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Chris Paul Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: My next guest and just tell you all this where
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Speaker 1: he resumes five times and I'm tired because his brother
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Speaker 1: does a lot. My next guest is an NBA superstar, entrepreneur, philanthropists,
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Speaker 1: inspirational motivator, notable brand ambassador for State Farm. In two
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Speaker 1: thousand five, Chris and his family established the CP three
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Speaker 1: Foundation of philanthropic partnership with the Winston Salem Foundation in
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Speaker 1: on of his late grandfather. The foundation's effort are truly
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Speaker 1: a family affair, and with his tenth anniversary, the foundation
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Speaker 1: officially changed its name to the Chris Paul Family Foundation
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Speaker 1: to include the involvement of Chris's wife, parents, brother, sister
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Speaker 1: in law, and extended family members. He is a man
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Speaker 1: that I am a fan of because what he stands
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Speaker 1: in life, because he stands up for himself and the
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Speaker 1: people around him and his community. Please welcome to money
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Speaker 1: making conversations, Chris Paul. What's going on? Chris? Tell you some?
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Speaker 1: I originally from Houston, Texas? Okay, and so yes, sir,
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Speaker 1: I'm based in Atlanta, but for Houston, Texas and the
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Speaker 1: thing that impressed me. I'm always impressed with you. Before
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Speaker 1: we got traded to Houston, that's gonna be real about this. Okay.
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Speaker 1: If you if your guy who knows sports and understands
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Speaker 1: sports and know your history as a as a man,
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Speaker 1: as an individual, as a leader, you impressed. But as
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Speaker 1: soon as you got to Houston, you got involved in
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Speaker 1: the community, explained, explain that drive as soon as so
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Speaker 1: so soon as it gets there, I'm gonna TV he's
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Speaker 1: passing that food. What drives that direction in your life
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Speaker 1: so strongly? I think for me, it's always in my
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Speaker 1: support system and my family. You know, growing up in
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Speaker 1: North Carolina, you know, everything was always about like helping
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Speaker 1: others and understanding that you don't get anywhere on your own.
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Speaker 1: And the day I got traded, you know, to Houston,
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Speaker 1: I became of h Houstonia with the with the hurricane happening.
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Speaker 1: Um that that was tough, you know to see you
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Speaker 1: know now part of my extended family and during what
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Speaker 1: they were having to go through. I wanted to do
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Speaker 1: as much as I could, do my part and help
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Speaker 1: as much as possible. And just not even the fact
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Speaker 1: that I, you know, got traded to Houston, just just
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Speaker 1: because you know, we all are people. You know, it's
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Speaker 1: a big family, so you know, and that's really important
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Speaker 1: because you know, it's like, because I know that, like
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Speaker 1: you said, you're in used to that, but you're still
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Speaker 1: helping people in other areas. That's what we're on the
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Speaker 1: call today and talk about how you just feel a
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Speaker 1: need to shape a better life for people you don't know,
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Speaker 1: and that's an important value system for you. Correct. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think for me, uh, I've always looked at basketball
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Speaker 1: as you know, a tool, like I love the game
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Speaker 1: more than anybody, but I always say, you know, basketball
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Speaker 1: is what I do. It's not who I am. You know,
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Speaker 1: if I remember, uh if i'm if I remember, you know,
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Speaker 1: when I leave this earth as just this amazing basketball player,
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Speaker 1: and I feel like, you know, my life was a failure.
