Best of Season 1

the King of Sports Books, that MGM. I'm Olivia Harland Decker. You know, for the past ten weeks we have been bringing you some of the biggest names in sports, and we've had a lot of fun doing it. Not only have we kept you up to date on what's happening around the world of sports, but we've also covered a wide variety of pop culture, from wine making, NBA players, war zone playing husbands, n f T, selling running backs Yeah I still don't understand that one either, and so

much more. This week, we wanted to welcome all of our new listeners and play some clips that you might have missed. First up was our very first interview with the one and only Jalen Rose. All right, Olivia, we

are in the presence of greatness right now for multiple reasons. We've got a collegiate basketball icon, NBA icon as well, but maybe the man with the best hairline in all the sports on the corner off the court, Jalen Rose is with us let me ask you this, Jalen, who do you think Scott the best hair in sports? Who comes to mind? Not just hairline, maybe just the best

hair in sports? So little known fact. If I could wear my hair like all the way down and long, that's actually how I would wear it like, just like I grew up in the seventies, right, and so people like Ron O'Neill and you know those black exploitation movies always wanted long hair or an afro. But my hair just won't grow like that. Like it grows, but it don't grow and grow and grow and grow like that. You might need some soul glow exactly. A couple of

people that got strong hairline. Aaron Donald I try to figure when I watch him play, how you take his helmet on and off and it don't affect his hairline. Jason Tatum strong, very strong, right, that's a good with Boston Celtics. He was wearing a short cut kind of like me and you last year and he grew it out kind of to the R and B look. I'm kind of rocking that look now. Devin Booker strong, Really he has one for the Phoenix suns. I'm pretty sure.

Kylie Jenner likes that about him. Ken Kendall Jenner. It's five d Olivia and I'm old, So I'm glad I got it wrong. Let me put you on the spot least favorite hair in sports. Who's got the Who's got the worst least favorite hair in sports? The Orlando head coach I used to joke on his for a minute. I don't know where I'm drawing the blank, because he got the uh the brains blown as we call him. You know, he got the drop top. I hope you can't hear you in Orlando. You might want to make

sure this air is Thursday now exactly. I would say probably his is one that stood out. But you know what, we were doing something, um and my MGM, shoot, and they were showing me some old players and trying to get me the guests there here, and I actually just thought of the answer, Chris Caman the oh my goodness, google picture, Chris Camans here, my fellow Michi gander. He didn't care at all. He didn't care at all. Answer the question, Jillen, when you watch collegiate basketball today, are

you able to see your influence on the court? Are you able to see the fab fives? Influence in today's game, whether it's on the collegiate level or the NBA level. And when I say influence, you know I'm talking the black socks and just the overall swag on the court. Do you see it? Did you notice it? So I'm about to make it personal because I am a part

of the MGM family. I don't want y'all to get sad when I say this, But as you bring this up, I have to start from the route, like it's been a tough year from my family, like the last maybe thirteen months. I lost my eldest brother on February three of twenty and then I lost my grandmother. She was a hundred and three God bless her, so she's such an angel. And then February second of I lost my mother and so like just a couple of months removed from that, and my and my family is still obviously

dealing with the pain from her loss. As you asked me about the influence of college basketball, the number one thing is Genie Rose created the name Jalen m And it ain't even just college basketball, it's everywhere in society. I'm in the Orlando right now, just at of seven eleven and respectfully. There was an older woman trying to do a deposit at an A T M at a

seven eleven, and I was helping her out. I was like, you know, you got to go to a bank to do that whatever, whatever, and I kind of google the closest bank and you know, try to help her out. But I didn't realize that she wasn't in the seven eleven by herself. And then another guy came. It was probably in his twenties, and he was like, what do

you want me to grab. She was like, well, I know, Jalen like to eat those chips, and you like, I don't like even I was kind of in the rush, so I didn't even have a time to really even kind of get into it. Like I was wearing my mask. I was trying to go do the show. And so a lot of people here may not know is that my biological father. His name is Jimmy Walker. He was the number one pick in the nineteen sixty seven NBA draft. He died in the mid two thousand's. He played in

