Speaker 1: My name is Jensen carp and I'm a professional comedy writer, producer, rapper,
Speaker 1: and former morning show DJ. But above all else, I'm
Speaker 1: a sports fan. And here we are almost a month
Speaker 1: into an unprecedented sports drout, and I want to be
Speaker 1: honest with you for a second, I'm extremely worried ESPN
Speaker 1: is playing old WrestleManias and NBA players competing in video games.
Speaker 1: We're scrapping the bottom of the barrel here because we're
Speaker 1: all just jonesing for sports. So it got me wondering
Speaker 1: if I feel as bad about it all, then how
Speaker 1: do the athletes feel? So that's what this podcast is
Speaker 1: all about. I'm talking to athletes and sports industry professionals
Speaker 1: to see what they're up to, how they're holding up,
Speaker 1: Are they still training, do they miss playing? Are they
Speaker 1: wearing a mask right now? Because honestly, even over the phone,
Speaker 1: we can't be too cautious anyway. This is the No
Speaker 1: Sports Report. One of the first players to be drafted
Speaker 1: straight from high school, Al Harrington's sixteen seasons in the
Speaker 1: NBA and played for seven different teams, the Pacers, the Hawks, Warriors, Nuggets, Magic, Wizards,
Speaker 1: and the Knicks. If you consider them a team, Harrington
Speaker 1: average thirteen and a half points and a little over
Speaker 1: five and a half rebounds per game, which are really
Speaker 1: impressive stats for a dude who had nagging knee injuries
Speaker 1: for over a decade. He also had a brief stint
Speaker 1: in China playing for the Sturgeons, which makes me want
Speaker 1: to know the team names they didn't go with. And
Speaker 1: he was a playing co captain of the Big Three
Speaker 1: Trilogy who not only won the league's debut season championship,
Speaker 1: they went undefeated. But since officially retiring last year, he's
Speaker 1: traded in the letters NBA for CBD building the Harrington Group,
Speaker 1: a cluster of medicinal marijuana businesses that includes Viola Extracts,
Speaker 1: Harrington Wellness that manufactures non psychoactive cannabinoid products, and butter Baby,
Speaker 1: which specializes in edibles and was my high school nickname.
Speaker 1: With Al's history in the league, his time in China,
Speaker 1: his new experience as a small business owner, and with
Speaker 1: the NBA just deciding to put drug testing on hold
Speaker 1: during the quarantine, I figure here now would be a
Speaker 1: great time to see what he's up to during this
Speaker 1: momentary stall. So here's my discussion with fellow Trader Joe's
Speaker 1: analyst Al Harrington on the No Sports report from This
Speaker 1: is Our to accept Press one. Al, how's it going, man,
Speaker 1: this is Jensen are going. I'm good man, Thanks so
Speaker 1: much for doing this problem. First off, I just wanted
Speaker 1: to to figure out where you are during the quarantine.
Speaker 1: I didn't know where exactly. You were sort of locked
Speaker 1: in these days, locked in Calabasas with my family. That's
Speaker 1: just for the record. I am in Woodland Hills. I
Speaker 1: grew up in Calabasas. I grew I even went to
Speaker 1: Calabasa's High school. So I know that our food pickings
Speaker 1: right now are slim, right right. Yeah, It's definitely been
Speaker 1: a challenge, but you know, we're stiging out a way
Speaker 1: to get through it all could be I'm sure, I agree.
Speaker 1: How are you guys passing time during this? Well, we
Speaker 1: have four kids or with a Maya she Tenda. Lay
Speaker 1: is eight, uh, little Al is four, and then my
Speaker 1: youngest two name is Awesome, he's too. You know. Obviously
Speaker 1: during the week they still have school work, right, so um,
Speaker 1: they do zoom calls with all their classmates and they
Speaker 1: do that Monday to Friday. You know, been doing that
Speaker 1: with them, and then we go outside and we exercise.
Speaker 1: So you know, one of my daughters play soccer, another
Speaker 1: one that's in the question, and the boys are just
Speaker 1: you know, they just got on the place, set in.
