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How The Sportshour Became One Leg Up With Alex Garrett- 15th Anniversary Special Featuring Asher Allweiss! · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Darren. Fifteen years ago today, this
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  Speaker 1: little media conglomerate was started on WQMC Radio, the Voice
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  Speaker 1: of Queen's College.
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  Speaker 2: The views and opinions expressed by the DJs of the
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  Speaker 2: following program do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions
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  Speaker 2: of WQMC Radio, the Voice of Queen's College. And good
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  Speaker 2: afternoon of opinions and.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to this special presentation of the Sports Hour with
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  Speaker 1: Alex Garrett.
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  Speaker 3: I am Alex S.
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  Speaker 1: Garrett, and I am honored to be in the studio
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  Speaker 1: with Mets and Islander broadcaster Howie Rose.
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  Speaker 4: I'll be here with Bob Wolf, longtime broadcaster, Hall of
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  Speaker 4: Fame broadcaster for both baseball and basketball and many sports,
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  Speaker 4: and he's been my mentor for so many years. Thank
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  Speaker 4: you for joining us tonight.
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  Speaker 3: It's just delight to be with you, Alexander.
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  Speaker 1: About a month after, about a month after Queen's College
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  Speaker 1: gave me that radio show at WQMC Radio, one of
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  Speaker 1: the first big guests I got was Bernie Williams who
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  Speaker 1: came to Queen's College to perform not with baseball, bat
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  Speaker 1: and glove, but with his guitar. What was like playing
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  Speaker 1: it in center field an opening day of the new
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  Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium.
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  Speaker 5: It was a very surreal experience for me. I would
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  Speaker 5: have hoped that I was in uniform with a glove on,
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  Speaker 5: you know it's playing center field, but lost time to
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  Speaker 5: tell us. You know, you can only borrow your ability
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  Speaker 5: for a little time. So I think the next best
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  Speaker 5: thing was to go out there and play my tribute
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  Speaker 5: to the game.
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  Speaker 3: To the fans that were there.
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  Speaker 5: I think it was very fitting, so I feel really
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  Speaker 5: good about it.
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  Speaker 1: The first big loss of this media, the first big
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  Speaker 1: loss after getting on internet radio, was a loss of
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  Speaker 1: George Steinberner. And years later Rene Gron talked about that relationship.
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  Speaker 2: Mister s.
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  Speaker 1: Had family.
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  Speaker 6: You actually helped to educate George Steinbrenner. He found out
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  Speaker 6: that you were stronger than most. You felt like, hey,
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  Speaker 6: I can be here, I can do here. I don't
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  Speaker 6: have to be ashamed that I only have one leg.
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  Speaker 6: And I cried right now because you may have given
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  Speaker 6: him his strongest education.
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  Speaker 1: You could see all these videos at alex GNYC won,
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  Speaker 1: but I did get a chance to talk with Jim Abbott,
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  Speaker 1: the one arm pitcher who threw a no hitter for
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees, about that very no hitter when he visited
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  Speaker 1: Queen's College and there was no one again to no
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  Speaker 1: hinder or something that really could me. And I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: people are still love you.
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  Speaker 3: They do. It's amazing, you know. It's just a game
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  Speaker 3: that came out of the blue. September fourth, nineteen ninety three,
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  Speaker 3: he went out there a Yankee stadium and in nine
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  Speaker 3: twenty seven.
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  Speaker 1: Out later they have even got gents to catch up
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  Speaker 1: with Carmelo Anthony when he on his basketball camp to
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  Speaker 1: Queen's College.
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  Speaker 3: Well, this is the first year. This is the first
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  Speaker 3: year we was at It was at Queens.
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  Speaker 7: Last year we got at Saint John's and it's actually
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  Speaker 7: a different setting, and I mean, you can just setting.
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  Speaker 3: It's more a little.
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  Speaker 1: Bit more intimate than it was then.
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  Speaker 3: It was at Saint John's.