the backcourt with Dave Being. I never met him, but I didn't go to his funeral. My uncle Leonard took my mother to the hospital to give birth. So initially she was gonna call me James or Jason, and I'm glad she didn't because those don't hit the same. Instead, she chose to combine the two names, James and Leonard. And that's actually where the name came from. And so they're gonna be people like, oh, somebody biblical had the name in nineteen eighteen, Andrea or whatever whatever. My mother

created the name. And I'm the oldest Jalen. And if you notice, each Jalen that you now see is in their twenties, and it started at Michigan. So imagine when I'm working the NBA draft and Jalen Brown gets picked by the Celtics, or I'm watching NFL and the Jaguars take Jalen Ramsey or Jalen Hurt for the Philadelphia Eagles, or or Jalen Sucks about to get sucked a draft coming up. Three of the next three of the top five or six players in next year's draft or this

year's draft, their name Jalen and influence. That influence is as much as we're gonna, of course, talk about the iconic influence of the Five Five, but that right there is the most influential thing that happened from that situation. The Jalen is now a common name and my mother created it. Wow. The other thing that I see as our influence, it's a personality thing. Like college basketball used to be so stiff and it was all about the coaches and they never allowed players to play with personality

or laugh. I remember we're playing at Northwestern. Valentine is his last name, the referee, and we I just did a nice player dropped it off the jimmy and he wasn't dunked it and we were jumping up and we was laughing. He came to our though, said, y'all need to cut that out on. I'm gonna give you a

tech like. That's how different the game was. And then the other thing, the influence of hip hop see the marriage of the Five five and hip hop, happened at the same time when sports actually start to embrace rap music, when they realized they can make money off of it. Initially, the true kickoff was when the Bad Boys went back to back championships and you can't touch This was the model and Hammer was the number one artists in the world.

That's really when sports started to embrace rap music. The only music we heard in the arena was like Whooped, there it is or Jordan, this is how we do it, you know, Like that was the only Like we have to bring CDs, we have to bring tapes to Christis Arena for them to play. So the influence of hip hop, and then the personality hip hop, the name, and then lastly the fashion, you know, being able to express yourself.

And imagine if we could a trademark that. Imagine if when we went to the mall they were not selling black socks. It was like three pairs. When we played at Rice, I had at dress socks on top of my white sox. And so that's another thing that's changes. Young people now have a business acumen and an awareness of how to market themselves and get paid off of it. When I was in college, I didn't know I had a credit score. I don't know. I didn't know. So those are a few of the things. Yeah, and I

gotta ask you something else. We have a mutual friend in Reggie Miller. I've known Reggie since I was young. He does NBA games with my dad, Kevin Harland on T n T. And I've known Reggie since I was like in middle school, and he's one of my favorite people. And I texted him and I told him you were coming on our show, and I said, is there something about me to ask him about? Obviously, y'all our teammates with Indiana, he said, asked him about the second round

playoff games versus AI in the seventies sixers. I think you both went off for over forty in one game, you and Reggie, And he said, the ship talking in that game was as good as there's ever been. You've got to fill me at what happened. First off, I love your dad. I've known him for a long time and he's a goat and he's still killing it. Reggie's my big brother, mentor leader. I learned so much from him on and off the floor. But the number one thing I learned from him on the floor is I

always had the ball. So in high school I was like a forward or a point forward. In college, I was a point guard. But when you get to the league, Mark Jessica had the ball. Jalen, I was gonna have a ball. We know you can have You could be the backup point guard, but we want to have you and Reggie out there. And so Reggie helped me learn

how to come off screen. I wasn't necessarily a guy that was able to like do come off single doubles and do a lot of flares and do a lot of stuff like that and so and moving without the ball. He in rip Hamilton's Ray Allen like, guys are just constant motion out there. Steph Curry in today's game, the game that he's talking about. That was personal because Larry Brown was our coach. His final year was nineties seven seven,

and he gave me fifteen DMPs that year dnps. I had just came from Denver where I was starting in the playoffs. I was starting in the playoffs against the San Antonio Spurs. They had the best record in the league. I got traded to the Pacers. He didn't like me. I don't know why it happens in the league. It happens in your profession. And his goal was to bring He told me that, he told he will admitted to this day. You know what I'm saying. And so after

that season Larry left. He coached nine teams. That was his thing. Kind of next town Brown, that's what it's called. And so when he left Indiana, he was lining it up so he could go coach. Hey, I like the next thing in his mind, right, So that's kind of