Speaker 1: Then we walked the dog in the evening or whatever.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of been my god, every day kind
Speaker 1: of schedule for the last month. Yeah, you're sticking to
Speaker 1: the home schooling rules much better than I probably would. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're definitely tough on my wife. She's a real m
Speaker 1: v P for sure. You know what I'm saying. I
Speaker 1: step in every once in a while. She's the one
Speaker 1: that does all the work, so I give her credit.
Speaker 1: But you know, we're getting through it, you know. I
Speaker 1: mean the kids that definitely will start crazy. They you know,
Speaker 1: whenever I decided I had to go to the grocery store,
Speaker 1: go to the bankers something they're always trying to tag
Speaker 1: a law is to get out the house. But uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we're figuring it out. Yeah, how are you
Speaker 1: finding supplies? I feel like we live very close to
Speaker 1: each other in the eight one eight. I don't know
Speaker 1: if we have the best scenario. I think a lot
Speaker 1: of rich white people have basically a panic purchased. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know what I mean, the only thing that's
Speaker 1: still know on shelves, which you know, to me is
Speaker 1: still as a little mind boggling. You know, there's no
Speaker 1: toilet tissue, and still no paper towels, and no cleaning supplies,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So I can understand like
Speaker 1: running out of food and stuff, but like how we
Speaker 1: running out of cleaning supplies. So I always think that
Speaker 1: I have a little bit of conspiracy theory, you know,
Speaker 1: within the way I feel about the way things are
Speaker 1: like unveiling or rolling out. But you know, I just
Speaker 1: don't understand how it's so hard to get alcohol and
Speaker 1: you know, different things like that back on the shelves.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. It doesn't make sense to me,
Speaker 1: But you know, we just gotta down to just keep
Speaker 1: you know, just try to stay safe, stay in the house.
Speaker 1: And I guess to be staying the house, you won't
Speaker 1: meet none of those supplies anyway. I guess. I know
Speaker 1: that Trader Joe's that's near our houses. I have seen
Speaker 1: people outside of their six foot distance in between them
Speaker 1: starting at like five am. Yeah, I've seen that too.
Speaker 1: So it's funny, like the route, So I go to Route,
Speaker 1: I go to Old Foods, also go to uh Juan
Speaker 1: as well. So believe it that not those three places.
Speaker 1: A lot of times when I go, I guess going
Speaker 1: during the right time of the day. I haven't really
Speaker 1: had to wait in any lines to go in, but
Speaker 1: I definitely see that trading Joe's there's always a line
Speaker 1: over there, that's for sure. Absolutely. So, you were drafted
Speaker 1: at eighteen years old, you spent sixteen seasons in the NBA,
Speaker 1: you played abroad, you played in the Big Three. You
Speaker 1: basically haven't stopped conditioning and training since you were eighteen
Speaker 1: years old. It's a kind of a crazy thing to
Speaker 1: look at. What does this lull do for you in
Speaker 1: that kind of regard. I don't know if you've ever
Speaker 1: had this many days in a row where you're not
Speaker 1: able to be physical and like a public gym or
Speaker 1: you know, scrimmaging against people. Yeah, it's tough, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean I've put down the basketball over the last
Speaker 1: twelve months where I have not been like actually playing.
Speaker 1: But obviously, you know, I wanted to take care of myself.
Speaker 1: I obviously do. Like thirty then it's to an hour
Speaker 1: cardio every day, sit ups, push ups, you know, when
Speaker 1: I get into a weight room and our left weights
Speaker 1: or whatever. But trying to stay active, it's definitely been difficult,
Speaker 1: just because usually some of my cardio is like hiking
Speaker 1: the trails and different things like that. So, you know,
Speaker 1: trying to be responsible. And you know, I decided to
Speaker 1: stay indoors. I have a couple of time bike so
Speaker 1: I usually ride back. I just wanted some little boxing
Speaker 1: things seen on Instagram last week. You know. The biggest
Speaker 1: thing is I don't want to, you know, come out
Speaker 1: of quarantine. You know, thirty towns overweight. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. That doesn't help anybody, right, So just trying
Speaker 1: to stay active, and you know, for me it's pretty easy,
Speaker 1: right because back to your point, you know I've been
Speaker 1: active before, way before eighteen, right before I got drafted,
Speaker 1: you know, as a youngster. Yeah, because if I were
Speaker 1: you after playing that much, like you said, probably since
Speaker 1: middle school you've been NonStop basketball in sports in general,
Speaker 1: I would have gained thirty in the last twelve months.
