 Yeah, we on Boss Talk 101. Mr. West, grandstaff, what's going on, brother? What's up? Glad to be here. Hey, man, so yeah, man, actually, Austin, I had got to talk with him, and we brought you up, and the stories got so interesting. We say, well, why don't you tell him to come over and give us an insight on how good you were. You say you was the number one basketball player, and all of these things. I say, I don't want to make this fish bigger than what he is. I want to hear the story from the man sitting next to the man. Well, I'm kind of upset if he didn't just say, Google me. Oh, he didn't, he didn't say it. Just Google me. That would be great. If he'd have said that, then we may not have had this interview. No, probably not. No, we wouldn't. He's got a video out there. YouTube has over 800,000 views called, I'll give your whole team buckets. Really? Yeah. So let's go back to your story. Talk a little bit about you from Dallas. I'm from our group. Well, I was when I was born. Yeah, I lived in Oak Cliff. Yeah, we lived in the projects across from Parkland Hospital when I was little. OK. And then we moved over to Holland and Ferguson. My mom was married seven times. So we just kind of. Seven times? Yeah, she's married seven times. Couldn't get married in Texas no more. They told her no more. Oh, they have a limit in Texas? They used to. You couldn't get married. You had to go somewhere else. I love the new dad. Seven times? OK, hold on, hold on. Let me ask. So how old was she when she married the first one? Well, she was pregnant with me at 15. So she she married my dad. And they lasted till I was about two. And then she got with another dude that she had known before. And he she was with him when I was like three, four, five. OK, baby six. He got put in prison. He went to prison. Then she got with a guy named Bob Boone who kind of got me into sports. He moved me over to Garland, the Eastgate apartments where yeah, Eastgate, man. I know exactly where you was at. Yeah, right off of Ferguson. When you turn right, you go to a center building and turn that left on Saturday. That's right. Yeah, that was my stomping grounds. And that there was an old man there named Dick Keller who taught me discipline. They had a six court facility there, two court facility, but like tons of goals. And he taught me discipline and he brought me over here to play at this Y. He got he taught us that he taught me that there's no black and white. It's it's it doesn't matter what color your skin is. When we had traveled to outside tournaments in third grade, you would I would have to sleep in the same bed with a black kid and he mixed us all up like that because he really wanted us to know that, you know, you know, different than me. Sound like remember the Titans. You know what I'm talking about? Kind of was the same concept. Yep. So she so she I'm trying to figure out what was her longest relationship and how long were the marriages for because for seven seven marriages, a lot of them were short. Two, three years, all of them. Yeah, yeah, basically. And all of them were abusive. All of them were drugs. First time Austin's mom went to a birthday party. Mom is my mom's 40th birthday. And we had just gotten together and she went and my stepdad was being kind of rude to my mom. And I said, Hey, I'm going to get up out of here. Well, my wife's never seen a fight in her life. And he said he wanted to he wanted to whoop my ass is what he says. So I said, well, hey, let's go. Yeah. And so I went outside and tore him up and my wife ran inside and said, call 911. And like my family and they're like, 911, we're going out to watch, you know? And so that's just kind of how our family was. I stopped wanting to have birthday parties because there was a fight at every birthday party. The cops came to my, I mean, it was my own family fighting each other. Wow. So but it was my mom was five right at five foot. And so yeah, but. But feisty. Yep. She told me I was her horse if I never won a race. She was good to me. I mean, I wouldn't change nothing. We lived 32 places growing up. I mean, we passed around. So you really didn't, except from that person, the father that introduced you to basketball. How was it like being raised, I would say, by so many different, you know, dads, so to say. You know, I always got to see my dad. My dad, though, he was into a lot of bad things. Got me in golden gloves when I was real little because I had a lot of, they used to put me in a circle when I was like, maybe five, six or seven, eight. When I would, it was his weekend. And I'd have to fight other little kids and they would get high and bet on us. And we were like chicken fights. And there was other little kids would come over to fight. And so it was just a different, I was raised different. So I go to a regular school with regular kids. It was a different time. But at the end of the day, at least you got to go home. You know what I mean? Yeah, no. That's the good part about it. I can, I can, I can respect that. You know, because at least you got to go home. And the people that you did have those dealings with, if you ever seen them again, y'all had to respect each other. Oh, sure. You know what I mean? Yeah, no, I was, today he would go to prison or go to jail for, and the people around would. But back then that was just cool. Normal. And nobody had hard feelings. I'd go play with that kid after I whooped his ass. That's right. I mean, that's just how it was. I wish it was more like that today, in a sense. Yeah. Because people picking up guns, you know what I mean? No. No, we used to just go out back and get it over with. And if you say I gave, I'd normally let you up unless you hit me real hard, and I might hit you an extra time. But then I'd help you up and dust you off. Yeah, yeah, so. But my mom's longest relationship was probably to the one guy that I got into at that time. And it was probably seven or eight years. He was a pretty good dude. But she had some real bad ones. She's passed now. I rest her soul. Yeah, she did good. Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't change nothing. Yeah, we on Boss Talk 101.