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Mario V. Chalmers & Almarie Chalmers Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: I heart him. I have two people on the phone.
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  Speaker 1: It's a it's a duel, right. They are the founders
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  Speaker 1: of the Mario V. Chalmers Foundation, which supports the positive
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  Speaker 1: development of youth through sports and education and also funds
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  Speaker 1: breast cancer research and treatment initiatives. He he being my
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  Speaker 1: next guest, like KU Kansas University, my producer. He's from KU.
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  Speaker 1: So he's very happy about this interview to a national
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  Speaker 1: championship team, National championship when he hit a three point
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  Speaker 1: shot with two point one second, I actually saw that live.
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  Speaker 1: I saw him do that. I went, boy, he just
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  Speaker 1: got paid and one back to back NBA championships with
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  Speaker 1: the NBA Heat Championships and fame and uh A game
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  Speaker 1: just follows this young man alone and also on the
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  Speaker 1: phone is his mother, who is the CEO of its foundation.
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  Speaker 1: Please welcome to the show, Mario Thomas and his mom,
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  Speaker 1: al Marie Chamas. Good morning, How you doing. How are
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  Speaker 1: you okay? Well, okay, now you're not You're not in
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  Speaker 1: the same room. So what cities are each one are
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  Speaker 1: you calling from Mario. I'm calling from Detroit, Detroit, Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: And Mom, I'm calling from Charlotte, North Carolina. That's Charlotte
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  Speaker 1: destroct some good eating in Detroit to try this being reftalized.
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  Speaker 1: I know about that. And you know you in in
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  Speaker 1: brick City there in Charlotte, now Charlotte, North Carolina. I
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  Speaker 1: love that city, one of my favorite cities there. So
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  Speaker 1: it's a fun place. So here's there. Here's the fun
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  Speaker 1: thing about it. First of all, thank you for coming
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  Speaker 1: on Money Making Conversation. Uh, thank you for having First
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  Speaker 1: of all, I just wanna let you know this show
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  Speaker 1: is is your show. So know that this relationship that
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  Speaker 1: we're developing here is something that you can call on. Mario,
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  Speaker 1: consider me like a big brother, Okay, a big brother,
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  Speaker 1: you know if you need something and uh, Mom, I'm
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  Speaker 1: calling your mom, call me your friend, Okay, when you
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  Speaker 1: need something happening and promoting and things like that. That's
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  Speaker 1: what I developed this platform. And uh, it's taken off
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  Speaker 1: and as all, everybody's calling the show. But here's here's
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  Speaker 1: the fun part about it. So Mario, I'm reading your
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  Speaker 1: bio and you play basketball in Alaska. Sure, Okay, now
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  Speaker 1: you know, you know Mario, you know, I just don't
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  Speaker 1: pitch it. I gotta see it like this, Black people
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  Speaker 1: lay basketball in Alaska. A lot of people say that.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You know, you go, you
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  Speaker 1: want two state championships in Alaska. So so so now
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you here's the funny point. But it's
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  Speaker 1: two states I want to visit. Alaska is one of
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  Speaker 1: those states. And I think I'm gonna go there and
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  Speaker 1: uh next year doing a youth survey. So tell me
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  Speaker 1: the the Why what would I get the experience when
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  Speaker 1: I come to Alaska? Why is such a beautiful state.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you that the first time you come to
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  Speaker 1: the last day, you gotta do the crew. You gotta do.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta do the cruise that goes through uh the mountains,
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  Speaker 1: the glaciers. Um see all the wildlife and the beautiful
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  Speaker 1: scenery in Alaska. That's that's what we're known for. That's
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  Speaker 1: the that's the best part of Alaska. So I definitely
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  Speaker 1: recommend that. And then um, just go out and do
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  Speaker 1: some good food. You know, We've got good food that
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  Speaker 1: all types of different religions out there and culture. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, the food was very diverse out there, and
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  Speaker 1: it's actually pretty good. Food and cruise are two things
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  Speaker 1: I recommend. Cool Ah, Marie, how did you get your
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  Speaker 1: son up to Alaska Military Military? My husband was in
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  Speaker 1: the Military Air Force and so we were there and
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  Speaker 1: I played the fourth so um Gosper Mario was born
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  Speaker 1: that and we raised both of our kids there. M
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  Speaker 1: never as you this now, you know, being a mom
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  Speaker 1: and being and and and and watching your son, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because he was was in Alaska, then he made the decision.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk a little bit about that. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna get to the book is the book ABC is
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  Speaker 1: a basketball which is really important to the youth of America.
