Speaker 1: Hey, what's up. Daily Show Ears Edition listeners, It's Roy
Speaker 1: Wood Jr. Coming to you while the Daily Show is
Speaker 1: on break. You're about to hear an episode of my podcast,
Speaker 1: Roy's Job Fair. Now. It's a podcast. All we do
Speaker 1: is talk about employment and explore the human condition through
Speaker 1: that lens. The episode you're about to hear is all
Speaker 1: about the world of basketball Candice Parker who gets paid
Speaker 1: to play it, esp and Scoop Jackson who gets paid
Speaker 1: to cover it, and a mother who was raising in
Speaker 1: basketball Prodigy. If you like it, don't miss new episodes
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Speaker 1: Comedy Central now hiring j G. Did you know that
Speaker 1: there is a shortage of mall Santas this show? I
Speaker 1: didn't know that. Yes, and even more short black mall Santis.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Donna Oglesby a listener to find radio
Speaker 1: acoustical presentation. UH sent us this to let us know. Ralph,
Speaker 1: have you ever thought about being a mall Santa? Has
Speaker 1: that ever been your cup of tea? Now Lyne to strangers,
Speaker 1: children No, I barely like going into the mall during
Speaker 1: Christmas because I find during Christmas when people at there
Speaker 1: at their highest level of asshole. No, people are super
Speaker 1: nice to me. Well, then j G didn't damn it,
Speaker 1: you'd be a black Santa. You always talk about you
Speaker 1: always talk about glass ceilings, and come on, because I
Speaker 1: have to take my great niece to see a black Santa.
Speaker 1: So I'm already preparing myself for when she doesn't want
Speaker 1: to sit on his lap. He's gonna ask me to
Speaker 1: sit on his lap. I already know how to stone
Speaker 1: you're gonna sit. Yeah, that's because I gotta put my
Speaker 1: niece in my lab so we can get the picture.
Speaker 1: And then I got to get out of this lab. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I bet that's what you said. Yeah, you sit down,
Speaker 1: I talk about them. Produce to me flowers of your working.
Speaker 1: Jack will sit the centers, last working. You got the
Speaker 1: lot we family, Jack, last lab, listen for to do
Speaker 1: let's working game, but it's working. My name is Roy,
Speaker 1: this is my job. Then you are so far well,
Speaker 1: Christmas time here. Jacqueline's all happy to me, and Ralph
Speaker 1: at under tell when people ain't got kids to tell
Speaker 1: you they changed, they changed it all. I used to
Speaker 1: love Christmas. I still love Christmas. I ain't going fronts,
Speaker 1: but like now now, now you've got cheerings and you
Speaker 1: got to do things for other people that are relatives
Speaker 1: for Christmas that you can't do for yourself. Christmas is
Speaker 1: what you make it. And also I don't buy gifts,
Speaker 1: just so we're all aware. I just in that spirit
Speaker 1: of being nice and having hot cocoa and there's chili
Speaker 1: on the stove. And wait, wait, hold, wait, okay, you
Speaker 1: don't make it. Do you make the gift? Now? So
Speaker 1: you're just happy for the season, but you don't really
Speaker 1: give a gift or make a gift. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: you're the worst. You're the happy aunt that don't bring ship,
Speaker 1: absolutely nothing but the smile. And I'm like, hi, babies.
Speaker 1: They also all three of my nephews, they split whatever
Speaker 1: is left over once my demise happened. Soon they got
Speaker 1: a point. Wait, so so inheritance is not a Christmas gift.
Speaker 1: You can't substitute that. I'm not buying them anything. They
Speaker 1: know that what the shop? What are you talking about?
Speaker 1: This jolly Hallmark movie? As spirit? You got it and
Speaker 1: you don't do the one thing that's the most the
Speaker 1: most important part of Christmas is the gift I give
Speaker 1: them me. I'm there, I'm happy, I'm smiling at them.
Speaker 1: I love them. That's it. I'm not buying them anything,
Speaker 1: and they know that. The one thing we do do
Speaker 1: on this show, though, every now and then we have
Speaker 1: a theme and we've been you know, this is a
Speaker 1: good little street kid. We had a couple of Jesus weeks,
Speaker 1: we had an international run. Man, Now we get to
Speaker 1: talk about basketball. My favorite sport, skin ball. Best ball
Speaker 1: is my favorite sport. Third, did you play basketball organized
Speaker 1: growing up? I tried. I know you get up every
Speaker 1: day at five thirty in the morning. Please please explain
Speaker 1: this ship to me and j G because periodically on
Speaker 1: this podcast, just in passing, you'll go, yeah, I gotta
Speaker 1: at five thirty to play basketball. Anyway, let's keep talking
Speaker 1: about and we never have time to settle in and
Speaker 1: ask you why the fuck as a grown man, why
Speaker 1: I'm just as a as a fellow brother in his forties.
Speaker 1: Why is the tip time five thirty in the morning,
Speaker 1: Because the gym opens at five and they figured that
Speaker 1: everybody's gonna be late, so a five fIF team would
Speaker 1: be too early, so we started. There's a level of
Speaker 1: dedication that I have to respect with that, because I
Speaker 1: don't is it the sport of basketball or is it
Speaker 1: the camaraderie? Well up here, up here where I'm at now,
Speaker 1: it's definitely the sport because I felt like I was
Speaker 1: sitting around becoming a bit of a fatass. And uh
Speaker 1: and and that literally was what it boiled down to.
Speaker 1: I needed to play ball. That's what it again asked.
Speaker 1: What ends up happening, though, is the more you go
Speaker 1: to end up playing with a bunch of dudes you
Speaker 1: don't know, is at least knowing each other's names. And
Speaker 1: for the most part, that's enough. We don't discuss each
Speaker 1: other's work. We know that one or two of the
Speaker 1: people had a kid, but for the most part, the
Speaker 1: game starts, did you have a kid six years ago?
Speaker 1: Pass the ball food? Like you know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 1: it's just like that, and uh, so far up here.
Speaker 1: The only reason that I'm playing so early is because
Speaker 1: that's the group of guys that I ended up falling
Speaker 1: in with. Back in d C, I played in what's
Speaker 1: called a legacy game like it did. Stories on the
Speaker 1: guys in the post and everything where you do you
Speaker 1: pay in to take care of the rent uh of
Speaker 1: the gym, and you meet up every Wednesday night and
Speaker 1: you play. And I played with those dudes for almost
Speaker 1: like twenty years. I never enjoyed playing pickup basketball. I
Speaker 1: figured out real early on that I do not have
Speaker 1: the personality for basketball. Basketball. The way you play basketball,
Speaker 1: I think is extremely reflective of your approach to life
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways. If you're taking problems head on,
Speaker 1: you're challenging people, or if you're a facilitator and you
Speaker 1: passed the ball to a lot of people. I am
Speaker 1: out on the wings, passing, doing the dirty work. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to rebound, I'm trying to box out so somebody
Speaker 1: else can be great. But it just I don't know.
Speaker 1: It was. It was just too competitive. Motherfucker's in your
Speaker 1: face the whole game, sweating onion ship before I ever drink,
Speaker 1: before ever smoke, my first high and the first thing
Speaker 1: to call me down with basketball, And when I played
Speaker 1: on my first organized team, my father was my coach.
Speaker 1: Shout out, Ralph Jr. I know you're gonna hear this
Speaker 1: evil self, but the first time, listen, this is why
Speaker 1: he was evil. But he was a genius. He's a genius.
Speaker 1: My dad as a genius. That's like a recipe for
Speaker 1: disaster coaching his son. It's either rate or terrible. There's doing.
Speaker 1: So the first team we played on we was in
Speaker 1: Fort Gordon, and uh, the first time I scored a
Speaker 1: basket in the game, I celebrated like I was playing
Speaker 1: NFL football. I spiked the ball which gave the other
Speaker 1: team a point and they scored, but I was still dancing,
Speaker 1: and then came back scored another point, and so my
Speaker 1: father bench that team went on. The team went on
Speaker 1: to win the championship for that season, and I never
Speaker 1: played again and my dad said, Tam, yeah my team,
Speaker 1: And my dad said, I said her, Dad, well, why
Speaker 1: why didn't I get back in? He was like, because
Speaker 1: this wasn't for you. He was like, if you wouldn't
Speaker 1: have celebrated, you know, And so like for years, for years,
Speaker 1: I played basketball to try and prove to my dad
Speaker 1: that basketball was indeed for me. And it wasn't until
Speaker 1: I got old enough to kind of realize all of
Speaker 1: the politics and all the other stuff that was going on.
Speaker 1: I was like, Damn, this male was a genius. I
Speaker 1: should have quit this ship like three years ago. But
Speaker 1: you know, I literally tried to play basketball for years
Speaker 1: just to prove to my pots that I could play.
Speaker 1: And let's just to be real. I was in Virginia
Speaker 1: when you had Alan iverson Grant Hill. Both of my
Speaker 1: cousins played down the street and they were all world
Speaker 1: so you know, I wanted to play. But eventually I
Speaker 1: learned that I was very very good at speech, because
Speaker 1: that's the that was I want to stay title in speech,
Speaker 1: and that's what made me quit playing basketball. And I
Speaker 1: was like this this I'm at least I'm winning and
Speaker 1: this ship like I can't make the team. But I
Speaker 1: still to this day, I love who just about more
Speaker 1: than anything else. J G. Did you ever play the
Speaker 1: roundball sport? From the Honorable Dr Nate Smith? I kept
Speaker 1: book for our high school team for a season. He
Speaker 1: was the manager. Alright. I never I played at the
Speaker 1: y m c A. And then I played at the
Speaker 1: boys club like fourth and fifth grade and then middle school.
