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Glenn Robinson III Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations. I am your host, Rashwan McDonald.
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  Speaker 1: I recognized that we all have different definitions of success.
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  Speaker 1: For some insercisable paycheck. Mine is helping people wake up
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  Speaker 1: and inspiring them to accomplish their goals and live their
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  Speaker 1: very best life. These are my passions and that's what
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  Speaker 1: I'm want to do for you. I want you to
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  Speaker 1: stop tripping over small challenges and prepare to rise above
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  Speaker 1: bigger obstacles than life will present to you. My next guest,
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  Speaker 1: Glenn Robinson the third is an NBA basketball player. That's
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  Speaker 1: what you know when you see somebody, but that's all
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  Speaker 1: you think. But life is more than just being an
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  Speaker 1: NBA basketball player. His A r I Foundation, which stands
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  Speaker 1: for Angels are really indeed, as a nonprofit organization aimed
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  Speaker 1: at empowering fathers and helping create deeper bonds between fathers
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  Speaker 1: and their children. They're also they also provide resources to
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  Speaker 1: help elevate fatherless children and families. Glenn was inspired to
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  Speaker 1: launch his initiative after the birth of his daughter Ariana
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  Speaker 1: or Arianna help him superstand it correctly, and wanted to
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  Speaker 1: trying to light on the importance of the relationship between
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  Speaker 1: children and their fathers. Glenn highlights fathers and their stories
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  Speaker 1: on this Instagram page and wants to shine in light
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  Speaker 1: on some of the amazing work they're doing. Please work
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  Speaker 1: with the money making conversation, my man, Glenn Robinson, the
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  Speaker 1: third are you doing today? I had to get a
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  Speaker 1: lot out there live before I spoke to you, man,
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  Speaker 1: A lot, a lot, because you know the thing about it.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, what are you? What are you calling
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  Speaker 1: it from right now? I'm calling it from Indiana, Indiana, Indiana,
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  Speaker 1: So I'm based in Atlanta, Georgias, syndicated nationally UM podcasts
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  Speaker 1: and all that good stuff series XM. The beauty of
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  Speaker 1: bringing the individual or what I wanted to talk to
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  Speaker 1: you about first of all was why the why was
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  Speaker 1: their need for you to do a foundation like this.
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  Speaker 1: I think that is a need, you know, in our community,
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  Speaker 1: especially our Black communities, to feel that that that for
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  Speaker 1: us fathers, you know, first off, and to feel that
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  Speaker 1: fatherhood if the father is not around, you know, meaning
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  Speaker 1: just stepping up and empowering other parents, other fathers, UM
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  Speaker 1: doing what you can to help UM. You know, our
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  Speaker 1: young kids grow up in today's society, I think they
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  Speaker 1: need all a mentorship and all the help that they need.
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  Speaker 1: And having a daughter myself and going through this process.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I just know how much my daughter means
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  Speaker 1: to me, and as she grows every day is important,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So if I'm able to help other people
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  Speaker 1: and just have that same type of impact in their
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  Speaker 1: lives and spread that that that knowledge, you know, around,
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  Speaker 1: I think that we can we can start to have
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  Speaker 1: more successful communities and more successful children in our communities.
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  Speaker 1: That's really important that you say that. Really, I I
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  Speaker 1: have a daughter, Uh, She's only child, and just having
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  Speaker 1: a child in general or giving life really changed my
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  Speaker 1: perspective because in a way, you know, we all live
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  Speaker 1: a selfish life. We just want to do what's what's
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  Speaker 1: best for us, what's what we gotta do to get
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  Speaker 1: what we want. And when you have a child, that
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  Speaker 1: changes your value system. Talk about how to change your
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  Speaker 1: value system, Glenn. Yeah, it changed a lot, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I think being a professional athlete, you know, I just
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  Speaker 1: finished my six season. Uh, I finished with the Philadelphia
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  Speaker 1: has seventy six is this year, um, and I'm now
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  Speaker 1: a free agent. But looking at how I was as
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  Speaker 1: a rookie and then now after six years, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I have a daughter who's to um. You know, my
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  Speaker 1: time management changed, you know, my responsibilities obviously changed. You know.
