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Speaker 1: On September eleventh, two thousand and one, Canter Fitzgerald lost

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Speaker 1: six hundred and fifty employees in the World Trade Center

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Speaker 1: terrorist attacks. Since then, the Canter Fitzgerald Relief Fund has

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Speaker 1: focused on giving financial support to families affected. More than

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Speaker 1: a dozen celebrities or on the trading floor, they're calling

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Speaker 1: clients in an effort to raise money for their own

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Speaker 1: charities as well. We're joined now by a former NFL player,

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Speaker 1: longtime your giant, Victor Cruz. Victor, thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for joining us. How's it going there on the floor today,

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Speaker 1: and how much money are you making for the Victor

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Speaker 1: Cruz Foundation.

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Speaker 2: It's going well here on the floor. There's a lot

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Speaker 2: of energy, as you can see behind me, a lot

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Speaker 2: of things going on, a lot of different celebrities making

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Speaker 2: their way through, and we're making some money. I don't

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Speaker 2: have a full tally just yet, but I know I've

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Speaker 2: been making a bunch of trades and raising some money

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Speaker 2: for not only Cancer Fitzgerald, but for the Victor Cruz

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Speaker 2: Foundation as well.

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Speaker 1: Right, And I know that celebrities like you are asked

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Speaker 1: to kind of fulfill some of the orders. Can you

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Speaker 1: give us a sense of what people are buying or selling.

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Speaker 1: Is there a lot of talk of, say in Nvidia

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Speaker 1: or the Trump Media company coming up.

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Speaker 2: I actually can't tell you that. I have no idea,

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Speaker 2: to be honest, I know that I've just been making

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Speaker 2: some solid trades. And you know, it's always interesting when

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Speaker 2: you're just throwing twenty million, thirty million dollars around like

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Speaker 2: it's nothing. It's always it's always a fun time yelling

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Speaker 2: those numbers out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, I can imagine. I want to talk to

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Speaker 1: you about the changing landscape of the NFL because clearly

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Speaker 1: this has been a big, big off season with the

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Speaker 1: NFL now allowing private equity institutional investors to take stakes

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Speaker 1: in certain teams. I'm curious to hear from you how

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Speaker 1: you think this is going to change the players experience,

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Speaker 1: what it means for big money to come into the

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Speaker 1: game like this.

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Speaker 2: It'll be interesting to see how it changes. It'll be

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Speaker 2: interesting to see how these players kind of think about

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Speaker 2: their deals differently, how to think about their extensions differently,

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Speaker 2: you know, realizing what markets to plan, what markets not

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Speaker 2: to plan, what teams they want to be part of,

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Speaker 2: who's owning these teams, and what type of investments they'll

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Speaker 2: be able to do within them as well, So I'm

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Speaker 2: excited to see where the future of this is. You

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Speaker 2: can see more and more ownership going just into the

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Speaker 2: players and having more control, and who knows, we might

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Speaker 2: have a former player be able to be in one

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Speaker 2: of these investments and own some of these teams and

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Speaker 2: be part of it from an equity standpoint, So it

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Speaker 2: could be fun.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Curtis Martin, of course, Football Hall of Famer is

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Speaker 1: definitely part of these efforts to get more players of

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Speaker 1: color involved as well. Very quickly here. I know that

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Speaker 1: you did not play football in an era of legalized

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Speaker 1: sports betting, but it's got to be hard for the

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Speaker 1: players who are still in the NFL right now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very difficult, and you've already seen some guys

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Speaker 2: kind of get in trouble with it as well. But

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Speaker 2: it's just hard to police, especially you know the way

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Speaker 2: how legal it is and how I mean, all my

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Speaker 2: friends around me are doing it. So it's just going

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Speaker 2: to be interesting to see how they police it from

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Speaker 2: inside the game when you're an actual player, and how

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Speaker 2: they do it moving forward.

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Speaker 1: Victor Cruz, always a pleasure. Thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: joining us. Former New York Giant football star Victor Cruz

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Speaker 1: down at the trading for Counter Fitzgerald on their charity

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Speaker 1: day