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  Speaker 1: But I also want to talk about the journey because
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  Speaker 1: when you when you when you an athlete, because you're
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  Speaker 1: you're you know, you're McDonald's all American Mario, you go
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  Speaker 1: to a school like Kansas and then you in ther
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  Speaker 1: way from your family? How did that affect because your
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  Speaker 1: father was your high school coach? Correct, how did that?
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  Speaker 1: How did that affect? How did that transition happen to you?
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  Speaker 1: Because that you have all that all that that that protection,
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  Speaker 1: all that close mentoring and all that you know he
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  Speaker 1: has your back. And then the coach of bill self,
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  Speaker 1: I believe it's the coach of a cancer university recruited
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  Speaker 1: you to go to Kansas. What did you have any
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  Speaker 1: homesickness spell? Homesick spells? So I gotta get back. This
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  Speaker 1: is this is the right decision. How did you make
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  Speaker 1: the transition? Um? Actually the transition was easy for me? Um?
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  Speaker 1: All my friends played basketball. Um, I hang out with
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  Speaker 1: an older crowd. So two of my best friends they
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  Speaker 1: went off to play college basketball and I was there
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  Speaker 1: the last of my senior year. So for me, can't
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  Speaker 1: getting out. That was my main is getting out of
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  Speaker 1: being being a positive guy for the community and you know,
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  Speaker 1: showing people that you can't make it about make it
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  Speaker 1: out of Alaska, to make it big in sports world.
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  Speaker 1: And you know that was my main focus. Who put
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  Speaker 1: a last on the mass? Okay? All Marie are your son?
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  Speaker 1: This foundation? You just ceo this foundation? Okay, let me
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  Speaker 1: just ask you this because I was always important that
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  Speaker 1: I feel athletes get back. I have a foundation of
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  Speaker 1: understanding their role. What what role did you play? Are
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  Speaker 1: you playing in the messaging and the foundation? Oh? The
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  Speaker 1: role is just keeping the message alive. And supporting the
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  Speaker 1: vision that Mario first came up with, which was formulated
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  Speaker 1: when we lost a dear friend the breast camp and
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  Speaker 1: he just wanted to dedicate you know, time and energy
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  Speaker 1: to supporting the cause. And so once that was his vision,
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  Speaker 1: we went to work on making things happen by connecting
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  Speaker 1: with various people in different communities. And of course Kansas
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  Speaker 1: has been one of our biggest supporters because of the
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  Speaker 1: fact he was in school there and we were blessed
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  Speaker 1: to be able to open up a Mario's Closet which
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  Speaker 1: is located in the local hospital things for you know,
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  Speaker 1: breast cancer survivors. Now, what what what local is that
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  Speaker 1: in Kansas the hospital ring gets opened? Yeah, what large
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  Speaker 1: Maria hospital And it is actually a a closet is
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  Speaker 1: that's the concept that it was a closet that was
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  Speaker 1: a feasible and flexible and available first patients without having
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  Speaker 1: to go different places. Especially when it comes down to
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  Speaker 1: the hairy mogal process, which really interesting because when I
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  Speaker 1: read your bio, when you know, they bring all kind
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  Speaker 1: of everybody. My staff pitches me, show I guest ideas,
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  Speaker 1: and my oldest sisters she passed away to breast cancer
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  Speaker 1: and so so when I saw what you was doing
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  Speaker 1: your foundation, that really really I got to help, you know,
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  Speaker 1: promote your brain and get your word out. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: because you know you're you know, you're a talent athlete
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  Speaker 1: and you you raised your son right less Thomas, right,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, and that that has to be said correctly
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  Speaker 1: because we have so many stories about the misguided athlete, dysfunctional,
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  Speaker 1: don't have a relationship, you know, be raised by somebody
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  Speaker 1: else's family. I'm so tied to that store. You know.
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  Speaker 1: We're fortunate that our story is we were able to
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  Speaker 1: raise our sign and support him as well as his sister.
