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Dusty Baker Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: is on the Phone. He is the fourteenth winning this
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Speaker 1: manager in Major League Baseball history. He began his Major
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Speaker 1: League baseball career in eighteen sixty. Is a teammate to
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Speaker 1: the Speedy of Raft guards Man Right Gut, and the
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Speaker 1: legendary slugger Hank Aaron. But we're on the show the
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Speaker 1: day to discuss his life as an entrepreneur. He is
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Speaker 1: the founder and president of Baker Energy Team. He's the
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Speaker 1: founder and president of Baker Family Wines, which I found
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Speaker 1: out when I was reading the Houston Chronicle, and the
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Speaker 1: founder and chairman of the board of Cool Baker Global
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Speaker 1: along my man Robert cool Bell, who's the founder and
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Speaker 1: Conversation the current manager of the Houston Nastros and wine
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Speaker 1: entrepreneur Dusty Baker. Good morning, how you doing, Hey, Dustin.
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Speaker 1: Had to get it all out, man, I had to
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Speaker 1: get it all out about you, man. Yeah. Well, you know,
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Speaker 1: Lett's talk about you as a person, because I gotta
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Speaker 1: say some things about the very personal to meet because
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Speaker 1: when you're in the business, they's only two African American
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Speaker 1: managers that are currently and Major League baseballer. That's Dave
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Speaker 1: Roberts or the Dodgers and yourself. And you know, when
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Speaker 1: you grow up in the community and you look, you
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Speaker 1: are a icon, You are a a leader. You are
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Speaker 1: a person that consider blessing in my life because you're
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Speaker 1: doing some things that are unique in this business and
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Speaker 1: you've achieved high levels of success in a business that
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Speaker 1: very few of us have achieved an opportunity to participate.
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Speaker 1: And that nothing negative. It's just why life placed itself out.
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Speaker 1: And with that being said, when I when I make
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Speaker 1: statements like that, and and and I'm an African American man,
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Speaker 1: a person of color, how do you react to that?
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Speaker 1: Do you? Do you feel the the what you've accomplished
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Speaker 1: in your life and the impact that you made to
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Speaker 1: individuals like me and people you make in the in
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Speaker 1: the game of baseball, game that you just started playing
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Speaker 1: because you love that made a live or not of it. Well,
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Speaker 1: you know, people tell me about it, but I don't
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Speaker 1: really think about it. You know. I just think about
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Speaker 1: living my life and trying to do the best I
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Speaker 1: can for the community and my family. And you know,
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Speaker 1: my dad was, you know, my little league coach. He
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Speaker 1: was very Bobby Bonds litt league coach in Riverside, California.
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Speaker 1: My dad was, you know, deacon in the in the church.
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Speaker 1: My mama was in the in the choir. So like
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Speaker 1: we were, you know, raised, you know, to be community
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Speaker 1: minded and I'm the oldest of five. My dad worked
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Speaker 1: h two jobs for thirty five years and uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: my mom went back to school at forty years old
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Speaker 1: and uh, you know, got her degrees and uh. But
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Speaker 1: my dad was a common sense, hard working guy who
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Speaker 1: who was an entrepreneur himself. But it didn't really you know,
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Speaker 1: nobody used those turns back in the day. My dad
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Speaker 1: had you know, my dad had rent house picked him
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Speaker 1: up and then you know, like he was, you know,
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Speaker 1: he'd do anything. Say we was just a hustler. He
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Speaker 1: was a hustler. Oh yeah, I mean my dad attacked ruth.
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Speaker 1: I was with him all the time. My dad, you know,
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Speaker 1: he did gardening. My dad did uh you know, whatever
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Speaker 1: it took to you know, to make some extra change. Uh.
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Speaker 1: And you know how I got into farming. You know,
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Speaker 1: most most of us are farmers in the past that
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Speaker 1: we've forgotten about farm We were forced to farm back
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Speaker 1: in the day. So you know, my dad, uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: we always had a garden. I got a garden now
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Speaker 1: because you feed your family, you know, out of the garden.