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Speaker 1: You know, there's so many people who have helped me
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Speaker 1: get to where I am today that you know, it's
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Speaker 1: paying it forward and just trying to teach and educate,
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Speaker 1: especially the youth. Uh not only my own kids especially them,
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Speaker 1: but everyone just trying to teach them because I'm thirty
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Speaker 1: four and I'm still learning. I tell people that that's
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Speaker 1: you know, someone in the same page. I tell people
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Speaker 1: I wake up ignorant every morning. That way, I'm willing
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Speaker 1: to accept information that's being delivered to me because you
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Speaker 1: wake up thinking know it all. Then guess what you're
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Speaker 1: gonna miss some valuable information to a valuable advice. And
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Speaker 1: that's also a humble side of you that that I
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Speaker 1: feel you know that that that that rings out for
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Speaker 1: you because naturally, as an athlete, and you're such a
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Speaker 1: gifted athlete, there's a necessary feeling that you know you
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Speaker 1: are in some ways immortal. You know you're invincible because
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Speaker 1: that craft, you're so good at it. But in the
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Speaker 1: business world, when you go into the business world and
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Speaker 1: the charitable world, it's filled with so many flaws because
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Speaker 1: you know, you get on the court, you see the
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Speaker 1: length of basketball floor, you know the rams ten feet,
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Speaker 1: you know where their free throw line is gonna be
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Speaker 1: this far. But when you get in the business world,
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Speaker 1: those dynamics disappear. That's when it also gets really interesting
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Speaker 1: and challenging. Correct, Yeah, it gets very interesting because what
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Speaker 1: happens also is a lot of times people see you
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Speaker 1: on television or they see you on that court and
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Speaker 1: they think that's all you know. You know, they think
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Speaker 1: all you know is how to put the ball in
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Speaker 1: the basket, and um, that's that's not the case, not
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Speaker 1: only myself. There's a lot of intelligent athletes out there,
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Speaker 1: and I think that's why, you know, we have to
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Speaker 1: continue to learn. And it's funny, you know sometimes when
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Speaker 1: you do get in the business world and people shake
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Speaker 1: your hand, they make a comment and they're like, oh,
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Speaker 1: you know about this, Like, yeah, we we only play
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Speaker 1: the games from seven. That's so true. It's really interesting
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Speaker 1: because I and I totally agree with you that because
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Speaker 1: when I was managing Steve Harvey and whenever we was
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Speaker 1: doing deals, you know, there was so much energy putting
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Speaker 1: his direction because he was the star Steve Harbor, I
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Speaker 1: was just doing a deal. And and and I will
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Speaker 1: tell you, because of mine who I was in African American,
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Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of shade was throwing my
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Speaker 1: way like I didn't know what I was doing, Like
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Speaker 1: I was his running buddy, like I was his boy.
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Speaker 1: And I would always tell him, you're gonna talk to
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Speaker 1: me later. I would just tell him, you're gonna talk
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Speaker 1: to me later. And because because people will disrespect you
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Speaker 1: by you know, stereotyping you, and that's what you're saying.
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Speaker 1: As an athlete, I was being stereotyped because guess what
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Speaker 1: and Lebron runs through that same problem with his boys.
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Speaker 1: Could they call him crew? They disrespect the fact that
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Speaker 1: you can be of a certain color, a certain a
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Speaker 1: certain a certain gender and feel that you can't compete
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Speaker 1: mentally in this corporate game, this game of closing deals.
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Speaker 1: And that's what you're playing in every day. Because I
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Speaker 1: look at all these brands and partnerships that you're tied to,
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Speaker 1: it's amazing that you're so well rounded. Chris tried to
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Speaker 1: at least, and you know, over the years, I've had
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Speaker 1: some unbelievable mentors who I paid attention to and like
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Speaker 1: and like you just said, there, Um, it's never never
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Speaker 1: having too much information, you know, I always want to learn. Um,
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Speaker 1: And that's what it is. I mean, I talked about
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Speaker 1: a lot of times as a professional athlete. Uh, I
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Speaker 1: got drafted into the NBA when I was nineteen, about
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Speaker 1: twenty years old. And you're young. You don't know about
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Speaker 1: financial literacy. You don't know about a lot and so
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Speaker 1: if you if you don't try to seek some of
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Speaker 1: that knowledge, you know, your career can go by. And
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Speaker 1: now you're just sitting there, like what do I do now?
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Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting now here's we got to go
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Speaker 1: back to the brand that I feel that it's equally
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Speaker 1: as made you, equally as possible popular as your basketball career,
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Speaker 1: that Stay Farmed. You are a Brandon bastling. I'm pretty
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Speaker 1: sure people know you for State Farm and may not
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Speaker 1: know even relay basketball. Correct, You're probably right, absolutely, And
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Speaker 1: that's but that character a certain amount of responsibility when
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Speaker 1: you when you're that associated with the brand, because over
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Speaker 1: the years I've seen many athletes come and go participating
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Speaker 1: these commercials with you are are brought in as part
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Speaker 1: of the brand layer outside of that ground and keeping
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Speaker 1: in that basketball format when you when you when you
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Speaker 1: come on that the biggest thing I've heard. Because I
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Speaker 1: have a lot of good friends who are in the
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Speaker 1: business world of the cmos that Stay Farmed. We always
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Speaker 1: said this about you, Chris, when he comes around, he
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Speaker 1: understands who he is and how to respect people that
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Speaker 1: are tied to the brand and associated with as potential customers.
