: really to me, he's really good. But I wouldn't ever

910
01:03:40,680 --> 01:03:43,200
Speaker 1: say that because he's undersized. I don't go out and

911
01:03:43,200 --> 01:03:45,040
Speaker 1: tell people all my son and best fans and no,

912
01:03:45,200 --> 01:03:47,560
Speaker 1: I can't do that because my son is not six six,

913
01:03:47,840 --> 01:03:49,400
Speaker 1: So I can't say that for him because he has

914
01:03:49,400 --> 01:03:51,600
Speaker 1: a hard enough hole to climb to try to get

915
01:03:51,640 --> 01:03:54,360
Speaker 1: out of already, because he's only five ten, and being

916
01:03:54,360 --> 01:03:57,960
Speaker 1: that that's your five ten, you know everybody's against you already.

917
01:03:58,320 --> 01:04:00,480
Speaker 1: So I don't say much because don't want to make

918
01:04:00,520 --> 01:04:02,720
Speaker 1: people go out there and talk to him, because his

919
01:04:02,800 --> 01:04:05,400
Speaker 1: job is already hard enough. You know, you're five ten

920
01:04:05,520 --> 01:04:08,280
Speaker 1: years gonna be impossible then almost for you to get

921
01:04:08,280 --> 01:04:10,600
Speaker 1: a shot as it is, you can get us stot

922
01:04:10,640 --> 01:04:12,120
Speaker 1: you gotta take it basier. But I don't want to

923
01:04:12,120 --> 01:04:13,960
Speaker 1: try to talk to you get to a shot, because

924
01:04:13,960 --> 01:04:16,480
Speaker 1: if you fall short on any level, they're gonna say, oh,

925
01:04:16,560 --> 01:04:19,520
Speaker 1: he you know, he's Roy Jones the third, but look

926
01:04:19,560 --> 01:04:21,520
Speaker 1: at he did. He did. It's gonna put too much

927
01:04:21,560 --> 01:04:23,800
Speaker 1: pressure on him. So it's a chance you could take.

928
01:04:23,960 --> 01:04:26,440
Speaker 1: But he ain't talk enough to me for me to

929
01:04:26,440 --> 01:04:27,920
Speaker 1: go out and talk to kind of crap on his

930
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:30,640
Speaker 1: be hair. Now he probably wouldn't mind, because just like

931
01:04:31,000 --> 01:04:32,520
Speaker 1: is gonna he do everything he can to try to

932
01:04:32,560 --> 01:04:34,600
Speaker 1: bang up what it Dad says. And it's the same

933
01:04:34,680 --> 01:04:36,960
Speaker 1: for Alanzo, which is at the same time, got a

934
01:04:37,000 --> 01:04:39,000
Speaker 1: lot of pressure on you, because this is the n

935
01:04:39,120 --> 01:04:42,440
Speaker 1: the aid that we're talking about. This ain't so college

936
01:04:42,440 --> 01:04:45,720
Speaker 1: and high school, this the nb A. So it's very

937
01:04:45,720 --> 01:04:48,240
Speaker 1: difficult to keep that kind of pressure on him. But

938
01:04:48,320 --> 01:04:50,040
Speaker 1: I know a lot as it's gonna be fine because

939
01:04:50,040 --> 01:04:51,800
Speaker 1: he is as good as his father says he is,

940
01:04:52,040 --> 01:04:53,600
Speaker 1: and he is as the pree of a player as

941
01:04:53,680 --> 01:04:55,760
Speaker 1: his father says he is. He just has to get

942
01:04:55,840 --> 01:04:58,000
Speaker 1: over that hump that his father has created poem by

943
01:04:58,040 --> 01:05:00,640
Speaker 1: saying it, saying so much because now because you say

944
01:05:00,760 --> 01:05:03,560
Speaker 1: much much as expected, So everybody gonna watch you with

945
01:05:03,600 --> 01:05:06,200
Speaker 1: a fan pain, you feel me, So he's gonna be fine.

946
01:05:06,400 --> 01:05:09,800
Speaker 1: Who was your if you were making uh Roy Jones

947
01:05:10,440 --> 01:05:14,640
Speaker 1: favorite five basketball players, I'll give you a six man

948
01:05:14,720 --> 01:05:18,920
Speaker 1: of all time, any positions, just your six favorite basketball players.

949
01:05:18,920 --> 01:05:22,160
Speaker 1: You're starting five, and and your six man? Who would

950
01:05:22,200 --> 01:05:28,680
Speaker 1: be Roy Jones starting five? Michael Jordan's Alan Avason, Kovid

951
01:05:28,720 --> 01:05:36,320
Speaker 1: Bryant um Oh the next to get real tough because

952
01:05:36,360 --> 01:05:39,040
Speaker 1: of position. Because of position, I would probably go up.

953
01:05:39,720 --> 01:05:44,160
Speaker 1: How came Elijah was? And um, you need some sort

954
01:05:44,160 --> 01:05:46,760
Speaker 1: of power forward in there? Yeah? I said, that's all.

955
01:05:46,840 --> 01:05:48,919
Speaker 1: That's that. That power far probably had to be either

956
01:05:50,240 --> 01:05:52,600
Speaker 1: it could be three, It could be k D. Karmalone

957
01:05:52,840 --> 01:05:56,520
Speaker 1: or Lebron James yeah, yeah, are the one. And what

958
01:05:56,680 --> 01:05:59,480
Speaker 1: is your take on Lebron? Because he's an athlete, you

959
01:05:59,520 --> 01:06:03,720
Speaker 1: know that's scrutinized. Uh, you know, he's never gonna live

960
01:06:03,800 --> 01:06:08,120
Speaker 1: up to the expectations of of Is he like Mike?

961
01:06:08,240 --> 01:06:09,920
Speaker 1: Is he not like Mike? I like to break his

962
01:06:10,000 --> 01:06:12,240
Speaker 1: balls because I don't think he's like Mike. Obviously, he's

963
01:06:12,280 --> 01:06:14,480
Speaker 1: the closest thing that we'll ever have to you know,

964
01:06:14,520 --> 01:06:17,760
Speaker 1: accomplishing everything like that, and and and some people think,

965
01:06:17,800 --> 01:06:20,240
Speaker 1: you know, he's accomplished. What is your take on Lebron?

966
01:06:20,800 --> 01:06:24,480
Speaker 1: Lebron Jane is the best physical specimen that we have

967
01:06:24,600 --> 01:06:28,960
Speaker 1: ever seen in a basketball uniform. Okay, compare him to

968
01:06:28,960 --> 01:06:32,000
Speaker 1: to Michael Jordan is not fair. Kobe was the closest

969
01:06:32,040 --> 01:06:34,400
Speaker 1: thing we even seen to Michael Jordan in a long timel.

970
01:06:35,120 --> 01:06:38,280
Speaker 1: The difference is Michael Jordan's a great player, yet so

971
01:06:38,760 --> 01:06:41,920
Speaker 1: is Magic Justson. So if you want to say the truth,

972
01:06:42,880 --> 01:06:46,560
Speaker 1: Lebron Jane is more like the new new age Magic

973
01:06:46,640 --> 01:06:50,360
Speaker 1: Johnson that he is the new age Michael Jordan's because

974
01:06:50,400 --> 01:06:52,880
Speaker 1: he can play all five positions, So he's not the

975
01:06:52,920 --> 01:06:55,520
Speaker 1: new age Michael Jordan's. He would never be on the

976
01:06:55,600 --> 01:06:58,439
Speaker 1: same plateau You can't put him on the same piece

977
01:06:58,480 --> 01:07:00,560
Speaker 1: of paper and compare him to a Kobe and Mike

978
01:07:00,600 --> 01:07:03,200
Speaker 1: type there, because he's not that guy. He's more of

979
01:07:03,200 --> 01:07:06,320
Speaker 1: a Magic Johnson type who you can put him at

980
01:07:06,320 --> 01:07:08,600
Speaker 1: the one and he'll make any team you put around

981
01:07:08,640 --> 01:07:11,160
Speaker 1: him better if you pay him at the one. Why

982
01:07:11,160 --> 01:07:12,680
Speaker 1: are we trying to pay at the tool? Why are

983
01:07:12,680 --> 01:07:14,800
Speaker 1: we trying to pay the three? Makes no sense at

984
01:07:14,800 --> 01:07:16,520
Speaker 1: all of me. All that is a waste of time.

985
01:07:16,760 --> 01:07:18,800
Speaker 1: While we got him out there playing with Karrie Irvan,

986
01:07:18,880 --> 01:07:21,320
Speaker 1: Why we work about what Isaair Thomas gonna do. None

987
01:07:21,320 --> 01:07:23,680
Speaker 1: of that makes a difference. He's not that dude. He's

988
01:07:23,720 --> 01:07:28,200
Speaker 1: a six foot eight Magic Johnson amplifact. Okay, exactly what

989
01:07:28,240 --> 01:07:30,520
Speaker 1: you gotta get. So if you start putting in the

990
01:07:30,560 --> 01:07:33,640
Speaker 1: boxing belongs, then then you can give him a fair assessment.

991
01:07:33,800 --> 01:07:36,320
Speaker 1: People don't put him in the boxing belong then therefore

992
01:07:36,320 --> 01:07:38,680
Speaker 1: they don't give him a fair assessment. I agree, But

993
01:07:38,840 --> 01:07:41,240
Speaker 1: don't you think some of that is on him though?

994
01:07:41,520 --> 01:07:44,320
Speaker 1: In terms of he wore the number twenty three, and

995
01:07:44,600 --> 01:07:47,800
Speaker 1: I you know, I guess it's if that's your ido,

996
01:07:47,880 --> 01:07:50,040
Speaker 1: you go well with your idawall know it's not on him.

997
01:07:50,320 --> 01:07:53,160
Speaker 1: That's your idola. Who don't want to we Michael your number.

998
01:07:53,560 --> 01:07:55,160
Speaker 1: I mean I was mom, and I think it was

999
01:07:55,240 --> 01:07:57,280
Speaker 1: my idol body in terror pro thing where we have

1000
01:07:57,400 --> 01:07:59,560
Speaker 1: wake there for the world, but he was my idol.

1001
01:07:59,600 --> 01:08:01,480
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna talk about junk. I want to do

1002
01:08:01,560 --> 01:08:05,000
Speaker 1: what I thought my did. But I wasn't a moscom

1003
01:08:05,040 --> 01:08:07,760
Speaker 1: and I wasn't gonna be you know, headway tall. Well

1004
01:08:07,760 --> 01:08:10,520
Speaker 1: I didn't think. However, I got God blessed with the

1005
01:08:10,560 --> 01:08:12,920
Speaker 1: opportunity to happen, but that wasn't what my plan was.

1006
01:08:13,040 --> 01:08:15,200
Speaker 1: I just thought, well, hey, I'm gonna do a little

1007
01:08:15,200 --> 01:08:17,200
Speaker 1: bit where Allie did because he's my idol. So I'm

1008
01:08:17,200 --> 01:08:19,400
Speaker 1: gonna talk to some junk too. Now, you were rocking

1009
01:08:19,560 --> 01:08:23,000
Speaker 1: the Jordan brand. I don't know if you're still Rocket Jordan,

1010
01:08:23,080 --> 01:08:26,080
Speaker 1: but you know, in your prime you were Rocket Jordan.

1011
01:08:26,160 --> 01:08:29,000
Speaker 1: You were a Jordan brand athlete. What give me a

1012
01:08:29,000 --> 01:08:32,479
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan's story. I mean, you're You're great, He's great.

1013
01:08:32,600 --> 01:08:34,640
Speaker 1: What what is Michael Jordan really like? Well, give me

1014
01:08:34,680 --> 01:08:37,479
Speaker 1: a Michael Jordan's story. Well, I don't really have a

1015
01:08:37,479 --> 01:08:39,160
Speaker 1: lot of Michael Jordan's story, but to me and Michael

1016
01:08:39,200 --> 01:08:41,760
Speaker 1: Jordan's is like the greatest athletes to ever grades the

1017
01:08:41,800 --> 01:08:44,320
Speaker 1: game or basketball. And the reason I say that because

1018
01:08:44,600 --> 01:08:47,240
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan does not and his prime did not believe

1019
01:08:47,400 --> 01:08:50,400
Speaker 1: no players connect him on the basketball court. When it

1020
01:08:50,479 --> 01:08:52,720
Speaker 1: came to that time to play, was it was chustown,

1021
01:08:52,840 --> 01:08:55,839
Speaker 1: was it was lusstime. Nobody comments him on the basketball

1022
01:08:55,880 --> 01:08:57,720
Speaker 1: quote when it came came to play. And that's what

1023
01:08:57,840 --> 01:09:00,479
Speaker 1: a real prime time Michael Jordan is to me. When

1024
01:09:00,479 --> 01:09:02,799
Speaker 1: you talk to Michael by basketball with y'all in passing,

1025
01:09:03,080 --> 01:09:04,880
Speaker 1: whether y'all in at a meeting, it don't matter if

1026
01:09:04,920 --> 01:09:07,880
Speaker 1: you speak basketball to Michael Jordan's two hit in his eyes,

1027
01:09:08,000 --> 01:09:11,200
Speaker 1: you lost before the conversation started. And that's what I think.

1028
01:09:11,400 --> 01:09:14,200
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan here, that's my That's who Michael Jordan's are

1029
01:09:15,080 --> 01:09:17,080
Speaker 1: reflects to me. He's the type of guy that he

1030
01:09:17,120 --> 01:09:19,719
Speaker 1: thinks on the basketball court, you have no chance where

1031
01:09:19,720 --> 01:09:22,800
Speaker 1: we're talking walking when you six for eight, six for

1032
01:09:23,000 --> 01:09:25,679
Speaker 1: eighteen or five for eight or five for eight team,

1033
01:09:25,920 --> 01:09:29,639
Speaker 1: he don't give a damn if you want a basketball court,

1034
01:09:29,960 --> 01:09:32,120
Speaker 1: your ass is in trouble. And that's how I felt

1035
01:09:32,120 --> 01:09:33,559
Speaker 1: what you said in the boxing ray. I didn't give

1036
01:09:33,600 --> 01:09:37,360
Speaker 1: there you six teens five teen poteen, you come that

1037
01:09:37,560 --> 01:09:39,880
Speaker 1: right with me? You you are in your ass is

1038
01:09:40,040 --> 01:09:42,360
Speaker 1: in trouble. And that's where I feel like about Michael

1039
01:09:42,439 --> 01:09:45,759
Speaker 1: Jordan's And that's the difference in Michael Jordan's and Michael

1040
01:09:45,800 --> 01:09:50,240
Speaker 1: Jordan Kovid Tighten and Charity and the brother Lebron kind

1041
01:09:50,240 --> 01:09:52,439
Speaker 1: of feel like they're two understand But Lebron is different

1042
01:09:52,479 --> 01:09:55,320
Speaker 1: because he was more of a facilitator and got to

1043
01:09:55,400 --> 01:09:57,240
Speaker 1: go get it with the time. But when he has

1044
01:09:57,360 --> 01:10:00,679
Speaker 1: more he has like a two different variations to his game.

1045
01:10:01,000 --> 01:10:02,880
Speaker 1: He knows how to get the guy in in position

1046
01:10:02,960 --> 01:10:05,200
Speaker 1: that can hit the shot, and he thinks, there's another

1047
01:10:05,200 --> 01:10:07,479
Speaker 1: guy I've probably got off the hit the shot sometimes

1048
01:10:07,479 --> 01:10:10,120
Speaker 1: and he is all depending on what the position is

1049
01:10:10,240 --> 01:10:13,160
Speaker 1: and might think that at times too. But Kobe and

1050
01:10:13,200 --> 01:10:14,680
Speaker 1: Mike can in the kind of way to see the

1051
01:10:14,720 --> 01:10:18,160
Speaker 1: way for them to take the shot they take. Um All,

1052
01:10:18,320 --> 01:10:20,280
Speaker 1: I like this for because I know always know how

1053
01:10:20,360 --> 01:10:23,080
Speaker 1: much you love basketball. Alright. One of the things you

1054
01:10:23,160 --> 01:10:26,360
Speaker 1: also love and I'm sure you still love it is

1055
01:10:26,640 --> 01:10:29,120
Speaker 1: hip hop. You're you're you were one of the first dudes,

1056
01:10:29,720 --> 01:10:33,000
Speaker 1: uh you know, athletes, uh to put out a record

1057
01:10:33,280 --> 01:10:35,680
Speaker 1: your rhyme flow you had your Florida, you had your

1058
01:10:35,680 --> 01:10:40,719
Speaker 1: Pensacola flow. Uh, when you put yourself up against other athletes,

1059
01:10:40,760 --> 01:10:43,120
Speaker 1: we have the shock now we have you mentioned Dame Dollar,

1060
01:10:43,200 --> 01:10:46,080
Speaker 1: Dame Lillard, he's got a nice flow with Kobe put

1061
01:10:46,080 --> 01:10:49,120
Speaker 1: out a record. Uh, Alonzo Ball put out some trash

1062
01:10:49,160 --> 01:10:51,320
Speaker 1: ass records. You know, we've had the good, the bad,

1063
01:10:51,400 --> 01:10:54,719
Speaker 1: and everything in between. Dion Sanders had a great sandal.

1064
01:10:54,800 --> 01:10:57,640
Speaker 1: Must be the money that's turning you on? Where do

1065
01:10:57,680 --> 01:11:01,879
Speaker 1: you rate yourself as one of the athletes slash rappers?

1066
01:11:01,960 --> 01:11:06,400
Speaker 1: Keep it real? Roy who athlete slash rappers? Still has

1067
01:11:06,439 --> 01:11:09,960
Speaker 1: a record going to date? Whose song you still here

1068
01:11:10,040 --> 01:11:12,200
Speaker 1: getting played right now today? But all the people you

1069
01:11:12,240 --> 01:11:14,599
Speaker 1: just said, which one I'm gotta saw that you're here

1070
01:11:14,920 --> 01:11:20,920
Speaker 1: right now today? Still only only Roy jhons ring or

1071
01:11:21,880 --> 01:11:24,240
Speaker 1: only Roy Jon. But let me get you a little

1072
01:11:24,240 --> 01:11:25,880
Speaker 1: tinker because I know your little basketball. Let me give

1073
01:11:25,880 --> 01:11:27,040
Speaker 1: you a steak. And if you're on one of the

1074
01:11:27,120 --> 01:11:29,000
Speaker 1: things that you don't know yet, you know who else

1075
01:11:29,000 --> 01:11:33,160
Speaker 1: can flow out here? Who? Marvin Badly the third? The

1076
01:11:33,400 --> 01:11:37,800
Speaker 1: freaking listen, the freaking truth, The freaking truth. We're working

1077
01:11:37,840 --> 01:11:40,320
Speaker 1: on working on the song right now. The Duke Rookie's

1078
01:11:40,320 --> 01:11:43,400
Speaker 1: probably gonna go right away. Yo, Yes, sir, you to

1079
01:11:43,720 --> 01:11:46,600
Speaker 1: the truth can freaking do it me him working on

1080
01:11:46,600 --> 01:11:49,919
Speaker 1: the phone right now. The boy is the truth behind

1081
01:11:50,000 --> 01:11:52,880
Speaker 1: the mike. Trust me, what kind of flow? How would

1082
01:11:52,880 --> 01:11:56,200
Speaker 1: you compare slow? I don't know who I really compare

1083
01:11:56,240 --> 01:11:58,880
Speaker 1: them to. Um, it's hard to say who I really

1084
01:11:58,880 --> 01:12:00,479
Speaker 1: could compare them to because I wan't to heard a

1085
01:12:00,479 --> 01:12:02,360
Speaker 1: couple of the songs. I'm not here a little bit

1086
01:12:02,360 --> 01:12:04,559
Speaker 1: more first, but let me just tell the truth. Don't

1087
01:12:04,640 --> 01:12:07,439
Speaker 1: be shocked when you're here, because the boy is the truth,

1088
01:12:07,720 --> 01:12:10,120
Speaker 1: and honestly, he may be the one that comes along

1089
01:12:10,160 --> 01:12:12,160
Speaker 1: and it's better than me at it. It just matter

1090
01:12:12,400 --> 01:12:14,920
Speaker 1: whether he's gonna be able to create soul that uh

1091
01:12:15,000 --> 01:12:17,479
Speaker 1: that are gonna be able to have that ever lasting

1092
01:12:17,560 --> 01:12:20,320
Speaker 1: still to him like I did. But it's going to slow.

1093
01:12:20,760 --> 01:12:24,000
Speaker 1: The boy can absolutely do it to me. And when

1094
01:12:24,040 --> 01:12:25,240
Speaker 1: I tell you that, you know I know what I'm

1095
01:12:25,240 --> 01:12:28,760
Speaker 1: talking about because you know I know hip hop. That's

1096
01:12:29,120 --> 01:12:32,520
Speaker 1: that's a tip right there. Listen, the boy can absolutely

1097
01:12:32,760 --> 01:12:35,240
Speaker 1: do it. Trust what I tell you, Yo, Listen, I'm

1098
01:12:35,240 --> 01:12:37,759
Speaker 1: not gonna argue with you. I I respected, I respect

1099
01:12:38,280 --> 01:12:39,680
Speaker 1: and what I'm trying and what I'm trying to do

1100
01:12:39,760 --> 01:12:41,479
Speaker 1: right now, I'm trying to actually get a song line

1101
01:12:41,560 --> 01:12:43,320
Speaker 1: up because he don't know either because he's in the

1102
01:12:43,360 --> 01:12:45,800
Speaker 1: caeeson so I don't really bother while he season a lot.

1103
01:12:46,040 --> 01:12:47,720
Speaker 1: But he started working on the first time. He got

1104
01:12:47,760 --> 01:12:49,080
Speaker 1: a lot of it done. Actually, I showed it to

1105
01:12:49,080 --> 01:12:51,160
Speaker 1: some guys yesterday. But I'm trying to get a song

1106
01:12:51,240 --> 01:12:54,000
Speaker 1: now for me, him and Dang Dollars to do because

1107
01:12:54,040 --> 01:12:55,840
Speaker 1: I love Damn Dollars a player too, and I know

1108
01:12:55,880 --> 01:12:57,720
Speaker 1: that for these guys, they don't have a lot of

1109
01:12:57,760 --> 01:12:59,840
Speaker 1: time that's been going around listen for studios. That's so

1110
01:13:00,120 --> 01:13:01,599
Speaker 1: if I get it lined up on me, just give

1111
01:13:01,640 --> 01:13:03,040
Speaker 1: him my place to put the first on the ad.

