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Final Comeback From Major League Baseballs Sam Favata Is It Worth The Gamble · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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Speaker 2: Hi, this is Sam. How are you, Sam?
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Speaker 1: I'm doing fantastic. Looking forward to sharing a conversation with
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Speaker 1: you because it really does seem like that you've got
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Speaker 1: you're tuned in. And what I mean by that is,
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Speaker 1: is that you totally understand the skips, the stumbles, the trips,
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Speaker 1: the the falls, the face plants. And here comes Sam.
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Speaker 1: And we're going, all right, we're here to learn. We're
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Speaker 1: here to learn.
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Speaker 3: I hear you, man. It's a lot of layers here.
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Speaker 3: How do you pronounce your name? Did I say right, Earl?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're absolutely right. Yeah, yeah. I just wish the
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Speaker 1: people of the Nielsen and the Arbitron days would have
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Speaker 1: done that, but they were saying Earl and Harold and
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Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. And so it's like, oh,
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Speaker 1: my goodness, man. I mean, I should have just gone
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Speaker 1: with Bob.
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Speaker 3: My legal name is Salvatore Favata, but they always call
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Speaker 3: me Sam. It's an Italian thing. It's just a nickname
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Speaker 3: for Salvatore. My grandfather was Salvatore. They call him Sam.
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Speaker 2: So it's easier.
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Speaker 1: How did you jump onto this trail? Because as I
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Speaker 1: was mentioning in the very beginning, there are so many
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Speaker 1: different positive things. Tributaries here, those that are searching right
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Speaker 1: now or seeking for peace or just seeking an answer,
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Speaker 1: you have a path here for them if they would
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Speaker 1: just slow down for a moment and pay attention.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's all about, I mean, what I've lived through.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I tell you, what doesn't kill you makes
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Speaker 3: you stronger. And the gambling was something that actually is
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Speaker 3: a disease.
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Speaker 2: It's getting worse out there.
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Speaker 3: It's basically, I mean, it's like these gambling sites and
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Speaker 3: all the gambling in Vegas and the advertising, you.
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Speaker 2: Know, bet $ 5, we'll give you $ 200 free.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's a crazy addiction where I started at
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Speaker 3: a young age, you know, gambling with my dad at
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Speaker 3: eight years old and doing the cards and then being
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Speaker 3: like a little bookie in junior high, taking guys.
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Speaker 2: Bets, you know, for 10 cents. I mean, and I
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Speaker 2: thought I was an athlete too. So it was like
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Speaker 2: a secret.
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Speaker 3: I really wasn't, you know, you know, I was a
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Speaker 3: baseball player and I was, I was a good kid.
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Speaker 3: I never make mistakes. I didn't lie or steal. And
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Speaker 3: all of a sudden, man, I tell you, I got
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Speaker 3: into a typhoon, you know, and to where it just,
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Speaker 3: it got me. And I decided a year ago to
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Speaker 3: write the book and, and tell the whole story.
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Speaker 2: Just tell the whole story.
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Speaker 3: If I can say one person from blowing their brains out,
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Speaker 3: it's worth it or going to prison or, you know, so.
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Speaker 1: Gaining that confidence to hold yourself accountable. Oh my God.
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Speaker 1: I mean, that right there is a step.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely.
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Speaker 3: I mean, especially after doing what I did, $ 32 million investors,
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Speaker 3: 200 investors, and I never– like I said, it wasn't
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Speaker 3: a thing where I felt like I'm doing something really sneaky.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to go to prison someday because of that.
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Speaker 3: I thought in a weird, irrational way that I was
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Speaker 3: going to sell the company, make $ 50 million, $ 60 million,
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Speaker 3: pay off the $ 30 million, and just go on. I
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Speaker 3: mean I was just very– plus the gambling. I thought
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Speaker 3: I could pay something back there. So I never got into.
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Speaker 2: It, the intent of it.
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Speaker 3: Was, you know what, it's just a matter of time
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Speaker 3: till I go to prison. I never had that crazy
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Speaker 3: thought till it got to where I got it.
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Speaker 2: You know, I got it and I could get out
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Speaker 2: of it. And I went to and made a deal.
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Speaker 2: They come to me. I went to them. So it
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Speaker 2: was a miracle, a miracle. I didn't have 30 years,
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Speaker 2: a miracle.