Speaker 1: I think I tried out and didn't make the team,
Speaker 1: and then after I was like, yeah, I'm done. When
Speaker 1: I moved to l A, there was a pickup game
Speaker 1: amongst comedians and this just confirmed my feelings about basketball,
Speaker 1: like is it like the different personalities on the court,
Speaker 1: which is why I understand Ralph's buying game. I will
Speaker 1: pay money to play this game with the same other
Speaker 1: nine motherfucker's. I will pay money because they know me,
Speaker 1: we know each other, and we will all behave When
Speaker 1: you were playing pick up with strangers and it's comedians,
Speaker 1: it's there's a level of ego. But the game. They
Speaker 1: used to have a flag football game too, but it was, oh,
Speaker 1: this is a way for the black comedy community to
Speaker 1: mingle and chill on a Sunday business. But the competitiveness
Speaker 1: by the second quarter, niggas is ready to fight. Yo.
Speaker 1: Jokes ain't funny, Like you don't sell tickets. That's why
Speaker 1: you don't get You can't hit up free throw, That's
Speaker 1: why you ain't getting that to me. Honestly, pick up
Speaker 1: pick up basketball ain't ship but athletic karaoke you got.
Speaker 1: It's somebody who's doing it for fun. And then there's
Speaker 1: somebody who think they're gonna get a whole last tend contract,
Speaker 1: like the motherfucker from the Hornets. It's just at this
Speaker 1: gym today. I moved out to l a and uh,
Speaker 1: I learned very quickly about Los Angeles being a place
Speaker 1: where just ballers are at and uh, I used to like,
Speaker 1: I got a lot of friends that win the dude.
Speaker 1: So I used to wear a little duke shooting shirt
Speaker 1: that one of my friends had given me. You know,
Speaker 1: it was my little thing when I went to the court.
Speaker 1: Mind you, I've never played varsity ball. This is important
Speaker 1: to say, Like, I play a lot of basketball, but
Speaker 1: I never got the big letter. I always got the
Speaker 1: little letter because I did speech. But this one night,
Speaker 1: I'm out in l A. We're playing pick up all
Speaker 1: at this gym, and I had on my little shooting
Speaker 1: shirt and I would take off my shirt and I
Speaker 1: had maybe three or four of the worst games I've
Speaker 1: ever played in my entire damn life. And didn't know that.
Speaker 1: At the same time in the gym there was a
Speaker 1: guy former dude play everybody name McCoy mcgetty, who was
Speaker 1: in the gym. Yes, sir, so I'm sitting down, I'm
Speaker 1: already mad at myself. I'm sweating, drenched to sweat, got
Speaker 1: a little shirt in my hand, about put on my
Speaker 1: clothes going home. Corey walked up to me and said, Hey, man,
Speaker 1: did you go to duke? I was like, well, no, man.
Speaker 1: He grabbed my shirt. He said, never ever wear this
Speaker 1: again and then dropped it at my feet and terrible.
Speaker 1: Don't university like that. I'm gonna do radio for the
Speaker 1: rest of my life, is how I felt at that
Speaker 1: point and the last piece and I shut up. I
Speaker 1: messed around in l A and end up playing in
Speaker 1: the Drew League. But I don't want to make it
Speaker 1: sound like I was playing, because I was not playing
Speaker 1: the Drew League. Jacqueline is where pro and sent my
Speaker 1: pro plays who played international basketball all over the world.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we gotta yeah, alright, so my story something.
Speaker 1: I played the league for the people who don't know.
Speaker 1: So so the Drew League, good lord, Jacquelin, just put
Speaker 1: me down. The Drew League is a semi pro basketball
Speaker 1: league where dudes who play in the league playing the Drew.
Speaker 1: It'side the West coast of cuivalent to like a streetball league,
Speaker 1: like a Rutger and stuff like that. Um. I happened
Speaker 1: to have a dude that I was playing pickup but
Speaker 1: it was very good, and he invited me to come
Speaker 1: play on this team. I didn't know that this team
Speaker 1: was f and Drew and so the first practice, these
Speaker 1: dudes going around talking about where they played and they're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: well I played in this Big ten school and now
Speaker 1: I played in Argentina, I played in the Pac Ten.
Speaker 1: Now I'm playing in the Japan. And they came in
Speaker 1: to me and they're like you, and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I never played varsity basketball. And I'm a radio producer
Speaker 1: in Studio City. There we go U basketball and basketball
Speaker 1: everywhere I've ever lived a ball man, and uh, it's
Speaker 1: got a good way of being super universally, puts you
Speaker 1: in places that you don't expect to be in and ship. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean basketball pick up basketball is hood golf. You
Speaker 1: can make connections, to meet people, to make deals. It's
Speaker 1: just not as conversational because it's more aerobic than golf,
Speaker 1: like the sidelines and watching who's dating like a Dale
Speaker 1: and Rich Paul. I just think that's so sweet. Either
Speaker 1: one of them played basketball. Jacqueline, I don't care about that.
Speaker 1: Let's move on now to Cody's most outstanding employee of
Speaker 1: the week, Shahnnie O'Neill wife. Isn't that right? They got
Speaker 1: married in two thousand two. I think Shaw could just
Speaker 1: come to l a on a huntred million dollar deal
Speaker 1: with the two mill deal. Got divorced, uh in two
Speaker 1: thousand nine. There was absolutely no prenup, no prenup on
Speaker 1: that first marriage, dope, but he was paying her alimony.
Speaker 1: Part of the terms of this alimony was for ten years.
Speaker 1: The day you get married again, you don't get no
Speaker 1: more my motherfucking money, motherfucker, you only get the child
Speaker 1: support bread. I'm happy to announce that exactly ten years
Speaker 1: after the agreement was Seanny O'Neill is engaged to be married.
Speaker 1: Of course she is, of course, yes, of course. The
Speaker 1: fact that she waited and waited and waited and dated
Speaker 1: and produced shows and build her own nestake and then
Speaker 1: when she didn't even need the money. Third, the basketball
Speaker 1: wives spent offs and all of that ship. You know,
Speaker 1: many different ways she's getting paid, paid, getting Where are
Speaker 1: you going? Because they say being a wife as a job, right,
Speaker 1: m hm okay, So then alimonia ain't ship but severance.
Speaker 1: It is definitely sure that your employer gave you. Well,
Speaker 1: I probably shouldn't say that because black women and you
Speaker 1: don't work for the black man. I contribute to help
Speaker 1: the all the time for making sure that your co
Speaker 1: founder of your family fifth. I'm fifth off the grip that.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, hold that before you finished announcing this,
Speaker 1: because my wife and my mother, my wife and my
Speaker 1: mother in law listening. I need y'all to make sure
Speaker 1: I said fifth. Fifth, God damn it. Fifth for making
Speaker 1: sure that your family's co founder properly gave you every
Speaker 1: single penny that was due to you before finding another
Speaker 1: new co founder. For that, Shanny O'Neill, you are Cody's
Speaker 1: most outstanding employee of the week. I will tell you
Speaker 1: that whoever she's married will not be a co founder
Speaker 1: because she has learned a valuable lesson the hard way
Speaker 1: proper prenup. Well, you know this is easy to kind
Speaker 1: of talk about from the perspective that we're looking at.
Speaker 1: Does the same thing happen when the perspective flipsly like
Speaker 1: what happens when she makes tons of money and then
Speaker 1: he does not make a lot of money and then
Speaker 1: they get a divorce? Do we feel as remorseful for
Speaker 1: the guy in that situation as we do for the
Speaker 1: women in the exact same So I support I support
Speaker 1: rich women paying broke me in out of money. I
Speaker 1: love it just so weekend. For the record, Um, I've
Speaker 1: gotta signed anything. Let's just go ahead and get that clear.
Speaker 1: I'm glad. I'm not proposing to Jack many rules with Jacqueline.
Speaker 1: We don't have time. I feel like you got a
Speaker 1: pre contract. She got a whole pre contract, and she
Speaker 1: got laid out before you date her. We need talking
Speaker 1: about marrying her. They're gonna be in love. We're going
Speaker 1: to be in love and that's what's going to happen.
Speaker 1: And I've been engaged four point five times, so I'm
Speaker 1: not signing enough. You've been in There's so many layers
Speaker 1: to you. Every week onion just opened. We don't have time.
Speaker 1: It's too late at the time. What is four point
Speaker 1: five times? Where at a time? What is four point
Speaker 1: five That's like what somebody said, I got two and
Speaker 1: a half children? What the hell is that? Well, you
Speaker 1: just gotta half disembottled body just doing around. What is
Speaker 1: four and a half We we gotta we got a
Speaker 1: w NBA champion. She was dating basketball players and I
Speaker 1: don't Jacqueline has seen some ship. We have so much
Speaker 1: turn pat on rides dating for I'm just waiting for
Speaker 1: her to tell us that she was a jet Beauty
Speaker 1: of the Week one. It all makes sense, all right,
Speaker 1: Let's get into worse than first. Every blue moon we
Speaker 1: get blessed, blessed, we get blessed. This woman Black Women's
Speaker 1: a Black women's talk about it is joining us for
Speaker 1: worst than First. We're talking basketball this entire episode, the
Speaker 1: ins and out of that career. And if it's anyone
Speaker 1: who knows this world, it is our next guest, j G.
