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Real fun with Mario Lopez.

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It's up broll Mario Lopez joining me now

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on Zoom NBA Hall of Famer,

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Lakers Legend, my Man Magic Johnson.

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Welcome to the show, sir.

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How you been, Oh, I've been good, Mario.

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How about yourself?

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I'm well, Thank you so much for asking. Always enjoy

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catching up with you. I've been seeing you well,

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the last time I've been seeing you is usually at the Dodgers

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games, ironically not the Lakers

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games. We'll get to that in the second. But first off,

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Lebron recently became the first player with forty

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thousand points, so I

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know he came straight out of high school

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and I was trying to do the math. I'm like, would Kareem have

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gotten that had he not gone? What

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are your thoughts and where do you put him with the all

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time great conversation?

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Oh, it's that's easy. He's definitely one

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of the all time greats. I mean, he's

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right there with Michael Jordan

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in terms of you know, one

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of the greatest has ever played, right there with Kareem,

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one of the greatest.

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Has ever played, yourself, thank

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you, and what he's been able

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to do to be able to play

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what twenty one years I think it is, and

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or twenty years one or the other.

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But to keep his body in

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such a great condition and

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strong and really never had

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a serious injury, Right, That's

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exactly.

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What I always say.

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Aside from his athletic ability, it's his durability

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to me that's most important.

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Yes, and then

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to be able to actually

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be a pass first player

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and to still score forty thousand.

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Points is amazing.

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And I'm just happy that he's wearing the purple

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and gold Laker uniform and

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we as the fans, just

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like Kobe was special, shag

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on and on Kareem, he's special

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wearing the Laker uniform. And

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I'm happy that he broke the record hit

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wait a long time ago thirty

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eight thousand and now to score

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forty thousand, it's amazing.

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Yeah, it truly is. You're

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here today to talk about RSV infections.

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Tell us about this new campaign that you've

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launched.

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Yeah, Mario, our team double

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gsk apartnering with them to

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sideline. RSV is a common

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contagious virus

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that really are affecting those

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who are sixty and over, and

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we want everybody sixty

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and over to educate yourself about

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RSV, Call your doctor, call

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your pharmacists. Make sure you get

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all the information because last year,

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one hundred and seventy seven thousand

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people were hospitalized from

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RSV and fourteen thousand of

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them end up dying

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from RSV. So we want you to make

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sure you educate yourself about RSV

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and you go to sideline

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RSV dot com to get more information

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as well.

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Got it.

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So if you've got an older adult in your life, you

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should check out once again RSV

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dot com and you get the info correct.

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Yeah, get all the info or

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call your doctor, call your pharmacist,

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and then for the first time there is

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a vaccine so you can actually get vaccinated

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for it as well.

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Well, that's great to know. Thanks for raising

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that awareness level.

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Magic.

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Now you said you've never watched Winning Time on HBO.

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Is there still an opportunity for that entire

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story to be told?

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Yeah, the right story, Mario.

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You know, it's always a story

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or it's the right story.

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Right exactly.

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I think that the Lakers the

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franchise is such an amazing

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franchise, and I just want the

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real story to be told about

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doctor Jerry Buzz, about the players,

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about Jerry West, you.

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Know, and so it wasn't the real

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story.

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So that's why all the Lakers we didn't

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watch it, because it's hard,

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Mario to go and

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capture showtime unless

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you were right there in the moment,

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because there was so many elements to showtime.

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You know.

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There was the Laker girls, you

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know, so you Paula

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Abdul and all of them down

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there dancing. Then it was the

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show on the court with all of us as

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the players, and then doctor Bust

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the ultimate playboy, you

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know, and he had Hugh e Fner

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and all the playmates. And then there

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was the Form Club because that

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was the hottest nightclub in the

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city, was actually in the

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Forum. Yeah,

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it was all those things, and it's

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hard to capture that unless

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you were right there and you were a part of

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it.

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I always tell everyone, I am so blessed

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to have been born when I did because it was

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during that era. I truly

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believe that era, our generation

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was the best to peak for social

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media before people people were kind mind in

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their own business you did, which it was just outstanding.

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Man.

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That was a magical time. Magic.

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Of course, you've been just as successful

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as an entrepreneur as you have been as an

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athlete. What's the biggest lesson young

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people need to learn about money

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in business?

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Well, first of all about money.