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  Speaker 7: We had a lot more court, you know, I must
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  Speaker 7: say Saint John's were kind of separated a little bit
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  Speaker 7: into two gyms just when it's on in one gym.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 7: So hopefully we can, you know, figure it out and
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  Speaker 7: come back next year.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, buddy, Alexander Garrett, you're with Queen's calling dead looks
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  Speaker 1: up here with men's hen basketball coach Kirk Pepinochis Kirk.
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  Speaker 7: You had it your seventeenth season.
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  Speaker 8: As night to day coach, and then we had the Piershuckey.
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  Speaker 8: Piers Huckey hold need the McDonald McDonell heads Shullers god
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  Speaker 8: one thousand points, one thousand career points for Khalil McDonald
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  Speaker 8: meg him the twenty fifth player in the school's history
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  Speaker 8: to achieve that on our hold up one.
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  Speaker 1: Five years ago today, I walked this long here at
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  Speaker 1: Queen's College for the final time as it was commencement
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  Speaker 1: five years ago today. So just a word of thanks
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  Speaker 1: to everybody who's made five year anniversary possible. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: to Mom, to Vic and and my father. You guys
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  Speaker 1: push me even after college and I appreciate that push
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  Speaker 1: and that love every day. So thank you to them.
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  Speaker 1: Here at Queen's, Rob Mike Sport and Tom Emberley Alestra
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  Speaker 1: basically all mentors in the athletics department open to see
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  Speaker 1: them now, So thank you to them on this fifth anniversary.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Warren, Keenan Vishaal, Khalil, my friends from softball, all
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  Speaker 1: the athletes, thank you also for always being there and
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  Speaker 1: being part of this journey. It's also hard to believe that.
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  Speaker 1: I we walked off this campus into a radio station
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  Speaker 1: board opping. So Frankie Morano, Kevin McCollough, Matt Symbol, We're
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  Speaker 1: coming together here on one to eleven Broadway made Alex.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah right, you gotta understand you're a new Jackie.
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  Speaker 9: Actually got to give credit to Alex Garrett there, did
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  Speaker 9: Alex find that sketue?
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  Speaker 6: Alex is our young engineer, sitting bro.
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  Speaker 3: We are honored to have you as part of the team,
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  Speaker 3: and you do a good job for us.
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  Speaker 9: Little Alex Alex Todd, you know Alex, he's by works huhne, Alex,
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  Speaker 9: thank you for being here behind the pleasures.
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  Speaker 1: How is your day today?
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  Speaker 10: Congratulations on your ten year anniversary.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 10: Thanks to Alex Garrett and that podcast people at the station.
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  Speaker 10: I forwarded it to some people at the station and Christina.
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  Speaker 10: They said, there's something here, we like it. So Alex
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  Speaker 10: Garrett is single handedly responsible.
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  Speaker 1: And in twenty twenty two, to keep this thing special,
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  Speaker 1: I decided to reinvent the wheel and actually retire the
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  Speaker 1: Sports Hour with Alex Garrett. I never thought I'd say
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  Speaker 1: goodbye to the baby that got me to really start
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  Speaker 1: in the podcasting world, in the online radio world. But
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  Speaker 1: I said, why call it the sports hour when really
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  Speaker 1: I'm shining a spotlight and those in sports. So welcome
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  Speaker 1: to Alex Garrett's Sports Spotlight and why not my new
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  Speaker 1: friend Brian Hoak from MLB dot Com, the Yankee Beat reporter.
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  Speaker 1: Wellmere with the gentleman of the New York Yankees, Brian
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  Speaker 1: cast from Alright, I'm you and Nesta Cortes starting PITTI
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  Speaker 1: to the Yankees. I'm here with us Waldo Caverra's Waldo course.
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  Speaker 1: Well thanks for coming to Just in Time Baseball. All right,
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  Speaker 1: I'm here in Major League mad and Jake Kosak, two
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  Speaker 1: of the biggest Yankee in flying back up a little
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  Speaker 1: while now. So what's it like being back up here?
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  Speaker 3: And what do you episode? What are you working on?
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  Speaker 1: You know, just just really having fun and and you know,
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  Speaker 1: swinging the bat, you know, working on the deafense. It's it's,
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  Speaker 1: you know, working on all of it. It's it can
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  Speaker 1: all be improved. I think for the days just stopped
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  Speaker 1: working the day.
