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Entrepreneurship
Welcome Andre Spivey to the show. He is a radio show host, and an entrepreneur. He has been featured in the Suncoast News, Business Observer and Autism Parenting Magazine. Andre was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, left at age 11 to be raised in South East San Diego, California, other wise known as South East Daygo. Joined the U.S. Air Force at age 19 in 2003 and served until 2013 during Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, during his service he was also an entrepreneur and continued this after leaving the Air Force. Using tech skills and training and inspired by one of his son's Isaiah being diagnosed with Autism he create Live 2 Learn Differently Inc to develop educational apps for children on the spectrum. Took some of those profit and purchased the Tampa Bay Fury and Sarasota Manatee Basketball teams in the American Basketball Association.

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I even sold candy for a period of time around

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that same age. So if you got to knock on

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somebody's door and say, hey, would you like to buy

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is candy from me, You're gonna take a lot of

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nose no, no, thank you, no, no, thank you, and

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then you get some yesses in there. So basically the

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practice got me over feeling bad about the nose and

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accentuating the yes. It's the positives of it over time,

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so try I try to keep that same mentality.

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People gonna say no a lot. That's just like what

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it's the note.

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It's the yeses that you're looking for, and the note

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the nose will teach you something.

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Yeses are the rewards, those are the lessons.

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you are motivating yourself and others to keep going, So

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to hear your story. Today is going to be my

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first actual surprise interview. I'm so excited to have my

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guests here. We're going to be talking about basketball, entrepreneurship,

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and so many other things that we can tackle for

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this episode. I'm feeling special. So, Hi, Andre, how's it going.

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How's it going?

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Definitely surprised, but you know, he be in there on

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the next one.

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We do what we do and we get it done,

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and that's what this show is all about. And basketball

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being one of the things that is such a team sport.

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It's like, you guys just handed me off like I

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was a basketball But you know what, I feel love

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all around.

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So it's a give and go. We must trust you

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if we do the give and go.

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Yes. Yes, So let's talk a little bit about you.

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How you got started in being an entrepreneur.

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I really I started being entrepreneur very very early. It

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was kind of instilled in me, like extremely early on

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back in I grew.

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Up in southern California, and I used.

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To kind of follow an older cousin of mine's, Kenya Williams,

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was an athlete who made a mistake in his life.

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Had went to jail and came back and he opened

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up a record store, and within that record store he

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had us selling CDs and stuff like that.

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Around like nineteen ninety eight ninety nine time frame.

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Push the push all the equipment out and start having

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parties there, passing out flyers and you know, charging charging

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the dudes five dollars and charging the girls two dollars

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to come in teenage parties. And that's kind of where

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a lot of my entrepreneurship started, was hosted parties like

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thirteen and fourteen, thirteen and fourteen years old, I can't

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learn how.

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To talk to people.

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Try to get them to pay attention to me. Come

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check out what I'm doing, Come be entertained by this service.

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Or this product.

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Oh you was a bona fide It was fun.

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Hey, from the very very beginning. But that's a good thing.

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Those are good tools for kids to learn.

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That's true. That's true. Yeah, Well, if we go back

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to our youth, there's a level of confidence that we

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often lack. So how did you build that confidence within

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yourself to be able to have the confidence to have

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that hustle mentality.

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That's a deep question.

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It was kind of being forced to practicing, really, because

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with stuff like that, we're all shy. In the beginning,

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everybody is I'm actually people will be surprised. I'm an

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extreme introvert. So I may do a bunch of promotions

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stuff like.

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That and talk to people.

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Everybody thinks, so he's an extrapt But after that I

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got to take like a three hour uh solo walk

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high for those periods to kind of rank back up

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our energy. But early on I learned to be confident.

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I learned that you don't have to you don't have

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to do it all day. Yeah, you just have to

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do it in the moment for what you need to do,

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and just practicing like I'll try it. I even sold

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candy for a period of time around that same age.

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So if you got to knock on somebody's door and say, hey,

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what you like to buy is candy from me, You're

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gonna take a lot of nose no no thank you, no,

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no thank you and.

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Then you get some yeses in there.

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So basically the practice got me over feeling bad about

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the nose and accentuating the yes. It's the positives of

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it over time, so I try, I try to keep

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that same mentality.

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People gonna say no a lot, that's just life. But

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it's the note.

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It's the yeses that you're looking for, and the note

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the nose will teach you something.

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Yeses are the rewards, those are the lessons.

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See, that's that deep. That's deep because there's a lot

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of us that think we would need to have yes

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or we would get yes all the time. But there's

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a lot of doors that get slammed in your face,

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and there's a lot of times you get knocked down,

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and how many times you get back up is really

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not important. The key is to actually get it done.

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Do what you love, do what you're passionate about. Whether

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those doors keep closing, one will eventually open. So I

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love that mentality to be so young though. I love that.

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Was that something that was instilled in you, like from

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your parents or like how was your upbringing?

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Water was said, it was instilled in me from my mom.

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She didn't have any choice, she had me when she

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was fifteen years old. So on one hair, here she

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is this young girl that's made what most people would

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consider a mistake. It would shift her life. On the

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other hand, she's brilliant. She was also walking across the

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stage to graduate high school at fifteen with most people

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with her. So but now you got to figure it

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out because now you graduated early. But here you are

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with this child trying to be a grown woman. So

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you don't have any choice but to try to make

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something happen. And day after day, she was always a

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person who just kept trying to have to figure it

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out in any way. She went back and got as

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educated as possible can. She continued to be a lifelong

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learner in her whole life. So I copy, I copy that.

