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Speaker 1: outside of just being a student athlete. You know, I

432
00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:07,000
Speaker 1: get it. Uh. You know, these kids are are getting

433
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Speaker 1: scholarships to go to college, and of course education is

434
00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:13,960
Speaker 1: definitely the most important thing that we're getting out of it.

435
00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:16,800
Speaker 1: But a lot of these schools are are making a

436
00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:19,120
Speaker 1: lot of money off these kids, likelies missing the way

437
00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:21,520
Speaker 1: that they play and the way they contribute to the university.

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Speaker 1: So well, I was growing up, you know, I definitely

439
00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:26,960
Speaker 1: wish I had that. You know, I've made uh a

440
00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:31,560
Speaker 1: lot of immature decisions when always coming out of the drive,

441
00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:35,000
Speaker 1: you know, being offered money here and there. Because of

442
00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:37,359
Speaker 1: my situation I was growing up, I didn't I didn't

443
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Speaker 1: grow up with a whole lot of money. Uh. Me

444
00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:42,280
Speaker 1: and my mom and my sisters, we grew up on

445
00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:45,280
Speaker 1: the hardship. So when people are trying to come at

446
00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:47,240
Speaker 1: you and throw money out to and this and that,

447
00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:50,399
Speaker 1: and you know, especially when you're younger eighteen and nineteen,

448
00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:53,399
Speaker 1: you're not you're not really thinking. You're thinking impulsively. You're

449
00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:55,280
Speaker 1: thinking about what you can get and what you can

450
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Speaker 1: get at that moment in time. So for me, in

451
00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:01,239
Speaker 1: my situation, uh, it was. It was definitely tough. Uh.

452
00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:04,119
Speaker 1: You know, I went through it. Uh, I owned it.

453
00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:07,720
Speaker 1: Um eventually paid back all the money back to the

454
00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:10,359
Speaker 1: school because I felt that that was the righteous thing

455
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Speaker 1: to do. But nowadays, I think the NBA is well,

456
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Speaker 1: n C double A is looking back on everything that happened,

457
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:19,399
Speaker 1: not just for me, but a lot of players in

458
00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:23,040
Speaker 1: the past that they came along doing those tough times

459
00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:26,000
Speaker 1: and and really trying to make a conscious effort about

460
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Speaker 1: what what what what can we do here to change things?

461
00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:30,720
Speaker 1: What can we do here to not let these things

462
00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:33,440
Speaker 1: happen and not let these kids get and taken advantage

463
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Speaker 1: of us. So with the opportunity of these kids, you know,

464
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Speaker 1: maybe to earn money for themselves rather they're in college,

465
00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:41,960
Speaker 1: I think it's a win win for Everybody's going to

466
00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:44,040
Speaker 1: keep people out of troubles. It's gonna keep dollars in

467
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Speaker 1: these kids pockets, and it's gonna keep producing the game

468
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Speaker 1: of college basketball the way I grew up on it.

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Speaker 1: You know, I grew up on uh, kids staying in

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Speaker 1: school three or four years and not nowadays where these

471
00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:58,200
Speaker 1: kids are one and done because they're leaving for the NBA,

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Speaker 1: because the hardship. You brought up a very good point

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Speaker 1: about a young man making money, and you're now entering

474
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:10,080
Speaker 1: the NBA and you're in your early twenties and the

475
00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:15,359
Speaker 1: world your oyster, and sadly you hear other stories as

476
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:19,440
Speaker 1: their careers end that they did not manage their money

477
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:24,320
Speaker 1: very well and they're broke. What can we do as

478
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Speaker 1: a society to help athletes, not just in the NBA,

479
00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:31,399
Speaker 1: but in the NFL and all over to learn to

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Speaker 1: manage their money and uh and at least live comfortably, honestly.

