May 5, 2024 • 20 mins
A big month ahead at Malik Books!
MAY 7- LaDarrion Williams discussing his book Blood at the Root
MAY 11- Grace Byers, author of the book I Am Enough, with FREE BOOKS for kids at Cleveland High School!
MAY 15- Shaunie Henderson, creator of “Basketball Wives” and ex-wife of Shaquille O’Neal will be at Malik Books to talk about her book Undefeated: Changing the Rules and Winning On My Own Terms.
And Malik shares a heartfelt message he has for his daughter…about being a father, and a coach and how proud he is of his daughter for all that she has overcome.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
My League Bucks has all the knowledge you want.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
My League Buns has all the knowledge you need.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
My League Buns yet they have all the books that.
Speaker 4 (00:08):
The whole wild world Wunner reads.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
My League Bucks.
Speaker 5 (00:12):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to Malik's bookshef bringing the world together
with books, culture and community. Hon my name is Malik,
your host of Malik's Bookshelf.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Whoo.
Speaker 6 (00:27):
Last week was my one hundredth episode. I titled it
Why I Do what I Do. I hope you enjoy it,
and if you hadn't listened to it, I definitely costed
you to go back, or it hastened you to go
back and peep out my last episode, which was the
one hundred Why I do what I do? And I
(00:50):
kind of tell you in detail, a deeper and more
insight to my passion and the work and mission that
I'm on here at Milite Books and Malise's Bookshelf the podcast. Also,
what I want to talk about is this upcoming Wait,
(01:12):
it don't stop at Milite Books. We still got it popping,
we still got it going on. We are in an epicenter,
a community bookstore that's hosting one icon an event after another,
and this Tuesday coming up May seventh at seven pm
(01:35):
at Milite Books. We're gonna be doing a discussion book
signing with a new author just up and coming, and
he's blowing up. I haven't seen articles in the La Times,
the Washington Post, the People's Magazine. The AP News then
popped them up on their news line. This guy, Ladariu
(01:56):
Williams wrote a book called Blood at the Route, and
it's the first I'm assuming the first, at least in
this day and time. Book there's kind of a parallel
to Harry Potter, but from a black perspective, where the
highlighted and featured person is named Alite, a man, a boy, right,
(02:20):
so his name has to be the same name as
my name, Elite, And he's the main character in the
book Blood at the Root. And I'm going to be
interviewing the Darren Williams about this book. But this book
is a magical. It's a Wii book and it's magical.
It's full with powers and fantasy, and it's a book
where it shows a strong black male character so that
(02:44):
we can relate to in a different way. A lot
of these fantasy books don't always feature black as the
main character, but this one fleets out only a black person,
but a male. And so this is what his mention
was and what spurred him the right screenplays and the
(03:05):
right movie squips and the pitch his book deal.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
It's because he wanted to see stronger movies, books and
series to talk about that all feature that is a
strong black male character.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
And I'm gonna have the pleasure to interview on them.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
But if you can't make Blood at the Root book
launch party this May seven, seven pm at Malik Books
in the Westfield CoA see tomorrow pre order order the
book from Malikbooks dot com.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I'll tell you.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Or wherever books are sold, but I'll say this, I
got a chance to read it, and I.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Hope to see this book.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Won't tell you turn into a TV series or a movie.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I'll tell you you know.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
HBCU is the backdrop of the story that teaches Maliite
how to cultivate and harness his power within him and
also how to control it.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Malik doesn't know who to trust and how to trust.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
But alone this journey, he's able to discover his true
self and his legacy. Blood represents who Malique is, and
Roots represents the legacy and history and ancestrals of Malite.
So those two combined makes a world win of fantasy,
of power, of excitement of HBCU schools, and a strong
(04:36):
black male character, so a blood at the root. We're
gonna be talking about it with the author in person.
Book launch party at Malik's Books and Westfield Clova City
Mall May seventh at seven pm.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Come through. Now it ain't over.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
It ain't over because on May eleventh we are hosting
in partnership with b Shop as Black Scholars Achievement Program,
which is an la USD program within the school district.