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I had The confidence that she had was like, she

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can learn anything. As long at the information is available,

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she can learn anything. So I kind of take that

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same mentality. There's something out there. I believe I can

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learn it given enough effort. I may not be the

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smartest person in the room or the smartest person in

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the world, but outworking me is gonna be tough. I'm

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gonna make it tough. I got that from her.

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Well, my parents always tell me that there's no instruction

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manual on how to be a good parent or how

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to be a good leader, but there's always a rule

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book when it comes to sport, right, So how did

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you There.

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Are some instructions when.

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It comes to sports, right, like how do you have

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that instruction manual? But also be personable At the same

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time when it comes to not just sports, but other

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people that look to you for.

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Influence, I think it's I try to use the humility

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part of the rule book. I understand that some of

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the stuff in my life was shaped by sports I

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got to go to I could have been in Southeast

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San Diego going to high school, but because I could

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play basketball right track, I ended up at a better school,

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which enabled me to learn technology and stuff like that

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enable me to make more money later. But at the

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same time, mistakes I made made me take steps back.

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So when I look at the being personable, I look

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at young athletes, which most of them are always young,

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and I say, I made the same mistakes that you made,

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So I'm not going to judge you, But at the

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same time, I'm also going to be honest with.

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You about where this path is leading you and.

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If you want to go to a positive path or

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be the greatest or be the best at what you do,

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I'm also tell you how you can do that. Don't

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don't do this, don't do that. But I'm always telling

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you you got to outwork the next person because in

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this field, in professional basketball, whatever you minor league or

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the NBA or FEBA, everybody's talented. The difference becomes the

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whoever works harder decisions that you make. But I'll be

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com personable about I be personal by being honest. I'm

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not gonna lie to any of these guys. Here's what

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it is. Here's where I'm feeling, Here's where you're feeling.

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Here's how we can both help help each other succeeds

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as a team. Here's where your career is going. Here's

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where it could go. Here's why it's not here. Here's

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why it's there. Honest honesty. If you're not honest, there's

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no way anybody can fix it. You can't fix you

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can't stand on lies and try to get to the truth.

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At some point, the truth has to come come through

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and for people to improve.

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Yeah, improvement and honesty it's key. So how did you

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get to where you are now with this title of

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owner and CEO.

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I was in the I wanted to do this when

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I was in the Air Force because we would always

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play basketball. And I was stationed at Virtue On in

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the Kansas area, and I noticed that the American Basketball

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Association had came back.

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So I thought that was pretty amazing.

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I was like, wow, i' still lead that Doctor J

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and George Iceman German and Spencer. Hey what all these

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guys played in and they merged with the NBA.

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It was a big deal.

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And I wanted to start a Kansas team because that's

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where I was stationed at at the time. But I

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just didn't really have a time for it between the

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Air Force and deployments and stuff like that, and so Lord,

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I never forgot about it. So then when I got

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out and I got to the Tampa and Sarasota area,

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I still reached out to the league again to see

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if they had reserves opening or any reservation city market

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reserves available. They had Sarasota, they didn't have Tampa at

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the time. They had Sarasota. So I was like, well,

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that's the start. Let's let's start there build what we can.

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And I always felt like, at the end of the day,

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you're providing opportunity where there was an opportunity because there's

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a lot of talent in that area that nobody will see.

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And here you are employing twelve to fifteen people.

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And the coach and they can build their resume, go

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or see is get paid.

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I'm super excited that we finally got the Tampa.

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Reservation and that took off because these guys are amazing

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straight out the gate, which is very, very rare. But

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the way I got into it was I love entrepreneurship.

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Someone has a new challenge.

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I'm all for.

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Prior that I was doing buying land and I had

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eighteen unit apartment building.

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So I like to break things.

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You know, a lot of was move fast and break

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things only way to learn. So when somebody offers an opportunity,

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I go, Okay, let's see what happens.

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I'm not gonna die. I'll take a shot at it.

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Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Well, when it.

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Became to basketball, it was like right up Violety because

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I grew up loving basketball.

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Definitely, I was absolutely going to take that opportunity.

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So far as great and it's Tampa teems something absurd.

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I'm assuming you've watched Love and Basketball before.

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Hey, it's the greatest movie ever loved, at least one

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of the greatest movies.

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Classic.

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I love the You have this mentality that I've said

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before on a different show that you can't have the

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what if you can't be in the what if lane, Like, oh,

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what if I didn't do that? Or what if I

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didn't do you know, X, Y, and Z. But why

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are you living that what if lifestyle? Just do it?

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So you're like, I like, I like breaking things? Do

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you like breaking things? To see it evolved? So it's

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like you're creating things. You're that guy that breaks things down,

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and you're like, I'm going to create this. I'm going

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to create something that is meaning full, something that will

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help other people, something that will be challenging. But I

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love a challenge. Like that's your that's the vibe that

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I'm getting from you.

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Yes, yeah, that's one eercent. Sure you pegged me right on.

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I mean, that's it. I like to create.

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I think creation is the most important, uh part of

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life really is. Creation is the closest you can get

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to God. And some people don't believe it. God's people

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do but that's the closest you can get. You can

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get to God.

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It is creation. So that you look at things that

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like there are things that amaze me.

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Life amazes me, Death amazed So like birth's amaze me

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because look at that's creation.

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You can't just go out and do that.

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So midwives duelas maternal health, all that stuff.

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Like that amazes me.

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You know, it's learning a lot of it from my

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wife and moms and stuff like that.

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But I look at how important to create.

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You created a human and that human can go on

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to create businesses and employ people and generational wealth and

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all that stuff. That Actually, that's that's to me amazing

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because it's a it's generational impact.

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It's almost like you live forever. If you create something

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and it stands, you live forever.

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So, and I say it a lot. It sounds crazy.

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I say it a lot. These dudes are gonna be

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crazy when I say when.

