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Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Slum. I'm fifteen years old and I know

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Speaker 1: the NBA. Today's guest really needs no introduction. He's one

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Speaker 1: of the most famous faces in the NBA, a multiple

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Speaker 1: time All Star, respected by everyone in the league, and

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Speaker 1: now a member of a my Golden State Warriors. Today

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Speaker 1: we're talking to the point God, Chris Park. Okay, Chris,

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Speaker 1: So we're sitting here at UCLA for your Club sixty one.

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Speaker 1: Can you let us know a little bit about what

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Speaker 1: that really is.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, A Club sixty one is a leadership program that

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Speaker 2: I started and then name sixty one comes from my

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Speaker 2: late grandfather, and it's been really cool. I try to

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Speaker 2: bring a group of kids from every city that I've

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Speaker 2: played in, which is a lot now over my NBA career,

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Speaker 2: and I bring a number of kids here to LA

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Speaker 2: and over the course of three days we do all

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Speaker 2: different types of things. Community service, We talk like at night,

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Speaker 2: we have real conversations about life and just allow them

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Speaker 2: to express themselves. We do financial literacy, taking them to Lockmow,

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Speaker 2: just doing things and trying to give him a head

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Speaker 2: start on different things that they may need.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure that is life changing because I know this

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Speaker 1: podcast for me is too, so anything with you life changing.

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Speaker 1: So I like to start off. You know, I'm fifteen

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Speaker 1: years old, and sort of the thing about Sloan knows

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Speaker 1: is that I have a different perspective, right, I'm a

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Speaker 1: fifteen year old girl, which is not probably the normal

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Speaker 1: person that's usually interviewing you.

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Speaker 2: I'm guessing no, I mean, I got a fourteen year

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Speaker 2: old son. I'm sure he's.

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Speaker 1: They're interviewing you most. But so I want to know

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Speaker 1: about you when you were fourteen? What was your personality like?

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Speaker 2: Man? Fourteen, So I would have been going to my

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Speaker 2: freshman year high school. Man, I just came off being

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Speaker 2: a class president in eighth grade, but then going to

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Speaker 2: the ninth grade, everybody they knew me in school, the

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Speaker 2: CJ's little brother. I got an older brother. So I

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Speaker 2: was starting high school trying to find myself and trying

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Speaker 2: to find myself as a basketball player. I played JV

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Speaker 2: basketball for two years as a JV I mean as

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Speaker 2: a freshman as sophomore. So I was just trying to

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Speaker 1: And then at fifteen years old, what were you like

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Speaker 1: as a basketball player? Like you said, you know you

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Speaker 1: were on JV. I read somewhere that you were five eight?

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Speaker 1: Is that? Is that true?

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Speaker 2: Probably on a good day, Yeah, exactly exactly. It's funny.

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Speaker 2: I was short. I always say I was vertically challenged

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Speaker 2: my whole life, and so I just sort of had

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Speaker 2: to try to figure it out. I played football too, yes, right,

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Speaker 2: so that's where a lot of the physicality came from.

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Speaker 2: But I don't know. I was a after school counselor

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Speaker 2: at a YMCA. You know, I was working at a job,

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Speaker 2: and so I don't know, just hanging out with my friends,

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Speaker 2: playing at the YMCA and trying not to get in trouble.

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Speaker 1: So then, what was it like that moment where you

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Speaker 1: realized like you were going to be a generational talent?

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you first and foremost.

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Speaker 1: That was commenting question, right.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. You know, I was telling the kids today,

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Speaker 2: I was talking to him. I was hoping as a

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Speaker 2: kid that I could play in the NBA and the NFL. Right, wow,

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Speaker 2: I used to dream, you know. It wasn't until I

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Speaker 1: Like bo Jackson, see look at you. That's what this

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Speaker 1: is called slow notes like the commercial boat.

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Speaker 2: Did not know that? Did not know that? But that's

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Speaker 2: don't learn something new every day exactly. And what's crazy

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Speaker 2: about it is as a kid, I didn't know. I

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Speaker 2: didn't pay attention to the fact that football and basketball

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Speaker 2: were like the same time. Yes, you know, and I'm

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Speaker 2: so glad nobody ever burst that bubble for me, you

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Speaker 2: know what I mean, and just allowed me to have

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Speaker 2: that dream and thinking that I could do both, but

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Speaker 2: that that was my goal to playing the NBA in

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Speaker 2: the NFL.