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Speaker 1: And so uh, you know, my my roots started long
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Speaker 1: time ago. I didn't like it. I didn't like doing
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Speaker 1: all that hard work out there in that hot sun,
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Speaker 1: but it paid off because I'm passing that on now
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Speaker 1: to you know, my daughter and son, the way that
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Speaker 1: my dad passed it on to me. You know, it's
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Speaker 1: really interesting that so many terms that we use nowadays
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Speaker 1: branding entrepreneurs. You know, when I was growing up in
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Speaker 1: the sixties and seventies, and you know, those terms wasn't
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Speaker 1: shared in our community like that. You know, we're just
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Speaker 1: trying to work, you know, whether entrepreneurs somebody who was
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Speaker 1: cutting grass every week or entrepreneur. You know, these are
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Speaker 1: entrepreneurs duties that we were doing, but we didn't know
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Speaker 1: what the title was. Who was just like there trying
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Speaker 1: to make money to put food on the table. Now
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Speaker 1: we realized when I, when I listened to you, the
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Speaker 1: structure of who you are today besides a baseball player,
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Speaker 1: was given to you by your father and your mom.
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Speaker 1: Your father being an entrepreneur, and you saw how he
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Speaker 1: was able to make money outside of the forty hour
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Speaker 1: week schedule. That was really important. Correct, well, I was
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Speaker 1: very I was very correct. But see also another part
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Speaker 1: here that came into play. I signed out of high
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Speaker 1: school against my dad's permission. I had a number of
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Speaker 1: football and basketball none in baseball, and I was drafted
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Speaker 1: by the Atlanta Braids, which I prayed that that that
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Speaker 1: I didn't go, I wouldn't go to the South. This
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Speaker 1: was in sixty seven seven time tough time all over
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Speaker 1: the country, especially in the South and May being from California,
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Speaker 1: I prayed, Lord, please don't let me get drafted by
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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Praise. But that was the best thing, you know,
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Speaker 1: that happened to me, because that's when I met Ralph Guard.
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Speaker 1: We were in the same draft. And that's when when
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Speaker 1: Hank Karen promised my mother that that if I signed
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Speaker 1: out of high school, he would take care of me
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Speaker 1: as if I was his own the home son. So
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Speaker 1: I came back home after that summer playing baseball. A
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks play baseball, and my dad took my
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Speaker 1: contract to court. He was trying to nullify my contract
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Speaker 1: because he wanted me to go to college and play basketball,
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Speaker 1: and so the state of California they couldn't nullify it.
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Speaker 1: So the State of California was a trustee over my
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Speaker 1: affairs and my bonus money till I was twenty one
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Speaker 1: years old, and my dad and I didn't. I mean,
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Speaker 1: he was my main man. We didn't speak three years,
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Speaker 1: you know that. You know that I'm eighteen, now I'm growing.
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Speaker 1: I can do what I want. See. What happened was
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Speaker 1: my dad, uh in California, put my money into IBM
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Speaker 1: stock and to understand California. And that was and and
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Speaker 1: now there's Chevron. So now when I got to be
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Speaker 1: twenty one years old, you know, between eighteen twenty one,
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Speaker 1: here I was watching my little my little money in
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Speaker 1: the stock market and it tripled and I was like,
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Speaker 1: of the fact that when you bring up Hankcaring and Hankcaring,
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Speaker 1: it's got so much going on in the city of
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Speaker 1: Atlanta and surrounding areas as an entrepreneur, that's where he's
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Speaker 1: making all this money. That's where he's winning. He motivates me.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he's always motivated me on the field and
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Speaker 1: off the field. And you know, I remember when Hank,
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Speaker 1: you know, I had you know, I had handcar and
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Speaker 1: BMW and it's like that's where he met Mr Moorehead
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Speaker 1: Tom and Tom Moorehead who who who? Both of them
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Speaker 1: are are my partners. And this is some money in
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Speaker 1: Baker family wines about a year a year, year and
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Speaker 1: a half ago, and so this is how things come
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Speaker 1: full circle. And you know Handcart, Krispie Kreme, Hank Cat
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Speaker 1: and he and he donates a whole bunch, you know,
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Speaker 1: back to the community, you know, which is which is
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Speaker 1: how I was raised. I was taught how I'm raising
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Speaker 1: my kids that you know, Lord says, you know, like
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Speaker 1: those that water get water, and you know, uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: I have generous friends and so like I'm afraid not
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Speaker 1: to give now, you know, because of of of how
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Speaker 1: blessed I've been in in my life I'm in hadn't
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Speaker 1: always been easy. I mean there were times when I
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Speaker 1: was almost broke, but always delivered me and uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: some kind of way, something always came through to you know,
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Speaker 1: put me back on top, which is indicative of my
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Speaker 1: career and my business. At the same time, let's talk
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Speaker 1: wife loves wines. Okay. I started out, you know, like
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Speaker 1: I bought a piece of property years ago in Sacramento.
