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Rodney McLeod Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: It's time it showtime, showtime. My next is he knows
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  Speaker 1: about showtime. He knows about being in prime time. He
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  Speaker 1: knows about the big life. He knows about being celebrated.
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  Speaker 1: My first guest is the starting safety for the Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl champion Philadelphia Egos. He's the owner of Back of House,
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  Speaker 1: high end fashion retail store, and he is most importantly
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  Speaker 1: a philanthropists. Please workome the money making conversations. Rodney McLeod,
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  Speaker 1: how are you doing? Hey? What's that enough hype for you?
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  Speaker 1: Rodney did a good job. Here's this deal. Man. You
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  Speaker 1: you're a superstar and I gotta treat you like that. Man.
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  Speaker 1: But you know people see you what that helping on?
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  Speaker 1: They just think you out there tackling people. You know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. But you got a lot going on
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  Speaker 1: in your life, man, I want to talk about it
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  Speaker 1: on the show. And uh and really, man, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: just amazing to see your story because you come from
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  Speaker 1: one of the story I say, story that said legendary
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  Speaker 1: high schools in America called the Matha in Maryland. Man,
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  Speaker 1: let me just run off when I say legendary high school,
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  Speaker 1: the Matha Catholic of high school. Let me pay some
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  Speaker 1: of the famous people from there. Markale, folks, if you
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  Speaker 1: don't know him, he's the first pick in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: in the NBA draft last year, Victor Oladipot, he was
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  Speaker 1: a number two pick in the NBA draft. Legendary Agel,
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  Speaker 1: big booty, that Ley boy, he backed down. Boy, you
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  Speaker 1: couldn't get around him. James Brown, that's my boy. Hosted
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  Speaker 1: the NFL today, Cameron Wake He dominated the CFL. Now
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  Speaker 1: he dominated down in Miami. Dolphin David Aldrich. If you
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  Speaker 1: don't know Daves, you don't follow NBA. My man, I
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  Speaker 1: had to grab this personal Clifton Pile actor friend, that's
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  Speaker 1: my boy, Danny Ferry and the drum roll. Rodney McCleod. Man, brother,
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  Speaker 1: you're on the wall down there and the math Ye, Rodney,
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  Speaker 1: they got you on their wall. Man. Man, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Right now, they got my picture up,
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  Speaker 1: you know, up in the weight room. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think they're gonna give me a little in dusty. Um.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'm hoping soon, you know, especially now that
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  Speaker 1: I got that Super Bowl champ tack to me. But
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  Speaker 1: it's really an odd man to you know, uh be represented, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, represent the MATHA. And you just listed off
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  Speaker 1: you know a lot of amazing guys, um and they're
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  Speaker 1: all especially in some way that have come through the MATHA.
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  Speaker 1: So it's just an honored man to to hopefully, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, uh, be up on the wall
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  Speaker 1: beside those guys. That's just a few. That's just a few.
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  Speaker 1: If any about to google with the MATHA Catholic High
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  Speaker 1: School is in Maryland and you will see I I
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  Speaker 1: just you know this interview about Rodney. I ain't got
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  Speaker 1: time to be listening to all the stars indicate from
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  Speaker 1: this high school, and right I want to talk about
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  Speaker 1: your story man. First of all, I went out reading
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  Speaker 1: your bio. My minor is sociology. My degrees in mathematic
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  Speaker 1: but my mind and sociology. Your degree in sociology. So
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  Speaker 1: immediately you were my man, Oh yeah, yes, sir, yes, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Degree in sociology. Why degree in sociology at the University
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  Speaker 1: of Virginia. Uh man, I mean, honestly, being an athlete
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  Speaker 1: of Virginia, it's hard to be able to balance, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the school aspect um, going to class every day. Um,
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  Speaker 1: the workload, um, you know, tied in with uh you
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  Speaker 1: know what my job is, what is going out, you know,
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  Speaker 1: practicing and and Lincolshaw. I'm preparing on Saturday. So um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I've kind of had three options. I was
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  Speaker 1: kind of leaning towards sociology, psychology, anthropology. So um, I
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  Speaker 1: end up going with sociologists because I was just a
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  Speaker 1: lot more there's a lot interested uh more interested in
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  Speaker 1: that field and the classes. It is an amazing degree.