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  Speaker 1: UM obviously my finances and what I'm doing with my
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  Speaker 1: money UM changed a lot. You know. So it matures
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  Speaker 1: you and it makes you grow up, um in several
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  Speaker 1: different ways, you know. And I think that if it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't for my daughter, UM, you know, I just see
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  Speaker 1: how far you know back that you tend to be
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  Speaker 1: and you think that you know everything, but you really don't,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and and and you know it's funny how
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  Speaker 1: how that how that comes out. It really is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I know that. Uh. I would tell people the the
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  Speaker 1: best time I had with my daughter, would not she
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  Speaker 1: when you know, when she was about gets up to
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  Speaker 1: about eight marks, that's when she wasn't able to push off.
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  Speaker 1: Then they started pushing off then as they think they
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  Speaker 1: ruled the world. But when she was just falling asleep
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  Speaker 1: on my chests and you know, laying next to me
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  Speaker 1: and just just barely you know, you use proper upglande
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  Speaker 1: and then they leaned on one side because they didn't
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  Speaker 1: have any also control. To me, man, those those memories
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  Speaker 1: stick with me. Man, that all the memories stick with me.
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  Speaker 1: But that memory of it, just being able to fall
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  Speaker 1: asleep on my chest and and lay next to me,
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  Speaker 1: and just realizing that how much power I have, and
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  Speaker 1: shaping a mind, how much power I have, and delivering
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  Speaker 1: a good person to this world. I'm sure when I
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  Speaker 1: read your intro and I read the research on you,
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  Speaker 1: it really almost messed you up a little in a
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  Speaker 1: good way. The responsibility him, Yeah, yeah, yeah, it did. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You know, first off, I thought I was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously being a basketball player. You know, I thought my
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  Speaker 1: first kid was gonna be a boy. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: were gonna play basketball. You know. I thought that it
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  Speaker 1: was gonna be all my way, you know, and and
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  Speaker 1: and and God and life got a funny sense of
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  Speaker 1: you and to you know how you least expected and
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  Speaker 1: you know, and and my biggest blessing in my life
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  Speaker 1: has been my daughter, I think just because of the
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  Speaker 1: alleys that I've been able to create, you know, surrounding her.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the reason why I started the foundation is um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I didn't have a boy, you know, my
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  Speaker 1: last name in a sense. You know, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: men tend to worry about that, you know, And I
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  Speaker 1: think that I just wanted to show her my genuine
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  Speaker 1: love and create something that she'll see and look back
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  Speaker 1: one day and she'll pick up this foundation because it's
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  Speaker 1: named after her already, and she'll she'll realize, you know,
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  Speaker 1: what we've created, and how many people that we've helped,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and growing up and and as she grows, Um,
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  Speaker 1: I do have that influence on her life. And I think,
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  Speaker 1: like you said, that's the biggest thing that we can
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  Speaker 1: control as parents is you know, we we do have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of influence in their lives as they tend
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  Speaker 1: to get older, you know, so that um, they're going
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  Speaker 1: in the right path, you know, whether that's racism, whether
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  Speaker 1: that's schooling and education, whether that's you know, career paths,
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  Speaker 1: whatever that is. I think that they contend to kind
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  Speaker 1: of put put themselves on a decent past if they
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  Speaker 1: had that influence around it. You know, we're talking about
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  Speaker 1: changing people's lives. We're talking about controlling destiny. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: this season, you played for the Philadelphia seventy sixers and
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  Speaker 1: you got to experience the bubble down in Orlando, Florida,
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  Speaker 1: and basically you didn't have control of your life anymore.
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  Speaker 1: At that point, I believe. Can you tell everybody I
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  Speaker 1: had cg Color alone that last week and he had
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  Speaker 1: me laughing just talking about how I was from your perspective,
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  Speaker 1: and tell us that this walks through the steps of
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  Speaker 1: how controlled the testing process of living life in the bubble.
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  Speaker 1: If there was some good thing, tell us about it.
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  Speaker 1: The annoying things you can tell about, tell us about it,
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  Speaker 1: because you had no control of your life at that point. Glenn, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think the hardest decision was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they gave us a choice, do we want to go
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  Speaker 1: or not? You know, do you want to receive your
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  Speaker 1: paycheck and go to this bubble? And we didn't know
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  Speaker 1: anything much about the virus at that point, and we
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  Speaker 1: didn't know anything what this bubble was gonna be like.
