Name: Maurice Clarett, Cory Gregory, and John Fosco | This Past Weekend #140
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Maurice Clarett, Cory Gregory, and John Fosco | This Past Weekend #140

Today's episode is brought to you by Gray Block Pizza, and that's a great place
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He's a college football superhero and an embodiment of perseverance.
He's one-third of the Business and Biceps podcast squad, and they will be
joining us later.
It is Maurice Claret.
How long have you been out here?
I've been out here about 14 years, I guess.
So 14 years, would it be back in 2004?
Yeah, actually, I guess maybe about 2002 or 2003.
And when were you here? You lived in Los Angeles.
Yeah, January 2004.
Yeah.
January, February 2004, yeah.
Yeah.
And was that fun?
Was that a fun time in your life, or what was that like, being out here?
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.
So just for my listeners, so if we could, could you kind of, if you could,
I know this might be absolutely impossible.
Maurice Claret, could you sum up, like, kind of, like, football and some of the
Ohio State stuff,
maybe in, like, you know, about two or three minutes, or whatever you think you
can?
Yeah, for people who may not be familiar.
Well, you know, I came out just as a highly touted recruit from Running Nation.
Went to Ohio State, and the first time in history started as a running back for
Ohio State.
Went out and won a national championship within my first year.
Yeah.
A huge amount of success from a personal level and from a, you know, obviously
career level.
And in the process of doing that, I always put it in context.
I got to remember that LeBron is about a year younger than me.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
So around that time.
Yeah.
So LeBron grew up maybe 40 minutes away from me.
And this is at the height of LeBron basically going to become LeBron, you know,
in high school
when he's selling out college stadiums.
And at this time, you have, you know, 50 Cent's a new rapper.
Jay-Z's fairly new.
He had, like, the Blueprint 2 out.
And I can just remember after having so much success in watching LeBron have
his success,
I can remember just me sort of losing focus as a college kid.
Oh, I see.
So you kind of said, you kind of followed that, like, his path, even though it
wasn't
your path, maybe.
Yes.
You know, and I'm speaking, hindsight is 2020, right?
Yeah.
So I can remember after being done with the season and, you know, as an 18-year-old
kid,
you won everything in high school.
Fast forward 13 months later, you won everything in college.
All of the adults around, I don't blame this on them because everybody's
enjoying the moment.
When you're famous or popular or notarized, nobody tells you no.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
You get it all.
Everybody's just telling you yes.
And I can just remember, I can remember when 50 Cent had the In the Club song
and it came
to an audio.
Oh, the best.
Still one of the best albums.
Still one of the best albums.
Period.
Yes.
And I can just remember, you know, LeBron asking, oh, let's go up to Cleveland
State and let's
enjoy this.
And I remember Nike, Reebok, Adidas, all these guys were chasing them.
And I can just remember just enjoying that a bit too much.
And the reality of it is that I ended up getting suspended from having too many
illegal benefits.
It wasn't LeBron's fault.
Right.
You know what I'm saying?
But just doing too much.
You know, what ended up happening was, and I always say it, that was probably
the most
impactful time from an individual standpoint because that was the first time I
actually
felt like depression.
Yeah.
You know, never really went through anything from a mental standpoint.
Never felt anything adverse from a personal level outside of sports.
You know, in sports, if you have a hard time, you can, you know, watch film,
you can lift
weights, you can get in better conditioning, you can, you know, as a comedian,
you can learn
how to tell better jokes.
But from a personal standpoint, I just didn't know how to process that.
That was a tougher thing.
Yeah.
And that's an age when like the voice inside of your head starts to become like
a real
voice.
I feel like at that point, you can hear it more.
You know, and so, you know, uh, obviously I didn't realize that prior to that,
uh, from
having so much success, there was so much sex drinking, drugging, but it was
done in a
celebratory standpoint from a celebratory standpoint.
So like, you know, I'm celebrating a game or hanging out with the fellas, it
switched from, uh, having
celebrations to me masking what I really felt because I can't go play the
sports.
I can't go play the game.
I have no like fucking clue as to what's going on in my life.
And so that's kind of like where, where, where, where life like kind of really
met me
at.
And that's like a, like a gray space, you know, nobody can kind of navigate out
of this
and nobody knows what's going on.
You know what's going on.
You don't want to reveal your feelings.
And that's kind of like what really had happened with me.
And you probably can.
I mean, at that point, like you couldn't trust the media very much.
It was like, I'm sure you were probably not scared, but just directionless
maybe.
I don't know.
Yes.
So just to put context to it, uh, after I got kicked out of school, uh, there
was a
two year waiting period before I was allowed to go to the NFL.
And at that time, uh, I really thought that NFL would let me enter the draft
because, you
know, I was big enough, strong enough and everything else.
Uh, but when they didn't allow me to enter the draft, I was just kind of like
sitting two
years away from football.
So I ended up going to Vegas to, uh, watch, uh, it was, uh, it was a Roy Jones
and Antonio
Tarver fight.
I go out there and, uh, when I watch them in the house of blues and Jim Brown
was out
there, Jim Brown hits me up.
He says, yo, you know, I remember I helped you out with your, um, uh, your case
at Ohio
state.
Can you please like, you know, get away from that environment?
You just don't look like the same individual that I seen, you know, prior to
that.