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  Speaker 1: It's an amazing degree. Man. Uh you know, my my
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  Speaker 1: degree is a mathematic, but if I had to do
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  Speaker 1: it all again, it would be a sociology because it
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  Speaker 1: just taught me so much about people and how people
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  Speaker 1: interactive and also I learned so much about what I
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  Speaker 1: didn't learn in high school, how much they did not
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  Speaker 1: you information. It was almost it was a ground baking,
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  Speaker 1: uh decision for me to do and go into those classes,
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  Speaker 1: and I just soaked them up. Man. So when I
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  Speaker 1: saw that you, I knew that right right along. You
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  Speaker 1: have a degree in sociology. You have a strong awareness
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  Speaker 1: about this country about social issues and uh, and things
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  Speaker 1: that concerned everyday people that a lot of people just
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  Speaker 1: kind of disregard. That's what sociology brings to the table exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Now let's talk about you. You're you're a football player, okay,
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  Speaker 1: and you went to the University of Virginia and you're
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  Speaker 1: playing safety and cornerback in college. Correct, correct? Okay, So
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  Speaker 1: draft is coming up, Draft is coming up. Did you
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  Speaker 1: expect to get drafted because you went into the NFL
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  Speaker 1: as a free agent undrafted free agent? Yeah, so, um
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  Speaker 1: there was a lot of speculation on whether or not,
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  Speaker 1: um I would be drafted or not. They're projecting me
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  Speaker 1: um or you know, late to uh possibly priority free agents.
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  Speaker 1: Um So going through the whole process, man, it was fun.
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  Speaker 1: I I enjoyed it. Uh, you know, I think my
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  Speaker 1: goal you know as a child, UH was always to
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  Speaker 1: hear my name, you know, get called. You know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: saying to day that draft and you know it didn't happen,
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  Speaker 1: and so um, you know it was God's plan. But
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  Speaker 1: I had a lot of cars going on that day. UM,
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  Speaker 1: teams calling me. UM, let me know they were interested.
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  Speaker 1: They wanted to try and get me at this or
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  Speaker 1: that pig. So you know, a day of the draft, Hello,
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  Speaker 1: did I lose you? That matters? So UM A lot
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  Speaker 1: of it. Um. You know I went through that process. Um.
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  Speaker 1: I was fortunate enough and blessing enough to go with St.
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  Speaker 1: Louis Rams. Um. They gave me the opportunity and kind
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  Speaker 1: of exceled from day one. Man, it took a lot
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  Speaker 1: of hard work. You know, we know it. You signed
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  Speaker 1: five year contract for thirty seven million dollars with the Philadelphi,
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  Speaker 1: so we know it worked out. You know you I
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  Speaker 1: read now, you know I reading and doing my research,
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  Speaker 1: so you know it kind of worked out. I feel blessed.
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  Speaker 1: It took. Yeah, I mean it takes a lot um
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  Speaker 1: to be undrafted man, to come in UM not know
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  Speaker 1: what your future holds, um, and and like everything that
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  Speaker 1: you know, you do is is heightened versus you know,
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  Speaker 1: a guy that does get drafted. So I had to
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  Speaker 1: work actually hard, man. I had the um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: countless hours outside of the time that um they gave
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  Speaker 1: to me, um to make sure that every day. UM,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I was fully prepared and I treated every
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  Speaker 1: day like the interview. And UM I was just determining. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't want to go back home. UM. You know,
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  Speaker 1: God game the opportunity to get my foot in the door.
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  Speaker 1: And h that's what it's about, getting that foot in
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  Speaker 1: the door. That's what this show was about. Telling people
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  Speaker 1: if you get a shot, don't don't don't don't sleep
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  Speaker 1: on it. And you didn't sleep with your opportunity. Nothing
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  Speaker 1: for advantage. Yeah, you take nothing for uh. Um you know,
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  Speaker 1: nothing for granted. Man. And I think me being undrafted
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  Speaker 1: and my story UM just kind of you know, propelled
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  Speaker 1: me and propelled my career. UM for me, um not
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  Speaker 1: to take any play or any moment for granted, and
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  Speaker 1: and appreciating the game and different aspects I think coming
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  Speaker 1: in in a way that I did. Uh you know
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  Speaker 1: it us, Uh, it is a perfect story from that
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  Speaker 1: perfect It's an amazing story. Right, They don't sleep on
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  Speaker 1: this story, man, because of the fact that you know
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  Speaker 1: you you came from amazing high school, you went to
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  Speaker 1: the an incredible academic institution, and at the University of Virginia.