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  Speaker 1: So I had to make the decision to leave my
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  Speaker 1: two year old daughter, which was hard, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't want to leave my teammates down. I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to go do my job. I wanted to go try
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  Speaker 1: to win a championship. And then, um, my main concern
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  Speaker 1: concern was just staying. Say, you know, so if we
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  Speaker 1: had to test every day, that's what we had to do.
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  Speaker 1: Even though like you said, it wasn'tnoying, but um, we
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  Speaker 1: test literally every day for the coronavirus um and they
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  Speaker 1: would stick the Q tip up your nose um, and
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  Speaker 1: they would swab us a mouth and and nose every
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  Speaker 1: single day. Um. You know, our first two days there,
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  Speaker 1: we were in quarantine. Uh, you couldn't leave your rooms.
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  Speaker 1: And they would bang on your door and just drop
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  Speaker 1: your food, you know, at your door, and you will
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  Speaker 1: open it. Nobody would be there. You grab your door
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  Speaker 1: and close it. You grab your food and close the
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  Speaker 1: door and then open you up your box lunch or
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  Speaker 1: boxes dinner, you know. And that was the first two days. Um,
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  Speaker 1: they're sprinting down the hall you COVID nature not even
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  Speaker 1: on the hallway no more if it was there. That's
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  Speaker 1: that's funny man, you know. But my overall experience, I
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  Speaker 1: think it was a lot better than I thought it
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  Speaker 1: was gonna be. Um, you know, the food got better.
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  Speaker 1: They started opening up things for us, such you know
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  Speaker 1: susy gough. Um we could go. You know, they had
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  Speaker 1: a pool for us, you know, allowance for us, um,
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  Speaker 1: a bar for us. It was it was a lot
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  Speaker 1: of different things, a barbershop. Um, so there was life
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  Speaker 1: started to get a little bit better after day probably
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  Speaker 1: thirty year around there, but I was I was trapped
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  Speaker 1: in there for forty five days before we lost and
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  Speaker 1: and and we exited out and came home. M But
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  Speaker 1: that was an experience that I'm gonna tell my daughter
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  Speaker 1: about my grandkids about. UM. You know, a lot a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people won't be able to experience that. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm just thankful that I came out of it healthy
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  Speaker 1: and and and still you know, remaining the same and
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  Speaker 1: so so and so far, no one's tested positive for COVID.
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  Speaker 1: The teen at the NBA bubble, they haven't, you know,
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  Speaker 1: And I think that that's only know that you can
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  Speaker 1: do that. You're gonna have sports, you have to do
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  Speaker 1: it in the forum that they did, and it was
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  Speaker 1: hard to do. It was strict, and they spent a
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  Speaker 1: lot of money, I think a hundred and fifty million
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  Speaker 1: to keep us safe. But I think if you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: do it, you have to do it like that, if
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  Speaker 1: you want to keep people safe. Well, the more important
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  Speaker 1: thing is that, just like me, Glenn, I'm speaking to
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  Speaker 1: Glenn Robinson, the third UH. He's UH plays currently for
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  Speaker 1: their Philadelphia seventy sixers. The name sounds familiar. He has
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  Speaker 1: a father father University of Michigan shop shooting Dad. I
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  Speaker 1: remember their run. I remember that run. Man, oh boy,
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  Speaker 1: tell when they run and then it came to NBA. Man,
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  Speaker 1: I just hate that shot, man, I hate it. And
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  Speaker 1: it's like Steph Curry shot, you know when it goes
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  Speaker 1: up and like how could he miss? Type shot? And
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  Speaker 1: that was your father's gift and you followed your father
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  Speaker 1: was It wasn't an option that Glenn to not play basketball?
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  Speaker 1: Can you play tennants? Can you play for my wife?
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  Speaker 1: Receiver been the next Julius Joe and Julian June. I
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  Speaker 1: can't think of his name right there being a wide
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  Speaker 1: receive it. What were your options there? Brother? He just
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  Speaker 1: looked at you put a ball in your hand when
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  Speaker 1: you can well basketball? That was it? What was apting.