how what he was on. Because Billy King, one of our assistant coaches, ended up getting a GM job at Philly, and so that next season Larry Bird became our coach and Larry berg Rick Carlisle they allowed me to hoop and so of course we played Philly in the playoffs, and so you know that's personal and belief maybe four or five times in the history of the league in the playoffs that two teammates have four in the same game, and it was great to do that to Larry it

meant a lot to me. It meant a lot to me because when your challenge, how are you going to respond? You cry about it or you're gonna do something about it. And I was like, if I ever get a chance to play against one of his teams, I'm gonna go off. And not only did we go off that game, I think we swept him that year or of like four one, I believe, and so that was probably my favorite playoff series of all time. Well, now that's a great story and all, but I think you're skirting my question. What

was the ship talk. I need to know details. Okay, it was all screw you, Larry. It was all f bombs to everybody in the gym. It was, you know, kicking in that delilas in Philly, big shot Philly. What up? No, But in all honesty, like I gotta, I got big time respect for Ai Aaron McKee. I played against Blue Aaron McKee in college. He went to Temple. I played against Eric Snow he went to Michigan State. George Lynch was on the Carolina team that beat us in the championship.

So I love and respect for the players on the team. But I was yelling at Larry. They know I was yelling at him. At him, yeah, I was, And I stopped cursing two years after that. I need. I got it all off my chest those couple of years, I promise you I did. That's beautiful sight. Now, there are a few people with as big a personality in professional sports as Chad Ocho Sinko Johnson. I still haven't taken him up on his health advice, considering he eats McDonald's

multiple times a day and swears by it. But we got great insight on why he likes to play the villain. Well,

there are three things certain in life, death taxes, and number eighty five is open. Welcome to unleash oo sinko. How are you and where are you right now? I'm in Jacksonville. Tended m M a fight last night, booting for my guy or hate masses off. Obviously we didn't win, but it's okay, because it's it's okay in life. You never get directed. So they're gonna be wins, they're gonna be losses. And we we took that one. We took that loss with grace, and he got He took it

with grace, with grace, took it with grace. I I don't know if you took it with grace. We've seen you upset. I know you put some money on it too. You slammed the table, you lost fifty bands? Is everything alrighty? Listen, If people know me and they follow me and followed my my structure, in my way of living throughout the years, and how cheap I am, you would know that would

just basically content purposes. And I would really never bet fifty grand on anything, let alone spend it and put it on someone else whereas not where the end result is not in my control. Absolutely not. I wear a target. I get my jury from Claire's. Come on, that's some good insight. I like that and listen content purposes. It's like watching rastling. Is it really really? Did you actually make a bit? Or did you just bet nothing? But it's it's great content. No, I don't. I don't. I

don't gamble. Don't gamble, I mean people that know me. No, I don't gamble. People that know me know I don't spend any money. Well, hang on, now, you're saying you're frugal, but I saw you tweet recently that you would pay someone to pick you up at your hotel and paying five hundred bucks to take you to Starbucks. That's different. That is giving. That is giving. Well, why not Uber? No? Because Uber baby, what happened? Ub? If they weren't what happened?

I want to Starbuck yes day. They weren't delivering at the hotel I was staying at. And I need my fix every morning for the past thirty forty I'm fifty now, yeah, forty years. I need my coffee every morning. And I was I was going, you can Uber to Starbucks. No, I didn't want to do that. I think I think it would have been nice engaging with the fans on Twitter, having someone picked me up and rewarding them for coming going out their way on a Saturday morning to pick

me up to get my coffee. You know, you wouldn't have to pay someone to do that. There's so many people who would do that for free to meet you. More so I like, I like the giving part better then pan out that way and someone actually come get your Yeah, yeah, yeah, I post it. Three story it's there on Twitter, still there. I love it. You're all about the content. You're a social media savant. But really with with the diet stuff i've it blows my mind seeing what you're eating. I know it's a lot of

yellow cake, chocolate icing McDonald's. Wait a minute, I see, Oh my god, listen, so good, so good? Are you health health nut or are you like yeah, I am god, No, you need just you need to stick to my meal plan six months, six months, okay, eating in moderation, junk food, cosmic brownies, honey bunsods, cigars, to day workouts I do two days, Yes, yes, I do, I do. I saw you speaking of Cam Newton about this and he was not having it. He's all plant based. I got him.

