that s my money. you know, that s my passion, my love, to be able to give back and somebody really appreciate it and do something with it. can t buy that, man. this is a dream come true, and i m gonna tell you why. we can have endless number-one records around the world, means nothing. to be able to perform in front of the world means nothing. it just gives us the avenue to be able to do these kind of things. this is priceless. to change their lives is priceless. to change their life is priceless. harvey: i saw a wall upstairs with some of the graduates. - pitbull: mm-hm. - and what really struck me was it wasn t just, oh, so and so went to college, and that s the only person who s a success. there were people in police academies, in the military, so you re really finding things for people that fit their specific interests and not just saying, everybody should go to college. exactly. you take what you learn here and apply it to wherever you re going.
that s what i live for. that s my money. you know, that s my passion, my love, to be able to give back and somebody really appreciate it and do something with it. can t buy that, man. this is a dream come true, and i m gonna tell you why. we can have endless number-one records around the world, means nothing. to be able to perform in front of the world means nothing. it just gives us the avenue to be able to do these kind of things. this is priceless. to change their lives is priceless. to change their life is priceless. harvey: i saw a wall upstairs with some of the graduates. - pitbull: mm-hm. - and what really struck me was it wasn t just, oh, so and so went to college, and that s the only person who s a success. there were people in police academies, in the military, so you re really finding things for people that fit their specific interests and not just saying, everybody should go to college. exactly. you take what you learn here
she was worried about what people gonna say and do to me. - harvey: with good reason. - magic: with good reason, right. and elisabeth glaser convinced her that the right thing to do was to go public. and that s what we did. and we wanted to help people and get the word out. i want people to know that we re just normal people. magic: mm-hm. aw, uh-uh, you don t have to cry. cause we are normal people. okay? i think that you with this program, i feel that we ll be able to educate all your friends and everybody else. and you did and you were strong and you had a positive attitude in public. what were you like in private? you know, still thinking, am i gonna be here? um, i was, you know, looking at her more and, you know, just like, man, i don t know what s gonna happen.
that s what really gets you, you re worrying about, hey, are you gonna be here a long time or how many years do i have? you know? and so i think that consumed me the first couple years. i was dealing with a lot and also not playing basketball anymore. that was that was the game that i love. and it came to a grinding halt. yes, and not being part of the lakers anymore. so when you think about all the things i had to deal with, it was a lot on me. newscaster: once thought to affect only promiscuous homosexual males, aids is now spreading in epidemic proportions to other segments of the population. harvey: at the time, aids was viewed as a gay disease. - magic: mm-hm. - harvey: and people started saying, well, magic must be gay. there were teammates that were saying that as well. - right. - how did that impact you? well, first of all, it hurt me. you know, you knew who i was.
that s right, that s right, because it wouldn t have worked in my community. - because? - because we don t eat scones. we probably don t know what scones are. so i had to take the scones out of my starbucks, put in sweet potato pie, peach cobbler, things that resonated with the urban - red velvet cake. - red velvet cake. that s right. and then i had to change the music. we were just talking about motown. because they had elevator music. they had elevator music, so i had to put in motown, and the urban consumer went crazy. it was they loved it. harvey: you know, howard schultz talked to shaq about it, and shaq said, black people don t drink coffee. - coffee. - and so he passed. uh-huh. thanks, shaq. and so the rest is history. we built 125 stores. it was truly amazing. and we made a lot of money. harvey: you also invested in tgi fridays. - magic: mm-hm. - harvey: gotta ask you,