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  Speaker 1: It's funny I tell people story all the time. I
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  Speaker 1: was born premature. So I was born three months early
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  Speaker 1: and I was two two months in the incubator and
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  Speaker 1: my dad and mom put a little produce, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they put a little mini basketball and my incubator when
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  Speaker 1: I was young. So I like to tell everybody I've
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  Speaker 1: been playing ball since I was I was in the
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  Speaker 1: incubator six months. But no, you know, that was one
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  Speaker 1: of the things I was always grateful for my mom
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  Speaker 1: and dad, especially my dad being a number one pick
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  Speaker 1: um you know, in nine before and really being a
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  Speaker 1: man at that in that air. Um. He never forced
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  Speaker 1: it on me. You know, I played football growing up.
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  Speaker 1: I played other sports growing up, but I fell in
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  Speaker 1: love with basketball and I followed his footsteps in that sense.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, I think that I've always tried to
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  Speaker 1: remain you know, a different person, you know, and not
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  Speaker 1: just follow his foot us, but create different paths, you know,
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  Speaker 1: throughout my career to kind of separate me. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: he never had a foundation, um, but he did give
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  Speaker 1: back to the kids of Gary, Indiana where we're from,
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  Speaker 1: and what holds a free basketball camp every year. Um.
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  Speaker 1: So I continue to do that, that same thing, and
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  Speaker 1: on top of that, I'm doing my foundation. Angels are
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  Speaker 1: real indeed who were helping empower other fathers. So I
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  Speaker 1: try to take what he's done and model his example,
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  Speaker 1: but also continue to make it better and elevate it
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  Speaker 1: even more and reach even more people, because, um, the
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  Speaker 1: more people we can reach, even if it's just a
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  Speaker 1: few kids who knows how the allives with change. You
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  Speaker 1: know what, I'm glad, uh, I'm enjoying this interview with you.
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  Speaker 1: Your your very unique voice, and then you just happen
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  Speaker 1: to be able to dribble a little basketball, okay, and
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  Speaker 1: and I respect And I'm gonna tell you I'm one
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  Speaker 1: of thettle You know, everybody think they can play bond,
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  Speaker 1: but I can really play ball. But I was one
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  Speaker 1: of them hard headed people. I thought the coach is
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  Speaker 1: going to eventually come to a neighborhood park, see me
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  Speaker 1: and tell me I can start. I didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: go out there because that was I was that arrogant,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I was as I was, as the neighbor
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  Speaker 1: would say, I was all park GLn I was all park.
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  Speaker 1: I was a bad boy and uh and so. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, when I look at the NBA and I
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  Speaker 1: look at the ability to play an NBA, man, that's
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  Speaker 1: special man. You know, that's that's a unique talent. What
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  Speaker 1: does it take to be uh uh NBA player? Because
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  Speaker 1: I from a mindset standpoint, from a physical standpoint, I
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  Speaker 1: knew what I could do. But I know I didn't
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  Speaker 1: have the ability because first of all, I didn't have
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  Speaker 1: the discipline to be an NBA player, because I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: even I wouldn't even auditioned or going for the basketball
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  Speaker 1: practice because I thought I was better than everybody else.
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  Speaker 1: So what does it take to be an NBA player? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think the biggest things that I've noticed, and like
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  Speaker 1: we talked about, I just finished my sixth season in
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  Speaker 1: the NBA, So you know, for whatever it's worth, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I've been able to stick in this league after seeing
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people come in and out the league.
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  Speaker 1: I was drafted second I was drafted second round and
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  Speaker 1: it's only a small the centers of players that when
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  Speaker 1: you went pro. I was mad at you. I was
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  Speaker 1: mad at you. I was like, what is he doing?