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  Speaker 1: You graduated with a sociology degree. Like I said, that's
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  Speaker 1: my minor. I know what you graduated it. That's not
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  Speaker 1: an easy degree. That's a degree that that makes well
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  Speaker 1: rounded individuals. People hired you get that degree. They hire
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  Speaker 1: at IBM. Those are people that are hiring nowadays at
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  Speaker 1: these technical companies because they have a balanced vision. So
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  Speaker 1: and I understand who you are from that perspective, and
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  Speaker 1: you and you were determined to win. You were undrafted,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and that's a certain degree of embarrassment because
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  Speaker 1: everybody want to you want to get drafted. But that
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  Speaker 1: didn't that then dut you you went there, made that St.
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  Speaker 1: Louis Rams and you side of the contract. We don'ta
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  Speaker 1: talk about more about with the Roddy McCloud Super Bowl
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  Speaker 1: champions starting safely for the Philadelphi Eagles. When we come
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  Speaker 1: back about the charities and his business money making conversation, Man,
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  Speaker 1: this guy just signed the contract in twenty six for
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  Speaker 1: five min your five years thirty seven million dollars. That's
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  Speaker 1: a money made conversation. This is ras Sean McDonald. You're
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  Speaker 1: listening to money making conversation on the phone. I have
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  Speaker 1: the starting safety of the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles,
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  Speaker 1: Rodney McLeod. Rodney, how are you doing? My friend? What's
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  Speaker 1: going on? Good? I want to ask you, Rodney, when
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  Speaker 1: you sign a contrary your story is amazing and I
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  Speaker 1: want to keep repeating and I'm sure you repeated a
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  Speaker 1: lot in motivational speaking opportunities that you get in front
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  Speaker 1: of adults and also especially in front of a high
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  Speaker 1: school and middle school students, because I know your your
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  Speaker 1: range of who you talk to is why when you
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  Speaker 1: become a sports or a sports or athlete of your
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  Speaker 1: of your level, you you know you're coming to the
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  Speaker 1: NFL as a free agent, and then you've signed this
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  Speaker 1: five year, thirty seven million dollar contract. So that's that's
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  Speaker 1: a different group of people around you. Now, what is
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  Speaker 1: team Rodney mccleoud, right, that protects you to make sure
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  Speaker 1: that you're making the right decisions? What is who is
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  Speaker 1: or what is team Rodney mccleoud. Um, I mean the
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  Speaker 1: team is really you know, starts with my family. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know that's where it all started. Um. Those are
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  Speaker 1: the ones that paved the way for me to get
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  Speaker 1: to where I am today. And UM, I owe a
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  Speaker 1: lot of my success, um, you know to them, UM
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  Speaker 1: for the sacrifices they made UM for me growing up,
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  Speaker 1: getting me um involved in sports in the first place,
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  Speaker 1: particularly football, but UM, you know I was well around
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  Speaker 1: it did a lot. UM. But then you know the
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  Speaker 1: other side of things, My mom always you know, priesting me,
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  Speaker 1: did my parson general education was always important and you
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  Speaker 1: know I am athletic, I am challenged, but UM, you know,
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  Speaker 1: don't forget what's important. And UM at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the day. Uh you know, knowledge is power man and
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  Speaker 1: and and the mind is a powerful uh source. And
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  Speaker 1: so it was always priesting me regardless of um what
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing on that field. It's the grades aren't in
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  Speaker 1: line then, oh you know more of that. So I think, UM,
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  Speaker 1: just the way I was raised, man, UM, it kind
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  Speaker 1: of prepared me just for life and everything that you
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  Speaker 1: know that I've gone through. Uh my parents that that
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  Speaker 1: that worked. UM, Like I said, very hard. So I
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  Speaker 1: know what hard work looks like. UM. I know you
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  Speaker 1: have to work, um to get UM to see those
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  Speaker 1: results that you want. And so that's where it starts. Man,
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  Speaker 1: I got a fiancee. She's a part of the team.
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  Speaker 1: And then, um, you know, I surround myself with what
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  Speaker 1: the health that I need, my agent Tony Page, my
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  Speaker 1: PR guy Anton Barnes, and financial advisor a man tax personal. Um.