Now this collaboration is bringing Grace Spyers. She's an actress
(05:15):
of community activists and a New York.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Times bestseller who wrote the book I Am Enough and
I Can Believe. Both of those books we got free
for children out at Cleveland High School coming up this
signing day May eleventh, between one and eleven.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Grace bid is gonna be signing in person. That's right,
signing in person.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
These landmark books I Am Enough and I Believe I
Can Now you gotta come on as a family event.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Everything is free. The books are free for the kids.
Now go their thoughts, but free for the kid. Bring
them on out. Now.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
When you get there, they're gonna have you register, but
just to let Malik know you coming so we can
make sure we got enough book. Go to Malie Book
and RGVP from our website. We just want to know
who's coming out so that we know to have the
right amount of book. We're giving away the hundreds and
the hundreds of these books and partnership with b Shop Now, Now,
this is the kind of thing LSUSD is doing for
(06:16):
the community, underserved communities, and b Shop is Black Scholars
Achievement Program is committed to make a difference in the
inner cities of Los Angeles. So you gotta come on
out this Saturday, May eleven at Cleveland High School. Come
get a signed book by Grace Buyers from eleven to
(06:38):
one pm.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Take some pictures. This is gonna be epic. You gotta
come on out. Malik Books won't bill. It's gonna be
on the set. We excited. You gotta come on out.
But it ain't over. And it ain't over. We got another
event to announce.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
We got the epic, iconic Shining Henderson coming.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
To Malate Books May fifteen.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
Now you might not know that name, but that's Shaquille
O'Neill's ex wife, Shanni, the creator of basketball Wise.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Now she didn't remarry, So.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Her name is Henderson, and she's been a lot of
things and she's evolved over these years.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
But she got her new book out called Undefeated.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
That's right, Los Angeles is Undefeated, and Shanee Henderson is
going to be on set at Malikue Books on May
fifteenth at seven pm.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Is going down. Listen this book Undefeated, Changing the rules
and winning on my own terms.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
It's an electric and powerful and inspiring and motivating story
about Shannie Henderson having to change her life as a mother,
as a wife, and as a producer and creator of
Basketball Wise, one of the more successful reality shows on television.
(08:04):
So I'm happy to announce this iconic entrepreneur, producer, author,
Seannie Anderson coming to Elite Books on May fifteenth at
seven pm. This is why you need to follow malik
Books on our Instagram. This is why you need to
listen to Released Books podcast to find out what's popping next.
(08:27):
This is why you need to register for our email,
get our news level for our promotions and these types
of events.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
So hey visitmlikbooks.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
Dot com, Join our email list, follow us on social
media because we got it on and popping and it
don't stop at Elite Books.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
So I'm going to feature on this.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Episode a personal conversation I had the other day with myself,
just talking about the trials and triviulations as a father
to Dark.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Just to talk.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
About how I was processing.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
My track and being a father.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
I'm what I'm saying is how I process being a
coach and a father to my daughter, and how those lines.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Sometimes become blurred and.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
It's hard to separate the tooth, and how sometimes your
daughter wants you to be the father and sometimes I'm
still being a coach.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
But at the end, how proud.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
I am of her overcoming some obstacles that we will
face as a family, but more importantly in her life.
This was the emotional roller coaster during this time and
it's sometimes it still is, but I just wanted her
to know that I'm proud of her.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
And I did this episode from the heart. So enjoy
it and Daya mal.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Shait have division form Pree Lambs. Baby girl overcame a
lot to get to this point.
Speaker 8 (10:19):
I'm proud of her. Whatever way this ends.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Tomorrow, I'm recording this video let her know I'm proud
of her. Don't matter how it ends tomorrow, I won't
be proud of her. And I just want her to
know that it's sometimes being a father and also coaching
can bloody lines.
Speaker 8 (10:40):
You know, I'm already an Ella copy up parent.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
And so I'll be wanting this more than my own
children a lot of times because I see some mental
and I be wanting them to achieve, you know, to
get to that next level. But they gotta want it
and gott to see it in in mind. My problem
(11:03):
is a lot of times I want it more than them,
and that's when it hurt you, because I'm trying to
hold on until they find a way to believe, like
I believe in them.
Speaker 8 (11:15):
Somebody gotta believe.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
You know, you ain't born always believing in it in yourself.