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Speaker 1: I feel like we need to see you out there

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Speaker 1: in the NFL, like is cool. I wish there was

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Speaker 1: like a celebrity game. I want to see you out there.

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Speaker 2: I'm cool. No, I play quarterback. Get me the red

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Speaker 1: Who is your like NFL player comparison?

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Speaker 2: My player comparison? I don't know. I was a huge msman.

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Speaker 2: I used to love Deon Sanders, right, because when I

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Speaker 2: played football, I played both sides, right, I played quarterback,

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Speaker 2: I played running back, I played cornerback. I played all

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Speaker 1: I love that. So then as a basketball player, though,

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Speaker 1: which NBA player did you sort of emulate your game

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Speaker 2: Fifteen when I was fifteen. I don't know if I emulated,

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Speaker 2: but the person. It's funny. At that age, I watched

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Speaker 2: mj even though you try. But Alan Iverson, Hey, that

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Speaker 2: going to say, once upon a time, I had braids. Man,

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Speaker 2: I used to wear a sleeve any and everything Alan

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Speaker 2: Everson was doing was what I wanted to do.

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Speaker 1: And so pre the New Orleans era, were you a

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Pre uh, I like the Hornets, but I was

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Speaker 2: just Michael Jordan's Yeah, anything Michael Jordans. I'm born and

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Speaker 2: raised in North Carolina. He's from North Carolina. Whatever Michael

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Speaker 1: So there was no when you were drafted to New Orleans,

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Speaker 1: there was no connection there like, oh, this team used

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Speaker 2: Way now it was a connection. It was a connection

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Speaker 2: because Charlotte is an hour away from where I grew up, right,

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Speaker 2: so I didn't really get to go to games like that.

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Speaker 2: First of all, we couldn't afford it. But one of

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Speaker 2: the memories that I do have, so Muggsy Bogues played

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Speaker 2: Muggsy fan. And when I got he'd go, He'd go

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Speaker 2: when it come to that. And Muggsy when I committed

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Speaker 2: you know what I mean. Like and just I remember

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Speaker 2: of my fondest memories too of all the Hornets was

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Speaker 2: and I got to go, got to go to a

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Speaker 1: That's so cool. And you know at West Fourth High School,

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Speaker 1: you know, I know that. And just said, AAU, did

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Speaker 1: you ever have any run ins with any other NBA players?

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Speaker 2: A You A lot of them, A lot of them.

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Speaker 2: So I played AAU my whole life, eleven and under

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Speaker 2: all the way to seventeen and Under didn't win the

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Speaker 2: the championship. But me and Bron had known each other

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Speaker 2: probably since we was like fourteen, so we were fourteen.

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Speaker 2: His team all Ohio Shooting Stars. They they finished second

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Speaker 1: That's where it's at, California.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, whatever, huh. They wanted elevens, twelve, thirteen's fourteenth.

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Speaker 2: But then too, when I was sixteen, I played against Andrew.

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Speaker 1: Do they have any players the California team?

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Speaker 1: It's funny to look back at that because it probably

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Speaker 2: They used to have a dude named Shane Harrison who

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Speaker 2: went to Modern Day. They had a point guard I

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Speaker 2: think named Travonte Nelson's crazy. I remember that because they

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Speaker 2: But I played against Shannon Brown, I played against Andre Gadala.

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Speaker 2: Me and Drake played against each other. He used to

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Speaker 2: play for the Illinois Warriors. I was on a sixteen

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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, that's ironic.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I mean you just know each other for

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Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. And speaking of that, like, I know

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Speaker 1: little Chris, your son fourteen, I'm fifteen, you know, probably

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Speaker 1: playing AIAU. Now, what differences do you see sort of

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Speaker 1: social media then? And obviously you probably didn't have that

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Speaker 2: It's a lot different. It's a lot different. My son

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Speaker 2: plays out here with Russ's AU team with Why Not,

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Speaker 2: and I have an AAU program that's on the East

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Speaker 1: And so which is an incredible alumni.