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Speaker 1: Um in the NBA. And then the Players Association, I

482
00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:44,040
Speaker 1: gotta get those guys a lot of credit. Throughout the

483
00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:46,560
Speaker 1: course of the year, they come in with these seminars

484
00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:50,879
Speaker 1: and about wealth, about money, about what to do in

485
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:54,960
Speaker 1: your all time, about education. So the Players Association, that's

486
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Speaker 1: a great job of providing us as players with all

487
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Speaker 1: this information and you know, all that can next that

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Speaker 1: we can possibly have, and us as players that have

489
00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:07,359
Speaker 1: to take advantage of that. UM. I remember at least

490
00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 1: probably like once every month, the Players Associated to come

491
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:14,479
Speaker 1: in there and they would talk to us. Uh, if

492
00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:17,879
Speaker 1: you need help with anything, UH, you need somebody to

493
00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:21,399
Speaker 1: look over what your financial guys are doing, so they

494
00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:23,640
Speaker 1: put a lot of resources into that, and I think

495
00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:26,840
Speaker 1: a lot of guys in the NBA during that time

496
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:29,160
Speaker 1: didn't really take advantage of it. They really didn't take

497
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Speaker 1: advantage of it and really what they did because we

498
00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:34,720
Speaker 1: would read and hear about less stories about guys going

499
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Speaker 1: broke out an early age. Marcus, I thought that was

500
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Speaker 1: a really matured decision. When you reimburse the you mass

501
00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:43,760
Speaker 1: over a hundred and fifty one thou dollars. And there

502
00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:46,480
Speaker 1: was another mature decision three years ago, you went back

503
00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:49,120
Speaker 1: and got your degree. You left after three years, which

504
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,119
Speaker 1: I think was I know was the right decision for you.

505
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:53,119
Speaker 1: Why did you feel it was important for you to

506
00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:56,679
Speaker 1: go back and get your degree three years ago? Um?

507
00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:59,719
Speaker 1: I definitely felt it was important because I have three

508
00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:02,000
Speaker 1: kid is now I have an eighteen year old was

509
00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:04,359
Speaker 1: about to go to college. We don't know we're at

510
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:06,720
Speaker 1: we're at yet, so and I was always preaching the

511
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 1: educations on the man. I always thought I couldn't appreciate

512
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,400
Speaker 1: our talk to him if I didn't get it done myself.

513
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Speaker 1: So that was probably one of the main reasons I

514
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 1: went back to school. You know, I didn't go back

515
00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:19,560
Speaker 1: because of the money. I'm financially secure. But I just

516
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 1: thought the fact that you know, my mom has always

517
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,880
Speaker 1: stressed the importance of education to me and my stusses

518
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 1: growing up, and just me being the first member of

519
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:31,119
Speaker 1: my family to graduate college. Uh, that's what I wanted

520
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:33,200
Speaker 1: to do. I wanted to study example for my three

521
00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:36,320
Speaker 1: daughters growing up that you know, my dad didn't on

522
00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:38,800
Speaker 1: the basketball court, but he also did it off the court,

523
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:42,320
Speaker 1: and he led by exam. So, Marcus, I have to

524
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:45,160
Speaker 1: ask you about one of your businesses that I'm fascinated by.

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00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:48,639
Speaker 1: You know, Lebron has his show The Shop. You have

526
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:55,720
Speaker 1: an actual barbershop. So how did you come to do that? Uh?

527
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:59,399
Speaker 1: And what's it like running the barbershop? Uh? You know

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00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:00,960
Speaker 1: I always one of the barbershop, you know, me and

529
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:03,240
Speaker 1: being down and Houston, I wanted to have a business

530
00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:05,760
Speaker 1: that was a staple in the community. And you know,

531
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:08,800
Speaker 1: I know how it is going to the barbershop. You know,

532
00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:11,920
Speaker 1: you get your haircut, you're talking shop. It's just about

533
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:15,760
Speaker 1: being amongst the guys in there. And it's great. It's

534
00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:18,359
Speaker 1: a great business. You know, I love it. Uh, you know,

535
00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:21,639
Speaker 1: getting to going there and interact with my barber's interacting

536
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:24,160
Speaker 1: with the community and spending time in there, So that's

537
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,200
Speaker 1: pretty much what it came all about. And of course

538
00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:29,000
Speaker 1: I'm always going to need a haircut, so I'm not

539
00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:36,399
Speaker 1: going to get freeding, right, you just answered the question.