Speaker 8 (11:21):
It's when people point out the.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Gifts in you and encourage you to be you because
you don't always see it yourself because you're too close
to yourself. And I'm just trying to say it enough
and long enough for her to believe in something that's
inside of her that I.
Speaker 8 (11:44):
Believe is a gift, a talent.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
This in her It's like look, my job as a
parent is to be a guid and to help facilitate success,
and that comes with gruth and I gotta help them
believe what sometimes they don't believe.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
And I got off the sideline.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
I was retired from track.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I came back to the sport because I saw a
gift and my baby girl, and I wanted to help
her facilitate that because.
Speaker 8 (12:24):
You don't see that all the time.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
And when she was eleven, she won the Junior Olympics
eleven years old in the eight hundred meters and her
team almost set the national record in the fourth by
eight hundred.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
No.
Speaker 8 (12:43):
At eleven, she went two nineteen.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I mean she went in the finals, fourth and came
out the winner, dropped four seconds in the finals.
Speaker 8 (12:52):
The god came out in her.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I've been chasing that guy and her every since and
she's sixteen, and she showed me.
Speaker 8 (13:02):
That guy in her and random last year they.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Would know and I ain't never forgot that race.
Speaker 8 (13:10):
I cried when she went.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I cried.
Speaker 8 (13:14):
I knew the sacrifice that.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
It took to win it, and I was so proud
that I'm proud of her them, and it's because she
fought back in a lot of ways.
Speaker 8 (13:31):
And I didn't even realize.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
That she was able to come back from what she
came back and to beat here at the Shaya Division
for Free Limbs.
Speaker 8 (13:43):
After what we went through.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
And I mean, man, a lot of people can relate,
particularly when an illment comes out of nowhere and affects
not only their lives but all of us.
Speaker 8 (14:03):
Who loved her, And.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
It just blew me away and it changed our direction
and it became more of us just loving her and
accepting the situation and trying to get some normancy. And
I mean because we were facing with a lot of challenges, man,
(14:31):
that we had to overcome academic challenges from this thing year,
physical challenges.
Speaker 8 (14:37):
I mean this thing here, man, it took about two.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
And a half years for us to.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Get back to.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
A level of I'm you know, normancy what I'm saying.
And so when it came to the ac.
Speaker 9 (14:58):
Athletics, I was like, oh, man, I think that might
be a thing in the past. I just didn't see
us even being able to get back to that, you know,
so that this is this is quite a surprise.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
I didn't I didn't believe that we was going because
it's so much has happened, and a lot of things
have changed the way we particularly our baby and her
thinking and so forth, and the way she see the world.
Speaker 8 (15:27):
Stuff.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
It's just all of this affects it and it affected us.
They're just things that were more important than athletics. You know,
we were faced with a lot of academic challenges because
of this thing here. I don't care what them doctor say,
this thing he affects your learning, Okay.
Speaker 8 (15:49):
I don't care what they were saying that.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
You know, I think they live in some you know,
telling some falsehoods and living some lies when they say,
you know that this stuff don't effect that. You know,
this illment don't affect you. You're learning and the medication
what I'm saying, don't effect and it do and it
affect the whole lot, and you're like your person not
(16:14):
a whole lot.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
So just to get back.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
You know, to where we.
Speaker 8 (16:23):
Found where we was not feeling you know.
Speaker 10 (16:29):
Like what's the word right here? Like panic, nervous.
Speaker 8 (16:39):
I mean, it's crazy when you can't ride a bike,
can't leave you in water. O.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
It's like it's like I'm like one I open all
the time, Like look, you know, just in the back
of your mind, wondering if something's gonna happen. So this
right here man was devastating to us and came out
of nowhere.
Speaker 8 (17:02):
But my baby fall back through that and made it
year after prelambs the physical fault.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Man, I'm proud of her, Like she might not understand
that because as a parently push push and push and
push and push, and the lines get blurred and so
they don't you know, sometimes they can't they You know
what kind of parent would I would I be if I.
Speaker 8 (17:30):
Didn't push right?
Speaker 2 (17:32):
If I would let her make decisions that affect her
life long that not help us hurt her.