Speaker 1: Like I mean, I even in quarantine, I'm like, I
Speaker 1: have people been washing my jeans. There's so much tighter. Yeah, right, Well,
Speaker 1: It's funny because I haven't had no reading to pull
Speaker 1: on my gene, so I need to start probably going
Speaker 1: to test him out to make sure I haven't. I'm
Speaker 1: one of those guys I don't like getting on the scale.
Speaker 1: I just feel like the scale is always bad news.
Speaker 1: So I usually tell my way about the quotes that
Speaker 1: I could see. Absolutely I'm the exact same. I'm like,
Speaker 1: who's is someone drying my hoodies? There's no way, It's
Speaker 1: clearly my way. It's not easy finding players who have
Speaker 1: experienced playing in China and what it's like. When you
Speaker 1: heard of the virus first popping up in China, what
Speaker 1: did you think as someone who was a former resident
Speaker 1: who played a little bit there. Yeah, first thing I
Speaker 1: was thing is I hope the players that are there.
Speaker 1: You know, the Americans are trying to get home as
Speaker 1: soon as possible, not knowing that they was kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, running right into something even worse than what
Speaker 1: they was dealing with, right, So obviously just immediately just
Speaker 1: think about their welfare, their health and safety, because you know,
Speaker 1: I was there and when I first got Jack got
Speaker 1: food appointment, and I remember going to the hospital there
Speaker 1: and it knows nothing like the hospital. I'm We're used
Speaker 1: to hear in the United States, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So I could just imagine, you know, one of those guys,
Speaker 1: you know, we're infected and would have to spend some
Speaker 1: time in the hospital. You know, I definitely making sign
Speaker 1: So yeah, what what what is the difference in the
Speaker 1: hospitals every thing? Is it more chaotic? Is it just
Speaker 1: I mean obviously I didn't go into the high SEU
Speaker 1: or anything like that, but just the emergency room was
Speaker 1: just you know, just a big open space with just
Speaker 1: with tables all around, and they reminded me of like
Speaker 1: a training room like in the NBA or something like that,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm standing with. Just so you have
Speaker 1: people and they're coughing and doing whatever, and it's all
Speaker 1: kind of sitting in one room, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So just seeing that, and the doctor that saw me,
Speaker 1: I thought he was the janitor because he was outside
Speaker 1: mopping the floor and everything. And then when they whatever
Speaker 1: did they diagnosed that, he came in and put on
Speaker 1: the doctor coach. So it was just it was different,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And uh, like I said,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to be caught out the sick. Have
Speaker 1: you been able to talk to any of those guys
Speaker 1: like Stefan Marbury or because I've been, I mean I'm
Speaker 1: a super fan of his and I know he went
Speaker 1: out there to coach and stuff. I'm almost I don't
Speaker 1: think we're getting enough updates about those guys. Were they
Speaker 1: all able to come home? Do you know? Yeah? They
Speaker 1: were always become home. It's funny, I actually took the
Speaker 1: stuff from this morning. Yeah, he's back over there actually,
Speaker 1: so he came home and the first happening obviously, you know,
Speaker 1: because all his routes there, he knew exactly what was
Speaker 1: going on, and he was actually you know, wanting me
Speaker 1: and wanting anybody that would listening, like on their social
Speaker 1: saying that like coronavirus is a serious right, we need
Speaker 1: to start taking necessary precautions, you know what I'm saying
Speaker 1: to you know brace, you know, for the hit, you know,
Speaker 1: for the virus, and obviously no one listening then you know,
Speaker 1: obviously you know, our president of different people was all
Speaker 1: saying it was a hope. So nobody in the country
Speaker 1: took it serious. And then I looking at you know,
Speaker 1: how serioust say, thing is with people so many people
Speaker 1: losing lives and you know, the world actually coming to
Speaker 1: a stand still because of it. But he went back,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So you know, once they
Speaker 1: got it under control, he went back there. They quarantined him,
Speaker 1: they tested him, he was cleaning. Now he's got over
Speaker 1: there kind of living the normal lifestyle, you know, before
Speaker 1: Corona hit China so here now that they're more cases
Speaker 1: popping up or whatever in other parts of China. But
Speaker 1: I think where he is right now in Beijing or
Speaker 1: what I think, it's he's pretty safe. That's awesome. So
Speaker 1: what is your opinion with what happens next with the
Speaker 1: rest of the NBA season, Like obviously there's been a
Speaker 1: lot of talk about different situations with no fans or
Speaker 1: if the season gets canceled altogether, Like what would if
Speaker 1: you were still playing and active, and what would be
Speaker 1: your hope as a player for the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: And now it depends on where my team is at
Speaker 1: right you know. So obviously, if I'm one of the
Speaker 1: teams that you know, I think that we can win
Speaker 1: the championship, don't really have a legitimate chance, you probably
Speaker 1: want to get back out there. Binding me is necessary
Speaker 1: but I think that, you know, just knowing the rigors
Speaker 1: of the NBA and different things like that, I'm concerned.