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Speaker 1: It's like booting from San Francisco to Sacramento. So I
11:28
Speaker 1: had I was on the UH Robert Mundavi advisory board,
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Speaker 1: with their distributors canadaate with Southern wine and spirits and stuff.
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Speaker 1: And so I had a couple of extra acres that
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Speaker 1: plant my rootstock and my steaks and my my wires
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Speaker 1: and all this and he goes, yeah, he said, I
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Speaker 1: about six eighty cases. And uh, and every time I
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Speaker 1: then and a proper head. That's uh that that that
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Speaker 1: going on, not Dusty, don't, don't, don't don't. We got
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Speaker 1: about thousand cases. People like it. Yeah, yeah, you have
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Speaker 1: people like it. Well, well just tell you this by
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Speaker 1: I did a big mistake one time, Dusty. She has
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Speaker 1: a boot. She has this little boot you can just
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Speaker 1: didn't know it should be like a little corks in
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Speaker 1: now and that, and over the years she always had it,
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Speaker 1: and I aloud, oh, just tell the sad story. He's
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Speaker 1: gonna go sad, not just about to go say I didn't.
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Speaker 1: I don't drink wine, but she loves good wine. And
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Speaker 1: one day, man, I just came home with just through
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Speaker 1: did she speak was like, I didn't don't Dusty, I
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Speaker 1: didn't know. I was stupid. Son was stupid. Man. She
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Speaker 1: didn't speak to me for a long time. Brother. She
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Speaker 1: I am talking to the four fourteen winning as manager
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Speaker 1: baseball today. But more importantly, his legacy is not just
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Speaker 1: that particular situation you know than you do. So you know,
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Speaker 1: like I I've surrounded myself with people because like I've
18:49
Speaker 1: been in and out of baseball the last few years.
18:51
Speaker 1: I get a job, we win the division, and then
18:55
Speaker 1: you know, like you know, they get rid of me
18:57
Speaker 1: for whatever reason that I come home. I'm not just
19:00
Speaker 1: gonna wait on them too, you know, you know, to
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Speaker 1: give me a job, I'm gonna go out and get
19:05
Speaker 1: it like I was. And uh and and you know
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Speaker 1: I got Baker family wines. But see my other uh interests.
19:14
Speaker 1: And when I built my home at that same time,
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Speaker 1: I put solar throughout my whole on my property. I
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Speaker 1: got ground mounds, I got roof mounths, I got instant
19:24
Speaker 1: hot water, I got thermal. I got a well that
19:28
Speaker 1: you know that's ah, that's uh you know, powered by
19:30
Speaker 1: a um uh you know, by solar. I gotta. I
19:35
Speaker 1: got a pool that was heated by solar. So I
19:37
Speaker 1: was trying to leave a you know, a better carbon
19:40
Speaker 1: footprint from my you know, my family and my kids
19:43
Speaker 1: that are coming because did a hunter and a fisherman. Uh.
19:46
Speaker 1: Since I was a kid with my dad. You know,
19:48
Speaker 1: I've just noticed how how the fisheries are are are
19:52
Speaker 1: going bad. They're talking about there's no global warming. I
19:55
Speaker 1: went to Alaska last August and I saw all these glaciers.
19:59
Speaker 1: Melton looks like is I went their last mate. It
20:01
Speaker 1: was sad. It was sad, man, it was sad as heck.
