Speaker 1: Man, welcome back all the smoke with this guy right here,
Speaker 1: my guy, what episode of this We'll figure that out
Speaker 1: later sometime. We got one of the young up and
Speaker 1: coming rising stars in the Gang, Jalen Brown. Man. Appreciate
Speaker 1: you coming through, appreciate fresh fresh off that new contract. Man,
Speaker 1: how so year four and you signed a hundred fifteen
Speaker 1: millions O the deal. Tell me what that's light, coming
Speaker 1: from a single parent home to being pretty much financially
Speaker 1: stable for the rest of your life for you and
Speaker 1: your family. Tell what that's like. It's a blessing for sure,
Speaker 1: just to be able to have a stability and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. Just to be able to look at my
Speaker 1: mom and eyes and be like, be good. Um So
Speaker 1: that's a great feeling. Um. But for me, I'm still
Speaker 1: just working. I'm just trying to keep going and build them.
Speaker 1: You've got more d hundred million dollar contracts, have signed
Speaker 1: off on anything you bought for your mom, for yourself.
Speaker 1: With that first big deal, I got my mom a
Speaker 1: w of course, to be honest, I didn't even get
Speaker 1: myself a whip. You and I'm still trying to figure
Speaker 1: out what I'm gonna get. Okay, I got I took
Speaker 1: care of mom's first. I ain't really got nothing too
Speaker 1: crazy for myself, to be honest. When I first got
Speaker 1: to the league, my first like little flex was like
Speaker 1: a piano. I got like a mini I know you now,
Speaker 1: I wanted, always wanted to learn, but we couldn't afford
Speaker 1: piano lessons growing up. The first my first little flex,
Speaker 1: like I didn't get a car. I got like a
Speaker 1: grand piano and put it in my out. I mean
Speaker 1: that's a different direction, but I mean that's kind of
Speaker 1: what I'm I'm learning about you. I'm a fanily your game,
Speaker 1: but I'm learning like you're kind of outside the box
Speaker 1: with things. You know what I mean, You're you're you're
Speaker 1: very in the tech, You're very I heard you want
Speaker 1: to learn several different languages. Where does your thirst for
Speaker 1: education come from? I would say with the O G
Speaker 1: my mom my upbringing. You know my mom, she she
Speaker 1: not only she had two degrees, but she was like
Speaker 1: the realist person. I knew like she had to do
Speaker 1: both roles. But at the same time she was in school,
Speaker 1: same time, like she wrote a job, she cleaned the house,
Speaker 1: she cooks. You did it all. So I got to
Speaker 1: see um somebody being in the a dope and multiple
Speaker 1: fasts and multiple roles. So it told me that just
Speaker 1: because I do one thing, I mean I gotta be
Speaker 1: stuck in that box forever. So your mom was your hero,
Speaker 1: It sounds like yeah, for sure, A lot of people
Speaker 1: don't understand, like what you learned from your mother, like
Speaker 1: not having a father there, people don't understand how hard
Speaker 1: it is for a mother to play that role, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, to keep us out of trouble
Speaker 1: when we want to rebel and be men at a
Speaker 1: young age, Like it's it's really hard. So when we
Speaker 1: do make it, that's really our only goal is to
Speaker 1: change our minds. Like because she paid. People don't know
Speaker 1: the dudes and and the stuff she went through for
Speaker 1: us to even be here, to even have a chance
Speaker 1: to make it to the NBA. So I totally feel
Speaker 1: you up because me and Mat had the same relationships
Speaker 1: with our mom. You know what I'm saying, mad dad
Speaker 1: was around, but my dad wasn't around. But so I know,
Speaker 1: you know, even though you got this money, it don't
Speaker 1: stop because you have you have more things that you
Speaker 1: want to do, and that that money just makes you hungry.
Speaker 1: Facts and keeping crisin saw. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, my mom
Speaker 1: she was a really thing. I know, yeah, exactly right.
Speaker 1: So that's what's up. Yeah, So it's it's great to
Speaker 1: be able to just do stuff for her and let
Speaker 1: her travel and have that freedom and see that happen.
Speaker 1: Is because I remember it was days she would come
Speaker 1: home from work. She's sitting in traffic in Atlanta, two
Speaker 1: hour worth the traffic. She come home and like it's
Speaker 1: one shoe in front of the dough. She just go crazy.
Speaker 1: This is in the scence she crazy, So like, it's
Speaker 1: good to see her. Now, she's smiling, she kicked back,
Speaker 1: she traveled, so no better feeling. So y'all are off
Speaker 1: to a hot start. Tell me what it's like right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, because you guys got an early taste. Your
Speaker 1: second year, you guys go to the Eastern finals. You
Speaker 1: guys are the talk of the league. You know, that's
Speaker 1: when definitely you was on my radar. I saw you,
Speaker 1: you know what, I me and me being from the Bay,
Speaker 1: I saw you a cow and I was just like, okay,
Speaker 1: this kid could play. So third pick come in your
Speaker 1: second year, you guys go right to the Eastern Conference finals. Um,
Speaker 1: tell me what that's like. Um it's great. It's a blessing.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people don't get that and
Speaker 1: that privilege to be able to play, you know that
Speaker 1: deep into the playoffs multiple times. Um So I take that.
Speaker 1: I don't take that for granted, and I just always
Speaker 1: want to keep working and stuff like that. But just
Speaker 1: finding ways to win in this league is tough. Any
Speaker 1: time you can get to win, take it. Um I
Speaker 1: was talked to the vests that's been on different teams
Speaker 1: and people that has been in the league for a
Speaker 1: long time. It'll always go like that. So I try
Speaker 1: to listen and learn from these stories. Um So, anytime
Speaker 1: we try to win, we try to take advantage of it.
Speaker 1: So you guys are basically twenty four minutes from going
Speaker 1: to the finals in your second season. Get Kyrie healthy,
Speaker 1: get Gordon healthy. You guys are expected on paper to
Speaker 1: be that team, and I know that that personally had
Speaker 1: you it looked like it seemed like from the outside
Speaker 1: looking in, you kind of had to take a step
Speaker 1: back last year with the situation, and we didn't see
Speaker 1: the jump we thought we were going to see. Obviously
Speaker 1: we see it this year, but what walk us through
Speaker 1: that what do you think what was the problem with that?
Speaker 1: Or that was that was a tough That was a
Speaker 1: tough transition from me. I was about to be twenty
Speaker 1: two years old going off coming off of a great
Speaker 1: season in the playoffs, and um, it was kind of facilitated.