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  Speaker 11: Stop playing, so you just keep working on on your
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  Speaker 11: old game, trying to approve it all.
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  Speaker 3: All I am here, what are you brat? So I
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  Speaker 3: believe I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for ruining the network today, awesome sports man,
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  Speaker 1: especially the new Sports Fast. You got to be here
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  Speaker 1: today to break out the sports talk again with my
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  Speaker 1: colleague and weekly co host Lou Tourminello. It's Tourmentello's take.
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  Speaker 11: Well talk to believe how long ago we met, Alex
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  Speaker 11: and I have such great memories of seeing you and
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  Speaker 11: your dad at SHA Stadium and Yankee Stadium and uh
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  Speaker 11: City Feeld in more recent years, and we were reminiscing
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  Speaker 11: last night. You're thirty two now. We met when you
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  Speaker 11: were around seven at the Viscarti Center out of Long Island,
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  Speaker 11: so it's been about a quarter of a century. I've
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  Speaker 11: enjoyed following your life and career. So congratulations on all
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  Speaker 11: of your success and thanks for having.
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  Speaker 1: Me Onki McPherson and Man you went from Bleacher Creature
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  Speaker 1: to on air radio in New York City.
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  Speaker 9: Good what's been accessed for you so far?
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  Speaker 3: Can't wait. It's an honor, it's a privilege.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna have a good time.
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  Speaker 9: Awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining me, Kat Howsure, the Man bro and Legory.
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  Speaker 1: What's the story you might hear on WWF an and
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  Speaker 1: she's a longtime friend and she's finally joining on this podcast,
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  Speaker 1: and thank you for joining me. It's been a long
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  Speaker 1: friendship here for thirteen years. Glad to finally have you
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  Speaker 1: on here.
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  Speaker 5: I remember, Alex, when you came up to the US
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  Speaker 5: Open Tennis.
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  Speaker 1: Championship and helped me out with as like an intern.
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  Speaker 2: And boy, we've known each other for a long time
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  Speaker 2: and you've always been.
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  Speaker 1: All right, I'm here on the Alex Scatt podcast. Now
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  Speaker 1: we're at the Mark sass Memorial Softball game with the
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  Speaker 1: one and only Mark Arne. And Mark, I gotta say
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  Speaker 1: thank you because fifteen years ago, was it that long ago?
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  Speaker 1: That was she you took me under your wing at
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  Speaker 1: the US Open, and here we are an interview on
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  Speaker 1: my podcast.
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  Speaker 12: So thank you and we have come full CIRCLEO man, there.
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  Speaker 1: You go and hopefully a longer conversation down the road.
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  Speaker 12: And one of these days.
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  Speaker 3: Those fifteen years back, when we first started in college,
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  Speaker 3: it was a whole different vibe we were, we were
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  Speaker 3: different people. But the idea of something you know, of
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  Speaker 3: this continuing when you first started it, I was like, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: it's awesome, Like it's a great idea. It's fun everyone's
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  Speaker 3: talking about doing a podcast, doing this, doing that, just
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  Speaker 3: like you know, a lot of people like, yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to do a podcast, and then it just fizzles
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  Speaker 3: out after time. But you've been You've stuck to it.
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  Speaker 3: You've been doing it for fifteen years and doing it well.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, listening to you on a speaker and
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  Speaker 3: Botify and Spotify like all like you're freaking all over
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  Speaker 3: the place.
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  Speaker 9: I think you could you bait something on your wing.
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  Speaker 1: But I first heard oh you're.
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  Speaker 2: Welcoming and your pop up at the Barkley and there
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  Speaker 2: and here.
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  Speaker 12: You are wonderful, Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: Well keep rolling, and then, my friends, is fifteen years
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  Speaker 1: of media. I hope you enjoyed all three reels. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm reminded of this song by Billy Joel.
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  Speaker 12: Today, I am your.
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  Speaker 2: Champion may one yard Hearts, but I know the game.
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  Speaker 1: You forget my name, and I won't be here in
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  Speaker 1: another year if I don't stay on the jots back
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  Speaker 1: with a very special friend Usher always after this all right, Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm here with Asher always my buddy for now fifteen years.