Speaker 8 (17:37):
You know, kids don't choose sometimes the right things.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
But we got to help them choose the right things
so they can see this is in their best interest.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
So I'm just I'm just grateful and thankful.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
And whatever happened tomorrow, hey, I'm an accepted and embrace
her and.
Speaker 8 (17:55):
Huger and pickre up.
Speaker 10 (17:56):
Just that.
Speaker 8 (17:57):
Hey, I'm proud of you.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Know, just think here can continue. You know, we got
a pr and we gotta be the.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Top nine that.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Yeah, but it might not and if it don't happen,
oh well, I'm proud of you I love you and
I'm very grateful to have this opportunity to be a
spectator because a whole lot of people got eliminated, a
whole lot so us. You know this, California, you got
(18:28):
thirty million people, so you got a lot of people
in this game, in this sport, in track and field.
Speaker 8 (18:35):
So for us to get to the Southern Section Division
four finals.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Which is the most competitive, your Southern Section wins most
of the medals at the state meet, Southern Section dominates
the state meet. Then this ain't you know, this is
on a continuous basis. So you get to the state
meet out of the Southern Section, you have your work
cut out for you. This is the hardest in the
(19:01):
state of California.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
It's you.
Speaker 8 (19:03):
It was unique about the State of California's that it
ain't for one state chain.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Ain't no divisional state winners. This one state champion in
each event. One hundred, two hundred, four hundred. Texas can't
say that, Florida can't say that. A lot of these states,
all they do is have divisional state title winners, but
not in California. You can win and you could be
in the smaller school two hundred people or less in
(19:30):
your school.
Speaker 8 (19:31):
And win the state title.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
That's how they do it out here in California, and
so it's the most covenant.
Speaker 8 (19:42):
Award you can win because you are the state chat.
They don't have.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Look, football got different divisional state title. Basketball got different
divisional title, but track got one. That's the difference. When
the person tell you that the col from your state champion,
they are one hundred percent the only state champion. That's
(20:08):
how it is every year in track. So kudos to CIF.
Speaker 8 (20:12):
For holding that down for all these.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Years and decades because we then interview when it comes back.
Speaker 8 (20:19):
But hey, I'm proud of your baby.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
I just want you to know and I'm taking any
anyway even if she do on PR she was slow.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
Hey baby Gool, I'm proud of you.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
I love you, and I just want you to see
the God in you, the gift in you, and.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Be you.
Speaker 8 (20:39):
Love you.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Thanks for listening to Malik's Bookshelf, where topics on the
shelf are books, culture, and community. Be sure to subscribe
and leave me a review. Check out my instagram at
Malak Books. See you next time,
My League Bucks has all the knowledge you want.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
My League Buns has all the knowledge you need.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
My League Buns yet they have all the books that.
Speaker 4 (00:08):
The whole wild world Wunner reads.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
My League Bucks.
Speaker 5 (00:12):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to Malik's bookshef bringing the world together
with books, culture and community. Hon my name is Malik,
your host of Malik's Bookshelf.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Whoo.
Speaker 6 (00:27):
Last week was my one hundredth episode. I titled it
Why I Do what I Do. I hope you enjoy it,
and if you hadn't listened to it, I definitely costed
you to go back, or it hastened you to go
back and peep out my last episode, which was the
one hundred Why I do what I do? And I
(00:50):
kind of tell you in detail, a deeper and more
insight to my passion and the work and mission that
I'm on here at Milite Books and Malise's Bookshelf the podcast. Also,
what I want to talk about is this upcoming Wait,
(01:12):
it don't stop at Milite Books. We still got it popping,
we still got it going on. We are in an epicenter,
a community bookstore that's hosting one icon an event after another,
and this Tuesday coming up May seventh at seven pm
(01:35):
at Milite Books. We're gonna be doing a discussion book
signing with a new author just up and coming, and
he's blowing up. I haven't seen articles in the La Times,
the Washington Post, the People's Magazine. The AP News then
popped them up on their news line. This guy, Ladariu
(01:56):
Williams wrote a book called Blood at the Route, and
it's the first I'm assuming the first, at least in
this day and time. Book there's kind of a parallel
to Harry Potter, but from a black perspective, where the
highlighted and featured person is named Alite, a man, a boy, right,
(02:20):
so his name has to be the same name as
my name, Elite, And he's the main character in the
book Blood at the Root. And I'm going to be
interviewing the Darren Williams about this book. But this book
is a magical. It's a Wii book and it's magical.