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Speaker 3: That I got 35 months, a miracle, Nathan Hawke. You
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Speaker 3: know what I'm saying? The judge was a backboard from
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Speaker 3: the Dodgers. I mean, there's a lot of divine intervention
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Speaker 3: that came with this story that is really, if you
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Speaker 3: don't believe in God, you should after this story.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, boys, that's the truth. Yeah, because you're so open
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Speaker 1: and honest about it. And the thing about it is, though,
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Speaker 1: is that you never stop climbing. And that's why I
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Speaker 1: was going to ask you, when you gave up the gambling,
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Speaker 1: did life become the gamble? And therefore, you started winning
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Speaker 1: in that game.
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Speaker 2: Well, yeah.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think good things happen even if people make
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Speaker 3: bad decisions and bad mistakes.
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Speaker 2: I believe that.
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Speaker 3: But yes, my dad told me before he passed away
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Speaker 3: in 2010, you know, he had a good ride for six,
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Speaker 3: seven innings, seven, the eighth inning.
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Speaker 2: Was really bad. Let's end up good.
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Speaker 3: Let's, let's try to get a little of your name back, uh,
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Speaker 3: do the right thing, pay your investors off.
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Speaker 2: Whatever that is.
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Speaker 3: We don't know, I don't know, whatever the amount each
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Speaker 3: you can, you can get, uh, try to pay someone
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Speaker 3: back and, and do the right thing, help people for
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Speaker 3: this horrible disease, this addiction, but it's tumbling, you know, because, uh,
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Speaker 3: I mean, I'm.
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Speaker 2: Just so sorry. I say I'm sorry to many people
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Speaker 2: every week.
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Speaker 3: So and sometimes people say my wife said, you know,
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Speaker 3: you don't have to say sorry all the time to say, well, yeah,
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Speaker 3: I am because I am absolutely crushed.
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Speaker 2: I would I would I did that. I just you know,
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Speaker 2: it ruins so much, you know, my reputation.
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Speaker 3: My family being away from my little six-year-old, seven-year-old daughter.
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Speaker 2: For 35 months.
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Speaker 3: It would have been more, though. I mean, I'm so grateful, too.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I'm so lucky. I mean, I swear to God,
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Speaker 3: I was 47 when I went to prison.
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Speaker 2: I made the deal.
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Speaker 3: I should have been out at 75 years old. You
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Speaker 3: know what I'm saying? I mean, you lose everything at
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Speaker 3: that time. Three years, I managed to still have my family.
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Speaker 3: I lost my dad in prison. I lost my grandma
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Speaker 3: in prison. But I still have my family. I still
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Speaker 3: have my wife, and I did have my daughter. We're
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Speaker 3: closer than ever, and we saw each other all the
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Speaker 3: time in prison every week.
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Speaker 2: So I'm so grateful.
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Speaker 3: I just want to get my story out to help
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Speaker 3: somebody going through this. Whatever they're doing, the college athletes
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Speaker 3: like I was, they're gambling.
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Speaker 2: Or fixing things. It's crazy.
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Speaker 3: If I could get one guy– our girl to realize,
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Speaker 3: please stop. Don't start the scam. Don't think you have
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Speaker 3: it in control. Don't open one of the apps with
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Speaker 3: your mom's credit card for a thousand bucks and make
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Speaker 3: a bet in 30 seconds.
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Speaker 2: Don't do it. Don't do it.
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Speaker 1: Please don't move. We're just getting started with Sam Favata.
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Speaker 1: The name of the book is Final Comeback. We are
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Speaker 1: back with the man who lived it, Sam Favata. Did
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Speaker 1: you have to kind of sit down with your own
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Speaker 1: self and say that you had to stop saying that
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Speaker 1: you knew what I was when you picked me up?
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Speaker 1: In other words, because that becomes an excuse for a
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Speaker 1: lot of people. Well, you knew what I was when
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Speaker 1: we met. You knew what I was. And what I
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Speaker 1: get out of your story, Sam, is that you're going,
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Speaker 1: you knew what I was, but we're not going there anymore.
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Speaker 1: In other words, you put the brakes on in a
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Speaker 1: very huge way and you wanted those around you to
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Speaker 1: have the confidence in you of saying, oh, he's really changing. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, for sure. I mean, you can talk a
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Speaker 3: good game, right? You could be bullshitting people and you know,
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Speaker 3: you can't like, you can't like yourself, man. You know,
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Speaker 3: so you realize what you did and take responsibility for
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Speaker 3: it and try to change.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to be 67 years old next month. Uh,
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Speaker 2: you know, I don't have a lot of time in
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Speaker 2: this earth.