Speaker 1: We're trying to, you know, have these guys take a
Speaker 1: six week, eight weeks, maybe twelve week hiatus when they're
Speaker 1: not allowed to go to the gym. And everybody's like,
Speaker 1: we only take twelve days and training camp to get
Speaker 1: you in ship. But they've been training all summer, training
Speaker 1: for four or five months. And I'm saying too, that's
Speaker 1: why training camp can keep getting cut short and shorter,
Speaker 1: because you know, teams are consident that the guys are
Speaker 1: doing that they started to do to take care and body,
Speaker 1: you know, in the off season, but right now, like
Speaker 1: gods are stuck in the house and they're doing you know,
Speaker 1: workouts in front of the TV, and they're rotting the
Speaker 1: bikes and many things like that, and you know, that's
Speaker 1: just not gonna cut it. So that was then, you know,
Speaker 1: I would just you just say, you kind of gott
Speaker 1: to chalk it up, man, and just try to prepare
Speaker 1: for next season. They want to believe that they can
Speaker 1: have a strong season for as you know, communities are
Speaker 1: experiencing these difficult times differently across the country. School closures,
Speaker 1: job disruptions, lack of paid sick leaf, and the coronavirus
Speaker 1: disproportionate impact on adults age sixty and older and low
Speaker 1: income families are all contributing to the demands placed on
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Speaker 1: this emergency. Right now, their greatest need is donations and
Speaker 1: support of local food banks. Please visit Feeding America dot
Speaker 1: org to learn more about their response efforts and how
Speaker 1: you can help. Since you are a former Nick I
Speaker 1: have to ask, it's such a mess. It almost feels
Speaker 1: like the coronavirus helped them this season with how much
Speaker 1: they were looking at, Like is that team salvageable? For
Speaker 1: how many seasons am I looking at as a sort
Speaker 1: of passive Knicks fan before I can start cheering in public?
Speaker 1: I mean, so I'm you know, so, I'm like you
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, so I'm a diehard Knicks fan,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna say next year. Yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: if I believe there's about fifteen years even when I
Speaker 1: was there, you know what I'm staying. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think they got they got different leadership. You know.
Speaker 1: I like the Sea Scout hiring. I think that that's
Speaker 1: going to give the team credibility from the standpoint of
Speaker 1: like making the team sexy and you know, getting the
Speaker 1: right people at the games and different things like that.
Speaker 1: Lean Rose obviously, you know, was definitely one of the
Speaker 1: better agents in the league. You know, great relationship guy.
Speaker 1: Think that he's a guy that can give the next
Speaker 1: perspective of you know why so many teams or watching
Speaker 1: many players was not women to come and sign there, right,
Speaker 1: And I think they's not, you know, hire a rockstar GM.
Speaker 1: You know, I wur hire Mark Jackson just like I
Speaker 1: just don't understand, like if they go this time without
Speaker 1: hiring him again, man, I just think that, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe it is true that Mark Jackson is getting black
Speaker 1: balls or something, because it's just you know, I just
Speaker 1: don't see no other coach out there that you know,
Speaker 1: could represent what New York is all about and you know,
Speaker 1: bring that that swagger, which I think what we're lacking,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like, you know, all these
Speaker 1: other guys they hired, the passage just didn't make sense,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. A couple of fits there.