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I when I copy P Diddy and say you ten

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ten years from now, we'll still be on top. I

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really mean that, right, I genuinely believe that, like this

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is this is forever.

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We don't create anything. We're not playing around with it.

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You're creating something amazing that is going to continue to

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generate opportunities.

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And we've seen players become coaches.

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I've had players who play for us that say, hey, well,

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Andre I'm moving to this city, how do I start

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a team?

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And we've got it and do that.

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So just believe in building, building, really building what you're building,

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then somebody else builds onto it. It just becomes better

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and better over over time or opportunities, and.

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Then I think of the next idea. It's just a

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bunch of there's a million things out there.

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Well I love I love that. You know. When I

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had Jeremiah on before, we talked about brotherhood, unity, teamwork,

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and you're also displaying right now that it's not just

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about you. A lot of times people don't believe in

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the each one teach one, but I'm really big on that.

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You know something, You're gonna be the one to say, hey,

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if you want to do this, I will help you.

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Some people will be like, yeah, you want to do it,

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but I'm not helping you do it. You're going to

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do it on your own because I did X, Y

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and Z work, so now you got to do the work.

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You're more like, no, you want to do it, let

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me help you, let me guide you, and they look

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to you for guidance and the role that you play.

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I'm thinking, like, with everything going on in society, you

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being a black man, being a business owner, you know

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you have obviously a team that looks to you. Do

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you have those tough conversations when it comes to being

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a black man in society?

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Said?

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It was something a little bit that Jeremia and I

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touched on a little bit the last time, just talking

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about how social justice is so important for us to

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be aware. So are you comfortable having those deep conversations

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with your team?

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Absolutely?

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And the interesting factor is so but to get deep,

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a little bit deep into that because it's a good

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conversation is there's just too I have the Sarasota team

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and I have Tampa Bay Fury team.

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The teams are like a teletoo cities.

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Tampa is a bit more diverse, so you get African

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Americans that are a bit more militant and outspoken, where

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Sarasota is a whole different culture. It's old white money

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to be quite un So, I have to walk the

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fine line of talking to kids in Sarasota or younger

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than Sarasota scene. You have to watch out for this,

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watch out for that, but you also have to stand together.

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Manatee County is where Sarasota Sarahsoa county. Manitee County is Okay.

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They have a Department of Justice investigation open on how

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they were treating juvenile when they arrested them. They were

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rough and young me enough for zero reason and grown

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men at the same time. So these guys are being harassed,

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not all of them, but I mean it happens.

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We all are.

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It's just unfortunately part of the culture in America and

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expecting to make it the basketball.

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Games and cheer on these fans at the same time.

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So the complication is the same people who sit in

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those stands in Sarasota and in Tampa, who cheer you

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on if you were to be pulled over its shot

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by a cop with find excuses as to why you

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deserved it. The fans of you on the court when

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you're entertaining them, when you shining, you're dancing, but outside

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of that, quite often they're not seeing you as fully human.

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On the back end of that, as an owner, these

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are friends and brothers to me. I know that they

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are human. They have families like I have families, kids

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and stuff like that. So teaching them to understand and

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especially when you're young.

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But that's a fan, not a friend. He likes that

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you can dumb, but he don't like you. That's tough.

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Yeah, it is a very complex conversation because now you're

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having a young man shake hands and be nice to

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people in order to do business when that person doesn't

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care anything about them and I'm keenly aware with the

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same attitude that's shown towards me. There's definitely tough conversations,

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but we're gonna happen. Like we debate with the American

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Basketball Association right now every day they come out and say,

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you will play the National Anthemtic Games, tam Bay. If

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you're in the Sarasota a Maanite, you have never played.

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The National Anthtermatic Games because.

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When both teams started it was after Trey Von Martin.

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So we won't I own the team, decide what you

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want to do.

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It gets you tough.

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We'll start our own league, but I can't play that

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while this is still happening and act like it's okay.

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At the same time, there's a stand that we take

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that I've always taken my whole whole life.

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It's just how it was raised back.

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I think I got a profile pick and it's me

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a like seven years old with the baby teeth and

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the African medallion all that. Yeah, that's who I've been.

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You know, weren't been my bond since that long. You

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can't leave that because there's no amount of money to

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leave that, because you'll dine with the money.

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They'll pull you out of your car and shoot you

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with the money.

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And that they'll say, okay, Andre, you own two teams here,

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you've been great, we've been fans.

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Of your games.

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Oh well yeah, and won't care nothing less about it.

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And then the people will were in the stand to

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say to your friends. They'll hop on Facebook and comment

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or maybe he resisted, well maybe he did this, and

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he did that. What about his background and when he

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was in third grade he did that. We're very realistic

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with our players. We tell them that fans are business.

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Yeah that's just what it is.

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But families, family fans are business. Unfortunate man.

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But we're not gonna say hed lot of no young

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men about it, because that happens a lot of times

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when you're when you're an athlete, you're kind of put

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on a pedestal early on, so you tend to think

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if you start off in aau at five or six

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years old, quite often you're coming across people who are

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outside of your actual community and culture.

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So you tend to think that you get comfortable with them.

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Relieve they view it one way, but they're only seeing

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you on that court dribbling that ball. When it comes

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down to the full humanity of you. Quite a bit

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of them don't see that. That's why they Lebron should dribble?

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How dare Lebron say? Accountability?

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Yeah?

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Yeah, it's a real real talk conversation that I think.

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You know, when we think of art and people who

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are able to express themselves through music, as soon as

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someone who is in that position like sports, and they

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take a stand on something, everybody they missed that. They're like, no,

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I have a platform. You're looking at me. You know,

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this is a multi million dollar organization. We're going to

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take a stance. This is what we want to do

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because we can and because we have the platform to

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do it. And you may not even look at the

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the little people, you know, the lower class, or however

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you want to label certain people. But if you have

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the ability to spark a conversation, you know you gotta

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do it. You gotta do what's right. You got to

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do with what's in your part.