I got him the plan based ain't working. Ain't working. No, it's not it's not working. So he's on my plan. Now. I have a few other NFL athletes under my ultial versus science dietary plan, and they're going to be successful because of it. Chad, I haven't had a cosmic Brownie since maybe two thousand and five. Are they still as good? Do they still hit the same? They still hit the same? Why haven't you? Why haven't you? I just feel like I graduated out of it. My tastality evolved. And listen,

you know, you know what. You're alive, but you're not living. That's what you're doing. You're alive, but you're really not living. You know, it's graduate. Graduating is awesome, but never never ever lead the foundation that built you. And that's what Brownies did. That's a fact. That's true. Same with McDonald's breakfast. But you're a big fan of Yes, you don't eat. You don't even go on breakfast either. It's been a long time. I gotta be my No, dude, you guys

are torturing your bodies. You're torturing your bodies on the proper nutrients that it needs, and it's not the stuff that scientists are told you to eat. I'm telling you you. Yes, the body on the inside, it's screaming right now, both of you. It's screaming. You don't even know it. You know. I recently watched your Larry King interview from years ago, and I think every athlete should watch it. The way

that you talk about the mentality of the game. And I've heard your favorite Bill Belichick story a couple of times of him ripping Tom Brady and what's your favorite Tom? Oh? What did I have that wrong? No? That was right? Like it was crazy great. That talk about setting the tone and understanding, getting a better understanding what the Patriot

way is and how everybody is held accountable. How you ripping Tom Brady of all people the first day about a game where he messed up last year previously when they lost to the Jets of the playoffs, and he puts up the film with the mistakes he made and he rips them heading into the previous season. Wow, it's like, yo. That that to me, that that was that just set the standard and it gave me a better understanding on why they went consistently year and a year out because

it starts at the top. If you can chast Eyes your star player, you're a goal player in front of the entire team. It set the tone for everybody else. Well, that's such a good Belichick story. But what's your best Tom Brady story that explains who he is a little bit?

You know what, I don't really have any great Time Brady stories except just being with him that year and watching him work and prepare, you know, in meetings and go over game plans and go over situations down in distance with at the time Bill O'Brien was alvious a coordinator, and just sitting in those meetings with them and watching how they go over the same thing over and over and over and over and being very meticulous on down and distance and what we would do, what would happen

if the defense did this. There was always an answer for everything. It was always answer for everything. So no matter what defense is through it, Tom he was always ready. And I think that's what made not just Tom special, but also Peyton Manning. I'm just throwing him out there because those are two of you know, the two that have just done great things in this NFL. It was time about the fight. I thought I saw you guys embraced one another. I was there, Yeah, I was talking

with Tom for a while. He was there with Mike Evans and the backup quarterback. I'm not sure what the backup quarterback is, but he was sitting right next to him. What you guys catch up about? You know, just just catching up? Tell him hello, we changed are my my famous? I love you as as I do with everyone I see. That was it. That's how I was doing. He's doing good. Talked about the season a little bit coming up, and yeah, that was pretty much it. I saw a B maybe

was there sitting on the opposite side. Maybe he was there with that. Maybe he was there with Jake Paul, which was a little funny combination. That's what I was about to ask you about. So I saw you. I saw you also embrace a B who was there with Jake Paul. Jake Paul just what and knocked out Ben asking yeah to a lot of people's dismay into some other joy. I guess I'm curious as to what you feel about Jake Paul. He's a polarizing figure, to say the least. I like it. I like it. He's a

polarizing figure and he he has it figured out. He has to figure out you have a small window of opportunity to maximize the potential and a social media area, social media era. And he's got it down to a t. He got it down to a science. You know when people are buying into it. And this is one of the things I always see on on the podcast I'm on with Brandon Marshall and I am athletes. It's okay to be the villain. It's okay to be the villain because the villain is going to pay off, and it's

paying off dividends. For like last night, they're channing the entire the entire crowd, if channing if Jake Paul, if the entire crowd. He stands up and puts up the middle finger to the whole crowd. Everybody starts booing like like he really got this thing down to a science, Like he gets it, he gets it, and I love I loved it. I loved it. No, that's awesome. He knows how to work it. You know how to work it is being a villain. Was that kind of a part of your game? I mean, you were known to

be an amazing smack talker. Yeah. Yeah, see it's kind of different for me, is my I never did anything malicious. My way of going at my opponents was more in a competitive way. It was trash talking, but more in of entertainment typestyle, like not in your face, and I'm gonna do this, No, I'm gonna score, I'm gonna celebrate, and it's a challenge to you to be able to stop me, you know, and that that was pretty much it.