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Speaker 2: Man, we blessed and fortunate, my parents, everybody. We've been

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Speaker 2: doing this for a long time, and you know, it's

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Speaker 2: just different now. Obviously social media kids now everybody shows

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Speaker 1: So now I want to move on to your NBA career.

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Speaker 1: We've talked about you when you were fifteen and it's

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Speaker 1: a good age. Good things happen now, but I feel

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Speaker 1: like better things have happened to you now. So what

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Speaker 1: do you think is the most memorable play of your career?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Man, the most memorable play of my career. That's tough,

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Speaker 1: I asked tough questions.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't I don't know. I don't know the

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Speaker 2: most memorable play. I'm trying to think, and I'm usually

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Speaker 2: really good at these things. But it's probably one of

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Speaker 2: have been my first bucket in Oklahoma against the Sacramento Kings,

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Speaker 2: you know what I mean, So two thousand and five,

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Speaker 2: a little while ago, you know, But yeah, that's probably

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that must have been so weird playing in Oklahoma

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Speaker 1: when you're a team based out of New Orleans, Like,

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Speaker 1: I can't imagine how that is, especially when you're thrown

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Speaker 1: and then you're totally relocated, Like, I can't imagine that.

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Speaker 2: It's wow, it's wild. And I think too, the reason

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Speaker 2: right before Katrina hit. Yeah, you know, so that was

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Speaker 2: something that's always embraced me with that city, Yeah for sure.

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Speaker 1: And talking about most memorable place, what is the most

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Speaker 2: The most memorable assist? Uh, yeah, that one's probably gonna

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Speaker 2: have to be to to DeAndre Jordan's you know what

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Speaker 2: I'm Yeah, he caught a dunk. Uh. It was crazy

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Speaker 2: and that's my guy now, Brandon night h it's sick.

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Speaker 2: I was on the right wing and that's me and

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Speaker 2: DJ used to work on that in practice, is when

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Speaker 2: the team would down the ball screen and he would

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Speaker 2: He just run to the rim for a lot.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: You can find that clip anywhere.

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Speaker 1: to another segment that I like to call takes harder

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Speaker 1: You know exactly what I'm saying. I know, I know

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Speaker 2: Best dressed me?

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Speaker 1: That's sweet? Okay, Now give someone else somebody like talk

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Speaker 2: Else, somebody else that addresses that shay of course, I.

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Speaker 1: Really interesting? Okay, I've never heard that answer before.

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Speaker 2: How do you think you? No no chance?

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Speaker 1: Because I was gonna like propose an idea that you

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Speaker 2: Just be the president. Okay, you do that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the goal after this. Hopefully this works out

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Speaker 2: but especially his sister Maya, who is like my whole heart,

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Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. Like she is the most

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Speaker 2: beautiful girl you'll ever see in your life, with the

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Speaker 2: kindness and beautiful, most beautiful heart. And to see him

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Speaker 2: in those moments with her, with his family is what

442
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Speaker 2: made I think me and book so tight.

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Speaker 1: Not the basketball, Okay, So now DeAndre Jordan.

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Speaker 2: DJ DJ big fellow. Man, that's that's my guy right there.

445
00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:55,000
Speaker 2: We played together for six years and we still talk

446
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Speaker 2: on the regular. We had a book party for my

447
00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:01,199
Speaker 2: book I just released the other day at Eigers and

448
00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:03,240
Speaker 2: DJ was there, you know what I mean. When he

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Speaker 2: won a championship, man, I was emotional for him. I

450
00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:09,119
Speaker 2: talked to him that night and the next morning. It

451
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Speaker 2: was just so happy for him, you know what I mean,

452
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Speaker 2: because he deserves it. So DJ just one of the funniest,

453
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Speaker 2: kindest human beings you ever see.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, and then lastly Braun.