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe it was basically freshman year two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and nine and right off the bat. You were at
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  Speaker 1: the Yanks game last night? How energetically similar to two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and nine to this fel right now? I feel
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  Speaker 1: kind of a similar energy.
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  Speaker 3: Here, dude. It was incredible the game last night. Loud,
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  Speaker 3: everyone was people were standing half the time, cheering, jeering
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  Speaker 3: at you know, Bow Naylor and Josh Naylor and everything
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  Speaker 3: with all of that with rocking the baby from Mosa
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  Speaker 3: two years ago. But no, it was the game was incredible.
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  Speaker 3: The atmosphere was incredible. It was so much fun. I
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  Speaker 3: haven't had that much fun in the game in a minute,
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  Speaker 3: but the atmosphere, yeah, it was just the atmosphere was crazy.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think the fans were waiting for that
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  Speaker 1: offense to explode. Let's be honest, it's been a very
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  Speaker 1: tough offensive stretch here for the end.
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  Speaker 3: Also, remember like, let's be let's talk about the explosive offense.
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  Speaker 3: Though we had what five four or five like pass
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  Speaker 3: balls or wild pitches last night.
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  Speaker 1: It was well and judge, you know, he's hitting, but
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  Speaker 1: he's doing that running on the base pass That so
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  Speaker 1: huge too. He's got his game together, yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 1: not in a homer yet, but at least he's getting
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  Speaker 1: in the action in one way or another, and that's huge.
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  Speaker 3: No, I definitely feel the vibe of the team is
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  Speaker 3: a lot more positive. People like people are moving people.
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  Speaker 3: The ability to play small ball douts if you're relying
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  Speaker 3: on the home run doesn't hurt that Sodo, you know,
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  Speaker 3: snuck one over the wall. And then and then Stanton
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  Speaker 3: hit one one hundred and fourteen miles an hour. Thank
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  Speaker 3: god it hit the wall in the bullpen. It didn't
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  Speaker 3: hit a person because that person probably wouldn't have been
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  Speaker 3: able to walk home. But yeah, you know, we're not
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  Speaker 3: relying on the home run. It's just adding to it.
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  Speaker 3: That's definitely.
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  Speaker 1: Well you just said they're so Kiyoshi not relying on
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  Speaker 1: the home run, because this team, when they don't hit
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  Speaker 1: homers normally don't win.
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  Speaker 3: And yet here they are. And then yeah, at nowhere
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  Speaker 3: a rodin too.
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  Speaker 1: Middle of the summer loup or end of the sum
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  Speaker 1: end of the summer, begin in fall. Luke Weavers now
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  Speaker 1: got this role and he is the closer. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the funny thing is Chapman was supposed to be the closer,
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  Speaker 1: but he never felt secure. I've never felt the secure No,
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  Speaker 1: dare I say since Mariano, am I right to say that.
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  Speaker 3: I agree wholeheartedly with that sentiment. I was talking to
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  Speaker 3: somebody about this and at the game yesterday, I have
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  Speaker 3: not felt this strongly that a pitcher is going to
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  Speaker 3: come into the game, that a closer is going to
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  Speaker 3: come into the game and we're actually going to close
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  Speaker 3: it out since Mo, you know, we had who we had,
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  Speaker 3: Since we've had Chapman, we've had Robertson, we've had no
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  Speaker 3: play homes. You know, we had Dylan Betensis. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we were kind of experimenting for the last fifteen years
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  Speaker 3: or something like that since Mo retired, and you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we we were spoiled having him, That's for certain. We
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  Speaker 3: were definitely spoil let's be honest, one of the best relievers,
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  Speaker 3: one of the best closer in my opinion, I think
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  Speaker 3: statistically in the game ever. You know, we we were
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  Speaker 3: spoiled for what He joined the team in ninety four,
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  Speaker 3: was it ninety four to ninety five, someone.
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  Speaker 1: Like that, right right around there.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, and then we had him until was it
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  Speaker 3: twenty ten, right with twenty actually thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: He ended up pitching three more few more years after
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  Speaker 1: winning that World Series on nine saving it out.