Speaker 1: Who do we have on the line. We have the
Speaker 1: amazing Candice Nicole Parker, lovely smile legend in her own right.
Speaker 1: There are so many things I could say, but let's
Speaker 1: not waste time and get right to her world. Chip
Speaker 1: say it again, Sir, say it again, sir whoa chap
Speaker 1: wa and host of The Moment podcast as well, which
Speaker 1: is a very, very wonderfully grounded conversational podcast that peels
Speaker 1: back the layers of humanity and people. Candice Parker, I
Speaker 1: didn't know j G was gonna drop your middle name
Speaker 1: on us. Thank you for having me. You can't leave
Speaker 1: out the fact that she was also balling in Chicago, hommy,
Speaker 1: Like you know what I'm saying. She was dunking on
Speaker 1: cats in high school. You know what I'm saying, it's
Speaker 1: one thing for us show you to j you up,
Speaker 1: but it's a whole another thing for her to come
Speaker 1: and pipe one on you and you just look at you,
Speaker 1: you walk off. You know what I'm saying. I'm just saying, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: in Illinois to like you, you got to Chicago catch
Speaker 1: so she was, I'm sorry, I'm a ball player, brod.
Speaker 1: I just so watch her pump people youngest. So before before,
Speaker 1: before Ralph has the seizure. You really can't when you're
Speaker 1: an athlete of your caliber, you cannot work regularly. So
Speaker 1: what what was your relationship with employment early on? Like
Speaker 1: when you needed money to get to Jordan's so to
Speaker 1: get the junior say out air missions or whatever. What
Speaker 1: did Candice Parker do for money? Do you even have
Speaker 1: a worst job? We should just go worst coach or
Speaker 1: first coach or something. So I was to be sad,
Speaker 1: like I was a hustler. That baby sat a lot.
Speaker 1: I love kids from the giga, Like from twelve eleven
Speaker 1: years old on my street, I used to babysit all
Speaker 1: the kids, um and then even when I got to college,
Speaker 1: I would watch you know, I didn't really go out
Speaker 1: all that much so I was a huge Like I
Speaker 1: would watch the coaches kids, and you know, I look
Speaker 1: up and I'd have all the dogs and kids in
Speaker 1: my house and that was just fine. Friday night. That
Speaker 1: was my idea of a lot of fun just watching movies.
Speaker 1: And the Little Mermaid was a hit in my house.
Speaker 1: Little kids. Yeah, so I have baby, got a lot.
Speaker 1: I mean I worked, um, you know, just summer jobs
Speaker 1: because during the school year, my parents were big believers
Speaker 1: and like me, focusing on you know, school, and so
Speaker 1: your parents wouldn't let you work because they wanted you
Speaker 1: to focus on your I was fortunate enough to to
Speaker 1: live in an environment where, um, you know, my my parents,
Speaker 1: you know, we're passionate about that. For me and my brothers,
Speaker 1: obviously we all had jobs like in the summer, we're
Speaker 1: cleaning the beach bathroom. That was probably the worst. That
Speaker 1: was where I was like, I really want to work
Speaker 1: really hard so that I don't have to clean the
Speaker 1: beach bathroom. As parents of talented athletes, which my mama
Speaker 1: didn't have that issue because you know, I just baseball
Speaker 1: and me basketball and me didn't. But you know the
Speaker 1: problem with me in basketball. Third is that when we
Speaker 1: moved to Birmingham. I was in the third grade, and
Speaker 1: my mom got me a basketball goal, so I wouldn't
Speaker 1: go to Powderly Park and play where they always got
Speaker 1: to shoot. But then all the O G s will
Speaker 1: come to our house to play. I'm in the third grade.
Speaker 1: It's amazing, Well be grown men, these a tenth grade
Speaker 1: gang bangers over here to hoop. So I was so
Speaker 1: intimidated by the sport that they drove me to soccer
Speaker 1: and baseball and these more individual where you ain't gotta
Speaker 1: be no more funk around me because I telephost all
Speaker 1: the time. And like I tried out for basketball three
Speaker 1: years in a row in high school. You know what
Speaker 1: I learned, bread, I'm very good at speech. I'm excellent
Speaker 1: at speech. That's that's what I am very good at.
Speaker 1: If it ain't there about the seventh grade, it's time
Speaker 1: to grade for sure. Kind you're trying it out in
Speaker 1: seventh grade, some kids will surprise you you hit a
Speaker 1: growth for or something like that. But like, for sure,
Speaker 1: in ninth grade, I mean, obviously there are exceptions to
Speaker 1: every rule. Um, but yeah, ninth grade, I stayed away
Speaker 1: from basketball. I didn't really start playing serious basketball until
Speaker 1: probably eighth grade. I would say, like seventh grade is
Speaker 1: when I started like seriously playing I played soccer and
Speaker 1: I played volleyball, And my first scholarship offered to Tennessee
Speaker 1: was for volleyball. It wasn't even basketball. Mm hm m hm,
Speaker 1: m hmm. What are some of the sacrifices that you
Speaker 1: believe your parents me in the early days to ensure
Speaker 1: that you stayed on that straight and narrow path, Because
Speaker 1: athletics requires a level of commitment that I think a
Speaker 1: lot of teenagers aren't always invested in and it takes
Speaker 1: a little bit of a push from some mentor figure. Well, first,
Speaker 1: it's got to be in the kid. Like you can't
Speaker 1: bring something out of a kid that isn't in them.
Speaker 1: And you know that's similar trajectory. Like me and my
Speaker 1: oldest brother we love basketball, so my dad coached us.
Speaker 1: My middle brother was like, I'm gonna do basketball for fun.
Speaker 1: I would say my advice is like, first, figure out
Speaker 1: if the kid wants it, Like if the kid wants
Speaker 1: it as much as they say, because you can't want
Speaker 1: it more than your kids. I can't be pulling Wayla
Speaker 1: up out of bed to go to tournaments and she's
Speaker 1: she doesn't want to. Now, you can have bad days,
Speaker 1: but I can't want this more than you. Say it again,
Speaker 1: said like I can't. I can't want this more than
Speaker 1: you like it. Just it can't. That can't be the case.
Speaker 1: And I think some parents, especially from a young age,
Speaker 1: they want something more than their kids and it just
Speaker 1: doesn't work out. Um. But also it is important to
Speaker 1: challenge them. I was challenged constantly. We you know, you
Speaker 1: can't expect excellence in this one area of life and
Speaker 1: not have those expectations in other areas like school, like
Speaker 1: how people like respect, all that stuff. So I think
Speaker 1: it's just like setting goals and making sure you're reaching it.
Speaker 1: But they still got to be a kid man, Like,
Speaker 1: you can't. You can't take everything. Like I remember my
Speaker 1: mom made me go to prom. She made me go
Speaker 1: I was basketball tournament, Like what if no, you're going
Speaker 1: to prom? You know. And so there's some things that
Speaker 1: you have to as a parent step in and you know,
Speaker 1: and make sure that your kid is still being a
Speaker 1: kid because you couldn't get that back. He couldn't ever
Speaker 1: get that from back. So excellent move for your mom.
Speaker 1: And I'm curious outside of basketball, outside of the podcast.
Speaker 1: What else is driving you? I always believe in being versatile,
Speaker 1: like that is my number one piece of advice. I
Speaker 1: don't want to put all my eggs um into one basket.
Speaker 1: And I think for a very long time, it was
Speaker 1: just basketball, and then I had my daughter and I
Speaker 1: saw this whole new purpose. Like it sucks to lose
Speaker 1: still and I hate it, but I come out of
Speaker 1: it more because I heard. And so for me, what
Speaker 1: keeps me up at night is I want to continue that.
Speaker 1: I want to be versatile within business. I want to
Speaker 1: be versatile within television. Um and you know obviously I
Speaker 1: mean gender quality and racial I mean all of that
Speaker 1: drives me. And I think it just like my daughter
Speaker 1: looking at me some days. I mean we have the
Speaker 1: same like sometimes she don't want to do her homework, Mom,
Speaker 1: I did my homework for you today, because I tell
Speaker 1: her all the time, like I get up to go
Speaker 1: to work sometimes I'm like, I don't feel like it,
Speaker 1: but I did it for you today, like I did
Speaker 1: it for you. And so I think that's what drives me,
Speaker 1: is like continue to be that role model and hustling,
Speaker 1: not when I have to get on a cardio machine
Speaker 1: or when I'm sweating, but like to hustle and business,
Speaker 1: like to hustle and and grind and sometimes do things
Speaker 1: you don't want to do. And so I think that's
Speaker 1: what keeping me up at night is am I being
Speaker 1: a great example of that to her. I felt this
Speaker 1: year that the ladies kind of led the way and
Speaker 1: a lot of respects, Like I felt as far as
Speaker 1: the you know, whether it was getting more not collected
Speaker 1: or just standing up to a lot of the bullshit.
Speaker 1: Can you talk about what that part of the season was, Like,
Speaker 1: what is it about the w NBA community. It seems
Speaker 1: more together than the men when it comes to social
Speaker 1: justice if we're just being in one hunting Like well, first, UM,
Speaker 1: our league is the majority of the minority in this country.
Speaker 1: And you know I say that in we are eight
Speaker 1: percent African American women, So we are league all of women.
Speaker 1: Everybody's a woman in our league. UM, black, l g B,
Speaker 1: t Q, socioeconomic background, UM, religions. I mean, we are
Speaker 1: literally the majority of our league is the minority in
Speaker 1: this country. So I feel like we had that purpose.