1112
01:13:03,280 --> 01:13:06,680
Speaker 1: Most of work is done for Mary to do next.

1113
01:13:06,720 --> 01:13:08,479
Speaker 1: How did you hook up with him? You know, I've

1114
01:13:08,520 --> 01:13:11,120
Speaker 1: seen him play online and I saw him. I met him.

1115
01:13:11,160 --> 01:13:13,160
Speaker 1: I met him last year, me and his dad talking

1116
01:13:13,200 --> 01:13:15,439
Speaker 1: to me, him talking. They told me about what's fun

1117
01:13:15,439 --> 01:13:17,280
Speaker 1: it was. They weren't even talking about how much they

1118
01:13:17,280 --> 01:13:20,080
Speaker 1: steal jam y'all must have forgot to this day. So

1119
01:13:20,120 --> 01:13:22,120
Speaker 1: I told him, I said, you know what coincidentity is

1120
01:13:22,120 --> 01:13:24,479
Speaker 1: that I'm working on another y'all must have forgot. He said, y'all,

1121
01:13:24,600 --> 01:13:26,920
Speaker 1: let me drop up sixteen on that. I said for it.

1122
01:13:27,200 --> 01:13:29,559
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, I okay, I'm a sent I'll send

1123
01:13:29,560 --> 01:13:31,320
Speaker 1: it to him. Not loyal? Was he really going to

1124
01:13:31,360 --> 01:13:33,680
Speaker 1: do it? And he just put on my leg? Right, man?

1125
01:13:33,760 --> 01:13:35,920
Speaker 1: I do was send me about eight beat that he

1126
01:13:35,960 --> 01:13:39,080
Speaker 1: already did. I was like, holy cow, I could not

1127
01:13:39,240 --> 01:13:42,479
Speaker 1: believe it. All right, who are the obligatory hip hop question?

1128
01:13:42,560 --> 01:13:47,200
Speaker 1: Let's do all living rappers? Roy Jones five? So I

1129
01:13:47,240 --> 01:13:49,559
Speaker 1: want to exclude like anybody who's passed, because I think

1130
01:13:49,560 --> 01:13:55,200
Speaker 1: it's unfair. Who are your five favorite most influenced ent rappers?

1131
01:13:55,240 --> 01:13:57,080
Speaker 1: For you? Like, who are your five guys that that

1132
01:13:57,160 --> 01:13:59,360
Speaker 1: you love the most? And it could change. I know

1133
01:13:59,360 --> 01:14:01,479
Speaker 1: you don't want to leave everybody out, and I know

1134
01:14:01,560 --> 01:14:03,000
Speaker 1: you know a lot of people, so I don't want

1135
01:14:03,000 --> 01:14:05,320
Speaker 1: you to feel bad. Let's just say, during this particular

1136
01:14:05,400 --> 01:14:09,519
Speaker 1: high Reports stereo podcast, Boyd Jones, Uncle, I'm gonna say

1137
01:14:09,560 --> 01:14:11,519
Speaker 1: my top five is hard to say, but here my

1138
01:14:11,600 --> 01:14:16,640
Speaker 1: top five? Alright. Spit number one of them Scarf Faith, Garfaith,

1139
01:14:17,000 --> 01:14:26,800
Speaker 1: Um Methic Man DM mix Eminem and it's probably toss

1140
01:14:26,880 --> 01:14:30,599
Speaker 1: up between I don't know, I don't know that Stiff

1141
01:14:30,800 --> 01:14:32,360
Speaker 1: gonna be a toss of that filf because there's a

1142
01:14:32,360 --> 01:14:33,960
Speaker 1: lot of the guys are really be like a lot

1143
01:14:34,080 --> 01:14:36,759
Speaker 1: that's my that's my fan. Four. I know, all right, fine,

1144
01:14:36,800 --> 01:14:39,040
Speaker 1: fair enough, I'm not gonna press you, Roy, I'm not

1145
01:14:39,080 --> 01:14:42,160
Speaker 1: gonna press you. Let the lamping go along with because

1146
01:14:42,200 --> 01:14:45,800
Speaker 1: you know, I love l I love Run DMC, I

1147
01:14:45,840 --> 01:14:49,360
Speaker 1: love um Republican and me, I love Fat Joe, I

1148
01:14:49,400 --> 01:14:51,920
Speaker 1: love A lot of people know I'm there, and it's

1149
01:14:51,960 --> 01:14:54,000
Speaker 1: like it's just hard to say be cause there's a

1150
01:14:54,040 --> 01:14:55,800
Speaker 1: lot of them that can fit that. Five. You know,

1151
01:14:56,680 --> 01:14:58,479
Speaker 1: that's good that you said fat Yo. Didn you guys

1152
01:14:58,479 --> 01:15:00,559
Speaker 1: have a little a little wit with Were you piste

1153
01:15:00,600 --> 01:15:02,800
Speaker 1: off when he said even Roy Jones was tort to

1154
01:15:02,880 --> 01:15:05,439
Speaker 1: lean back or something like that. Yeah, yeah, because when

1155
01:15:05,439 --> 01:15:07,200
Speaker 1: you when your friends with a guy, you don't expect

1156
01:15:07,200 --> 01:15:09,160
Speaker 1: that got to come at you like that. You feel me,

1157
01:15:09,160 --> 01:15:11,160
Speaker 1: Me and Joe, Me and Joe was cool. So I'm like, Yo,

1158
01:15:11,320 --> 01:15:12,800
Speaker 1: you're gonna do that to me and I'm your boy.

1159
01:15:13,040 --> 01:15:15,320
Speaker 1: Come on, bro, that's that's we don't do it. That's

1160
01:15:15,400 --> 01:15:17,519
Speaker 1: that's that's like to me, that's going against the code.

1161
01:15:17,600 --> 01:15:19,280
Speaker 1: No we're gonna do it like that. So that's the

1162
01:15:19,720 --> 01:15:21,519
Speaker 1: give me SI stuff at first, but you know it's cool.

1163
01:15:21,520 --> 01:15:23,280
Speaker 1: We we squashed and we handle it. You know, he

1164
01:15:23,360 --> 01:15:24,960
Speaker 1: understood when I was coming from around and still what

1165
01:15:25,040 --> 01:15:27,680
Speaker 1: he was doing all this just music, but still so

1166
01:15:27,880 --> 01:15:29,519
Speaker 1: your boy. You can't do your boy like that. You

1167
01:15:29,600 --> 01:15:32,480
Speaker 1: feel that that's that's that's that's that's breaking the code.

1168
01:15:33,000 --> 01:15:35,439
Speaker 1: So it's like we grow up. We understand you don't.

1169
01:15:35,479 --> 01:15:37,760
Speaker 1: Everybody make mistakes here and there, you forgive you move on.

1170
01:15:37,920 --> 01:15:40,719
Speaker 1: We are human, absolutely absolutely, and you guys are both

1171
01:15:40,720 --> 01:15:42,639
Speaker 1: good guys. And I'm friends with both of you guys

1172
01:15:42,800 --> 01:15:44,439
Speaker 1: because I remember I heard about that and I was like,

1173
01:15:44,479 --> 01:15:46,400
Speaker 1: come on, I love both of these dudes. This is

1174
01:15:46,920 --> 01:15:49,080
Speaker 1: this is silly, all right, Roy. This has been a

1175
01:15:49,080 --> 01:15:53,120
Speaker 1: crazy year for boxing. Obviously the Triple G Canello fight

1176
01:15:53,680 --> 01:15:57,640
Speaker 1: was a great way to come out of the Floyd

1177
01:15:58,240 --> 01:16:03,920
Speaker 1: uh McGregor fight. Uh where is boxing at this year? Like,

1178
01:16:04,280 --> 01:16:06,000
Speaker 1: for for you, where where do you stand on it?

1179
01:16:06,760 --> 01:16:08,080
Speaker 1: Let me get you, let me give you a little bit,

1180
01:16:08,200 --> 01:16:10,320
Speaker 1: get you guy their career to know. The way to

1181
01:16:10,400 --> 01:16:14,320
Speaker 1: kind of floor fight was uh war and Cobra left.

1182
01:16:14,400 --> 01:16:16,760
Speaker 1: That was prep. That was a big fight too or

1183
01:16:16,880 --> 01:16:19,360
Speaker 1: for there too. Then the triple gy Cannella fight was

1184
01:16:19,360 --> 01:16:22,240
Speaker 1: the way to keep it going better. So boxing to

1185
01:16:22,360 --> 01:16:24,479
Speaker 1: me is at all time high. And I'm gonna tell

1186
01:16:24,520 --> 01:16:26,920
Speaker 1: you why we're making great fight promoters that come to

1187
01:16:27,040 --> 01:16:29,080
Speaker 1: up doing good thing are There are a lot of

1188
01:16:29,479 --> 01:16:32,800
Speaker 1: Eastern European guys come up now that couldn't try pro before,

1189
01:16:32,840 --> 01:16:34,960
Speaker 1: but now they can. And as a result of that,

1190
01:16:35,160 --> 01:16:39,280
Speaker 1: and in the lightheavweight division, we have three Russian champions

1191
01:16:39,400 --> 01:16:44,200
Speaker 1: basically and one Canadian champion. When have you heard of that? Never? Secondly,

1192
01:16:44,520 --> 01:16:46,400
Speaker 1: we got one of the best fights to ever be

1193
01:16:46,520 --> 01:16:49,800
Speaker 1: made on paper. Okay, these boys got almost a thousand

1194
01:16:49,880 --> 01:16:52,479
Speaker 1: amateur fights, and you probably can count the losses on

1195
01:16:52,560 --> 01:16:55,800
Speaker 1: two hands, you understand me. That's low machiko and rigging down.

1196
01:16:55,960 --> 01:17:01,360
Speaker 1: The boys both have not one, two gold medals. When

1197
01:17:01,400 --> 01:17:03,320
Speaker 1: do you get a pro fight with two guys that

1198
01:17:03,439 --> 01:17:06,760
Speaker 1: both have two gold medals. It don't get no better

1199
01:17:06,760 --> 01:17:10,240
Speaker 1: than that, not one dot, not one two gold medals,

1200
01:17:10,520 --> 01:17:12,280
Speaker 1: one gold medal. You know what one gold medal was?

1201
01:17:12,400 --> 01:17:14,439
Speaker 1: One gold medal, mids you gotta strick with another? How

1202
01:17:14,439 --> 01:17:18,920
Speaker 1: of David Jenior, Roy John jor Uh, Muhammad Adalie George

1203
01:17:19,000 --> 01:17:22,880
Speaker 1: former acadellahoya, uh andre Ward, that's one gold medal? No,

1204
01:17:23,400 --> 01:17:26,920
Speaker 1: we stand too. How can you get two guys with

1205
01:17:27,160 --> 01:17:30,000
Speaker 1: two gold medals? Come on, bro, and they're gonna fight

1206
01:17:30,040 --> 01:17:34,200
Speaker 1: as professionals for twelve rounds? Really, when do you make

1207
01:17:34,240 --> 01:17:37,680
Speaker 1: a better fighting than tib Do you tell me? You

1208
01:17:37,720 --> 01:17:39,320
Speaker 1: said me, when you're gonna see that, when you see

1209
01:17:39,320 --> 01:17:41,880
Speaker 1: a better fight made than that on paper, that that's

1210
01:17:41,920 --> 01:17:44,519
Speaker 1: gonna be a good one. That's exactly right. And what

1211
01:17:44,520 --> 01:17:48,280
Speaker 1: what was your takeaway of of uh the Canelo Triple

1212
01:17:48,360 --> 01:17:51,280
Speaker 1: G fight? In my opinion? And and listen, I'm just

1213
01:17:51,320 --> 01:17:52,920
Speaker 1: a fan Roy because I know what I know, and

1214
01:17:53,000 --> 01:17:55,599
Speaker 1: I know what I don't know me personally, I would

1215
01:17:55,600 --> 01:17:57,439
Speaker 1: have liked to have seen that been a draw. What

1216
01:17:57,439 --> 01:17:59,920
Speaker 1: what was your taking? Now you have a fan said

1217
01:18:00,040 --> 01:18:02,080
Speaker 1: the same thing I said, And let me tell you

1218
01:18:02,080 --> 01:18:04,320
Speaker 1: why I say that. Don't get me wrong. I thought

1219
01:18:04,360 --> 01:18:07,280
Speaker 1: Triple Gy could have won a fight by Ronald too. However,

1220
01:18:07,400 --> 01:18:09,680
Speaker 1: I still could see how some judges could have gave

1221
01:18:09,720 --> 01:18:13,080
Speaker 1: the fight to Cannelo because he's completely neutralized Triple G.

1222
01:18:13,479 --> 01:18:16,439
Speaker 1: He completely made Triple G change his game up because

1223
01:18:16,479 --> 01:18:19,160
Speaker 1: Triple G could not hit him with the big bumps

1224
01:18:19,200 --> 01:18:21,080
Speaker 1: that he used to hitting people with, so Triple G

1225
01:18:21,400 --> 01:18:25,880
Speaker 1: was not the traditional original promised to be Triple G.

1226
01:18:26,160 --> 01:18:29,000
Speaker 1: That night he made Triple G change his quote, right,

1227
01:18:29,280 --> 01:18:30,960
Speaker 1: So I gotta give him a little bit of credit

1228
01:18:31,000 --> 01:18:33,800
Speaker 1: for that, because he also came up and wait and

1229
01:18:33,840 --> 01:18:36,920
Speaker 1: made Triplegy change what I mean said. You gotta give

1230
01:18:36,960 --> 01:18:39,120
Speaker 1: him that. That's why I say I was happy with

1231
01:18:39,160 --> 01:18:41,559
Speaker 1: the draw, because yeah, I do think timg Warre maybe

1232
01:18:41,560 --> 01:18:44,000
Speaker 1: wanted two more round. But I'm happy with the draw

1233
01:18:44,040 --> 01:18:47,920
Speaker 1: because this kid came up and completely made him change

1234
01:18:47,920 --> 01:18:50,439
Speaker 1: his uniform. He had to go from being a brawling

1235
01:18:50,600 --> 01:18:53,599
Speaker 1: killer to some of the boxer who had to come

1236
01:18:53,640 --> 01:18:55,360
Speaker 1: down and pick out another way to win the fight.

1237
01:18:55,760 --> 01:18:58,040
Speaker 1: And he didn't think he's going to do that. Nobody

1238
01:18:58,080 --> 01:19:00,000
Speaker 1: thought Canelo was gonna be able to make him change.

1239
01:19:00,000 --> 01:19:03,559
Speaker 1: Didn't have to do that, but Cannello completely made him change.

1240
01:19:04,040 --> 01:19:06,639
Speaker 1: He deserves a little bit of credit for that, which

1241
01:19:06,680 --> 01:19:08,880
Speaker 1: is why I'm glad they called it a drop. Now

1242
01:19:08,920 --> 01:19:10,360
Speaker 1: and the second fight we get to see what the

1243
01:19:10,400 --> 01:19:13,479
Speaker 1: red was gonna be. What did you think of after

1244
01:19:13,680 --> 01:19:16,840
Speaker 1: like all the mess and take away and all the

1245
01:19:16,880 --> 01:19:19,960
Speaker 1: hoop on the circus and and everything that went up

1246
01:19:20,000 --> 01:19:24,120
Speaker 1: into the Floyd uh McGregor fight. What was your takeaway

1247
01:19:24,160 --> 01:19:25,760
Speaker 1: on that now that it's like four or five months

1248
01:19:25,840 --> 01:19:28,439
Speaker 1: after the fact, say, what was just as it was

1249
01:19:28,479 --> 01:19:30,519
Speaker 1: back there? The first thing is I thank god that

1250
01:19:30,680 --> 01:19:32,920
Speaker 1: somebody was there to capitalized on him. But basically they

1251
01:19:32,920 --> 01:19:36,000
Speaker 1: took me and Endon Silver's idea, but because both of

1252
01:19:36,040 --> 01:19:37,840
Speaker 1: us are black men, they weren'tnna let me him do

1253
01:19:37,880 --> 01:19:40,840
Speaker 1: it first. So because Gregor came through and he was

1254
01:19:40,880 --> 01:19:43,720
Speaker 1: of a different nationality of course, you know, different epicoration

1255
01:19:43,880 --> 01:19:46,880
Speaker 1: or ethical background, they let the fight happen. But that

1256
01:19:46,960 --> 01:19:48,519
Speaker 1: was something to me and Stila had been trying to

1257
01:19:48,520 --> 01:19:50,800
Speaker 1: do for eight years and both of us were leading

1258
01:19:50,960 --> 01:19:53,599
Speaker 1: at our sports at the top, you know, I mean,

1259
01:19:53,640 --> 01:19:55,559
Speaker 1: we were at the top of the top. So but

1260
01:19:55,640 --> 01:19:58,920
Speaker 1: because we're both somewhat considered dark, we couldn't do it.

1261
01:19:59,120 --> 01:20:01,519
Speaker 1: But when the I need that soon the mcgreggor comes in,

1262
01:20:01,960 --> 01:20:03,720
Speaker 1: they let him do it. So, I mean, you know,

1263
01:20:04,000 --> 01:20:05,760
Speaker 1: it's what it is, but it's the life we live

1264
01:20:05,800 --> 01:20:07,519
Speaker 1: in a day. So and that's like I said, Guy

1265
01:20:07,560 --> 01:20:09,679
Speaker 1: was asked me about the knaton of the football players. Yeah,

1266
01:20:09,680 --> 01:20:12,599
Speaker 1: they understand that the equals to this, the racial equality

1267
01:20:12,640 --> 01:20:14,920
Speaker 1: that goes on in our country. So they're trying and say, hey, y'all,

1268
01:20:14,960 --> 01:20:16,400
Speaker 1: this stand up. We don't have to be like that,

1269
01:20:16,479 --> 01:20:19,120
Speaker 1: and we really don't. And I've never been that guy

1270
01:20:19,120 --> 01:20:20,360
Speaker 1: to be that way. That's why you know that you

1271
01:20:20,360 --> 01:20:22,519
Speaker 1: never heard me really don't say much about that, because

1272
01:20:22,560 --> 01:20:24,160
Speaker 1: I mean, it's cool. If y'all wanta do it that away,

1273
01:20:24,200 --> 01:20:26,320
Speaker 1: go ahead. I'm not that with but I can't control

1274
01:20:26,400 --> 01:20:29,040
Speaker 1: how other people are you understanding, So it's crazy, but

1275
01:20:29,120 --> 01:20:32,000
Speaker 1: it's what it is. So I never expected that maywether

1276
01:20:32,240 --> 01:20:34,439
Speaker 1: what's gonna struggle with McGregor at all, because I don't

1277
01:20:34,439 --> 01:20:36,880
Speaker 1: know that McGregor ever been a professional ring. They have

1278
01:20:36,920 --> 01:20:39,479
Speaker 1: a professional box to match, and anybody knows that even

1279
01:20:39,520 --> 01:20:42,760
Speaker 1: guys that have had thousands of pro boxing five and

1280
01:20:42,800 --> 01:20:44,559
Speaker 1: I mean hundreds of pro boxing fight. I am your

1281
01:20:44,600 --> 01:20:47,240
Speaker 1: boxing fights, I mean are not necessary ready to go

1282
01:20:47,360 --> 01:20:50,080
Speaker 1: six rounds as a professional. That's why guys trying professional

1283
01:20:50,280 --> 01:20:53,240
Speaker 1: and they go four rounds, then six rounds, then eight rounds.

1284
01:20:53,280 --> 01:20:55,080
Speaker 1: Didn't turme a rounds? Then where they build up to that?

1285
01:20:55,240 --> 01:20:57,080
Speaker 1: And I'm not talking one fight. They have a few

1286
01:20:57,120 --> 01:20:59,799
Speaker 1: fights in four rounds, A few fights that six rounds

1287
01:20:59,800 --> 01:21:01,800
Speaker 1: of few fights at eight rounds a few fights, a

1288
01:21:01,840 --> 01:21:03,640
Speaker 1: ten rounds in a few fights, and then they go

1289
01:21:03,680 --> 01:21:06,679
Speaker 1: to twear rounds. So you don't just come off the street.

1290
01:21:06,720 --> 01:21:08,880
Speaker 1: I don't care who you are. Never been in a

1291
01:21:08,920 --> 01:21:11,479
Speaker 1: boxing match before and said okay, I'm gonna go to

1292
01:21:11,560 --> 01:21:13,040
Speaker 1: a round, and not only am I gonna go to

1293
01:21:13,200 --> 01:21:14,840
Speaker 1: a round, lem gonna go to a round? Would to

1294
01:21:14,840 --> 01:21:17,519
Speaker 1: busify the fighting today? Are you serious? Come on, brother,

1295
01:21:17,560 --> 01:21:20,160
Speaker 1: it's the real box Are you serious? No? I had

1296
01:21:20,280 --> 01:21:23,000
Speaker 1: known that. Nothing about that blew my man. Nothing about

1297
01:21:23,000 --> 01:21:25,439
Speaker 1: that changed my ideas on these I was wouldn't do

1298
01:21:25,479 --> 01:21:27,479
Speaker 1: it because I know Amerson has a thirteen and one

1299
01:21:27,600 --> 01:21:29,799
Speaker 1: or a thirteen and two records as a pro boxer,

1300
01:21:30,000 --> 01:21:32,160
Speaker 1: so I know he knows what it feels like and

1301
01:21:32,240 --> 01:21:33,799
Speaker 1: how it is to get there and go to it around.

1302
01:21:33,800 --> 01:21:36,040
Speaker 1: I wouldn't go tenn to around with a boxing So

1303
01:21:36,120 --> 01:21:39,479
Speaker 1: he had an idea, but Countla has no idea. He

1304
01:21:39,600 --> 01:21:41,720
Speaker 1: never had pro boxing match, so you knew right then

1305
01:21:41,760 --> 01:21:43,120
Speaker 1: he was out of his He's out of his element.