Speaker 1: I like, I like to I like to sit there hiring,
Speaker 1: but you know, obviously you know, they just kept giving
Speaker 1: them a bullshit team to play with. Yeah, it's weird
Speaker 1: because I'm actually a die hard Clippers guy, so I
Speaker 1: know what it's like to have to hire around someone
Speaker 1: that's not allowing people to sign there. It's kind of
Speaker 1: like a weird situation. You can make it the best
Speaker 1: with different coaches, with Doc Rivers, whoever it is, But
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I wonder if it's
Speaker 1: that it has to change at the top top, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think don't I don't know. I may be wrong,
Speaker 1: but I don't think guys don't sign it because of Dolan,
Speaker 1: right because like I said, when I was there, unless
Speaker 1: you change a lot, like you never saw him, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. He was not in practice teams.
Speaker 1: He was never around to the point where it would
Speaker 1: have made me feel any type of way about him personally,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like, that's why when you
Speaker 1: get such a bad rap, I'm just like, damn, what
Speaker 1: is he really doing? Because I never got a chance
Speaker 1: to like really meet with him or talk to him
Speaker 1: like that. He's probably like band practice. Yeah, probably right,
Speaker 1: obviously hate him, Yeah, I don't know. It is what
Speaker 1: it is, but all means ship. It's his team, it's
Speaker 1: his right to do whatever he wants with it. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. It sucks because you know in
Speaker 1: New York is such a big market in you know,
Speaker 1: New York, l a serve market should always have very
Speaker 1: competitive teams, and just for some reason and York could
Speaker 1: not be able to do it consistently. Agreed, Well, something
Speaker 1: more positive and uplifting. Since retiring, you've built up this
Speaker 1: Harrington group. It is this amazingly impressive medical marijuana empire.
Speaker 1: It's like you you're cornering the markets, including an edible company.
Speaker 1: You even have a brick and mortar store. Now, I
Speaker 1: know you've had knee issues throughout your career. Where what
Speaker 1: role does like cannabis play in that pain? Management? Plays
Speaker 1: amazing role for me? You know what I'm saying for
Speaker 1: my quality of life. You know, I feel is you know,
Speaker 1: amazing because of the plant, because the cannabis, because I
Speaker 1: have access to it obviously. You know, I used the
Speaker 1: CVS and you know, the hand extract herrings, some wellness
Speaker 1: line and I have a product called Replay may mean
Speaker 1: on the BIOLA side, you know, being able to you know,
Speaker 1: consume different strains that I've realized I could testament and
Speaker 1: different things like that are good for me. And you
Speaker 1: know the way I recover after working out and you
Speaker 1: live my life on a daily basis. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying is allout need to be comfortable. And you know,
Speaker 1: I really feel like if I had access to these
Speaker 1: types of products towards the end of my career, I
Speaker 1: honously feel like I maybe could have played another season
Speaker 1: or two potentially. You know what I'm saying that that's
Speaker 1: what a lot of people seem to think. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think it's worth it to the league too, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, if you to have you know how blessed
Speaker 1: that I would always say, Kobe, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But you know, if a guy like that, or a
Speaker 1: guy like Tea Mac or something like that could have
Speaker 1: got two more years out of someone like a talent
Speaker 1: like that, and cannabis was the reason you don't think
Speaker 1: it's worth it. You know. Obviously, with the tides of turning,
Speaker 1: you know, NFL moving in that direction to allow Canada's use,
Speaker 1: the MLB has completely went that way. I think the
Speaker 1: NBA is next, and they shell is next. I think
Speaker 1: that they realized that it is beneficial to the players,
Speaker 1: and you know, the players want access to it, and
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, if you're talking about
Speaker 1: what's best for them, we should give him access. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean I wonder too, like how is sales going
Speaker 1: for you guys in the pandemic They're they're going you know,
Speaker 1: obviously in the when everything first happening, to stay at
Speaker 1: home was issued, if everybody kind of rushed to the
Speaker 1: dispensaries as if they were buying toilet tissue, right, just
Speaker 1: trying to stock up just in case. And then obviously
