Basketball Highlights to Scholarship Hopes with Felix Rogers

Imagine the impact one person can have when they combine their love for a sport with a drive to champion the talents of young athletes. That's the story of my old high school friend, Felix Rogers, who joins me, Charlie Shaw, on Lil Mel Unfiltered Podcast to share his journey from a dedicated father to the founder of 'In the Gym Hoops.' Felix's tale is one of true dedication, starting with a $50 pawnshop camera to give his son's basketball skills the spotlight they deserved, and growing into a nation-wide endeavor that's helping high school athletes secure their future in college sports. But that's not all we talk about – Felix also gives us a glimpse into his personal world, from culinary surprises to the joy of grandparenthood, reminding us that behind every professional triumph lies a tapestry of life's simple pleasures.

This week's heartfelt discussion also peels back the curtain on the high-stakes world of athletic scholarships and the pivotal role of sports highlight videos. As a former office supply business owner turned video production VP, I bring to the table my firsthand insights on the complexities of getting athletes noticed by college scouts. We tackle the myth that a good video is a golden ticket, highlighting the necessity of networking and strategic promotion. Plus, we celebrate the success stories that have emerged from our own basketball videography network, which has since expanded into the realm of football. Whether you're a sports enthusiast, an aspiring athlete, or just love a good underdog story, this episode promises to leave you inspired and looking at the sports world through a fresh lens.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:01

Hello and welcome back to Lil Mel on Filter Podcast. I'm your host, charlie Shaw. We're back again with another special guest and topic for a source of inspiration and motivation for you. As always, I appreciate each and every one of you staying engaged with my show and spending time with us. So let's get started with this week's show.

Speaker 1: 0:23

Well, today I'm interviewing a friend of mine from back home on high school days. His name is Felix Rogers. I'm a folks from Raceme no, felix Rogers, because Felix was active in sports and also he was good in academics, so he gave me an opportunity to interview him. One of the reasons why I'm interviewing Felix is because he's involved with getting high school kids that's in sports ready for the college level. How he does that is he got this program called in the gym hoops. He founded in 2014. It's all about bringing complete video coverage of any high school sports primary basketball, featuring athletes nationwide, but with a focus in the Indiana area. He actually looks at talent from all over the country. And Felix, welcome to the show. Tell us about it, man.

Speaker 2: 1:20

Hey, what's up? Chuck man, I appreciate you having me Appreciate you coming.

Speaker 1: 1:24

In the gym hoops yeah, man, I wouldn't miss it for a lifetime. Real quick, Felix. I forgot to tell the folks Today's Felix's birthday. I want everybody to wish Felix a happy birthday. From where you're listening, Felix, you told me that Drew made you a nice, made you a favorite meal today. Huh, what was that?

Speaker 2: 1:41

Yeah, she made me a favorite meal had some spaghetti with a salad on the side, with some Olive Garden dressing, with the bread, with the butter bread on there, with the garlic bread, whatever man. So you know I love me some Italian food, so she hooked it up today. What?

Speaker 1: 2:01

about that cake she got me? What about the dessert?

Speaker 2: 2:03

Had a little at work. They made me an apple pie, so I had apple pie and ice cream at work and then when I got home from work, I'd get home and I'd get this dinner, and then there's a nice ice cream cake down there with the chocolate on the side with the cookie dough. There you go, man. Cookie dough on the top. So I'm messing up on my little calorie count.

Speaker 1: 2:24

That's all right, man, you still got time to walk around the block before you go to bed.

Speaker 2: 2:28

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 2:29

Hey, and you also. You spent a little time with your granddaughter to see even I heard of before we all started up.

Speaker 2: 2:35

Yeah, both of my grandkids over here. I got a four-year-old granddaughter and I got a three-year-old grandson, and so they both over here, take a little nap, spend time with me, hang out for my birthday. There you go.

Speaker 1: 2:49

Hey, I wanna apologize for interrupting you when you're getting started, man, I just wanted to make sure that I wish you a happy birthday all right, I appreciate that, chuck.

Speaker 2: 2:57

That's what's up.

Speaker 1: 2:59

Go ahead and tell us about In-N-June.

Speaker 2: 3:02

In-N-June who's really. I founded it legally through with an LLC in 2014, but I actually started In-N-June Hoops in like 2011. Okay, and I originally started In-N-June Hoops to promote my own son. I was trying to figure out a way to get him a basketball scholarship. He was a freshman in high school in 2011, and I was trying to figure out how to get his name out there.