Speaker 1: And I think anytime you have purpose behind anything, it's
Speaker 1: like driven. And I think we have cohesiveness there's only
Speaker 1: twelve teams. During the bubble, it was literally like we
Speaker 1: were all in the bubble. Yeah, it els to do.
Speaker 1: It was kind of like you would get your text
Speaker 1: and everybody was fun and if you didn't respond, it
Speaker 1: was like in the lunch line, like, hey, did you
Speaker 1: get the text about what we're gonna do? You know,
Speaker 1: That's kind of how it came together. And then we
Speaker 1: always I mean, I know now people are recognizing the
Speaker 1: w b A, but the w b A has always
Speaker 1: been on the forefront of this stuff, whether it was
Speaker 1: accepted or not. To be honest with you honestly, whether
Speaker 1: it was accepted or not, whether people you know, whether
Speaker 1: the w b A in the front office we're okay
Speaker 1: with it or not. Know, we got fine. There were
Speaker 1: there were people were black turned out shirts and we
Speaker 1: tried to find him in Carmelo stuffed in and was like, no,
Speaker 1: you're not You're not about to do this. Then it
Speaker 1: was like, oh, the fines are rescinded and like all stuff,
Speaker 1: so we're forgetting Like that was a couple of years ago. Well,
Speaker 1: the podcast is called Moments where you talk about parenting
Speaker 1: and parenthood and what that means, and you explore that
Speaker 1: you explore parenting, I would say as beautifully and as
Speaker 1: eloquently as we try to explore employment. She is a
Speaker 1: w NBA champion, she is a Black Women's and we
Speaker 1: will support the Chicago Scott to know and yes she
Speaker 1: is Candice Pocket. Thank you so so much for sharing
Speaker 1: a little bit of time with us. We will leave
Speaker 1: you to your ferocious dogs. Listen, hey, listen. If anybody
Speaker 1: ever calls it like says, you know, kend just don't
Speaker 1: believe in diversity. To look at my dog. I got
Speaker 1: a right, I got a capacoot, and I got a
Speaker 1: weiner dog. So variety of diversity of this house. I'm
Speaker 1: just telling you that's beautiful. Well, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for coming on. We'll leave you back to the rest
Speaker 1: of your life. Have a wonderful, wonderful off season. We
Speaker 1: can't wait to see this. I appreciate. Thank you. After
Speaker 1: the break, we will be joined by the wonderful, wonderful
Speaker 1: another black women's back to back black wins. We're talking
Speaker 1: basketball on the job fair. She is raising a child
Speaker 1: prodigy that has decided to not go to college route
Speaker 1: while still in high school. How cool you got to
Speaker 1: be the go pro in high school and convince a
Speaker 1: black mama. That's my first question to us, how did
Speaker 1: you as a black mama? Let this boy tell you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: high school and all that, but I'm gonna finish it
Speaker 1: for you though. All right, I'm gonna get this degree
Speaker 1: for you. I ain't promising you the next That's all
Speaker 1: I'm saying that. I think he's getting deep that she
Speaker 1: didn't getting one. Yeah, pretty much better go frame in
Speaker 1: middle school. Ship. Look, he might take it. He might
Speaker 1: take an associate degree program in the off season and
Speaker 1: get get get that two year paper for him to diploma. Plus, well,
Speaker 1: did job fair. We'll be right back, job fair, We're
Speaker 1: back in him. Basketball is my favorite sport. I love
Speaker 1: the way they dripped up and down the court. And
Speaker 1: that's all of the songs that I can sing for
Speaker 1: free without being fined by the music in the street.
Speaker 1: J G. Just just real quick, Who who who do
Speaker 1: we have on the line. Let's just start there because
Speaker 1: I want to start chipping away at this. We have
Speaker 1: Kimberly Cummings and she is in a just the principle,
Speaker 1: but she's also the mother of a prodigy. Mm hm, So,
Speaker 1: Madam Kimberly first and foremost welcome to the job fair,
Speaker 1: Thank you for coming to board, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: You have a son, and you correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: Your son was originally playing high school amateur sports. He
Speaker 1: is really good, so rather than continue playing high school
Speaker 1: amateur sports, he now plays for the Overtime Elite League,
Speaker 1: which pays their athletes, and your son is doing that
Speaker 1: as he prepares for an eventual journey into the NBA.
Speaker 1: Did I get that right? When did? When did Jalen's
Speaker 1: gift start forcing you as a parent to go, Okay,
Speaker 1: what is my schedule today as it relates to the
Speaker 1: boys schedule? Because you're not just You're not just taking
Speaker 1: him to the y m C A community rick league
Speaker 1: for him to dunk on people like Ralph respect Probably
Speaker 1: when a child is playing competitively, they're more leagues, The
Speaker 1: games are further away because that's where all the competition lies,
Speaker 1: further and further away from the house. So if you
Speaker 1: could just talk to us a little bit about your
Speaker 1: sacrifices as a family, Well, Jalen started playing travel ball
Speaker 1: in the fourth grade. Um, the sacrifices were giving up
Speaker 1: by weekends. UM as he got older, UM, he started
Speaker 1: playing with more competitive teams. As you stated, we had
Speaker 1: to travel further and further away from her. Um as
Speaker 1: many weekends, pretty much every weekend that he played. UM,
Speaker 1: I was there, My mother was there. We sacrificed and
Speaker 1: we went to his games. UM. You have to consider
Speaker 1: to travel, the hotel costs and being a single mom,
Speaker 1: it was it was costly. But he has always is aspired,
Speaker 1: um to become an NBA player. UM. For me though,
Speaker 1: in order for him to do that, he had to
Speaker 1: keep his academics up, because I'm academics first, and he
Speaker 1: has been a straight A student since he's been in
Speaker 1: high school. I think leagues like this where a young
Speaker 1: man can can play and actually earn some some some money. UM,
Speaker 1: that's that's gotta be a that's gotta be a a help.
Speaker 1: How does that all factor into the league, so to speak?
Speaker 1: Like how how does how does that work? If you
Speaker 1: can't have you seen it work? UM? I know that
Speaker 1: he has a contract and everything that they've said that
Speaker 1: they were going to do for him, they've done. Many
Speaker 1: people were concerned that he would only get a G
Speaker 1: E D. Which is false. UM. Jalen and his Seni
Speaker 1: and he's seventeen. He only needed UM one credit to
Speaker 1: graduate from high school. UM. They are honoring that he
Speaker 1: has taken high school courses to complete his high school
Speaker 1: diploma and graduate as he would have regular high school. UM.
Speaker 1: He just has the opportunity to be trained by some
Speaker 1: awesome people to get him ready for the next level
Speaker 1: and that's going into the G League or going and
Speaker 1: going to Europe and play overseas. UM. So it it's
Speaker 1: he loses some things, you know, the college experience and all,
Speaker 1: but he can still get He is going to get
Speaker 1: his degree. He just won't be able to play on
Speaker 1: the college level. But going to the games, that's far
Speaker 1: at O t E. It is an awesome experience for
Speaker 1: these young men. So it's very rewarding and as you stated,
Speaker 1: they are getting paid for it. In the meanwhile, they're
Speaker 1: paying playing against other young men who are not getting
Speaker 1: paid and they're doing the same thing. Now, how did
Speaker 1: the high school coach take it? Talk to me a
Speaker 1: little bit about the naysayers or I don't want to
Speaker 1: say day sayers, but the people who were trying to
Speaker 1: present But you don't even know what that is because
Speaker 1: this is new. This whole concept is very new. This
Speaker 1: is not even five years old. If I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 1: like this, this concept of if you're good at something,
Speaker 1: figure out the way to start doing it as quickly
Speaker 1: as possible, get your education and get the heck on. Now,
Speaker 1: while he was in ot E, Mom, was he still
Speaker 1: going to class? Because you know what I'm thinking about. Third,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about when Dion Sanders was at Florida State
Speaker 1: but he got drafted by the New York Yankees and
Speaker 1: he had a couple of dollars in his pocket on
Speaker 1: that college campus. I want to know what was that like, Mama,
Speaker 1: What was that like when he's like, he's in ote
Speaker 1: but now he still got the last couple of credit
Speaker 1: hours in class or did he just leave school altogether
Speaker 1: and just opt to get the credits um with with
Speaker 1: tutors and everything. No, they are in school. There's the
Speaker 1: tutors only as they need him. They are being taught
Speaker 1: by teachers and they are they're still earning their credits.
Speaker 1: They accepted his credits from high school. He still only
Speaker 1: has that one credit. Now. The question you asked about
Speaker 1: his high school coach. His high school coach was is
Speaker 1: the legendary or was Charlie Ward and um, he hated
Speaker 1: to see him leave. But his words were, they didn't
Speaker 1: have that opportunity when they were younger. They didn't have
Speaker 1: that opportunity. So it was a great opportunity for Jayleen.
Speaker 1: And of course there were nay sayers just like he said,
Speaker 1: and that's because they did not know all the ins
Speaker 1: and outs of what is being provided by this organization.
Speaker 1: If he does not make it into the G League
Speaker 1: or decide not to go overseas, he is going to
Speaker 1: be provided up to one hundred thou dollars to attend
Speaker 1: college and and and pursue his degree as he would
Speaker 1: have if he was playing in college. That is amazingly dope,
Speaker 1: that's just the advanced scholarship. They just fronted you a scholarship.