Speaker 1: It wasn't really facilitated, but it was like understanding that
Speaker 1: I was gonna be Terry was the one that I I
Speaker 1: was gonna have to be the ones taking a step back,
Speaker 1: and we kind of really didn't understand that, Like why
Speaker 1: us at all? You know, people, why you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? But um, it worked out the way it
Speaker 1: worked out, and and we don't you we don't want
Speaker 1: to look back on the past too much because it
Speaker 1: is what it is and we're looking for. But it
Speaker 1: was tough for sure. You're coming off of a great
Speaker 1: season young and then and it was almost like they
Speaker 1: wanted to make it a bad thing that you wanted
Speaker 1: more right, make you look selfish, like these young guys
Speaker 1: they don't understand they selfish. I'm like, what we're supposed
Speaker 1: to want to do, right, Like we supposed to want
Speaker 1: to get better, we posted want to dominate the next level,
Speaker 1: take it to the next level. But They almost made
Speaker 1: it seem like that was a bad thing, like they're
Speaker 1: being counseled. Yeah, like, but it said a lot about
Speaker 1: you for YouTube as a young guy to be able
Speaker 1: to take that and still perform Like me, I know
Speaker 1: if somebody told me that at that age, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be in a funk, I ain't gonna play, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I might have attitude like you handled it like a
Speaker 1: pro at a young age, Like I had to be
Speaker 1: around Tim Duncan and David Robinson to learn how to
Speaker 1: be a professional, to be a professional. For you to
Speaker 1: for you to be able to take that at a
Speaker 1: at a young age like that after the year you
Speaker 1: just had, that's a testament to that says a lot
Speaker 1: about you because a lot of young guys that's put
Speaker 1: in that position at a young at a young age
Speaker 1: on their career, they don't last long. Ain't a lot
Speaker 1: to you. It was tough, ye Like. Mentally, it caused
Speaker 1: a lot of anxieready, a lot of stress, a lot
Speaker 1: of self being the top pick. Being a top pick.
Speaker 1: I'm seeing other guys in the league that's in the
Speaker 1: positions and they're getting so it's hard not to compare
Speaker 1: yourself and just try to stand in your own lane.
Speaker 1: But it was tough. It caused mentally a lot of
Speaker 1: afforded two for me to be able to look my
Speaker 1: helf in the mirror and be like, you know, I
Speaker 1: ain't gonna care what these people gotta say. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: just continue to go forward no matter what the situation is.
Speaker 1: Talk to us about that anxiety, because that's something you know,
Speaker 1: when we first came in the league, like that mental
Speaker 1: health wasn't discussed. And you know you've been vocal with it.
Speaker 1: Kevin Love has been vocal with that. Other guys have
Speaker 1: been vocal with it putting that out. Did you feel
Speaker 1: like that took a weight off your shoulders or you
Speaker 1: had explained that to me and it didn't take a
Speaker 1: weight off my shoulders, because I know that people still battle.
Speaker 1: It's a battle that's still currently daily, right is going
Speaker 1: on is daily. Everybody deals with it in some ways,
Speaker 1: shape or form, like that that voice is telling you
Speaker 1: might as good as you think you are or what
Speaker 1: you're trying to do, or you're not worthy. You know,
Speaker 1: our kids are, you know, the younger generation, they deal
Speaker 1: with that on a daily basis. So it's just me.
Speaker 1: I'm just using it as a as somebody that you know,
Speaker 1: somebody of influence that goes through it, just so maybe
Speaker 1: they could feel a little bit more comfortable for it.
Speaker 1: But um, for me, Um, I don't say it's like
Speaker 1: I overcame it or it's gone. It's just a daily battle.
Speaker 1: Like it was tough because when you get put into
Speaker 1: a situation with adversity, um, naturally you start to question
Speaker 1: yourself and your ability. That's the first thing you do,
Speaker 1: and your confidence, like in mine, as good as I
Speaker 1: thought I was, as soon as you start to question yourself,
Speaker 1: it's over. As soon as you start to not believe
Speaker 1: in yourself. You can kissing goodbye as soon as they
Speaker 1: get in your head, and you're gonna kill it, like
Speaker 1: the self doubt. It's gonna kill you before anybody else
Speaker 1: can even touch you. So for me, I had to.
Speaker 1: That's why I had a rough start to last year
Speaker 1: because I had it took me a minute to kind
Speaker 1: of get out of that to kind of like, Okay,
Speaker 1: remind myself of like what I bring to the table,
Speaker 1: Remind myself of who I am, Remind myself that I'm unique, brown,
Speaker 1: god damnit, and I'm okay with that, certain people try
Speaker 1: to make you feel bad and you think different, you
Speaker 1: are different, and they try to, you know, or whatever,
Speaker 1: make it seem like that's a bad thing. I had
Speaker 1: to remind myself like everybody got their own unique qualities
Speaker 1: that they bring to the able, and that's what's beautiful
Speaker 1: with the world because everybody think differently. But most of
Speaker 1: these people they're walking into everyday life and everything is
Speaker 1: the same. Right you walk out, you lead a house,
Speaker 1: and you go act like somebody else, right, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. So I had to realize, like, I'm me,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna walk out the door every single day
Speaker 1: and be me, regardless of what the selfis got to say,
Speaker 1: regardless of what the black Twitter anybody say. I just
Speaker 1: had to do that, and that's what helped me really
Speaker 1: get up out of that. How did you so to
Speaker 1: just really just being able to block all that stuff out,
Speaker 1: Because I mean, people don't understand the NBA is mental.
Speaker 1: You mean, skill is everyone in the league has skill,
Speaker 1: But it's your mental approach and how important your mental
Speaker 1: approach is to your not only your game, but your
Speaker 1: day to day life because normally, when you're not playing well,
Speaker 1: you're off the court, life is kind of dragging too,
Speaker 1: because you know you're here to do this, and like
Speaker 1: you said, there's social media, there's hecklers, there's haters, Like
Speaker 1: how were you able at such a young age to
Speaker 1: block all that out? Did you have help or this
Speaker 1: is something you just talked yourself through. Um my grandpa,
Speaker 1: to be honest, he gave me a book and it
Speaker 1: really helped. It was like on astrology and stuff, and
Speaker 1: it kind of helped me like rediscovered like who I
Speaker 1: was and stuff. But everybody has their own process and
Speaker 1: their own whatever. So UM for me, that was what
Speaker 1: helped me, you know, trying to like figure out like
Speaker 1: what I made of and like what I bring to
Speaker 1: the table. And that made me more confident in myself.