540
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 1: It's like, well, where does the barber go to get

541
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:42,960
Speaker 1: his hair cut? What happened? I bet those guys feel

542
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:44,560
Speaker 1: a little bit of pressure though when you sit down

543
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:49,480
Speaker 1: in the chair, right. No, Well, I probably at first,

544
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 1: but I've been having it for ten years now, so

545
00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:54,840
Speaker 1: we're pronniliar with everybody. And like I said, it's a

546
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Speaker 1: staple in the community and I'm just happy to be

547
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Speaker 1: a part of it. Have you gone through to the

548
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 1: problems because you your own a barbershop and many businesses

549
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 1: like that have had issues because of coronavirus. Can you

550
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 1: take us through your experience of what it's like going

551
00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:17,960
Speaker 1: through the coronavirus era and trying to run a barbershop. Well,

552
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,200
Speaker 1: it was. It was difficult at for us because a

553
00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:22,200
Speaker 1: lot of people didn't really want to come outside. So

554
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:24,440
Speaker 1: you know, you're not really coming outside, you're not really

555
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:27,960
Speaker 1: worried about your physical appearance, so you're not really you know,

556
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:31,520
Speaker 1: worried about going to get a haircut. So but you know,

557
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:33,520
Speaker 1: it's stumbled a little bit. But we know we have

558
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:37,360
Speaker 1: faithful customers, uh, and we have great barbers who put

559
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:40,080
Speaker 1: out great work. So you know, I don't think it

560
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 1: has expected us that much. I think right now things

561
00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 1: are coming along for us. And I think the other

562
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:48,360
Speaker 1: day the governor of Texas said that we're not going

563
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:52,640
Speaker 1: throughing anymore shutdowns. You doesn't care what's going on. I

564
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 1: don't necessarily to agree with that, but uh, you know,

565
00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:58,760
Speaker 1: things are starting to change a little bit, especially down

566
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:01,680
Speaker 1: here in Texas. I think we had over it's like

567
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 1: a million cases of the COVID and it's it's kind

568
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 1: of tough times down here. It's kind of tough times everywhere.

569
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:10,280
Speaker 1: I just can't stay down here in Texas. But you

570
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:12,600
Speaker 1: know a lot of people are affected. And you know,

571
00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:14,840
Speaker 1: I'm not just worried about my stuff. I'm just worry about,

572
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:17,960
Speaker 1: you know, a whole nation. I don't like to see, uh,

573
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:22,920
Speaker 1: no businesses being shut down, people losing their jobs, waiting

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00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,480
Speaker 1: on fal a that may or may not come. And

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00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:28,120
Speaker 1: you know, it was dealing with the election. So there's

576
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:29,600
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff that's going on in the road

577
00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:31,840
Speaker 1: that's not sitting right with me. I just wish that

578
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:36,000
Speaker 1: hopefully something where down the line that can come back,

579
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Speaker 1: because some sense of normalcy, we can get back to

580
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:41,280
Speaker 1: being a great nation that we are. Well, Marcus can't belie.

581
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Speaker 1: We really appreciate you spending some time with us. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You took us all back a little bit. And uh,

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Speaker 1: I was in college at Georgetown when you were at

584
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:52,240
Speaker 1: U mass and I watched you and Allen and I

585
00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:56,680
Speaker 1: was face off. I think down in uh down in Birmingham, Alabama,

586
00:30:56,720 --> 00:31:00,720
Speaker 1: I believe was when Georglanta. Oh was it Atlanta? Okay,

587
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 1: I couldn't remember. One year was bringing Yeah, and uh,

588
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 1: you you guys marched on and then obviously you guys

589
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:11,240
Speaker 1: saw I saw each other in the league after that.