Speaker 2: 3:31

In 2007, youtube came out and there's a lot of kids that were getting their videos posted on YouTube, and I was trying to figure out how to get a video of him posted on YouTube and I couldn't seem to figure it out, and so I went to. I took him to a basketball camp and it was Steve Cameron man in there filming. Took him to this basketball camp in Louisville, the John Lucas basketball camp Right, john Lucas, yeah, and yeah, I took him to the John Lucas basketball camp and at this particular camp, bam Hadabayo was there. You know a few guys that are in the NBA was there, right? All the Cameron man was focusing on those courts to those guys as well. And so I walked up to a Cameron man, not knowing what was going on in the video process or whatever, not knowing anything about that world at all. And I asked the video guy. I was like, hey, man, how much would you charge to do a video of that kid right there, and I was pointing at my son Right around that time my son Came down and shot a air ball and he looked at me real funny.

Speaker 2: 4:40

He was like, well, you know, I'm on this court right here and I'm focusing on these guys over here, these big name player. He said but if you really want a video, I can do it, but I had to charge you two thousand dollars. Oh, wow. And I looked at him like dang. No. I said, damn Right, I'm thinking of myself like that's a lot of bread, but not knowing how, what was all involved, I was like, well, shoot, maybe that's what it costs, right? So I started thinking about going ahead and dropping the two stacks.

Speaker 2: 5:12

Okay, and right around, I wouldn't talk to my wife. I was like, hey, you know what. He might go here to spend this money and get this boy a video. And and I told her how much the guy wanted and she was like you would do none of that. Yeah, you would do none of that. She said we. She said tell you what you're gonna do. When you get home, you're gonna go get your own camera. You can make your own video. That's what's up I it. So that's kind of how I started.

Speaker 2: 5:38

So I came home, went to a pawn shop and I got me a little $50 JBC camera and, hit and hits, I started the basketball. I started trying to do his videos. I couldn't figure it out, I couldn't do it, I couldn't film them right. So I was that dad that used to be. You know, and you probably seen this, chuck. Yeah, I was that dad that sat in the middle of the bleachers in the top row with the tripod and Yelling at the camera and yelling at your son trying to coach him from the bleachers in the game. We'll be all one in the court and the camera will be facing the other end of the court, because I don't forgot to move the camera down To the other end of the court. You know I'm saying that was me.

Speaker 2: 6:19

Yeah, so that was me and, and you know, I started getting better at it. I start trying to, you know, look at these news videos on YouTube and try to, you know, try to do what they were doing. It took me. The first video I did for my son took me six months To do it. Now I can do a video in an hour, in an hour. Sometimes I can do them in 20 minutes, depending on how well the player does. So it is really depends on the individual player. So, you know, but if it, if a kid is really good, I can do a video immediately, follow the game and have a deal with them. I work right. So it just depends. So, yeah, a lot of practice.

Speaker 2: 6:58

I've done probably 5,000-6,000 videos over the last, you know, 15 years. We have, you know, in, consequently, my son, after I started getting better at doing the videos, you know I was posting these videos on YouTube and Facebook. I had one video of him. They got a half a million views on Insta, on YouTube, I was one of them. Yeah, you got a half a million views. He was about a six foot one guard. He's really athletic and shoot it, he could dump you, get to the basket. He was quick, we quick, like I was when I played high school in college basketball.

Speaker 1: 7:35

I will pull a lot more athletic than I was. We'll plug you.

Speaker 2: 7:38

Oh, more athletic than I was a lot smarter or tougher, but a lot, a lot, a lot better player. There you go. Um, then I was, and so, anyway, long story short, he uh ended up graduating from high school With 25 division one offers from the videos that I was making. That's amazing, you know and I would make the video.

Speaker 2: 8:01

Yeah, and so what I did when I came up with in the gym hoops chuck. I didn't come up with that to To be what it is today. I came up with that name because I didn't want college coaches to know that I was his dad making these videos, posting them on social media right.

Speaker 2: 8:18

That was my primary reason to come up with in the gym hoops has a name and I actually is really funny if you watch my documentary. I came up with in the gym hoops because, um, we lived in the gym we were at, we went to practice every day. I took it to that we worked out all of the time. After he got done with his homework, we would go to the gym and work out. I was, you know, work on his gang, work on his ball handling skills, work on his jumper. We, you know, only played on several different teams at the same time. So he's practicing all of the time.