Speaker 1: Now you can go over there. Oh you want to
Speaker 1: go here? Yes, Jaymine already hads college credits because he
Speaker 1: was doing a roll. They're going to continue that. As
Speaker 1: soon as he finishes with this last credit that he needs,
Speaker 1: he'll start back in college again and he will have
Speaker 1: possibly close to his A degree once he finishes. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: the age limit on enrolling in overtime Elite. Let me
Speaker 1: google real quick to see if a son. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about myself. But you do through this process so far,
Speaker 1: is there anything that you would enhance because there are
Speaker 1: other people looking to you, whether you know it or not,
Speaker 1: to see how this all plays out. They they honored
Speaker 1: their word. They've honored their word because this is my
Speaker 1: seventeen year old son who has left home. UM. Everything
Speaker 1: that they said there. They are a family. Um, they're
Speaker 1: an organization, but they are a family, and they actually
Speaker 1: take care of our kids every need, our doctor's appointments,
Speaker 1: thental appointments, everything, and they treat them professionally. But they
Speaker 1: take care of them as well. If he's going pro
Speaker 1: that means that, for lack a better word, the grooming
Speaker 1: that sometimes cats might get in college to avoid agents
Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff, they can come right
Speaker 1: at them, UM, and I would figure as a parent
Speaker 1: that would be a little bit scary just to see.
Speaker 1: So do they give you advice on how to deal
Speaker 1: with that? They have They have investments and home and
Speaker 1: they have financial advisors. UM. A portion of the large
Speaker 1: portion of their money is UM put away in an
Speaker 1: account that they cannot touch because of their age. So
Speaker 1: they give them their they're teaching them how to be men.
Speaker 1: They're not just playing basketball. In European soccer's quite common
Speaker 1: for kids to go pro it around fourteen or seventeen
Speaker 1: years old, to pull them out of high school, but
Speaker 1: they put them in tutoring h UM tutoring academies that
Speaker 1: are normally based in the practice wings of the of
Speaker 1: the different teams. But they also do the things that
Speaker 1: for the first time I've ever heard anybody in America
Speaker 1: doing UM is in the case of the O t A. Here.
Speaker 1: They give them financial planning, they give them UM social
Speaker 1: media training, they teach them how to deal with things
Speaker 1: as a professional UM which you know that there's litmus
Speaker 1: tons of stories in American basketball where I wish, you know,
Speaker 1: some of these guys would have had some some courses
Speaker 1: or something along the way to help guide them, because
Speaker 1: being a professional basketball players still a job and a
Speaker 1: lot of times, you know, people get caught up in
Speaker 1: the highlights and they miss it. Actually tried to back
Speaker 1: out of the contract once I signed it because I
Speaker 1: was listening to outside influences who didn't understand what was
Speaker 1: going on. And my son said to me, said, my
Speaker 1: mom's seventeen, this is what I've loved doing and this
Speaker 1: is what I've always loved doing. This is what I
Speaker 1: aspired to do, he said. Once I get finished with
Speaker 1: this program, I would have made ex amount of dollars,
Speaker 1: he said. If I do not make it into the
Speaker 1: NBA or decided not to go overseas, he said, I
Speaker 1: can take the money that they offered for me to
Speaker 1: go to college. When I graduate from college, i'll be
Speaker 1: twenty three years old. I'll still be young, and I
Speaker 1: could pursue the career for the major that I decided
Speaker 1: to major. And that was the thing that said, Okay,
Speaker 1: go for it. Thank you down so George girl. Every
Speaker 1: ote player will earn a six figure salary with a
Speaker 1: guaranteed minimum salary of at least a hundred thousand per year,
Speaker 1: plus bonuses and shares of equity and overtime. In addition,
Speaker 1: players will participate in revenue from use of their name,
Speaker 1: image and likeness through sales of custom jerseys, trading cards,
Speaker 1: video games, and in f t s. It's all very exciting,
Speaker 1: it seems surreal. That's all. No further questions. This is
Speaker 1: from what it seems to be one of the safest
Speaker 1: and easiest dice rolls on setting using your gifts to
Speaker 1: set a future for yourself as quickly as possible, as
Speaker 1: the Great Omar Little said in the Why Even if
Speaker 1: I miss, I can't miss you know, it seems like
Speaker 1: he's got a good village around him. Keep them skeezers
Speaker 1: away from him, and check his d M from time
Speaker 1: to time. I'm gonna make sure that boy got make
Speaker 1: sure he got a box of corn, the whole thing
Speaker 1: of condo, two suitcases for respect. Question on on your
Speaker 1: way out of the go here, I got one question.
Speaker 1: We talked about the sacrifice that parents. Mate, tell us
Speaker 1: real quick, whole interview. Where have you been? Where are
Speaker 1: you at right now? I'm driving to Atlanta to see
Speaker 1: him play this weekend. That's what I'm talking about. That's
Speaker 1: that sacrifice. The whole interview. You heard that sacrifice right
Speaker 1: there to be a parent like it. I hope that
Speaker 1: you're able as he gets older and gets out of
Speaker 1: your hair a little more. I hope that you're able
Speaker 1: to use that time to pursue all of the things
Speaker 1: that you set to the side to make sure that
Speaker 1: his career was straight. God, bless you. Thank you, and
Speaker 1: I mean thank you and thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: Bye bye. A hundred thousand and you get a piece
Speaker 1: of your likeness, and you know they're gonna throw them
Speaker 1: in a video game sooner or later. This is the future. Well,
Speaker 1: if I'm not to get the money so that if
Speaker 1: they don't go to the league or something where that
Speaker 1: happened to him or whatever, the fact that they get
Speaker 1: that hundred grand at least go to school if something
Speaker 1: doesn't work out, that is amazing to me. That's just
Speaker 1: that's a nice that's a nice deal. I was just
Speaker 1: gonna say, she's an assistant principle, so this wasn't something
Speaker 1: that she didn't completely think through. That educational aspect was
Speaker 1: a baseline for her. We were talking a little bit
Speaker 1: before we all joined each other, but that is a
Speaker 1: baseline for her. It's extreme link important for her and
Speaker 1: for him. So this wasn't just some Willie nearly decision.
Speaker 1: It's the best way I can put it. After the break,
Speaker 1: we'll wrap up this basketball episode with an esteemed wonderful
Speaker 1: wonderful ESPN journalists UH and writer Stoop Jackson Jackson, Uh
Speaker 1: and of course the harmon Arado a k A run
Speaker 1: Yeah Jackson not Jackson Jackson. You know what the pastors
Speaker 1: with the juicy Mountain Jackson. It's John Fair. We'll be
Speaker 1: right back. Job Fair, were back in this thing. Ye
Speaker 1: Basketball week. We're exploring the world of different ways you
Speaker 1: can make a little money in basketball and ship like that.
Speaker 1: You know, I would have played, but I was right
Speaker 1: off the court by older gang members who had school
Speaker 1: wants to settle. So uh, the aggressiveness of the sport
Speaker 1: turned me off. We turn our attentions now. It's part
Speaker 1: of the program where we bring our black people white
Speaker 1: people ologies on to help you all be able to
Speaker 1: break the ice with co workers of a different race
Speaker 1: by presenting stories and topics and the things you can
Speaker 1: chit chat about. He comes to us from parts unknown
Speaker 1: in Middle Tennessee. But if you ever want to see
Speaker 1: him in three D, just swing by the Boat Hotel
Speaker 1: and he will appear. His mama named in Narado. We
Speaker 1: called him Rode for a short ride, but we fucking hoops. Um.
Speaker 1: I want to say that I earlier you said that
Speaker 1: you would run off the basketball court by gag numbers
Speaker 1: with a score to settle, and you know that happens.
Speaker 1: You know, Gangs to Disciples shout out to I g
Speaker 1: D from from the West Side. Yeah, so, yeah, it happened.
Speaker 1: I myself had to do the same thing in college,
Speaker 1: went four or four brothers and and interrupted the basketball.
Speaker 1: Gave me the gym because the nigger was out there
Speaker 1: who told me money? And I didn't had time to wait.
Speaker 1: They give me the run rap about three weeks walmped
Speaker 1: into the gym with a blanket mile in my mouth
Speaker 1: while right on to the court wrapt the ball. It
Speaker 1: was like, hey, I leave to talk with this, making
Speaker 1: somebody better call the time. I believe every minute, every
Speaker 1: minute of this, I believe, totally believe. Yeah it happened.
Speaker 1: How much money? Right? It was twined office. It wasn't
Speaker 1: the money, it was the PRINCIPI was the principle. It
Speaker 1: wasn't the money. You mean wearing basketball shoes you had
Speaker 1: on lugs growing up on the court with seeds. That's
Speaker 1: that's why I don't like pick up games. It's too
Speaker 1: much just toss. It's too many men trying to prove
Speaker 1: their men to people that don't matter. I ain't got
Speaker 1: time for this ship. I'm going to the bank day.