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Speaker 3: I hope to God I have enough, but, but, uh,
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Speaker 3: you know, it's time to, you know, accountable, you know,
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Speaker 3: be accountable for what I did. I've always been accountable
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Speaker 3: what I did from the time I got in trouble
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Speaker 3: and I knew I.
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Speaker 2: Was in trouble, but you understand, but you're right. Uh, it's, uh,
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Speaker 2: a change. I'm happier with my grandkids, my wife, my.
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Speaker 3: Daughter, 20, I'm seeing that little thing, having a dinner
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Speaker 3: at Applebee's, you know what I'm saying? I mean, I
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Speaker 3: am very grateful and speaking. I love speaking based like
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Speaker 3: it's helping me too. When I'm speaking to people in
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Speaker 3: churches or whatever that is, you know what I'm saying?
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Speaker 3: It just helps me because I'm so grateful. Gratitude. I'm
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Speaker 3: telling you, it's so much of my heart. I've always
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Speaker 3: had it, but I didn't realize how much, that I really,
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Speaker 3: really have it now.
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Speaker 2: You know, it's just, it's unbelievable.
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Speaker 1: Stephen Furtick from Elevation Church said something this past week
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Speaker 1: that really opened up my eyes and, and, and, and
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Speaker 1: it really made me think of you instantly because he says, we,
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Speaker 1: we know what the, the ending was. We know there's
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Speaker 1: a beginning on the way, but we tend to forget
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Speaker 1: the in between. And I, and I, I just feel
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Speaker 1: that you understand what he meant by that, by the
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Speaker 1: in between before you start providing fruit and things for
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Speaker 1: those that are in front of you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that's a true statement.
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Speaker 3: I mean, like you said, I know how it started
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Speaker 3: and what I did, and then the crash, then the crash,
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Speaker 3: and then the comeback.
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Speaker 2: That's why the name of my book is Final Comeback.
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Speaker 3: I've had so many come from my injury in baseball
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Speaker 3: to losing my one-year-old son that died to come back.
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Speaker 3: So I know this part, the last analogy of being
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Speaker 3: a baseball player, the ninth inning is so important now.
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Speaker 2: It's the most there's no more innings, you know, ninth inning.
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Speaker 3: I got to come back and, you know, tell the story,
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Speaker 3: help people know where I came from.
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Speaker 2: Very humble for it.
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Speaker 3: You know, I'm a very lucky man. And I just
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Speaker 3: want to leave. I'm just trying to get a little
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Speaker 3: of my name back in the process. I don't know
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Speaker 3: if I ever get all of it back, but I'm
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Speaker 3: just trying to get that a little back. And tell
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Speaker 3: the story. I want no pity. I go where the
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Speaker 3: love is. I know there's haters and they're lovers and
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Speaker 3: people have supported me. Other people went the other way.
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Speaker 3: But I go like Maury Wills told me, you know,
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Speaker 3: go the corner where the love is, not the other
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Speaker 3: corner in the party where all the haters are and
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Speaker 3: the people are saying, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 2: You know, I don't need that.
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Speaker 3: I need to be supportive from people that love me, family, people.
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Speaker 3: And it makes you feel who doesn't feel better and
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Speaker 3: nice when you have support.
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Speaker 2: And I'm lucky.
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Speaker 3: I'm lucky, like you said. But, yeah, it's this last
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Speaker 3: part of my life now. Like you said, I went
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Speaker 3: through hell. And then now I'm, you know, I had
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Speaker 3: a great life early on. And then I really kind
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Speaker 3: of messed up.
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Speaker 2: It was a secret.
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Speaker 3: Nobody knew that other side of me, you know. Nobody
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Speaker 3: knew the gambling part of it. I mean, in churches,
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Speaker 3: I'm speaking for an hour. And I use the pastor's phone, 1987.
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Speaker 3: to bet $ 50, 000 on the Angels baseball team from his phone.
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Speaker 2: Nobody knew. I mean, crazy, man.
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Speaker 1: Now, did you keep a written journal or anything like that? Because,
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Speaker 1: I mean, that's one of the tough— I've been a
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Speaker 1: daily writer since July of 1994. Do I ever go
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Speaker 1: back and look at it? Not really, because to me,
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Speaker 1: it's getting rid of it out of the mind, body,
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Speaker 1: and soul. How did you really start to come to terms?