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Speaker 1: You under you got it usually just take the money
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Speaker 1: and they ain't got time for that. You understood that
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Speaker 1: there's a certain value and responsibility that comes when somebody
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Speaker 1: tells you you are the face of a brand and
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Speaker 1: that's what you are, which stay fun correct absolutely And
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Speaker 1: you know what I said happened, uh to tell you
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Speaker 1: happened was there was a shift at some point in
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Speaker 1: uh in the athletes and that once upon a time
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Speaker 1: there were just endorsement deals and they still happen. They're
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Speaker 1: still endorsement deals that happen. But what shifted for me
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Speaker 1: and my brand is that I tried to make sure
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Speaker 1: that any and everything that I did were partnerships and
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Speaker 1: to and to some people, they may hear that and
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Speaker 1: be like, oh, that's the same thing. It's not the
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Speaker 1: same thing, and that endorsement is just here say you
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Speaker 1: like this. But for me, uh, my business now partnerships
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Speaker 1: and things that I believe in. And what we did
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Speaker 1: with State Farm, which I'm always so grateful for the
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Speaker 1: relationship that we have with them, is that Obviously people
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Speaker 1: see the commercials and it's funny in your laugh and
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Speaker 1: everyone talks about the neighborhood of good but it was
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Speaker 1: what we did is assist tracking. It wasn't just about
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Speaker 1: assist on the court. You know, we've opened up maybe
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Speaker 1: twelve or fifteen learning centers all around the corner the
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Speaker 1: so with that, I mean around the country which you're
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Speaker 1: You know, our partnership with State Farm is bigger than
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Speaker 1: just the commercial spots. It's off the court, what we're
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Speaker 1: doing in the communities and trying to get back. You know,
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Speaker 1: let's talk about some of these partnerships a little bit here.
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Speaker 1: And you know, Jordan Brand, you have State Farm Insurance,
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Speaker 1: you have Spaulding Beyond Meat, Turner, Impact Capital Music, Watermelon Water,
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Speaker 1: and Uncharted Power. We had a couple of minutes left
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Speaker 1: in this break, and I would tell you the next
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Speaker 1: break will devote to the entire September event. But I
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Speaker 1: want to talk about Watermelon water, which is just watermelon
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Speaker 1: and water and lemon. Correct. How did you get involved
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Speaker 1: with that partnership Watermelon Water. Yeah, I got involved with
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Speaker 1: it because I did some research because no sense to
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Speaker 1: some of the other other brands that contain so much
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Speaker 1: sugar in it, as far as like sports drinks. But
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Speaker 1: I found out that it's caught me watermelon water. They
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Speaker 1: used hundred million pounds of of ugly watermelon. So when
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Speaker 1: you go to the grocery store, but don't realize you're
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Speaker 1: just seeing the nice looking watermelon right right right, So
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Speaker 1: the ugly watermelon the shelf. We make our products and UM,
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Speaker 1: it contains potassium and it's it's it's a lot healthier
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Speaker 1: for you and I and I like it and I've
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Speaker 1: enjoyed being part of the company. It's amazing that watermelon
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Speaker 1: contains water, so basically when you eating watermelon is basically
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Speaker 1: almost drinking. And I know when I'm whenever I'm trying
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Speaker 1: to get to a curving my diet, I always consume
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Speaker 1: a lot of watermelon. Is really good for my diet.
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Speaker 1: Coming up in our next break, Chris, we're gonna talk
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Speaker 1: about the event that you have coming up on September
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Speaker 1: twenty five at the Alumni Foundation Center. UM it's a
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Speaker 1: study that you guys did two fifty North Carolina anti
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Speaker 1: students about the business of entertainment, media and sports. And
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Speaker 1: we'll be right back with more of the amazing entrepreneur
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Speaker 1: motivational speaker philanthropris Chris Paul. Hi, this is Rashan McDonald.
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Speaker 1: I'm speaking to I like to call the modern athlete
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Speaker 1: the athletes because especially with social media, because social media
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Speaker 1: is I call uh your press conference, you can call
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Speaker 1: your own press come. You don't say that anymore. Because
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Speaker 1: people have social media, they can deliver the messages right
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Speaker 1: from their mobile phone. They have our issue, they have
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Speaker 1: something they want to promote. They don't have to call
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Speaker 1: and tell the world gather in the room. They can
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Speaker 1: just do it from their home. Do it from their phone,
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Speaker 1: do it from their plane, do it from their car.