Speaker 2: 8:47

And my dad actually came up with the name and didn't even know what he called me one day and he was like man, we are 82, like we had, you know, you know how we do that, we, we, we had to, we on our way to the gym and he said that's all y'all do is live in the gym, in the gym. That's how I came, that's how I came up with in the gym hoops. And I was like, because I had been trying to come up with a name, right, so that I could disguise it so college coaches, because college coaches Don't really pay Parents any mind about their kids unless they six, five or better. Right, you know they don't listen to the parents. They want to get it from a third party. They want to hear how good your kid is from somebody else and not the parent. Right, that's what I wanted to come they. That's the. That was the best way for me to disguise it so that people wouldn't know that I was his dad, and that's how I came over to the gym hoops and so it worked.

Speaker 2: 9:38

And when he graduated from high school, like I said, he had 25 division one offers, seven mid seven high major Tennessee, nebraska uh, old miss Um, where's he at? He had seven high major schools. That was Oklahoma State offer him, okay, and, and so he just made a bad decision on the school choices that he chose and he waited too long to make a decision. He didn't jump up and make the decision early enough and so he ended up which wasn't about decision at the time, but he ended up going to Toledo.

Speaker 2: 10:13

Toledo, close to home right, not too far away from yeah, about three hours from home so, and so it wasn't too far, but we he didn't. He didn't do well there. He played I don't know, he added about 15 minutes a game of the freshman not bad as a freshman in college, but him and the coach just wasn't seeing out of. I mostly because he was mostly my son more than the coach, you know he just had a different kind of attitude. You know I'm saying so. They ended up transferring and coming Going to finishing up his college career, the school right here in town, the same school that George here to play for the San Antonio Spurs Called IUPUI. So he finished up his college career there. But that's how, in a gym, hoops got started.

Speaker 2: 11:00

And so the very couple, the very first year I started shooting his videos and I came up with an image in hoops. Kids was asking him why does image in hoops only do videos of you Come here on, do no videos of be anybody else? And so had let the cat out and he was like, oh, yeah, he let the cat out the back and he was like, oh, that's just my dad. And they was like what can you do my video? So he was like I asked him. So his whole team Got a video and every one of them paid me $200 for a video and I didn't even know. I didn't even know what to charge. It was kind of like, yeah, I'll pay you. You know, what do you want? I was like give me 200 dollars. And they were like, okay. So I was like, damn, you know, I'm saying so. It's in the gym hoops how it started in 2011 and at maybe two in like June or July of 2000, doing the school season in 2011.

Speaker 1: 11:57

Man yeah, you made yourself a side hustle, man, and you was doing it. It was a side hustle and you was doing it. You was doing it out of a good cause. You know trying to. You know get your and a good in a good spot.

Speaker 2: 12:09

That's all I was trying to do, and so now here we are. You know what is it? 14 years later, 12 years later, right? And I mean we're doing really well. We traveled all over the country. We cover camps, the CP3 camp. We were the primary video production company for them. We have about eight videographers Strategically all over the country to work for us. We have over 50,000 Followers on Instagram. We have about 3.5 million impressions a month on our Instagram page. On our YouTube platform, we have about 34,000 followers on there and we have about 30 million views over the last since 2011. We have over 30 million views and fuel you to platform fuel.

Speaker 1: 13:01

Is this still your part-time job, man?

Speaker 2: 13:05

Yeah, well, it is, but it isn't. I mean, I got my two video. The photographers here in Indianapolis Are. They are busy. We're running all over the place and I mean the season goes by so quick. We only come in there there. The girls playoffs have already started here. They're getting ready to be the regionals here for high school girls here in In the state of Indiana.

Speaker 2: 13:26

And Saturday we're covering, you know, three different regionals, three different videos. Me and did the two other videographers are Covering two different tournaments, three different tournaments in the city or in the state. Rather okay. Then Friday I have to film a kid about in the town called Kokomo, which is about an hour north of where I live. Then Saturday morning, saturday afternoon, I'm going to shoot this same kid and the kids paying me like $400 to go film my Two games. You know what I'm saying. So we're we're extremely busy and and I got we make enough money where I can pay To full-time videographers to work the business and then. So we're doing good, but we still have so much more room to grow and so much more room to get better. And ultimately it's not about Enigam who's making highlight films. It's really about helping these kids with scholarships and trying to figure out another avenue, because really the videos that I make aren't the real reason why kids get scholarship.

Speaker 2: 14:33

People say oh the video is what got you? No, it's not the real reason why kids get scholarship. It's only the commercial for the kids. So if a college coach wants to come see the kid in person to see how good they really are, it's really just a teaser to make a coach. The promotion it's promotion. Yeah, the people always get it twisted Like you are here telling people you can get a kid with a scholarship because of this video. No, it's not because of the video, it's because of what happens after coach sees the video. And we have about 500 college coaches that are following our platform Right.