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  Speaker 3: He pitched till thirteen thirteen, which is this thirteen, and.
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  Speaker 1: Then Jana retired a year later. No, it's it's just
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  Speaker 1: Weaver and now Boone relying on him for five outs.
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  Speaker 1: That's tremendous respect right there, and tremendous trust.
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  Speaker 3: He's yet to give up a run this entire postseason.
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  Speaker 1: Knock on wood, right, well, thank god.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's I think it's what's seven? I think I
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  Speaker 3: think the number was the last seventeen times he's come
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  Speaker 3: in and he's pitched. Was it seventeen times he's come
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  Speaker 3: in here, last seventeen innings something like that, he hasn't
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  Speaker 3: given up a run. So it's it's incredible to watch,
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  Speaker 3: and it's comforting, and it makes you feel like we
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  Speaker 3: could bring a we could bring a lead into into
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  Speaker 3: the eighth, into the ninth and you know, be able
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  Speaker 3: to you know, to bring it home. So it definitely
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  Speaker 3: helps for certain you know, while with we were dealing
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  Speaker 3: with play homes. Don't get me wrong, I love to
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  Speaker 3: play homes for a bit, but then over the this
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  Speaker 3: year it was just like, couldn't trust it. It was
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  Speaker 3: too scary. But then now he comes in, he comes
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  Speaker 3: in last night and the seventh and pitches masterfully and
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  Speaker 3: then you have who else came in? Rich Hill came
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  Speaker 3: in and he got the whole interference situation whatever. Like, honestly,
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  Speaker 3: I think it was the right call. Crappy, crappy play
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  Speaker 3: by Rochio, but of you know, the right place. Let's
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  Speaker 3: be honest. He did what he had to do to
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  Speaker 3: get that extra base. And you know, if I think
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  Speaker 3: if we had a healthy Rizzo at first base, that
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  Speaker 3: play would have been made. That ground ball that knuck through,
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  Speaker 3: it would have been would have been made. But when
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  Speaker 3: a guy's playing with what three fingers on his right hand,
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  Speaker 3: whatever the however many figures are still broken or whatever, like,
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  Speaker 3: you got to give a guy a break. He also
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  Speaker 3: played well coming in.
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  Speaker 1: And he's swinging better. I think that's so important to
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  Speaker 1: highlighting he's been hitting the ball a little bit. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's fitting that I have you on fifteen
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  Speaker 1: years later because we were on campus and I just
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  Speaker 1: was running around campus when I started the show, saying
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  Speaker 1: listen to this, listen that you remember it well and
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  Speaker 1: you were one of the first big supporters of the
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  Speaker 1: Sports Hour, and I really appreciate that fifteen years later
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  Speaker 1: we could talk about it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a freshman year, a freshman year in college, but.
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  Speaker 1: Fifteen years ago, I'm feeling the energy again like I
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  Speaker 1: did when I started the show, and that gives me life.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this gives me life for the show.
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  Speaker 3: Dude. It's crazy because you think about it. Remember back
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  Speaker 3: in but econ an accounting class when we first met,
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  Speaker 3: back fifteen two thousand. Night bit makes me feel old.
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  Speaker 3: That's thirty four years old. You know those fifteen years
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  Speaker 3: back when we first started in college. It was a
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  Speaker 3: whole different vibe. We were different people. But yeah, idea
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  Speaker 3: of something you know, of this continuing. When you first
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  Speaker 3: started it, I was like, Okay, it's awesome, Like it's
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  Speaker 3: a great idea. It's fun. Everyone's talking about doing a podcast,
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: doing this, doing that, and just like you know, a
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: lot of people like, yeah, I'm going to do a
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  Speaker 3: podcast and then it just fizzles out after time. But
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  Speaker 3: you've been you've stuck to it. You've been doing it
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  Speaker 3: for fifteen years and doing it well. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: listening to you on a spreaker and uh botify and
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: I heard botify, like all like you're freaking all over
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: the place. Now it's you know, I'm just waiting for
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: that day where we really start to blow up and
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: get to that next level. That would be you know,
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: that's awesome. But you're you You see this slow and
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: steady climb. It's you know, you're going up into the
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: right doesn't matter how fast it's taking, doesn't matter how
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: slow it's taking, the fact that it's going. You know,
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: all you want to do is just keep keep going
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: up to the right things. Just keep getting better and better.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: It's all. That's all matters.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: I love sort of doing these where are they now?
