Baron Davis
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446 appearances
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 1 Jan
Baron Davis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Man, it was white people. That's all I saw. When I first got there, you gotta think, I only know white people from police, maybe the grocery store, on TV, like I, you know, or we play basketball and we had like, one year we had a white person on our team, you know what I mean? But it was like, white people were rivals. And then I get to Crossroads and I realize like,
Oh, not everybody here is white. What do you mean? You know, white? What are you? Oh, I'm Jewish. What the fuck do that mean? Yeah, you're just learning a whole new... You know what I mean? Like, I'm Korean. What do you mean? Like, I thought everybody was Chinese. Yeah, you're just learning. You don't realize how small your world was. Oh, my God. I knew nothing. You know what I mean?
I knew nothing about people. I knew nothing about... Like, at Crossroads, it was almost like my first year. I could have got kicked out once a week for either saying some shit I wasn't supposed to do, drawing some shit I had no idea what I was drawing. You know what I mean? You're just ignorant. Yeah, I was completely ignorant to, like,
And your ignorance is just like, they looking at you like, they struggle with me. I would say like the first year because they never had someone like me. But it was a great experience because every moment was like, Oh, you meant this? You mean here? Oh, it's all learning. I was getting fixed.
I was getting learned, right? And at the same time, they had to learn me because I was not like any kid at that school. I was the one kid that didn't have anything. So even if you suspended me for the day and sent me home, I live in South Central. Ain't nobody coming to pick me up. So you know when I get suspended at school, guess where I be at? I don't care.
I get suspended. I'm like, all right, cool. And then the principal got to walk around the campus. I slide out of his office. I'd be sitting on a little stool.
And people were like, we thought you were suspended. I was like, I am. Like, I'm just waiting for my ride. and my ride didn't come to 5 o'clock every day. It was frustrating, dude. Shout out to Tom Nolan, Morgan Swartz. They used to suspend me, and I'd be sitting in their office like this. I'm going to call your grandmother. I'm going to call her.
Nah, I don't know, I was just an aggressive kid, you know what I mean? I was aggressive and I loved to play, I loved football, I would love to fight. I remember I was trying to fight somebody and the dude was like, man, I'm not trying to fight you, we need to talk about this. I'm like, talk? Like talk, are you crazy? Can you believe this dude wanted to talk to me?
And everybody around the circle was like, yeah, you should talk. I'm like, what? So the problem solving is we fight. We fight. If we disagree, we fight. Yeah, we don't even, we ain't no negotiating. It's like, you know, it's like somebody going to get socked. It's like you got to get the first sock in. And then at Crossroads, they're like, hold on, dude. You upset? Let's talk about it.
What the fuck you mean let's talk about it, dude? It was like, dude, what did I do wrong that's bothering you? And you get to a point where you're like, I don't fucking know, dude. I just want to beat your ass. And everybody around is like, well, why do you want to do that? That makes no sense. He didn't really do it. And then you walk away like, damn, dude.
All right, well, ain't nobody at this school fighting. I guess I got to start talking about my problems. It was like... I'll give you a funny one. I'll give you a good one. So we had a, like peer counseling, it was called Life Skills. I was in seventh grade. I feel like Kate Hudson was in my class too. So we would pass around and everybody go, you know, talk about, oh, you know, my mom.
And like these kids were deep. Like my mom going through this, my parents going through a divorce. talking piece get to me, I'm like, what the fuck am I gonna say? I say, you know what? I'm gonna open up to you guys. You know, I used to have a twin. and we were playing basketball at the park, and it was a drive-by shooting, and they shot my twin, killed him, so I'm playing for two people.
And after the class, dude, it got out on school. They was like, oh, Barron could've had a twin, we could've had two people. Kate Hudson walks up like, you don't have no fucking twins, stop telling people you got a twin. I'm like,
and then I told people I had a kid when I was 13 and here she comes again yeah I know kids stop telling people stop lying like tell them the truth but people thought I had a kid at 13 at Crossroads they thought I had a twin I was just making shit up well you do that with the media sometimes I think you get bored in these because they're asking you the same question and next thing you're doing is talking about yeah I was abducted by aliens oh my god the alien thing that was crazy I just made the story up
I made the story up, and the dude clipped it, and that's the only thing he put out on the pod. It was a good podcast. And he was just like, what happened? I was like, man, I don't know. I was driving from Vegas. You know what I mean? It's just your imagination. I was just like, yeah. You're just bored. I was super bored.
And then next thing you know, I'm on the fucking New York Post, and everybody's like, oh. And then I'm seeing people like, yo, you're so alien today.
I had people from high school, I had a buddy from high school call me, and he was like, man, I wanna catch up with you. I'm like, man, let's catch up. We go to lunch, and we catching up, and he talking about his business, what I'm doing, and I'm thinking like, damn, dude, this dude gonna invest with me, invest in a company, invest in my movie. And he goes, all right, last thing.
You know that thing? I said, man, I ain't seen no fucking aliens, yo. I was not abducted by an alien, yo. I was not abducted by an alien. He was like.
Yeah, we were good. My senior year we were really good. Our junior year we were good. My senior year we were really good. Just because we were underdogs. We had a really good underdog mentality. We were well coached. You underestimated all of my teammates. and they were really good.
And so we're defensively, we're scrappy, you know, and then we had guys, Felipe Williams, Chad Gordon, Laquan Tolbert, all these dudes could play and make plays, you know, and score. EJ Harris, Cash Warren was on that team. Jake Hoffman was on that team, Dustin Hoffman's son. So Dustin Hoffman, Denzel, imagine our games.
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