1306
01:21:43,120 --> 01:21:44,760
Speaker 1: I mean, I take this, I take my head off

1307
01:21:44,760 --> 01:21:46,760
Speaker 1: to up of having a heart. But for thirty million

1308
01:21:46,800 --> 01:21:48,080
Speaker 1: who would't had a heart to try to go in

1309
01:21:48,160 --> 01:21:52,560
Speaker 1: there and take this stand. Come on, bro, And you

1310
01:21:52,640 --> 01:21:54,880
Speaker 1: know it's like the only thing that I wish would

1311
01:21:54,880 --> 01:21:56,840
Speaker 1: have happened was they would to let him get knocked

1312
01:21:56,880 --> 01:21:59,280
Speaker 1: the funk through the ropes and and there wouldn't be

1313
01:21:59,320 --> 01:22:03,400
Speaker 1: any shadow of a doubt because it just says to me, listen,

1314
01:22:03,439 --> 01:22:06,000
Speaker 1: I have my problems with Floyd, some of his bullshit,

1315
01:22:06,280 --> 01:22:08,439
Speaker 1: even his fighting style. But I was like, I'm a

1316
01:22:08,520 --> 01:22:10,880
Speaker 1: boxing fan. You're not gonna come in here and disrespect

1317
01:22:11,080 --> 01:22:13,439
Speaker 1: the sport of boxing with all this thing. And that's

1318
01:22:13,479 --> 01:22:15,240
Speaker 1: why I rooted for Floyd. That's the only time I

1319
01:22:15,360 --> 01:22:19,559
Speaker 1: was like, really hardcore rooting for Floyd. Tell me about

1320
01:22:19,600 --> 01:22:23,560
Speaker 1: this online training program you're involved with, because I like

1321
01:22:23,720 --> 01:22:28,200
Speaker 1: this idea. It's athletes, celebrities, starvision. What is it? What

1322
01:22:28,320 --> 01:22:30,040
Speaker 1: are you doing? What can I learn? I need to

1323
01:22:30,080 --> 01:22:32,560
Speaker 1: get my ass in shape? Roy, We'll stop ding. The

1324
01:22:32,600 --> 01:22:34,840
Speaker 1: perfect thing for anybody who really wants to take their

1325
01:22:34,880 --> 01:22:37,639
Speaker 1: own time out in their own private place and learn

1326
01:22:37,720 --> 01:22:41,320
Speaker 1: how to box. I have real lessons, real life lessons

1327
01:22:41,360 --> 01:22:43,439
Speaker 1: that I'm teaching you that I can sit down at

1328
01:22:43,439 --> 01:22:46,320
Speaker 1: to you myself. We got people like Jared Rice, Robert Are,

1329
01:22:46,760 --> 01:22:49,400
Speaker 1: Dominique Wilkins, all types of people on the also hip

1330
01:22:49,479 --> 01:22:51,360
Speaker 1: and to teach you things to hip you work out

1331
01:22:51,360 --> 01:22:53,080
Speaker 1: and get your step and shape things that we did

1332
01:22:53,120 --> 01:22:55,200
Speaker 1: at the top of our game to keep us right.

1333
01:22:55,280 --> 01:22:57,080
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. It's like, how could you

1334
01:22:57,360 --> 01:22:59,400
Speaker 1: like now they could you imagine back in the day

1335
01:22:59,400 --> 01:23:01,760
Speaker 1: if I could have went on UH and found out

1336
01:23:01,760 --> 01:23:03,960
Speaker 1: work out that Muhammad was doing or work out that

1337
01:23:04,560 --> 01:23:06,280
Speaker 1: I was doing, and I can do the same thing,

1338
01:23:06,320 --> 01:23:09,560
Speaker 1: because you imagine how inspiration that would have been to me.

1339
01:23:09,840 --> 01:23:12,200
Speaker 1: I mean you can go you know, on and get

1340
01:23:12,360 --> 01:23:16,599
Speaker 1: and why then to watch every day with the best

1341
01:23:16,720 --> 01:23:18,639
Speaker 1: of the best one what they did and they're plan

1342
01:23:18,840 --> 01:23:20,680
Speaker 1: to make them the best. Can you imagine how fun

1343
01:23:20,760 --> 01:23:23,000
Speaker 1: that would have been from me? So now you can

1344
01:23:23,040 --> 01:23:25,360
Speaker 1: go out with me on star Vision and you can

1345
01:23:25,640 --> 01:23:27,519
Speaker 1: do my work out. The work out I'll show you

1346
01:23:27,600 --> 01:23:29,080
Speaker 1: how to do. I can teach you to throw the

1347
01:23:29,160 --> 01:23:30,800
Speaker 1: right hand. I can teach you to throw the hook.

1348
01:23:30,880 --> 01:23:32,439
Speaker 1: I can teach you to throw the jab. I can

1349
01:23:32,479 --> 01:23:33,840
Speaker 1: teach you'll do it. And I don't teach you how

1350
01:23:33,840 --> 01:23:36,080
Speaker 1: to do it the traditional way. I teach you'll do

1351
01:23:36,160 --> 01:23:41,120
Speaker 1: it my way. That's dope. Yeah. And you personally, what

1352
01:23:41,400 --> 01:23:43,640
Speaker 1: do you do like how much working out do you do?

1353
01:23:43,800 --> 01:23:46,120
Speaker 1: Like just just for for your peace of mind? Like whatever,

1354
01:23:46,200 --> 01:23:48,439
Speaker 1: Like what do you after hours and hours in a

1355
01:23:48,520 --> 01:23:52,960
Speaker 1: lifetime in the gym, training, training for fights, training to

1356
01:23:53,040 --> 01:23:55,640
Speaker 1: get in the Olympics and all that stuff, what do

1357
01:23:55,760 --> 01:23:57,640
Speaker 1: you do to work out now? Like what is your

1358
01:23:57,720 --> 01:24:00,439
Speaker 1: regiment and why do you work out? They'll walk out

1359
01:24:00,439 --> 01:24:02,240
Speaker 1: because I realized it's a healthy well of life and

1360
01:24:02,240 --> 01:24:03,840
Speaker 1: it helps your life go better when you work out

1361
01:24:03,880 --> 01:24:05,320
Speaker 1: and get that blood floor the first thing in the

1362
01:24:05,400 --> 01:24:07,760
Speaker 1: morning and make sure they go better. I also work

1363
01:24:07,800 --> 01:24:09,400
Speaker 1: out because I want to stay as healthy as I

1364
01:24:09,439 --> 01:24:11,400
Speaker 1: can stay, and I always want to be capable of

1365
01:24:11,560 --> 01:24:13,120
Speaker 1: doing the things that I love to do in life.

1366
01:24:13,320 --> 01:24:15,080
Speaker 1: And one of the things, as you said, I love

1367
01:24:15,160 --> 01:24:17,920
Speaker 1: to do is to play basketball. And so I played

1368
01:24:17,920 --> 01:24:20,679
Speaker 1: basketball probably four or five times a week if possible,

1369
01:24:20,960 --> 01:24:22,800
Speaker 1: and that to do that, I have to keep my

1370
01:24:22,840 --> 01:24:24,720
Speaker 1: body in shape or I won't be able to play.

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01:24:24,720 --> 01:24:27,320
Speaker 1: Because you know, I'm a competitor, and a competitor wants

1372
01:24:27,360 --> 01:24:29,120
Speaker 1: to do what I want to win. So I go

1373
01:24:29,240 --> 01:24:31,680
Speaker 1: to punch Cola Punt Cola neighbor our station every day.

1374
01:24:31,920 --> 01:24:33,880
Speaker 1: And these kids are just coming into the Navy, their

1375
01:24:33,920 --> 01:24:37,120
Speaker 1: young kids from eighteen to twenty five at one gym.

1376
01:24:37,200 --> 01:24:39,040
Speaker 1: They're the young guys that just got into the Navy

1377
01:24:39,240 --> 01:24:41,360
Speaker 1: didn't want to win. So I have to go in

1378
01:24:41,520 --> 01:24:43,360
Speaker 1: with them in chalces that hey, not only do they

1379
01:24:43,400 --> 01:24:44,760
Speaker 1: want to win, they want to send the picture back

1380
01:24:44,800 --> 01:24:47,040
Speaker 1: home and say, hey, dad, guess what I did in basketball?

1381
01:24:47,280 --> 01:24:49,439
Speaker 1: I did beat Roy Jones. No, here, you didn't. Roy

1382
01:24:49,520 --> 01:24:51,920
Speaker 1: Jones did punish you with you by get So I

1383
01:24:52,080 --> 01:24:53,880
Speaker 1: can't let my stuff go because I know that they

1384
01:24:54,000 --> 01:24:57,160
Speaker 1: come into good reputations or for you understanding. So I

1385
01:24:57,280 --> 01:24:59,679
Speaker 1: love it, and I think I gotta synicize to Cola

1386
01:24:59,720 --> 01:25:02,240
Speaker 1: in the because I don't have no problems, you know,

1387
01:25:02,360 --> 01:25:04,840
Speaker 1: on and going out of competing with the with the UH,

1388
01:25:05,600 --> 01:25:08,439
Speaker 1: the inittance soldiers and the neighbor kids. And it's so

1389
01:25:08,640 --> 01:25:11,280
Speaker 1: fun because you get nable guys, you get Marines, you

1390
01:25:11,360 --> 01:25:13,599
Speaker 1: get all types of guys out there. And these guys

1391
01:25:13,680 --> 01:25:17,040
Speaker 1: remember me for life, you know, they remember their meeting,

1392
01:25:17,080 --> 01:25:19,120
Speaker 1: They remember I was talking about conversations. They come back

1393
01:25:19,160 --> 01:25:21,600
Speaker 1: sometimes quarter of years mayn't showed me pictures that we

1394
01:25:21,680 --> 01:25:23,720
Speaker 1: took in a couple of years ago. So it's like

1395
01:25:23,880 --> 01:25:26,120
Speaker 1: such a beautiful thing. But like I said, My thing

1396
01:25:26,240 --> 01:25:30,439
Speaker 1: with life and and people is that people are We

1397
01:25:30,600 --> 01:25:35,840
Speaker 1: have the most diverse skills of communication of any animal

1398
01:25:35,880 --> 01:25:37,639
Speaker 1: on the planet, yet we seem to have the hardest

1399
01:25:37,640 --> 01:25:42,280
Speaker 1: task communicating. Now that makes sense, Roy, it makes sense.

1400
01:25:42,560 --> 01:25:45,639
Speaker 1: So none of these kids, when you when you're playing ball,

1401
01:25:45,960 --> 01:25:48,439
Speaker 1: I would imagine no one's popping ship to Roy Jones.

1402
01:25:48,800 --> 01:25:51,160
Speaker 1: They do. They're keeping it about basketball because because no

1403
01:25:51,240 --> 01:25:53,960
Speaker 1: one wants that business. No strictly about basketball, because that's

1404
01:25:53,960 --> 01:25:55,639
Speaker 1: what we're at there for. We're not at about boxing.

1405
01:25:55,880 --> 01:25:58,000
Speaker 1: I don't know I did that. They know I do that.

1406
01:25:58,120 --> 01:26:00,400
Speaker 1: That's my that's my life, that's my lap of him

1407
01:26:00,600 --> 01:26:02,320
Speaker 1: that we want to do that. Yeah, they have fun.

1408
01:26:02,400 --> 01:26:04,200
Speaker 1: And Johnson on the basketball player you can talk with

1409
01:26:04,320 --> 01:26:06,640
Speaker 1: much as you want because I love that. That's what

1410
01:26:06,800 --> 01:26:10,040
Speaker 1: gets me going. I want to talk by bestball and

1411
01:26:10,080 --> 01:26:13,680
Speaker 1: that's what we do. M hmm. Now, Now my my

1412
01:26:13,760 --> 01:26:17,559
Speaker 1: final question is I love Max Kellerman, I love Jim Lampley,

1413
01:26:17,760 --> 01:26:20,200
Speaker 1: But do you sometimes want to be like, listen, I

1414
01:26:20,320 --> 01:26:23,000
Speaker 1: will kick your fucking ass. Shut the funk up, you

1415
01:26:23,120 --> 01:26:27,360
Speaker 1: guys on the champ stop talking, don't don't disagree with me,

1416
01:26:27,439 --> 01:26:29,479
Speaker 1: don't like or like like. Do you ever sometimes just

1417
01:26:29,520 --> 01:26:30,760
Speaker 1: want to be like, both of you guys shut the

1418
01:26:30,800 --> 01:26:32,680
Speaker 1: funk up, and they're both Max is one of the

1419
01:26:32,720 --> 01:26:34,439
Speaker 1: best of what he does. Jim is one of the

1420
01:26:34,520 --> 01:26:36,200
Speaker 1: best is what he what he does. The three of

1421
01:26:36,240 --> 01:26:39,600
Speaker 1: you together are fantastic. What is the dynamic between the

1422
01:26:39,640 --> 01:26:42,600
Speaker 1: three of you guys? Those two guys are the absolute

1423
01:26:42,760 --> 01:26:45,639
Speaker 1: most best guys to ever work with in life when

1424
01:26:45,640 --> 01:26:48,600
Speaker 1: it comes to commentary. Okay, they're so diverse, they're so

1425
01:26:48,760 --> 01:26:50,560
Speaker 1: good at what they do, and it's like, there's no

1426
01:26:50,680 --> 01:26:52,519
Speaker 1: way that I would ever get let them get me

1427
01:26:52,600 --> 01:26:53,960
Speaker 1: to a point of where I want to fuss and

1428
01:26:54,040 --> 01:26:56,960
Speaker 1: fight about it. I never called because I know that

1429
01:26:57,160 --> 01:27:00,519
Speaker 1: I know, and they know that I know, so arguing

1430
01:27:00,600 --> 01:27:02,439
Speaker 1: fuss with them, just straighten them out. But I would

1431
01:27:02,479 --> 01:27:04,400
Speaker 1: never get so angry that I want to hit one.

1432
01:27:04,400 --> 01:27:07,280
Speaker 1: I'm because I understand they've just given their opinion and

1433
01:27:07,560 --> 01:27:11,559
Speaker 1: they're paid for their job is to give their professional opinion. However,

1434
01:27:11,600 --> 01:27:13,840
Speaker 1: it's hard to argue with a guy who had been

1435
01:27:14,080 --> 01:27:16,600
Speaker 1: to a war and you've never been the one. So

1436
01:27:16,760 --> 01:27:19,439
Speaker 1: it's like, I understand that their opinion count, but their

1437
01:27:19,439 --> 01:27:21,840
Speaker 1: opinion is not more available than my opinion to the

1438
01:27:21,880 --> 01:27:25,120
Speaker 1: public because the public knows that I have been in

1439
01:27:25,320 --> 01:27:28,959
Speaker 1: there under the gun. I have been in their attacks.

1440
01:27:29,240 --> 01:27:31,760
Speaker 1: They know that I have been in there under the gun.

1441
01:27:32,200 --> 01:27:34,759
Speaker 1: They know that I have been in there under attack.

1442
01:27:35,160 --> 01:27:38,000
Speaker 1: I know the feelings. They don't, So they respect me,

1443
01:27:38,160 --> 01:27:40,240
Speaker 1: and I try to respect them. I did your your

1444
01:27:40,280 --> 01:27:44,120
Speaker 1: favorite rappers. I did your NBA team. Who's your top

1445
01:27:44,240 --> 01:27:47,479
Speaker 1: five Roy Jones favorite fighters of all time that you

1446
01:27:47,640 --> 01:27:50,680
Speaker 1: just like you bow down to your favorite guys that

1447
01:27:50,840 --> 01:27:52,760
Speaker 1: that that you've gotten to watch over the years, or

1448
01:27:52,800 --> 01:27:55,320
Speaker 1: even maybe even fight against. Who's Roy Jones top five

1449
01:27:55,360 --> 01:27:58,360
Speaker 1: fighters of all time? Mohammed an order, no particular order,

1450
01:27:58,439 --> 01:28:08,200
Speaker 1: mohammaddities seven do let's say? And all right? You know,

1451
01:28:08,320 --> 01:28:10,760
Speaker 1: I one thing I always love about all fighters. And

1452
01:28:10,840 --> 01:28:13,200
Speaker 1: it's weird because we talked about hip hop. You have

1453
01:28:13,280 --> 01:28:15,640
Speaker 1: some of these young kids and and they'll sort of

1454
01:28:15,720 --> 01:28:18,800
Speaker 1: brag about not knowing Biggie Small songs, are not knowing

1455
01:28:18,840 --> 01:28:22,360
Speaker 1: Woutang songs, and and and you know, you know, everybody

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01:28:22,400 --> 01:28:24,960
Speaker 1: puts on a face like they respect the game. Respect

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01:28:25,000 --> 01:28:28,120
Speaker 1: the game in different sports. One thing about boxers is

1458
01:28:28,400 --> 01:28:32,840
Speaker 1: the majority of you guys all know and have studied

1459
01:28:33,800 --> 01:28:37,000
Speaker 1: the sugar Ray Robertson's the Joe Lewis is and they

1460
01:28:37,160 --> 01:28:41,360
Speaker 1: know the history and love and respect the history of boxing,

1461
01:28:41,520 --> 01:28:43,840
Speaker 1: and that's one of the things I love about all

1462
01:28:43,920 --> 01:28:46,200
Speaker 1: you guys and the sport. And I know you're a

1463
01:28:46,240 --> 01:28:49,240
Speaker 1: great champion for the sport of boxing. Uh you know,

1464
01:28:49,320 --> 01:28:52,200
Speaker 1: above and beyond everything, um when it comes to you know,

1465
01:28:52,360 --> 01:28:54,040
Speaker 1: you know who you are in the public. And I've

1466
01:28:54,080 --> 01:28:56,360
Speaker 1: been such a fan for so many, so many years.

1467
01:28:56,479 --> 01:28:59,439
Speaker 1: I appreciate you coming on the Iron Rapports Stereo podcast

1468
01:28:59,720 --> 01:29:02,080
Speaker 1: and I can't wait to get in shape on star

1469
01:29:02,240 --> 01:29:05,639
Speaker 1: Vision and you can find it an Instagram at star

1470
01:29:05,800 --> 01:29:10,479
Speaker 1: Vision s t A r v i z n Twitter

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01:29:10,880 --> 01:29:14,320
Speaker 1: s t A r v i c N. Roy Jones Jr.

1472
01:29:14,400 --> 01:29:16,639
Speaker 1: The Champ listen, have a great year, have a great

1473
01:29:16,720 --> 01:29:19,160
Speaker 1: holiday and I'll talk to you soon. Champ. All right,

1474
01:29:19,439 --> 01:29:22,040
Speaker 1: along with that star Vision by the head banging on

1475
01:29:22,080 --> 01:29:23,439
Speaker 1: to it on the way I do so you be

1476
01:29:23,479 --> 01:29:25,120
Speaker 1: able to put that into some of the stuff Vision

1477
01:29:25,160 --> 01:29:27,160
Speaker 1: stuff and you're ridly gonna get your work out. Did

1478
01:29:27,439 --> 01:29:39,840
Speaker 1: Let's go man? We need that feure. What's man? Royce

1479
01:29:39,920 --> 01:29:46,920
Speaker 1: the almost seven footer? How are you doing man? Man?

1480
01:29:47,000 --> 01:29:51,559
Speaker 1: I'm good sitting Where are you at? Im on London?

1481
01:29:53,040 --> 01:29:56,519
Speaker 1: London on Terry. That's Canada, right, So what league are

1482
01:29:56,520 --> 01:29:59,920
Speaker 1: you playing in up there? Uh, it's called the NBA.

1483
01:30:00,479 --> 01:30:04,160
Speaker 1: So it's just the National Basketball League of Canada. Yeah, okay,

1484
01:30:04,240 --> 01:30:05,680
Speaker 1: So how's it going up there? You guys won the

1485
01:30:05,760 --> 01:30:08,840
Speaker 1: championship right? Yeah? Man, we had a we had a

1486
01:30:08,880 --> 01:30:11,599
Speaker 1: pretty story season last year. Man. We went I think

1487
01:30:11,640 --> 01:30:16,960
Speaker 1: it was forty seven or something like that. So are

1488
01:30:17,000 --> 01:30:20,320
Speaker 1: you having a good time playing ball? Oh? Man, I'm

1489
01:30:20,360 --> 01:30:22,160
Speaker 1: loving it, man, loving it. I was, you know, I

1490
01:30:22,200 --> 01:30:24,320
Speaker 1: didn't play for like three years. So just getting back

1491
01:30:24,360 --> 01:30:26,679
Speaker 1: and get other play professionally and then to be able

1492
01:30:26,720 --> 01:30:28,479
Speaker 1: to do it at that level of the first year

1493
01:30:28,560 --> 01:30:31,040
Speaker 1: back basically my rookie pro season is like you can

1494
01:30:31,080 --> 01:30:33,960
Speaker 1: ask for them better than that. So, so how old

1495
01:30:33,960 --> 01:30:35,599
Speaker 1: are you now? How old were you in your rookie

1496
01:30:35,640 --> 01:30:39,560
Speaker 1: pro season? I'm twenty six now. I think I was

1497
01:30:39,640 --> 01:30:41,800
Speaker 1: drafted when I was twenty two, you know, going on

1498
01:30:41,880 --> 01:30:45,200
Speaker 1: twenty two. So ship man, So you how come you

1499
01:30:45,520 --> 01:30:49,360
Speaker 1: didn't play for three years at all? Yeah? I mean

1500
01:30:49,360 --> 01:30:51,160
Speaker 1: I didn't play. I did not play at all. I

1501
01:30:51,439 --> 01:30:53,760
Speaker 1: bounced around the D League a little bit. I was, uh,

1502
01:30:54,320 --> 01:30:56,560
Speaker 1: I was going with Sacramento's D League team, and I

1503
01:30:56,600 --> 01:30:59,639
Speaker 1: played with Sacramento and then I was in the Summer

1504
01:30:59,720 --> 01:31:03,720
Speaker 1: League with the Clippers two numbers ago. So you know,

1505
01:31:03,760 --> 01:31:05,679
Speaker 1: I bounced around a little bit, but I never really

1506
01:31:05,760 --> 01:31:09,640
Speaker 1: played more than a month with any team. So can you,

1507
01:31:09,920 --> 01:31:13,000
Speaker 1: in a in a nutshell tell people your story from

1508
01:31:13,080 --> 01:31:16,760
Speaker 1: when you got drafted and and everything that ensued to

1509
01:31:16,960 --> 01:31:19,160
Speaker 1: to get you to where you are now? Because your

1510
01:31:19,280 --> 01:31:24,439
Speaker 1: draft class you you were sixteenth pick right right correct,

1511
01:31:25,800 --> 01:31:28,200
Speaker 1: and your draft class was was a dope draft classer.