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  Speaker 1: What is he? It was a good Missigan team too,
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  Speaker 1: what do he doing? What he? Continue with? Just I
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  Speaker 1: just want to get that out. I just want to
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  Speaker 1: get that out. Years I was young, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: had just turned twenties, you know, but and I had
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  Speaker 1: no idea about the whole business. But um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think after being around now for a few years, UM,
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  Speaker 1: what really separates you know, NBA players and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of players that I've seen, and um, discipline and all
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  Speaker 1: those things that you've said, But just to break it
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  Speaker 1: down to simple terms, is whatever you got going on
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  Speaker 1: in your life, whether as women, whether as finance issues,
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  Speaker 1: his family issues, kids, whatever that's going on in your life,
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  Speaker 1: you have to find some way. When you were able
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  Speaker 1: to come onto the court everything that happens in those lines,
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  Speaker 1: you're able to take your discipline and your hard work
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  Speaker 1: and you're able to turn it into success by focusing
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  Speaker 1: and locking in. You know, when when when this distractions
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  Speaker 1: out there and you're not able to focus your mind, um,
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  Speaker 1: it can really mess you up. You know. And NBA
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  Speaker 1: players and athletes in general, we already got a lot
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  Speaker 1: going on. The money that's thrown at us people, that's
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  Speaker 1: thrown at us um. And and that discipline is what
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  Speaker 1: you have to have. Well, you know I've been uh,
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  Speaker 1: but I participate in the high levels with say, in
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  Speaker 1: the entertainment game, So I know discipline is important because
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  Speaker 1: it does come to you. It always amazes me how
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  Speaker 1: I'm financially able to do a lot of things, but
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  Speaker 1: I get free meals, I can get discount on my clothes,
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  Speaker 1: and my wife just looks at me to go, really,
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  Speaker 1: really this is gonna be and uh. And because I
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: always make a point of now I got you. I
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  Speaker 1: gotta I paid when I go because it's because I'm
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  Speaker 1: an entrepreneur. So I know being an entrepreneur, you know
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  Speaker 1: you have to be with respect people and and and
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  Speaker 1: tell them that their brain has value. And so when
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  Speaker 1: I look at you and and and this conversation the
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  Speaker 1: first time we ever talked. But I as a as
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  Speaker 1: a person who talks to a lot of people, Glenn, Um,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a fan. Just just this conversation, and I want
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  Speaker 1: to maintain a relationship with you because your your your
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  Speaker 1: your success and your your your brand is beyond the court.
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  Speaker 1: It's beyond the court. Man. I don't know if anybody
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  Speaker 1: told you that, but just hearing how you talk, you
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  Speaker 1: know you God just gave you the gift, your gift
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  Speaker 1: at someplace else, brother, and you just need to find
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  Speaker 1: it and hold on to it and get the right
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  Speaker 1: people around you. And I'm not telling you to quick
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  Speaker 1: the NBA. I'm just telling you this this foundation. You know,
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  Speaker 1: uh that you started the mission this to empower fathers
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  Speaker 1: with the central resources that will allow them to be
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  Speaker 1: the best dads they can be. We will also provide
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  Speaker 1: assistance to fatherless children and families. Tell us about that
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  Speaker 1: part providing assistance to fatherless children and families. How does
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: that work? Glenn Robinson the third Yeah, when I first,
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: you know, started my foundation, Um, I was playing for
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: the Warriors at the beginning of this year. And uh,
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: there was a there was a family and my building
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  Speaker 1: who had just one day they placed off a lottery. Uh.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: They didn't have, you know, very much money. Uh they
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: they they you know, income wasn't very high and what
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: they were paying for rent was very low because they
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: wanted to through a lottery. Um. But she couldn't get
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: in the door. I was just moving in as well,
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: and myself and my brother here you're younger than me,
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: three hundred pounds, big dude. You know, he actually played football,
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: I hope. So, so we helped this lady out. Her
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: name was miss c c and um she broke down
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  Speaker 1: to the front desk. Um, you know, thank you to
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: Glenn and Jelyn for for the help, and would love
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: to cook for them one day. Um. So we ended
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: up going in and to her spot and she cooked
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: us food fried chicken, mac and cheese. I hadn't had
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: a home cooking meal in a while, you know, I
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: wrote a lot, but that's a meal fried ticket. You
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: already starting at the at the at the if they
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: said that at the core of good home cooked meal,
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: right there, brother exactly. So, So we were getting ready
