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He 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:37.360 played college football Virginia, one of my favorite school. He 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:39.920 was signed by the Vikings as an undrafted free agent, 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:44.480 and he's uh also has one of the coolest social 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:50.160 media names, Who's dad, Dude? Please welcome to Money Making 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:56.160 Conversation Anthony Harrit's hid Anthony. Where you come up with 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:58.800 Who's that dude? I love that name. Man. When you 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:02.320 get that name that's from the Lama mata um, you know, 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:04.600 I just decided to put a little spin on it 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:08.560 um and step instead of spelling it w h oh, 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:11.600 I decided to go you know with how how mama 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:14.640 mat of spells? Who's um? And kind of correlate that 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:18.120 to my my university as well. So that's part of branding. 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:21.079 Just your your branding guy, your marketing guy, what's your 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:23.959 what's your degree? Backround. I'm just trying to do it. 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:26.400 I try to be a little bit catchy, you know. Um, 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:29.280 you know, coming into college, you know, as a freshman, 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:32.280 it was all about you know, coming and improving myself 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:35.440 and and one thing I wanted to you know, kind 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:37.639 of set right away was um, you know, I kind 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:40.359 of wanted people to to grab people's attention and kind 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:44.000 of make them ask them stuff shelves, who's that dude? So? Um, 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:46.119 some people think it's kind of more one of those 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:49.320 things where I'm being a little bit confident and and 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:52.480 it's like a rhetorical question, but um, it was intended 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:55.400 to be like a genuine question of making a statement 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:57.920 and having people don't wonder who's that dude? Right right 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:00.640 right right? So when you say are you bothered by that? 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:05.240 When people say that, uh, do work cocky or overconfident? 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:07.560 You know, I see your photos. You do you you 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.760 have a model style about you, which I like. You know, 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:13.400 so does that bother you? Know? You pose and you 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:15.200 know you're you're making that hit. You know what I'm 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:17.560 saying on the streets? Are you what's what's your future 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:20.800 in that area? No? No, it doesn't. It doesn't bother 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:23.080 me too much. UM Like, now, understand a lot of 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:26.040 people are going to have a different perspective or different 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:29.360 understanding of different things. So um, you know, when they 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:32.119 when they tend to ask me the question or um, 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:33.959 you know, I tend to county let them know, or 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:37.040 or if they're trying to suggest, um that you know, 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:39.480 maybe I might be meaning in that way. I just 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:41.840 kind of explaining it and it's not it's not intended 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:44.200 to do that way at all. I don't get sentified 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:46.920 at all. Awesome, Well, it's great, we're gonna talk about 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:49.000 your business. But it's that time of the year. We 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:52.760 just finished the NFL Combine, which I think is blowing up. 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:55.440 You know, I see all the celebrities that are tweeting 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:58.520 various athletes who are running for theise and lifting weights 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:01.520 and doing shuttle drills. Were you able to participate in 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:06.000 the NFL Combine when you came out. No, I got invited. 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:08.840 Um at the time, I was recovering from a shoulder 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:12.240 in hand slver I ha got in December. UM, so 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:15.400 me I had the privilege of attending the combine, but 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:18.800 unfortunately I wasn't able to actually participate in any of 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:21.839 the drills. Just I was able to, you know, visually 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:24.279 experience that as well as just the interaction with the 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:27.279 coaches and the claim you got to walk around your underwear, 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:29.680 get the measurements and talk to the coaches. That's what 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:36.760 you got to do FASNA. So so that's part of 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:40.320 the process. Now, I really wanted to talk about your 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:42.680 your your NFL experience a little bit because you were 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:45.520 undrafted free agent, which you mean you come into camp 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:47.960 with no guarantees at least if you get drafted. As 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:50.320 a general feeling they want to keep their draft picks 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:53.400 when you come in as an undrafted free agent. What 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:55.679 was running through? First of all, when the draft draft 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:58.000 you went through the process of sitting through all these 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:00.200 rounds of draft. Did you make a big deal, did 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:03.080 you have a draft party or you just wasn't you say, 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:04.760 I don't know why I'm gonna draft, I'm just lay 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:07.400 low or find out what happens. How did you approach 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:11.679 your draft date? UM? For me, it was I actually 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:14.800 had a little family gathering. UM. You know. For for me, 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:16.960 it was it was kind of, uh, one of those 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:20.600 things where I was expected to be taken, um, you know, 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:23.720 in the second to third round. UM. But for me, 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:28.400 a guy coming out UM, never really experienced it. UM. 