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Features with different alumni I know from the years. So
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: what are you up to now? Ashily? I know we
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: talked about a while back, but what are you.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: Up to these days? Been running a company called dark
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: Horse Capital Group where it's a commercial and investment mortgage brokerage.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: So been been doing that now for shoots. It's twenty
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: one been running this company so November twenty twenty one,
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: so three years and changed almost four. So yeah, you know,
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: it's definitely ways away, very different from what I was
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: thinking about doing when I was in college. I wanted
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: to I don't know what I wanted to, couldn't figure
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: that out. Change my majors so many times, and now
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: you have my MBA and everything in real estate and
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: finance and focusing on commercial and investment real estate on
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: the financing aspect throughout the country. So it's very different,
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: you know, very very big swing from where I once was.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: That's for certain.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Well, and I know that you do these mixers. I
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: haven't heard about them recently, but you are a big
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: networking guy. Did you feel that vibe when you were
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: at Queen's College or were you so focused on school
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: the networking thing just came naturally afterward.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: Let's be honest. I've probably was never really focused on school.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: It was just the side. It was in the side
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: of being on campus all the time. You know, I've
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: always been that's just my personality. Just talking to people,
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: getting into people and networking just in a different sense
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: of the word, because you know, you're a big networker. Also,
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: it's just a different way of looking at and meeting people,
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: talking to people, caring about what they do, who they are,
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: you know, what they do for work, their business, their life,
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: and just developing relationships. Networking is just about developing relationships
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: with people and caring about who they are, what they
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: do and you know, from my personal perspective is running
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: my business and trying to grow my business, it's how
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: could I help? How could I do business with them?
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: How could I help them grow? What they do? And
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: they make money, I make money. We work together, we build,
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: you know, build relationships, develop business between each other. So
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: I've always been That's always been me. It's always been relationship,
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: just talking to people, getting you know, I could my mother.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: My mother said I can have a good conversation with
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: a with a brick wall, you know, So developing relationships
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: that way and cultivating relationships actually just what networking is about.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: So switching from hey, let's be friends, let's watch sports,
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: is play games, just do this, do that, hang out
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: to yeah, let's still do all those things. You know,
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: I never stopped, as you said, going to the Yankee
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: game issue. I never stopped caring about sports. I still
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: play on a regular basis with friends and other people.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: I go to sporting events. But then also now just
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: turning that around and adding the business aspect to it,
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: adding the career aspect to it, and trying to work
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: with people, develop with people, and you know, yes, of
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: course help grow my business and help grow everything. But
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: you know, it's the whole you give and you get,
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: so you know, you give to get. You know, there's
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: a there's one person, very big and uh in the
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: networking world. His saying is givers game. So the whole
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: idea is you give, and you go out of your
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: way to help people, and you go out of your
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: way without expecting anything in return. You do what you
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: have to do to help people grow, to help put
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: people into connections that are helpful to them and work
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: well for them. And then yeah, the anticipation is that
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: people look at you, you develop a good reputation, you
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: develop a good name for yourself, and you know, whether
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: it be karma, whether it be you.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: Know, is very real.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: I believe in that. But exactly let me let me
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: let me tell you this because sometimes I like to
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: interview those CEOs and everything like that, and you've got
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: your own company, but you know, it sounds like you
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: have helping people have one leg up in their lives.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: And I think that's so important to highlight today.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Dude, that's for certain, you know, doing my best to
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: to help people that are less fortunate. I mean, you're
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: in terms of the charity wise, but then also just
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: in general business wise. You know everyone needs help, you know,
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: that's that's the thing. You know, at the end of
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: the day, you can't go about everything by yourself. When
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: you try to go about everything by yourself, you realize
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: it's so much more difficult. You know, you could only
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: go so far by yourself. You go further with a group,
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: you go further together.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Let's about longevity real quick, because obviously you've been at