20:03
Speaker 1: I mean, but beautiful but but' but sad. So, you know,
20:07
Speaker 1: bysically tell you where it used to be. When they say,
20:10
Speaker 1: well it used to be right here. Oh yeah, then
20:13
Speaker 1: they tell you there's no global warming, and I'm like,
20:15
Speaker 1: wait a minute, I've seen global warming. You know, I'm
20:17
Speaker 1: seven years old. I go to the rivers where I
20:19
Speaker 1: grew up fishing and stuff, and there's barely any fishing there.
20:22
Speaker 1: You know. I go duck hunting, there's very you know,
20:25
Speaker 1: rarely any ducks or or it's hot out here in
20:27
Speaker 1: California till until almost January is supposed to be raining. No.
20:32
Speaker 1: Uh you know. That's that's that's why I got so
20:35
Speaker 1: interested in and solar, uh, you know, to try to
20:39
Speaker 1: leave a better world and also not to pay these high,
20:43
Speaker 1: high energy costs. Let's just talk about solar because it's
20:47
Speaker 1: been around forever, you know, and now when I'm listening
20:50
Speaker 1: to you, it seems like it's an effective form of
20:55
Speaker 1: you know, paying the bills around the house by using
20:57
Speaker 1: nature's energy, nature's resources. So well, well, well it is.
21:01
Speaker 1: And you know, I went to a clinic, not a clinic,
21:05
Speaker 1: I went to uh the Roth conference, and I met
21:08
Speaker 1: this guy in Chicago, uh you know, a few years
21:12
Speaker 1: ago named Ted Roth, and he goes, why don't you
21:14
Speaker 1: come down to our conference about solar and alternative energy.
21:18
Speaker 1: So I went down there and I noticed that there
21:21
Speaker 1: were very few women of power there, and they were
21:25
Speaker 1: a handful of minorities out of uh well you know,
21:28
Speaker 1: African Americans out of probably ten thousand people. And so
21:32
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, were getting left behind in in in
21:36
Speaker 1: the in the uh you know, in the energy business,
21:39
Speaker 1: and we're also being left behind, you know, in the
21:42
Speaker 1: in the tech world. So um, you know, I I
21:46
Speaker 1: was trying to trying to take some people with me, um,
21:50
Speaker 1: you know, to you know, continue this uh you know
21:53
Speaker 1: thing that we started. And it's very interesting. I mean,
21:56
Speaker 1: I love it. I'm not an expert at any you
21:59
Speaker 1: know my any means, but I'm I'm pretty knowledge going
22:02
Speaker 1: on the subject after you know, after all these years,
22:06
Speaker 1: and you know, I got some great partners. I got
22:09
Speaker 1: some great partners across the US. You know, I got
22:12
Speaker 1: Native Electric, I mean net Electric here in California. You
22:17
Speaker 1: know that's a minority owned you know. I got sst
22:21
Speaker 1: here in California. I got Ken Knicks in Atlanta next
22:24
Speaker 1: to associates. I got and ce uh in Chicago. So
22:29
Speaker 1: I've tried to cover myself, uh, you know, all over
22:32
Speaker 1: the country. I got Salt Energy in Virginia and so
22:38
Speaker 1: you know in Chicago Electric in Chicago up there. Oh yeah,
22:42
Speaker 1: I'm sorry that that that's in Chicago. I'm trying to
22:45
Speaker 1: cover parts of the world and uh and also trying
22:48
Speaker 1: to make uh, you know, make some money at the
22:50
Speaker 1: same time to support, you know, my family and the
22:53
Speaker 1: people that you know surround me. You know the thing
22:56
Speaker 1: I love and you talk about is that you know,
22:58
Speaker 1: because I'm not apology to Chicago law that Mercy followed
23:02
Speaker 1: your Chicago Cubs followed you to the Dollar Show. I'm
23:07
Speaker 1: sorry I brought it up. I'm sorry I brought it up.