Speaker 1: So when I stepped out in front of people, it
Speaker 1: was nothing they could really tell me. That what really
Speaker 1: bothered me because I was already known when I was
Speaker 1: born with when I came into this world with so um,
Speaker 1: that helped me a lot, my grandpa and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: But everybody has, you know, their own process and things
Speaker 1: like that. But I challenge people to look theirselves in
Speaker 1: the mirror and mind and stuff unique. They are when
Speaker 1: they walk out. Everybody, that's the that's a beautiful part
Speaker 1: of the world. God made each and every one of
Speaker 1: us different, with different qualities, right, So sometimes we forget
Speaker 1: because we go into a world where everybody just want
Speaker 1: to be the same and listened to the same music.
Speaker 1: We're the same clothes, talked to the same girls, like
Speaker 1: all the same stuff, and repeat recycles. So I challenge
Speaker 1: more people to just be different, especially kids. I don't
Speaker 1: know who's gonna be watching this, but especially the young ones,
Speaker 1: you know, because they're the next generation. They're gonna be
Speaker 1: the ones paving the way out. Challenging just be yourself.
Speaker 1: It's hard as hell to look yourself in the mirror
Speaker 1: and hold yourself accountable. You can lie to everybody else,
Speaker 1: but you can't lie to yourself, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: When you're able to look at yourself in the mirror
Speaker 1: and be honest with yourself and not a lot of yourself,
Speaker 1: it's easier to deal with the ship outside. It's it's
Speaker 1: totally because you're not lying to yourself. That's a fact.
Speaker 1: That is fact, and that and that takes au That
Speaker 1: takes a lot to be able to do that. And
Speaker 1: like I had to look myself in the mirror and
Speaker 1: be like, what can I do better and how can
Speaker 1: I make the best? Are you doing something wrong? You're
Speaker 1: not doing nothing. You wasn't doing nothing wrong. You know
Speaker 1: you you got drafted number three ship. I'm supposed to
Speaker 1: be a star on this team. I'm supposed to be
Speaker 1: playing you as I did. This year, we take a
Speaker 1: huge step back. I just really have a you know,
Speaker 1: I really have to commence you. Like I said, at
Speaker 1: a young age, you had a lot, and I think
Speaker 1: it's only going to make you better in the long rue.
Speaker 1: But the way you've handled it and the way you've
Speaker 1: bounced back and the way you're back playing this year, uh,
Speaker 1: you know you're you're You're back with that edge and
Speaker 1: that attack and dunking on motherfucker's and doing what you
Speaker 1: need to do. He's a right leg to leg too, stupid,
Speaker 1: stupid bound, But we do it. What's what's the difference
Speaker 1: between you guys? Like I said on paper, you guys
Speaker 1: were amazing last year. It just didn't work between the
Speaker 1: energy last year in that locker room, in the chemistry
Speaker 1: with the chemistry and energy this year with you guys
Speaker 1: team it's a whole new team, whole new year, whole
Speaker 1: new everything changed. That's a part of the why I
Speaker 1: cut my hair and just a new season. Let her
Speaker 1: everything in the past go, just try to build for
Speaker 1: a new a new frontier. But the whole energy is changed.
Speaker 1: Like last year, it was like kind of like everybody
Speaker 1: was competing and we had something. We had a lot
Speaker 1: of dogs in that in that locker room that felt
Speaker 1: like they was that god, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: And rightfully so like I respect that because it creates
Speaker 1: an environment like our practices was crazy. Yeah, running at
Speaker 1: Kyrie and Jason going at it like it was. It
Speaker 1: was crazy, like some if people from my perspective, because
Speaker 1: it was a good basketball environment from like people just
Speaker 1: trying to get better. But when it came to being
Speaker 1: five on the court, that's when it died. It was difficult.
Speaker 1: You guys on the islands, it almost looked like a
Speaker 1: time because we can't you can't play everybody in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, Brad can't play everybody. We can't play everybody
Speaker 1: you know to start the game. So it was just like, um,
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff that just drew traction between that
Speaker 1: and and and it was like shared it should have
Speaker 1: been shared, you know, equally between players, front office, coaching staff,
Speaker 1: instead of just being like it was all the players fault.
Speaker 1: They couldn't figure it out. It was It should have
Speaker 1: been more of a conglomerate because it was. It was everything.
Speaker 1: It's a team problem, it's an organizational problem. It's not
Speaker 1: just a player problem. It was tough for Brad to
Speaker 1: be able to figure that out well, though he hounded
Speaker 1: it made it look easy from now, it'side looking in
Speaker 1: you know what. I meant a lot of respect for Brad.
Speaker 1: He handled it in a sense where he didn't like
Speaker 1: belittle nobody, just like in other coaches might not have
Speaker 1: did that. He didn't really strip my confidence completely and
Speaker 1: just say like, you know what, this is not what
Speaker 1: you're gonna do, and this is not what you're gonna do.
Speaker 1: He kind of just let everything kind of like fizzle out.
Speaker 1: And so Brad, I feel like I did a great
Speaker 1: job last year. And I know he is talking about
Speaker 1: it because he's so focused on this year, and so
Speaker 1: am I because we've got a long season ahead of us.
Speaker 1: But sometimes it's good to acknowledge the past so we
Speaker 1: can just move over. I was someone who said early
Speaker 1: on when I saw your core, you, Kimba being new
Speaker 1: and Marcut smart playing on the USA team. Regardless of
Speaker 1: it didn't really go the way you plan. I just
Speaker 1: I knew that experience and representing your country was going
Speaker 1: to carry over to this season with chemistry, with confidence.
Speaker 1: You got a chance to play with Kimba early. Tell
Speaker 1: me what that experience was like. And then having Kimba
Speaker 1: not only as a USA team but now your point guard.
Speaker 1: It was great. Like when you when you outside the
Speaker 1: country and you like you know, you're not away, you're
Speaker 1: away from your family, you're away from your friends, and
Speaker 1: it's just you and your teammates. You're gonna learn stuff
Speaker 1: about each other that some stuff you don't even one
Speaker 1: of them true, and stuff I'm learning about something I
Speaker 1: already even wanted them, right, But you're gonna learn stuff
Speaker 1: about people, and it's gonna make you, you know, respect
Speaker 1: the more. It's gonna make you get closer to him,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna make you build that chemistry that we
Speaker 1: needed going into the season. So we spent a lot
Speaker 1: of time with each other, and like in China, we
Speaker 1: us in China for about three and a half weeks
Speaker 1: playing video games, talking playing cars, chopping it up, like
Speaker 1: I know stuff about some of these guys that I
Speaker 1: played with them for three years and didn't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well that's what we always said, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: we had an amazing chemistry with that we believe team.