It's full with powers and fantasy, and it's a book
where it shows a strong black male character so that
(02:44):
we can relate to in a different way. A lot
of these fantasy books don't always feature black as the
main character, but this one fleets out only a black person,
but a male. And so this is what his mention
was and what spurred him the right screenplays and the
(03:05):
right movie squips and the pitch his book deal.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
It's because he wanted to see stronger movies, books and
series to talk about that all feature that is a
strong black male character.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
And I'm gonna have the pleasure to interview on them.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
But if you can't make Blood at the Root book
launch party this May seven, seven pm at Malik Books
in the Westfield CoA see tomorrow pre order order the
book from Malikbooks dot com.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I'll tell you.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Or wherever books are sold, but I'll say this, I
got a chance to read it, and I.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Hope to see this book.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Won't tell you turn into a TV series or a movie.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I'll tell you you know.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
HBCU is the backdrop of the story that teaches Maliite
how to cultivate and harness his power within him and
also how to control it.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Malik doesn't know who to trust and how to trust.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
But alone this journey, he's able to discover his true
self and his legacy. Blood represents who Malique is, and
Roots represents the legacy and history and ancestrals of Malite.
So those two combined makes a world win of fantasy,
of power, of excitement of HBCU schools, and a strong
(04:36):
black male character, so a blood at the root. We're
gonna be talking about it with the author in person.
Book launch party at Malik's Books and Westfield Clova City
Mall May seventh at seven pm.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Come through. Now it ain't over.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
It ain't over because on May eleventh we are hosting
in partnership with b Shop as Black Scholars Achievement Program,
which is an la USD program within the school district.
Now this collaboration is bringing Grace Spyers. She's an actress
(05:15):
of community activists and a New York.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Times bestseller who wrote the book I Am Enough and
I Can Believe. Both of those books we got free
for children out at Cleveland High School coming up this
signing day May eleventh, between one and eleven.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Grace bid is gonna be signing in person. That's right,
signing in person.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
These landmark books I Am Enough and I Believe I
Can Now you gotta come on as a family event.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Everything is free. The books are free for the kids.
Now go their thoughts, but free for the kid. Bring
them on out. Now.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
When you get there, they're gonna have you register, but
just to let Malik know you coming so we can
make sure we got enough book. Go to Malie Book
and RGVP from our website. We just want to know
who's coming out so that we know to have the
right amount of book. We're giving away the hundreds and
the hundreds of these books and partnership with b Shop Now, Now,
this is the kind of thing LSUSD is doing for
(06:16):
the community, underserved communities, and b Shop is Black Scholars
Achievement Program is committed to make a difference in the
inner cities of Los Angeles. So you gotta come on
out this Saturday, May eleven at Cleveland High School. Come
get a signed book by Grace Buyers from eleven to
(06:38):
one pm.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Take some pictures. This is gonna be epic. You gotta
come on out. Malik Books won't bill. It's gonna be
on the set. We excited. You gotta come on out.
But it ain't over. And it ain't over. We got another
event to announce.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
We got the epic, iconic Shining Henderson coming.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
To Malate Books May fifteen.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
Now you might not know that name, but that's Shaquille
O'Neill's ex wife, Shanni, the creator of basketball Wise.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Now she didn't remarry, So.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Her name is Henderson, and she's been a lot of
things and she's evolved over these years.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
But she got her new book out called Undefeated.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
That's right, Los Angeles is Undefeated, and Shanee Henderson is
going to be on set at Malikue Books on May
fifteenth at seven pm.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Is going down. Listen this book Undefeated, Changing the rules
and winning on my own terms.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
It's an electric and powerful and inspiring and motivating story
about Shannie Henderson having to change her life as a mother,
as a wife, and as a producer and creator of
Basketball Wise, one of the more successful reality shows on television.
(08:04):
So I'm happy to announce this iconic entrepreneur, producer, author,
Seannie Anderson coming to Elite Books on May fifteenth at
seven pm. This is why you need to follow malik
Books on our Instagram. This is why you need to
listen to Released Books podcast to find out what's popping next.