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That goes back to what you said earlier about the

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what is.

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Often people talk about entrepreneurship or say well what if,

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how dare me not take this chance to do something amazing?

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But that also applies to standing on your principles and

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the social stuff. If you see something that's.

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Wrong, you got to live with that. You didn't say.

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Nothing, that you stood in silence, or that you complied

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with something that just wasn't right. And that goes for

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racism but also goes raape culture and sexism too. Like

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you didn't say that was wrong. It's something happens what

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it always does.

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You gotta stand. You got to stand by that. And

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you're gonna remember that.

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Wow, when I had a chance to say somebody say

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something just because I needed to keep that job, because

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I needed that funding or I needed.

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That sponsor tell it.

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Wow, you stand for something or you fall for everything.

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Woo. This was a surprisingly good conversation.

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Day.

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You know, Tampa Bay Fury. That's we're gonna tell you

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the truth and tamp.

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That's all it tell it, tell it how it is.

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No chaser.

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That's freedom. If you think you got a lot of

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you want to go feel this free?

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Yeah? Wow, I would love to continue this conversation because

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it's all true, all true. This is the real talk

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chat right here. You have you have some other stuff.

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You guys have some other stuff coming up, some events

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coming up that you.

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Are absolutely yeah, good stuff, well of stuff. We got

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a small business conference on May fifteenth. Oh, that should

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be fun talking to different small businesses about how advertising

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and sports can help them and how we can partner

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with them. But this weekend May first, we're attending the

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an event for the National Pediatric Cancer Association, So we're

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doing a walk round for them. So out there walking

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I go to the fundraise for kids with pediac with casting.

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And stuff like that. After that we have all the

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you know, over the summer players, it'll be a million events.

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Thats what guys going to Mexico and representing just did

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the All Star Game. That's nature basketball and we're back

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for the season or another championship.

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That's that's what we do.

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I feel that's when I can say stuff like that

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I feel a little bit more free.

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It's like, we want a championship.

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What you're gonna do kick us out of the league now.

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I'm always like, what you're gonna do now?

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Ten years from now, we're still we ain't going nowhere?

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Right?

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I know, I know that everything with COVID is you know,

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when it comes to sports, especially basketball, you're touching people,

479
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You're touching everything, you're touching the ball, you're coughing, you're sneezing.

480
00:23:42.680 --> 00:23:47.279
But how are you how are you guys mentally when

481
00:23:47.559 --> 00:23:50.680
when it comes to COVID, Like, how are you all

482
00:23:50.759 --> 00:23:54.079
prepared mentally to be like, look, we're still gonna have

483
00:23:54.519 --> 00:23:57.359
a great game, We're still gonna win, you know, take

484
00:23:57.400 --> 00:24:03.400
these wins, But how are you all mentally really dealing

485
00:24:03.480 --> 00:24:06.200
with the fact that COVID is still a real thing.

486
00:24:07.599 --> 00:24:11.559
Some people in our communities are not getting vaccinated. So

487
00:24:12.720 --> 00:24:15.160
how are you guys preparing mentally for everything?

488
00:24:16.519 --> 00:24:19.079
Initially it was a tough one because you know, we're running.

489
00:24:19.079 --> 00:24:22.319
We ran into challenges where you know, you couldn't necessarily

490
00:24:22.359 --> 00:24:23.000
find the gym.

491
00:24:22.880 --> 00:24:25.319
Because most gyms were closs And then.

492
00:24:25.200 --> 00:24:28.240
Finally when a few gyms opened, what we did was

493
00:24:28.319 --> 00:24:31.279
ask for people to donate supplies, so we had all

494
00:24:31.319 --> 00:24:34.440
the all the supplies we can handle as far as.

495
00:24:36.240 --> 00:24:38.160
Cleaning supplies, masks.

496
00:24:37.839 --> 00:24:41.319
Things of that nature, and temperature checks right at the door.

497
00:24:42.359 --> 00:24:45.440
But that does change the It changed the culture of

498
00:24:45.559 --> 00:24:48.839
mentality because beforehand you come, you off right into the gym.

499
00:24:49.559 --> 00:24:50.440
Now you think twice.

500
00:24:50.440 --> 00:24:52.200
It's like, oh, I got to take a temperaure check,

501
00:24:52.200 --> 00:24:54.920
so as I come to the gym, referees have to

502
00:24:54.960 --> 00:25:00.000
wear a mask. So it's certainly challenging. We're not obviously played,

503
00:25:00.079 --> 00:25:00.640
players are not.

504
00:25:00.640 --> 00:25:02.799
Wearing masks during the game while they're playing.

505
00:25:03.160 --> 00:25:06.640
But the fact that you can't necessarily changing the habits

506
00:25:06.680 --> 00:25:09.359
of I'm gonna adapt this guy up or high five

507
00:25:10.119 --> 00:25:13.079
hug with our score, that's been tough. Sometimes players are

508
00:25:13.079 --> 00:25:17.119
consistent with it, sometimes they're not. But we're also very

509
00:25:17.160 --> 00:25:21.759
careble to make sure that we're taking showers and sanitizing

510
00:25:21.920 --> 00:25:24.119
after games, because you know you're going back to kids

511
00:25:24.119 --> 00:25:25.440
and family and things of that nature.

512
00:25:25.920 --> 00:25:27.200
We made sure that no fans.

513
00:25:27.200 --> 00:25:30.720
We didn't have fans in the stands this season, will

514
00:25:30.759 --> 00:25:33.359
probably have limited amount over the summer.