Speaker 1: But it was because I think we funked with each
Speaker 1: other so tough off the court and got to know
Speaker 1: each other off the court and likes and dislikes, and
Speaker 1: got to meet each other's families and really became friends
Speaker 1: and brothers off the court. And then all that obviously
Speaker 1: translates on the court. So you found that obviously to
Speaker 1: be the same. Yeah, especially like we're playing against you know,
Speaker 1: teams that it's coming for your coming for our head,
Speaker 1: like like we're playing against Serbia, We're playing against you know, Greece,
Speaker 1: You're playing against teams countries at France that don't really
Speaker 1: like the Yes, so like nobody likes the US when
Speaker 1: it comes to basketball. We've always been so good and
Speaker 1: you could feel it, so it makes you come together.
Speaker 1: So it's like, man, we're not about to let these dudes,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, we can exactly, And and
Speaker 1: everything happened for a reason and didn't work out the
Speaker 1: way we wanted it to, and we still kind of
Speaker 1: decipher what that reason it's gonna be. But you know,
Speaker 1: I don't never question his plan, So we'll see what
Speaker 1: comes of it. How close are you would Tatum, you
Speaker 1: guys both being back to back third picks coming to
Speaker 1: historical franchise like the Celtics. Was he someone that you
Speaker 1: bonded with early on? Um? Yeah, Like I think when
Speaker 1: me and Tatum came in, we had similar situations, but
Speaker 1: we kind of like polar offices in a sense, Like
Speaker 1: Tatum is like even in our game, like I'm more aggressive,
Speaker 1: taking more later, you know what I mean. Like, and
Speaker 1: that's kind of our personalities is like I'm more probably
Speaker 1: he'll probably I'm a little outside of the box and
Speaker 1: he's probably a little bit more how cutting and simply
Speaker 1: just keep it simple, yeah, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: So we we in a weird way. It kind of
Speaker 1: like works works because we lack with each other has,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, So in a weird way,
Speaker 1: we got like an understanding like if each other respect
Speaker 1: for each other. Our families is close, like my my
Speaker 1: brother like babysit is like, uh, his son and stuff.
Speaker 1: That's right, Um, so we've been special light skin brother exactly.
Speaker 1: We're different, we got different mindsets, but at the same time,
Speaker 1: like I think we respect each other. That can be
Speaker 1: great together for a long time too, bro, I think
Speaker 1: I think in the back of the mind, y'all know
Speaker 1: that too. If y'all can stay together for a long time,
Speaker 1: y'all can be joining pipping all over again. That's dope.
Speaker 1: So what is it like? Tell me what it's like
Speaker 1: playing for historical franchise like Boston. Um, Boston, Uh, it's
Speaker 1: a great city, of course, definitely, Um, definitely something that
Speaker 1: when I came into I had no idea about. Like,
Speaker 1: nobody in my family is itself was a Celtics fan. Um,
Speaker 1: nobody was particularly fond that the Celtics. When I got
Speaker 1: a country boy, you grew up a Hawks fan, I
Speaker 1: would say. I grew up a Hawks fan. N the Falcons,
Speaker 1: you know, I support the home in the city, I
Speaker 1: would say that. So like with my family, like when
Speaker 1: I got there and nobody was there, people had questions
Speaker 1: you know about Boston, the area, the people. People was
Speaker 1: like suspicious about how do people treat you know, people
Speaker 1: of color, No questions and stuff like that. So it
Speaker 1: was a little bit, you know. Um, people was a
Speaker 1: little bit in different. My family, dadum ideas in the
Speaker 1: head about what how Boston was. And as I've been there,
Speaker 1: I've seen some of those ideas, and I've seen how
Speaker 1: the city has progressed in the last four years and
Speaker 1: how eclectic it is. Um, the city of Boston is.
Speaker 1: Outside cities are a little bit you know, needs some work,
Speaker 1: um for sure, because you see how like it's still
Speaker 1: like a little bit separate outside. But the city of Boston,
Speaker 1: I think everybody comes together in the city and um
Speaker 1: works together, makes money together, watches the Celtics games and
Speaker 1: the Bruins and all that. Everybody come together like in
Speaker 1: the city. But outside the city it's a little bit
Speaker 1: it's a little bit different. But I've definitely been able
Speaker 1: to see like the city of Boston grow and being
Speaker 1: able to be a part of it. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: in there for four years. I'm a part of the
Speaker 1: community now, you know. So it's not just it's on
Speaker 1: me too, you know what i mean. So I'm trying
Speaker 1: to figure out ways to bring the community together. I
Speaker 1: did a gala this year, you know, showing some love
Speaker 1: to places in the community that don't get the amount
Speaker 1: of love they deserve. So I'm trying to find ways
Speaker 1: to bring the community more and more together because I've
Speaker 1: been there for four years and hopefully I'll be there
Speaker 1: for four more. Um, so I'm trying to do something
Speaker 1: to to add to be a part of the solution.
Speaker 1: You used to the snow, like, I don't think I've
Speaker 1: ever man, maybe be like I'm in my rookie year.
Speaker 1: Uh we had a game. I opened the door and
Speaker 1: like literally the snow fell off the roof, like I
Speaker 1: couldn't see out the door. So I'm thinking, like, okay, cool,
Speaker 1: game cancel. I'm like, game cancel. We're good. I'm about
Speaker 1: to go back to sleep. It was like then Lynch,
Speaker 1: he hit hits like big time to shovel out the snow.