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:31.320 I've always kind of you know, took the you know, um, 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:35.320 the little low, subtle route. UM. So I had a 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:37.320 few people over. Didn't really make too much of a 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:40.039 bill big deal abody. You know. Growing up as a kid, 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:43.040 I had to watch the NFL draft and UM, you 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:45.520 know you hear about the different mark drafts and and 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:48.480 where different players supposed to go, and it never quite 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:51.200 works out like that. So UM, for me, I had 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:54.640 kind of prepared myself for you know the unexpected, um, 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:56.880 which was anything could happened. So we had a few 0:05:56.920 --> 0:06:01.279 people over um ended up going undrafted it um. But 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:04.599 before the draft was over, um, you know, in the 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:07.599 last surroundings. So UM, I had a number of teams 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:10.880 call up UM and and at the time they either 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:13.279 said that they they were out of pick for the 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:16.839 for the draft that year or either UM, you know, 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:18.919 they were going to go in another direction with another 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:22.480 position with their last pick. UM, but they you know, 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:25.640 expressed that they had interest of um trying to sign 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.039 me to the roster, um for going in the camp. 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:30.800 So UM at that point, I was, I was, I 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:34.680 felt pretty good about getting the opportunity, and for me, 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:38.040 it was just about if I can get an opportunity that, UM, 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:40.039 I'll be able to show improve that you know, I 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:42.880 belong in the NFL. So that pretty much happened for 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:46.520 me going to the camp. My mindset was pretty much 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:48.600 that you know, whatever team I went to, that they 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:51.400 were going to steal UM. Whether they knew it or not, 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:55.719 UM don't matter. But yeah, yeah, it didn't really it 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:58.240 didn't really matter whether they knew it um or not. 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:01.280 If they that they would was getting still UM with 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:04.719 the undrafted player. But UM. That was kind of my 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:08.560 attitude going in was I'm gonna go in nobody's going 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:12.040 to really expect anything of me, UM, But once I 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:15.480 get healthy, UM, people are gonna, you know, they're they're 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:18.559 gonna have to take notice, UM just on my level 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:20.280 of play and just going out there and showing what 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:21.960 I can do on the still and it has been 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:23.800 the case. And they also say just note to my 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:26.400 viewers and my listeners and said, when you get late 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:28.920 in the draft like that, it's actually better to be 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:32.520 undrafted because you can actually negotiate a better deal for 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:35.360 yourself and you also can control the team you want 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:38.840 to go to. Is that not true? Yeah, yeah, you know, 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:42.000 UM part of the business side that you know that 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:44.480 they particularly say, you know, the first the first three 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:48.120 rounds are are guys who they really really want, UM 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:53.000 and and really expect to you know, make that final roster. UM. 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:56.280 But you know, the NFL, it's it's a very competitive 0:07:56.760 --> 0:08:00.400 work environment, very competitive businesses. UM that people who come 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:03.640 in and get drafted and UM, you know once the 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:07.160 season started, no longer with the team UM, just because 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:10.800 of the number of spots and just how competitive it is. UM. 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:13.240 But you know, the later rounds UM those guys that 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:16.240 to go in and get opportunity. But at the same time, 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:19.640 you know, being able to go in as a free agent, UM, 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:22.280 it does kind of the one advantages kind of controlling 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:25.440 what situation you go into. But you know, at that point, 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:27.360 you know, if you're if you're following the free agency, 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:30.640 UM category, then you're pretty much got to compete wherever 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:33.600 you go. Anyway, Yeah, the last two years, I'm a 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:36.960 big football fan. So you know, when you talk about 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:39.199 a talent like you, it's all about transition and what 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:41.200 do you do when you're not hitting somebody? What you 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:44.160 do when you're not playing football? And I'm assuming that 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:49.440 what you're doing opening this cold therapy facility and rich Virginia, Richmond, 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:52.560 Virginia is part of that transition and small business that 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:56.160 you're trying to create for yourself. Correct. Yeah, Yeah, it's 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:59.679 about you know, creating that opportunity, creating that platform, um 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.840 for you to be successful. And that's that's successful on 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:06.200 the field. Um, you have to you know, translate that 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:09.800 to off the field as well. So um, in season 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:13.440 and offseason, that stuff translates to from diet down to 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:17.120 recovery as well, you know, going into tough workouts and 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:19.640 being able to you know, finish up your day and 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:21.400 get your body ready to go to the next day. 