590
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:13,320
Speaker 1: So we really appreciate it. We got to give a

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00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 1: shout out to your barbershop MC twenty three barbershop down

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00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:19,480
Speaker 1: in the Houston area. Pair Land, I believe it. It

593
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 1: is is that right, all right? So go get your

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00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:26,800
Speaker 1: haircut if you find yourself down there, Marcus will take

595
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:30,960
Speaker 1: care of you. Hey, Marcus one, Hey, Marcus. One final question?

596
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:33,840
Speaker 1: Is Antonio still open in Amherst? Helped by the campus

597
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 1: of course, I was just I was just on campus

598
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:39,959
Speaker 1: this summer. Antonio was at the staple of the un

599
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 1: Mass community. I love that place. Alright, alright, well, you'll

600
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:48,360
Speaker 1: have to come back and see us and keep us

601
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:50,560
Speaker 1: up to date on all your adventures. We really appreciate

602
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:54,080
Speaker 1: such candid conversation with you. Marcus Campy, former NBA Center

603
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,240
Speaker 1: Defensive Player of the Year back in OH six and

604
00:31:56,360 --> 00:32:00,040
Speaker 1: O seven, to stand out at you Mass and a

605
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 1: community leader here at a time, and great to catch

606
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:06,719
Speaker 1: up with him during draft week. Marcus, thanks a lot.

607
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,280
Speaker 1: Thank you, guys. Appreciate it all right, guys, well Marcus

608
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 1: can't be fun to catch up with him. A lot

609
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:13,720
Speaker 1: of overlaps, as we tend to have with some of

610
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 1: our guests. I do remember that game very well. I

611
00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 1: have a in fact, I have a picture of the

612
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:26,240
Speaker 1: late John Thompson Jr. Walking off the court after losing

613
00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:28,400
Speaker 1: to You Mass. That was in the Elite eight. They

614
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:31,120
Speaker 1: went to the Final four that year. Very candid guy.

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00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:34,600
Speaker 1: I was glad. Uh he addressed what you know is

616
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:36,240
Speaker 1: obviously the elephant in the room when it comes to

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00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:39,840
Speaker 1: Marcus Camby, which is you know, owning the mistakes that

618
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,760
Speaker 1: he made as a college player, and uh, I thought

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00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:46,479
Speaker 1: he gave a very forthright answer to that without question. Um.

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00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:48,240
Speaker 1: I didn't know how he was going to handle that,

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00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:51,080
Speaker 1: but when he said I owned it, I made some

622
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 1: bad decisions. I accept that it was twenty eight thousand

623
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 1: dollars worth of jewelry I think from two different agents.

624
00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:58,960
Speaker 1: But he decided to pay back. You Mass had to

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00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 1: vacate their uh their final four parents, and they had

626
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 1: to forfeit the hundred and fifty one thousand dollars that

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00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 1: they received in the tournament money, and Marcus wrote a

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00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,800
Speaker 1: check to the school for the hundred plus. And you

629
00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 1: know a lot of guys can say, hey, I'm in

630
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 1: the NBA right now, I don't I'm done, okay, I

631
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:18,360
Speaker 1: see you later, you know, and just sort of say

632
00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 1: come get me. You know, you can find the money

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00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 1: somewhere else from some alum. Very mature guy. Um. You know,

634
00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 1: we liked him a lot when we were covering him here.

635
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:28,800
Speaker 1: He was a great guy to deal with when he

636
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 1: played for you Mass, and we're all rooted for him.