(08:27):
This is why you need to register for our email,
get our news level for our promotions and these types
of events.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
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So I'm going to feature on this.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Episode a personal conversation I had the other day with myself,
just talking about the trials and triviulations as a father
to Dark.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Just to talk.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
About how I was processing.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
My track and being a father.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
I'm what I'm saying is how I process being a
coach and a father to my daughter, and how those lines.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Sometimes become blurred and.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
It's hard to separate the tooth, and how sometimes your
daughter wants you to be the father and sometimes I'm
still being a coach.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
But at the end, how proud.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
I am of her overcoming some obstacles that we will
face as a family, but more importantly in her life.
This was the emotional roller coaster during this time and
it's sometimes it still is, but I just wanted her
to know that I'm proud of her.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
And I did this episode from the heart. So enjoy
it and Daya mal.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Shait have division form Pree Lambs. Baby girl overcame a
lot to get to this point.
Speaker 8 (10:19):
I'm proud of her. Whatever way this ends.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Tomorrow, I'm recording this video let her know I'm proud
of her. Don't matter how it ends tomorrow, I won't
be proud of her. And I just want her to
know that it's sometimes being a father and also coaching
can bloody lines.
Speaker 8 (10:40):
You know, I'm already an Ella copy up parent.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
And so I'll be wanting this more than my own
children a lot of times because I see some mental
and I be wanting them to achieve, you know, to
get to that next level. But they gotta want it
and gott to see it in in mind. My problem
(11:03):
is a lot of times I want it more than them,
and that's when it hurt you, because I'm trying to
hold on until they find a way to believe, like
I believe in them.
Speaker 8 (11:15):
Somebody gotta believe.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
You know, you ain't born always believing in it in yourself.
Speaker 8 (11:21):
It's when people point out the.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Gifts in you and encourage you to be you because
you don't always see it yourself because you're too close
to yourself. And I'm just trying to say it enough
and long enough for her to believe in something that's
inside of her that I.
Speaker 8 (11:44):
Believe is a gift, a talent.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
This in her It's like look, my job as a
parent is to be a guid and to help facilitate success,
and that comes with gruth and I gotta help them
believe what sometimes they don't believe.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
And I got off the sideline.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
I was retired from track.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I came back to the sport because I saw a
gift and my baby girl, and I wanted to help
her facilitate that because.
Speaker 8 (12:24):
You don't see that all the time.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
And when she was eleven, she won the Junior Olympics
eleven years old in the eight hundred meters and her
team almost set the national record in the fourth by
eight hundred.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
No.
Speaker 8 (12:43):
At eleven, she went two nineteen.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I mean she went in the finals, fourth and came
out the winner, dropped four seconds in the finals.
Speaker 8 (12:52):
The god came out in her.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I've been chasing that guy and her every since and
she's sixteen, and she showed me.
Speaker 8 (13:02):
That guy in her and random last year they.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Would know and I ain't never forgot that race.
Speaker 8 (13:10):
I cried when she went.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I cried.
Speaker 8 (13:14):
I knew the sacrifice that.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
It took to win it, and I was so proud
that I'm proud of her them, and it's because she
fought back in a lot of ways.
Speaker 8 (13:31):
And I didn't even realize.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
That she was able to come back from what she
came back and to beat here at the Shaya Division
for Free Limbs.
Speaker 8 (13:43):
After what we went through.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
And I mean, man, a lot of people can relate,
particularly when an illment comes out of nowhere and affects
not only their lives but all of us.
Speaker 8 (14:03):
Who loved her, And.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
It just blew me away and it changed our direction
and it became more of us just loving her and
accepting the situation and trying to get some normancy. And
I mean because we were facing with a lot of challenges, man,
(14:31):
that we had to overcome academic challenges from this thing year,
physical challenges.
Speaker 8 (14:37):
I mean this thing here, man, it took about two.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
And a half years for us to.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Get back to.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
A level of I'm you know, normancy what I'm saying.
And so when it came to the ac.