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Speaker 1: Because it had to be released from you somehow, some way.
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Speaker 3: She has all the damage I caused. I lost my
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Speaker 3: kid for three years. I saw her, but her everyday life,
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Speaker 3: she lost her daddy, my wife, my dad died without
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Speaker 3: me being, I mean, you look at all the consequences
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Speaker 3: that I caused from my actions. You just start going
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Speaker 3: and reliving that mess in your mind.
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Speaker 2: You don't want nothing to do again. I mean, it
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Speaker 2: ruined me. It actually, I mean, I'm not bullshitting anybody anymore.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it completely ruined me and my life.
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Speaker 3: And I was so lucky that God gave me a
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Speaker 3: second chance to a point where a miracle chance. So, yeah,
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's an everyday fight. I mean, you know,
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Speaker 3: you struggle with everything, but I mean, gambling is, It's
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Speaker 3: the least thing on my mind. It's the least thing
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Speaker 3: because of how much I go back to that. All
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Speaker 3: the time I wasted and all the money I lost,
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Speaker 3: for God's sake.
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Speaker 2: Oh, my God. Are you kidding me?
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Speaker 3: And the people I hurt. And you start, you know,
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Speaker 3: adding them things, five, six, seven, eight things like this.
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Speaker 3: That gets you, you know, thinking, you know, like, you
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Speaker 3: know what?
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Speaker 2: Stay positive. Stay in the right track.
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Speaker 3: You know, have a good safety net at home and
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Speaker 3: your friends and people that, that support you, you know,
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Speaker 3: you stay in that. It's a daily thing. You can't
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Speaker 3: go a week or two or, you know, you know
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Speaker 3: what I'm saying? I mean, it's just, you can't, you
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Speaker 3: can't separate because every day I have so much gratitude.
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Speaker 3: I think about every day. There's not a day.
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Speaker 2: I don't think about what I did and what I'm
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Speaker 2: doing now. You know what I'm saying? But like you said,
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Speaker 2: that's in behind us. That's behind us. I want to
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Speaker 2: go forward and tell the story.
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Speaker 1: My mom used to say all the time that there's
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Speaker 1: always somebody who writes your life for you. And then
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Speaker 1: eventually you'll meet that person who wrote your story before
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Speaker 1: you were born. And would you meet that author?
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Speaker 2: I think Scott. Yeah, there you go. There you go.
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Speaker 2: I'll give you that. I'll give you that. Yeah. No, no, no. God.
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Speaker 2: I mean, God. I mean, he is.
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Speaker 3: There's so many examples and miracles that happened in my
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Speaker 3: life that if you're not a believer and I'm not,
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Speaker 3: I don't push religion and anybody or Christianity, but I,
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Speaker 3: in my life without God, he wrote this way when
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Speaker 3: I came out, when I was playing eight years old
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Speaker 3: and Lily, he knew that I would be someday without
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Speaker 3: my dad in prison.
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Speaker 2: He knew that he would die while I was in prison.
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Speaker 2: And that was, you know what I'm saying? They didn't know. They, they,
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Speaker 2: I mean, he's the author of my book.
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Speaker 3: And I tell you one thing, I tell you, without him,
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Speaker 3: I mean, the faith that I have, I've always had faith,
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Speaker 3: but I kind of like drifted out, you know, to
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Speaker 3: justify the wrongdoings, you know.
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Speaker 4: That is.
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Speaker 3: But I still pray. You know, it's funny. People really
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Speaker 3: pray when you need something, you know, when you're really
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Speaker 3: in a bad situation. Like you said, there's no atheist
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Speaker 3: in the foxhole, you know. Right?
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's a sad thing, but we're all human beings, right?
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Speaker 2: I mean, come on. And God knows that.
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Speaker 3: All I'm saying is that when my wife looked at
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Speaker 3: me after I got the first attorney in 30 years,
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Speaker 3: and she looked at me at my house that night,
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Speaker 3: and I was just a horrible thing.
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Speaker 2: She goes, you want to run? I go, run?
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Speaker 3: I got my dad here. I can't run. And I'm thinking, no,
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Speaker 3: God will take care of this. I'm going to be
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Speaker 3: accountable for this. Something's going to happen. Not that I'm
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Speaker 3: getting out of it, but I'm saying God will write
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Speaker 3: this story.