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  Speaker 1: to eat and my brother and I we sit down
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: and she just had two chairs, Um, you know, to
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: to just patio picnic chairs. Um, and you know, we ate.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: And after that, my brother lived at me and he
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: was like, you know, you've been talking about this foundation.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: I think the first family. I think the perfect opportunity
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: would be to help them. Um, you gotta get them
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: a table at least. And I was like, you know what,
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: you're right, and we went A couple of weeks later.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: I surprised her, told her that we're gonna help get lunch.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: I was gonna take her out. Um, she does her husband,
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: she's actually been involved in, you know, domestic violence. She
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: has two children, no father involved in the house. And
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: she's worked two or three jobs her you know, their
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: whole lives. Um, and spend her last thirty dollars to
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: prepare that meal for my brother and not because we
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: watched her getting the house. Um, And I told her
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: we were gonna go get some lunch. Um. I furnished
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: her whole apartment twenty six pieces of furniture, and they
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: were sleeping on the ground, all three of them, and
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: they now got bed to sleep on that night. UM.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: And she she just called me the other day and
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: her son just became a father and she's now a grandmother.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: And I still maintain that relationship. And Um, those are
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  Speaker 1: the type of families, UM, that we that we helped
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: when we talk about fatherless children, and and and and
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: her son, UM actually told me that I'm the reason
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: why he wanted to get a job. He went and
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: got h he just started as an electrician. Um, he's
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: on a path of success and as a father. So
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: those those stories and those type of things that we do,
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: that mean a lot more than, like you said, anything
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: that I can do on the basketball court. I'm able
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: to help that family, take them basically from off the streets.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: And now that because I spent a couple of thousand
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: dollars you know, on them, not even a lot of money,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: but to get them in a decent bed at night.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: That's what it's about. You know. It's really interesting, man,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: because I've been fortunate to change people's lives, you know,
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: with with emotional assistance, physical assistance, financial assistance, and people
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: just want to let you know that they're human home.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: And once you can remove, uh, you know, a layer
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: of embarrassment, and that's sleeping on the floor of the
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: lawyer embarrassment. Uh old gonna close that. You got to
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: wear the school, the wear of the work or a
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: lawyer of embarrassment. It allows you to focus on who
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: you really are and can be. And that's what you
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: did for them. But you know, you allow them to
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: walk into that apartment not stressed, to walk out feeling
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: good because they felt like humans again. And and that
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: that's why that's why I was just when I when
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: I when this interview with scheduled, you know, they they
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: you know, we have a meeting all the time, Glenn,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: who who are gonna bring? What? What did he do?
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Because I'm not just gonna bring black basketball players on
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: my show, and they that did my research and I
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: went wow wow. But what what is impressing me more
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: is you, though? Is you what? What what's what's what's
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: the driving force of you? Because a foundation is what
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: it is. But the success of the foundation is the
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: is the is the leader, the founder, the person who
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: wakes up thinking about to go to sleep thinking about
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: trying to make it big or try to try to
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: try to save more people than Sometimes you um like Sally,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: if you know, you can only put your arms around
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: so many people at one time. Sometimes we try to
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: trying to try to expand and hurt your back. So
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: before you hurt your back, Man, tell us about you. Man,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: tell us about you. Man. Yeah, I mean I uh,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: you know, everything that I got. You know, I've seen, um,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: you know, my dad is what's successful. He had, you know,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: money and cars and things like that. But that never
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: was my purpose or what drove me because I've seen
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: that and I was fortunate enough to see that with him.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: But I grew up in the house with my mom
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: and my grandma. My grandma's from Mississippi, you know, my
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: mama and grandma. Currently they still live, uh you know,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: close to Gary, Indiana. So we met West people and
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, they care about who
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: are you as a person rather than whatever else that's
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: going on. Is at the end of the day, when
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: I look at myself in the mirror, what have I done?