1512
01:31:28,240 --> 01:31:32,759
Speaker 1: You're Anthony Davis, Bradley Beal, Dion Waiters, Dan Lillard, Andre Drummond.

1513
01:31:32,800 --> 01:31:35,200
Speaker 1: Austin's like, you're one of these dudes. You must have

1514
01:31:35,320 --> 01:31:37,920
Speaker 1: come up with these dudes and played in all the

1515
01:31:38,439 --> 01:31:41,479
Speaker 1: the high school tournaments and all this ship. So it's

1516
01:31:41,520 --> 01:31:44,559
Speaker 1: a breakdown what happened after you got drafted and how

1517
01:31:44,640 --> 01:31:46,800
Speaker 1: everything sort of got off the rails or got on

1518
01:31:46,920 --> 01:31:49,840
Speaker 1: the rails, however you want to look at it. Basically,

1519
01:31:50,439 --> 01:31:53,439
Speaker 1: when when I was sixteen, I was diagnosed with anxiety disordered.

1520
01:31:54,320 --> 01:31:57,200
Speaker 1: I had smoke little marijuana and triggered a panic attack.

1521
01:31:57,960 --> 01:31:59,760
Speaker 1: Two or three months after that, I had had some

1522
01:32:00,000 --> 01:32:03,320
Speaker 1: on going panic attacks that were really severe. Uh. And

1523
01:32:03,600 --> 01:32:06,600
Speaker 1: then after those kind of died down or become you know,

1524
01:32:06,680 --> 01:32:08,719
Speaker 1: became a little bit more under control. I was still

1525
01:32:08,800 --> 01:32:12,160
Speaker 1: having some general anxiety on a on a daily weekly basis,

1526
01:32:12,240 --> 01:32:16,439
Speaker 1: so you know, finally I was diagnosed with generalized anxiety GOWNER.

1527
01:32:16,479 --> 01:32:18,760
Speaker 1: I started to take some different medications and things like that,

1528
01:32:18,920 --> 01:32:22,920
Speaker 1: and just learned what anxiety is and what mental illnesses

1529
01:32:23,000 --> 01:32:25,439
Speaker 1: and what mental health is and and how you can

1530
01:32:25,560 --> 01:32:28,080
Speaker 1: you know, try and navigate that the non drums and

1531
01:32:28,200 --> 01:32:31,479
Speaker 1: being a human being. Right, So, uh, you know that

1532
01:32:31,680 --> 01:32:33,400
Speaker 1: was all I was still in high school and going

1533
01:32:33,439 --> 01:32:36,639
Speaker 1: into college. Um so by the time I got to college,

1534
01:32:36,960 --> 01:32:38,439
Speaker 1: I was I was doing well with it, and I

1535
01:32:38,560 --> 01:32:42,800
Speaker 1: wasn't having the same extreme symptoms that I was initially. So, um,

1536
01:32:43,200 --> 01:32:44,920
Speaker 1: you know, I had my season that I had at

1537
01:32:44,960 --> 01:32:48,000
Speaker 1: Hiowa State, and uh yeah, it was ready. It was

1538
01:32:48,040 --> 01:32:50,160
Speaker 1: time to go to the draft. Now. During that season

1539
01:32:50,160 --> 01:32:52,720
Speaker 1: in Hioway State, I had had some success obviously, you know,

1540
01:32:52,760 --> 01:32:56,920
Speaker 1: I played really big against highly protected lottery pits, you know,

1541
01:32:57,080 --> 01:33:00,240
Speaker 1: drumming Jeremy Land at Land at the time, him and

1542
01:33:00,360 --> 01:33:02,599
Speaker 1: all three of the the high draft pics that were

1543
01:33:02,640 --> 01:33:05,519
Speaker 1: on Kentucky's team and a few that were on Kansas team,

1544
01:33:05,600 --> 01:33:08,080
Speaker 1: and you know Michigan and Tom Martowad Jr. Was on

1545
01:33:08,160 --> 01:33:10,880
Speaker 1: that team. So, uh, you know, I had had a

1546
01:33:10,960 --> 01:33:14,439
Speaker 1: great season, and during that season, I had went public

1547
01:33:14,760 --> 01:33:17,880
Speaker 1: with my history with anxiety, and I had talked about

1548
01:33:18,320 --> 01:33:21,000
Speaker 1: how I was dealing with my anxiety playing like for example,

1549
01:33:21,200 --> 01:33:23,360
Speaker 1: the whole conversation came about in the article with the

1550
01:33:23,560 --> 01:33:26,599
Speaker 1: SCN where I just happened to slip up and mention

1551
01:33:26,680 --> 01:33:28,479
Speaker 1: that I don't eat with the team or that I

1552
01:33:28,520 --> 01:33:31,240
Speaker 1: didn't eat with the team at away games. And that's

1553
01:33:31,280 --> 01:33:33,800
Speaker 1: how I was kind of unraveed in people, or the

1554
01:33:34,000 --> 01:33:36,040
Speaker 1: the person who was writing the article found out was

1555
01:33:36,320 --> 01:33:39,280
Speaker 1: you know, learned that I had anxiety. So then the

1556
01:33:39,520 --> 01:33:41,200
Speaker 1: cat was out of the bag, so to speak. And

1557
01:33:41,280 --> 01:33:43,360
Speaker 1: that became the talk of not only the rest of

1558
01:33:43,439 --> 01:33:46,479
Speaker 1: my college career, but as I moved into the draft process,

1559
01:33:47,040 --> 01:33:50,519
Speaker 1: it became the talk of my draft projection. And and

1560
01:33:50,840 --> 01:33:53,679
Speaker 1: how you know, the NBA sort of looked at mental health,

1561
01:33:53,800 --> 01:33:55,920
Speaker 1: and you know, Roy's could go anywhere from the top

1562
01:33:56,000 --> 01:33:59,760
Speaker 1: five to the the late second round because you know,

1563
01:34:00,720 --> 01:34:03,640
Speaker 1: mental health is this unspoken topic for athletes, and and

1564
01:34:04,000 --> 01:34:06,880
Speaker 1: do do gms look at it as a character problem

1565
01:34:06,960 --> 01:34:08,639
Speaker 1: or do they look at it as a true, genuine

1566
01:34:08,680 --> 01:34:11,920
Speaker 1: medical issue, etcetera, etcetera. The talk was just it was

1567
01:34:11,960 --> 01:34:15,919
Speaker 1: all over the spectrum basically. So I gave my fucking answer. Honestly,

1568
01:34:16,000 --> 01:34:18,240
Speaker 1: I was like, look, I think mental health is is

1569
01:34:18,280 --> 01:34:21,400
Speaker 1: a raging epidemic, and we have really poor solutions, and

1570
01:34:21,520 --> 01:34:25,200
Speaker 1: we have very poor acknowledgement and commitment to the issue.

1571
01:34:25,760 --> 01:34:27,680
Speaker 1: And I have some examples in my own life, but

1572
01:34:27,760 --> 01:34:30,240
Speaker 1: that it's in the cage where I have been poorly

1573
01:34:30,240 --> 01:34:32,680
Speaker 1: acknowledging mental health because I'm sucking sixteen and I don't

1574
01:34:32,720 --> 01:34:35,800
Speaker 1: know my fucking mouth or my ass, right, So you

1575
01:34:35,880 --> 01:34:38,640
Speaker 1: know that in those examples go on all across the

1576
01:34:38,720 --> 01:34:42,920
Speaker 1: age spectrum, all across the race spectrum, etcetera, etcetera. And uh,

1577
01:34:43,160 --> 01:34:45,320
Speaker 1: you know when I finally got this was before I

1578
01:34:45,400 --> 01:34:47,439
Speaker 1: was even drafted. I was saying this ship, so you

1579
01:34:47,479 --> 01:34:49,559
Speaker 1: know that that was taking a spread out of the gate,

1580
01:34:49,760 --> 01:34:52,160
Speaker 1: like this guy had too much of an opinion. Anyway,

1581
01:34:52,200 --> 01:34:54,519
Speaker 1: all of these athletes, and this is a sort of

1582
01:34:54,600 --> 01:34:56,640
Speaker 1: side note, but all these athletes are coached, did not

1583
01:34:56,800 --> 01:34:59,280
Speaker 1: say much. So let me let me back up your question,

1584
01:34:59,640 --> 01:35:03,120
Speaker 1: or I Sleet's sort of told to sort of chill

1585
01:35:03,280 --> 01:35:05,920
Speaker 1: and be a little profile. And the thing I've noticed

1586
01:35:05,920 --> 01:35:10,200
Speaker 1: about athletes, it takes them a long time to open up. Obviously,

1587
01:35:10,280 --> 01:35:12,600
Speaker 1: you guys talked to the press all the time, and

1588
01:35:12,920 --> 01:35:15,479
Speaker 1: the majority of the time. You're so young when you're

1589
01:35:15,520 --> 01:35:18,640
Speaker 1: doing it, and but there's always this sort of distance

1590
01:35:19,320 --> 01:35:23,439
Speaker 1: between the fans, the press and the athletes you're so

1591
01:35:23,560 --> 01:35:25,560
Speaker 1: you're saying like you guys are sort of coached to

1592
01:35:25,920 --> 01:35:29,320
Speaker 1: keep it that way. Uh, well, I think there's it's twofold.

1593
01:35:29,439 --> 01:35:34,280
Speaker 1: There's a sort of implicit um energy that you sort

1594
01:35:34,320 --> 01:35:37,120
Speaker 1: of pick up on as an athlete coming through the circuit.

1595
01:35:37,160 --> 01:35:39,639
Speaker 1: And now it's starting way younger. Right, players are starting

1596
01:35:39,680 --> 01:35:43,679
Speaker 1: to be introduced into the prepping of the professional market

1597
01:35:43,840 --> 01:35:47,320
Speaker 1: at at in the seventh and eighth grade. Right, So, uh,

1598
01:35:48,160 --> 01:35:51,040
Speaker 1: there's nobody really saying things like you can't have an

1599
01:35:51,120 --> 01:35:54,320
Speaker 1: opinion or keep your opinions to yourself, or or don't

1600
01:35:54,360 --> 01:35:56,720
Speaker 1: be who you truly are, or don't or don't walk

1601
01:35:56,760 --> 01:35:59,479
Speaker 1: around with the integrity that you truly feel or or

1602
01:35:59,800 --> 01:36:02,439
Speaker 1: or don't behold to your morals. And nobody's saying that,

1603
01:36:03,000 --> 01:36:06,000
Speaker 1: but they're saying things like they're saying things like be

1604
01:36:06,120 --> 01:36:09,160
Speaker 1: careful what you do because everybody's always watching right, and

1605
01:36:09,280 --> 01:36:13,640
Speaker 1: and they're in that there's an implicit suggestion that what

1606
01:36:13,840 --> 01:36:16,000
Speaker 1: you truly feel you should do, or how you should

1607
01:36:16,040 --> 01:36:19,240
Speaker 1: act or what you should say may is always under

1608
01:36:20,000 --> 01:36:24,040
Speaker 1: uh as the possibility to hinder any of your goals. Right,

1609
01:36:24,320 --> 01:36:27,040
Speaker 1: So I mean that's how that's for me, That's what

1610
01:36:27,160 --> 01:36:30,080
Speaker 1: I got from it, like even you know, even as

1611
01:36:30,200 --> 01:36:32,320
Speaker 1: young as fifteen. I mean, just like you you know,

1612
01:36:32,400 --> 01:36:34,120
Speaker 1: you name some the people in my draft class with

1613
01:36:34,160 --> 01:36:36,160
Speaker 1: the people that were in my graduating high school class

1614
01:36:36,280 --> 01:36:39,560
Speaker 1: oh nine, like the Marcus Cousins and John Wall and

1615
01:36:39,640 --> 01:36:42,360
Speaker 1: Land Stevenson and the Martha Rose and and you know

1616
01:36:42,479 --> 01:36:45,360
Speaker 1: their favors, etcetera, etcetera. We were all at the first

1617
01:36:45,760 --> 01:36:48,280
Speaker 1: Annuel lebron cat with Nike, and and you know big,

1618
01:36:48,320 --> 01:36:49,800
Speaker 1: I got big love for Nike. I played for a

1619
01:36:49,880 --> 01:36:53,519
Speaker 1: Nike high school and a Nankee College and a Nike

1620
01:36:53,600 --> 01:36:55,040
Speaker 1: ye A youth team for that matter. So I got

1621
01:36:55,120 --> 01:36:58,320
Speaker 1: big love for Nike. But even the commentary from the

1622
01:36:58,840 --> 01:37:03,479
Speaker 1: the adults and those situation, it was always, um, be

1623
01:37:03,680 --> 01:37:07,160
Speaker 1: careful for the superficial bullshit, because just because it's superficial

1624
01:37:07,240 --> 01:37:09,479
Speaker 1: and take doesn't mean that it won't bring your ass down.

1625
01:37:10,200 --> 01:37:14,000
Speaker 1: And and in that what you're telling the athletes, you know,

1626
01:37:14,320 --> 01:37:16,960
Speaker 1: in a in a in a way is like, look,

1627
01:37:17,520 --> 01:37:19,560
Speaker 1: you may have a view on politics, you may have

1628
01:37:19,640 --> 01:37:22,600
Speaker 1: a view on on on business or or or or

1629
01:37:22,760 --> 01:37:25,280
Speaker 1: religious issues or whatever, but you better keep it to

1630
01:37:25,360 --> 01:37:28,040
Speaker 1: your fucking self because if you don't, there's nothing that

1631
01:37:28,160 --> 01:37:32,280
Speaker 1: says that you being right will keep you from being burned. Right,

1632
01:37:32,880 --> 01:37:36,080
Speaker 1: all right, So you got drafted by by Houston, and

1633
01:37:36,160 --> 01:37:38,519
Speaker 1: I remember following you because you you had showed up

1634
01:37:38,560 --> 01:37:41,040
Speaker 1: in the tournament, you did your thing. Um, if you

1635
01:37:41,080 --> 01:37:44,400
Speaker 1: didn't follow college basketball a lot that year, you were

1636
01:37:44,439 --> 01:37:48,120
Speaker 1: sort of the guy that emerged at a smaller school. Um.

1637
01:37:48,640 --> 01:37:50,920
Speaker 1: And then there was all that talking and about your

1638
01:37:51,040 --> 01:37:54,400
Speaker 1: your playing and then going up into the draft, there

1639
01:37:54,479 --> 01:37:57,280
Speaker 1: was all the talk about uh the mental health issues,

1640
01:37:57,760 --> 01:38:00,880
Speaker 1: you being able to and you being will to fly

1641
01:38:01,439 --> 01:38:03,960
Speaker 1: not fly with the team. And also so I want

1642
01:38:04,000 --> 01:38:06,439
Speaker 1: you to to to articulate that because I don't want

1643
01:38:06,439 --> 01:38:08,559
Speaker 1: to put any words in your mouth with it. Yeah,

1644
01:38:08,600 --> 01:38:10,759
Speaker 1: I mean there was you know, so I had also

1645
01:38:11,160 --> 01:38:14,720
Speaker 1: you know in my college during the college career that

1646
01:38:14,960 --> 01:38:17,040
Speaker 1: you know at Iowa State or my year at Iowa

1647
01:38:17,120 --> 01:38:20,160
Speaker 1: State after I disclosed my you know, the fact that

1648
01:38:20,200 --> 01:38:22,639
Speaker 1: I had dealt with anxiety disorder, which is a general

1649
01:38:22,720 --> 01:38:26,280
Speaker 1: anxiety disorder. I had also explained to the reporter and

1650
01:38:26,360 --> 01:38:29,120
Speaker 1: to people that were asking, which is whoever was asking,

1651
01:38:29,200 --> 01:38:31,760
Speaker 1: which now looking back, was one of those moments where

1652
01:38:31,760 --> 01:38:34,400
Speaker 1: I shouldn't have well, where people would have suggested that

1653
01:38:34,439 --> 01:38:37,679
Speaker 1: I shouldn't have disclosed any of my truth right because

1654
01:38:37,720 --> 01:38:40,640
Speaker 1: it had a hindering effect on my economics right or

1655
01:38:40,680 --> 01:38:44,760
Speaker 1: my future economic right. So what I but I also

1656
01:38:44,840 --> 01:38:47,080
Speaker 1: disclosed like, man, yeah, I don't like to fly. I

1657
01:38:47,120 --> 01:38:49,160
Speaker 1: don't like it at all. Actually I would I would

1658
01:38:49,200 --> 01:38:52,320
Speaker 1: classify it as a phobia of heights and not just

1659
01:38:52,439 --> 01:38:54,840
Speaker 1: the airplane. But I wouldn't like being up in fucking

1660
01:38:54,880 --> 01:38:57,679
Speaker 1: tall buildings. I wouldn't like if I had to choose,

1661
01:38:57,720 --> 01:39:00,600
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be a fucking scaffolding construction worker or not.

1662
01:39:00,720 --> 01:39:02,280
Speaker 1: Like you know what I'm saying. I just don't like heights.

1663
01:39:02,320 --> 01:39:07,639
Speaker 1: I don't even like the idea, so you know, although

1664
01:39:07,880 --> 01:39:10,200
Speaker 1: you know that being said, I was saying that while

1665
01:39:10,280 --> 01:39:13,960
Speaker 1: I was taking flights during during my college season, so

1666
01:39:14,880 --> 01:39:17,160
Speaker 1: it wasn't like I was saying I won't fly. I

1667
01:39:17,320 --> 01:39:19,360
Speaker 1: was just saying, no, we fly all the time here

1668
01:39:19,400 --> 01:39:21,920
Speaker 1: with the team and I don't like that ship. So

1669
01:39:22,240 --> 01:39:24,240
Speaker 1: for you flying at the time, because I want to

1670
01:39:24,240 --> 01:39:25,920
Speaker 1: see how you are now with it. Was it just

1671
01:39:26,040 --> 01:39:28,080
Speaker 1: something like you know, some people don't like to fly,

1672
01:39:28,240 --> 01:39:31,880
Speaker 1: or was it really like a stressful, anxiety ridding thing

1673
01:39:32,000 --> 01:39:34,920
Speaker 1: to get on flights? Like did you really suffer and

1674
01:39:35,080 --> 01:39:38,439
Speaker 1: do you still suffer from actual you know, flying, It's

1675
01:39:38,439 --> 01:39:41,519
Speaker 1: hard to classify how much suffering one feels when doing

1676
01:39:41,600 --> 01:39:45,000
Speaker 1: something that's that's you know, they really dislike it, like

1677
01:39:45,439 --> 01:39:47,880
Speaker 1: I only know relatives to me, so yeah, I mean

1678
01:39:47,960 --> 01:39:49,880
Speaker 1: it is a lot of It is a lot of

1679
01:39:49,880 --> 01:39:51,880
Speaker 1: stress for me to go up thirty thousand feet in

1680
01:39:51,920 --> 01:39:55,400
Speaker 1: the fucking seal box, like that's time my mind processes

1681
01:39:55,439 --> 01:39:58,120
Speaker 1: it and and it is a stressor Now, I didn't

1682
01:39:58,160 --> 01:40:00,120
Speaker 1: cast out when I had to fly. I didn't like

1683
01:40:00,479 --> 01:40:03,000
Speaker 1: get so riddle with anxiety that I couldn't play the

1684
01:40:03,080 --> 01:40:04,760
Speaker 1: game in the next city we went to, like when

1685
01:40:04,800 --> 01:40:08,320
Speaker 1: I was in college, right, I mean the first the

1686
01:40:08,360 --> 01:40:10,519
Speaker 1: first triple double I had and the only triple double

1687
01:40:10,560 --> 01:40:12,799
Speaker 1: that was recorded at an away game for a player

1688
01:40:13,439 --> 01:40:15,720
Speaker 1: was after I had taken the longest flight of our

1689
01:40:15,800 --> 01:40:19,120
Speaker 1: season to Texas A and M. You know that lets

1690
01:40:19,160 --> 01:40:21,960
Speaker 1: you know, like how the the misconception of of trying

1691
01:40:22,040 --> 01:40:24,400
Speaker 1: to measure these things that quantify these things can have

1692
01:40:24,600 --> 01:40:28,639
Speaker 1: you you know, you're you're skewed way in a place

1693
01:40:28,720 --> 01:40:31,960
Speaker 1: that is not in any way accurate to the situation.

1694
01:40:32,040 --> 01:40:34,040
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, I don't like to fly, but that

1695
01:40:34,160 --> 01:40:36,320
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that I can't perform, and not only perform,

1696
01:40:36,439 --> 01:40:39,840
Speaker 1: perform at the elite of levels. So before we even

1697
01:40:39,880 --> 01:40:41,360
Speaker 1: got to see you play, there was so much talking

1698
01:40:41,360 --> 01:40:43,680
Speaker 1: about you taking a stance against the n b A,

1699
01:40:44,439 --> 01:40:47,560
Speaker 1: UH dealing with mental illness, dealing with mental health and

1700
01:40:47,600 --> 01:40:50,479
Speaker 1: all that stuff. And then and then somehow, some way,

1701
01:40:50,520 --> 01:40:52,400
Speaker 1: it was like you just you weren't playing, Like what

1702
01:40:52,760 --> 01:40:57,280
Speaker 1: happened when you got to the rockets. Yeah, So, I mean,

1703
01:40:57,360 --> 01:40:59,960
Speaker 1: first of all, I think it's appropriate for me to say,

1704
01:41:01,680 --> 01:41:03,720
Speaker 1: you know, just to be upfront and stay true to

1705
01:41:04,000 --> 01:41:05,720
Speaker 1: the way that I feel and and and my own

1706
01:41:06,000 --> 01:41:10,240
Speaker 1: my own voice. Truth is that there's a very intentional

1707
01:41:11,439 --> 01:41:14,560
Speaker 1: message that was given to the fans of UH not

1708
01:41:14,880 --> 01:41:17,360
Speaker 1: from even before I was drafted. And this is what

1709
01:41:17,439 --> 01:41:20,719
Speaker 1: I was saying before about the conversation was already starting

1710
01:41:20,760 --> 01:41:23,360
Speaker 1: to brew before I was drafted, that how do we

1711
01:41:23,439 --> 01:41:25,960
Speaker 1: look at mental health from a professional athlete standpoint, and

1712
01:41:26,000 --> 01:41:28,320
Speaker 1: how do we look at mental health as a general society.