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:24.320 That's just as important. So for me, um, you know, 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:26.560 I decided to you know, I used to cry od 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:31.280 therapy business, UM, and then once you know, using that 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:34.079 to help improve my recovery, I decided to join it 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:37.600 UM as far as business wise and expanding there. Okay, 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:40.000 let's let's break that down a little bit. Just to generally, UH, 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:43.599 it's CROYWD therapy sometimes you knowing this cold therapy is 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:46.720 a local and general use of low temperatures in medical therapy. 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:50.960 It's used to treat various type of tissue issues. Now, 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:54.840 I'm a regular guy, you know, would I would I 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:57.680 engage myself in this type of therapy? Just a regular 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:00.559 guy out there playing hoops to a guy who runs 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:03.000 like several miles a week. I know you're not just 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:06.120 You're not just attacking. Are you attacking just the everyday athlete? 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:07.839 Or they are they want to be athletes? Or the 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:11.480 high school athlete? Are they are there the semipro or 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:13.959 pro athletes? What do you what are you focusing on 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:17.560 with just a facility UM this it's just it's just 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:21.640 so you know, UM a wealth wealth fitness UM you 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:25.440 know approach. It's not just for the you know, the 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:29.640 professional athlete or the earthly day athlete that's going in UM. 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:32.160 This is something in the service that you know, can 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:37.720 UM be utilized by a large scale crowd. UM It 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:40.440 doesn't necessarily have to be recovery for fitness. It can 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:43.320 be recovery from injury. UM. And you know, you don't 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:46.560 have to be in sports and you know, to be 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:49.880 involved in an accident and and have some sort of injury. 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:52.360 So UM, I mean, we have people who come in 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:56.079 from getting car accidents, they're having back pain. UM. They 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:59.280 can hop in the machine and you know it pretty 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:02.880 much excuse it pretty much helps their body recover as 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:05.839 far as dropping their body down to a low temperature 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:08.920 UM causing the body to have it heat itself up 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:12.280 and that helps with blood circulation and you know, flushing 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:15.160 out that old damage tissue and that old damage blood 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:17.959 in that area and getting you know, fresh blood in 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:21.120 there so it can properly heal and heal faster. UM. 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:23.600 So we have people coming in not just in the 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:27.240 sports world, in the bisness world, but just from day 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:30.400 to day, whether it's injuries due to UM you know, 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:34.599 old UM, old activities, or whether it's just due to 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:38.000 age or they're just their body is and moving as well. 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:43.080 So the machine can help, UM promote mobility and relieve 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:46.319 some stiffness as well. So you're saying that, Okay, Risha, 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:49.960 look here brother, you're walking around like you're eight. Okay, 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:52.880 now come over here to my facility that I can 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:59.240 get you at least to sixty. So it's about therapy. 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:01.600 It's about there by daughter she played tennis. She was 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:03.719 a pro, and like I said, she was always doing 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:07.880 these massages. She was always, Uh, you're going through various therapy, 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:10.760 you know, because she was always putting stress on her body. 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:14.360 So and so it's just an athlete. She turned pro 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:18.080 and uh when she was. So with that being said, 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:20.320 how would I how would I? How would I have 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:24.800 incorporated this into her until her process of recovery or 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:29.360 ongoing weekly therapy. Yeah, you know, you can go a 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:31.960 number of ways about it. Um. Some people, you know, 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:34.880 they use it as a as a as a day start. 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:36.840 They're coming in the morning and they get in and 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:41.000 right away. Um. You know that circulation and it brings 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:44.040 you a lot more energy right away. Um. You know 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:47.760 that circulation throughout your body brings you enery to your limbs, um, 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:50.600 pushes oxygen to your brain. So it kind of gets 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:53.440 you going right away and gets you really alert. Um. 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:55.560 But you know with the joints and the muscles and 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:59.000 different things like that. Um, you know, with that extra 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:01.959 oxygen and blood, so rushing through there it allows some 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:05.439 more mobility. UM. So that's how it helps with recovery. 