515
00:25:33.640 --> 00:25:34.960
They kind of roll back into that.

516
00:25:35.079 --> 00:25:39.240
But mentally, I think players have different views concerned the vaccinations,

517
00:25:39.720 --> 00:25:44.880
even myself. Obviously, people are fearful. You know, we're in

518
00:25:44.920 --> 00:25:50.240
a thirty players, two teams and minorities. So we have

519
00:25:50.359 --> 00:25:53.759
that history of being concerned about trusting.

520
00:25:53.480 --> 00:25:56.279
Vaccinations and what the US government.

521
00:25:56.720 --> 00:26:00.799
Puts out because historically speaking, there's been to where they

522
00:26:00.799 --> 00:26:04.720
couldn't been trusted, couldn't be trusted, uh, to skinny experiments

523
00:26:04.759 --> 00:26:07.599
one of them, but also Johnson and Johnson's experiment in

524
00:26:07.799 --> 00:26:10.759
South America, places where they just settled a few years

525
00:26:10.759 --> 00:26:12.440
ago and had to pay out a bunch of money,

526
00:26:13.759 --> 00:26:18.000
you know, accidentally getting babies sicker, killing babies. To be honest, like,

527
00:26:18.079 --> 00:26:21.720
things of that nature scare our community. And then you

528
00:26:21.759 --> 00:26:26.000
hear these two different views on the vaccinations. Pfizer's ninety

529
00:26:26.039 --> 00:26:29.720
five percent effective, Johnson and Johnson is about sixty six percent,

530
00:26:30.319 --> 00:26:31.319
but it's the one shot.

531
00:26:32.119 --> 00:26:35.319
We're nervous, just like everybody else is. At the same.

532
00:26:35.200 --> 00:26:41.039
Time, there comes a point where science does work, and

533
00:26:41.200 --> 00:26:44.240
so we expect to get vaccinated so that we're not

534
00:26:44.279 --> 00:26:46.480
getting other people sick and to.

535
00:26:46.519 --> 00:26:47.359
Get back out there.

536
00:26:47.559 --> 00:26:51.599
And we have some rollout vaccinations coming to different different

537
00:26:51.599 --> 00:26:53.400
companies where all of our guys work playing most of

538
00:26:53.440 --> 00:26:56.000
our eyes have already been vaccinated because they also work

539
00:26:56.359 --> 00:26:58.480
regular jobs and the jobs that they work.

540
00:26:58.279 --> 00:26:59.960
Were essential, so they got vaccinated.

541
00:27:00.839 --> 00:27:06.759
Well, we're encouraging We're encouraging vaccination because we gotta gotta

542
00:27:06.799 --> 00:27:07.920
get past the point.

543
00:27:08.079 --> 00:27:08.640
Absolutely.

544
00:27:09.640 --> 00:27:14.640
Yeah, wow with with research and we're encouraging vaccination people.

545
00:27:14.839 --> 00:27:18.640
People shouldn't know. It's risk for sure, but we got

546
00:27:18.640 --> 00:27:20.440
to get past it and it's going to be all right.

547
00:27:20.480 --> 00:27:22.319
I might be one of the first ones, may sixth

548
00:27:22.480 --> 00:27:24.519
of our team outside of a couple.

549
00:27:24.319 --> 00:27:26.839
Of the guys to take it to accept that example,

550
00:27:26.839 --> 00:27:31.400
I probably will be. Is we got to move forward

551
00:27:31.920 --> 00:27:34.519
and make sure everybody's okay. Well I have children and families.

552
00:27:35.279 --> 00:27:38.480
Yeah, I mean I think that it's a personal decision

553
00:27:38.759 --> 00:27:43.720
for everybody. I hate the fact that it'll be one

554
00:27:44.640 --> 00:27:49.359
black person that speaks for all of us. I'm like, yeah,

555
00:27:50.160 --> 00:27:55.039
you don't speak for me, and don't guilt me for

556
00:27:55.039 --> 00:27:58.200
for taking care of my health at the end of

557
00:27:58.279 --> 00:28:03.160
the day. I mean, there are there are doctors that

558
00:28:03.200 --> 00:28:05.720
are coming out saying that you know, long term, there

559
00:28:05.759 --> 00:28:10.119
might be side effects two, three, four years from now,

560
00:28:10.160 --> 00:28:15.279
But I need to worry about today. Okay, I need

561
00:28:15.279 --> 00:28:15.440
to go.

562
00:28:17.240 --> 00:28:17.960
What's in front of you.

563
00:28:18.920 --> 00:28:22.519
Yes, yes, and and.

564
00:28:22.119 --> 00:28:25.119
And then I hope is that science can somewhat have

565
00:28:25.160 --> 00:28:28.359
a predictor of what those side effects might be react

566
00:28:28.400 --> 00:28:29.680
to that, well, they do come.

567
00:28:30.319 --> 00:28:33.160
Yeah, and we've been pretty good. Humans have been pretty

568
00:28:33.160 --> 00:28:35.880
good at that. We survived this long cell. It's crazy.

569
00:28:37.160 --> 00:28:41.599
Well, I mean, yeah, can we go back to the

570
00:28:41.640 --> 00:28:47.279
toilet tissue and the paper towels. I don't understand why

571
00:28:47.440 --> 00:28:53.079
there was like limited supplies of paper towels and toilet tissue.

572
00:28:53.920 --> 00:28:58.119
Why everybody was taken the toilet tissue and the paper

573
00:28:58.160 --> 00:29:03.759
towels as if they never have tissue before. Did you

574
00:29:03.799 --> 00:29:05.400
guys experience I don't know if.

575
00:29:05.319 --> 00:29:08.960
It was I heard about it, did not experience it.