Speaker 2: 15:08

And so over the years, due to the relationships I've established over the years, I got probably 4,500 direct lines of communication with cell phone numbers and email addresses that I can pick up a phone and call the coach. If the kid is cold enough and good enough, I can call a coach on his behalf and say, hey, you might want to take this kid. This kid really could probably play at your level, and then that just escalates the whole recruiting process and once the coach sees him, the kid performs and does what he's capable of doing in front of the coach. It's on in pocket. There you go. So, but that's how it works. Yeah, so I mean I've helped probably since 2011, 2012, since my son graduated from high school in 14, I'm in the 15, when he graduated. Since 15, I've probably helped 200 kids with scholarships.

Speaker 1: 15:55

Man. That's a legacy To some level. Yeah, create a legacy of, you know, sissanese kids become student athletes. Yeah, get better with their game because they know they're going to be on film, you know, and the wonderful thing about it is that they're looking at that, you know, looking at those institutions to, you know, for the future.

Speaker 2: 16:19

You're helping along with that.

Speaker 2: 16:23

So now, man, it's been a blessing to do this. And then, consequently, here's the real blessing, chuck. So two years ago and I've been in sales my whole life I've had I own my own office supply company prior to In the Gym Hoops, and I own that office supply. That's how I made a living. With the office supply company In the Gym Hoops was really for fun until they started making enough, you know revenue, right, right. And so two years ago, well, during COVID, I hired a marketing agency called Mojo Up Marketing and Media to do some marketing stuff for In the Gym Hoops. I ended up selling my office supply company right before COVID and tried to focus specifically on In the Gym Hoops. And then COVID crushed me, right, and I wasn't able to go to games. It was nobody could come, they wouldn't let people come, feel me again. So COVID kind of hurt me and so I got a job doing social work, right, and that social work job was a first responder type of job. So when everybody was at home sick with COVID, I was going out doing supervised business and so forth, right, and so, anyway, consequently, what happened after that?

Speaker 2: 17:38

Once I hired this marketing agency to help me with my marketing, to help my camps and to help me sell more videos and that type of thing, they hired me to be their director of video production. So now, two years later, I have been promoted. I'm vice president of video productions at this marketing agency. So now I do corporate videos, professional videos, for my employer. But it's enhanced my video editing and my video, my filming skills. So now my skill set and my IQ and my technology in understanding the technical piece, part of the equipment and understanding all of that stuff is like 10 fold over what it was. Like the guy who tried to charge me $2,000, which is a very good friend of mine calls me and asks me what camera to get or how to do this or how to do that, because I have passed him up with the IQ in the industry. Yes, so that's the blessing on this man, because it's himself taught. Nobody taught me none of this shit.

Speaker 1: 18:48

Right, I was gonna say man guys, good for you. Man, you know one door closes the other one opens up.

Speaker 1: 18:56

Well, you know you made that happen. You made that happen and I think that you got that blessing through helping not only your son advance himself, but other kids that you don't even know, that you're connected to them through sports and what I'm finding, you know a lot of people got to understand that. Well, a lot of people should understand that sports is a gateway for many things. It was a gateway for you to meet kids and find different avenues for these children to well, these young people, to advance themselves to the next level. So, on behalf of that, on behalf of all the parents, I'd like to say thank you, because you know people are not taking that time for the children, man, and you're doing this even after your son graduated in what? 14, 15 years later, you're still doing it. You know you're still out there discovering talent and, you know, introducing that talent to the world.

Speaker 2: 19:53

No, it's a fun thing. It's harder now. The talent isn't what it used to be, it seems like since 2012,. The level of talent the kids don't take it as serious as they used to, so the level of talent is going down. So you got to go further, you got to look harder and it's something out there, but it's not. They're not everywhere like they used to be in 2012 to 2018. They're not everywhere. You got to look down. It's a little tougher.

Speaker 1: 20:18

Well, you know. But, they're out there. So what's the motivation? What do you think? Is it lack of motivation from?

Speaker 2: 20:28

Well, my motivation is just the love of the game, of basketball. Right, you know I've always been a basketball junkie and so it's more my opportunity to be around the game. You know what I'm saying. And so I get to go to these games for free. I show up, I'm telling my media they let me come in the game, I film the game, I make a video.