Speaker 1: That's why I love baseball. Let's kick it off, rock
Speaker 1: which way you want. We're gonna start with white people,
Speaker 1: white people. What you want to be talking about in
Speaker 1: basketball US right now to your black people is uh
Speaker 1: famer NBA superstar at Griffterdarred Williams will be making his
Speaker 1: professional boxing debut, but I fight it on the undercard
Speaker 1: of the Jake Paul versus Tommy Fury fight against former
Speaker 1: NFL star Frank Gore Cior it's a very weird a
Speaker 1: story running back, running back from the U. Frank Goren
Speaker 1: so running a running back versus shooter point guard. That's
Speaker 1: right the point, Frank Gore is gonna beat the Dunk's
Speaker 1: the thing. It may sound like Frank Gore is going
Speaker 1: to beat the ship out of Darren Williams, but apparently
Speaker 1: Darren Williams has spent the last ten years training in
Speaker 1: m m A and as part owner of the m
Speaker 1: M of their popular m M A Jim in Dallas, Texas,
Speaker 1: And apparently he was also trading for his m m
Speaker 1: A debut before the pandemic hit, So he might have
Speaker 1: a motherfucking chance. But Frank Boy, and we all know
Speaker 1: Frank Boy is an old school gais and he's been
Speaker 1: boxing since two thousand five. Apparently is part of his trading,
Speaker 1: so it's a weird sounding story, might be a good
Speaker 1: Damn five boxing is a tough one for me to
Speaker 1: watch because you know, if they do it well enough,
Speaker 1: long enough be inevitability, it's not. There ain't a lot
Speaker 1: of six he retired boxes. You get Sugar Ray Lennard
Speaker 1: and George Foreman. Yeah, because Tyson, I guess. But Tyson
Speaker 1: last I checked a couple of weeks ago, he was
Speaker 1: talking about smoking toad toad poison and going to the
Speaker 1: moon on the Ayahwaska. Well, I mean, I ain't no
Speaker 1: crazy to poison. I promise you it is the most organic,
Speaker 1: sustainable poison available, right. I know, we got Scoop Jackson
Speaker 1: waiting until let's go in and flip it up real
Speaker 1: quick ride. What can my black people bring up to
Speaker 1: their white friends about basketball? Bla be were the biggest
Speaker 1: news in white basketball right now? Is uh? Coach k
Speaker 1: is retiring at the end of this season. Duke's famous
Speaker 1: Mike Shashevski and uh he he has a grandson on
Speaker 1: the team who apparently doesn't want to make it any
Speaker 1: easier for Grandpops to walk away from the game. Uh.
Speaker 1: Mike Savoreino, grandson of Coach K uh, twenty years old.
Speaker 1: Was us recently arrested for the d w I with
Speaker 1: Duke's start freshman Paolo Banchero. Apparently Coach case Grandson was
Speaker 1: the one driving and he's only twenty years old. And
Speaker 1: the kicker is that they arrested Paolo also for aid
Speaker 1: and a betting d w I, which is something I've
Speaker 1: never heard of, but apparently if you can. They say
Speaker 1: that if you normally give your keys to somebody, you
Speaker 1: know it's under the influence that you're aiding the bed
Speaker 1: the d w I. So I guess they've gotta have
Speaker 1: to prove that to keep him in trouble. But right now,
Speaker 1: the big focus of Coach ex Grandson does he does
Speaker 1: Coach case Grandson places on the freshman. Yeah, and the
Speaker 1: kid that they the other kid is a beast. He's
Speaker 1: a beast. The podcast is Uncle Rods or Corner. You
Speaker 1: can get it wherever you get podcast. Right. We wish
Speaker 1: you were happy December. Chris. Let me tell you something
Speaker 1: real quick about j G. She loved. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you what she said. Jacqueline said, she loves the spirit
Speaker 1: of the season. She loves the food, the smell, the pine,
Speaker 1: the pine needles, the Christmas tree. She loves bacon, but
Speaker 1: she doesn't buy gifts. She didn't even make them buying gifts.
Speaker 1: I'm not making them. I'm not buying. She's very selfish.
Speaker 1: But she loved but she but she loves receiving them though,
Speaker 1: don't love it right, rod is always thank you so
Speaker 1: much for coming on the program. But appreciate you. Man.
Speaker 1: We're talking, yes, scamm of the week time j G
Speaker 1: who is on the line, And we currently have Robert
Speaker 1: Scoop Jackson and he holds the position as Senior Features
Speaker 1: writer and Executive producer for ESPN Features Unit and Sports Center,
Speaker 1: and is a contributor to many of their television programs,
Speaker 1: radio shows, digital platforms including The Undefeated, also magazines and films.
Speaker 1: And it's important to note he spent twelve years as
Speaker 1: a national columnist for ESPN dot com. He also holds
Speaker 1: position as Content and Copyright clem right, tell it all
Speaker 1: though there's one more thing. There's one more thing, one
Speaker 1: more thing you're missing. Hold on, hold on, Roy, you
Speaker 1: know there's one more thing you missed. I let Scoop
Speaker 1: do it? Said, ain't you tell him? Tell him? Where
Speaker 1: did you go? Scoop? Did you did you did you
Speaker 1: not a small which was you've got to you know
Speaker 1: when you drovel up on your black HBCU, you know
Speaker 1: you got which one please get? Because I know we
Speaker 1: got a family duty here too, so you know you
Speaker 1: gotta respect. So I got the undergrad from Xavier University
Speaker 1: in New Orleans and got the grand piece from Howard
Speaker 1: University in d C. Right right right, a curiosity because
Speaker 1: I don't know what the scoop stand for. Um, I
Speaker 1: say it's either ice cream or dogshit, whichever way you
Speaker 1: want to go. Not in real talk. It was given
Speaker 1: to me at birth because I was born literally the
Speaker 1: day after JFK was assassinated and my uncle, my mother's brother,
Speaker 1: made a joke to my father, who was a newspaper
Speaker 1: reporter in Chicago at the time. He said, there you
Speaker 1: having a song going school Kennedy getting killed. So they
Speaker 1: gave me that name birth certificates in hand at first.
Speaker 1: So I've been I've been ice cream with dogship my
Speaker 1: whole life. So what are some of the pitfalls that
Speaker 1: young basketball players make at any level, being a a
Speaker 1: U or semi pro, overseas college, whatever. What are some
Speaker 1: of the pitfalls that keep them from crossing over into
Speaker 1: the NBA. Well, the first is not developing a work
Speaker 1: ethic that it takes to sustain a career inside the NBA. Uh.
Speaker 1: The NBA, like a lot of other professions, is based
Speaker 1: on like a pyramid where it gets smaller and smaller.
Speaker 1: The how you go with the people at the top
Speaker 1: of that they are literally the best of the best
Speaker 1: in the world. They have no idea what it is
Speaker 1: like and what it takes to get to the top
Speaker 1: of the top. We're living in the generation where we
Speaker 1: have somewhat stunted young athletes by continually showing them the
Speaker 1: end results and not showing them the work that it
Speaker 1: takes to get there and sustain that. So when they
Speaker 1: are the you know when when they're all like an
Speaker 1: ESPN list of the top thirty high school basketball players.
Speaker 1: So they are in college and they see theirselves like
Speaker 1: in Yahoo's mock draft and maybe getting in the first round.
Speaker 1: They think that is automatic and they're good and where
Speaker 1: their skills are at right now are gonna be good
Speaker 1: enough to get them to the next stage And they might,
Speaker 1: but get to the next stays and staying there a
Speaker 1: two different things. Because if you are a seventeen and
Speaker 1: eighteen years old, and you don't have a work ethic
Speaker 1: that is going to match with these cats and the
Speaker 1: NBA doing it's too late. I've been reading you, following
Speaker 1: you for a very long time. Where you're at XXL,
Speaker 1: where you as Slam, and when you were a Slam,
Speaker 1: you really had a unique look at the at the
Speaker 1: underage basketball market. For lack of better world, Like, it
Speaker 1: was one thing to look at the college game, but
Speaker 1: that high school game when I was coming up, were
Speaker 1: talking around. High school game had a lot of money
Speaker 1: in it. But now apparently it's not the high school
Speaker 1: game anymore. It's the eighth grade. Yeah, I mean, but
Speaker 1: but really it has to be because the way it
Speaker 1: goes right now, everybody is seeking to find and get
Speaker 1: their hands on what's next. And if you got first
Speaker 1: deals on what's next, thing, you have a advantage over
Speaker 1: everybody else. Alright, who's next for Lebron And we're not
Speaker 1: gonna wait for that person to be a sophomore a freshman.
Speaker 1: We're gonna try to get dads and deals on that
Speaker 1: cat earlier. And now you just looking at colleges. So
Speaker 1: you look, if we can if we can introduce this
Speaker 1: kid to our college program. We may be able to
Speaker 1: grab that kid and one thing. When we're dealing, especially
Speaker 1: with us as black folks, we have a sense of
Speaker 1: loyalty that most other races across the world don't have.
Speaker 1: We stay true to where we come from more than anybody.
Speaker 1: And if we don't redeem to sell out. But I
Speaker 1: don't care where you're from. Hey man, these people had
Speaker 1: me when nobody else had me. That same thought process
Speaker 1: attaches itself to what we're talking about right now. So
Speaker 1: when you are an eighth grader and the you know,
Speaker 1: University of Missouri, you know he starts whatever sending you gifts.
Speaker 1: Assistant coach comes there, they show up at your games,
Speaker 1: whatever they can do inside the n C double A
Speaker 1: laws to let them know that they got their eye
Speaker 1: on you. When it comes time for you to choose
Speaker 1: a school, that loyalty kicks it. Like, hey, Missouri was
Speaker 1: here watching me before anybody else was. I'm gonna you know,
Speaker 1: they've been down with me since they want for all
Speaker 1: the on new they will down with me. And if
Speaker 1: you can get that foot in to that player, it's
Speaker 1: all good. So that's the reason that happened. That's d
Speaker 1: that's I don't like that, that's that's I get it.
Speaker 1: But let's let's not just choose the sports. All types
Speaker 1: of companies and agencies, in various professionals do the exact
Speaker 1: same thing. You don't think Hollywood is trying to look
Speaker 1: to see who's the next young you know, person, who's
Speaker 1: gonna who's gonna run Disney. Disney as a whole network
Speaker 1: about finding kids under the age of ten and who's
Speaker 1: gonna be next. You don't think of Silicon Valley that
Speaker 1: anyone from Google. You don't to whoever name him Apple.