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  Speaker 1: There there's a lot of people, man, that that I
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  Speaker 1: can label as team Ronnie that that helped um, um
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  Speaker 1: me get to our I m and keep me grounded. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: now let's go into fashion. Okay, now how I fashion
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  Speaker 1: retail store? Now rutting? Who told you? Now? Run? See
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  Speaker 1: I think I can dress now running? Who told you?
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  Speaker 1: You know? Fashion style? Man? Honestly, you know I started
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  Speaker 1: in high school. You know, I kind of just always
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  Speaker 1: turned me a little bit. But it wasn't until you know,
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  Speaker 1: I started, um getting around guys around the league, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, as you as you go out, No, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, en you tell me, tell me Mr Fast
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  Speaker 1: whether my friends are going to advance and people just
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  Speaker 1: complimenting your style and your look. And then you know
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  Speaker 1: I started to be like, hey, man, like like fashion,
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  Speaker 1: I like dressing up, you know, confidence, I have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of fun and I was I was always a
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  Speaker 1: guy that likes to present myself well and so um
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  Speaker 1: it just became my niche and um, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: just wanted to take it to a whole another level
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  Speaker 1: and put my put my all into it. And now
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  Speaker 1: I'm an owner of backup house right there and right one.
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  Speaker 1: I'm from, um it's actually right outside one. I'm from
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  Speaker 1: d C area, Arleston, Virginia and Pentagon City Mall. And
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  Speaker 1: we've been open since late November and we've just been
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  Speaker 1: growing every since. Oh come on, now, I saw some pictures.
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  Speaker 1: That's a pretty big store. I mean square feeds. The
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  Speaker 1: square feeds that store. I don't exactually know the exact
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  Speaker 1: square footage, but it's really not as big as you think. Okay, okay,
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  Speaker 1: the pictures fool of me. The pictures a fool of me. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But we I mean we make it, we make it.
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  Speaker 1: We make it work. Man. The store is are always
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  Speaker 1: full of nice middle of the high end brands. Daniel
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  Speaker 1: Patrick off White represent other UK um so we have
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  Speaker 1: something from UK, Los Angeles area, Canada, um Man, some
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  Speaker 1: local brands. So we just wanted to bring something splash
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  Speaker 1: with the d C. Man d C like we're known
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  Speaker 1: for fashion but you know we we we were kind
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  Speaker 1: of a little bit behind, you know when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to the New York's and the Los Angeles. But we're
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  Speaker 1: trying to just be that store man that that puts um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, DC back on the map. Like, how do
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  Speaker 1: you promote it? How did how do you promote the
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  Speaker 1: hip hop? My listeners? You your store owner, I know
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  Speaker 1: your super Bowl champ you know, but you you opened
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  Speaker 1: it before you became the Super Bowl champ. Okay, so
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  Speaker 1: you had a vision. Just man, I'm just gonna take
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  Speaker 1: advantage of my Look, this is my love, this is
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  Speaker 1: my passion, and I'm gonna do it. So what were
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  Speaker 1: the steps? Man? Um? I mean it really started with
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  Speaker 1: uh first, my mentor. Um that's where it all started.
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  Speaker 1: Kevin James, who is now my business partner. Um, he
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  Speaker 1: was mentoring me the entire time prior to us opening up.
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  Speaker 1: And UM, you know we sat down one day man
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  Speaker 1: and we had a vision that we had a conversation,
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  Speaker 1: um over dinner and uh you know that day forward. UM,
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  Speaker 1: you know we understand what we wanted to accomplish. And UM,
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  Speaker 1: this uh store right here is just to start there.
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  Speaker 1: You know what what the end? Goo? Um? Is gonna be.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we were planning to have a few locally,
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  Speaker 1: but then also make this thing be global man um.
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  Speaker 1: But it starts with being able to trust in someone
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  Speaker 1: like that guy in my position who's not there on
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  Speaker 1: the daily basis. You need someone that understands the industry
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  Speaker 1: um and the hands and out that can manage the
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  Speaker 1: story day and the day out. And I'm lucky enough
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  Speaker 1: to have a guy like that who has a lot
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  Speaker 1: of experience and that I trust. Umst of A. First
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  Speaker 1: of all, you didn't open the nightclub, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: so you know some you know that happens all the
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  Speaker 1: time opening the nightclub. Dude, they can party. I like
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  Speaker 1: the party. People show up for my parties. I'm open
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  Speaker 1: a nightclub that you know that that was I was
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  Speaker 1: so happy when I read that on your bio. But
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  Speaker 1: let's switch gears. When you just just find your talking.