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Speaker 1: That's what social media has done. And the modern day athletes,
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Speaker 1: especially the ones who understand what their voice can mean
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Speaker 1: to today's society, today's youth, today's adults, and people who
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Speaker 1: are who need to have information, need to be motivated
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Speaker 1: or using it the right way. My next guest, as
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Speaker 1: we continue this conversation again as NBA superstar, entrepreneur, philanthropist,
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Speaker 1: inspirational motivator, and notable brand ambassador for State Farm, that's
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Speaker 1: Chris Paul. That Chris Uh. When it was sitting the
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Speaker 1: talking points over to me, it was saying that a
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Speaker 1: Harvard business professor, you were partnering up with the North
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Speaker 1: Carolina Anti College of Business and Economics to present case
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Speaker 1: studies to two hundred and fifty North Carolina Anti students
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Speaker 1: about the business, entertainment, media and sports that's coming up
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Speaker 1: on Wednesday, September twenty five. Tell us how that relationship started.
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Speaker 1: Before we get into the actual event. Man' I'm so
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Speaker 1: excited about this event. And the way it started was
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Speaker 1: um Dr Elberts, who's um a professor at Harvard. She
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Speaker 1: does a course every summer right which a lot of
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Speaker 1: people have had an opportunity to attend, and it's a
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Speaker 1: great course on sports, business and entertainment. I had an
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Speaker 1: opportunity to attend and was like, man, this is this
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Speaker 1: is really nice. And I'm sure a lot of times
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Speaker 1: people are always wondering why I'm so passionate about HBCUs
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Speaker 1: right then that I uh attended Wait Force University. Everyone
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Speaker 1: in my family, I think probably except for me, went
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Speaker 1: to HBCU, But in my brain, I went to AU
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Speaker 1: just just because growing up I was always at wants
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Speaker 1: to save the state. Uh. Two of my little cousins
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Speaker 1: just graduated from North Carolina and Ti, my brother, went
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Speaker 1: to Hampton this freshman year, and um, I really just
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Speaker 1: got passionate about trying to do my research and figure
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Speaker 1: out why, you know, some courses aren't offered at HBCUs
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Speaker 1: that are other schools. And when this opportunity presented it
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Speaker 1: so we were like, let's let's do it. Well, it's
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Speaker 1: amazing because right now this week, stephen A. Smith and
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Speaker 1: I are working on really galvanizing divorce and their awareness
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Speaker 1: of the academic arena called HBCU University and College. This
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Speaker 1: week I went to ESPN, set down with them and
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Speaker 1: stephen A. Smith, and we're going to Wimington, Delaware, UH
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Speaker 1: this Friday, and we're doing what we call HBCU we
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Speaker 1: College Fair. Something was going on for two years and
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Speaker 1: we want to be the ambassador to brand and give
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Speaker 1: a national vards and that's what you're doing right here.
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Speaker 1: But you know, if you look at ESPN right now,
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Speaker 1: you see nothing but promos Prior to the actual broadcast, Chris,
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Speaker 1: we're doing the HBCU Experience, Battle of the Bands, drum Lines,
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Speaker 1: Step Show, Q Step, and Delta Step and so everybody
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Speaker 1: who attends can see what that experience is all about.
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Speaker 1: Gona have grad chapters, undergrad chapters. Then during the broadcast,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna have guests and they're talking about the HBCU Experience.
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Speaker 1: Magic Johnson is gonna be there talking about his entrepreneurship side,
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Speaker 1: Troy Vince is gonna be there talking about the NFL
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Speaker 1: and their HBCU initiative in sports management. And that's what
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Speaker 1: I was so excited about this interview because it felt
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Speaker 1: so timely to what I'm doing with Stephen A. Smith,
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Speaker 1: because actually attended on absolutely and he was there with
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Speaker 1: a Clarence Big Out Games who used to come watching
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Speaker 1: me play when I was in high school. And it's
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Speaker 1: it's so exciting. It's something we've been working on now
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Speaker 1: for about two years, two or three years, and I'm
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Speaker 1: excited to take it to take it to ant to
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Speaker 1: UH to show the students. You know, we worked with
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Speaker 1: the dean and everyone there at the school and we
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Speaker 1: got two hundred and fifty kids because we want to
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Speaker 1: gauge the interest, you know, so gauge the interests. So
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Speaker 1: we got two case studies that we're gonna do UH
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Speaker 1: with the kids at school, just to get their engagement
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Speaker 1: and teach them a little bit about UH sports and entertainment.