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  Speaker 1: And although we did this in Alaska and we still
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  Speaker 1: have a good support system in the lower forty eight
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  Speaker 1: as we called it, and we were blessed to be
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  Speaker 1: able to put him in a position to go and
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  Speaker 1: live a dream. What is that dream, Mario? What is
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  Speaker 1: that dream? You've been in Miami? I know it was
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  Speaker 1: a dream down there. Being in Miami was a benefit.
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  Speaker 1: The dream was always king to the NBA no matter
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  Speaker 1: where I was, That's what I wanted to be. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: Miami boy, I've been down to Miami. Mario, you were
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  Speaker 1: the Miamily Night I knew it was the love you
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  Speaker 1: still you still have a place down in Miami. You're
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  Speaker 1: all up in Detroit, now, what's going on? No, No,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just in Detroit of my girls having a baby
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  Speaker 1: out here. But congratulation, appreciate it, okay. Uh can I
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  Speaker 1: ask you your first child? Uh? No, my first ld Okay? Cool?
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  Speaker 1: And now how with that being said, being a father,
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  Speaker 1: how did how did that did it change your outlook
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  Speaker 1: on life or what? Talk to me about that? Um,
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  Speaker 1: it did kind of change my outlook on life. You
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  Speaker 1: know before before you have kids and being a teenager
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  Speaker 1: in college, you get thrown wild and do what everything
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  Speaker 1: that's newly I mean with their reason have for uns?
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  Speaker 1: So um, I have. I had my first kid the
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  Speaker 1: year we won the national championship. So it was it
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  Speaker 1: was a bitter sweet moment for me. Um. You know,
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  Speaker 1: of course I love having my son, love having them,
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  Speaker 1: but at the moment in time, it was it was
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  Speaker 1: a hard transition just being a college athlete. Um, thinking
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  Speaker 1: about making my next move going to the NBA. So um,
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  Speaker 1: it was a lot of going back and forth with me.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, at the end of the day, God
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  Speaker 1: took care of it. He worked it out best for
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  Speaker 1: me and my family and for my sons. So um,
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  Speaker 1: everything came together and it just made me grow up faster,
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  Speaker 1: to be more responsible, more more in tune to to
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  Speaker 1: the world and what's going on and not just locked
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  Speaker 1: up in the basketball world. To focus on basketball. That's
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  Speaker 1: really important. I know, I only have one job, Mario,
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  Speaker 1: and it changed my life, you know, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: and become a sandpoint. It gave me a sense of
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  Speaker 1: responsibility that it also showed me my legacy. You know,
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  Speaker 1: this is what I should do. This is what That
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  Speaker 1: was my next date with the with the legacy part.
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  Speaker 1: Even Leaven leave my legacy at Kansas where where he
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  Speaker 1: lives now is just something he could be proud of.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm pretty sure he's what kid now, So
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure the next by years he's really gonna
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  Speaker 1: hear about basketball and what I did at Kansas is
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  Speaker 1: you know that legacies gonna liveing go on forever and
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  Speaker 1: hopefully push him to you know, follow my steps footsteps
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  Speaker 1: and even be better than me. So that was another
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  Speaker 1: thing was that father heard Brod Now all Marie, you
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  Speaker 1: know your son, you know he has his child. How
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  Speaker 1: did he change when he had this for a child.
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  Speaker 1: How did he change? Um, that's an interesting question. How
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  Speaker 1: do I think? Like you said, it became more focused
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  Speaker 1: of um, things that could affect his son. UM choices,
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  Speaker 1: he made, decisions, he's made. It wasn't just about him anymore.
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  Speaker 1: The boxing and realized that everything that he did, UM,
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  Speaker 1: eventually his son's come to hear or his children were
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  Speaker 1: here see and talk about it. And so therefore you
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  Speaker 1: have to think about it. And then when things happened,
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  Speaker 1: because you're still a young man, you have to be
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  Speaker 1: ready to explain the dudes and don't the watch and
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  Speaker 1: what and how you should you think differently or how
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  Speaker 1: you could just thinks differently, um, as well as how
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  Speaker 1: you can do things and be successfully. Love it. Love
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  Speaker 1: it on the phone with the Mario Chalmers and his mother. Um,
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  Speaker 1: they have a book that we're gonna come back in
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  Speaker 1: a minute and talk about the ABC's a basketball dream,
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  Speaker 1: big thing big and play big because he really played big.