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Who am I as a person? And I feel and
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: as I walked through just finding my purpose. I know
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: that I don't know my I don't I feel like
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know my exact purpose or mission yet, but
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: it's coming and through this foundation, like you said, um,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: I've realized that, you know, it's about helping the masses
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: of the amount of people. From what I do as
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: a professional athlete, you know, I'm able to take you know,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: my six years experience as an athlete and able to
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: talk to kids, able to help fathers, you know, different
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: alleys of people that I can reach, um and affecting
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: people's lives, that's just who I am in and since
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: I was first in the league, you know, I would
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: find kids to kind of help out here and there,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: or go to the hospital and visit the sick kids
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: and play video games with them. It's just been who
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: I am. And I found a way to create a
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: team around my foundation and we meet weekly on different
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: ideas that I have a different you know, suggestions that
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: they might have a families to help. So I put
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: a real structure around this because I know that I
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: take being a father and having my daughter and um
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: me just being in her life as a blessing. So
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: you know, I want to be able to take that
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: and help others to just be that role and kind
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: of model figure for them, because you know, they look
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: at professional athletes and a lot of people do at
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: superheroes and this and that. But like you said, at
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: the end of the day, we're the same as you.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: We put our pants on, the same thing as everybody else.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: And if they're able to understand that in some type
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: of way, and you're able to come to terms and
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: them to look at you as a as a human
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: being and a decent human being, because we already know
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: how people think about athletes, then they're able to connect
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: with you. And I've noticed that. Well you know, I'm
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: connecting with you right now. Okay, And so, uh, I
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: know you just got some swag down here that you're
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: selling on your website. You know, got you know, some
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• 22:46
  Speaker 1: got the jersey, got that the dad had, got to
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: pull over hoodie. You know. So I'm telling what I got.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: I got a newsletter that goes out to an ainy
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: thousand people and uh and it goes bi monthly. So
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: next week I'm gonna drop your store, your your store
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: into my newsletter and and then recommend people browse your
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: your you. And then and then I also on my website,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: I have a store, and I'm if you don't mind,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna drop your your squag gear on there for
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  Speaker 1: potential purchase as well, because that's what I do with
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  Speaker 1: money making conversation this because you know, this is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: This is a free format. Man. You know, my my
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: blessing is coming aware, my blessing talking to you because
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: I get to beat you. Man, I'm going like this
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: brother here, man, if this brother like because I'm trying
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: to this is how this is how I think. Man,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out how I can help this
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: brother raise money. Because see what I don't like here, Man,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: When I was managing Steve Harvey, uh never you know,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: and uh you know he's to spend his money. He
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: he's a brag about it. I spend my money on
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: my foundation. I go do now you really need to
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: be spending somebody else's money that keep your money in
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: your foundation, build your brand so other people have value
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: you and what you were saying, and then they give
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: you money and you can do more. And so that's
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: my that's my thoughts is running through my mind with
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: you is like how can we get together and you know,
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  Speaker 1: put together your e p K and start putting together
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  Speaker 1: Bank of Americas on your website, dude, because you know
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: it's it's people out that d there Michigan. Need to
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  Speaker 1: be on here making some donations. You know what I'm saying.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: You know all alist and I'm just telling you how
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: I think because you go to university. You know, I'm excited.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Hey brother, you know like I'm gonna give you after
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: this call if you want to give myself number anytime
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: you have a good or bad thought, you called me. Okay,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: this is what I do for a liver. Girl. You
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: if you don't even know who I am, google me. Brother.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: All I do is make people famous. All I do
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: is make corporations a lot of money. Because I think
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: that's my skill. That's you. When I was eighteen years old,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: I realized that was my gift. I just didn't then't
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: understand it until I was in my authorities. I just
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: always used word like I'm just at the right place,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: at the right time. I'm just lucky like that. And
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: then I realized, you know, that's what you do. You know,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: that's what you that's your gift. You're able to look
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: at things and evaluate people and really push them to
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: lenings and give a clear understanding of what they can
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: do with their lives, because so many people don't, you know,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: because you know they've been told what they're supposed to do.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Like and I was, I was told to go to college.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: I got to college, which was truly a blessing for me,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: but I realized that wasn't what and my degree is
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: in mathematics, and I went to work like I was told.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: I went to work for IBM. Then I realized, this
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: ain't what I want to do. This ain't what I
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: want to do. And so so I'm listening to you.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: You're successful as NBA player. I'm just telling you right now.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: I don't during how many teams you've been on, because
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: you're in the n b A. You played in the NBA.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: I know how hard it is. The D League is
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: full of people want to be you, you know, and
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: so and so so. But then what is bigger than that?