Speaker 1: To make sure you get to the game one time,
Speaker 1: leave an hour early. So I'm like, yo, I really
Speaker 1: gotta play in this. Yes, yes, I had to leave
Speaker 1: an hour early for the game, so it took me
Speaker 1: two hours to get there and then I had to
Speaker 1: shovel myself out of the snow like literally we're used
Speaker 1: to that. I was like this. I was like this
Speaker 1: ain't it, man, This ain't it. You're someone that's big
Speaker 1: on social media and having your own platform, your own voice,
Speaker 1: you have your own YouTube channel to kind of give
Speaker 1: people a look at what you do. Talk to me
Speaker 1: a little bit about that. UM. For me, it was
Speaker 1: just trying to show people the human side. I think
Speaker 1: a lot of times they put athletes on the pedestal
Speaker 1: alongside with the mental help segment. UM, Like, we're humans too,
Speaker 1: like we um some of my father's brothers, you know, UM, friends,
Speaker 1: you know, etcetera. So just showing that side to people
Speaker 1: more and this in this generation, it's cool to be
Speaker 1: a part of it because you see how like that
Speaker 1: is changing, Like the whole shut up in dribble movement, UM,
Speaker 1: it's changed. We got athletes who are rappers like Dan
Speaker 1: Goodwin's too. We've got athletes who are you know, designers
Speaker 1: with closed like Russell Westbrook, Politicians Harrison Barnes, venture capitalists
Speaker 1: VC entrepreneurs sitting right here, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: We got the game has changed, and I appreciate the
Speaker 1: ogs that came before UM to help change it. So
Speaker 1: it's only like the younger generation to care taking it
Speaker 1: to another level. So it's been cool to be a
Speaker 1: part of it and that change because I don't feel
Speaker 1: so stuck in the box as if I probably would
Speaker 1: have felt ten fifteen years ago, Like if you try
Speaker 1: to do anything else out of basketball, people maybe would
Speaker 1: get you crazy. If it's teen years ago. Now they
Speaker 1: might look at you crazy still, but now it's kind
Speaker 1: of like understood. Like that basketball it's more too it
Speaker 1: than just just a platform. It just opens doors. To me,
Speaker 1: it just opened a lot of doors, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? It was it was to me. I played
Speaker 1: fourteen years on a handful of different teams, but that
Speaker 1: was just the beginning. You know. I was able to
Speaker 1: get into anywhere I wanted to beget because of that.
Speaker 1: You know, it means so to be able to capitalize
Speaker 1: that off the next step. It's good that you're still
Speaker 1: young in the game and realizing that because, like you said,
Speaker 1: we didn't have it, you know, when we first came
Speaker 1: in the league, you know, a kid, we were at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the social media are you know. So
Speaker 1: I think it's great that you are capitalizing and having
Speaker 1: an understanding of how big your platform is and how
Speaker 1: many kids Like you said, kid, you seem like you're
Speaker 1: real big on educating the next generation, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, and to be able to understand that it
Speaker 1: is your job to carry the torch. I feel like
Speaker 1: the world is changing. I think, in my opinion, the
Speaker 1: world is changing. I think like um, some of the
Speaker 1: big social constructs we used to lean on, UM is
Speaker 1: they finding ways to become smaller and more efficient because
Speaker 1: like UM, to be honest, UM, it's a million different
Speaker 1: ways to make money. It's a million different ways to
Speaker 1: cut a chicken. And who would have thought, you know,
Speaker 1: ten years from now or twenty years from now or
Speaker 1: twenty years from then that who would have thought that
Speaker 1: you can make money just sitting in front of a
Speaker 1: camera and just talking talking bullshite talking. Who would have thought?
Speaker 1: Like posting on Instagram, you people, it's people making millions
Speaker 1: of it's people making m's just about posting on Instagram,
Speaker 1: Like who is a lot of ways to get it.
Speaker 1: Like it's crazy that that that's where the world is
Speaker 1: now because like before, like Suit and Todd was like
Speaker 1: the consider like the format of how it's being professional.
Speaker 1: Now you wouldn't be taking serious if you weren't dressed
Speaker 1: in the super time at one point, Yeah exactly, Now
Speaker 1: people got red, blue, yellow, green hair and just tattoos.
Speaker 1: And we can go at any meeting right any office
Speaker 1: and talk to anybody and know what we're talking about.
Speaker 1: Smoke all before and and lightening up. Why are we talking?
Speaker 1: And still get you? Still get the deal done? Not
Speaker 1: all the time. I can't on this show one day, hopefully,
Speaker 1: hopefully I can't wait. You're real big in technology. Obviously
Speaker 1: you spoke to M I T. Media Lab the Harvard
Speaker 1: Business Education School. Tell me what you know. You gotta
Speaker 1: come on now, you gotta break all those abbreviations and
Speaker 1: stuff down. We're talking about school now. This is not
Speaker 1: my this is not my strong suit. Break it down
Speaker 1: for me, please, Massachusetts Institution of Technology. Okay, we go
Speaker 1: in my TA right there. You know you didn't heard
Speaker 1: the M T. You heard. You just never knew what stuff.
Speaker 1: I never knew what it the only time my institute institute.
Speaker 1: I think institutions. I don't want to be a dad,
Speaker 1: but talk to me a little bit about you know
Speaker 1: your your fascination with tech and uh where that came from?
Speaker 1: Technology is the world man, technology. I always try to
Speaker 1: be a part of it, just to see where technology
Speaker 1: is going. Um, just y'all, far As came, um and
Speaker 1: stuff like that, just being a part of it. So
Speaker 1: I try to stay tuned in and see what's coming
Speaker 1: them next. When I was like Cale, meantors do Eric Moore,
Speaker 1: he was a VC. He had his own venture capitalist firm,
Speaker 1: so like, UM, I knew I wanted to do something.
Speaker 1: When I went out to Colt that's where I put
Speaker 1: myself in that position. UM. So I just kept hitting
Speaker 1: them up and he was like at first he was like, um, now,
Speaker 1: didn't take me serious. And I just kept hitting them
Speaker 1: up and he allowed me to come and do an
Speaker 1: intern at his VC firm, and he started showing me
Speaker 1: stuff and um, teaching me things that I didn't know
Speaker 1: previously about money, about how you know, the rich people
Speaker 1: make money and how the rich stay rich, and how
Speaker 1: um some of these companies you know, orchestrating things like that.
Speaker 1: So I got to see at eighteen or nineteen a
Speaker 1: bunch of different companies that were being ran successfully, and
Speaker 1: some of them were the same age as me. Some
Speaker 1: of these people were two dropped out of college, started
Speaker 1: their own company, was making two three million dollars in revenue,
Speaker 1: and nobody was bad in the eye. But when I
Speaker 1: was coming out it was a whole conversation. I remember,
Speaker 1: I don't want to call out the interviewer or the
Speaker 1: analysts or whatever. Saying one and done was like a
Speaker 1: bad thing. So I looked at it the same event, like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I got an idea, right, um, ideas, I'm going to
Speaker 1: the league. My body is my company. Why is it
Speaker 1: a bad thing that I'm um putting myself in a
Speaker 1: position to make a lot of money at the early age,
Speaker 1: rather than staying in school, which is only gonna perpetuate
Speaker 1: me going to work for somebody else eventually and having
Speaker 1: a bunch of student loan debts or whatever, or Sally
Speaker 1: May's getting hurt or something. It's just a hamster world
Speaker 1: they try to put you on. So for me, when
Speaker 1: I got to see that, I really got to see
Speaker 1: how the world work, and I really got to see
Speaker 1: how the similarities between you know, companies and basketball and
Speaker 1: the business and basketball start working. I wish I had
Speaker 1: somebody like that when I was crazy, right, tell you
Speaker 1: I was. I can't only want to tell you I
Speaker 1: was getting my info from an eight team and my
Speaker 1: advice for m oh lord dude named Spooney G and
Speaker 1: the dude named John Johnson and Mike d and All
Speaker 1: was talking man. Spoony G was wenting for Scotch and
Speaker 1: the Huntred gree Weather on the block pocket for the
Speaker 1: cash with beside was a hunting ten degrees. I got
Speaker 1: all my advice from him. You turned out, You turned
Speaker 1: out fine. Yeah, but you see what was taking a minute? Though?
