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Speaker 1: I'm a big believer in having a mentor mentee relationship.

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Speaker 1: a lesson. Clutch is an acronym knowledge, longevity, understanding, trust, commitment,

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Speaker 1: or communication and honest. I was riding ones going home

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Speaker 1: one day in Cleveland when I was decided to start

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Speaker 1: about something that aligned with the sport and also something

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Speaker 1: about these things anyway, and you had to be clutching both.

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Speaker 1: There's clutch moments, there's a clutch gene and you don't

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Speaker 1: you need to clutch gene in life as well, and

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Speaker 1: so that's why it was named. So I may be biased,

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Speaker 1: but I do believe that the greatest moment and Clutch

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Speaker 1: sports history was on July one, other than when they

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Speaker 1: actually created the company. But do you guys remember that

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Speaker 1: one sentence press release from Clutch Sports Group, Essentially, Lebron

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Speaker 1: James has agreed to a four year, one D and

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Speaker 1: fifty four million dollar contract with the Los Angeles Lakers. Done,

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Speaker 1: no more, no fuss. That's how you get. I'm not

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Speaker 1: give you no more, no nothing. And I'm like, yo, Rich,

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Speaker 1: I mean, y'all just gonna drop a one sentence press

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Speaker 1: I think less is more? You know obviously he's we

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Speaker 1: did the decision and then we did the you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, less was more and it's very matter of fact,

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Speaker 1: and it was really fun because obviously, you know, you

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Speaker 1: it was it's gonna it's gonna hit different for you anyway. Um,

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Speaker 1: but look, you know, coming there, Lebron was really passionate

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Speaker 1: and the conversation that he had with Jennie has such

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Speaker 1: time and just let her know, like, look, I'm committed.

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Speaker 1: I'm committed, and the ultimate goal is to bring a

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Speaker 1: championship back to what I believe is one of the

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Speaker 1: best franchises our league has ever known. Obviously how Dr

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Speaker 1: Bus carried and how Jennie has carried it up since

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Speaker 1: her takeover of the organization or whatnot. But yeah, you

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Speaker 1: know those are those are really cool moments. So rich

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Speaker 1: has a lot of those cool moments, as he describes, right,

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Speaker 1: I'm a bit of a fan. I'm like a cool moment.

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Speaker 1: It's a little more than a cool moment, but I'll

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Speaker 1: let you have it, rich Um. But it's full circle.

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Speaker 1: This entire experience is full circle. He describes the time

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Speaker 1: kg A. I we're all giving him words of encouragement,

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Speaker 1: giving him wisdom, giving him game, And here he is

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Speaker 1: now doing the exact same thing. He said. He learned

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Speaker 1: success or peace. And you want to have both, don't you,

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Speaker 1: Which is why he is so honest with all of

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Speaker 1: his players. It has to be real if you look

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Speaker 1: at all the guys Anthony Draymond to John take Darius

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Speaker 1: you know both, Darius, you know, I mean, the list

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Speaker 1: goes on and on, the guys that that we that

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Speaker 1: we represent. In most cases percent of a time, we

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Speaker 1: do have a have a common ground to respect. We

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Speaker 1: There's no yes environment. You know, I don't. I don't

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Speaker 1: ever feel with anyone that we represent that I have

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Speaker 1: to lie to them about anything. And we know that

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Speaker 1: has not been the case previous years and current because

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Speaker 1: in most cases, if I don't tell you what you

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Speaker 1: want to hear. In my position now I'm walking on

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Speaker 1: extra us. I'm a walk with head ships. And by

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Speaker 1: the way, players, I don't rep I shoot a straight

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Speaker 1: because that's the only thing I know. I think Rich

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Speaker 1: Paul's greatest quality and his naked quality, is that he's wise.

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Speaker 1: And I think he learned that from his grandmother. He

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Speaker 1: talks about being a ten year old living with his grandmother.

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Speaker 1: Imagine all of the free jewelry she was given out,

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Speaker 1: just dropping gems day in and day out. It's whether

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Speaker 1: or not he received it clearly it landed on fertile soil.

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Speaker 1: So for that, I say respect. We all know a lot.

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Speaker 1: We all can read, we can all find out information.

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Speaker 1: We can talk to our mentors, we can we can

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Speaker 1: get whatever information we need. Now it's what we do

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Speaker 1: with that information, and that's why I applaud Rich Paul.

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Speaker 1: He was selling jerseys, authentic jerseys in two thousand and three,

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Speaker 1: a kid by the name of Lebron, James said, come

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Speaker 1: work in my inner circle because I think I need you.

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Speaker 1: I can trust you. And next thing you know, fast

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Speaker 1: forward to He couldn't have envisioned this, no one could.

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Speaker 1: But what he did know and what he relied on

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Speaker 1: was wisdom. Someone just asked me, what is this is

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Speaker 1: could be for me many things, but the quality of

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Speaker 1: having experience, knowledge and good judgment, the quality of being wise,

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Speaker 1: the sadness of an action, order decision with regard to

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Speaker 1: the application of experience, knowledge, and good judgment. In short,

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Speaker 1: what the hell you learned today? I hope you learned something.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to this edition of Naked with

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Speaker 1: Carrie Champion,