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🗓️ 18 February 2018
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NBA Hall of Fame basketball player, David Robinson explains who George Washington Carver was and why he decided to name the charter schools he founded after him.
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0:00.0 | Get ready to enter the Thrive Time Show. |
0:04.8 | Three, two, one. |
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0:08.6 | All right, Thrive Nation, welcome back to the Thrive Time Show on your podcast download. |
0:14.0 | Now on today's podcast, we have an opportunity to sit down with the two-time gold medal winning |
0:21.6 | Olympic athlete and NBA Hall of Famer David Robinson. |
0:26.0 | He's my partner, he's my friend, he's a investor in the Thrive Time show, |
0:32.0 | and we get a chance to ask him you know why I mean who is who was George |
0:38.8 | Washington Carver the namesake of his school you know know, when he, when David Robinson started his school |
0:45.6 | to serve inner city underprivileged kids, |
0:48.8 | he could have named it after himself |
0:50.6 | or he could have named it after anybody. |
0:52.2 | But instead he decided to name it after George |
0:54.8 | Washington Carver. Why did he do that? Who was George Washington Carver and what about George Washington Carver really inspired David |
1:07.0 | Robinson to the level that he decided to to spend a massive a massive quantity of his net worth on a school. He decided to spend a massive |
1:17.4 | proportion of his time on starting a school called the George Washington Carver Academy. Why would he name a school |
1:25.2 | after George Washington Carver? What did he do that was so significant that it made that kind of impact on |
1:31.6 | David Robinson that he would name a school |
1:34.0 | after George Washington Carver and not after himself or not after anybody else. |
1:38.3 | So any further ado, my interview with David Robinson discussing the life of times of George Washington Carver. |
1:46.4 | Up till the time he was swell, he had nothing. He had a Bible was the only thing he had up into that point so when I see these |
1:57.8 | kids in these neighborhoods and in certain situations they may not have a father |
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