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  Speaker 1: Two championships and then the n t A championship. Right back,
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  Speaker 1: Hi this Rashan mcgonaland welcome back to money making conversations. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: the ABC is a basket Mario Chalmers. ABC is a
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  Speaker 1: basketball dream, big Thing, Big Play Big. In the ABC
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  Speaker 1: is a Basketball Mario Chalmers now showcases his skill as
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  Speaker 1: an author. This highly acclaimed children's book was originally conceived
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  Speaker 1: by Chalmers in high school at the time when he
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  Speaker 1: dreamed the one day reaching the pinnacle of his sports,
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  Speaker 1: which he did for sure collegiately and professionally. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of a lot of y'all of young people don't do
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  Speaker 1: that years later, and now serves as the foundation for
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  Speaker 1: his success and will inspire young readers, regardless of their
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  Speaker 1: skill level on the court, to always believe in themselves,
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  Speaker 1: maintained a positive attitude, and re called to achieve the
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  Speaker 1: loftiest of goals. Mr Chalmers, you can see this idea
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  Speaker 1: in high school. Tell me about that ABC is a Basketball.
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  Speaker 1: Um Let's started as the homeworkers Timer and Levin create
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  Speaker 1: from my um My children literature class. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: my teacher told us to do something that you know
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  Speaker 1: that that we love to do and something that can
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  Speaker 1: be educational. So you know, me being a basketball player,
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  Speaker 1: um it was just the perfect I did to put
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  Speaker 1: the ABC S and basketball together and come up to
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  Speaker 1: ABCS of Basketball. So I did that homework and trying
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  Speaker 1: to put it all together. Um, we got an A
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  Speaker 1: plus on on the assignment, of course, and the teacher
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  Speaker 1: was like, it's very good. So you know, later on
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  Speaker 1: the line, you should you should do something with it.
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  Speaker 1: And then, you know, that's what my mom plays to
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  Speaker 1: be rolling it because she kept it going. You know,
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  Speaker 1: since of lever Gad, I forgot about it. To be
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  Speaker 1: honest with you, it was just a homeworkers time and
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  Speaker 1: I did and then I put in the back of
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  Speaker 1: my mind and my mom kept jabbing at me, like
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  Speaker 1: you know you should just what I'm still and you know,
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  Speaker 1: me being me, I was I did want to I
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  Speaker 1: was more focusing basketball. I was like, I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to do that. I don't want to do that. And
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  Speaker 1: then once I had my son, that's where my mind
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  Speaker 1: started to change, like, okay, you know I gotta I
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  Speaker 1: got a son. Now, what's a good way for me
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  Speaker 1: to connect what I do in teaching to him? And
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  Speaker 1: my mom was still poking at me about the book,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, okay, green light, go ahead, let's
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  Speaker 1: see what we'll do with the book. Um, put it
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  Speaker 1: out there and see what type of response we get.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, everybody loved the book and we just
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  Speaker 1: went from here. You know, I'm just this is this
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  Speaker 1: as a strong compliment, Mario. You don't, Yeah, I get
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  Speaker 1: a lot of energy from a lot of individuals. You
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  Speaker 1: don't feel like sports is your end all, your your tune,
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  Speaker 1: your your conversation is it feels like it feels like
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking to an entrepreneur, feels like I'm talking to
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  Speaker 1: a businessman, to feel like I'm talking to a school teacher,
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  Speaker 1: and feel like I'm talking about a guy who understands
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  Speaker 1: his place in life. And I am I reading you right.
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  Speaker 1: And once you go through type of injuries I had, man,
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  Speaker 1: and your basketball does abound forever. I mean, you just
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  Speaker 1: stay around the game forever, but you can't play the
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  Speaker 1: game forever. You know, my mindset right now, I still
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  Speaker 1: want to play. I still feel like a class Am'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna play. But it's getting to the point where I started.
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  Speaker 1: I still have to change my mindset and make sure
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  Speaker 1: that I can live my life the way I did
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  Speaker 1: playing basketball after basketball, and that's what I'm focused on.
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  Speaker 1: Oh mom said what you gotta say to that? Mom?