455
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Speaker 2: And Braun man, you know, blood couldn't make us closer,

456
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Speaker 2: you know what I mean. Life, life happens, things happen

457
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Speaker 2: here and there and whatnot. But I think to see

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Speaker 2: the positive impact that he's had on my life, my

459
00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:40,400
Speaker 2: family's life, everybody around me, and the same with him, like, well,

460
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Speaker 2: we'll be family for the rest of our lives.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're a very good compliment giver. So now I

462
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Speaker 1: want to ask, what is the best compliment you've ever

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Speaker 1: received from another NBA player.

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Speaker 2: I think the thing that I'm probably most proud of

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Speaker 2: is the fact that we're the only sports league that

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Speaker 2: has health insurance. Right, and it sounds small or people

467
00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:03,840
Speaker 2: will be like, what, why does that matters? Because there's

468
00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:06,680
Speaker 2: a lot of great players who came before us, right,

469
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Speaker 2: and to be the only professional sports league that has

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Speaker 2: health insurance for past players, whether it be Tiny Archibald,

471
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Speaker 2: doctor j all these guys who paved the way for us.

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Speaker 2: At this point my career, I'll be playing on the

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Speaker 2: road and I'm warming up getting ready for a game,

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Speaker 2: and I'm just locked in on the game and a

475
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Speaker 2: former player will come up and tap me and they'd

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Speaker 2: be like, Chris, thanks, and I'll be like, what's going on.

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Speaker 2: They'd be like for the health insurance, you know, because

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Speaker 2: back in the day when the league first started, these

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Speaker 2: guys didn't have access to all the health and all

480
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Speaker 2: the doctors and all that. So I think that would

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Speaker 2: be the.

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Speaker 1: Number one thing for sure. And what about this Warriors team?

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Speaker 1: Are you most excited.

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Speaker 2: For a couple of things? Probably the one thing is

485
00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:51,480
Speaker 2: probably playing with guys who are like so cerebral, right

486
00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:54,639
Speaker 2: who you know, they so smart in the way that

487
00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:56,440
Speaker 2: they move and the way that they know each other,

488
00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:58,840
Speaker 2: and so just trying to blend into that, and then

489
00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:02,960
Speaker 2: also being in the Chase Center and being on the

490
00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:06,600
Speaker 2: good side of when they go on and runs and

491
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Speaker 2: making autumn threes, you know what I mean. And it's

492
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Speaker 2: gonna be very interesting. It's gonna be an adjustment for

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Speaker 2: probably not only me, but for all the fans too.

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Speaker 2: So I can't wait.

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Speaker 1: I'm excited to see how that looks. It feels like

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Speaker 1: we're all just anxiously waiting to see what that looks like.

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Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, so you've been in the league for

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Speaker 1: a good amount of times. You're heading into your nineteenth season,

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Speaker 1: which is, you know, more than I've been alive. So

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Speaker 1: that's funny. But which players development and growth over your

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Speaker 1: career has impressed.

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Speaker 2: You the most over my career.

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Speaker 1: In the span of those nineteen years, You know, it

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Speaker 1: could be a guy that was a rookie last year.

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Speaker 2: Or someone from your first year, right, Man, I probably

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Speaker 2: say Shae. I probably say Shae because I'm a little

507
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Speaker 2: biased too, because Shae is seriously like my brother, and.

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Speaker 1: It's Kinn because he's my husband.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, listen, my boy Shade just got engaged too.

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Speaker 2: So what's wild about Shae is I seen him in

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Speaker 2: Vegas at Summer League when he had got traded to

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Speaker 2: go to OKAC from the Clippers, and I seen him

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Speaker 2: and I adapted him up and I was like, man,

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Speaker 2: it's gonna be a great situation for you. You know,

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Speaker 2: I'm happy for you. Boom. Maybe like five six days later,

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Speaker 2: I got traded to Okay See too with him. Yeah,

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00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:32,720
Speaker 2: And so that year and Oka See was it was

518
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:35,240
Speaker 2: probably one of the most important years in my career

519
00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:38,160
Speaker 2: and I got a chance to sort of reinvent myself.