23:09
Speaker 1: I'm sorry brought it because you know from you learn
23:13
Speaker 1: from it. You learn from because as an African America,
23:15
Speaker 1: you know, I'm rooting for you, brother, I root for
23:17
Speaker 1: black box. I root for black managers, okay, and black
23:20
Speaker 1: head coaches. Brother, I'll just let you know because I
23:22
Speaker 1: know the opportunity to achieve to get that job as unique,
23:26
Speaker 1: and to achieve the highest level of success is even
23:29
Speaker 1: more unique. And so but I love the fact that
23:32
Speaker 1: usaid Richard, I'm not gonna just sit at home and
23:34
Speaker 1: wait for my next job. I'm gonna make my opportunities
23:38
Speaker 1: now before we get off the family wines, how can
23:42
Speaker 1: we before we go back to Baker, how can we
23:44
Speaker 1: how can we purchase gain access to these great wine
23:47
Speaker 1: because I gotta get something from my wife. I'm gonna
23:49
Speaker 1: just let you know right now. You sound like yourself.
23:54
Speaker 1: That's stump to some man. You know, sometimes you do
23:58
Speaker 1: things like you you're you're it's a foolish That was
24:00
Speaker 1: a foolish move because because like you said, saying, man,
24:03
Speaker 1: that's a that's a trophy case. I didn't know that.
24:05
Speaker 1: And I'm telling that boot man was was a life
24:08
Speaker 1: size boot and it was three quarters up there, and
24:11
Speaker 1: for some reason in my stupid mind, I went, well,
24:15
Speaker 1: this is worthless. I just threw him away. And she
24:17
Speaker 1: came home and she saw that boot empty. She go, Okay,
24:20
Speaker 1: where are my corks at? I go? Huh? I said, well,
24:22
Speaker 1: you know, baby, I felt it was just uh, I
24:25
Speaker 1: just threw him away. Man, she didn't, she didn't say nothing.
24:28
Speaker 1: She's walked out of the ruin. They so listen, you could, Yeah,
24:37
Speaker 1: you could. You can go online or you know, Baker
24:41
Speaker 1: Family Wines dot com, or you can email, uh you know,
24:45
Speaker 1: the office and be n B like b A N
24:49
Speaker 1: D B Wine Company at gmail dot com. And uh,
24:55
Speaker 1: you know that will happen today. Okay, I'm not surprising
24:59
Speaker 1: because of the fact she's a big fan of you
25:01
Speaker 1: and so happy that you're now managing the Asteroids and
25:04
Speaker 1: those one season only but man, the fact that you're there.
25:07
Speaker 1: But more importantly, it's pretty happy to you know what
25:10
Speaker 1: I mean. I'm you know, the Lord did this because
25:13
Speaker 1: there's no way that I was going in here to
25:14
Speaker 1: go a great team like this and uh, you know,
25:18
Speaker 1: uh the only thing this and in my baseball career
25:21
Speaker 1: is a championship, which I thought my career was over
25:23
Speaker 1: because you know now that you know, there's always been
25:26
Speaker 1: you know, you know, a certain amount of racial discrimination,
25:29
Speaker 1: but now there's now there's age and salary discrimination and
25:33
Speaker 1: intellectual discrimination where everybody want to know what college you
25:37
Speaker 1: went to, you know, regardless of how much knowledge or
25:41
Speaker 1: how much experience that you have. So this is, this
25:44
Speaker 1: gives me an opportunity to try to win a couple
25:47
Speaker 1: of championships. I need a hundred and thirty seven victories,
25:50
Speaker 1: you know, to be uh, you know, first African American
25:53
Speaker 1: to win two thousand twelve people. So, um, you know
25:59
Speaker 1: this is this is kind of a legacy of God.
26:02
Speaker 1: Said said, yeah, and and and it's a great town.
26:05
Speaker 1: You know, like you said, I've been going to Houston
26:07
Speaker 1: forever and ever. And uh, you know, my best friend
26:10
Speaker 1: Ralph Guard the one we mentioned earlier, he's the one
26:13
Speaker 1: that that you know that's that's in Houston, he said, Baker,
26:16
Speaker 1: I was praying for you to get that job and
26:19
Speaker 1: speedy rap that third base. Brother. It was all over
26:24
Speaker 1: the thing right there. You know, it's really it's really great.