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  Speaker 1: Come on, man, I like that, you know, she said,
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  Speaker 1: you know they still got game in them. But in
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  Speaker 1: the meantime, you're more than the basketball player. It really is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like I said you, it's it's a it's
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  Speaker 1: a it's a tone in your voice that lets me
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  Speaker 1: know that that a lot of a lot of athletes
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  Speaker 1: can't walk away. I can hear their voice. They really
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  Speaker 1: miss it. They really And I'm not saying that you
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  Speaker 1: that you that you don't miss it. I'm just saying
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  Speaker 1: in your voice, it's a very comfortable voice, man, it
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  Speaker 1: is a very and and maybe the fact that you've
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  Speaker 1: had success at high school I think so. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like when basketball accomplished pretty much everything I
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  Speaker 1: every wanted to do in basketball, and I feel like
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  Speaker 1: I'd still be a teacher of the game. I still
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  Speaker 1: want to be a party of the game. But if
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  Speaker 1: my mom is always telling me what you're gonna do
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  Speaker 1: with the NBA is busy this year, and I feel
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  Speaker 1: like they're busy. So I'm just trying to figure out
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  Speaker 1: different ways to make it all work, put it all together,
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  Speaker 1: and still stay around in the game and still you know,
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  Speaker 1: still preach basketball. And I think this is the perfect one.
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  Speaker 1: So Mr ch Almos, why did you? Why did you?
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  Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you give up on this book? Why do
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  Speaker 1: you know? Why do you why do you kept poking him,
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  Speaker 1: as he said, poking him and reminding him of this book?
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  Speaker 1: Why do you kept staying on top of him about this?
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  Speaker 1: That ABC is a basketball is for attitude, B is
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  Speaker 1: for basketball. See it's for cool years, for dunk years,
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  Speaker 1: for effort. If come on, now, that's what the ABC
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  Speaker 1: efforts and free throw g is for gold. I love
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  Speaker 1: this book. It is it's it's it's it's really cool.
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  Speaker 1: It's a great illustration. Yeah. Well, you know the question
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: you asked, why did I stay on them? Is number one.
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  Speaker 1: We've always encouraged both of our children to pursue their
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  Speaker 1: gifts and their dreams and not rely on just one
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  Speaker 1: source because you never know what happened. And it was
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  Speaker 1: a UM and bringing up Mario. One of the things
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  Speaker 1: that I encouraged my kids to do was read early.
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  Speaker 1: And one thing that I find the parents can do
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  Speaker 1: is if you find an interesting topic that kids are
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: interested in reading, especially boys, UM, it just makes them
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: want to engage more. And so that was the concept
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: that the book promoted. And then when I actually saw
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: the assignment comes through the door, I was like Mario
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: here's the topic, but you got the birth it. And
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: to see him sit down and actually go prop the
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: computer to pick out specific players who was going to
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: represent what um it was going to represent what the
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: ABC stood for. But of course a most we did
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  Speaker 1: the book, you couldn't use those players because most of
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  Speaker 1: the people we sellected were NBA players who He said
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  Speaker 1: that to see the playbooks so um because it was
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  Speaker 1: just a powerful too. And I also had a conversation
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  Speaker 1: from the coach's wife saying, Hey, I love the game,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't always know enough about the game, and
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: just to look at this book and see this, it
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  Speaker 1: sort of breaks it down for me. So it's just
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: a tool that I thought would be helpful for moms,
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: for parents, for kids, for teachers, for counselors. And even
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: one preacher said he could preach the book. Now I
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: haven't seen that yet. Come on, why can't he preach
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: you on the ABC is a basketball? He said he could,
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see. Well, you know you're on my should
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: up to tell everybody about the book. The books available
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  Speaker 1: Amazon dot Com, Baunch and Noble Target. And also if
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: you send me up because I got a nice little
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: autograph from you Mr Chalmels, if you send me a banner,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: I will put it on my social media and I
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: will help this Christmas time. This makes a good Christmas gift. Okay, Christmas,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: come on to jump right on the he know he
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  Speaker 1: no promotion. Oh yeah, I like doing this, guy think
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: so so you know, let's let's let's let's look at that.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: And if you send me some Mario, if your autograph
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: a few I have two hundred and thirty thousand fan
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  Speaker 1: club members in my fan club base. I sent some
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: out to them to encourage people to buy my fan
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: club base and I got almost a million social media followers.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: I'll send it out. I'll post this. I just post
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: this a banner that you gotta send to me and
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: drive them to all these platforms Amazon dot Com, Bonds
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: and Noble and Target. So can y'all do that favorite
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: to for me? You know, I'm just saying, Rashan just
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: trying to help our little brother, that's all. Little brother.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: I already tell you I'm a big brother. Now, I
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: already tell you that. I already tell you I'm gonna
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna take care of you. But but let's let's
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: talk a little bit about you. You were you hitting
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: now because uh if hopefully I remember correct, and when
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: you came into it and be where you not? You
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: was a second round draft pick. Your s okay, cool,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: you were not the first round draft pick. And so
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: we alway know the arts make an m BI. It's
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: tough anyway. You're successful in high school, two championships in
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: the state of Alaska. You're successful. It's the game winning
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: shot at Kansas. Then the whole first round go through.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Do you get drafted in the second round? You're going
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: down to Miami. Legends down, the legends are down that way?