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:08.400 You know sometimes when you lift your sword, um, or 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:11.120 just from day to day, so you know, you have 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:14.120 a long day at work or you're sitting down a 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:16.920 lot um and you notice that your knees or your 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:19.480 ankles tend to get stiff on you. Um. If you 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:22.240 can come in and and and use to utilize that 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:25.160 in the morning, UM, that's something that can get you going. 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:30.000 I'm on the phone with Who's that Dude? That's the 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:33.520 starting safety the Minnesota Vikers, Athon Harris. When we come back, 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:35.280 I want to talk to him about my favorite restaurant 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:40.679 in Richmond, Croaker Spot. You go there, Anthony, come on that. 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:43.160 We're gonna talk about it. We're gonna talk about it 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:50.480 more money making conversations. I just for Sean mcgonal, I'm back. 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:54.280 You know, I've talked about man Who's that Dude as 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:56.760 a social media handle. At social media handle, I think 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:59.040 it's one of the coolest handles I've seen out there, 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:02.240 being a guy who about brand building, about marketing. Uh. 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:04.640 The way you can get it rolling is by having 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:07.600 stuffing the unique and who's that dude? Is very unique. 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:10.680 It's tied to the starting safety of the Minnesota Vikings. 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:16.400 Anthony Harris, who's based out of Richmond, Virginia. Correct, Okay, 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:18.840 before we even get rolling anymore. So, I have this 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:21.840 think on my on my website called rushaun Eats because 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:24.440 I'm a foodie and I travel all over this country. 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:27.640 Whenever I get to Richmond, I gotta stop by Croker's 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:31.840 Spot restaurant, one of my favorite restaurants in the country. Uh, 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:35.080 come on, Anthony, I know you go there, don't you. Yeah. Yeah, 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:39.080 I go to cokead Spot a good bit. I go 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:41.280 to croked Spot a good bit sometimes, you know, the 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:43.320 family sends me over there after a few runs to 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:46.160 pick up some things. Um, but it's not it's not 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:48.320 always easy getting over there and get what they wanted. 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:50.600 So it's a busy place. It's a busy place. My 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:52.960 favorite place. The best corn bread in the world. They 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:55.280 put that Carol Mail on top of that corn bread. 0:14:55.320 --> 0:15:02.360 Brother m Special Special Special. It's food restaurant, big portions, 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:05.840 that's what we like. Big portions. Uh, great foods. Like 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:07.440 you said, it is the pact place. But I just 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:10.920 wanted to give Croker's a shout out because the fact 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:13.880 that they've fed me many many times uh in that 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:16.320 restaurant over the years, and every time I get over there, 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:18.640 I always tell me I got my producer. She lives 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:22.040 in Richmond and periodically Anton I have a ship beat 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:26.240 some corn break. So let's get back to you man 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:28.400 in pro football? How long is pro football gonna last 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:31.640 for you? My friend? I'm not sure. I mean my now, 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:34.280 my body is feeling good. I'm still excited to getting 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:37.280 up every day going into work. Um, I tell a 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:39.040 lot of people, it doesn't even feel like work, you know. 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:41.480 It's just it's getting up and going in to do 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:44.120 something that I love to do. So as long as 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:45.880 I'm able to go out there and perform at a 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:48.360 high level and I'm I'm feeling excited about it, I'm 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:52.280 going to continue to do it now. Now, quick question, 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:55.040 did you finish your degree at University of Virginia or 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:58.960 where we're with that? Yeah, you know, I graduated in 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:02.040 uh three and a half years UM with the sociology degree. 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:05.320 So I finished up over therever Gion just before entering 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:08.520 the draft. It's amazing. I mean, people come on my 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:12.360 show with a sociology degree, my minor with sociology. My 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:16.200 degrees in mathematics and sociology change my life. Man. I 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:19.320 always tell people that because people understand that, you know, 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:21.880 you when you when you go through high school, you 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:24.320 go through life, you learned that they're just telling you 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:27.160 what they want to tell you. When you take sociology, 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:30.120 you really it really breaks down what information you don't 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:32.880 know and how people interact. Tell me about just just 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:36.320 tell everybody that the importance of what sociology and didn't 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:38.680 getting that degree has played in your life because it 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:42.720 changed my life. Yeah, UM, one thing to do. One 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:45.280 thing it did. Um. You know, it allowed me to 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:48.520 step back and and get an understanding of you know, 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:50.800 how we as people and how it and how a 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:55.760 society um essentially how we evolved, UM, how we continue 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:59.160 to grow, how we continue to change. UM. And then 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:02.320 it allowed me to understand, uh that everybody has a 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:06.000 different view UM, and that's okay, UM, you know, that's 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:08.399 that's just part of life that everybody is not gonna agree. 