576
00:29:09.000 --> 00:29:11.400
That's kind of what kept shocking be. I don't know

577
00:29:11.440 --> 00:29:12.480
if that was limited to.

578
00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:15.880
What I did look into it. It was more like.

579
00:29:15.839 --> 00:29:18.480
A like a logistical issue.

580
00:29:18.880 --> 00:29:21.279
So if you were in a major city.

581
00:29:21.079 --> 00:29:24.319
Where trucks were still moving supplies and no point did

582
00:29:24.319 --> 00:29:26.480
I go into a store in Tampa and there were

583
00:29:26.519 --> 00:29:28.119
no toilet paper paper talents.

584
00:29:28.720 --> 00:29:30.759
So when I'm watching on TV, I'm like, where are

585
00:29:30.759 --> 00:29:35.240
you New York? Short? There must have been in trouble

586
00:29:35.440 --> 00:29:37.799
moving toilet paper and paper towns in New York for

587
00:29:37.799 --> 00:29:38.400
some reason.

588
00:29:39.039 --> 00:29:41.799
And then you know, once the media gets it, everybody

589
00:29:41.839 --> 00:29:46.839
stays like pandemoniums. No one has toilet paper across the globe. Meanwhile,

590
00:29:46.839 --> 00:29:49.000
people are at the house with lots of toilet paper.

591
00:29:49.960 --> 00:29:53.519
So then somebody goes out and buys twenty boxes of

592
00:29:53.599 --> 00:29:57.440
toilet paper just because because we were already coming to

593
00:29:57.440 --> 00:30:01.680
that doomsday era of prepping type people, scenarybody's doing.

594
00:30:02.519 --> 00:30:05.200
I mean I went to the grocery store and there

595
00:30:05.279 --> 00:30:11.680
was limited supplies of toilet tissue, paper, towels, laundry detergent,

596
00:30:12.319 --> 00:30:17.880
light saw. At one point, lightsol went from five dollars

597
00:30:17.920 --> 00:30:21.160
like the two in the pack to twenty dollars.

598
00:30:22.559 --> 00:30:24.559
So companies trying to make a profit.

599
00:30:25.039 --> 00:30:31.319
I was like, supply yeah, facts, and the media has

600
00:30:31.359 --> 00:30:36.400
a way to strike war fear. So I guess that

601
00:30:36.440 --> 00:30:39.720
would be my last question. When it comes to the

602
00:30:39.759 --> 00:30:44.400
things that you watch and the things that maybe the

603
00:30:44.440 --> 00:30:48.519
team watches, do you ever feel like there's things that's

604
00:30:48.599 --> 00:30:51.559
just overly exaggerated.

605
00:30:52.720 --> 00:30:57.160
Yeah, absolutely and boldly exaggerated. I don't even necessarily mean

606
00:30:57.200 --> 00:30:58.160
it in a bad way.

607
00:30:59.440 --> 00:31:03.799
There's sortable way that the government and science works.

608
00:31:04.680 --> 00:31:06.839
If I tell you. It's kind of like your parents. Sometimes.

609
00:31:06.920 --> 00:31:10.079
If I tell you don't do that because the stove

610
00:31:10.200 --> 00:31:12.359
is high, you may ignore it.

611
00:31:12.880 --> 00:31:15.240
But if I tell you don't do that because the

612
00:31:15.279 --> 00:31:18.079
stove is high, and if you touch the stove twice.

613
00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:21.640
The whole house of blove. Oh wait a minute, better,

614
00:31:21.680 --> 00:31:22.440
I touched the stove.

615
00:31:22.920 --> 00:31:25.680
So the reality is they're making may be more supplies,

616
00:31:26.319 --> 00:31:28.519
but they might say something to let me let me

617
00:31:28.559 --> 00:31:31.599
say it in an extreme way to draw your attention

618
00:31:31.880 --> 00:31:35.759
and to uh get you to care about this and that.

619
00:31:35.839 --> 00:31:38.240
But that's how statistics and all kinds of stuff like

620
00:31:38.319 --> 00:31:38.799
that work.

621
00:31:39.039 --> 00:31:41.519
I say it in this way, then you'll pay more

622
00:31:41.559 --> 00:31:42.200
attention to it.

623
00:31:42.359 --> 00:31:45.279
I'm saying it's right, but it's not shocking for any

624
00:31:45.359 --> 00:31:46.960
government or any not.

625
00:31:46.880 --> 00:31:47.759
Even just the government.

626
00:31:49.240 --> 00:31:52.599
Mcdonaldal's, Popeyes, everybody markets like that.

627
00:31:53.000 --> 00:31:56.519
Sleep Popey's is making chicken forever. No, this is a

628
00:31:56.559 --> 00:32:00.000
spicy chicken. Sound this is different chicken. That's just the same.

629
00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:01.920
Ain't chicken on a briolgia bun.

630
00:32:02.720 --> 00:32:06.519
Put a nice sauce on it taste good. But they

631
00:32:06.920 --> 00:32:09.119
always was making chicken. But if I say it this way,

632
00:32:09.680 --> 00:32:12.119
it'll seem like you should rush out and do something

633
00:32:12.200 --> 00:32:15.160
about it. It's to take action kill. We do it too,

634
00:32:15.680 --> 00:32:17.680
The Tampa Bay Fury does it all the time. We

635
00:32:17.720 --> 00:32:19.440
want you to take an action. We have a comedy

636
00:32:19.480 --> 00:32:21.759
show coming up to June tenth, so we might tend

637
00:32:21.759 --> 00:32:22.400
to say, hey.

638
00:32:22.240 --> 00:32:25.119
Look, there's not a lot of events going on. You

639
00:32:25.160 --> 00:32:27.799
don't know what's gonna happen over the next few months.

