Roy Wood Jr.

I was trying to do it in the business and leadership game.

Like we didn't have a lot of people.

I'm just going to be blunt and honest that that looked like us that were blueprints to show other people how to do it.

And I appreciated you because you were like.

You were like my generation's blueprint.

And so like every move that you were making, I was trying to follow to see how you were doing it because it was pushing me to be like the best person, the best entrepreneur, the best leader that I could be because you kept changing your game.

So I had to change mine.

You kept elevating.

I had to elevate.

But for me, it's all because we're literally the same age, bro.

I appreciate what you're saying, but I guarantee if you point out any part of my game, it was amazing.

I got it from watching somebody else, my damn self.

I think the drive and the gumption, you have to be a little crazy to bet on yourself.

That's inherent.

But I think that the belief that, oh, I could do this, that didn't come from me, that came from Ricky Smiley.

I saw Ricky Smiley on TV in the late 90s, and he was repping Alabama hard.

He didn't just put Birmingham on his back.

He put the whole state on his back.

And nobody asked him to do that.

He just did it.