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Speaker 2: And he did. And he still is.
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Speaker 3: I'm talking to you. I mean, it's just amazing. I'm
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Speaker 3: dead serious about my faith. And like I said, that's
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Speaker 3: my author.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Now, where do you grow from here in the way?
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Speaker 1: I know you said that you go to churches to
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Speaker 1: talk and other groups to talk. to bring that inspiration
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Speaker 1: to someone's heart so they can find that space in
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Speaker 1: their own walk forward to really kind of bring to
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Speaker 1: an end something that's been kind of caking up their
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Speaker 1: path as well. So where do you grow from here?
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Speaker 3: Well, I believe that the book is going to help
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Speaker 3: tremendously in my speaking, the.
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Speaker 2: Businesses, college groups, high school groups. I mean every person.
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Speaker 3: You don't have to be an athlete or you can
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Speaker 3: be 84 years old and have a problem with this thing,
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Speaker 3: losing all your social security money every day on your app,
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Speaker 3: your gambling app. You keep– I mean getting the story out,
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Speaker 3: the articles out, what you're doing here. It's nice having
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Speaker 3: me on your show. To get it out, I believe
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Speaker 3: you have to kind of ambush everything. you know get
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Speaker 3: it out there make it a frenzy this gambling because
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Speaker 3: there's millions of people that are promoting it every day
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Speaker 3: it's a money maker they don't give a if i'm
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Speaker 3: you know that little at the end of every advertising
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Speaker 3: our tv you know gambling call 800 440 you know
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Speaker 3: they don't care they just put it down there right
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Speaker 3: so yeah i'm saying the more i can keep on
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Speaker 3: putting it out stories podcasts where i'm working on a
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Speaker 3: couple things with a documentary and a limited series right
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Speaker 3: now i'm lucky very very very very grateful for the
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Speaker 3: opportunities but the thing keep it going Keep speaking.
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Speaker 2: Don't stop. Don't get shy.
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Speaker 3: Don't think, you know, I'm going to in five years say,
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Speaker 3: you know what, I've done enough. So the guy, I'm
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Speaker 3: going to continue to push the story. the experiences and
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Speaker 3: help anybody I can. If I could say one person,
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Speaker 3: which I think I'll do more than that, but there is,
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Speaker 3: it's a very bad problem. So yeah, every day, every
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Speaker 3: day for the, so I die, you're going to hear
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Speaker 3: from me.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I would like to see you at the customer
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Speaker 1: service desk at a grocery store where they're selling those
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Speaker 1: lottery tickets because you've got to see what I see
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Speaker 1: and the stories that I hear. And even though they
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Speaker 1: may win a thousand bucks, they look at you dead
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Speaker 1: in the eyes and they go, this is just a
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Speaker 1: down payment of what I owe.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's I know that it's the addiction. It's
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Speaker 3: that it's that I mean, it's a juices. I mean,
16:06
Speaker 3: you see people at 7-Eleven and even in Vegas when
16:09
Speaker 3: I was there, I was like that.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it was the action.
16:11
Speaker 3: My boy was getting buried and being dressed for my
16:15
Speaker 3: mom and my my wife in the mortuary. And I
16:18
Speaker 3: was outside not dealing with this right now and gambling 10, 15, 20,000
16:21
Speaker 3: on the phone. you know, and then giving back for
16:25
Speaker 3: the service.
16:26
Speaker 4: I mean, I was, it's, it's that, it's that the dopamine,
16:29
Speaker 4: you know, they say, Oh my God, I gotta, I
16:31
Speaker 4: gotta have action. I have to have, I can't deal
16:34
Speaker 4: with today unless I have action.
16:37
Speaker 3: If it's a hundred dollars or $ 1. 4 million, I bet
16:40
Speaker 3: on a hockey game for two hours. I mean, whatever
16:42
Speaker 3: that is, you know what I'm saying? It's just, it's,
16:44
Speaker 3: Oh my God, it changes your whole way of thinking.
16:48
Speaker 3: I mean, it was crazy. I mean, you're not really
16:50
Speaker 3: a good husband or a good son, but, Just because
16:52
Speaker 3: you pay for this and that and have a house
16:54
Speaker 3: and a white picket fence and a dog and you
16:57
Speaker 3: go to gymnastics to watch your five-year-old, that doesn't make
17:00
Speaker 3: you a good father. It's a time that you're there
17:03
Speaker 3: and not looking at your ticker and going to Vegas
17:06
Speaker 3: and getting in all this trouble and lying to investors
17:09
Speaker 3: and growing a company and having my good friend Steve Garvey,
17:12
Speaker 3: since I know him at 10 years old, as my spokesman.