1713
01:41:29,080 --> 01:41:31,640
Speaker 1: And it was all like it was all it was

1714
01:41:31,760 --> 01:41:34,760
Speaker 1: all qued up to say, well, we don't really have

1715
01:41:34,960 --> 01:41:38,080
Speaker 1: a stance yet, but this guy is a top five talent,

1716
01:41:38,520 --> 01:41:41,400
Speaker 1: not only top five like detentional, Like this guy has

1717
01:41:41,439 --> 01:41:44,639
Speaker 1: a top five skill set NBA ready body point guard

1718
01:41:45,080 --> 01:41:48,280
Speaker 1: at two hundred sixty pounds six eight type of top

1719
01:41:48,320 --> 01:41:51,519
Speaker 1: five picks, you know, not like some of these other

1720
01:41:51,680 --> 01:41:54,120
Speaker 1: top five picks, like you know, just to say like

1721
01:41:54,360 --> 01:41:56,439
Speaker 1: a Joel embiide where it's like, you know, the guy

1722
01:41:56,720 --> 01:41:59,519
Speaker 1: has issues and you know it's flood and he has

1723
01:41:59,640 --> 01:42:03,240
Speaker 1: body problems or or either even after Davis at the

1724
01:42:03,280 --> 01:42:05,559
Speaker 1: time he went number one, is his body still needed

1725
01:42:05,600 --> 01:42:08,200
Speaker 1: him timmature and he was gonna need two or three

1726
01:42:08,280 --> 01:42:10,360
Speaker 1: months or a season with the NBA team and a

1727
01:42:10,439 --> 01:42:12,840
Speaker 1: regiment to be able to to hone his skills in

1728
01:42:12,880 --> 01:42:14,560
Speaker 1: a certain way. No, I wasn't that. I was like,

1729
01:42:15,040 --> 01:42:16,960
Speaker 1: this guy is one of the freakiest players we've ever seen.

1730
01:42:17,000 --> 01:42:19,160
Speaker 1: The six A two sixteen, he's playing the point. This

1731
01:42:19,320 --> 01:42:23,080
Speaker 1: is fucking crazy, right, So so, but it was queued

1732
01:42:23,160 --> 01:42:25,599
Speaker 1: up to say, but he could go as late as

1733
01:42:25,640 --> 01:42:28,160
Speaker 1: the into the second round. Why because of his talent

1734
01:42:28,320 --> 01:42:31,679
Speaker 1: or skill. No, because we haven't discerned whether mental health

1735
01:42:31,840 --> 01:42:36,280
Speaker 1: is a medical issue or character problem. So you see

1736
01:42:36,280 --> 01:42:38,720
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like that was sewed up already in

1737
01:42:38,800 --> 01:42:41,080
Speaker 1: the in the discourse. So back to your back to

1738
01:42:41,120 --> 01:42:43,400
Speaker 1: your point or to the point you were making. So

1739
01:42:43,479 --> 01:42:48,040
Speaker 1: when I got to the rockets, I had a I

1740
01:42:48,120 --> 01:42:51,160
Speaker 1: had a deep curiosity about what's the mental health uh

1741
01:42:52,320 --> 01:42:56,840
Speaker 1: stance was from the league vantage point anyway, because here

1742
01:42:56,880 --> 01:42:59,120
Speaker 1: I am. I've gone through this draft process where it's

1743
01:42:59,160 --> 01:43:01,719
Speaker 1: been nonstopped talked about myself, not only from the media,

1744
01:43:01,760 --> 01:43:04,280
Speaker 1: but when I go interview with teams. You know, I

1745
01:43:04,320 --> 01:43:06,760
Speaker 1: had a private investigator show up and aims where I

1746
01:43:06,760 --> 01:43:08,360
Speaker 1: went to college and sit down with me for two

1747
01:43:08,400 --> 01:43:11,400
Speaker 1: hours talking about anxiety and and you know, not to

1748
01:43:11,479 --> 01:43:13,960
Speaker 1: mention that again with the media. I was constantly talking

1749
01:43:14,000 --> 01:43:16,720
Speaker 1: about anxiety in this draft process. So when I got

1750
01:43:16,760 --> 01:43:19,000
Speaker 1: to the NBA, I'm like, man, I gotta curio. Now

1751
01:43:19,080 --> 01:43:22,040
Speaker 1: we're actually here. Now me myself as an individual in

1752
01:43:22,080 --> 01:43:24,520
Speaker 1: this corporation that I'm about to go into a partnership,

1753
01:43:24,600 --> 01:43:27,840
Speaker 1: which with which is an important distinction that I'm about

1754
01:43:27,880 --> 01:43:31,400
Speaker 1: going to partnership with is is. You know, we're here

1755
01:43:31,439 --> 01:43:33,439
Speaker 1: now in this situation, and I have a really a

1756
01:43:33,520 --> 01:43:36,320
Speaker 1: real curiosity about how they actually do feel about myself

1757
01:43:36,320 --> 01:43:39,040
Speaker 1: because through the whole process, we haven't talked about it.

1758
01:43:40,040 --> 01:43:42,679
Speaker 1: The media has talked about it, My coach has talked

1759
01:43:42,680 --> 01:43:46,040
Speaker 1: about it. I've talked about it. You know, everybody's talked

1760
01:43:46,040 --> 01:43:48,160
Speaker 1: about it except for the two people that have to

1761
01:43:48,200 --> 01:43:51,400
Speaker 1: actually navigate it, which is me and the team. So

1762
01:43:53,200 --> 01:43:55,799
Speaker 1: we were all commissioned to all the rookies are commissioned

1763
01:43:55,800 --> 01:43:58,280
Speaker 1: to go to the Rickie Transition Program, which happens out

1764
01:43:58,360 --> 01:44:01,040
Speaker 1: in I think it's whole poken New Orgy, if I'm

1765
01:44:01,080 --> 01:44:04,200
Speaker 1: not mistaken. Uh, And we all fly out there and

1766
01:44:04,280 --> 01:44:08,599
Speaker 1: we go to these seminars and there's seminars from everything

1767
01:44:08,760 --> 01:44:11,800
Speaker 1: from you know, a chickho claimed that she raped you,

1768
01:44:12,000 --> 01:44:14,120
Speaker 1: your family are trying and steal your money, you know,

1769
01:44:14,520 --> 01:44:17,880
Speaker 1: stay away from coking and alcohol, and and don't say

1770
01:44:17,880 --> 01:44:20,880
Speaker 1: anything about you know, the Jews a religion in the

1771
01:44:20,920 --> 01:44:23,080
Speaker 1: media type of ship. And I say that to be funny,

1772
01:44:23,120 --> 01:44:27,680
Speaker 1: but you know that's basically what it's. That type of seminar, Right.

1773
01:44:27,760 --> 01:44:32,240
Speaker 1: So I'm sitting there, and I'm like, well, damn, I mean,

1774
01:44:32,280 --> 01:44:34,479
Speaker 1: I'm dealing with an anxiety disorder and and it's an

1775
01:44:34,560 --> 01:44:37,560
Speaker 1: underlying or subcategory of this large mental health issue that

1776
01:44:37,680 --> 01:44:39,760
Speaker 1: really affects all of these fucking things you guys are

1777
01:44:39,800 --> 01:44:44,200
Speaker 1: talking about, from religions to politics, to your relationships, to

1778
01:44:44,360 --> 01:44:47,360
Speaker 1: drugs and alcohol mainly. And I was sitting there and

1779
01:44:47,439 --> 01:44:49,040
Speaker 1: Chris Here and who you know, from being a New

1780
01:44:49,120 --> 01:44:52,519
Speaker 1: York guy, Chris Here gave one of the most touching

1781
01:44:52,760 --> 01:44:56,720
Speaker 1: seminars I've ever sat, like from an athlete or from anybody,

1782
01:44:56,760 --> 01:44:58,599
Speaker 1: and I've sat in many of them now from being

1783
01:44:58,800 --> 01:45:01,080
Speaker 1: you know, doing these mentals speaking engage with things like that.

1784
01:45:01,640 --> 01:45:04,040
Speaker 1: It was one of the most heart spelt, in touching

1785
01:45:04,479 --> 01:45:07,120
Speaker 1: seminars I've ever heard about his addiction with hera win

1786
01:45:07,240 --> 01:45:11,120
Speaker 1: and just how you know how dark it was for him.

1787
01:45:12,040 --> 01:45:14,400
Speaker 1: And I'm sitting there thinking to myself, at one years old,

1788
01:45:14,439 --> 01:45:16,519
Speaker 1: there has to be a mental health comin are coming next?

1789
01:45:16,680 --> 01:45:20,000
Speaker 1: Absolutely not. There wasn't one. So I go back home

1790
01:45:20,240 --> 01:45:24,200
Speaker 1: after this transition program and I looked through my collective

1791
01:45:24,200 --> 01:45:26,960
Speaker 1: party in agreement, I'm like, well, you know, it can't

1792
01:45:27,000 --> 01:45:29,120
Speaker 1: just be that they're not They're not putting a seminar

1793
01:45:29,280 --> 01:45:31,559
Speaker 1: in in this thing, and you know, is there any

1794
01:45:32,040 --> 01:45:35,120
Speaker 1: chance that maybe there just isn't a general stance on

1795
01:45:35,240 --> 01:45:38,040
Speaker 1: this topic at all. So I'm going through my collective

1796
01:45:38,080 --> 01:45:41,200
Speaker 1: party agreement and lo and behold, there's not one fucking

1797
01:45:41,280 --> 01:45:45,960
Speaker 1: paragraph about mental health. And the entire document, like from

1798
01:45:46,080 --> 01:45:50,320
Speaker 1: from front to back, there wasn't a single paragraph about

1799
01:45:50,400 --> 01:45:53,960
Speaker 1: mental health. So I go to my team and I say, listen,

1800
01:45:54,600 --> 01:45:56,560
Speaker 1: this is I mean training camps about to start? Is

1801
01:45:56,680 --> 01:45:58,600
Speaker 1: they want to training camp? I hit the GM up.

1802
01:45:58,640 --> 01:46:02,320
Speaker 1: I'm like yo, I talked to my doctors, and we think,

1803
01:46:02,400 --> 01:46:04,960
Speaker 1: just from a standpoint of a good space and trying

1804
01:46:05,040 --> 01:46:08,320
Speaker 1: to be proactive and trying to navigate this thing appropriately,

1805
01:46:08,800 --> 01:46:12,439
Speaker 1: I probably shouldn't be at team functions with this type

1806
01:46:12,520 --> 01:46:15,760
Speaker 1: of oversight because it's it's almost to a point where

1807
01:46:15,760 --> 01:46:19,120
Speaker 1: it's so negligent that we're surely setting ourselves up to

1808
01:46:19,200 --> 01:46:20,519
Speaker 1: be at odds. And I don't want to be at

1809
01:46:20,560 --> 01:46:24,720
Speaker 1: odds with Houston for the NBA, but surely it will

1810
01:46:24,760 --> 01:46:27,519
Speaker 1: come to ODZ because the negligence is so high in

1811
01:46:27,720 --> 01:46:31,280
Speaker 1: in this situation. So so the first thing that happened

1812
01:46:31,320 --> 01:46:33,400
Speaker 1: in this conversation between the in the rockets. Was I

1813
01:46:33,520 --> 01:46:36,120
Speaker 1: closed the idea that mental health should be looked at

1814
01:46:36,160 --> 01:46:38,680
Speaker 1: and respected as seriously as physical health. Right, that's the

1815
01:46:38,840 --> 01:46:44,320
Speaker 1: obvious life standards, you know, uh, surface answers like mental

1816
01:46:44,400 --> 01:46:47,519
Speaker 1: health should be as important as physical health. Right. It's

1817
01:46:47,560 --> 01:46:49,280
Speaker 1: really much deeper than that. But that was the first

1818
01:46:49,320 --> 01:46:51,760
Speaker 1: thing we posed because the thought behind it from me

1819
01:46:51,840 --> 01:46:53,800
Speaker 1: and my doctors, you know, and I sent you the

1820
01:46:53,840 --> 01:46:56,439
Speaker 1: letter from the doctors signing the letter to the NBA

1821
01:46:56,520 --> 01:46:59,240
Speaker 1: saying that this thing is important, etcetera, etcetera. The thought

1822
01:46:59,320 --> 01:47:04,160
Speaker 1: behind us, Okay, there's no language on mental health. But

1823
01:47:04,280 --> 01:47:06,519
Speaker 1: if we if we say that, if we agree that

1824
01:47:06,760 --> 01:47:09,240
Speaker 1: mental health is as important as physical health that falls

1825
01:47:09,320 --> 01:47:11,400
Speaker 1: under the same category, then we can at least use

1826
01:47:11,439 --> 01:47:15,760
Speaker 1: the physical health language in the document to serve as

1827
01:47:15,920 --> 01:47:18,880
Speaker 1: something for mental health as well. They didn't want to

1828
01:47:18,920 --> 01:47:21,519
Speaker 1: do that. They didn't want to do that. They said, no, no, no,

1829
01:47:22,040 --> 01:47:24,519
Speaker 1: mental health is totally different than physical health. We're like, yeah,

1830
01:47:24,560 --> 01:47:26,760
Speaker 1: we fucking know that. But the point is, you don't

1831
01:47:26,800 --> 01:47:28,920
Speaker 1: have any language on this health. So we're trying to

1832
01:47:28,960 --> 01:47:31,639
Speaker 1: at least bridge of gas. Right. You're trying to leave

1833
01:47:31,680 --> 01:47:33,240
Speaker 1: the gaps out there for me to walk across the

1834
01:47:33,280 --> 01:47:36,280
Speaker 1: Bridge and followed my fucking doom right, which is an

1835
01:47:36,320 --> 01:47:38,040
Speaker 1: extreme example, but you know, you get what I'm saying

1836
01:47:38,160 --> 01:47:40,799
Speaker 1: is like you want to ignore that the gap even exists.

1837
01:47:40,960 --> 01:47:45,760
Speaker 1: Were you feeling concerned about how your first season with

1838
01:47:45,840 --> 01:47:48,559
Speaker 1: the with the Rockets was gonna be or was it separate?

1839
01:47:48,600 --> 01:47:51,759
Speaker 1: Because for me, I remember thinking like, is this dude's

1840
01:47:51,840 --> 01:47:55,439
Speaker 1: agenda to deal with mental health because it's something that

1841
01:47:55,520 --> 01:47:59,080
Speaker 1: he wants to deal with, or is it Royce is

1842
01:47:59,160 --> 01:48:02,320
Speaker 1: concerned like I'm gonna fucking have a problem being an

1843
01:48:02,439 --> 01:48:05,120
Speaker 1: NBA rookie. Like I could sit here and say, oh,

1844
01:48:05,280 --> 01:48:07,639
Speaker 1: I'm doing this podcast with Royce, and then I could

1845
01:48:07,800 --> 01:48:09,680
Speaker 1: be thinking, oh, well, I want to make sure that

1846
01:48:09,920 --> 01:48:12,280
Speaker 1: the connection is good. You know, like we were you

1847
01:48:12,320 --> 01:48:15,360
Speaker 1: worried about like the mental health and for the big picture?

1848
01:48:15,400 --> 01:48:19,120
Speaker 1: Were you worried about the mental health for you specifically? Initially,

1849
01:48:19,200 --> 01:48:21,439
Speaker 1: of course, I was like, hold on a second, I

1850
01:48:21,600 --> 01:48:24,559
Speaker 1: have anxiety. How do you guys feel about the thing

1851
01:48:24,640 --> 01:48:28,920
Speaker 1: that I had? Right now? What that transformed into, I

1852
01:48:29,000 --> 01:48:33,439
Speaker 1: will honestly say, is as this conversation went public, there

1853
01:48:33,520 --> 01:48:35,720
Speaker 1: was a little hint of altruism in there, even from

1854
01:48:35,760 --> 01:48:37,439
Speaker 1: the start out, saying if you go back and read

1855
01:48:37,479 --> 01:48:38,880
Speaker 1: some of the things that I said in high school

1856
01:48:38,920 --> 01:48:41,080
Speaker 1: and college. I've always been a guy that was that

1857
01:48:41,200 --> 01:48:44,680
Speaker 1: that's tried to be mindful of of greater causes or

1858
01:48:44,880 --> 01:48:48,519
Speaker 1: or greater effects across society with my actions, because that's

1859
01:48:48,520 --> 01:48:50,920
Speaker 1: what act we should be doing because we're in the

1860
01:48:51,000 --> 01:48:53,280
Speaker 1: public eye, and and and not only should we be

1861
01:48:53,360 --> 01:48:55,360
Speaker 1: doing it from our venus, boy, but that's just that's

1862
01:48:55,400 --> 01:48:57,880
Speaker 1: what we're commissioned to do from those people, and being

1863
01:48:57,960 --> 01:49:01,519
Speaker 1: the power players from the the sport is like, you

1864
01:49:01,600 --> 01:49:03,720
Speaker 1: can't tell Charles Barkley he's a role model, but then

1865
01:49:03,720 --> 01:49:05,840
Speaker 1: get mad at the poty one year old who was altruistic.

1866
01:49:05,920 --> 01:49:08,600
Speaker 1: It's like, you can't have it both ways. So but

1867
01:49:08,760 --> 01:49:10,679
Speaker 1: I'll say that you started with me thinking about, Okay,

1868
01:49:10,720 --> 01:49:12,880
Speaker 1: how am I gonna navigate not only this year but

1869
01:49:13,000 --> 01:49:16,120
Speaker 1: my career with this corporation, not just the Rockets but

1870
01:49:16,280 --> 01:49:20,439
Speaker 1: the NBA in general. But then as the conversation with public,

1871
01:49:22,040 --> 01:49:24,400
Speaker 1: and I got this feedback from the people that were

1872
01:49:24,439 --> 01:49:26,519
Speaker 1: watching it, the fans of the game, and and and

1873
01:49:26,680 --> 01:49:30,400
Speaker 1: mostly which is really uh was ironic and shocking to

1874
01:49:30,479 --> 01:49:33,040
Speaker 1: me is that the majority of feedback came from people

1875
01:49:33,080 --> 01:49:37,320
Speaker 1: that didn't watch basketball at all. I got so many

1876
01:49:37,360 --> 01:49:39,000
Speaker 1: messages from people that are saying, like, you know, I

1877
01:49:39,160 --> 01:49:42,080
Speaker 1: just discovered that anxiety and I was googling anxiety and

1878
01:49:42,160 --> 01:49:45,439
Speaker 1: your story popped up. I don't even watch basketball. I

1879
01:49:45,560 --> 01:49:47,639
Speaker 1: was just googling anxiety because I just had my first

1880
01:49:47,720 --> 01:49:51,320
Speaker 1: year second kindic attack, right, So, so I was I

1881
01:49:51,439 --> 01:49:53,880
Speaker 1: was getting that type of feedback, and what what the

1882
01:49:54,000 --> 01:49:58,439
Speaker 1: overall message was was we don't have a voice. I'm

1883
01:49:58,479 --> 01:50:01,879
Speaker 1: happy that you're even able to muster up the courage

1884
01:50:02,000 --> 01:50:05,679
Speaker 1: to admit your struggles in front of the world because

1885
01:50:05,760 --> 01:50:08,240
Speaker 1: that makes me feel like I have a voice. If

1886
01:50:08,320 --> 01:50:10,360
Speaker 1: you could go back and do it all again. In

1887
01:50:10,560 --> 01:50:13,719
Speaker 1: terms of that rookie season and this is all happening

1888
01:50:13,760 --> 01:50:16,360
Speaker 1: before you even get to play, would you have sort

1889
01:50:16,400 --> 01:50:20,679
Speaker 1: of been played and also dealt with it separately because

1890
01:50:21,280 --> 01:50:24,880
Speaker 1: inevitably you playing and you being a force in the

1891
01:50:25,000 --> 01:50:27,439
Speaker 1: n b A and you emerging as a star, which

1892
01:50:27,520 --> 01:50:29,479
Speaker 1: was what potentially you were gonna be in the n

1893
01:50:29,520 --> 01:50:32,840
Speaker 1: b A, and also caring and pushing for for mental

1894
01:50:32,880 --> 01:50:36,960
Speaker 1: health awareness and um, you know, and people being treatment.