640
00:32:27.920 --> 00:32:31.079
We're not lying. The truth is, after this past year

641
00:32:31.119 --> 00:32:32.480
and a half, nobody knows.

642
00:32:32.519 --> 00:32:35.960
So come out while you can go to Tampa A

643
00:32:36.119 --> 00:32:38.319
one three Furry Nation dot com and buy your tickets.

644
00:32:38.359 --> 00:32:40.559
Now, come out and ain't with the champs.

645
00:32:40.599 --> 00:32:42.119
Just in case you don't get to see another event

646
00:32:42.200 --> 00:32:44.640
another panic, come out half one with us a laugh.

647
00:32:44.759 --> 00:32:49.319
We do stuff like that because you never know exactly.

648
00:32:50.200 --> 00:32:53.559
You know. It's funny because I think at some point

649
00:32:53.680 --> 00:32:58.799
everybody was kind of begging for something. They're like, oh, well,

650
00:32:58.839 --> 00:33:04.880
if you oh, when everything opens back up, we will

651
00:33:05.480 --> 00:33:11.759
go everywhere. It's like, when everything opens back up, it

652
00:33:11.839 --> 00:33:14.079
was kind of like everybody was making a promise to themselves.

653
00:33:14.319 --> 00:33:17.200
Everybody was like, oh, well, when everything opens back up,

654
00:33:18.079 --> 00:33:21.480
you know, we going out everywhere wherever we need to be.

655
00:33:21.640 --> 00:33:25.240
We're going We're going there, and we're going there now

656
00:33:27.079 --> 00:33:28.359
once everything opens back up.

657
00:33:28.440 --> 00:33:31.519
I guess the lesson is we didn't really I feel

658
00:33:31.559 --> 00:33:32.960
like the lesson is we didn't really need to go

659
00:33:33.000 --> 00:33:35.519
as many places as we thought, Like some people kind

660
00:33:35.519 --> 00:33:37.240
of got used to it, like you know what, maybe

661
00:33:37.319 --> 00:33:38.200
I didn't need to go out.

662
00:33:39.680 --> 00:33:42.319
I know I did. I kind of enjoyed not going

663
00:33:42.359 --> 00:33:43.039
too many places.

664
00:33:43.039 --> 00:33:45.359
But like I said earlier, I'm an introvert, so I

665
00:33:45.599 --> 00:33:49.440
wasn't too crazy about first place.

666
00:33:50.279 --> 00:33:55.599
You're not You're yeah, I know, but you're you're definitely

667
00:33:55.640 --> 00:33:58.759
not alone because you know, when everything shut down, I

668
00:33:58.799 --> 00:34:01.799
was like, yes, I don't have to make up a

669
00:34:01.799 --> 00:34:07.400
lie about why it can't go somewhere. But now it's yeah,

670
00:34:07.480 --> 00:34:10.880
because well now it's backfiring because everybody's inviting me out somewhere.

671
00:34:10.920 --> 00:34:15.920
And I'm like, I kind of have like anxiety and.

672
00:34:17.880 --> 00:34:19.119
Yeah, I understand.

673
00:34:19.559 --> 00:34:21.199
Sometimes I don't make stuff and people are like, why

674
00:34:21.280 --> 00:34:23.320
isn't that going to that I'll be ready to listen.

675
00:34:23.760 --> 00:34:24.039
I'm not.

676
00:34:24.519 --> 00:34:26.400
It's istant today for that. I'm not up to it.

677
00:34:26.719 --> 00:34:29.400
Not up to it today, this is not the day.

678
00:34:30.440 --> 00:34:35.159
Well where where can everybody find out more information about

679
00:34:35.159 --> 00:34:36.480
these events?

680
00:34:38.039 --> 00:34:41.679
So find us on Facebook, Facebook, and Instagram, and we

681
00:34:41.800 --> 00:34:48.159
got some crazy tiktoks Coach the Bars really yeah.

682
00:34:47.840 --> 00:34:49.920
Oh yeah, we got slam dogs and basketball stuff on

683
00:34:50.039 --> 00:34:50.320
it too.

684
00:34:50.400 --> 00:34:55.719
Of course eight one three Fury on everyday social media

685
00:34:56.119 --> 00:35:00.320
or eight one three Fury Nation dot com for the website.

686
00:35:00.239 --> 00:35:03.760
And you'll see the events page on Facebook up and

687
00:35:03.840 --> 00:35:07.039
know you'll see it's constantly posting all what tickets to advance?

688
00:35:07.239 --> 00:35:07.719
Think of that.

689
00:35:07.760 --> 00:35:15.639
Nature I'm interested in. I'm interested in the TikTok. I

690
00:35:15.679 --> 00:35:15.960
don't know.

691
00:35:16.079 --> 00:35:19.400
I'm when you see, uh you check out check out

692
00:35:20.079 --> 00:35:21.440
Coach the Bars TikTok.

693
00:35:21.639 --> 00:35:22.400
He's having fun.

694
00:35:23.239 --> 00:35:26.800
I'm still trying to this TikTok thing. My daughter is

695
00:35:26.880 --> 00:35:29.760
like she's seven, but she's like a whiz with TikTok.

696
00:35:30.159 --> 00:35:34.400
I just call her the TikTok media manager because.

697
00:35:34.239 --> 00:35:39.039
I don't know how I know what they're doing. I

698
00:35:39.079 --> 00:35:41.199
never learned Snapchat. I still don't go to use it.

699
00:35:41.320 --> 00:35:42.239
Skip that whole face.

700
00:35:43.039 --> 00:35:48.719
Well, but where where can people follow you and get

701
00:35:48.719 --> 00:35:49.840
to know you a little bit better?