Speaker 1: once they deemed it essential, you know, the sales are
Speaker 1: kind of kind of settled back. I think cannabis is
Speaker 1: a session proof. I think that people will need it,
Speaker 1: you know, I've see distinantly and I think people need
Speaker 1: it just on the every day, you know, just being
Speaker 1: able to cope with you know, all the other different
Speaker 1: challenges they have in their lives. You know, one of
Speaker 1: them are kids right now. Yeah, I was gonna say
Speaker 1: that's the reason it became essential only because people spent
Speaker 1: like five or six days with their kids and they
Speaker 1: were like, no, we need to do this now. Deed
Speaker 1: something right, And I'm happy about that. So it's a
Speaker 1: beautiful thing, man, It's a beautiful plant, you know, for
Speaker 1: our for our society. Sure, And how difficult is it
Speaker 1: on a more broad spectrum of running a small business
Speaker 1: right now? Like you amongst all of this being essential,
Speaker 1: you're a former NBA player who now is an essential
Speaker 1: business that's extremely rare. How how hard is it to
Speaker 1: keep it safe for your employees and such? Not that
Speaker 1: we were prepared, but you know, we were able to
Speaker 1: adjust pretty quickly, right, And the key tour was that
Speaker 1: all of the employees brought in like, I got an
Speaker 1: amazing stack. I mean, you know, I had in four
Speaker 1: states that I operating where I actually cultivate you know,
Speaker 1: all four states, the growers and his teams or women
Speaker 1: to two weeks in home quarantine where you couldn't leave.
Speaker 1: They were all willing to state, you know, bought cots
Speaker 1: and all the different stuff, and we had to set
Speaker 1: up in different parts of the warehouse so that they
Speaker 1: would be you know, had the social distance, and so
Speaker 1: you know, everybody just really kind of pulled their weight.
Speaker 1: There was just women to do whatever it took, you know,
Speaker 1: for us to continue to operate. So, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: definitely very, very lucky to have the team that I had. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: and I was thinking about it too, like about basketball,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's such a progressive sport in the
Speaker 1: fields of like race relations and female referees and things
Speaker 1: that they've even female assistant coaches now and hopefully a
Speaker 1: coach soon in the next few years. And I don't
Speaker 1: drink alcohol, sort of just a decision I've made on
Speaker 1: my own based on kind of how it makes me
Speaker 1: feel an act. But I always found it odd that
Speaker 1: we glorify alcohol during these championship celebrations, yet we've demonized
Speaker 1: players like Ricky Williams or Robert Parrish over the years
Speaker 1: for smoking weed. Do you think there's ever a time
Speaker 1: where we cut back to the championship celebration and it's
Speaker 1: actually allowed for these guys to be smoking weed, that
Speaker 1: it's more of like a public thing for sports duds. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know, I don't see it being like in
Speaker 1: in the locker room right after the championship where I
Speaker 1: kind of agree with people it's all about their kids, right,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, how they look at the
Speaker 1: players as being heroes, right, and kids want to mimic
Speaker 1: every single thing that we do as professional athletes. Right.
Speaker 1: So when you look at like commercials, they don't show
Speaker 1: us drinking liquor, right, And I think that that's on purpose, right,
Speaker 1: because you don't want to. You know, we may promote it,
Speaker 1: but you don't sit there and drink it, right. Um.
Speaker 1: And it's the same thing with cannabis. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I think it's okay too for it to
Speaker 1: be known that players use it. But you know, I
Speaker 1: think that in those type of environments where you have
Speaker 1: where the audience is definitely younger kids, you know, you
Speaker 1: don't want you don't want that to be shown. And
Speaker 1: I will say, like, even with that being said, I
Speaker 1: feel like with parents, the same way you sit down
Speaker 1: and have your conversation with kids about you know, don't
Speaker 1: touch my liquor. Cabinet the same way you gotta talk
Speaker 1: to something about cannabis. You know, I feel like you
Speaker 1: should get ahead of it as a parent because if
Speaker 1: you don't, you know, some kid in school, I don't
Speaker 1: know what the hell he's talking about, and she's talking
Speaker 1: about it's gonna be the one that's gonna be educating
Speaker 1: your kid about candidates used in different things like that.
