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John McCorvey is the CEO of Stonegate Global Finance. In this conversation, we discuss alternative assets, global asset allocation, cannabis and medical marijuana, Bitcoin and Crypto, paying NCAA athletes, and what it was like to win a national championship playing for the legendary Bobby Bowden at Florida State. I really enjoyed this conversation, and I hope you do as well.

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Bang, bang, guys. I am here with John. We got a whole bunch of stuff to talk about. So thank you very much for coming.

Hey, thanks for having me. Absolutely. All right. Let's go to your background before we get into all the investing and smart people stuff. You grew up where?

I grew up in the Midwest and down south my life's mission at that

point was play college football at Florida State so all right and you ended up

at Forest State playing football yes this is what early 90s yeah early to mid 90s

okay I was there 92 through 96 okay so, so 92 to 96, Bobby Boundett is the coach, right?

Absolute legend in his own right. We'll get to him in a second. Yep. What is it like playing college

football at one of the powerhouses in the mid-90s? Like, it was amazing. I mean. I mean, you can't describe it.

Words really can't describe.

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