Speaker 1: One point seventh great average. When I graduated one point seven,
Speaker 1: I don't know how they they let me walk out
Speaker 1: of there. I graduated doog goddamnit. Shout out do Kia
Speaker 1: for past taking my class, spoony G. Shout out the
Speaker 1: spoon You met spoony You met Spoody in the playoffs? Well,
Speaker 1: that's the one that was talking about podcasts. Yes, that
Speaker 1: was one of the realest conversations I ever had in
Speaker 1: my life. It was in Dallas and he broke down
Speaker 1: with Popman by standing at the world through my rear
Speaker 1: view mirror, and he said Park was rooting for us,
Speaker 1: and we went and won that series. Shout out spoon,
Speaker 1: shoutout spoon G. How can advancing tech be helpful for
Speaker 1: the NBA? Uh? I think it's been helpful for the
Speaker 1: NBA already. I think as you've seen as a technology
Speaker 1: with TVs and cameras and social media, the game has
Speaker 1: become bigger. Like, um, it's reaching different places that normally,
Speaker 1: you know, it wouldn't have reached its global now and
Speaker 1: the game is everywhere. I've traveled places just off you know,
Speaker 1: the merit of my brand through the NBA, and like
Speaker 1: people would be pulling up to like my hotel just
Speaker 1: to see me or shake my hand. So like I'm
Speaker 1: in Egypt, I'm in places that you ain't even think
Speaker 1: and there's people pulling up just because the brand in
Speaker 1: the NBA has gotten so big, right, So, um, I
Speaker 1: think the technology is a continue saying hands, um, it's
Speaker 1: the NBA state's partner where it is going to continue
Speaker 1: to make the game bigger, bigger and bigger. You're a
Speaker 1: fashion guy to talk about that a little bit. You're
Speaker 1: a big fashion guy too. Yeah, man, I've been going
Speaker 1: I'm in that fashion week, uh for the last two years,
Speaker 1: just really being a fly on the wall. I'll tell
Speaker 1: y'all a quick story. I never told anybody this. Come on,
Speaker 1: all of some my baby, give it to us. It's
Speaker 1: a quick story. Right. So I'm a fast wing. I
Speaker 1: got invited to a few different shows. My first year,
Speaker 1: I went to a lot. Actually I went to like ten,
Speaker 1: I went to Valentino, I went to um Rap Simmons,
Speaker 1: I went to Off Wide. I went to a bunch
Speaker 1: of different shows. But the big one two years ago
Speaker 1: was what the LV one with Virgil. I didn't get
Speaker 1: invited to that one, right, So I ain't get invited
Speaker 1: to that one. But I want to tripping, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. I'm at the time, I'm the second
Speaker 1: year in the league and I ain't got my my
Speaker 1: merrit ain't like that. I ain't got the cloud. But
Speaker 1: I'm like, I can't miss that. It's been like they
Speaker 1: ain't never had a person of color being a Louis
Speaker 1: v designer ever like this history. So I'm like, I
Speaker 1: don't got no ticket, but I'm gonna pull up and
Speaker 1: just see what's gonna happen. Like the least I could
Speaker 1: do is say I tried, right, all right, that's typing.
Speaker 1: I'm from Atlantis, So yeah, we're gonna try. So I
Speaker 1: have photographers with me, and I have videographers and that
Speaker 1: manages with me and stuff like that. So I had
Speaker 1: like a little group of people with me. So I said,
Speaker 1: this will be gonna do. I said, we're gonna get
Speaker 1: in the car and we're gonna pull up real fast,
Speaker 1: come to a stop real quick. Everybody jump out. Make
Speaker 1: it looked like the president put it up. Everybody jump
Speaker 1: out quick. When we jump out, everybody opened the door,
Speaker 1: slamming open the driver. You gotta slam on the brakes.
Speaker 1: Everybody jump out, slammed the door open. We're gonna walk fast.
Speaker 1: No pictures, no pictures, no pictures. We go keep walking through.
Speaker 1: We're gonna walk. So everybody like causing the commotion, all
Speaker 1: the people trying to tell the pictures, like who is
Speaker 1: it la? We get to the front, I said, when
Speaker 1: we get to the front, it's probably gonna be a
Speaker 1: list like Italian job. Look, it's probably gonna be a list.
Speaker 1: I thought the whole thing out. So I told my manager.
Speaker 1: I told it. I was like, we get to the mount.
Speaker 1: When they say, when they say they can't see they
Speaker 1: can't find my name on the list, I need you
Speaker 1: to go crazy. Look, don't even I didn't even think.
Speaker 1: I didn't even think she was gonna be like ready
Speaker 1: for like, I'm surprised, a little small, like I don't
Speaker 1: even think she was gonna be ready for like when
Speaker 1: you see the list, just go crazy like act like
Speaker 1: this is an outrage. She said, yeah, she sold it better.
Speaker 1: I'm she surprised me. So we get to the list
Speaker 1: just like we're not this is this is crazy. He
Speaker 1: should be on this list. They're like, okay, they come down,
Speaker 1: come down, come down, come there, come down, come down.
Speaker 1: Just let him go in. And I ended up going
Speaker 1: in and I end up like sitting like right next
Speaker 1: to Kanye and Travis. Oh that's crazy, Like it's crazy, right.
Speaker 1: And I ended up meeting Diddy sons uh in there
Speaker 1: just seeing him and say hey, what up and just
Speaker 1: walked in with them from the jump and just finess
Speaker 1: my whole way into like I gotta at number one.
Speaker 1: You gotta act like you belong. Yeah, good, finess my
Speaker 1: whole white Look that's I'm sitting right next to Kanye, Travis.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting dead across from Rihanna. When the show was over,
Speaker 1: Virgil came out and gave Kanye hug. At the end,
Speaker 1: he was crying and I was I was like, man
Speaker 1: if I was in my right, but I go out
Speaker 1: there just that moment he said getting in the huge
Speaker 1: like Mary, Yeah, felt it man, it was a special moment.