Speaker 1: So you know, my my pin in my eight year
Speaker 1: old they understand exactly what I do and why I do,
Speaker 1: and in the benefits that I get from in the
Speaker 1: benefits that they grant. Their great grandmother got from it,
Speaker 1: and even their grandmother and grandfather, you understand. So I
Speaker 1: just feel like, you know, at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: they educated and know that you know this is not
Speaker 1: for you, this at your age. The NBA did did
Speaker 1: have a step in the right direction during the quarantine
Speaker 1: for sort of allowing drug testing to be halted at
Speaker 1: Whether that's a step in the right direction or just
Speaker 1: for social interaction, we don't know. But what percentage of
Speaker 1: the NBA would you say smokes weed. I think that
Speaker 1: for one, that was definitely because for social interaction, because
Speaker 1: you didn't want some tested guy walking in playing time.
Speaker 1: You're not knowing where he'd been at, quarantine, the whole thing,
Speaker 1: So I don't think it would have anything to do
Speaker 1: it pushing uh the agenda forward. Right now, I feel
Speaker 1: like there's probably eighty percent of the players that use
Speaker 1: some form of cannabis. And what I'm learning, you know,
Speaker 1: with these guys is they're not just smoking, right, They
Speaker 1: like edi wolves, they like the topicals, the CBD stuff,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So I think that that's
Speaker 1: definitely why I believe the number is that high, is
Speaker 1: because I think that they've all experienced some form of cannabis,
Speaker 1: you know, at some point in their lives. And I
Speaker 1: think that, you know, a lot of them have found
Speaker 1: the released that they were looking for, you know, they
Speaker 1: actually like to use it and it's something that they
Speaker 1: prefer to use. So I think it's definitely that hot God.
Speaker 1: I hope Bob and smokes weed. That would be great
Speaker 1: during the time away from the game. As a businessman yourself,
Speaker 1: what do you suggest for players that have this free
Speaker 1: time on their hands to broaden their horizons to look
Speaker 1: sort of beyond the game during this break. I mean,
Speaker 1: what would you say, you who faced you know, your
Speaker 1: retirement and such and decided you wanted to keep working.
Speaker 1: These guys sort of have that right now, what would
Speaker 1: you what would you suggest for them? I always just say,
Speaker 1: you know, as players, I think that we should just
Speaker 1: always continue to just learn our financial situations better, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Just like, continue to just understand it,
Speaker 1: because you know, we do have a high network when
Speaker 1: we're gun plane and a lot of times, you know,
Speaker 1: while you're playing, you have advisors that usually tell you, like,
Speaker 1: just focus on the court and make the money and
Speaker 1: I'll invested and now I'll make sure it's okay by
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah. And then you know, over that
Speaker 1: time you realize, like you know, if you get holder
Speaker 1: in the league, like Okay, now I made a bunch
Speaker 1: of money. I want to keep making money. I want
Speaker 1: to be successful, you know as an entrepreneur. Now let
Speaker 1: me see what I can do. And sometimes, you know
Speaker 1: it's a little late, and you know, you find a
Speaker 1: lot of guys that are just throwing money at all
Speaker 1: kinds of opportunities just because they don't really know what
Speaker 1: they want to do, you know what I'm saying. So
Speaker 1: I would just say to take this time to you know,
Speaker 1: understand your finances better. Um, if there was some investments
Speaker 1: that you have been thinking about doing our industry you
Speaker 1: thought about getting into, you know, take this time to
Speaker 1: you know, learn about it. You know, makes the phone calls,
Speaker 1: reach out to the people that are actually doing it,
Speaker 1: and you know try to you know, figure out that's
Speaker 1: something that you know you want to actually invest it
Speaker 1: will be a part of Sure, that's a great idea.