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00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:43,080
Speaker 2: But Shae, Bays Schroeder, Steven Adams, all them guys on

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Speaker 2: that team sort of helped me like fall back in

522
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Speaker 2: love with the game now that I fell out of

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00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:52,080
Speaker 2: love with it, but just seeing Shae and being my

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Speaker 2: teammate and now seeing how his game is just going

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Speaker 2: to a whole nother level, I'd be so happy for him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, He's special for sure. Okay. So, as you know,

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00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:06,159
Speaker 1: the name of my podcast is Slow Knows and Sloan

528
00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:08,399
Speaker 1: knows your game? But do you? So I'm going to

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Speaker 1: ask you some trivia about yourself and let's see. Let's

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Speaker 1: see how you do, Chris, Okay.

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Speaker 2: Let's see.

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Speaker 1: What was your college GPA?

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Speaker 2: Oh man, my college GPA. I was an academic All America.

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Speaker 1: I know that, right.

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00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:23,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, so let's say three six.

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Speaker 1: Three point two.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that was one of them teachers.

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00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:33,080
Speaker 1: But how many steals did you average in your senior

539
00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:34,040
Speaker 1: year of high school?

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Speaker 2: My senior year of high school, probably like eight six six.

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Speaker 2: You're very confident in yourself, yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so you were third on the NBA list for

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Speaker 1: most assists. What is that number?

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Speaker 2: Third on the list for most assists? Oh? That rhymes?

545
00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:54,000
Speaker 2: Ok So, how many assists do I have in my career? Yes,

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Speaker 2: I'm asking you, dang ten thousand, five hundred.

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Speaker 1: Eleven, five hundred and one. Oh and this isn't trivia.

548
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:08,200
Speaker 1: But now that you're a warrior, I mean, how much

549
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 1: do you think that that is going to increase? Because

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00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:13,040
Speaker 1: it's basically a cheap code. Now, I mean, you just

551
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:15,000
Speaker 1: passed the ball, and like, let's be real, it's gonna go.

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00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 2: Man. I don't know. I ain't even thought about that

553
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:19,800
Speaker 2: aspect of it yet. I just as soon as you

554
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:20,919
Speaker 2: asked me about it some time.

555
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:21,679
Speaker 1: I'm just opening up.

556
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:26,080
Speaker 2: See John Stockton pot right into my egg because he

557
00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:28,080
Speaker 2: got the record for fifteen thousand or something.

558
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:30,800
Speaker 1: So you think you can get that as a warrior.

559
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:34,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, I gotta play about five more years to catch him.

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Speaker 1: You better I want to see that, Okay. So in

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00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:38,840
Speaker 1: two thousand and six, you were one vote away from

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Speaker 1: winning unanimous Rookie of the Year.

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00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:41,359
Speaker 2: Oh, I know who did.

564
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Speaker 1: Who is that one player that was voted other than you?

565
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:47,320
Speaker 2: Oh? It was d Will But it was the beat

566
00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:50,160
Speaker 2: rider in Utah. So you know who that guy is exactly.

567
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 2: I know exactly who it was.

568
00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:53,840
Speaker 1: He haunts you in your head, not at all.

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00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:58,200
Speaker 2: He was just look d Will my man all day long.

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00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:01,399
Speaker 2: But yeah, the guy in Utah he voted.

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Speaker 1: I don't like him. During your senior year of high school,

572
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:08,680
Speaker 1: you let your school West Forsyth to what record.

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00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:17,080
Speaker 2: My senior year? Yes, ooh, I'm really guessing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, very impressible.

575
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 2: Obviously lost the game. We'll go to the state championship.

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00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:24,639
Speaker 2: So what do we lose? Three games?

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Speaker 1: Yes, okay, three games? And how many games did you win?

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00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:29,800
Speaker 2: Oh? Back then?

579
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:36,480
Speaker 1: Thirty twenty seven seven on Chris okay close sort of?

580
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:39,600
Speaker 1: How many regular season games have you played over the

581
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Speaker 1: course of your career? Mm?

582
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Speaker 2: Hm oh Man eleven Nred No.

583
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Speaker 1: One thousand, two hundred and fourteen.

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Speaker 2: Twelve hundred, twelve hundred and fourteen. A lot of games.

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Speaker 1: There we go. Thanks for listen. For more on CP

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Speaker 1: three and to watch all the fun we had behind

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