Speaker 2: 20:48

So the motivation more is about the love of the game, but also just the infatuation that people look at my stuff and they're watching the video, the content that I put out, and they say nice things about it. So having people say stuff about what we post and then just being around the game is really the motivation. If I can help a kid along the way, that's a bonus. You know what I'm saying. But really it's about, you know, of course, helping the kids first, but it's really just about being around the game. So it's not, it's not work, you gotta find your passion. It's not, it's not. I love it. You know I'm a. You know I haven't been through a lot of different things in my life. I got an addictive personality and I'm addicted to it. I'm just gonna say it like that, chuck, understood, understood? Hey, man, understood.

Speaker 1: 21:35

You don't gotta say anything else. But no, I'm fine. I'm glad that you find it in a healthy way.

Speaker 2: 21:40

Yes.

Speaker 1: 21:43

And that is, you know, putting out a product more or less. Yes, hey man, your videos are awesome, bro, there I check them, I see your shorts and I'm like, come on now. I might have to get him to do some YouTube videos for me.

Speaker 2: 21:59

You know an offline.

Speaker 1: 21:59

I'm gonna ask you about you know about the camera thing. I'm working with a small budget but I love to get your intake on what cameras I should buy.

Speaker 2: 22:10

Okay.

Speaker 1: 22:11

So, Felix, you said that you you can do videos for people throughout the country, right?

Speaker 2: 22:18

Yes, yes. So we have, we have. I have a videographer that's based in Daytona, florida, I have one in Houston, one in Greensboro, north Carolina, one in Missouri, one in Arizona, in Phoenix, arizona, and then we have three, four people here in Indianapolis, and so we are strategically all over the country, but still looking for more videographers, interns. We're looking for people that want to come on board and learn this business and also be able to be willing to work and work hard, because it's not easy, but it is very fulfilling If and it could be, you know quite engaging financially, right. So we're always looking to, you know, to recruit more talent in our world.

Speaker 1: 23:13

Well, not only can you help parents, help them, help their children get in the school through your video, and you can also help people get a job, a fine find a job and what they're passionate about Find a job and we can also help guys go to college.

Speaker 2: 23:27

Two of my videographers who used to you know I actually they don't work for me anymore Two former videographers. One went on and got a job at UNC, greensboro. He played, he was an intern with me from Ball State University, which was one of the best media programs in the country, right, and he went on and got a job at UNC Greensboro. Now he's the director of video production at James Madison University. Yeah, he does the handles all of their video. Yeah, down in the. And then I have another one yes, I have another one who two guys that went to Ball State, and the other one works for the University of Missouri and he's the director of the creatives at University of Missouri. So, all of the basketball videos that you see if you go up Missouri's University of Missouri's Instagram page, their social media he makes all of those videos for the University of Missouri and they both got their start within the Jim Hoops, that's what's up. And they still to the day.

Speaker 2: 24:26

If I call them up and say, hey, I heard about this kid in Missouri. You know, can you go down there and take a look at him and make a video for me and they'll do it. You know, one of them was at Tulane before he went to Missouri. The kid that said and he went and filmed the Peyton Peyton was Peyton's last name Played quit it back for the coach. I couldn't believe it. Peyton Eli, peyton Eli and Peyton right.

Speaker 1: 24:57

Their son.

Speaker 2: 24:58

I mean all yeah, peyton, they went to see Peyton's nephew. Um, he played. We played basketball at the same high school that Peyton went to. Okay, um, peyton Manning, he went to the same high school as Peyton Manning and he was playing basketball. He's the number one. Last year he was the number one quarterback coming out of high school.

Speaker 2: 25:20

And he ended up going to Texas, right, but we made a basketball video of him and posted it on on YouTube and the video got two million views because Nick saving Nick saving was at the game and the coach from Georgia was at the game. The coach from Texas take all of these coaches was at the game and he got close ups of all of these coaches there watching him and this kid, peyton Manning, he's left. You got a dunk in the game and the video went straight viral. That's what's up.

Speaker 1: 25:48

Hey, you also doing football, man. I like, I like the clips that you did on with the football teams, you know, with the football players.

Speaker 2: 25:55

Yeah, I can't take credit for that. That's not me. That's one of my videographers to live here and ending up as he's covering football. He loves football so he's been wanting to do it. I got, I got, I created, I got access to these schools and access to the state championship and he covered the whole. He did all of the football videos for him this year and he did a great job for us.

Speaker 1: 26:17

Well, it sounds like your business is growing, man. It's growing in the right direction.