702
00:35:51.920 --> 00:35:56.400
Uh? You follow me on Instagram at dre build Uh

703
00:35:56.480 --> 00:35:59.400
because I just d r E d U I L

704
00:35:59.480 --> 00:36:04.360
D really dre build like to create, like to build exact, Facebook,

705
00:36:04.559 --> 00:36:07.599
Dre Spivey and all of them websites the same stuff.

706
00:36:08.639 --> 00:36:11.960
It's all about the building and creation, create opportunities, not

707
00:36:12.079 --> 00:36:15.559
about me, What about life in general and these players

708
00:36:15.559 --> 00:36:18.199
that we provide opportunities for, and the fans in the community.

709
00:36:18.239 --> 00:36:20.199
That's really what the biggest thing is.

710
00:36:20.239 --> 00:36:24.039
So to support the fans and the players, go to

711
00:36:24.079 --> 00:36:24.840
those websites.

712
00:36:24.920 --> 00:36:25.679
You'll come across me.

713
00:36:25.719 --> 00:36:28.960
I ain't all that important. I'll be there, but this

714
00:36:29.039 --> 00:36:30.400
is where all them go to those things.

715
00:36:30.440 --> 00:36:32.920
I ain't going nowhere. I'll be around.

716
00:36:33.639 --> 00:36:38.320
What one piece of advice can you give to others

717
00:36:38.360 --> 00:36:41.639
that they can take with them on their journey moving forward?

718
00:36:44.719 --> 00:36:50.079
Life is it starts, this is going to end. And

719
00:36:50.159 --> 00:36:52.280
so it's like some people will being as ye say.

720
00:36:52.199 --> 00:36:55.079
You only do you gonna do two days? The day

721
00:36:55.119 --> 00:36:57.719
you get in and the day you get out. What

722
00:36:57.840 --> 00:37:00.320
happens in between? Now that's life.

723
00:37:00.639 --> 00:37:03.400
It's two days, the day you're born and the day

724
00:37:03.400 --> 00:37:06.159
you die. Those are there, Those are the givens. It's

725
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everything else in between where you have a chance to

726
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make something happen.

727
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So go make it happen, don't wait for it. Is

728
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the greatest thing fifty cent ever said.

729
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Was I got a lot of living to do before

730
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I die, and I ain't got time to waste.

731
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So let's get it. People should wake up every day

732
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for them like that.

733
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God, before I go, you're gonna know I was here.

734
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Make sure people know you were here before you go.

735
00:37:28.599 --> 00:37:30.559
Make sure you know you was here before you go.

736
00:37:32.400 --> 00:37:32.920
You don't get it.

737
00:37:32.960 --> 00:37:44.880
Twice he said, you got two days. I love this interview.

738
00:37:45.400 --> 00:37:49.599
I love between that you got to living. I love

739
00:37:49.679 --> 00:37:56.800
talking to people that find motivation not just with themselves

740
00:37:56.920 --> 00:38:00.440
or for themselves, but for others, giving it everybody the

741
00:38:00.440 --> 00:38:05.639
opportunity to hear something fresh, refreshing, because I mean, there's

742
00:38:05.639 --> 00:38:09.280
so much stuff going on in the world and everybody

743
00:38:09.320 --> 00:38:14.679
sees it in a different lens. So wow, thank you

744
00:38:14.719 --> 00:38:15.280
for being.

745
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Appreciate you for having me.

746
00:38:19.519 --> 00:38:21.760
I appreciate you for having Jeremiah and in the future,

747
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Coach savars On here.

748
00:38:24.039 --> 00:38:27.519
You like this with a whole character. You know, he's

749
00:38:27.519 --> 00:38:29.960
smooth and uh, he's gonna tell you the real. That's

750
00:38:29.960 --> 00:38:32.639
the real. Don't really tell you he is.

751
00:38:32.679 --> 00:38:33.480
He from the South.

752
00:38:35.880 --> 00:38:41.599
Yeah, he's from from Tampa, Florida. Down here. We got

753
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a kind of coach.

754
00:38:43.599 --> 00:38:46.079
I was gonna say, do we consider Tampa, Florida to

755
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be the South, I would say so.

756
00:38:50.440 --> 00:38:52.559
I mean, if Miami is considered in the South.

757
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South, I'm talking about Miami, and why not.

758
00:38:57.800 --> 00:38:58.639
I'm Miami.

759
00:38:59.000 --> 00:39:02.039
Shut up. Shout out to my mom who's in Miami.

760
00:39:02.239 --> 00:39:04.199
She always wants me to shock her out. She always

761
00:39:04.239 --> 00:39:07.039
listens to my show. She's my number one fan and

762
00:39:07.079 --> 00:39:07.599
I love her.

763
00:39:07.840 --> 00:39:10.360
Yeah, I love South Florida. Everybody in three h five,

764
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five six one all that. I love y'all.

765
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If y'all got teams down there, tell them come holler

766
00:39:15.360 --> 00:39:17.639
at us and we'll schedule the games. You know.

767
00:39:17.679 --> 00:39:19.559
We so the chance came in because we did the

768
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champs more time. Since we are.

769
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So basketball is what we do, what we love, and

770
00:39:27.559 --> 00:39:33.480
who we are. It's a journey toward our true selves

771
00:39:31.079 --> 00:39:36.880
are to create and provide opportunities for athletes to take

772
00:39:36.920 --> 00:39:39.800
it to the next level. And you know, every time

773
00:39:39.840 --> 00:39:42.360
you listen to my show, you leveling up because I

774
00:39:42.400 --> 00:39:47.119
got some amazing guests. So make sure you subscribe to

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this channel and follow me on all social media platforms

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