1895
01:50:37,320 --> 01:50:39,679
Speaker 1: Do do you think that that would have been better

1896
01:50:39,760 --> 01:50:42,360
Speaker 1: serve both things, because obviously your dream was to play

1897
01:50:42,400 --> 01:50:44,479
Speaker 1: in the NBA, and then you you, you come on

1898
01:50:44,640 --> 01:50:47,120
Speaker 1: with this thing which you care about just as obviously,

1899
01:50:47,200 --> 01:50:49,040
Speaker 1: just as passionately, Like do you think that that would

1900
01:50:49,040 --> 01:50:54,360
Speaker 1: have helped push both causes easier? You know? Uh? I

1901
01:50:54,400 --> 01:50:57,240
Speaker 1: would say to that point is like I didn't know

1902
01:50:57,320 --> 01:51:01,800
Speaker 1: what my dreams truly were yet at a their nine one,

1903
01:51:02,160 --> 01:51:04,360
Speaker 1: I thought I knew what my dream was. But who

1904
01:51:04,479 --> 01:51:08,120
Speaker 1: even really knows themselves at one right? It's like you

1905
01:51:08,160 --> 01:51:11,320
Speaker 1: always go through this purpulent situation that that lets you

1906
01:51:12,479 --> 01:51:15,600
Speaker 1: gain a better understanding of your true self. And I

1907
01:51:15,720 --> 01:51:19,559
Speaker 1: think that ironically, this moment, which would have been pivotal

1908
01:51:19,600 --> 01:51:22,840
Speaker 1: anyway and in most people's timelines of their life, became

1909
01:51:22,920 --> 01:51:25,960
Speaker 1: pivotal for me in an entirely different way, you know,

1910
01:51:26,280 --> 01:51:29,640
Speaker 1: in that I learned more about myself or what was

1911
01:51:29,760 --> 01:51:34,320
Speaker 1: truly uh my dreams or goals of success. Uh. And

1912
01:51:34,880 --> 01:51:36,920
Speaker 1: but but to your point, on a more fundamental level,

1913
01:51:37,040 --> 01:51:40,960
Speaker 1: was like I have an anxiety disorder. There's not a

1914
01:51:41,120 --> 01:51:44,839
Speaker 1: fucking there's not a sucking sentence of mental health policy

1915
01:51:44,880 --> 01:51:48,600
Speaker 1: in this entire corporation. This is a non starter. This

1916
01:51:49,080 --> 01:51:52,920
Speaker 1: on a on a practical level, this is a non starter. Like, uh,

1917
01:51:53,240 --> 01:51:57,040
Speaker 1: given a good example of this, like, Okay, what happens

1918
01:51:57,160 --> 01:52:00,680
Speaker 1: if I have a panic attack and I can't play right?

1919
01:52:00,720 --> 01:52:03,519
Speaker 1: The obvious sessiment would be like, well, okay, a panic attack.

1920
01:52:03,640 --> 01:52:06,720
Speaker 1: You know, you could say it's like a health acute

1921
01:52:06,760 --> 01:52:08,840
Speaker 1: health condition, and you know a team is not going

1922
01:52:08,960 --> 01:52:12,120
Speaker 1: to find you or touch you or or whatever for that.

1923
01:52:12,560 --> 01:52:14,519
Speaker 1: It's like no, no, no, that's not the fucking point.

1924
01:52:14,560 --> 01:52:16,080
Speaker 1: The point is whether or not they're gonna cut me

1925
01:52:16,240 --> 01:52:19,040
Speaker 1: or find me. The point is, is there a general

1926
01:52:19,640 --> 01:52:23,599
Speaker 1: sentiment or perspective towards mental health that treats me having

1927
01:52:23,640 --> 01:52:27,240
Speaker 1: a planic attack the same way as a degenerate gambler

1928
01:52:27,960 --> 01:52:33,280
Speaker 1: or a degenerate alcoholic who who consciously decides to get

1929
01:52:33,360 --> 01:52:36,280
Speaker 1: drunk at Magic City and mrs Practice the next day. Right,

1930
01:52:36,360 --> 01:52:39,679
Speaker 1: there's a and even saying that I have a sympathy

1931
01:52:39,760 --> 01:52:44,440
Speaker 1: for the degenerate alcoholics because there's great uh symbiotic relationship

1932
01:52:44,520 --> 01:52:47,800
Speaker 1: between mental health deep mental health problems or unresolved or

1933
01:52:47,920 --> 01:52:53,200
Speaker 1: un acknowledged or or undiagnosed mentalth problems that cause degenerate alcoholism.

1934
01:52:53,680 --> 01:52:55,439
Speaker 1: So I have a sympathy for that, and I think

1935
01:52:55,479 --> 01:52:57,519
Speaker 1: that the NBA should have won as well. And this

1936
01:52:57,680 --> 01:53:00,640
Speaker 1: is how cases like Eddie Griffin and their names that

1937
01:53:00,720 --> 01:53:03,479
Speaker 1: you could talk about across time has have struggled with

1938
01:53:03,640 --> 01:53:06,000
Speaker 1: things and those things that turned into the character issues

1939
01:53:06,400 --> 01:53:08,840
Speaker 1: which I could see down my past clearly, even though

1940
01:53:08,880 --> 01:53:11,680
Speaker 1: I didn't have a Drugger alcohol problem, but it was

1941
01:53:11,760 --> 01:53:13,680
Speaker 1: the same thing that they were gonna do to the

1942
01:53:13,720 --> 01:53:16,160
Speaker 1: mental health problem. Is like, no, you won't. You won't

1943
01:53:16,200 --> 01:53:19,320
Speaker 1: find me or trut me maybe for having an anxiety attacks.

1944
01:53:20,360 --> 01:53:22,160
Speaker 1: But what you want to do is, next time the

1945
01:53:22,240 --> 01:53:25,639
Speaker 1: contract comes to you use anxiety, which is a betteral

1946
01:53:25,720 --> 01:53:30,720
Speaker 1: disability and protected under the the Disability Act. You use

1947
01:53:30,840 --> 01:53:34,080
Speaker 1: that illegally did not give me a job the next time.

1948
01:53:34,200 --> 01:53:35,920
Speaker 1: So what we should do is we shoul appreciate the

1949
01:53:36,000 --> 01:53:37,880
Speaker 1: perspective now so that we don't have to have that

1950
01:53:38,080 --> 01:53:41,640
Speaker 1: tough conversation four years from now with my contracts up.

1951
01:53:42,520 --> 01:53:44,439
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? I get you. I get you.

1952
01:53:44,960 --> 01:53:48,400
Speaker 1: So so did ultimately like you being so passionate and

1953
01:53:48,520 --> 01:53:52,439
Speaker 1: you being so so outspoken about what you were dealing with,

1954
01:53:52,600 --> 01:53:55,519
Speaker 1: what you were potentially gonna deal with, and everything that

1955
01:53:55,720 --> 01:53:58,360
Speaker 1: that you were you were sort of thinking about at

1956
01:53:58,439 --> 01:54:00,800
Speaker 1: that young age, like how did wind up sort of

1957
01:54:01,479 --> 01:54:04,720
Speaker 1: taking you out of the NBA because I remember looking

1958
01:54:04,800 --> 01:54:06,439
Speaker 1: up like I was like, yeah, where's this dude that?

1959
01:54:06,560 --> 01:54:08,200
Speaker 1: Where's this dude that? Like, you know, and it's just,

1960
01:54:08,640 --> 01:54:12,200
Speaker 1: you know, five years ago, it's like, um, social media

1961
01:54:12,320 --> 01:54:14,600
Speaker 1: wasn't what it is today. It's like you could have

1962
01:54:14,680 --> 01:54:18,280
Speaker 1: really used you know, Twitter, you could have used the

1963
01:54:18,360 --> 01:54:21,800
Speaker 1: hashtag to sort of have your back, um because now,

1964
01:54:22,479 --> 01:54:25,120
Speaker 1: like when ship goes on in an NBA rookie, you know,

1965
01:54:25,520 --> 01:54:27,720
Speaker 1: it would have sort of people would have rallied around you.

1966
01:54:28,000 --> 01:54:29,559
Speaker 1: You know, it's like you were like a few years

1967
01:54:30,320 --> 01:54:34,120
Speaker 1: a few years earlier, go ahead this. But here's the

1968
01:54:34,200 --> 01:54:36,720
Speaker 1: reality is that I'm twenty six, I'm not thirty six,

1969
01:54:36,920 --> 01:54:39,480
Speaker 1: and I'm not forty six. I'm still coming back. I'm

1970
01:54:39,480 --> 01:54:41,320
Speaker 1: still coming back to slap them in the mouth. It's

1971
01:54:41,360 --> 01:54:44,040
Speaker 1: just I had to figure out exactly what that meant

1972
01:54:44,120 --> 01:54:45,320
Speaker 1: for me, and I had to make sure that it

1973
01:54:45,440 --> 01:54:49,760
Speaker 1: wasn't it wasn't a revenge based action, right, And to

1974
01:54:49,880 --> 01:54:52,440
Speaker 1: be honest, social media wasn't then what it is now.

1975
01:54:52,960 --> 01:54:54,600
Speaker 1: But I would say that I was. I was spoken

1976
01:54:54,640 --> 01:54:56,480
Speaker 1: on social media then, and I could have been more

1977
01:54:56,560 --> 01:54:59,480
Speaker 1: outspoken and I could have been more Um, I could

1978
01:54:59,520 --> 01:55:01,320
Speaker 1: have been st I didn't think I could have just

1979
01:55:01,440 --> 01:55:03,920
Speaker 1: called the racing card out the gate, right, like the

1980
01:55:04,040 --> 01:55:09,960
Speaker 1: ownership in the NBA is is overwhelmingly dispportunately uh white

1981
01:55:10,080 --> 01:55:11,920
Speaker 1: versus black, Right, I could have called that right away,

1982
01:55:11,920 --> 01:55:14,120
Speaker 1: But I didn't do that. I didn't say I didn't

1983
01:55:14,160 --> 01:55:16,080
Speaker 1: come out and say I didn't come out and say,

1984
01:55:17,160 --> 01:55:19,440
Speaker 1: you know, David Stern's a fucking asshole back. And I

1985
01:55:19,560 --> 01:55:22,680
Speaker 1: was always trying to be cordial of the of the

1986
01:55:23,640 --> 01:55:26,560
Speaker 1: the opportunity for the relationship to actually grow and for

1987
01:55:26,680 --> 01:55:30,440
Speaker 1: people to collaborate and do something special. Right, And so

1988
01:55:31,200 --> 01:55:33,400
Speaker 1: to your point of of how did it happen, like

1989
01:55:33,480 --> 01:55:35,920
Speaker 1: how did I just slowly just be out of the

1990
01:55:36,000 --> 01:55:38,960
Speaker 1: league exactly like all those other players that we could

1991
01:55:39,000 --> 01:55:42,720
Speaker 1: list that had alcohol problems or or domestic problems or

1992
01:55:43,320 --> 01:55:46,640
Speaker 1: or or gambling issues or or or whatever it was

1993
01:55:46,760 --> 01:55:49,880
Speaker 1: that they were doing that became that confirmation by It's like,

1994
01:55:51,680 --> 01:55:54,080
Speaker 1: if I want to say, if I don't like Michael

1995
01:55:54,160 --> 01:55:58,280
Speaker 1: Rapport because he's Jewish, let's just say, right, I've easily

1996
01:55:58,320 --> 01:55:59,920
Speaker 1: come up with a bunch of other things that would

1997
01:56:00,080 --> 01:56:03,560
Speaker 1: replaced the replace what I truly don't like about them,

1998
01:56:03,680 --> 01:56:06,080
Speaker 1: But the true underlying issue would still be that I

1999
01:56:06,120 --> 01:56:08,520
Speaker 1: don't like you because you're Jewish. And now all I'm

2000
01:56:08,560 --> 01:56:11,360
Speaker 1: doing is trying to create all these other fucking confirmation

2001
01:56:11,440 --> 01:56:14,920
Speaker 1: biases that not only in my building for my story

2002
01:56:15,000 --> 01:56:17,600
Speaker 1: if anybody hears me talk about it out loud, I'm

2003
01:56:17,680 --> 01:56:20,040
Speaker 1: building it for my fucking self so I can justify

2004
01:56:20,080 --> 01:56:23,200
Speaker 1: it to myself when I laid my head down at night. Right,

2005
01:56:23,760 --> 01:56:26,520
Speaker 1: So this is what ends up happening, is like you

2006
01:56:26,640 --> 01:56:29,320
Speaker 1: have this myths of conversation where the twenty one year old,

2007
01:56:29,360 --> 01:56:32,360
Speaker 1: outspoken kid who gets emotional and passion it says all

2008
01:56:32,400 --> 01:56:35,880
Speaker 1: of these things about all of these issues, and what

2009
01:56:36,000 --> 01:56:38,080
Speaker 1: we're gonna say after it all is like if he

2010
01:56:38,200 --> 01:56:40,880
Speaker 1: can't fly, he can't play in our league, when really

2011
01:56:40,960 --> 01:56:43,880
Speaker 1: you don't like you because I'm saying something progressive, or

2012
01:56:43,920 --> 01:56:47,120
Speaker 1: I'm saying something that that calls us to actually work

2013
01:56:47,200 --> 01:56:49,920
Speaker 1: a fucking bit instead of pretending like we have all

2014
01:56:49,960 --> 01:56:52,720
Speaker 1: the answers figured out in our little fucking seventi page

2015
01:56:52,760 --> 01:56:56,400
Speaker 1: collective bargaining documents, right, I actually call us to look

2016
01:56:56,480 --> 01:56:59,320
Speaker 1: up a little bit deeper beyond our arrogance, you know,

2017
01:56:59,440 --> 01:57:02,440
Speaker 1: beyond our vanity, and see what's really going on here.

2018
01:57:03,000 --> 01:57:05,000
Speaker 1: That's what you don't like, but when you have to

2019
01:57:05,080 --> 01:57:07,120
Speaker 1: say it publicly, you don't want to be an asshole,

2020
01:57:07,240 --> 01:57:09,480
Speaker 1: so you say, well, he has anxiety and that's why

2021
01:57:09,560 --> 01:57:11,840
Speaker 1: it can't play. I totally understand what you're saying. Man,

2022
01:57:12,240 --> 01:57:15,080
Speaker 1: it makes total sense, you know. And it's crazy because

2023
01:57:15,480 --> 01:57:18,200
Speaker 1: you're you're referring to yourself as twenty six and you're

2024
01:57:18,280 --> 01:57:21,760
Speaker 1: still a kid, you know, And and you know, you've

2025
01:57:21,760 --> 01:57:25,080
Speaker 1: obviously a forward thinker, and you've obviously seen a lot

2026
01:57:25,160 --> 01:57:26,920
Speaker 1: and been through a lot, and you know, and I've

2027
01:57:27,000 --> 01:57:30,080
Speaker 1: had this scrutiny and you know, and this this this ride,

2028
01:57:30,160 --> 01:57:33,440
Speaker 1: and it's you're you're twenty six years old. So it's crazy,

2029
01:57:33,520 --> 01:57:36,600
Speaker 1: and it's like, you know, I could feel your your passion, man,

2030
01:57:36,720 --> 01:57:39,560
Speaker 1: and and you know, and and and I think it's dope.

2031
01:57:40,400 --> 01:57:43,360
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Man. Now, I told myself, like any

2032
01:57:43,680 --> 01:57:46,480
Speaker 1: any time I've uh, any time I tried I talked

2033
01:57:46,520 --> 01:57:48,480
Speaker 1: about the league. Now, in my situation of my story,

2034
01:57:48,480 --> 01:57:51,280
Speaker 1: I always tell myself before I get in the conversation, like, man,

2035
01:57:51,360 --> 01:57:53,800
Speaker 1: try and keep that passion under control. Trying to keep that,

2036
01:57:54,200 --> 01:57:55,920
Speaker 1: you know, because I'm six eight, two sixty, Like I

2037
01:57:56,000 --> 01:57:57,960
Speaker 1: get loud quick, Like my wife has to tell me

2038
01:57:58,000 --> 01:58:00,800
Speaker 1: all the time, sage. You don't realize you're getting sucking loudest.

2039
01:58:00,800 --> 01:58:03,160
Speaker 1: Sometimes that ship is like scary. So like I'm trying

2040
01:58:03,200 --> 01:58:08,640
Speaker 1: to learn there's something about this story, and like, you know,

2041
01:58:08,800 --> 01:58:12,160
Speaker 1: four or five years of an ongoing drama and watching

2042
01:58:12,240 --> 01:58:16,160
Speaker 1: people give all these false explanations and justifications of of

2043
01:58:16,280 --> 01:58:19,080
Speaker 1: why they didn't do this or that. Uh, that that

2044
01:58:19,280 --> 01:58:22,680
Speaker 1: brewis up, and it's like, it's not just about my story,

2045
01:58:22,800 --> 01:58:25,240
Speaker 1: my frustration with my career. I could give a flying

2046
01:58:25,400 --> 01:58:28,120
Speaker 1: fun Like honestly, I was saying that back when I

2047
01:58:28,240 --> 01:58:29,960
Speaker 1: was twenty one. I was like, I don't give a

2048
01:58:30,000 --> 01:58:32,640
Speaker 1: funk about a hundred million dollars. I know hundreds, I

2049
01:58:32,720 --> 01:58:36,200
Speaker 1: know billionaires right now that are suffering from fucking you know,

2050
01:58:37,520 --> 01:58:40,480
Speaker 1: the same beat common struggles that that poor people are.

2051
01:58:40,560 --> 01:58:43,600
Speaker 1: I know, you can't fucking escape the despair of the

2052
01:58:43,720 --> 01:58:46,120
Speaker 1: human existence. I'm not you know, I'm twenty one, but

2053
01:58:46,200 --> 01:58:50,920
Speaker 1: I'm not fucking moronic. It's like allion dollars, Like Biggie said,

2054
01:58:50,920 --> 01:58:53,320
Speaker 1: a hundred million dollars to just give me more. Problems

2055
01:58:53,360 --> 01:58:56,480
Speaker 1: are different issues not they won't just mitigate them, right,

2056
01:58:56,560 --> 01:58:59,320
Speaker 1: So you know, I was so so that's there's a

2057
01:58:59,360 --> 01:59:02,600
Speaker 1: there's It's not just about me. It's about the opportunity

2058
01:59:02,720 --> 01:59:06,160
Speaker 1: for people to give up their ego and their arrogance

2059
01:59:06,440 --> 01:59:10,600
Speaker 1: to collaborate on something that can help someone beyond themselves

2060
01:59:11,080 --> 01:59:14,080
Speaker 1: and looking at the opportunity and just spitting right on it,

2061
01:59:14,520 --> 01:59:17,800
Speaker 1: like consciously, not like I have a subconscious reason for

2062
01:59:17,920 --> 01:59:21,680
Speaker 1: spitting on this opportunity to collaborate and create growth. I

2063
01:59:21,880 --> 01:59:25,000
Speaker 1: know that there's a collaboration for growth possible, and I'm

2064
01:59:25,040 --> 01:59:27,440
Speaker 1: still gonna spit on it just because I'm either a

2065
01:59:27,640 --> 01:59:32,040
Speaker 1: lazy or I'm be scared. And that's what it comes

2066
01:59:32,040 --> 01:59:35,640
Speaker 1: down to. Was like eating incompetent or you're scared of change,

2067
01:59:35,720 --> 01:59:38,240
Speaker 1: and if both of those are problems, even though they're different.

2068
01:59:38,400 --> 01:59:41,080
Speaker 1: So so at twenty six, you're still six eight, you

2069
01:59:41,200 --> 01:59:44,040
Speaker 1: still play ball, You're still kicking asks, You're still talented.

2070
01:59:44,080 --> 01:59:47,200
Speaker 1: You're probably more talented than you were when the bulk

2071
01:59:47,280 --> 01:59:50,680
Speaker 1: of uh the NBA fans got to see you play.

2072
01:59:51,880 --> 01:59:55,720
Speaker 1: You know, the NBA UH still loves and still needs

2073
01:59:55,800 --> 01:59:59,880
Speaker 1: and and teams still need. You know, six A two six,

2074
02:00:00,120 --> 02:00:02,200
Speaker 1: you still stick to six of you two seven. You

2075
02:00:02,280 --> 02:00:05,880
Speaker 1: put on like some some some more weight. No, I'm

2076
02:00:05,880 --> 02:00:08,280
Speaker 1: not down a little bit. I'm down to like two five,

2077
02:00:08,400 --> 02:00:11,160
Speaker 1: but you know I'm still I'm still that frame though.

2078
02:00:11,280 --> 02:00:13,880
Speaker 1: You know, so you're a big motherfucker who can handle

2079
02:00:13,920 --> 02:00:15,960
Speaker 1: the ball, who could play ball. So with all the

2080
02:00:16,040 --> 02:00:18,760
Speaker 1: ship that's happened in the five years since you've been drafted,

2081
02:00:20,120 --> 02:00:22,240
Speaker 1: do you see your way back into the NBA? And

2082
02:00:22,360 --> 02:00:24,640
Speaker 1: is that something that you'd want to do. I mean, yeah,

2083
02:00:24,640 --> 02:00:26,920
Speaker 1: I see a way back for sure. I mean, but

2084
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Speaker 1: but it's it's not a it's not a process or

2085
02:00:29,760 --> 02:00:32,920
Speaker 1: a pathway that that just involves a choice that I

2086
02:00:33,000 --> 02:00:35,480
Speaker 1: would make. And and that's the that's the misconcession about

2087
02:00:36,000 --> 02:00:38,160
Speaker 1: about the human existence for for most of us that

2088
02:00:38,480 --> 02:00:41,120
Speaker 1: I can see, in my opinion across across the world,

2089
02:00:41,280 --> 02:00:46,040
Speaker 1: is like there's this false uh hero story that we

2090
02:00:46,160 --> 02:00:49,080
Speaker 1: tell ourselves that our choice and our will will ultimately

2091
02:00:49,200 --> 02:00:52,960
Speaker 1: supersede the will of the collective or the choice of

2092
02:00:53,040 --> 02:00:56,720
Speaker 1: the collective. Like no, don't fucking kids yourself. You you

2093
02:00:56,800 --> 02:00:59,080
Speaker 1: can choose as much as you can choose. And then

2094
02:00:59,280 --> 02:01:01,400
Speaker 1: things and then we have all these cliches like oh, well,

2095
02:01:01,440 --> 02:01:03,800
Speaker 1: God grant me the power to deal with what I

2096
02:01:03,920 --> 02:01:05,840
Speaker 1: can and and let go what I what I can

2097
02:01:06,000 --> 02:01:08,920
Speaker 1: or you know all of that bullshit, like, no, listen,

2098
02:01:09,640 --> 02:01:13,080
Speaker 1: the pathway is that myself and the NBA and this

2099
02:01:13,280 --> 02:01:17,240
Speaker 1: fucking massive collection of doctors that have have have echoed

2100
02:01:17,320 --> 02:01:20,240
Speaker 1: my sentiment about the importance of parity between mental health

2101
02:01:20,320 --> 02:01:23,480
Speaker 1: and in general health to get together and just have

2102
02:01:23,600 --> 02:01:27,760
Speaker 1: a just have a nice, honest conversation about what is

2103
02:01:27,800 --> 02:01:30,000
Speaker 1: our true goal, what is our true nature, and what

2104
02:01:30,120 --> 02:01:33,040
Speaker 1: is our ability to actually choose outside of our true nature.