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: You know, look as great as Lebron is. What he
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: does away for the league, I respect way more, way
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: more because I know God gave him the ability to
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: dribble too, dunk the i Q, to be able to
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: be the best basketball player in the world. But everything else,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: he's thinking about everything else you're thinking about, Glenn. That
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: was part of the equation when people were telling you
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: what you were supposed to do, telling you what you
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: were capable doing. This is something that you have matriculated
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: through life and said this is who I want to be,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: this is what I want to represent this and and
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: it was borne out by the birth of your daughter. Man,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: I'm telling him, I'm inspired talking to you, brother, And
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: believe me, I've done a lot for you to be
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: inspiring me. Appreciate that here, and I appreciate you having
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: me here today. Well, the thing is is that man
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: to be successful, Glenn, And that's what money making conversations
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: all about. His creating relationships people here this and and
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: then here our conversation and your fan brace who hopefully
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: great some more followers. But more importantly, it's creating relationships
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: and creating a brain awareness of who is exactly is
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Glenn Robinson the third beyond basketball, and beyond basketball, you're
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: a person who cares about making other people's lives better
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: that are not directly tied to you. They're not your cousins,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: ain't your aunt nature sustain your brother and your child,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: or your girlfriend or your wife. They're just people that
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: you know need a helping hand. And we were at
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: the University of Michigan, my brother, there are a lot
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: of people over there with that can help you with
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: this because it's it's phenomenal. And you are very articulate man.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: And you can talk. Brother. I don't know if anybody
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: told you, but you can talk. Man. You know you
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: just need to go and realize what I just told
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: you and just keep talking, Glynn, Just keep talking, brother,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: I'm keep talking, brother. I'm telling you, man, I'm way
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: impressed with you, brother. I do so if you don't
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: have to drill another basketball, if you keep talking, you're
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: gonna be making way more money just because your ability
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: to talk than your ability to dribble. I'm just gonna
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: tell you that believe that bleed up the passion that
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: I hear and the ability to articulate who you could
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: be in life. You are impressive. Man. I I can.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: I can only say that to you verbally because of
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: the fact that you have to believe that yourself. You
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: have to wow man, Man, I tell you I love
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: this show. I love I love I love reading what
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: they said A diamond and the rough. You see your
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: diamond and the rough. Brother. I just look. No, You'll
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: be walking around and you see something, just sparkle on
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: the ground and go, what's that? You know? I looked
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: down there. What's that? That's the third picked them up? Boy,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: do something. We're gonna do something. Love you, man, I
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: love you, Man, I love your brother. Angels are real, indeed,
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: man helping fathers become better in fatherhood and helping families
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: without one founded by Glenn Robinson, the Third glam My Man,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: I'm telling your brother, as God is my witness, You're
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: gonna make way more money talking than drippling in your
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: life because you care about people and you want to
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: make a difference in people's lives. And it all starts
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: with your ability to think and articulate, and you do
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: it very well. You just haven't accepted it yet. Accepted. Man.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Gonna go for it, brother, Gonna go for you. Walk
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: on that damn university music camping with a with a
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: ePK and the sizzle real and walk out of there
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: with several millions of dollars. Brother, no more spending your money,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: no more, no more, no more, no more, no more.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Let's stay in touch, appreciate everything and it's a pleasure. Okay. Man, Again,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't. I didn't just utter those words
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: so I can just sweat on on the microphone these
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: words so you can him it live alright, brother, I
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: want to thank you for coming on this show, Glynn,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: and we will be in touch man, because like I
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: tell you, man to hear somebody like you talk and
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: you're young because I didn't. I didn't figure out, because
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: I didn't figure out my my success path until I
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: was in my forties. And believe me, I had a
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: lot of Mercedes bends and a lot of big houses
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: along the way, a lot of good times and a
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: lot of times I wish I wouldn't have participated in.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: But they were all good memories right now, because when
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: you get old, all you can live off your memories. Okay,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: but uh but again, my brother, thank you for coming
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: on money making Conversations. Okay, yes, sir, thanks a lot.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: I appreciate some time. Yeah, get my contact information. We
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: can hook up. But but but again, I'm gonna put you
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: your whole or your whole swag in my not this week's,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: but next Wednesday's newsletter. And uh, just to get the
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: word out, man, I'm I'm a Glenn Robin the third Fan.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: We're gonna get these angels are real, indeed brand off
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  Speaker 1: gonna get it off. It's gonna be on fire. Man.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: I'm just telling me, you're walking around two many million
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: as brother, be spending your own money. Now stop that.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Stop that today. Okay, we're could brother. We talked soon, man,
• 31:07
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