So my way of doing it was more about entertaining and making sure you've got your money's worth when you came to watch me play. I love that. Who in the game right now do you feel like has that same sense about him? Who do you love watching play? Especially right receivers? I think no, there's nobody with that personality. But there are some inventials that had the game that you know, exact same game and style and and flair. They just don't let the mouth come along with it.

Davante Adams, Keenan Allen, Julio Jones, Justin Jefferson, amazing rookie year. You know, Stefan Diggs like it's it's it's a bunch of them. They have a certain flair about their game if they had the personality to go with it occurs. All the personality happens to be on the defensive side of the ball. Now, it's funny. Jaylan Ramsey absolutely like he he got to Richard Sherman. You know, they have it. It just seemed like the personalities have flipped to the

optic side of the ball. Are their players in other sports or other major professional leagues that you see this personality? And just to broaden it from football a bit, because someone who comes to mind for me is young Anthony Edwards from the Timberwoops. Yes, yes, and he's good and he has the mouth and he's he's very honest, especially when he's like, I don't know, Alex Roger, you guys, is you know, but he probably really doesn't know. He probably really doesn't know. But his game can back up

everything else. Yeah, his game it backs it up. So I mean, just him being him is it's exciting. It's exciting. And NB, I can't think of any villains, any villains with a personality. Everybody's more just about their business. Kevin during his viewed as a villain too many Yeah, in a sense, in a sense that he doesn't play into it though, Yeah, he's done play into it now, even on the soccer field. I mean, you're you're a man

of so many interests. In my hometail in Kansas City, you're involved a sporting casey for a little bit, walk me through those steps and and how you know NFL wide receiver was so different from making it in professional soccer. Well, obviously I didn't have the resources to play soccer growing up. Obviously I'm from Liberty City, which is a an Okay area, but soccer really isn't one where you could you can

play or even achieve at the highest level. So in order for me to get out thinking long term as far as a career is concerned, it was it was football, But soccer for some reason was always embedded in my heart and something that I wanted to play, didn't have the resources to do so, so as I climbed the ladder, I use soccer as a way to train in a sense, to prepare myself for football along with other things, and just that love for it is still there. We had

a lockout. I don't remember what year that lockout was, and Peter Vermice, I think is the head coach at Sporting Gacy. He gave the opportunity to come out and have a trial run. Not that I was really going to make the team, because it takes years and years of of experience, you know, to be able to make a team. Even if that manitude, even though the MLS has seen is you know how people are. It's it's still it's good quality soccer and I just I just

couldn't do it. But the experience was fun. Experience was fun, and I was very thankful for that. Did you ever have a chance to salsa on a soccer field? No, because that would that would required me to score. That was and it's not as easy as people think. Oh of course, no, highest level of course. Child. I gotta ask you something that potentially could mean a lot to me. Is it true that you had a two point to

g p A or is this all a joke? It was a joke, It wasn't a joke, okay, Because this is trending on Twitter, I'm like, what is happening yesterday? Like if you if you follow my tweets, well, I think for people that follow me, people that follow me with no my exchange with my kids, the messages are always funny. But when they asked for stuff. I always say something outlandish, like I had to walk eight mile school appeal both ways, freaking heels in Miami, heels in Miami,

like just like such a dad. Like nobody caught on to the point of of anything. I didn't even work at McDonald's. Like it's it's all a joke, and I just fit into it and just kept going. And it's funny seeing all the I don't want to go to people, but of course I obviously gonna believe it because I'm tweeting it. They also believe that because you asked me people that told me, but no, well what was your nobody? Probably a three too, okay, so you just what it was.