637
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:32,920
Speaker 1: We followed his career and I was just so glad

638
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:34,680
Speaker 1: to hear him talk about that and so many other

639
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 1: mature things. Especially about going back and getting his degree

640
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:40,640
Speaker 1: right exactly exactly, and now you got a place to

641
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 1: get your hair cut in Houston. I'm ready to go. Yeah, buzzy,

642
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:46,400
Speaker 1: you guys, let's just go and we could do a

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00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 1: remote from MC and I have to tell you and

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Speaker 1: when you when you mentioned about his business the barbershop,

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Speaker 1: I still do but yeah, I mean I haven't seen

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Speaker 1: you at a wild bar, but please tell me you're

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Speaker 1: still getting your haircutt a haircut. Yeah, back in Detroit

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Speaker 1: when I was getting a haircut. And this is when

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Speaker 1: the Pistons when they were winning NBA championships, And you

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Speaker 1: should have heard the discussions which one was better, Joe

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Speaker 1: Dumars or Isaiah Thomas. And I mean this would go

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Speaker 1: on for about twenty minutes as we're just going on

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Speaker 1: getting the haircut. Uh. And and it's just kind of

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Speaker 1: neat that that's the atmosphere when you walk into a barbershop.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, that can imagine going to a barbershop.

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Speaker 1: I have to talk about seventeen titles instead of to

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Speaker 1: coming into it feels better to be number one than

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Speaker 1: number five. I'll wear a number because of Mike. We

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Speaker 1: have a chance to go for three in a row.

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Speaker 1: Good numbers are a good time. When I first started

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Business of Sports. The number of the week. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I got your number of the week for you this morning.

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Speaker 1: Man Lynch steals it. Alright, number of the week. Let's

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Speaker 1: do it, all right, We're gonna do this in reverse

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Speaker 1: and uh, you know what, this very quick, serious thing

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Speaker 1: a tribute to the late great Alex Brek. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: do this Jeopardy style all right. Uh, this sport is

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Speaker 1: offering one of the biggest prize purses ever seen in

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Speaker 1: this sport, one point fifteen million dollars. I want to

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Speaker 1: know what the sport is? What is bowling? Lynchi? We

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Speaker 1: had on some keep the sports. I'm gonna say. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna say some E sports event. You know, I thought

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Speaker 1: you were gonna pull a Lynchy and you say, didn't

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Speaker 1: me say E sports? Uh? What's a triathlon? I thought

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Speaker 1: you're gonna do something like that. This they're offering in

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Speaker 1: this triathlon. More than two thousand triathlons. UH will gather

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Speaker 1: at the Daytona International Motor Speedway in Florida next month

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Speaker 1: for an endurance sports festival called Challenge Daytona, and they'll

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Speaker 1: have races for people of all ages, but the main

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Speaker 1: event will be the professional Triathletes organization of the Championship

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Speaker 1: and the world's best triathlons will compete for the biggest

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Speaker 1: price first in the sport ever seen, one point fifteen

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Speaker 1: million dollars. So i'd like to see that. Wow, all right,

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Speaker 1: that's that's a lot. That is a lot more money.

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Speaker 1: Yeah exactly exactly. I mean, I love triathlons next to

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Speaker 1: as much as the next cab. But that's really that's

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Speaker 1: really something. All right, that's good. Number of the week.

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Speaker 1: That's bar. Bar was off last week, so we had

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Speaker 1: a lot of time in his hands to come up

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Speaker 1: with something. He knew we'd have no chance, zero chance.

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Speaker 1: And and I I had been going through the real

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Speaker 1: estate pages of the Los Angeles Times over come back

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Speaker 1: to somebody's house, Yeah exactly, yeahs come back sports is

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Speaker 1: a good guest. Then you've been listening to Bloomberg Business

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Speaker 1: of Sports were here each and every week, same time

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Speaker 1: plus online wherever you get. Your podcast does drop every Monday,

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Speaker 1: Wednesday and Thursday. I'm Jason Kelly. You can find me

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Speaker 1: on Twitter at Jason Kelly News, and I'm Mike Life's

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