Speaker 1: But you from Atlanta, the home of for nessance straight
Speaker 1: in there cooling it. That's right, and you're being good.
Speaker 1: Ever since people were playing basketball, would you be doing?
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I get that question a lot,
Speaker 1: to be honest, I don't know. Right now. I'm so
Speaker 1: locked in on ball. I can't even see nothing match
Speaker 1: right now. I just feel good to just be able
Speaker 1: to play and play free hobbies. Hobbies. I got a
Speaker 1: lot of hobbies. Man, Uh, what's one? Um? I guess
Speaker 1: I like I like designing, So I'm starting my own,
Speaker 1: my own brand. So so the clothing clothing brands before
Speaker 1: Jack Bag well just sent us because well, no, don't.
Speaker 1: I was gonna do my bag and late I wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna get a I got. I gotta have a big
Speaker 1: in segment. That's what we called. Yeah, and it's gonna
Speaker 1: have to be at the end. Okay, alright, we're gonna
Speaker 1: save that we don't do some exchanges exactly. I got.
Speaker 1: I got a little note that I wrote for you
Speaker 1: to say and take them, you know, the new George Gay.
Speaker 1: But I got Yeah, I like it. So I got
Speaker 1: a little sketch book and i'd be drawing stuff. I'll
Speaker 1: put a set together. I love music. It's like a
Speaker 1: past time. I don't I'm not trying to be a rapper.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to do nothing with it. But I
Speaker 1: love being in the studio listening to music. It's just
Speaker 1: it's a good past We're gonna start making beats. Somewhat.
Speaker 1: You're gonna s I did. I used to. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: retiring now yea, Yeah, I'm gonna just put all my
Speaker 1: eggs in one basket. But I still like having hobbies
Speaker 1: and stuff to keep myself out of trouble. What's the
Speaker 1: biggest lesson you've learned up to this point in your career?
Speaker 1: And you seem very mature for being a you know,
Speaker 1: for your pro but what what's the biggest lesson to
Speaker 1: learn us far? Basketball wise? Confidence? Everything? People understood that though,
Speaker 1: because there's something to me. You hear people say, oh,
Speaker 1: he can't play the thirteen Twitter, it's all about comes
Speaker 1: because everybody could play, you know. I mean, so the
Speaker 1: second I saw something, you mean, you don't believe in yourself,
Speaker 1: it's a rap, you know, it's a confidence And being
Speaker 1: on that same page with the coach and on that
Speaker 1: the coach has confidence. She does wonders for everybody. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: and uh because if as soon as you once they're
Speaker 1: get into your head and then get into your mind,
Speaker 1: like I've seen a lot of people, you know, their
Speaker 1: spirits broken and it's broken forever and don't find a
Speaker 1: way back from it. Like and I felt like that
Speaker 1: was like where they was trying to send me, and
Speaker 1: I was like, that ain't gonna happen to me. So
Speaker 1: I had to remind myself to be confident in myself
Speaker 1: and and find ways to to find that extra confidence.
Speaker 1: And that was good to circle to circle back. You
Speaker 1: get that from your mom. I know a lot of
Speaker 1: times when I didn't believe myself, when I got cut
Speaker 1: from teams and I broke my foot. Could nobody get
Speaker 1: me back to believe in myself but my mom fact
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, And that's something she taught
Speaker 1: me as a youngster. So I know for you, the
Speaker 1: baby to turn that switch on, your mom got something
Speaker 1: to do it that, because that's when we get all
Speaker 1: our confidence. I'll know him are writing wrongs, what to
Speaker 1: do or not that we get all that from my mom.
Speaker 1: That's a fact. I saw you working out with Team
Speaker 1: Mac because he's someone that you modeled your game after us.
Speaker 1: He's who did you look up to coming into the NBA?
Speaker 1: T Mac? That was it? Tea Mac? Was was it
Speaker 1: great person to look after? Yeah? I loved this game.
Speaker 1: It's cross over, step back to fact everything, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Te Max game, Like that's the one
Speaker 1: when I went outside. Like first it was like when
Speaker 1: I when I went outside, it was in the driveway
Speaker 1: and you pretending like you somebody when your little kid.
Speaker 1: For me, it was it was always Team Mac. Then
Speaker 1: the next it was Kobe, and it was d Wade
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. But think about that, Tatums is Kobe,
Speaker 1: you mean it's his Team Mac. Oh, so what do
Speaker 1: you ask? I mean, you guys see like obviously you
Speaker 1: have enough to win the championship this year. Is that's
Speaker 1: the goal, right? I mean it's championship or bus usually
Speaker 1: for franchises like the Celtics. So you know, you guys
Speaker 1: are taking the game and you know game the time.
Speaker 1: But I mean that's always a goal. I think every
Speaker 1: player that's what they want to do at least one
Speaker 1: time in their career. For me, I'm just like I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to put no expectations on this year. I'm
Speaker 1: just trying to hoot. You know what the goal is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we know what the goal is. But I don't like
Speaker 1: they the media want uh most of the media and
Speaker 1: the Celtics media, they want you to get You said
Speaker 1: we're gonna do this and do that. Now they got
Speaker 1: us on that last year. That's what kind of messes up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: derailed this because everybody got so much pressure on them.
Speaker 1: To be honest, we don't need the pressure on this group.
Speaker 1: Like we're good. We got a lot of young players,
Speaker 1: We've got a lot of talent um, and we got
Speaker 1: you know a lot of people feeling roles that that
Speaker 1: need to be filling. And we got a lot of
Speaker 1: players playing well. Brad want to make her, Robert Williams,
Speaker 1: Javonte Green, Grant Williams, um Um, everybody man, Carson Edwards.
Speaker 1: Our young guys is playing phenomenal. Tse, Daniel t S,
Speaker 1: Vincent poor Year, a lot of young guys that you're
Speaker 1: prightly don't even know their names, but they've been helping
Speaker 1: us out and getting these wins. Yeah, you just thinking
Speaker 1: about six ain't heard of They've been helping us get
Speaker 1: these ones. Who are the who are the vocal leaders
Speaker 1: in the locker room, the vocal ones? Uh, I have
Speaker 1: a alt. I was that guy was when Alice spoke,
Speaker 1: everybody everybody chief, I was like, you know what, ain't
Speaker 1: know how that ain't no bullshit. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: When he speaks, it means something facts al When Alice spoke,
Speaker 1: it definitely meant something for me for sure, Like if
Speaker 1: al told me to do something, I'm doing it because
Speaker 1: like not only did what he said, what he did
Speaker 1: what he always told us that he was doing. Like
Speaker 1: he was that example, Like he walked in his and
Speaker 1: he's like like Alice and him come to work every day,
Speaker 1: work you no matter what the situation was. He had
Speaker 1: the right attitude, the right mentality. Despite so like if
Speaker 1: I had to follow anybody's character, that's what I was
Speaker 1: leaning towards more than anybody, just because I've seen he
Speaker 1: was an example every single day or that, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. It's hard to to to follow somebody
Speaker 1: if they're not is consistent, even though they might be
Speaker 1: a leader in a different merit, but they attitude inconsistent,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So al was that person
Speaker 1: for me, no question. He liked to him. He had
Speaker 1: to even kill all the time, all the time off
Speaker 1: subject with basketball. What do you are you in there? Shows?