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  Speaker 1: It's called back up House. It's a high end fashion
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  Speaker 1: retail store. Uh go to www. Dot b O h
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  Speaker 1: U s A as backup House b O b O
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  Speaker 1: h USA dot com. That's www dot b O h
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  Speaker 1: U s A dot com. Millennials come to force now.
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  Speaker 1: HBU s is a bunch of h b U C
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  Speaker 1: h b c U campuses Rodney area up in Arlington.
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  Speaker 1: Go up there, Howard, how would come on? Now, come on,
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  Speaker 1: throw some love to my Mayor Roding McCloud a backup house.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about your your charity, man, because you're out there, man,
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  Speaker 1: you're happing out the community. Uh. You know, spokesperson for
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  Speaker 1: the American Association for Cancel Research tell us about that, yeah, man,
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  Speaker 1: um So, I'm just uh I recently partnered with them
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  Speaker 1: once I came to Philadelphia. Um so it was a
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  Speaker 1: big year for me. Um I came over here, you know,
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  Speaker 1: from long but then also um, Matt, you know, with
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  Speaker 1: this tremendous organization, American Association for Cancer Research, that does
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  Speaker 1: you know, phenomenal job up man and trying to uh
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  Speaker 1: find a cure um for for cancer and not just one. Um.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's over a hundred types uh cancers and
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  Speaker 1: so many people are affected by uh you know, there's
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  Speaker 1: a large community of us and so UM I got
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  Speaker 1: with them, um personally myself because of my grandmother that
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  Speaker 1: passed away of tantraded cancer my senior year of high school.
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  Speaker 1: And you know her her ultimate goal for me was
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  Speaker 1: you know, to graduate high school, UM, to go into
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  Speaker 1: college and then you know, to tell my dreams, which um,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm doing right now. And so I've
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  Speaker 1: always had She's always had a special place in my heart. UM.
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  Speaker 1: I always do a tribute to her before the games.
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  Speaker 1: And when I got to this level, I said, you
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  Speaker 1: know what can I do? Um? You know what would
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  Speaker 1: she want me to do? Um? Now that I have
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  Speaker 1: this access and you know, I have this money, but
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  Speaker 1: what can I do that's positive? Um to you know
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  Speaker 1: better or help someone us that was in her situation
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  Speaker 1: or a situation like mine. And me being a ambassador
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  Speaker 1: for American Association with Cancer Research is you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: my calling and you know, uh being able to you know,
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  Speaker 1: help them out and in any other way John Awareness
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  Speaker 1: putting on events to try and raise money for research
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  Speaker 1: because it costs. Um it's very expensive. But UM that's
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  Speaker 1: just the road that I play, man, and um it's
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  Speaker 1: growing and uh, you know, let's let's just real quick
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  Speaker 1: to your your youth football camp because I know we
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  Speaker 1: are running short on time here, but I want to
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  Speaker 1: make sure people understand how you give back to the
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  Speaker 1: community before we get off there. You have a youth
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  Speaker 1: football camp at the Matha for ages nine through fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us about that and uh when when when does
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  Speaker 1: it happen? When does it happen? Yeah? So yeah, man,
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  Speaker 1: this would be the fifth year actually of my camp.
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  Speaker 1: And um you said it's usually arranged from ages A
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  Speaker 1: eight to nine to uh to the age of four
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  Speaker 1: team being the oldest, and and it's usually held at
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  Speaker 1: the Matter. Um, this year it will be held at
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  Speaker 1: the Matter again. Hopefully it doesn't rain in the past.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah on the weather, but man, we we always find
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  Speaker 1: a way. Um, and God make sure that that. But
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  Speaker 1: it will be June this year, right days. What can
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  Speaker 1: it go to register a website? Yeah, so we don't
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  Speaker 1: have the side up yet. Um. It will be at
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  Speaker 1: Rodney McCleod dot com. Um usually on my actual website.
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  Speaker 1: Will usually post a link on my Instagram direct link
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  Speaker 1: in the bio because it's gonna be packed this year. Brother,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be packed this year. You know this back
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  Speaker 1: every year exactly, but it's gonna be crazy this year.
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  Speaker 1: Usually back down two hundred. But you know a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people, man, they're trying to get the kids involved.
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  Speaker 1: Hey Rodney man, thank you man, You're an amazing guy.
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