Speaker 2: 26:22

It is, but it's. It's hard, though, because, like I said, I got a full-time job, which you know it's really more than the fourth, it's more than the 48 hour week job. Sometimes you got to work on Saturday and Sunday, sometimes you got to work evenings. Whenever you can get the shot, man, you got to go get the shot.

Speaker 1: 26:38

It was. We're from Racine Wisconsin, man. That's how we grind, they ain't no other way.

Speaker 2: 26:42

That's how we grind. That's no other way. That's how we grind. So, so you know you just you, just hey.

Speaker 1: 26:47

You teaching people. You know you teaching people whoever's listening and want to hear it. You got to get up and get it. That's how I that's the inspiration I got from it.

Speaker 2: 26:56

That's right, yes, sir.

Speaker 1: 26:58

Making no excuse, for you know, for your passion. You're not making any excuses over here. If you want it, you go get it. That's the only way. Man, I'm not going to hold you up anymore and I appreciate you coming on the show. Is there anything else that you want to put out? I definitely want you to plug in, plug your business and how they can contact you for work or for a video graph.

Speaker 2: 27:22

Sure. So if you, if you're interested in hiring in the gym hoops to come to your venue, come to your event. It's a couple of different ways you can reach me. You can reach me by my cell phone number. I don't have a problem giving it to you. It's 317-431-2532. You can go to our website, inbidgymhoopscom and click on contact us and put your information in your contact information in there and we can contact you. Or you can go to our social media platforms, which is in the gym hoops underscore, and DM us and we can do business and contact and communicate via DM on social media platforms, on all of them Twitter, instagram or Facebook, and they're all in the gym hoops, underscore and it's just like a spell in the gym.

Speaker 2: 28:10

Yes, yup, i-n-t-h-e-g-y-m-h-o-o-p-s underscore. Okay, that's good.

Speaker 1: 28:19

Yup, were you able to film anybody from back home?

Speaker 2: 28:24

I have went to Wisconsin a few times, but I have not been to racing. I have not stepped foot back in our high school. Since we got here I've been to the football stadium, but not back into the. You know the C-Basketball game, right. I have been to Milwaukee several times because it's been a much better, better talent. Like you know, down there in Florida the kid that plays for the Miami Heat, I did a video with Tyler Heero, oh yeah.

Speaker 2: 28:47

In that school oh yeah, yeah, 41 in the high school game and he was off, hey man you know what?

Speaker 1: 28:53

It's crazy Karan Butler. He's from my hometown. He's coaching the kid from Milwaukee which we all claimed out there. You know, but you know world is small man World is small.

Speaker 2: 29:03

Yeah, yeah. So I did a video with Tyler Heero and it's the kid on Atlanta Hawks named Jalen Johnson. Jalen Johnson. I went up and filmed the game. I went up and filmed the game up in Milwaukee and Teddy Ford was wrecking the game. Yeah, and Jalen Johnson was in. Jalen Johnson was, at one point, the number one player in the country. Yeah, teddy. And here you go.

Speaker 1: 29:21

Teddy. Teddy plugged him on a couple of weeks ago. He's still running up and down the course, man. Good for you, teddy. If you listen to me, good for you.

Speaker 2: 29:28

Yeah, teddy, teddy still getting it in a little bit. He ain't as active as he used to be wrapping, but he's still busy with it. Yeah.

Speaker 1: 29:35

But he's going to remind us that he was one of the fastest people in the city, though, but you know he was.

Speaker 2: 29:39

he was, hey man. You know that was my next door neighbor, Center Street. All day long, Baby, you know what I'm saying, but you know where the tally come from in the city, baby, I still.

Speaker 1: 29:49

I still say you shouldn't have left. Kason went over there to Park, but that's for another story, that's for another day.

Speaker 2: 29:56

Yeah, coach White did some stuff to keep him mad, but you know.

Speaker 1: 30:01

Wait a minute. I really enjoyed this conversation, man, and I do want you to come back on the show again If there's anything that you want to put out. I hope that you would take that invitation.

Speaker 2: 30:13

I would love to you know I appreciate you. Oh, man, I really do. All right, Great time. I'm glad you gave me an opportunity, Okay.

Speaker 1: 30:20

No worries, bro. All right folks, thanks for tuning in to this week's episode on Lil Mel. I'm filter. I want to thank my guest, felix Rogers. He's doing great things out there, man, and we appreciate you taking that time out for us for today. Remember to stay, stay connected with us on social media and share your thoughts on today's episode. Your feedback means the world to us. All right, until next time, take care and stay safe.