This is The Labor.

Welcome to the Digital Social Hour. I'm your host, Sean Kelly, with my co-host, Wayne Lewis.

And our guest today, David Meltzer. How's it going?

Amazing, even better now than I'm here with you two at this unbelievable place.

Man, it's an honor to have you.

Thanks for having me, man. What are we going to talk about today?

Whatever you want. First, quick story I think would be good of your journey.

Yeah, sure. You always divide my journey into three different worlds.

The first world, I say about half of the United States at least grows up in

and it's a world of not enough, not enough of anything.

Single mom, six kids driven to be rich so I could buy my mama house.

The only chance of being rich was either academics, which I was better suited for.

And so were my five siblings or athletics.

And I chose athletics, although unconscious competency was more

relative to the academics. They came a lot easier than sports did.

What sport did you play?

Played football on baseball and then ended up pole vaulting as well in college.

Oh, okay.

So I could run scared really fast.

But the main objective of all of it to me was to buy my mom that house in car.

And I thought for sure because I grew up so happy with nothing that if I had money

you know, all those times I catch my mom crying or stressed over money

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