Speaker 9 (14:58):
Athletics, I was like, oh, man, I think that might
be a thing in the past. I just didn't see
us even being able to get back to that, you know,
so that this is this is quite a surprise.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
I didn't I didn't believe that we was going because
it's so much has happened, and a lot of things
have changed the way we particularly our baby and her
thinking and so forth, and the way she see the world.
Speaker 8 (15:27):
Stuff.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
It's just all of this affects it and it affected us.
They're just things that were more important than athletics. You know,
we were faced with a lot of academic challenges because
of this thing here. I don't care what them doctor say,
this thing he affects your learning, Okay.
Speaker 8 (15:49):
I don't care what they were saying that.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
You know, I think they live in some you know,
telling some falsehoods and living some lies when they say,
you know that this stuff don't effect that. You know,
this illment don't affect you. You're learning and the medication
what I'm saying, don't effect and it do and it
affect the whole lot, and you're like your person not
(16:14):
a whole lot.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
So just to get back.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
You know, to where we.
Speaker 8 (16:23):
Found where we was not feeling you know.
Speaker 10 (16:29):
Like what's the word right here? Like panic, nervous.
Speaker 8 (16:39):
I mean, it's crazy when you can't ride a bike,
can't leave you in water. O.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
It's like it's like I'm like one I open all
the time, Like look, you know, just in the back
of your mind, wondering if something's gonna happen. So this
right here man was devastating to us and came out
of nowhere.
Speaker 8 (17:02):
But my baby fall back through that and made it
year after prelambs the physical fault.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Man, I'm proud of her, Like she might not understand
that because as a parently push push and push and
push and push, and the lines get blurred and so
they don't you know, sometimes they can't they You know
what kind of parent would I would I be if I.
Speaker 8 (17:30):
Didn't push right?
Speaker 2 (17:32):
If I would let her make decisions that affect her
life long that not help us hurt her.
Speaker 8 (17:37):
You know, kids don't choose sometimes the right things.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
But we got to help them choose the right things
so they can see this is in their best interest.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
So I'm just I'm just grateful and thankful.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
And whatever happened tomorrow, hey, I'm an accepted and embrace
her and.
Speaker 8 (17:55):
Huger and pickre up.
Speaker 10 (17:56):
Just that.
Speaker 8 (17:57):
Hey, I'm proud of you.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Know, just think here can continue. You know, we got
a pr and we gotta be the.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Top nine that.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Yeah, but it might not and if it don't happen,
oh well, I'm proud of you I love you and
I'm very grateful to have this opportunity to be a
spectator because a whole lot of people got eliminated, a
whole lot so us. You know this, California, you got
(18:28):
thirty million people, so you got a lot of people
in this game, in this sport, in track and field.
Speaker 8 (18:35):
So for us to get to the Southern Section Division
four finals.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Which is the most competitive, your Southern Section wins most
of the medals at the state meet, Southern Section dominates
the state meet. Then this ain't you know, this is
on a continuous basis. So you get to the state
meet out of the Southern Section, you have your work
cut out for you. This is the hardest in the
(19:01):
state of California.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
It's you.
Speaker 8 (19:03):
It was unique about the State of California's that it
ain't for one state chain.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Ain't no divisional state winners. This one state champion in
each event. One hundred, two hundred, four hundred. Texas can't
say that, Florida can't say that. A lot of these states,
all they do is have divisional state title winners, but
not in California. You can win and you could be
in the smaller school two hundred people or less in
(19:30):
your school.
Speaker 8 (19:31):
And win the state title.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
That's how they do it out here in California, and
so it's the most covenant.
Speaker 8 (19:42):
Award you can win because you are the state chat.
They don't have.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Look, football got different divisional state title. Basketball got different
divisional title, but track got one. That's the difference. When
the person tell you that the col from your state champion,
they are one hundred percent the only state champion. That's
(20:08):
how it is every year in track. So kudos to CIF.
Speaker 8 (20:12):
For holding that down for all these.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Years and decades because we then interview when it comes back.
Speaker 8 (20:19):
But hey, I'm proud of your baby.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
I just want you to know and I'm taking any
anyway even if she do on PR she was slow.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
Hey baby Gool, I'm proud of you.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
I love you, and I just want you to see
the God in you, the gift in you, and.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Be you.
Speaker 8 (20:39):
Love you.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
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