26:28
Speaker 1: Let I'll be remissing if I got to bring up
26:30
Speaker 1: this last business. Okay, Well, you know your you's a
26:33
Speaker 1: chairman along with my man, uh Robert cool Bell. If
26:37
Speaker 1: you don't know Robert Coolbell, that's from Cool in the
26:39
Speaker 1: game cool Down and uh and cool Baker Global tell
26:44
Speaker 1: us about that and uh and how that how did
26:46
Speaker 1: that relationship come about? Well, you know, like I went
26:50
Speaker 1: to Africa about ten or twelve years ago with you know,
26:53
Speaker 1: with uh some baseball delegates and also uh you know
26:58
Speaker 1: professor Delaware State as her own and uh you know
27:02
Speaker 1: as I started it, uh you know Dave Winfield, when
27:06
Speaker 1: Reggie Smith, o'marmonia, Wendy Lewis Ambassador Bridgewater was there and
27:11
Speaker 1: a brother George and Tim from Ghana. So we all
27:15
Speaker 1: went to Ghana and uh you know we came back.
27:19
Speaker 1: Uh you know, we came back like you know, knowing
27:22
Speaker 1: that how much people are in need in Africa and
27:26
Speaker 1: how you know, how we're falling behind, especially in the
27:29
Speaker 1: energy field. So I got a call about this is
27:33
Speaker 1: ten years later, I get a call from from from
27:38
Speaker 1: Cool Cool, Uh you know Robert cool Bell Cool in
27:42
Speaker 1: the King. So I said, hey man, he goes, I said,
27:45
Speaker 1: how I know this is Cool in the gang and
27:46
Speaker 1: he goes, well, Kim Griffy Senor is my cousin. So
27:50
Speaker 1: he started singing so fresh and so fresh. I figured
27:53
Speaker 1: out that that that it was really him. And so
27:57
Speaker 1: then so we started talking. And my daughter, who does
28:00
Speaker 1: all my labels, she did the Baker Family wine label,
28:03
Speaker 1: and she did the Cool Baker Global uh uh logo.
28:08
Speaker 1: And so he's traveled extensively through Africa and performed extensively
28:15
Speaker 1: and so uh through Ezra and Cool you know, we
28:18
Speaker 1: went to Delaware State, uh you know, visited them the
28:22
Speaker 1: African Peer Review Mechanism. Uh you know, we met a
28:26
Speaker 1: bunch of African dignitaries, and so we're trying to take
28:30
Speaker 1: uh you know, some energy to Africa in the forms
28:33
Speaker 1: of solar or co jin or a combination of of
28:38
Speaker 1: of ways. And because they don't have lights, you know,
28:41
Speaker 1: and if you don't have lights, how do you kids study?
28:43
Speaker 1: How do they? I mean, they don't have hardly nothing,
28:48
Speaker 1: and so uh you know in that in the you know,
28:51
Speaker 1: they're currently thirty eight of fifty five nations in Africa
28:56
Speaker 1: are in the eight p r M and uh so
29:00
Speaker 1: this is what we're trying to do, even install some
29:02
Speaker 1: you know, because the coronavirus you know, I mean people
29:06
Speaker 1: aren't allowed to go. But Cool it's really really hooked
29:09
Speaker 1: up there. And so, uh, you know, his combination of
29:13
Speaker 1: people that you know and that you don't know in
29:16
Speaker 1: Africa already and and us being in the you know,
29:20
Speaker 1: the energy business. You can't do it by ourselves. I mean,
29:23
Speaker 1: we need some help, you know, which is teak tough.
29:27
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, teamwork, which is tough to find. And
29:30
Speaker 1: uh and uh. But you know, if there's a will,
29:33
Speaker 1: there's a way, and we're gonna find, you know, find
29:35
Speaker 1: a way to do it. I'll tell you. I'm on
29:37
Speaker 1: the website right now, Baker Family Wines website. I wanted
29:41
Speaker 1: right now, you know, alright, I'm going from the dugout
29:44
Speaker 1: to the vineyard. That's what I'm saying. Right guy, don't
29:48
Speaker 1: down see the team with the cool glasses on in
29:52
Speaker 1: the venue. You're saying. You know, I'm looking at you
29:56
Speaker 1: got the sun glasses all? You know? They did you that?
30:00
Speaker 1: The turn dark when you walk out in the sunlight.
30:02
Speaker 1: I know what you are. I know what I can't see.
30:05
Speaker 1: I can't see that, but that's that's what your trademark.