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Speaker 1: And we hope that this continues to grow and if
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Speaker 1: there's the right reaction and people are interested, we hope
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Speaker 1: to ex saying this the other age mean to you, Well,
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Speaker 1: the key is it will grow because of the fact
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Speaker 1: that the thing I like, I love about the fact
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Speaker 1: that you're involved because you have relationships and you understand
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Speaker 1: the value relationship and that's the number one lesson that
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Speaker 1: everybody has to understand is that if you want longevity,
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Speaker 1: it's tied to who you know and who was willing
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Speaker 1: to follow your path to success. And so when I
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Speaker 1: look at the seminar that you're putting together now, I'm
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Speaker 1: hoping reading everything right. You have you have four students
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Speaker 1: for the chaperone. They're brought in and um and you
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Speaker 1: have coming from different areas of the Winston Salem, New Orleans, Houston,
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Speaker 1: Los Angeles and the Brotherhood Crusade which I know at
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Speaker 1: the Los Angeles and the College Track of the Los Angeles.
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Speaker 1: My reading that they're not all from the University of
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Speaker 1: North Carolina ANT but they're from different parts of the
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Speaker 1: country too. So that's the program that I have called
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Speaker 1: Club sixty one. Okay, okay, okay, that's that's different from
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Speaker 1: this initiatives. Club sixty one is is the thing that
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Speaker 1: I started. So, my my late grandfather was murdered my
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Speaker 1: senior high school. UM my five teenagers and my grandfather
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Speaker 1: was sixty one years old when he passed away. And
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Speaker 1: my first, my first high school game, which was the
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Speaker 1: day after his funeral, I scored sixty one point one
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Speaker 1: point for every day that every year that my grandfather
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Speaker 1: was alive. And so that the meaning behind my Club
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Speaker 1: sixty one. But what I do with clubs Club sixty
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Speaker 1: one is I bring four to five kids from all
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Speaker 1: of the NBA cities that I played with played in,
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Speaker 1: including my hometown wants to Salem and I brought them
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Speaker 1: together for about three or four days and we had
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Speaker 1: some amazing speakers. We had Angela Ry talk to him
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Speaker 1: about um social justice and we we uh took him
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Speaker 1: over the Golden Sacks to talk to him about financial
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Speaker 1: financial literacy and we just literally took three four days
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Speaker 1: to teach and learn. See we're just talking about you
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Speaker 1: and they're just talking about ra Sean mccownt. But to
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Speaker 1: accomplish the task that your you have a team. Let's
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Speaker 1: talk about the team that surrounds Chris paul Man. Listen,
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Speaker 1: my my team is unbelievable and unmatched. Let's give us
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Speaker 1: some blog. Come on, come on, come on, come on,
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Speaker 1: if if you if you show me, if you show
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Speaker 1: me somebody uh that doesn't have an amazing team around
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Speaker 1: them and they're lying. And I'll tell you first and
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Speaker 1: foremost that it's not me, like I'm glad that I
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Speaker 1: can be the voice and whatnot. But my team which
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Speaker 1: consists of a number of number of people, but I mean,
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Speaker 1: I have to definitely have to start my wife. Everything.
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Speaker 1: I've mean when my wife since I was eighteen years old,
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Speaker 1: and she she is absolutely the point guard of the family.
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Speaker 1: You know, I just play it for my team. Um.
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Speaker 1: But then I got my my parents. I'm so blessed
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Speaker 1: and fortunate to have a mom and dad. Uh my
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Speaker 1: older brother who is my business manager. Also have a
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Speaker 1: woman named Carmen Wilson who is unbelievable, unbelievable, and it
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Speaker 1: goes on and on. We're really a family when it
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Speaker 1: when it comes to our operations, and that's really important
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Speaker 1: because family. I look back in my life. I tell
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Speaker 1: people when I open my comment club with Nanty too,
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Speaker 1: it was my family who worked the doors, my family
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Speaker 1: who set people down. I wouldn't be here without my family.
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Speaker 1: So I understand the value of your conversation because us.