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Understand that you know them

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credit cards, You

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know it can put you in debt fast

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and then a hurr. So make sure

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you understand that. First,

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understand that the dollar

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because a lot of us didn't grow up in money,

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so you have to learn money,

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the power of it, how to save

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money, how to invest

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money, you know, So make

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sure that you educate yourself.

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About those things.

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And then last but not least, make

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your money, make money for you, right, And

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so.

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Here I am.

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I grew up my whole life, six

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sisters, three brothers, and I

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grew up poor, but I.

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Got role models, and I.

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Got mentors to teach me

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about money, first to save

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it and then how to invest

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it. And that's why you know I'm

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owner of the Dodgers today and other commanders

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today because I listened

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to them.

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I applied what they said. And

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here I am. So again

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you said it earlier, Mario.

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I'm happy I grew up when I grew up

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because all of us, you and I and

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all of us, we all hung out. You and

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I are a big boxing fan,

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so I used I saw you at the boxing.

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Matches all the time, you know, so

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I can ask you question.

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I had access to you and to others,

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and so I took advantage of that. A

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lot of times we don't take advantage

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of people right in front of too

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scared to approach them ask them questions.

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I'm not one of those guys. I always

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ask questions. Even today, I'm sixty

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four years old, I'm still

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asking a lot of questions, trying to learn as

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much as I.

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Can to better myself.

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So I think that now with this

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social media or

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platform, young people

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can hit a button and learn so much.

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So make sure that you

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apply yourself to learn and

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get smarter, get better about money,

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about finances, and about

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the power of owning your own home. That's

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powerful right there. So all the

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things that you and I already know. These

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young people need to have

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that knowledge.

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Such smart advice everything he said. That's

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awesome right there, magic

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Because I just saw this the other day, back

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in the day. I mean, I seen it a long time ago, but but it's resurface.

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You were in MJ's video for Remember the Time.

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What do you remember about him approaching you and about

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shooting it?

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First of all, I had the Jackson

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five poster up right, So I

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was already mj who

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wasn't I mean, I'm talking about

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a fanatic. I tried to throw my

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fro, like Michael and Jackie

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and Marlon, Tito, all

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of them, you know. And so then I get

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this call, right, I was friends with Jackie.

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Jackie Jackson used to come to every Laker

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game, so I became

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friends with him, Michael's brother.

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So I get this call, Maggie,

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this is Michael. I want

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you to be in my video. I hung

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the phone, man Mario,

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somebody playing the joke, somebody

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do the depression exactly. So

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the phone ringing right back again. Hello,

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Mijie, this is Michael. Michael,

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this is not Michael Jackson. So I hung

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the phone up again. My god.

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So five

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minutes later, Jackie caused

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me. He said, Magic,

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that was really what

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O, My god, that's

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hilarious.

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Michael Jackson's going this motherfucker

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keeps taking a fuck, I

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know. He said, that's

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hilarious. I

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was please forgive me,

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Please forgive me. I'm sorry. I didn't know

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that was really you.

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And so he go to his house

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that night because he said,

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come here, I want to talk to you about being in my

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video.

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I said, get cool. I go to the house.

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He asked what you want for dinner.

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I said, hey, I want some give me some grilled

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chicken, some vegetables.

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I'm trying to impress them. You know, he's

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healthy.

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We get to the crib and Mario

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Mine come out, the guy you know,

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off the top and presented to me.

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Nice great he the

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waiter comes out.

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He brings Michael and it's a

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big bucket of Kentucky fried

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chicken. And I said, Michael

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Jackson Kentucky chicken.

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Man. I said, Michael, I

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can't sit all the way down here. I'm coming

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down there with you and get into that

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bucket.

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I grew up on Kentucky fire chicken.

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And we sat man and ate chicken and

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talked about his vision. Mario

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the greatest entertainer all the time question,

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no doubt, there's nobody

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has ever been able to reach that level

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of greatness as

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a singer, a dancer, a

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guy that that understood

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way before videos were member.

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He did he did something.

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He made a movie. His videos were a movie.

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Yeah, they were events, yes,

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amazing.

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So to be in there with Eddie Murphy, everybody

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that was hot.

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At that time. Yeah, yeah, it's great.

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It was clow Man, thank you so much for taking the time

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to say that story.

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That was That was awesome. Magic.

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You know, I love you man, I really appreciate taking

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the time. Congratulations on everything and

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listen. Go to Almara dot COM's

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learn more about Sideline RSV

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dot com Magic.

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I'll see you soon. All right, brother, tell your

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family hello. Thank you very much, God

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bless Okay, all right

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With Mario Lopez