2105
02:01:33,440 --> 02:01:37,520
Speaker 1: So we understand that the a professional basketball is about profits,

2106
02:01:38,200 --> 02:01:41,160
Speaker 1: but we also understand that there is a public sentiment

2107
02:01:41,240 --> 02:01:42,960
Speaker 1: that you would like us to believe that says that

2108
02:01:43,240 --> 02:01:45,800
Speaker 1: you not only care about the athlete, but you also

2109
02:01:45,880 --> 02:01:48,360
Speaker 1: care about the fans and you care about the community,

2110
02:01:48,480 --> 02:01:50,800
Speaker 1: which was in the charter of the Rookie Transition Program

2111
02:01:50,880 --> 02:01:54,240
Speaker 1: that I actually quoted in my letter to David Stern,

2112
02:01:54,400 --> 02:01:57,640
Speaker 1: I mean Adam Silver and in his instituents I said, listen, yeah,

2113
02:01:57,680 --> 02:01:59,600
Speaker 1: we know it's about profits, but you said here in

2114
02:01:59,640 --> 02:02:02,720
Speaker 1: your took the rookies, which you know that I was

2115
02:02:02,800 --> 02:02:04,520
Speaker 1: a part of him, took the time to fucking read,

2116
02:02:05,160 --> 02:02:08,400
Speaker 1: which you actually would in the fucking meetings, were getting

2117
02:02:08,400 --> 02:02:09,920
Speaker 1: mad and say that you know, none of you guys

2118
02:02:09,960 --> 02:02:11,760
Speaker 1: are actually reading the ship anyway. Now the guy that

2119
02:02:11,840 --> 02:02:14,080
Speaker 1: reads it and actually calls you in the language, you're like, oh,

2120
02:02:14,080 --> 02:02:16,760
Speaker 1: I want to persecute him. Do like, really, Mike, how

2121
02:02:16,880 --> 02:02:19,400
Speaker 1: fucking hard did it be to put the mental health

2122
02:02:19,480 --> 02:02:22,600
Speaker 1: policy and play for players? Do you know what the

2123
02:02:22,680 --> 02:02:26,680
Speaker 1: biggest pushback I heard from from suggestion and health policy

2124
02:02:26,880 --> 02:02:31,480
Speaker 1: was the biggest pushback was that players would fake it.

2125
02:02:33,840 --> 02:02:36,720
Speaker 1: I literally, if if I wasn't, if I wasn't so

2126
02:02:36,920 --> 02:02:40,600
Speaker 1: interested in a progress, I literally would have I literally

2127
02:02:40,640 --> 02:02:42,320
Speaker 1: would have cut some people out. And I get because

2128
02:02:42,360 --> 02:02:45,000
Speaker 1: Baryl Morial and we can talk about this another time,

2129
02:02:45,000 --> 02:02:46,920
Speaker 1: hopefully come out here, and you know, we'll talking about

2130
02:02:46,920 --> 02:02:49,080
Speaker 1: my podcast that's come out. But you know I talked

2131
02:02:49,080 --> 02:02:51,520
Speaker 1: to Darryl Moore. I touched him out, But in all

2132
02:02:51,560 --> 02:02:54,200
Speaker 1: my other conversations I tried to be you know, um,

2133
02:02:54,880 --> 02:02:57,080
Speaker 1: I try to keep progress and in a growth in

2134
02:02:57,120 --> 02:03:00,240
Speaker 1: mind and collaboration of mind. But if if I didn't

2135
02:03:00,240 --> 02:03:03,560
Speaker 1: have that in mind, the idea that you would undermine

2136
02:03:03,840 --> 02:03:08,720
Speaker 1: the inherent uh competitive nature of the elite athletes just

2137
02:03:08,880 --> 02:03:13,400
Speaker 1: to protect yourself from you know, in legal terms, liability

2138
02:03:14,000 --> 02:03:19,040
Speaker 1: or or exposure. You know, it's that that almost to

2139
02:03:19,240 --> 02:03:22,120
Speaker 1: me was was was a point or a non starter

2140
02:03:22,200 --> 02:03:24,680
Speaker 1: where I was like this whole league and about what

2141
02:03:24,760 --> 02:03:26,960
Speaker 1: I thought it was. You know, because as you come

2142
02:03:27,000 --> 02:03:28,880
Speaker 1: up to high school as a young players all about

2143
02:03:28,920 --> 02:03:31,400
Speaker 1: single mores and camaraderie, and you're playing in front of

2144
02:03:31,440 --> 02:03:33,320
Speaker 1: your mom's and your uncles and and all of the

2145
02:03:33,360 --> 02:03:34,960
Speaker 1: people that you grew up in the neighborhood. When and

2146
02:03:34,960 --> 02:03:36,800
Speaker 1: then when you get to college, like I'm playing with

2147
02:03:36,880 --> 02:03:38,640
Speaker 1: all of the people in my little college town and

2148
02:03:38,720 --> 02:03:40,560
Speaker 1: we're going on the road to go go to war

2149
02:03:40,560 --> 02:03:42,760
Speaker 1: against that town, and then we're coming back home to

2150
02:03:42,800 --> 02:03:44,920
Speaker 1: protect our ship here in this town. And you know,

2151
02:03:45,000 --> 02:03:47,920
Speaker 1: it's a very war war like mentality, but it's based

2152
02:03:47,960 --> 02:03:50,400
Speaker 1: on community and like this understanding that we all have

2153
02:03:50,600 --> 02:03:53,920
Speaker 1: this real common struggle. So we have this common like

2154
02:03:54,160 --> 02:03:57,760
Speaker 1: this common enjoyment from from from doing this thing together.

2155
02:03:58,320 --> 02:04:00,080
Speaker 1: I got to the league and I'm hearing ship like that.

2156
02:04:00,160 --> 02:04:01,640
Speaker 1: I'm like, wait a minute, you mean to tell me

2157
02:04:02,120 --> 02:04:03,880
Speaker 1: that you're not gonna put a mental health policy in

2158
02:04:03,960 --> 02:04:07,120
Speaker 1: place off of the slim chance that Lebron James might

2159
02:04:07,320 --> 02:04:09,880
Speaker 1: use it to get out of playing in the game.

2160
02:04:11,480 --> 02:04:13,920
Speaker 1: You're already fucking rest of him for games because of

2161
02:04:14,000 --> 02:04:18,240
Speaker 1: the expended length of the season, you're already resting. Players

2162
02:04:19,000 --> 02:04:23,960
Speaker 1: like Twitters are always finding ways to to to acknowledge

2163
02:04:24,040 --> 02:04:27,080
Speaker 1: what their body and mind is telling them. Come on, bro,

2164
02:04:27,200 --> 02:04:29,680
Speaker 1: It's like then they were like, well, there's no there's

2165
02:04:29,720 --> 02:04:33,640
Speaker 1: no way to accurately measure anxiety like a broken ankle.

2166
02:04:33,640 --> 02:04:36,320
Speaker 1: It's like, don't fucking kids yourself, just brange your ankle.

2167
02:04:36,360 --> 02:04:39,120
Speaker 1: It's seven weeks later and and the doctors say everything's

2168
02:04:39,160 --> 02:04:41,320
Speaker 1: all good. They still have run up and down and

2169
02:04:41,400 --> 02:04:45,360
Speaker 1: go how does it feel? And at that point anybody

2170
02:04:45,400 --> 02:04:47,240
Speaker 1: has a chance to fucking lie and say, oh, it's

2171
02:04:47,240 --> 02:04:52,120
Speaker 1: still not right, right right? So I mean, but we

2172
02:04:52,280 --> 02:04:54,880
Speaker 1: just hit ourselves on and on, we kid ourselves, and

2173
02:04:55,000 --> 02:04:57,880
Speaker 1: we create the fucking negative and positive feedback loops that

2174
02:04:58,320 --> 02:05:00,960
Speaker 1: that become these confirmation eyes for all the bullshit that

2175
02:05:01,040 --> 02:05:03,640
Speaker 1: we don't want to face and acknowledge and and fucking

2176
02:05:03,720 --> 02:05:05,600
Speaker 1: try and tackle. And this was that, this was a

2177
02:05:06,600 --> 02:05:10,080
Speaker 1: colossal version of that. It's like, now you're gonna undermine

2178
02:05:10,160 --> 02:05:13,560
Speaker 1: the fucking, the fucking inherent competitiveness of all the other

2179
02:05:13,640 --> 02:05:17,320
Speaker 1: players in an attempt to this credic the notion that

2180
02:05:17,400 --> 02:05:19,400
Speaker 1: I brought up about this one pology when we really

2181
02:05:19,440 --> 02:05:21,400
Speaker 1: could just step back and go, you know, maybe we

2182
02:05:21,480 --> 02:05:25,120
Speaker 1: do the mental health policy just maybe has anything changed

2183
02:05:25,120 --> 02:05:30,960
Speaker 1: in the NBA since you were drafted? Um? Uh yeah,

2184
02:05:31,120 --> 02:05:33,160
Speaker 1: I think in the last collective bargain agreement, I mean

2185
02:05:33,200 --> 02:05:35,080
Speaker 1: I've been in contact with the union over the last

2186
02:05:35,120 --> 02:05:38,000
Speaker 1: four years, and like I said, me and a group

2187
02:05:38,040 --> 02:05:40,680
Speaker 1: of doctors that contained to communicate with the league office

2188
02:05:40,800 --> 02:05:43,879
Speaker 1: over the last four years. And in the last selective

2189
02:05:43,880 --> 02:05:46,520
Speaker 1: bargain agreement there says there's a paragraph that says, like

2190
02:05:46,680 --> 02:05:51,160
Speaker 1: a mental health program will be built at some point

2191
02:05:51,200 --> 02:05:54,840
Speaker 1: in the future, right, Like that's the only paragraph. So

2192
02:05:55,400 --> 02:05:57,440
Speaker 1: you know again you you went through an entire collective

2193
02:05:57,480 --> 02:06:00,520
Speaker 1: bargain agreement where you where you tackled every thing from

2194
02:06:00,640 --> 02:06:04,320
Speaker 1: the ability to output sponsors or or partners on the

2195
02:06:04,440 --> 02:06:07,280
Speaker 1: jersey all the way down to how the fucking players

2196
02:06:07,320 --> 02:06:10,920
Speaker 1: have to dress coming in the arena. Right the fucking stops,

2197
02:06:11,160 --> 02:06:14,240
Speaker 1: the stops have the match. You have that the collective

2198
02:06:14,240 --> 02:06:17,480
Speaker 1: bargaining policy and the uniform policy and the fucking in

2199
02:06:17,560 --> 02:06:20,680
Speaker 1: the dress code pology collection of the collective bargain agreement,

2200
02:06:20,880 --> 02:06:23,040
Speaker 1: but you have one player past that mental health will

2201
02:06:23,080 --> 02:06:26,160
Speaker 1: be dealt with in the future. Sometimes it's like, how

2202
02:06:26,320 --> 02:06:29,440
Speaker 1: fucking be prioritized? Is this ship? Is? Like, man, I'm

2203
02:06:29,920 --> 02:06:32,720
Speaker 1: just like a parody? Is this a parody? Almost? Like

2204
02:06:32,840 --> 02:06:35,600
Speaker 1: the stocks are more important that people psychological well being?

2205
02:06:35,920 --> 02:06:39,520
Speaker 1: It's real ship, all right? Before before I let you go, Royce,

2206
02:06:39,560 --> 02:06:42,040
Speaker 1: because this is good ship, let me ask you straight

2207
02:06:42,120 --> 02:06:46,080
Speaker 1: basketball questions. When when when you guys were you talked

2208
02:06:46,080 --> 02:06:48,560
Speaker 1: about the Lebron James camp. You guys are fifteen six

2209
02:06:48,640 --> 02:06:52,600
Speaker 1: and your teenagers aside from yourself, like who were the

2210
02:06:52,640 --> 02:06:55,080
Speaker 1: best players at that time before you guys even got

2211
02:06:55,160 --> 02:06:56,640
Speaker 1: to college? Like when you when you look back, like

2212
02:06:56,720 --> 02:06:59,240
Speaker 1: who were the most talented players out of that that

2213
02:06:59,320 --> 02:07:01,840
Speaker 1: little glutton crew of people that were maybe a year

2214
02:07:01,920 --> 02:07:04,440
Speaker 1: older your age or a year younger, Like who was

2215
02:07:04,480 --> 02:07:06,440
Speaker 1: in that class? And who who do you remember playing against?

2216
02:07:06,480 --> 02:07:10,400
Speaker 1: That stuck out? Uh ship, man, I mean, don't let

2217
02:07:10,440 --> 02:07:12,800
Speaker 1: you get to that level man, with that top forty guys,

2218
02:07:12,880 --> 02:07:15,600
Speaker 1: those guys that are already projected to be the NBA guys.

2219
02:07:16,360 --> 02:07:18,960
Speaker 1: Um you know those guys are you know, every game,

2220
02:07:19,120 --> 02:07:22,840
Speaker 1: every drill, every scrimmage, every a different guy is is

2221
02:07:22,880 --> 02:07:25,440
Speaker 1: getting his shipped off, you know what I mean? So? Uh,

2222
02:07:25,560 --> 02:07:28,840
Speaker 1: you know John Wall at time would look ridiculous, and

2223
02:07:28,920 --> 02:07:31,240
Speaker 1: then and then land Stevenson would come and make him

2224
02:07:31,280 --> 02:07:34,680
Speaker 1: look redepous, ridiculous men, and then down Waller come back

2225
02:07:34,720 --> 02:07:36,400
Speaker 1: and make him look ridicut And that's kind of just

2226
02:07:36,480 --> 02:07:38,960
Speaker 1: how it went. Like you know, even like Mason plum

2227
02:07:39,120 --> 02:07:41,960
Speaker 1: Ly and like you know, Mason Plumly, it's one of

2228
02:07:42,000 --> 02:07:44,320
Speaker 1: the most athletic white dudes I've ever seen in my

2229
02:07:44,440 --> 02:07:47,520
Speaker 1: fucking life. Like in high school he was he was

2230
02:07:47,560 --> 02:07:49,360
Speaker 1: going up and jamming that bitch and he was like

2231
02:07:49,440 --> 02:07:51,400
Speaker 1: putting his fucking head in the rim, like you know,

2232
02:07:51,920 --> 02:07:54,640
Speaker 1: one of those one of those white dudes where you're like, man,

2233
02:07:54,880 --> 02:07:56,360
Speaker 1: not only do I not want to get dunked on,

2234
02:07:56,640 --> 02:07:58,440
Speaker 1: but if I get dunked on by this dude, that's

2235
02:07:58,440 --> 02:08:00,040
Speaker 1: foot is just for shuremaking it to the end and

2236
02:08:00,120 --> 02:08:01,400
Speaker 1: that you know what I'm saying, because it's just like

2237
02:08:02,120 --> 02:08:04,120
Speaker 1: you don't see it, you don't see it that often,

2238
02:08:04,240 --> 02:08:06,920
Speaker 1: so you know, it's there was there were so many

2239
02:08:06,960 --> 02:08:09,360
Speaker 1: different guys with so much talent. I would say probably

2240
02:08:10,480 --> 02:08:14,800
Speaker 1: the most uh mature game at that time, uh just

2241
02:08:15,000 --> 02:08:18,360
Speaker 1: in terms of like not being able to being able

2242
02:08:18,440 --> 02:08:22,840
Speaker 1: to when he wanted to do what he wanted to

2243
02:08:23,440 --> 02:08:29,120
Speaker 1: um with no real contention or no like real difficulty,

2244
02:08:29,280 --> 02:08:32,640
Speaker 1: I would say is uh yeah, I would have to

2245
02:08:32,720 --> 02:08:35,240
Speaker 1: probably say it might have been Dee Cousins, you know,

2246
02:08:35,280 --> 02:08:38,280
Speaker 1: because he's just not you know, He's another player that,

2247
02:08:38,440 --> 02:08:42,080
Speaker 1: like you know, like myself, is big. You know, it's

2248
02:08:42,120 --> 02:08:45,960
Speaker 1: just just got a massive body and and has a

2249
02:08:46,080 --> 02:08:48,880
Speaker 1: skill set in the game that's so versatile. It's like,

2250
02:08:48,960 --> 02:08:50,960
Speaker 1: who guard him? And how do you guard him? It's like,

2251
02:08:51,520 --> 02:08:53,280
Speaker 1: you can't get too close to him because if he

2252
02:08:53,360 --> 02:08:55,160
Speaker 1: drives by you and get the shoulder by you, you're

2253
02:08:55,160 --> 02:08:57,160
Speaker 1: never gonna get back in front of him. And if

2254
02:08:57,200 --> 02:08:59,640
Speaker 1: you stag too far off him, he's won two three,

2255
02:08:59,680 --> 02:09:02,560
Speaker 1: he'll dress up like all night. So you know, it's

2256
02:09:03,000 --> 02:09:05,880
Speaker 1: players that that pose those kind of mismatch problems are

2257
02:09:05,960 --> 02:09:07,920
Speaker 1: always the players that I like, is like kind of

2258
02:09:07,960 --> 02:09:11,960
Speaker 1: this position with basketball philosophy. You know, this really started

2259
02:09:11,960 --> 02:09:14,640
Speaker 1: to emerge with the Lebron James. There's been players over

2260
02:09:14,720 --> 02:09:16,560
Speaker 1: time to have been positions like I think Larry Bird

2261
02:09:16,680 --> 02:09:20,160
Speaker 1: was a position with players in a lot of respect, Well,

2262
02:09:20,320 --> 02:09:22,800
Speaker 1: was was was the markets shooting those fucking threes when

2263
02:09:22,800 --> 02:09:24,920
Speaker 1: you guys were that young? Was he always fastuated with

2264
02:09:25,000 --> 02:09:29,400
Speaker 1: the threes. I mean, yeah, he could always shoot it. Yeah,

2265
02:09:29,440 --> 02:09:31,200
Speaker 1: I would say he could always shoot it. I would

2266
02:09:31,240 --> 02:09:32,680
Speaker 1: say more when we were at that age, he was

2267
02:09:32,720 --> 02:09:36,640
Speaker 1: shooting more range jump shots. But again, in a situation

2268
02:09:36,680 --> 02:09:39,120
Speaker 1: where at Lebron camping, you just scrimmaging back and forth,

2269
02:09:39,240 --> 02:09:41,160
Speaker 1: guy comes down, You're not gonna be able to stop

2270
02:09:41,200 --> 02:09:43,320
Speaker 1: the markets from catching it. Fifteen people in the block,

2271
02:09:43,400 --> 02:09:45,840
Speaker 1: He'll face you up and Papa j on you for sure.

2272
02:09:46,480 --> 02:09:48,240
Speaker 1: You know what I mean now now, one of the

2273
02:09:48,360 --> 02:09:50,440
Speaker 1: things that I'm trying to get to the bottom of

2274
02:09:50,520 --> 02:09:53,360
Speaker 1: when I interview uh you guys, especially from that class,

2275
02:09:53,400 --> 02:09:55,720
Speaker 1: And I asked Drummond about it on on another interview

2276
02:09:55,760 --> 02:09:58,680
Speaker 1: and beal, has have any of you actually ever seen

2277
02:09:58,800 --> 02:10:02,640
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis at six three? Because this myth I'm trying

2278
02:10:02,640 --> 02:10:05,080
Speaker 1: to see if this is all folklore. They said Anthony

2279
02:10:05,160 --> 02:10:07,400
Speaker 1: Davis was six three and then two months later he

2280
02:10:07,520 --> 02:10:09,440
Speaker 1: was six night. Did you ever see a six ft

2281
02:10:09,480 --> 02:10:14,320
Speaker 1: three Anthony Davis? Dude, Anthony's Anthony three years younger than me.

2282
02:10:14,360 --> 02:10:16,920
Speaker 1: So I never saw Anthony before before he was a

2283
02:10:17,000 --> 02:10:19,480
Speaker 1: freshman Kentucky. To be honest, like, I never okay, I

2284
02:10:19,560 --> 02:10:21,440
Speaker 1: never even Yeah, I didn't even know him did so

2285
02:10:21,520 --> 02:10:26,160
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't know we played all right, that's fine,

2286
02:10:26,320 --> 02:10:28,880
Speaker 1: that's fine. So so you're the fourth person who has

2287
02:10:29,000 --> 02:10:31,880
Speaker 1: never been able to verify if Anthony Davis was six

2288
02:10:32,040 --> 02:10:33,880
Speaker 1: three when he when he was in the tenth or

2289
02:10:33,920 --> 02:10:36,240
Speaker 1: eleventh grade. Because I'm thinking this whole thing was made up.

2290
02:10:36,720 --> 02:10:39,880
Speaker 1: Uh it's my little a little project I'm trying to

2291
02:10:39,920 --> 02:10:43,040
Speaker 1: get to the bottom of. Yeah. No, I definitely can't

2292
02:10:43,120 --> 02:10:47,000
Speaker 1: verify that. No, definitely not. All right, well, Royce, listen, man,

2293
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Speaker 1: I appreciate you taking the time coming on the podcast.

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02:10:51,040 --> 02:10:53,240
Speaker 1: I would love to do your podcast. You stay in

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02:10:53,320 --> 02:10:56,240
Speaker 1: touch with me about whatever, and I'll do the same thing,

2296
02:10:56,320 --> 02:10:58,160
Speaker 1: my man. And I wish you luck with with with

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02:10:58,240 --> 02:11:01,760
Speaker 1: everything you're doing on and off the courtman, man of that. Uh,

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02:11:01,880 --> 02:11:04,920
Speaker 1: but just remember your twenty six man, and and enjoy

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02:11:05,000 --> 02:11:08,640
Speaker 1: being twenty six. I'm seven. I snapped my fingers a

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02:11:08,680 --> 02:11:10,840
Speaker 1: couple of years ago and I was twenty six too, man,

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02:11:10,960 --> 02:11:14,880
Speaker 1: So so enjoy enjoy it while you're young, my friend. Man,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it, man having me and I'm a big fan.