And so that was the original reason for me coming out to LA.
So when I came to out to LA, you took that to heart when Jim Brown said that.
Yeah.
Because, you know, he had seen me as the, uh, the 19 year old kid who still was
wanting
to play football and everything like that.
And when he seen me at the Antonio Tarver fight, that was probably seven months
later,
eight months later, different, you different me, you know, I had partied all
night, you
know, we up to four or five in the morning, you know, you know, you know, you
know,
that look, I started one time I, I used to get, but go buy makeup, dude.
I'd be so, I never, I never wore makeup in my life, dude.
I'd be in, I'd be in a 24 hour CVS at like 5am.
Trying to get yourself together.
Asking people about bronzer and blush.
I'm just trying to look okay for a meeting in the morning.
So yeah, I feel you a hundred percent.
So he saw you and he said, uh, he, he kind of just, you know, commented and
then you
moved to Los Angeles.
Yeah.
I commented and I moved out here with the whole motivation.
To come out here and to gather myself.
And, uh, when I got out here, what I didn't realize is that, you know, he had,
he was in
North Carolina or South Carolina, wherever he was at.
And there was a period of time when I was out here by myself waiting for him to
come
back out.
Who, Jim Brown?
Jim Brown.
Yeah.
And so when I got out here, I was like, all right, you know, I'm cool.
Uh, I kind of got away from Ohio to, you know, uh, like during the process of
me getting
away, you know, I got back into the streets, I'm selling dope, I'm selling weed,
I'm
hustling.
Wow.
You know what I'm saying?
So I was full fledged into the streets and I'm full fledged away from every
thing, sports related.
I'm just all the way deep in the hood.
Right.
I separate myself.
I come out here, uh, because throughout that process also, uh, and I was
talking to
John this morning, I got almost robbed three times.
And the last time that I almost get robbed, my mother was in the house, you
know, some
guys in our bushes, uh, ended up coming outside, you know, we was in the
suburbs at the time.
So these guys ran off, you know, but that time I was like, man, I got to get
the fuck
out of here.
You know, too close to home, too close to home.
And do you think you were in those streets?
Like you think you went back into drugs and into like, or into selling that
type of environment
because there's still a level of, you probably got a, uh, a lot of street cred.
Did you?
Well, I think, like, was it just for the hustle?
Was it just for money?
Or do you think there was, because there's a, you know, there's a level you can
always have
a claim at in the streets.
I feel like that you, that's different than, you know, in the, in the world,
like in society,
like in the streets, if your cloud is a certain level, it's kind of always
there.
It's in that space.
Well, when I look back on it, um, there, there was a few things that put me in
the streets.
One, my brother had needed money because he had just got arrested, right?
He had needed money for an attorney.
The second thing that put me back into the streets is just familiar,
familiarity.
Yeah.
If I can say it right, right.
Just to feel your familiarity of how do I take care of myself?
And I think there's some sort of glorification that when you come from the hood,
um, the
machoism of selling drugs and the coolness is attractive.
Right.
So it's something still almost as cool as athletics in a way.
In a way.
And you still, you're still allowed to be a somebody, right?
Yes.
And my access to me being able to get drugs from people, uh, the drugs that I
was selling,
they, they, these people, it was easy to get to these people.
So, so, so I'm speaking from that perspective and I got to say, and also just
from being,
and just being a bit more realer, uh, I was just a dumb fuck when it came to
school.
Right.
You know what I'm saying?
So there was nothing like, you know, let me go ahead and get an education and,
you know,
football's not working out.
Let me go ahead and live my life in some academic format.
So it just wasn't there.
You just couldn't even pay attention in school.
It just wasn't your thing.
It just wasn't interesting.
Like when, when you look back on it, uh, when you grew up in an environment,
you know,
like, um, when you grew up in an environment, the only thing that you see as
being successful,
what you deem successful is guys either selling dope or the cool guys or the
athletes.
That's the only thing that you want to gravitate to as a kid.
Especially like probably growing up black in America at your age.
I mean, I remember the only successful black men I even knew growing up, uh,
were the guys
on coming to America, no joke, or the Dallas Cowboys.
When I really think about it as a child, like even, or the guy on, uh, in the
heat of the
night, uh, you know, Virgil Tibbs.
Yeah.
But see, when I think back, like that's who I, it's like, there was only a
really, yeah.
Like I remember, and I've talked about this before.
Yeah.
If I even remember watching commercials for like Disneyland or something like
that, it was always
white people.
Like there was probably, yeah.
So I can only imagine what the vision probably looked like being a young black
child, you
know?
Yeah.
So see, you just, you just put that into context.
And so you gotta, you gotta put everything in context.
You're more, more about being cool is important to you rather than doing the
right thing and
building your life at 18, 19 years old.
Cool as it.
Oh, cool as it.
Cool as it.
And so the selling of the drugs makes me, makes me cool to the women.
Right.
The selling of the drugs gets me money in my pocket to do foolish shit, to buy
champagne,
to buy liquor.
But you don't realize the habits that you're forming from this are detrimental
to you.
Yeah.
So at that point, uh, I can remember I'm out in Vegas at that time in Vegas and
Jim Brown's
like, yo, slow down.
Like, yo, like just slow down.
I can remember even, I remember at that time too, James Prince was out there.
I remember James Prince was like, yo, yo