17:14
Speaker 2: They don't know nothing.
17:15
Speaker 3: And that big secret, that lie, that devil, that horrific
17:18
Speaker 3: thing on my shoulder that I have to go through
17:21
Speaker 3: each day, wake up, shower, shave, and go out there
17:23
Speaker 3: and think I'm going to get out.
17:24
Speaker 2: Of this mess. Yeah.
17:25
Speaker 1: Wow.
17:26
Speaker 2: I don't want that for anybody.
17:28
Speaker 1: So amazing. Where can people go to find out more
17:30
Speaker 1: about you, Sam? Because 15 minutes with you is not
17:33
Speaker 1: going to be enough. I want people to really study
17:35
Speaker 1: your paragraphs and see the light at the end of
17:38
Speaker 1: their dark tunnel.
17:40
Speaker 3: Well, I have my website is Sammy Favada dot com.
17:44
Speaker 3: You know, Sammy and then my last name, F-A-V-A-T-A Favada
17:48
Speaker 3: dot com.
17:48
Speaker 2: I have a great website desire.
17:51
Speaker 3: They got it going in my message there. everything you
17:55
Speaker 3: can book me for speaking uh a pre-order as my
17:57
Speaker 3: books comes out in about three four months it'll be
17:59
Speaker 3: out it's all done it's being edited and looking for
18:01
Speaker 3: a publisher but yeah i have all the articles the
18:04
Speaker 3: media uh articles the uh the the podcasts i've been
18:08
Speaker 3: doing uh so yeah there's a lot of information on sammyfavada.com
18:13
Speaker 3: to uh if they're interested in their stories stories stories
18:16
Speaker 3: stories and i'm gonna keep seeing it i don't care
18:17
Speaker 3: if i I repeat certain stories, right? Right.
18:22
Speaker 2: I mean, it's normal.
18:22
Speaker 3: There's other ones that slip into that. I remember as
18:25
Speaker 3: I'm talking to her.
18:27
Speaker 2: So, yeah. So, yeah.
18:28
Speaker 1: Yeah.
18:28
Speaker 3: I mean, I, anything like that was, you know, it
18:31
Speaker 3: makes me feel in the comments, you know, not by looking,
18:34
Speaker 3: stare at the comments, but it's nice. To see them
18:36
Speaker 3: once in a while when I see, you know, oh,
18:38
Speaker 3: thank you.
18:38
Speaker 2: I don't even want to touch gambling because of your story.
18:41
Speaker 3: Oh, my.
18:41
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? I mean, that's just, I'm
18:44
Speaker 2: quitting today.
18:45
Speaker 3: And hopefully they're, because really, if you talk to someone,
18:47
Speaker 3: and I always say, hey, I have an email on there, too,
18:50
Speaker 3: you know, to my PR. I have a public relations
18:52
Speaker 3: team now. I've been doing fantastic. If you talk to
18:55
Speaker 3: Alana and Marley, they're fantastic, man. Great people.
18:59
Speaker 2: They're passionate. And I never thought I'd ever have a
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Speaker 2: PR team in my life. I mean, two girls. I mean,
19:04
Speaker 2: it's fantastic. I mean, really. And it doesn't feed my
19:07
Speaker 2: ego at all.
19:08
Speaker 3: It's just another channel to get me out there and
19:11
Speaker 3: other platforms like me and you.
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Speaker 2: I was so excited about being you today.
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Speaker 1: Well, you've got to come back to this show anytime
19:18
Speaker 1: in the future. The closer and closer we get, I mean,
19:20
Speaker 1: my door is going to be wide open for you
19:22
Speaker 1: so we can generate some talk. And then when that
19:23
Speaker 1: baby is released, then my God, it's going to walk
19:26
Speaker 1: out the door with them.
19:27
Speaker 3: I appreciate your time, but I appreciate you taking the
19:30
Speaker 3: time to talk to me.
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Speaker 1: You bet. You be brilliant today.
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Speaker 2: Okay, sir. Oh, you too. And I'll be in touch.
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Speaker 2: Have a great Thanksgiving, Christmas. God bless.