00:00Are you aware of the story about the Boozer twins?
00:02Do you know the background of that story?
00:05It's a crazy story that I learned over the weekend,
00:08which I know is, I'm sure everybody down at Duke knows it,
00:11or if you're fans of Carlos Boozer, their pops,
00:14you know, but I just learned it this weekend.
00:15So it just shows you, you're never too old to learn something.
00:18So they have an older brother, all right?
00:21And the older brother was born with sickle cell anemia,
00:24all right, which is primarily the African-American community.
00:27Yes.
00:28And it's a tough disease to live with, okay?
00:31So the Boozer family went through IVF treatment
00:35and had about, I don't want to exaggerate the story,
00:40but did it in about 20 to 30 embryos, all right?
00:43So the doctors then go in and examine, I guess,
00:46the DNA of these embryos and then decide which one of them
00:50would not have sickle cell so that they could give birth
00:53to another child, all right?
00:54So as the story goes, the Boozer twins,
00:58who are now fabulous basketball players,
01:00they were conceived specifically to save their older brother's life.
01:07Yeah, that's right.
01:08All right?
01:08Which is a crazy story and shows you your medical technology and science.
01:12So I guess they picked these two embryos that had whatever markings
01:16they needed to have from a scientific standpoint
01:18that they could use the core blood,
01:22which is the blood when you're born that's inside the umbilical cord,
01:25and a lot of families are told you should cryo-freeze that
01:29through a company that does it.
01:30God forbid you ever have a kid that now winds up with a disease, right?
01:34Mm-hmm.
01:34So they were conceived solely to cure their older brother of sickle cell.
01:41Yeah.
01:42And when they did all this testing,
01:43the two embryos that were then, I imagine,
01:46implanted in Mrs. Boozer so that she could deliver them, right?
01:50Mm-hmm.
01:50They were born.
01:51And then they took the umbilical cord blood
01:55and they gave a blood transfusion to now what's their older brother
01:58and saved his life.
02:00Yeah.
02:00It's a crazy story and obviously a great story
02:04because I guess it was successful
02:06and then nobody even thought that, you know,
02:09these two kids would become, you know, great athletes.
02:11The older brother's a baseball player.
02:13Yeah.
02:13So he's also a very good athlete.
02:14Mm-hmm.
02:14I'm not sure what level he's at.
02:16You guys can fact check that for me.
02:17But what a crazy story that they were conceived
02:22really as a medical science project
02:24to save the life of their older brother
02:26and now they turn out to be
02:28these amazing world-class basketball players.
02:31Yeah.
02:31Crazy story.
02:32Very privileged story because it's very expensive.
02:35Yeah.
02:35Extremely expensive.
02:36But if you had the money you'd do too,
02:37as would I and anybody else.
02:38Yeah.
02:39Right?
02:40Probably.
02:41Not probably, 100%.
02:42No, no, no, no.
02:42Because there have been not,
02:44this story's a very positive one.
02:46There have been, um...
02:47Why can't you just accept a good story
02:49and let a good story be...
02:50This one is a good story.
02:52This one is a good story.
02:53Yeah, but you're going to give me a butt.
02:55You're about to butt me on this one.
02:56Well, we're in New York, right?
02:57Why not just accept this is a great story?
03:00It's a beautiful story.
03:01They won three state titles in high school.
03:03They've been winning their whole lives.
03:04I don't care about basketball.
03:05They were born to save someone's life.
03:08Yeah.
03:09And you're not going to tell me,
03:10but just let good things be good things.
03:13I can't do that.
03:14Yeah.
03:14You have to.
03:15Because I can't do that.
03:17Why?
03:17I can't do that.
03:18This is a good story.
03:19This is a happy ending.
03:21This one is.
03:21Yes.
03:22This one's great.
03:23So just let this be the good one.
03:24This is the good one.
03:25Yeah.
03:26Don't...
03:26I'm just saying,
03:27just read about this one.
03:29Yeah.
03:29Don't read about any of those other ones.
03:31I'm not suggesting...
03:31Because you will not enjoy those as much
03:33as you enjoy this one.
03:34I'm sure there are some families
03:35where sadly it doesn't work out.
03:37No, no, no, no, no.
03:38But enjoy this story.
03:39No, the science is beautiful.
03:41Never blame the science.
03:42It's not the science that's the issue at all.
03:45How could you have any issue
03:47with the Boozers having two more kids
03:49to save their son's life?
03:52I have no issue with the Boozers.
03:53If that's like you have an issue.
03:54No, no, no, no, no.
03:55You're a bad guy.
03:56And Boozer, Carlo Boozer,
03:58loved his kids all equally.
04:00Yes.
04:01Those new kids weren't just there to save them.
04:04They also were there to live a productive life.
04:06Yes.
04:07Some other people not named Boozer
04:09have done this.
04:10And that kid becomes...
04:11It's a thing.
04:13And I'm saying that that's what concerns me.
04:15So then you should have a problem
04:16if there's an example of a dad or mom
04:18now loving the new kid more than the other kid.
04:21No, no, no, no.
04:22Or vice versa.
04:23It's the other way.
04:23It's the other way.
04:24Fine.
04:24But this is a standalone story, man.
04:27This is a good standalone story.
04:29Like, not only are they great college basketball players
04:31who certainly have a chance to go pro.
04:35Well, the one is going to go pro as a top five pick.
04:37And now a chance to maybe win a national title
04:39if they get past St. John's this week.
04:41Just let it be a good story, man.
04:44Okay.
04:44I mean...
04:44I'm upset with you.
04:45Why?
04:46First time in my life I'm disappointed in Tyler Johnson.
04:48How are you disappointed in me?
04:49Because it's a good story.
04:50Let a good story be a good story.
04:52I love this story for them.
04:53I don't think you do.
04:54For the Boozers, I love it.
04:55I don't like how little defense the dad played.
04:58But other than that,
04:59I like everything else about the Boozers.
05:01Okay?
05:01I love the Boozer story.
05:03Yeah.
05:03There's some people who use the same science as the Boozers.
05:07Yeah?
05:08And I don't like that one as much.
05:09But I love the Boozer story.
05:11It doesn't seem like it.
05:12I love it.
05:12Like, I'm just trying to be positive.
05:14This is like a Hallmark story.
05:16It's true.
05:17Two kids born not to be basketball players,
05:20but to save the brother they never met's life.
05:23Yes.
05:24And they do.
05:25And then they also become world-class basketball players.
05:28So...
05:28What a great story.
05:29Beautiful story.
05:30Great story for the Boozers.
05:32Yeah.
05:32You
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