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Doing you how do you make that team? How do you?
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: How do you how do as a as a as
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: a person because the odds are gets it? How do you?
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: How did you make that team? Mario? Um, honestly, there
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: is no way I wasn't gonna make the team. In
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: my mind, Like growing up, my mom will tell you,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: I put everything in the basketball, Like I would go
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: to the gym after class by myself. My mom is
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: a gym teacher out of middle school. After school, Chad
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: do para tragic conference or great homework. I just like
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: my opening gym and let me in there and I'll
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: just be in the gym for hours, one on one
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: by myself, calmed down in my head five three two
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: one set in the last shot. So it was it
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: was just something in my mind. Like in from Alaska,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: a lot of people told me that I would never
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: make I'd never make it out, and you know that
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: was my motivation for everything, just I'm proved as wrong,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Like nobody had never told me that I couldn't do anything.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: So that was my mindset. And even when I got
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: to the heat, Uh, my mindset was the gay was
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: one of my favorite players growing up. But I actually
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: met him during the Great Alaska Shoot that when they
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: came to Alaska and I told him then I'm like,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be in the indre with you one and
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: he never believed me. And the first day I got
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: to my nam, he was like, you know, you're the
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: kid from Alaska that I met and told me he's
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: gonna be in the NBA. And we've been thro the
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: teammates and you know, from that day, I think I
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: earned everybody's respect because I've never let anybody tell me
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: I couldn't do anything. Type of person, I'm gonna try
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: to prove you wrong. If I can't pretty wrong. I'm
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: gonna try to find a different way to prove you wrong.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: And you know that was just my mindset, never quit,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: never give up. And it took me to where I'm
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: at now and it's still taking me further places. Now,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: what's the future for you, sir? Um teachers up in
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: the air. Like I said, I still want to play basketball. UM,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: just trying to figure out the right position in the
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: right situation from me. Um, definitely gonna come out with
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: another book. UM, just trying to figure out the title
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: and and what direction we're gonna go in that. And
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: you know, just try to stay relevant, keep doing things
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: to help my foundation. UM, just keep going from there. Well,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: I tell you you are relevant. Don't use the word
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: stay because you care and I understand that. I will
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: just tell you this a little bit advice from me
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: is that, Um, you are special. I can hear in
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: your voice. I don't believe you know how great you
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: can be. Yet I think you should take the time
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: and evaluate that your parents have raised you right and
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: understanding that there are other options out there in life
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: besides the basketball. You're the basketball has been the center
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: of your greatness, the center of your success and you're
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: in the income growth in your life. But you your foundation,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: my man. But you need to understand I hear. I
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: meet a lot of people. I've been I've been blessed
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: to talk to a lot of different people in my life.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: And your future is bright. And know that. Just take
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: time this week and think about it for a little
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: while and sit on yourself. Sit on yourself and nobody else.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: He's selfish for about a couple of days, and think
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: about Mario. Okay, Mom, thank you for raising that man,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: and thank you both for you guys for putting out
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: this book. Mario Chalmmel's ABC is a basketball dream. Big
• 23:26
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• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Barns and Noble and Target. You owe me a banner,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: and you, Mario, you owe me some autograph books. Okay, Okay,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: I know you were brother. I heard your faults and
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: you know, and Mom gonna poke you if you don't,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: she's gonna poke you. Hey man, I love both of y'all.
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