Speaker 1: You don't think you're tapping in the high school kids.
Speaker 1: You don't think they're tapping in the Steam programs to
Speaker 1: find out who the young brains are. You don't think that.
Speaker 1: You don't think Berkeley School of Music in Boston is
Speaker 1: trying to travel around the country to find out who
Speaker 1: that next cellist is. Who do you know, who that
Speaker 1: next reader a writer of music is. You don't think
Speaker 1: ad agencies across the world are looking at young talent
Speaker 1: in some of these high schools that have difts in
Speaker 1: writing that can do. Something is happening all over. So
Speaker 1: let's not just you know, peg sports as the shady
Speaker 1: ones that are doing Is it happens all over? Okay?
Speaker 1: I have two things. One is more streamlined and straight
Speaker 1: with regards to what you're talking about about grooming the
Speaker 1: next generation of cello players, the next generation of basketball,
Speaker 1: football player athletes, or whatever you exail in. You are
Speaker 1: a male writer of a certain caliber. Who are you
Speaker 1: grooming or who are you reading that you're most interested
Speaker 1: in and seeing them do something great as well. I'm
Speaker 1: not one of those brothers that functions from um a
Speaker 1: box in situation. I I really literally function with an
Speaker 1: open door policy in half of thirty years. So there's
Speaker 1: always some body somebody's that I have always been there
Speaker 1: and continued to be there and grooming and mentoring, and
Speaker 1: when they did, you know, really I sold. I don't
Speaker 1: sit on anybody's board of directors. I'm not a member
Speaker 1: of anybody's this, that and the other. I don't I'm
Speaker 1: not a member of the N A b J. I
Speaker 1: don't focution like that. I function really every day on
Speaker 1: the streets. And when I see you on the streets,
Speaker 1: if I see you at your high school, and if
Speaker 1: I see you in the game, I see your groocery stuff.
Speaker 1: I see you at the club to you the boy,
Speaker 1: if I see you, it doesn't make a difference. I would,
Speaker 1: I would, I would. I would actually say j G.
Speaker 1: Just to kind of back him up real quick. I
Speaker 1: have the honor of saying that I've known Scoop for
Speaker 1: a long time and uh, anytime I've ever needed help professionally,
Speaker 1: even when I was going through stuff with Bleep, um,
Speaker 1: you know he was. He was somebody that I turned
Speaker 1: to and uh and spoke with um and he always
Speaker 1: give me real advice with one of the brothers that
Speaker 1: you can get my phone number album you don't have
Speaker 1: to call me ahead of time and say you gave
Speaker 1: me somebody else. I'm not that dude. I understand how
Speaker 1: we roll as a people, and I understand the um
Speaker 1: the responsibility I have as a brother who has you know,
Speaker 1: worked consistently uh and pretty hard to you know, be
Speaker 1: be in a position that I'm in, And I understand
Speaker 1: that the same work ethic that we were talking about
Speaker 1: these players need to have coming in and the same
Speaker 1: work ethic that I have. And that's the one thing
Speaker 1: that should not be held back from anybody of color
Speaker 1: in this country, especially in this game of media, especially
Speaker 1: in this game, which is probably in my mind still
Speaker 1: remains the most racist industry we have in this country,
Speaker 1: and that's including politics and police departments. Two things for me. One,
Speaker 1: I think we didn't have enough time to really get
Speaker 1: into journalistically a lot of the ins and outs of
Speaker 1: your journey through all of these different sports. But take
Speaker 1: us back to your time. Were you ever a beat
Speaker 1: writer for any team? And I have never had to
Speaker 1: go through that journey, and that's something that is still
Speaker 1: problematic for other individuals, especially where I'm at right now ESPN.
Speaker 1: My background is so unique to everybody else, a lot
Speaker 1: of other people in the business, but especially at the
Speaker 1: place I'm out of ESPN. I'm like that playground legend
Speaker 1: who was lucky enough to make it to the league.
Speaker 1: That's really what it balls down to, right right, I'm right,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm kind of like the step my loop now.
Speaker 1: It was a situation I ran into with Um another
Speaker 1: the legendary writer that that happens to be ESPN Um
Speaker 1: at one time we were. It was during the Bulls.
Speaker 1: The second three people UM in the press room and
Speaker 1: everybody that's there during the finals, they all like leave
Speaker 1: and they're rushed and their all in the press room
Speaker 1: like they're trying to get their stories out and they
Speaker 1: have you know, they're on the deadlines that are trying
Speaker 1: to get making sure their stories master the inches, or
Speaker 1: they're getting their work out all day and you know,
Speaker 1: their deadlines either one or midnight or whatever. They're all
Speaker 1: in crunch mode. I'm sitting in the press room just chilling.
Speaker 1: I'm watching because at the time I'm writing for Slam Magazine.
Speaker 1: I'm editor Slam Magazine. Our deadline it's it's it's it's
Speaker 1: a monthly magazine. You know, we come out every six weeks.
Speaker 1: My deadlines are locked. And this writer said to me,
Speaker 1: basically in kind of really shady way, that, man, you
Speaker 1: know what, that's you know, you're lucky. And he said
Speaker 1: in a way that you know, I almost don't respect
Speaker 1: you for standing and not have to do with everybody
Speaker 1: else is doing, and said that I'm lucky that I
Speaker 1: have to be forced to write the deadlines that they're on.
Speaker 1: And my response to him was this, I said, you
Speaker 1: know what, man, you can write your column or your
Speaker 1: story and foul it and tomorrow and you know people
Speaker 1: who can't read it. You can write a craft story
Speaker 1: and that newspaper you write for nothing's gonna happen. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be fine. And you could cover up for some
Speaker 1: bullshit that you wrote today in two days, you can
Speaker 1: cover that for the next you know what, you can
Speaker 1: follow the next day whatever, that's fine. I have an
Speaker 1: entire magazine to hold down. If I sunk up, the
Speaker 1: entire magazine goes down, that's it. And yeah, I'm my
Speaker 1: dead lines in every six weeks. But for every seven
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty words that you're writing four times a week,
Speaker 1: I'm writing thirty five to four thousand words four times
Speaker 1: because I got four stories in every issue that we do.
Speaker 1: So respect my gangster. For eleven years I worked to
Speaker 1: Slam magazine, and basically I it was on me to
Speaker 1: make sure that magazine function. Same thing with Double X L.
Speaker 1: It was on me to make sure these things function.
Speaker 1: So just because the lane is a little different, don't
Speaker 1: disrespect it. So I've had to had that fight my
Speaker 1: entire career, fighting up against that. I can tell J G.
Speaker 1: He still want to slap the ship out of here.
Speaker 1: No no no no no no no no no no
Speaker 1: no no no no, because because he he was like,
Speaker 1: you know what, I never looked at it that way,
Speaker 1: and it came immediately. He's like, Damn, you're right, I
Speaker 1: never looked at it that way. Damn, that's good. That's love.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll get you out of here. Good. This this,
Speaker 1: this whole segment is called scam of the Week. And
Speaker 1: you know, I know at some point in your pre
Speaker 1: journalistic endeavors you worked somewhere. And I ain't saying that
Speaker 1: you stole or that you was running this hustle, but
Speaker 1: if you ever seen a hustle ran, we would love
Speaker 1: for you to share one with us that hopefully the
Speaker 1: legal statue of limitations has passed on. Please don't contest
Speaker 1: anything problem. I'm gonna tell you too real quick. The
Speaker 1: first both of them came ESPN two. I give me
Speaker 1: the credit because they gave a hustling, so it's all good.
Speaker 1: They told me one time that they wanted me to
Speaker 1: do a story on the New York Nets because they
Speaker 1: were doing this issue for ESPN, the magazine called basically
Speaker 1: or what If issue, like the craziest thing, What the
Speaker 1: what We're doing? Then issue on the craziest thing in
Speaker 1: sports that can happen? What if they happened? And they
Speaker 1: wanted me to do what if the New Jersey Nets
Speaker 1: win the championship. I was like, okay, that's fine, I
Speaker 1: can do that because at the time I forgot probably
Speaker 1: I think it wasn't happening Van Juan Afilm. I think
Speaker 1: Kenya was got wils on that squad. Anyway, you have
Speaker 1: to understand it was a reach. But that was the
Speaker 1: whole concept of the issue, is to take extreme things
Speaker 1: and write or what if about them. Come to find out,
Speaker 1: there never was an issue based on that. It wasn't
Speaker 1: a theme issue. They just did a story on the
Speaker 1: Net and then ran my piece as a sideball with me.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking the netship here right, here's making work. This
Speaker 1: is what Stephen A had his show. Quite frankly, Stephen
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, oh no, you gotta come on the
Speaker 1: show and talk about that. I'm like, so if you
Speaker 1: have me on the show, man, I have never done
Speaker 1: that much stuttering. I mean, luckily, this is pre social media,
Speaker 1: so you didn't get saltastu flavored. Now you're talking about you.
Speaker 1: Now you're talking about some gags and stuff like really
Speaker 1: that was one the other one and I probably gonna
Speaker 1: get toughle for this. But when I first came over there.
Speaker 1: They the first assignment they gave me was Lebron James.