Speaker 1: So we sort of end with one positive thing we
Speaker 1: try to get out of here with this coronavirus sort
Speaker 1: of bringing it down. There's not not a whole lot
Speaker 1: of positive things we can find, but I do want
Speaker 1: to know first and then something dumb. But first, is
Speaker 1: there anything that you hope in society that we've taken
Speaker 1: on during this time, during this quarantine, that we could
Speaker 1: maybe use in the future as a positive man, I'll
Speaker 1: give you one. You want me to give you one
Speaker 1: that I thought of today. You know what I'm not
Speaker 1: doing anymore, Al Harrington, I'm not hugging strangers. Nope, I'm
Speaker 1: barely hugging anyone who's not family at this point. Okay,
Speaker 1: so good. So I guess one thing I could take
Speaker 1: out of it in that vein is I'm no longer
Speaker 1: sharing a joints anymore. There you go, that perfectly on
Speaker 1: theme too. I I do that to me. Even when
Speaker 1: I smoked weed a few times in college. I was like, no, sir,
Speaker 1: this already looks dirty. Yeah, it's funny, man. It's a
Speaker 1: always say it's a together thing man. Like you know,
Speaker 1: I will say that I felt like cannabis can definitely
Speaker 1: bring the world together. I think it can harmonize and
Speaker 1: bring us and get it all on the same page
Speaker 1: if we all used it. I think that sharing joints
Speaker 1: or blunts or whatever have definitely made lifelong friends out
Speaker 1: of people. You know what I'm saying. It definitely, you know,
Speaker 1: put me in the room with people I never thought
Speaker 1: I would be in and become friends with people that
Speaker 1: I felt with enemies. You know what I'm saying seriously,
Speaker 1: So you know, I guess, you know, not sharing it.
Speaker 1: I hope it doesn't kill that, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: because I definitely felt like that was something that brought
Speaker 1: a lot of people together. But I get specious that
Speaker 1: just have to be you know, everybody had the all
Speaker 1: thing and just you know, just smoking and talk and
Speaker 1: do the same thing just without passing it and love it.
Speaker 1: Who if you want to say, if you don't, it's okay.
Speaker 1: Who is the most unexpected person that you've smoked with
Speaker 1: in the past as an NBA player most unexpected? I
Speaker 1: can't sit there, all right, I'll just pretend that it's Bob. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's boban right. Uh. Lastly, I have suggestions I've basically
Speaker 1: for your free time. I bring every athlete three ideas
Speaker 1: that I think you could get into during the time off.
Speaker 1: You obviously don't need a whole lot since you have
Speaker 1: a lot of children at the house, but still, these
Speaker 1: are three ideas that you could get into during the
Speaker 1: time off. You're ready for these, yeah, alright. One, I
Speaker 1: think that you could expand Viola extracts. I think you
Speaker 1: could expand the entire butter Baby service, the whole Harrington wellness.
Speaker 1: I think you could get into at home in the
Speaker 1: kitchen working on your own rice crispy treats for munchies.
Speaker 1: My wife and I this is why I bring us up.
Speaker 1: My wife and I made a ton of rice crispy treats.
Speaker 1: I don't even know if I like them. We made
Speaker 1: so many of them that I feel like I I
Speaker 1: now could go out and sell them on the side
Speaker 1: of the street and Rice Chris retreats better than you remember.
Speaker 1: Definitely one of my favorite. My kids love them. That's
Speaker 1: not a bad idea. All right, there's one second. You're
Speaker 1: an entrepreneur. How about this. We've lost movie theaters. They're
Speaker 1: no longer even in our lexicon of businesses. How about
Speaker 1: drive in movie theaters bringing him back? Great idea, see
Speaker 1: look at me, I'm a genius. Third one more addition
Speaker 1: to the Harrington group. You team up with a fellow
Speaker 1: player in the NBA. You have some synergy amongst other
Speaker 1: sort of either newly retired guys or guys who will
Speaker 1: be playing when we get back into the league. But
Speaker 1: I want to introduce to you the j R. Spliff.
Speaker 1: It is a large blunt that is endorsed by j R. Smith. Okay,
Speaker 1: since j R is one of my Glottle brothers and
Speaker 1: one of myne in a company, could definitely run that
Speaker 1: bim there you go. Didn't even know it. But you'll
Speaker 1: probably have to wait till he's fully retired, because then
Speaker 1: he can go out and be like, no, man, I
Speaker 1: use this JR. Spliff can't really do that when he's
Speaker 1: in the NBA. Right. Well, thank you so much, man,
Speaker 1: I appreciate you talking to me and hopefully I run
Speaker 1: into you here at the Calabasas Trader Joe's or something.
Speaker 1: All right, cool, nice talking to keep safe, all right,
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