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02:11:17,160 --> 02:11:19,840
Speaker 1: You know that, bro, Absolutely, and stayd touch with me

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02:11:19,880 --> 02:11:23,400
Speaker 1: and I will too, Okay, brother, appreciate it all right? Cool,

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02:11:24,600 --> 02:11:35,040
Speaker 1: all right, Hello, I mean you, Chris, It's Michael Rappaport.

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02:11:35,040 --> 02:11:38,520
Speaker 1: How are you doing great? How about you? I'm good,

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02:11:38,560 --> 02:11:40,200
Speaker 1: I'm good. It's nice to meet you. It's nice to

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02:11:40,280 --> 02:11:42,840
Speaker 1: talk to you. I'm uh, I'm excited to talk to

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02:11:42,880 --> 02:11:44,680
Speaker 1: you for a little bit. I'm a big fan of

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02:11:44,760 --> 02:11:47,200
Speaker 1: big long time fans, so let's just jump into it,

2311
02:11:47,200 --> 02:11:52,160
Speaker 1: all right, Yes, thank you? Are you kidding me? It's

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02:11:52,200 --> 02:11:54,640
Speaker 1: an honor, honestly, it's on. I'm I'm a real fan.

2313
02:11:54,720 --> 02:11:58,040
Speaker 1: I've been a fan. So Chris, you're the champion. You

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02:11:58,160 --> 02:12:03,120
Speaker 1: got a big fight coming up, Holly Holm December. Where's

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02:12:03,160 --> 02:12:05,440
Speaker 1: your head at now? As you knows as it gets closer,

2316
02:12:05,520 --> 02:12:09,400
Speaker 1: like like, how are you feeling about everything? Uh? Don't

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02:12:09,400 --> 02:12:11,560
Speaker 1: know the last two weeks now made a lot of

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02:12:11,640 --> 02:12:15,480
Speaker 1: media things and then everything to training. Ready you know,

2319
02:12:15,640 --> 02:12:18,720
Speaker 1: I feel great? You know my ways great? Great? I

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02:12:18,840 --> 02:12:21,960
Speaker 1: really really hid the hours train my fight, you know

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Speaker 1: what I mean? Ready for December thirty? What is it

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02:12:25,160 --> 02:12:27,760
Speaker 1: day like when you're in full training? Can you walk

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02:12:27,840 --> 02:12:29,920
Speaker 1: me through, like when you wake up till the end

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02:12:29,960 --> 02:12:31,600
Speaker 1: of the day, Like what your day is like when

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02:12:31,640 --> 02:12:34,800
Speaker 1: you're at full training? Because like I don't know if

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02:12:34,840 --> 02:12:36,920
Speaker 1: you've ever seen me, Chris, I'm far from being an

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02:12:36,960 --> 02:12:39,640
Speaker 1: elite athlete, and I'm envious of what you guys do

2328
02:12:40,480 --> 02:12:42,000
Speaker 1: in the morning. They do, I run and they do

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02:12:42,120 --> 02:12:44,840
Speaker 1: when it was training like ten ear again or two

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02:12:44,880 --> 02:12:47,800
Speaker 1: elves and they go home, eat again the rest and

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02:12:47,880 --> 02:12:51,120
Speaker 1: it's training back train again more two hours. You know,

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02:12:51,280 --> 02:12:54,640
Speaker 1: it's it's all days, all day, just eat. How much

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02:12:54,720 --> 02:12:56,400
Speaker 1: sleep do you try to get when you're when you're

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02:12:56,440 --> 02:13:01,000
Speaker 1: training full tilt like that? Uh? You know, nighttime usually

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02:13:01,160 --> 02:13:03,160
Speaker 1: was it like seven hours and alder I know it's

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02:13:03,240 --> 02:13:06,800
Speaker 1: better eight nine hours, but the training s is and

2337
02:13:06,920 --> 02:13:09,680
Speaker 1: sometimes when you learn after and then they go home

2338
02:13:09,760 --> 02:13:12,040
Speaker 1: and then they try a little earlier they can, but

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02:13:12,160 --> 02:13:15,400
Speaker 1: that was the wake up earlier like five quarter five

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02:13:15,440 --> 02:13:17,880
Speaker 1: and run, but they did the NAT. I can then

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02:13:18,120 --> 02:13:21,560
Speaker 1: take a nighttime afternoon was really helping. And if you

2342
02:13:21,600 --> 02:13:24,520
Speaker 1: take at that NAT like thirty millions really help you.

2343
02:13:24,640 --> 02:13:26,960
Speaker 1: You know, it's help you for recovery and then and

2344
02:13:27,080 --> 02:13:29,640
Speaker 1: then we do the ice Beast two and help you

2345
02:13:29,760 --> 02:13:35,320
Speaker 1: for abotitude. So why are there so many great fighters

2346
02:13:35,400 --> 02:13:39,280
Speaker 1: traditionally from Brazil? What is it about that country? Uh

2347
02:13:39,480 --> 02:13:43,280
Speaker 1: that that makes so many tough fighters men and women historically.

2348
02:13:43,360 --> 02:13:45,560
Speaker 1: Well what is it about Brazil that breeds so many

2349
02:13:45,600 --> 02:13:49,120
Speaker 1: tough guys and girls, you know, the most the most

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02:13:49,160 --> 02:13:51,440
Speaker 1: fired in Brazil to have a highlights, you know, I

2351
02:13:51,520 --> 02:13:55,000
Speaker 1: think you have any fights for you survived there, and

2352
02:13:55,080 --> 02:13:57,760
Speaker 1: then I think when the people starts fighting and then

2353
02:13:58,240 --> 02:14:00,960
Speaker 1: see how good things you can't get it you can

2354
02:14:01,080 --> 02:14:03,560
Speaker 1: change your life, and they think you more and motivate

2355
02:14:03,680 --> 02:14:06,560
Speaker 1: you for keep fighting and know and then fight about

2356
02:14:06,600 --> 02:14:10,240
Speaker 1: the struggle as ever and motivated motivate each other. And

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02:14:10,360 --> 02:14:12,920
Speaker 1: then I think you may heavy a lot of here

2358
02:14:13,040 --> 02:14:17,080
Speaker 1: you know and resil like you fight for changing life,

2359
02:14:17,080 --> 02:14:20,720
Speaker 1: to fight for for help your family, and I think

2360
02:14:20,760 --> 02:14:24,000
Speaker 1: it is motivated all the fighters. Rhonda Rousey, that story

2361
02:14:24,200 --> 02:14:27,440
Speaker 1: was like such a big deal for so long that

2362
02:14:27,640 --> 02:14:32,120
Speaker 1: fight never happened. Obviously, are you disappointed that that fight

2363
02:14:32,240 --> 02:14:34,560
Speaker 1: never happened or is it just was it not meant

2364
02:14:34,600 --> 02:14:37,880
Speaker 1: to be for you and her? Um don't know one

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02:14:37,920 --> 02:14:41,839
Speaker 1: thing you can be Okay, you can't control yourself training,

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02:14:42,120 --> 02:14:45,200
Speaker 1: but to control you cannot control somebody? Fight force you fight,

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02:14:45,320 --> 02:14:47,840
Speaker 1: you know, and then I did my best I can

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02:14:47,960 --> 02:14:51,000
Speaker 1: for fire Rhanda. You know, I tried, I tried I

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02:14:51,400 --> 02:14:56,520
Speaker 1: hold tod U three years for try dropping five and

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02:14:56,600 --> 02:14:59,920
Speaker 1: they finally I started fighting with forty. I didn't catch away,

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02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:03,600
Speaker 1: explore sight home and then I see my heart, I

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02:15:03,680 --> 02:15:05,880
Speaker 1: see you know, I did my best. I cat which

2373
02:15:05,880 --> 02:15:08,000
Speaker 1: the fight happen if you decide don't happen is no

2374
02:15:08,160 --> 02:15:10,280
Speaker 1: because of me? And then I don't. I don't have

2375
02:15:10,360 --> 02:15:12,920
Speaker 1: any team, like I think you eave me fruitsquake, because

2376
02:15:12,920 --> 02:15:14,720
Speaker 1: I think it can be frustade when you don't try.

2377
02:15:15,200 --> 02:15:18,080
Speaker 1: You just have to training hid and I see my height.

2378
02:15:18,160 --> 02:15:20,040
Speaker 1: I have a team for the fight happened. I don't

2379
02:15:20,080 --> 02:15:23,360
Speaker 1: feel fruscafe, you know. And they showed all they checks

2380
02:15:23,400 --> 02:15:25,840
Speaker 1: in my career now and hold the belt, and then

2381
02:15:26,240 --> 02:15:28,400
Speaker 1: I did have a ting. I can for all my

2382
02:15:28,440 --> 02:15:34,000
Speaker 1: fans all right December, which is my mom's birthday. Las Vegas.

2383
02:15:35,360 --> 02:15:38,280
Speaker 1: You in holly Holm, did you ever in your wildest dreams,

2384
02:15:39,080 --> 02:15:42,040
Speaker 1: I think, like when you started fighting, think that two

2385
02:15:42,120 --> 02:15:45,600
Speaker 1: women would be headlining one of the biggest fights of

2386
02:15:45,640 --> 02:15:48,280
Speaker 1: the year, uh the day before New Year's even in

2387
02:15:48,360 --> 02:15:50,800
Speaker 1: Las Vegas, Like in your wildest dreams, like just as

2388
02:15:50,920 --> 02:15:53,600
Speaker 1: as a woman fighter, don't you think it's crazy that

2389
02:15:53,760 --> 02:15:57,800
Speaker 1: like where the sport has come. You know I knew

2390
02:15:57,840 --> 02:16:00,280
Speaker 1: in the hat about to know how the sports growing

2391
02:16:00,320 --> 02:16:02,920
Speaker 1: new woman in a blonder rolls did the amazing job.

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02:16:03,000 --> 02:16:05,600
Speaker 1: You know you do all support for woman's and a

2393
02:16:05,720 --> 02:16:08,960
Speaker 1: growing and then as at thankful enough for this and

2394
02:16:09,040 --> 02:16:13,600
Speaker 1: then you know we we enemy literally like no anyble

2395
02:16:13,680 --> 02:16:15,720
Speaker 1: but because we fight each other all the time we

2396
02:16:15,800 --> 02:16:17,560
Speaker 1: need and it doesn't make you growing a lot of

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02:16:17,640 --> 02:16:20,160
Speaker 1: woman than a And then I they'll putune to fight

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02:16:20,240 --> 02:16:23,000
Speaker 1: now and the headline and December three for needs. So

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02:16:23,720 --> 02:16:26,120
Speaker 1: I steel had blasted and just to go again and

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02:16:26,200 --> 02:16:29,040
Speaker 1: do my job and you know, bring the belts like

2401
02:16:29,120 --> 02:16:31,120
Speaker 1: you stay and hold the belting and bring the beouts

2402
02:16:31,120 --> 02:16:33,960
Speaker 1: for Brazil. And then yeah, I think it's the bmazing

2403
02:16:33,959 --> 02:16:36,520
Speaker 1: and everything for us to give this opportunity. And before

2404
02:16:36,520 --> 02:16:41,120
Speaker 1: I saw mere gonna be amazing. Five. So specifically, when

2405
02:16:41,160 --> 02:16:44,600
Speaker 1: you're fighting Holly, she's a striker, she's a tough fighter,

2406
02:16:44,720 --> 02:16:48,040
Speaker 1: she's one fights, she's persevered, what is your plan that

2407
02:16:48,120 --> 02:16:50,360
Speaker 1: you could discuss. Obviously you're not gonna give me everything,

2408
02:16:50,440 --> 02:16:53,120
Speaker 1: but like, what is your approach to going after Holly Holm?

2409
02:16:55,200 --> 02:16:57,600
Speaker 1: You know it's it's defined that I have five hours

2410
02:16:57,680 --> 02:16:59,480
Speaker 1: for things to fight. You know, I know the rush.

2411
02:16:59,760 --> 02:17:02,080
Speaker 1: I just have to figure opportunities for sin to fight

2412
02:17:02,200 --> 02:17:05,600
Speaker 1: that I can't finish and then I know, I mean

2413
02:17:05,640 --> 02:17:08,360
Speaker 1: two times it was the World champions if it's the

2414
02:17:08,520 --> 02:17:10,560
Speaker 1: man a fight and no strife fight, you know, people

2415
02:17:10,640 --> 02:17:12,680
Speaker 1: so long as watching me and you know, like all

2416
02:17:12,720 --> 02:17:15,360
Speaker 1: the girls. But you know I have had in having

2417
02:17:15,400 --> 02:17:18,280
Speaker 1: ground the mall they have this grass I have and

2418
02:17:18,640 --> 02:17:20,320
Speaker 1: I have in my time. I have boxing. You know,

2419
02:17:20,959 --> 02:17:22,680
Speaker 1: I have all the see they can use for the

2420
02:17:22,800 --> 02:17:25,040
Speaker 1: fight and they just have to see the lifetime to

2421
02:17:25,200 --> 02:17:27,920
Speaker 1: use and did that's it? You know? And they have

2422
02:17:28,040 --> 02:17:30,240
Speaker 1: five rounds. You have to have stations and you know

2423
02:17:30,440 --> 02:17:33,880
Speaker 1: the game. The holiday obviously run really maybe despite she changes,

2424
02:17:34,000 --> 02:17:35,600
Speaker 1: she try to do something el to go to get

2425
02:17:35,640 --> 02:17:39,520
Speaker 1: everything for any situation with five, Like how much time

2426
02:17:39,600 --> 02:17:42,480
Speaker 1: do you get to spend watching fights? Just as a fan.

2427
02:17:42,600 --> 02:17:45,360
Speaker 1: There's been so many great boxing matches and so many

2428
02:17:45,440 --> 02:17:48,600
Speaker 1: great UFC fights and m m A fights across the

2429
02:17:48,640 --> 02:17:50,160
Speaker 1: board this year. How much time do you do you

2430
02:17:50,280 --> 02:17:56,039
Speaker 1: spend watching? Uh? I don't want to fighting, and why

2431
02:17:56,120 --> 02:17:58,680
Speaker 1: I trained all days. I just like quantity five two

2432
02:17:58,720 --> 02:18:01,760
Speaker 1: people I really know and my friends and then you know,

2433
02:18:02,200 --> 02:18:04,880
Speaker 1: some fight is really good. You know times I like

2434
02:18:05,040 --> 02:18:08,000
Speaker 1: to watch and then some some fight, but I really

2435
02:18:08,360 --> 02:18:10,880
Speaker 1: I really know, no, no do watch fights all the

2436
02:18:10,959 --> 02:18:13,920
Speaker 1: time and it's it's it's not something I like to

2437
02:18:14,000 --> 02:18:15,960
Speaker 1: sit for a little bit. I think too much for

2438
02:18:16,200 --> 02:18:18,440
Speaker 1: mine watch fights all day and during all day, I

2439
02:18:18,520 --> 02:18:20,640
Speaker 1: think it's too much. I got you, So what do

2440
02:18:20,720 --> 02:18:23,240
Speaker 1: you do to relax? Like? You know, obviously you're busy.

2441
02:18:23,320 --> 02:18:26,200
Speaker 1: Now you're promoting the fight, you're training. You gotta get focused,

2442
02:18:26,480 --> 02:18:29,000
Speaker 1: like what what do you what is Chris Cyborg? Because

2443
02:18:29,160 --> 02:18:31,720
Speaker 1: you have such an image of being such an asker kicker?

2444
02:18:32,320 --> 02:18:33,840
Speaker 1: What do you do to relax? Like? What do you

2445
02:18:33,920 --> 02:18:37,360
Speaker 1: do to calm down and just chill out? I know

2446
02:18:37,480 --> 02:18:39,320
Speaker 1: I like to be with my family and like to

2447
02:18:39,400 --> 02:18:41,880
Speaker 1: be with my friends. I like to run too. I

2448
02:18:41,959 --> 02:18:44,320
Speaker 1: like to hiking. I like to walk with my dog

2449
02:18:44,560 --> 02:18:47,840
Speaker 1: and then chilling with my friends. And you know, I

2450
02:18:48,000 --> 02:18:50,920
Speaker 1: like to do think about campy. I always do camp

2451
02:18:51,080 --> 02:18:53,320
Speaker 1: owner for rumors, the name you speak to out fitness

2452
02:18:53,640 --> 02:18:56,960
Speaker 1: because like those with me were dying together. You know,

2453
02:18:57,160 --> 02:19:00,280
Speaker 1: I still holidays have good for having help from life.

2454
02:19:00,600 --> 02:19:04,960
Speaker 1: You training, um like better nutrition and the shore doing

2455
02:19:05,040 --> 02:19:08,560
Speaker 1: new way and this time is great because the girls

2456
02:19:08,720 --> 02:19:10,600
Speaker 1: can net you chat in and you can share the

2457
02:19:10,640 --> 02:19:12,800
Speaker 1: struggle in your life and then you can help each other.

2458
02:19:13,320 --> 02:19:15,760
Speaker 1: All right, Chris, Well, I'm gonna let you go. Uh.

2459
02:19:16,480 --> 02:19:18,920
Speaker 1: I really appreciate you taking the time to come on

2460
02:19:19,000 --> 02:19:21,360
Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm a humongous fan. I'm gonna try to

2461
02:19:21,400 --> 02:19:24,959
Speaker 1: make it out there on December thirty, and uh, watch

2462
02:19:25,040 --> 02:19:27,400
Speaker 1: you and Holly go at it. And I wish you

2463
02:19:27,480 --> 02:19:29,200
Speaker 1: a lot of luck in this fight and the rest

2464
02:19:29,280 --> 02:19:31,560
Speaker 1: of your career. And keep kicking ask keep doing your thing,

2465
02:19:31,760 --> 02:19:33,879
Speaker 1: and I hope you get to reach all your goals

2466
02:19:34,320 --> 02:19:36,680
Speaker 1: in your life. You have a great story. And uh,

2467
02:19:36,840 --> 02:19:38,360
Speaker 1: you know, I'm just a big fan, as a lot

2468
02:19:38,400 --> 02:19:42,360
Speaker 1: of people are. I think so much since all my fans.

2469
02:19:42,440 --> 02:19:45,280
Speaker 1: And then make sure you guys just eat Vegas. You know,

2470
02:19:45,640 --> 02:19:49,440
Speaker 1: we make one share and then you're gonna have it.

2471
02:19:49,600 --> 02:19:51,560
Speaker 1: Keep twing the nine and it's way eight. You have

2472
02:19:51,680 --> 02:19:54,880
Speaker 1: the opportunity to leave the Cady bed in the one

2473
02:19:55,080 --> 02:19:57,920
Speaker 1: station and Las Vegas for you to in the nation

2474
02:19:58,040 --> 02:20:00,680
Speaker 1: for the kids in the hospital. And you can see

2475
02:20:00,879 --> 02:20:04,320
Speaker 1: one in my Instagram. And that's it. Thanks for opportunity.

2476
02:20:04,480 --> 02:20:06,520
Speaker 1: Thank you all my fans, and now I appreciate anyone

2477
02:20:07,040 --> 02:20:09,160
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. To keep doing all the good things

2478
02:20:09,200 --> 02:20:10,920
Speaker 1: you're doing, Chris, and great luck with the rest of

2479
02:20:10,959 --> 02:20:12,400
Speaker 1: the training. I can't wait to see you on the

2480
02:20:12,480 --> 02:20:20,720
Speaker 1: thirty year. Okay, great, thank you, Thank you Chris. All Right, yo, listen,

2481
02:20:20,800 --> 02:20:22,520
Speaker 1: I told you it's a long weekend. We're gonna give

2482
02:20:22,560 --> 02:20:27,039
Speaker 1: you a long jam packed I am Wrappports Stereo Podcast episode.

2483
02:20:27,360 --> 02:20:29,800
Speaker 1: I want to thank my man Roy Jones Jr. My

2484
02:20:29,879 --> 02:20:35,480
Speaker 1: Man Royce White, Chris Cyborg, who's fighting Holly Home. Two

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02:20:35,560 --> 02:20:38,480
Speaker 1: thousand and seventeen has been a great year, listen, can't stop,

2486
02:20:38,560 --> 02:20:41,760
Speaker 1: won't stop. In two thousand eighteen, folks, we're gonna step

2487
02:20:41,800 --> 02:20:46,519
Speaker 1: it up two thousand eighteen. We're gonna have three episodes

2488
02:20:46,600 --> 02:20:54,120
Speaker 1: a week. Okay. Tuesday's, Wednesdays and Friday's are now our days. Okay.

2489
02:20:54,520 --> 02:20:57,279
Speaker 1: It gives the listeners time during the week to digest

2490
02:20:57,360 --> 02:21:01,000
Speaker 1: the greatness. It's the fucking takeover in two thousand eighteen.

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02:21:02,360 --> 02:21:07,080
Speaker 1: Two thousand seventeen Great two thousand eighteen The Year of

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Speaker 1: the Dingo More g Moody, more Sports, more, Sick Fox,

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02:21:12,080 --> 02:21:16,800
Speaker 1: more five Mike Interviews, Moody, Congratulations. Two thousand seventeen Podcast

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Speaker 1: Codes the Year Yeah, the Tyler is up. It's up

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02:21:20,200 --> 02:21:22,680
Speaker 1: for grabs. Anybody can get it. Now. I didn't. I

2496
02:21:22,720 --> 02:21:27,600
Speaker 1: didn't showed my ass on it, So that's it. Um Listen, folks,

2497
02:21:27,800 --> 02:21:32,840
Speaker 1: have a safe, healthy, safe, safe New Year's We'll be

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02:21:32,920 --> 02:21:35,800
Speaker 1: back right at the top of two thou eighteen. All new,

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Speaker 1: gonna start doing three episodes a week. Appreciate the fans,

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Speaker 1: Appreciate the wrapper pack, Appreciate the Instagram, Appreciate the Snapchat,

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Speaker 1: the Facebook, all the support we get, we see it all.

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Speaker 1: We try to get back to all of you on

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Speaker 1: behalf of Me. Gimnetti, Miles Davis, Jordan Winter, a k

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Speaker 1: The Dust Brothers, Iron rap Coorts stereo podcast. Will we

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Speaker 1: be at the top of two thou eighteen more hard hitting,

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Speaker 1: more smash mouth podcasting. YO, save two thousands seventeen New

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