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Speaker 1: It's that support system that can be family, can be friends,
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Speaker 1: but you gotta have that support system. And I want
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Speaker 1: to apologize right with Chris, I jumped the club sixty one. Really,
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Speaker 1: I want to get back over to where we really
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Speaker 1: originally brought you onto the phone and talk about the business, Entertainment,
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Speaker 1: Media and Sports event is happening September at the Alumni
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Speaker 1: Foundation Center. Please tell us in more detail exactly. Uh,
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Speaker 1: it's what the agenda is gonna be. I know we
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Speaker 1: have two entrean fifty north Kinna Ant students. Talk a
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Speaker 1: little bit more about that. So, Uh, the students, they're
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Speaker 1: gonna participate in a class, right and they'll discuss case studies.
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Speaker 1: So that's what we did when I went to the
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Speaker 1: class at Harvard. So we'll have case studies. And it's
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Speaker 1: cool because, uh, one of the case studies is on
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Speaker 1: the ways like my brother, one of my really close friends,
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Speaker 1: and we'll get a chance to uh go over some
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Speaker 1: of his business things that he's had over the years
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Speaker 1: and decisions that he had to make. The same thing
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Speaker 1: we'll do for the Walt Disney Studios, which is a
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Speaker 1: huge company, major company, um, and we'll get to have discussions.
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Speaker 1: And I think the nicest the best thing about the
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Speaker 1: classes that it provides brainstorm and then you also get
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Speaker 1: a chance to get some real information that a lot
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Speaker 1: of times people don't know. That's why I'm so excited
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Speaker 1: to be a part of it also because you know,
20:26
Speaker 1: I've been blessed, like I said, to be in some
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Speaker 1: of these rooms and some of these decisions and how
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Speaker 1: they've been made. So to talk to the students and
20:34
Speaker 1: let them ask questions and you know, basically get behind
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Speaker 1: the curtain on a lot of a lot of major deals.
20:40
Speaker 1: You know it really when you talk about the Walt
20:43
Speaker 1: Disney brand, and this is what he's really saying. When
20:46
Speaker 1: you Okay, let's look look at the Walt did his brand.
20:48
Speaker 1: Let's break that down, ESPN, Hulu, Fox, Okay, Disney plus
20:56
Speaker 1: B plus all of the parks. When you just grab
21:00
Speaker 1: Disney alone, you got the whole gamuick right now worldwide,
21:04
Speaker 1: they got the six highest grossing movies in the world.
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Speaker 1: It's Walt Disney on ABC. Don't want to forget a
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Speaker 1: free form. So when you're talking about Disney alone, it
21:15
Speaker 1: just it will just shock these young people to know
21:18
Speaker 1: that how far it's brand that that you associated with.
21:23
Speaker 1: You might say, huh, pigs are Marvel. Oh he's gonna
21:28
Speaker 1: he's gonna check me. Now he goes, he goes, He's
21:31
Speaker 1: gonna check me. Like I I'm just messing with you.
21:34
Speaker 1: Chris I'm just messing with you because you're right, it's
21:38
Speaker 1: so much takes black panther absolute absolutely yeah. Yeah, so
21:44
Speaker 1: all of these different types of things. First of all,
21:46
Speaker 1: I want to let you know thank you for coming
21:48
Speaker 1: on my show. I want to let you know, please
21:50
Speaker 1: um anything you promote. I'm a fan based in Houston.
21:55
Speaker 1: Still got a home in Houston. I live in Atlanta,
21:57
Speaker 1: I've been in New York. I'm doing a lot of things.
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Speaker 1: I I'm a fan. I went to the University of Houston.
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Speaker 1: I also did not go to an HBCU school, but
22:04
Speaker 1: I'm you know, I was endown, went at my university Houston.
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Speaker 1: But I am going to be a major player as
22:10
Speaker 1: far as a voice for HBCU schools. So no, whenever
22:14
Speaker 1: you need to come our way, Chief Nay Smith, Way,
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Speaker 1: ra Sean mcdonaway, Ricky smile away, we will be there
22:20
Speaker 1: for you, brother, because HBCUs need that voice. What did
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Speaker 1: you say that? Thank you, my brother, and you've been
22:29
Speaker 1: thank you for getting on this call. And I appreciate you, man,
22:31
Speaker 1: and keep your family high man, because guess what the
22:34
Speaker 1: other reason you're strong. Okay,