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:11.399 Everybody is not gonna always you know, be on the 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:14.840 same page. So once you can understand that, UM, it 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:18.200 allows you to you know, avoid so many problems and 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:21.760 and move forward on different issues and different topics and 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:25.560 to continue to be able to always progress, um in 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:27.800 a direction that you want to go based off of 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:30.960 you know, the things that are going on around you, UM, 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:34.560 the things that you can control, UM, and the things 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:38.040 that have happened in the past. And in their sociology course, 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:41.760 did they have African American studies in that in that platform? 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:44.520 Yes they did. I'm gonna tell you something, UM, this 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:47.439 is honest question or the statement is that when I 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:50.600 realized what I didn't know and what the school system 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:53.600 that taught me, I always really brought to tears about 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:57.160 the information that was died me. That you know, when 0:17:57.200 --> 0:17:59.600 you when you go through or high school, they tell 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:04.080 you that that uh use broad over, you know, and 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:07.119 then also you were freed, and then you jump to 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:09.760 the gym Crow Laws, then you jumped to Brown Brown 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:12.879 Roses Board of Education. Then you jump to the I 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:15.640 have a dream speech, and then you're done. You're done 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:18.800 with black history in the school system except when they 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:21.919 celebrate during Black History Month. If you have the chance, 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:24.280 anybody black and white, if you have a chance to 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:27.320 take sociology. Of course, I always recommend people to do that. 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:31.280 It changed my perspective, like I several very successful what 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:32.960 I do in life. But it's also tied to the 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:35.119 fact that I have a very open mind when I 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:38.399 look at people. I have a clear understanding that life 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:41.000 is UH is about the opportunity and what you take. 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:44.720 Race does play a role, UH or you're born does 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:47.160 play a role. How much money you have does play 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:49.960 a role. But if you are willing to put forth 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:53.840 an opportunity and set all that aside, set all that 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:57.680 and ignore it and realize it looks I'm gonna die black, 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:00.920 I'm gonna die I might even in born poor doesn't 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:03.520 mean I have to live a poor life or die 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:06.480 poor life. And that's what sociology did for me, and 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:09.840 it made me really realize that that that the limits 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:12.400 that I put on myself can be self imposed. Do 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:16.240 not allow society to dictate to you who you should be, 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:20.280 based on your race, based on your economic growth, based 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:23.520 on the system that tells you or you should be. 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:25.639 And that's where they brought to me. And I'm so 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:28.640 proud whenever I speak to someone who who's been influenced 0:19:28.640 --> 0:19:31.879 by sociology, because I know, Anthony, you're a better person 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:34.600 because you not saying that people who don't take that degree, 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:36.960 but you have a better insight onto life because of 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:41.760 what sociology it brings to you. M hm. Now after 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:43.840 that little soapbox bone and let's get back to you. 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:47.639 Because I just, you know, I just I always like 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:49.840 to tell people that when I it's so many people 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:52.240 come on my show and it just always impacts me 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:55.920 so positively that I have to let people know that that. 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:58.119 I'm just gonna let you know anthem, because you you 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:00.360 have a certain insight, I want you to make sure 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:02.959 you share that and share those values. Make sure you 0:20:03.000 --> 0:20:06.040 mentor man because you have you've you've you've been you've 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:09.600 been blasted through education with a clean and unique understanding 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:12.040 how life really is. You know you can you can 0:20:12.080 --> 0:20:14.280 have a degree in engineer, you have degree in computer saying, 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:17.080 you have my daughters in gaming. But man, unless you 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:20.600 understand that that a lot of times we failed when 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:22.639 they all want to talk about Africana. That's why I 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:25.480 am African MARYA. A lot of people are fault racism 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:27.800 as a reason we fail so much. A lot of 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:30.440 times it's about how you present yourself. I always tell people, 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:33.400 decisions are made on your right and your left. People 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:35.240 look at the right, they looked at the left, or 0:20:35.320 --> 0:20:37.080 look in front of them make decision. That's how people 0:20:37.119 --> 0:20:40.160 make decisions. You never look behind you to make decisions. 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:42.680