So you just took a point off of it and made it too too for the sake of the joke. I did it. I made it too too because it would be for the sake of the joke. Yeah, it would be funny. And everybody ran with that that she was hilarious. They're still going on, I know it's crazy. I like it. I like it. I like it. I am a master throw Oh, we're very aware. We're very aware. I want to go back to you said that you know, yesterday you tried to coordinate a Starbucks school where somebody

could come for five hundred it wind up happening. But I want to talk quickly about a thousand dollars round trips. Thousand round trip. I don't even have a license. I probably would have risked it just for the for the thousand. But I want to talk about the time to a couple of years ago where used to just pull up at people's cribs and play them in Fifa, Olivia. Did

you know that Chad used to do this? He would just tweet you know something and then just pull up and chilling somebody's mom's living room or basement and play Chad. How would you summarize what that experience was like, just going to strangers homes and beating or losing to them

in Fifa. It was fun. It's always happened during track season, around the summertime, when we when we would be traveling, so obviously I see at attract me to My daughter would run her race regardless of what state we're in. I would have to rent a car, and I sent out the tweet, and I just find those and look at their tweets and see if they play feefa look at previous tweets, they look at their profiles and see if it's anything Socker related. And I would I would

just just drive up and just play. And did you win more or lose more? Would you say? One more? One more? I mean you gotta think the pandemic mess, all the traveling up last year, so I didn't do it, but I did it. I think the summer twenty nineteen. I believe I'm not mistaken, and and I I won way more. I love I rarely lost, rarely lost. That that is fun. Just that is fun. Just games. Yeah, that's that's fun. Well, last thing before we let you go, Chad.

You know, if people follow you on social doest see all the time that you're an amazing giver. You will give incredible tip amounts. Even if the bill is a dollar two dollars, you might leave two hundred, three hundred, four hundred, five hundred dollars based off of how much you enjoyed your experience here on Unleashed. What proverbial tip would you leave us here? What would we be in the two hundred dollar range, maybe the four or five? What are you thinking? You know what the funny thing

I don't. I don't tip based on service or based on how people treat me. I tipped based on how I am, regardless of interaction with an individually. Okay, So I mean if this was a service based on what you guys have done for me and this platform that we're on, I probably tipped my usual thousand. Thank you. The usual thousand is enough for us. Chat. I appreciate that, my dog, Yes, yes, yeah, thanks so much for your time. You are truly one of a kind, don't Josinco thank you? Pleasure, pleasure,

be well, Chad, thank you? All right, guys, you guys be blessed it. And finally, we're all about family here and Speedy and I got to tell you funny stories about both of ours. But we find out what happens when someone from my family try to help the show out, you know, try to get us some clicks. I guess next time, I've got to be a bit more clear. Okay, Speedy.

It was fun this week because my dad does NBA on TNT games. His name is Kevin Harlan, and he usually is on Thursdays, but this past week he was Tuesday, which means he was sending it back and forth to the Atlanta studios to our guy Adam Lefco, who was our guest last right. So the ironic part is that now everyone's calling these games from home. You know, my dad's got this crazy studio set up in his basement. So what my family kind of likes to do is we have dinner now at my parents house on the

nights he has these games. Because it's so unique, we get to have dinner with them, and then we all watch the game and he goes in the basement calling it. So I gotta ask a question here, So you guys sit upstairs and watch the game live on TV while he's in the basement giving the color commentary of said game. Yes, that is technology is nuts. I'm sorry, that's just blowing my mom. But keep going. I'm sorry. Yeah, And we try to make sure we're we're a conducive work environment.

But my sister's got two little kids who are running all around. We're all having cocktails, you know, the whole thing. It's it's not a good work environment. So I give him a lot of credit for staying focused. But I tell him, you know, Dad, Adam Leftco, you're sending it back and forth to the studio. He's our guest this week, and he was, Okay, go ahead and write down the name, the name of the show. I do not want to

mess it up. And you know, you and Speedy and Adam, I just want to make sure I nail it because I'm gonna do a little plug. I was like, boy, that is so nice. Yes, we know we're only this is just our third episode. We're getting off the ground. And I thought, boy, that's a big national audience. That's so nice. Well, all write down our show name, Unleashed bet mgm Adam Left, Go, Speedy Mormon and you know

it just it didn't go quite according to plan. And this is just a very big Dad gaff Um and I believe right now we can play it in it's less studios. Adam Left Girls Being Unreached podcast by b g mgat guest m Oh my goodness, this is my freaking this is literally my first time hearing it. As I know, we've saved it for you. Yeah, because I missed the game, I forget what I had going on, but wow, because I texted you and our producer Maddie, and I said, hey, guys, you know, make sure you're

tuned in. My dad's going to plug our show. This is so great, and that you would just missed it, like barely just missed it. And we said, well, it was really nice he did it, but I kind of butchered the name and we're just giving him a hard time to be fair. He was also doing March Madness games all week. That was like his twelfth game of the week. I mean his the fact that he still even thought of us and thought to do it, I was. I was so flattered, but I was like, that's dad thing.