30:09
Speaker 1: And you walked down the street without those glasses. So
30:11
Speaker 1: who that dude? Who's that dude? Exactly the other day
30:14
Speaker 1: somebody has hey words your toothpicks. I don't know. My mother, Well,
30:20
Speaker 1: I got the email addressed the gmail I see all
30:23
Speaker 1: listeners is our wines. You will be getting the email
30:26
Speaker 1: for me today. I'm gonna see see my wife, so
30:29
Speaker 1: you know I love her. But more importantly, Dustin, I
30:32
Speaker 1: want you to bring you on the show man to
30:34
Speaker 1: say thank you for being you, but more importantly tell
30:36
Speaker 1: your story a little bit outside of the baseball world.
30:39
Speaker 1: A lot of people New Zealand, Canada, you know, Ireland,
30:43
Speaker 1: they listen to my podcast and my talk shows. You
30:46
Speaker 1: say why, I say wow too, because I don't know
30:48
Speaker 1: who listened to New Zealand, but they're listening at that
30:50
Speaker 1: time down there in Australia, and it's it's that worldwide
30:54
Speaker 1: effect that I wanted when I when I stop managing
30:56
Speaker 1: Steve Harvey, just like you said, your legacy is important
30:59
Speaker 1: and my they can see if when man with some
31:02
Speaker 1: bad boys, I was looking at you. Think about it.
31:05
Speaker 1: The thing I'm really impressed with. I mean, I was
31:08
Speaker 1: pretty good at man. I didn't. I didn't like it
31:10
Speaker 1: because I couldn't be s he got. You gotta be
31:12
Speaker 1: exact for for man to be a math major who
31:17
Speaker 1: I got? I got mad respect for you. Man, How
31:21
Speaker 1: did you get to do that? I mean, did you
31:23
Speaker 1: like it that much? You know? I'm gonna tell you
31:25
Speaker 1: something It was like I avoided it all my life.
31:28
Speaker 1: You know, I could always go back to high school
31:30
Speaker 1: and my and my math teacher told me I was
31:32
Speaker 1: good at it. But I went to school. I wanted
31:34
Speaker 1: to be anything else that can give me an easy grade. Okay,
31:37
Speaker 1: that was what That's why I was anything that can
31:38
Speaker 1: give me easy and I struggled. It took me seven
31:43
Speaker 1: years to graduate, but only three years once I got
31:46
Speaker 1: my act together. You know. It was it was four
31:48
Speaker 1: years of trying to get get by easy, trying to
31:50
Speaker 1: get the easy course, to talk to my friends. Hey
31:53
Speaker 1: mean that's an easy grade over there, goal, easy grade
31:55
Speaker 1: over there. And then I realized, you know something, be
31:58
Speaker 1: who people would expect you to be. And I'm math man.
32:01
Speaker 1: I went in there. Man. I couldn't afford math books,
32:04
Speaker 1: calculus book and I would walk in that room, Dusty.
32:06
Speaker 1: I would look at the board, walk out cal one,
32:10
Speaker 1: Caw two, Carl three, without a math book, and every
32:13
Speaker 1: guy that was alb to geomic, I said, Mama, please,
32:17
Speaker 1: that's enough. Well you know some brother, I want to
32:21
Speaker 1: thank you. I want to appreciate you for saying who
32:24
Speaker 1: you are and being in Houston. Boy, yeah my country,
32:27
Speaker 1: not we're gonna when this pandemic ends, and when you
32:30
Speaker 1: come down to Atlanta. I got I got a little
32:32
Speaker 1: small fishing leg back behind me. Walking is right on
32:34
Speaker 1: my top. You know. I like to fish. You know
32:37
Speaker 1: something you can find me. I go down to busy
32:39
Speaker 1: bee pick ups of food every day. I mean I've
32:42
Speaker 1: been going there to the busy be meant to the
32:45
Speaker 1: busy be huh down the busy Oh yeah, I go
32:49
Speaker 1: down to the busy bee every day, me and Ralph,
32:51
Speaker 1: I said so nineteen sixty eight, sixty nine. Absolutely absolutely
32:56
Speaker 1: all right, I'll be there man, al right, be safe now.
32:58
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