Speaker 1: What are you watching right now? Uh? Snowfall was hottest
Speaker 1: thing y'all. Man, Please tell me, drive motherfucker? Is that
Speaker 1: Samuel little Jackson? No, that was that was frankly safe.
Speaker 1: So every time you argue, every time you beating him,
Speaker 1: we knew. Remember that saying you think I'm gonna blow
Speaker 1: all the ship that I built just because you don't
Speaker 1: like the way I nigga talk. Drive motherfucker. That was
Speaker 1: killing scene right up. And you just killed that right there.
Speaker 1: That he want to be an actor, He got me,
Speaker 1: he got I'm coming. I want to be I'm gonna
Speaker 1: put him in one of my things, so we're gonna
Speaker 1: get in. But that was good times. That scene was
Speaker 1: hard for something. Sometimes your homie, you can't necessarily have
Speaker 1: talked to your homie like you told that. He told
Speaker 1: his homie the best friend. Look, that's what that's what
Speaker 1: it was solid. He held his board, his up board,
Speaker 1: his boy down when he went to talk to Yeah,
Speaker 1: he didn't up, he didn't embarrassing fact. As soon as
Speaker 1: he got away from He had to check him for
Speaker 1: the betterment of the business. For that street ship. Man,
Speaker 1: that street ship, you can take that and use in
Speaker 1: any business they're doing. Man, snowfalls the ship. I'm glad
Speaker 1: you said that. You got me hype. I didn't woke
Speaker 1: up snowfall. It's another season coming, almost that snowfall beginning.
Speaker 1: I'd have been jumping all around this motherfucker. Man, it's
Speaker 1: another season coming. Yeah, gotta be you gotta be right.
Speaker 1: When how it ended, yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: But if it went back, nobody put a date on it.
Speaker 1: Though didn't nobody put a date on it. But it's
Speaker 1: good that we know. Franklin st knew that the d
Speaker 1: A guy was was working on him all this time,
Speaker 1: the whole time. I've got stomach, ain't seen you. I'm
Speaker 1: looking for a new show to get on. That's wonderful.
Speaker 1: Anything about selling dope and all that, I'm into it.
Speaker 1: Gangster ship, that's my lane, ain't But it was different.
Speaker 1: It was like how they infiltrated the with the hood
Speaker 1: with the dope, like you have no plane, land, no good,
Speaker 1: none of that, none of that. The government was dropping
Speaker 1: that they went to school and found him Yeah, they
Speaker 1: recruited him, right, you recruit me ship. That's crazy you
Speaker 1: think about using that to fund elections, wars, all types
Speaker 1: of stuff illegally, you know what I mean. And they're
Speaker 1: looking at us like we were from the street to
Speaker 1: because we're doing drugs and we're having violence in our
Speaker 1: neighborhood and with the liquor store in this corner and
Speaker 1: we're not supposed to drink or it's guns and cracking
Speaker 1: cocaine in the neighborhood. And we didn't posted you nothing
Speaker 1: about it. We didn't putting none of that. They came.
Speaker 1: It's official. They dropped it off. Snowfall is the perfect show,
Speaker 1: mad when we mastered it, Yeah, and then we were
Speaker 1: selling it to man, we mastered bring me something. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna cook it up and sounding better than you cut it.
Speaker 1: Whatever you need me to do, I'm gonna figure that stack.
Speaker 1: You gotta watch I get excited about that. I'm we're
Speaker 1: gonna end on this. Throughout this interview, you've really talked
Speaker 1: about educating and about the next generation. If you could
Speaker 1: tell them one word, one sentence, what would it be
Speaker 1: to the youth of oh Man, one sentence? That's hard man,
Speaker 1: You're gonna go first. One? Now, one, what's the question.
Speaker 1: Didn't just hear me? You still think about snowballs. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm in character right now, Frank the Saint like I'm
Speaker 1: you know, man boy, I'm thinking. I'm thinking the whole
Speaker 1: movie right now. Why she had to do the crack.
Speaker 1: She had a good thing. So if you had to
Speaker 1: encourage the youth with one word or a sentence, what
Speaker 1: would that be? Word? Our sentence? Either nothing be to failure,
Speaker 1: but to try. You never know if you're gonna succeed.
Speaker 1: If you don't try, you're gonna sunk up a little
Speaker 1: like that, nothing be to failure but to try. Because
Speaker 1: I think we live in a day and age where
Speaker 1: people are scared to do chase their dreams. So they
Speaker 1: want to talk about our dreams. Scared to fail, right,
Speaker 1: scared to fail, and I ain't gonna lie. That's one
Speaker 1: of That's probably one of my biggest fails. I mean,
Speaker 1: my biggest um beers beer. Was always scared of failure,
Speaker 1: like falling short. So that's something that's real, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. And actuality, we're good. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm good. And if you believe in yourself, I actually
Speaker 1: got This call from Marcus Smarty was like pressure come
Speaker 1: from and when you don't know what you're doing, Like
Speaker 1: if you put the work in, you put the time
Speaker 1: and effort them, you should be confident in that and
Speaker 1: you shouldn't question it and failure when you can be options,
Speaker 1: you know. So that's one thing that I would agree on. Like,
Speaker 1: it's a lot of young people that are scared of
Speaker 1: failure and they don't know how to necessarily go about it.
Speaker 1: They get nervous and something they resort to other things
Speaker 1: that they try to fill those gaps with and sometimes
Speaker 1: it's not the best way. And it's up to us
Speaker 1: to let them know that before they walk out that house.
Speaker 1: They have everything in them. They need to be successful,
Speaker 1: everything in them already. You know what I'm saying this
Speaker 1: for us to use our platform and let the younger
Speaker 1: generation know that I agree. Appreciate you, man, Thank you
Speaker 1: for your time, alright, appreciate appreciate already. That's a wrap, man,
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