That is awesome. But the fact that he shout it up Black Entertainment Television GM is hilarious. Were painted picks for me quickly? Were you in the living room like upstairs and like, all right, here we go, guys, he's gonna announce it. And then and then and then how did you react? What what happened? So my mom and I just kind of look at each other like, oh, that wasn't that, but you could tell? And he comes up after the game he said, did you hear it? How was it? Did you hear it? And I go,

uh huh, yeah, yeah I heard I heard it. So just one fool thing, And I thought by writing it out, I made it super easy. But I did write b et mgm in acronym. You wrote b dash dot T. I mean, I'm gonna have to look back at the post it. I just wrote it quickly, you know, bet MGM. So he came up. My mom and I were like, should we even tell him? He's gonna feel so bad? No, but that's so sweet. Does he let me ask you?

Does he do things? Is he like a dad's dad that he you know, he kind of embarrasses you sometimes that thing that dad's do ors is Is this just like a good old fashioned dad slip up? I've got to say, neither one of my parents ever embarrassed me like my I think my parents. My parents are kind of cool parents every time they come around in a

way that they're just such good people. And I remember at my college graduation, my parents surprised me and flew down because I graduated a semester early, so none of my friends were graduating like that weekend, but they all surprised me with this big surprise dinner at a sushi restaurant with karaoke and my dad, who again likes to kind of fade in the background. You know he's he's so well known in our circles, in like sports media circles.

But you know, my college girlfriends didn't really know who he was and you know, didn't really follow sports. And my dad gets on the mic and start singing Frank Sinatra and has a beautiful singing voice. Surprise you. Yeah, but that to me even that wasn't embarrassing. I'm like, that's so cool. He's just you know, put himself out there. And my friends were like, your dad is so cool, but that they don't know much about his career, but they know that killed it with Frank Sinatra. Shout out

to Frank Sinata. They'd be if they were impressed on Frank Sinata, they'd be so much more impressed at watching him do what he does on the national television. So, you know, let me just say my parents never really embarrassed me either. But you know what my pops does that that is just funny to me. My dad is so proud of like everything that I do and that I have going on that when he's out and about, like meeting people, he loves to just tell people about

his son and like what his son does. So periodically, like especially pre pandemic. Like maybe once a month I get a d M on Instagram from somebody I don't know that says, hey, I just met your dad and he told me about what you do and blah blah blah or wow, I didn't know that this was your dad, but I follow you are ready, like it's the funny this thing, but it's really like a dad thing. And then I gotta call him and Dad, let me get ask you met someone else in the Apple Store this time,

or you met some best You know. My dad's a big tech guy. He likes to buy like gadgets and stuff. So he's at best Buy at this point. I'm sure every best By employee knows who his son is, just because he's told of probably one by one by one. Well speed. Think of it this way, maybe he's not embarrassing you as your dad. Think of it like he's your publicist. That's what I'm saying. It's like the street. He's like my street team. You know, he's just like

spread the good bird. You know what I'm saying. If you if you want to listen to a cool podcast or something, he you know you got a new podcast now because you know who I am because of my pop. So he's doing an amazing job. Plus I don't even have to pay him, which actually he doesn't ask nothing. He doesn't ask me for another But you know what, I should start just kicking him ten percent from like here on out. Any any new things that come my way, I'll just assume are by way of his word of mouth.

You know, ask him, Ask your dad if he's up for higher too. Maybe I'll ask for him to help me. You need you need him in your corner, in our corner. Well, aw about this will make him the official publicist of this podcast because it just gonna be my dad, which is called Unleashed on b et MGM or bet MGM, whichever way you want to be saying. Thanks so much for listening, and stay tuned for some updates on the show and maybe even an appearance by my dad in

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