Speaker 1: They're like, all right, school, he needs you to go,
Speaker 1: you know, do a story on Lebron James l Cleveland
Speaker 1: this time. And I had a very good relationship with
Speaker 1: Lebron the time he was we were Slam magazine and
Speaker 1: you know, he was part of our whole whatever. And
Speaker 1: they knew I had a really really good relationship with him,
Speaker 1: and they knew I worked on this first Nike campaign.
Speaker 1: They knew I was in with him Rich Randy Maverick.
Speaker 1: You know I was you know, I was, I was,
Speaker 1: you know, ball headed step So they had me in
Speaker 1: the family and es you knew that. So my the
Speaker 1: minute I got to ESPN, that's the first assignm of
Speaker 1: the game. Hey, we wanted to do a story on
Speaker 1: Lebron James for the magazine. I'm like, all right, cool.
Speaker 1: So I get to Cleveland, man, and I go all
Speaker 1: up with Lebron's Hey, what's going on? Family? You know,
Speaker 1: you know, left Slam over ESPN and you know you
Speaker 1: wanna be do a story and he's like, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't mess with ESPN line. What do you mean?
Speaker 1: You message his pin. He said, you don't know. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know, he tells me. He
Speaker 1: goes down to tell me how for years one they
Speaker 1: they had a writer secretly in Cleveland's locker room for
Speaker 1: an entire year writing a book about him that he
Speaker 1: did not know about, nor did the Cleveland Cavaliers until
Speaker 1: he got to day they were like, why is this
Speaker 1: dude here every day? And it was all it was
Speaker 1: a whole season, and he had been there and he
Speaker 1: wasn't a beat writer for like the plane Dealer. No,
Speaker 1: he was just there. And then they finally found out
Speaker 1: that he was secretly there through ESPN to write a
Speaker 1: book on it. Once that got discovered and he got tossed,
Speaker 1: Lebron stopped doing interviews with ESPN, so ESPN got mad
Speaker 1: and apparently, according to him, said something fouled about his mother.
Speaker 1: You can't do that, That's what he was like, I'm done,
Speaker 1: Like I'm done done. I was upset because I'm like,
Speaker 1: look now, I spont to be working with ESPN. Now,
Speaker 1: the least you could have done what was told me?
Speaker 1: What I was walking into. It's like, b when you
Speaker 1: bring me, you know, bring you in trying to masside
Speaker 1: this situation. Keep inside. They didn't say anything to me
Speaker 1: and had you know, and had me walking in Lebron
Speaker 1: like I hate to say it, asked out and burning
Speaker 1: the bridge with someone that you had reported because he thinking,
Speaker 1: you know, the beef and now you're coming in here
Speaker 1: trying to be the nigger whisperer. Hey man, Master told
Speaker 1: me to come check on you and see what's going on. Look,
Speaker 1: that's the one job you never you never, you never
Speaker 1: really see advertise for it. But that's the realest job
Speaker 1: in journalism is being a nigger whisper. That's just the
Speaker 1: realest job out there. They will send you to talk
Speaker 1: to somebody black just because you're black and talk a
Speaker 1: little bit of slang like you gotta talk a whole
Speaker 1: lot of slang. You just need to talk enough to
Speaker 1: confuse your white and they will send you. I ended
Speaker 1: up covering the end one team because they were too
Speaker 1: scared to go into bury fire. So wait a minute, school,
Speaker 1: what happened? Because nothing happened. I didn't do it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but when did you go back to the office and say, hey,
Speaker 1: how did that play as it did? There was nothing
Speaker 1: to play out. I'm not doing it yall should have
Speaker 1: Lebron's not talking and y'all should have told me what
Speaker 1: I was walking into. It's real, it's really simple, you know.
Speaker 1: It's just out of respect. But it wasn't that much
Speaker 1: because they wanted up doing it. They tried to do
Speaker 1: it to me again. But here, but here's the beauty
Speaker 1: and this and this is something because this is a
Speaker 1: job fair and then there are people that would get
Speaker 1: something like this. After the second time it happened, and
Speaker 1: the second time happened, after the next thing, I went
Speaker 1: to the president of the company and told him. I said, look,
Speaker 1: here's the deal. Here's the deal. I'm never writing for
Speaker 1: the magazine ever period. And once I explained it to
Speaker 1: it and broke it down to it, he said, you
Speaker 1: know what I get it in my contract with ESPN
Speaker 1: is I am paid to do a certain amount of
Speaker 1: feature stories for the magazine. He's like, don't worry about it.
Speaker 1: Way that you don't ever have to write for the
Speaker 1: magazine again. He even admitted that was wrong. M lottle key,
Speaker 1: what you're talking about a mental health ship, because that
Speaker 1: will drive you fucking crazy. You do three of them
Speaker 1: bullshit stories and the good news skip. We we we
Speaker 1: love what you did. What's your name, Skip Scoop whatever? Anyway, nigger,
Speaker 1: I want you to write a story about why the
Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars will win the next eight Super Bowls? Still
Speaker 1: do that? How do people who don't have the depth
Speaker 1: of resume like you? What can they lean on if
Speaker 1: they're dealing with that same type of microaggression type nonsense
Speaker 1: in their job. Bill yourself are foundation of self worth
Speaker 1: before you get to the top of the food chain.
Speaker 1: And what you're talking about, it goes down to not
Speaker 1: necessarily being seasoned, but understanding that as a young person,
Speaker 1: always try to function from a position of strength, not
Speaker 1: fake strength, real strength, and that strength has to come
Speaker 1: in your value and value and not the lies you
Speaker 1: tell yourself about what you're gonna become, but the values
Speaker 1: of what you've done. There's always other outlets, but it's
Speaker 1: on you to have that self worth, You to build
Speaker 1: up a value system within yourself so that when it
Speaker 1: does take a position of going left, that you're not
Speaker 1: the one whose integrity doesn't walk out the door when
Speaker 1: they do. Bars Bars, I'm it was an editor double x.
Speaker 1: One last question you may mention of this and this
Speaker 1: is me going backwards, that there's so many kids and
Speaker 1: students today that they have no work ethic, and I
Speaker 1: think it aligns with something that Roy also talked about.
Speaker 1: There's no one there to teach them those things. So
Speaker 1: any suggestions on where they can go to glean, glean
Speaker 1: and ILL use ESPN as a classic example of this.
Speaker 1: And I'll give you a few credit for this a
Speaker 1: little bit. But any any black individual that you see,
Speaker 1: or any person of color, I expetch you that you
Speaker 1: see working the ESPN, go back and look to see
Speaker 1: that track record before they got there. Okay, that's it, yo.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna see somebody come to ESPN and get
Speaker 1: to that top of that food chain with out years
Speaker 1: and years and years of work to get there. Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't have to show them. And you work at
Speaker 1: and you go back and look at Mike will Bar
Speaker 1: and you go back and look at Jamal Hill before
Speaker 1: she left. You go back and look at Maria Taylor.
Speaker 1: You go back and look at El Duncan. You go
Speaker 1: back and look at Butmonti Jones. You go back and
Speaker 1: look at you know, Mike Willbon. You know, I can
Speaker 1: go down the line at every person of color there.
Speaker 1: Look at that background before they got to ESPN, and
Speaker 1: that's your work ethic right there, and it can't be
Speaker 1: like a fake like I think you have to have
Speaker 1: something there to let you know that I'm able to
Speaker 1: do this. All right. We gotta let you go, Scoop,
Speaker 1: because it's too much church. We already did. We did
Speaker 1: to church episodes last month. We can't have no more
Speaker 1: church episodes up in here. Man. Nice to meet you too, Joel.
Speaker 1: I feel sorry for you putting up with these two,
Speaker 1: but you know, yo whole separate conversation. I can send
Speaker 1: you the text message chains. Oh my gosh, if you
Speaker 1: supposed to be delete notes first of all, Scoop, I
Speaker 1: kept them all right, Trip, I see you, Trip, I
Speaker 1: see you. Just google the name Scoop Jackson and go
Speaker 1: down a wonderful, wonderful rabbit hole of observations and analysis
Speaker 1: of the mundane all the way up to the profound brother.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for coming on the job. There
Speaker 1: are that's the show man. We had a good time.
Speaker 1: Tong Fasket probably explored the careers. We did what we
Speaker 1: came to do. We don't always get to do that
Speaker 1: on the show. But I feel like we're not get out.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much to Kmis Parker, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Um to Mamma Kimberly and her son Jay. Wishing nothing
Speaker 1: that goes to good people that overtime basketball cook. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: big shout out to overtime. I don't know, but we
Speaker 1: might looking to it, Jacqueline Stoptor. We need to discuss this.
Speaker 1: We need to discuss this because they're about to be
Speaker 1: on the rise, especially if they are already thinking about
Speaker 1: selling n f T s. That's a very very cool
Speaker 1: to thinking operation there. Russ job Fair is a product
Speaker 1: of our heart radio commence Central and South Parking Trusty productions. Um,
Speaker 1: that's a strong possibility by building on fire. So I
Speaker 1: just have to wrap this up. Do you smell smoke?
Speaker 1: Smell smoke big time. I haven't heard an alarm yet though.
Speaker 1: All right, well we're gonna let you go. J G.
Speaker 1: I'm not interested in. Um, you're being risking by the
Speaker 1: fire department live on the speed. Yeah, I can't even
Speaker 1: get to you. You kind of short's fire departing. They're
Speaker 1: tall out. We're going to call them then let me
Speaker 1: find out, Jacqueline, gonna be fighting left and right on
Speaker 1: the on the fire department group, no fire, so I
Speaker 1: gotta go. This has been a special preview of Roy's
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