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223. Should Kids Pay Back Their Parents for Raising Them?

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🗓️ 8 October 2015

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

When one athlete turned pro, his mom asked him for $1 million. Our modern sensibilities tell us she doesn't have a case. But should she?

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I grew up with a chip on my shoulder, like as if I had to make it for my family.

0:05.6

I'd like you to meet Philip Buchanan.

0:10.0

He grew up in Fort Myers, Florida.

0:12.0

When I was young, I played a lot of sports, so I played based on my first sport, and when

0:16.8

it came to summer trips, I didn't really take summer trips with my family, because my

0:20.4

teammates always wanted me to stay because I was like one of the best players, so I spent

0:24.4

a lot of time at home and with my teammates.

0:27.4

And so I have always worked on the idea of me making it professionally either in baseball

0:32.1

or football.

0:33.1

And he had reason to believe that this was a real possibility.

0:36.0

When I turned 11 years old, I scored five tests on the one football game, and I hit my

0:39.9

first home run.

0:40.9

And so ever since then, I was like, man, I'm going to make it in football or baseball.

0:43.8

I knew I am.

0:44.8

You can't even mother was his main parent.

0:46.9

Like my dad was my, he was my seven great English teacher.

0:50.6

He was my basketball coach in middle school, which we won a championship.

0:53.8

But he wasn't really in my life, he was around, but he wasn't really in my life like

0:56.8

that.

0:57.8

But I don't fault him, it's just, you know, sometimes the way you're raised and when

1:00.2

you're brought up.

1:01.2

While he was still in high school, Buchanan says, the Cincinnati Reds offered him a $500,000

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