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: this for a while. I'm at this for a while.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: How do we encourage others to keep this longevity? If
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: they have a project, just keep going with that project
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: and never go We never know where it leads to, right, dude.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: It is so coming from somebody like me who and
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: you for that matter, When you start something it's not easy,
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: or maybe you get like a quick win and everything's great,
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: but then you get kicked in the teeth and things
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: go bad. Things happen, and you know you want to quit.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: You want to quit, and you're like, I'm done. Things
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: aren't working out, I'm not making money, I'm not having fun,
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: I'm burnt out, I'm not enjoying myself. And it's just
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: it's just it's not going right, and you're just not
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: having it, but like and then you look at oh,
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: these people who are successful, they must have had an
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: easier No, people aren't successful usually because they had it easier. Yeah,
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: you have some people like that, but that, in my opinion,
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: is the outlier. Most people that are success and get
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: to the place that they wanted to get to and
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: that they desire to get to, or get to the
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: place where they are right now, where they are what
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: you've used success As they went through hell, they just
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: didn't give up. At the end of the day. If
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: you don't stop and you don't give up, and you
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: keep busting your ass and you keep doing the right
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: things and you keep working the right way, everything works out.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: Like I almost gave up. You know, people like, oh,
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: you know, you should never give up. And you're sitting
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: there and you're like, oh, these people who are in
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: these industries, you know they you know, they never had
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: the inkling of giving up. They never thought of giving up.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: I call it bullshit. You know it's it gets so
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: difficult sometimes and you could be in such a difficult
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: place of the CEO me running my own company. I
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: don't have anybody that works for me or with me.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: I have a few people that you know kind of
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: work for me, but know one that I really would
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: rely on to that extent. So it's a lonely place.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: Sometimes it's not easy. You're sitting there. Your failures are
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: all yours and your successes are all yours. So at
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: the end of the day, yeah, it feels great when
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: you feel success in some aspect of the words. But
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: when you hit failure and you're sitting there and you're
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: looking yourself in the mirror and it's you you, it's tough.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: It gets it's not easy. It gets very difficult. So
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: if you don't stop and you keep working and you
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: keep that positive mindset and you keep the compound effect
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: is not trying to have these huge winds, but small
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: winds stacked on each other. Everything adds up and at
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: the end of the day, that's what matters. It's about
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: not giving up and just piling through, just getting it done.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: You know what's interesting as you're talking about this, is
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: you're talking about the idea of handling the note right,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: handling hearing no And I feel like, as a media
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: guy trying to get press credentials, you hear know a
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: lot and I'm sure for you sometimes you hear the
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: no when you're trying to oh whatever you got going on? Yeah,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: but it's just been moving forward. How do you bounce
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: back from that no and turning into a yes.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: So I used to play a game with myself and
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: I had I learned this from one of my old
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: bosses back years ago. When you get that no, you're
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: just one no closer to it yes. So you think
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: about it this way. You have to take your KPIs.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: You have to sit and you'll be like, Okay, every
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: single time I'm selling this one thing that's sales, how
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: many people did I have to talk to to get
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: to that person? Okay? So I had to speak to
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: this amount of people to be able to get that
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: initial yes that they're interested. Then once they're interested, you
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: get that next yes with for me, the documentation moving on.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: So there are many different steps in our business. It's
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: not just you get the yes and bang, you're done,
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: have a good day. It's you have to get multiple
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: yeses to get to that close. So when you get
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: to that close, how many First of all, how many
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: people did you have to talk to at the beginning
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: to get that initial yes? And then for every step,
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: how many more people. How many people did it dwindled
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: down to be able to get that close. So it's
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: a numbers game. At the end of the day, everything
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: comes down to numbers. You sit there and you're like, Okay,
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: I had to speak to one hundred people to get
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: that initial yes. So out of every hundred people, I
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: got five yeses. And out of those five yes, is
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: one of them closed. So you're telling me that I
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: have to talk to one hundred people to get one closed. Okay,
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: So how many people did I speak to? So out
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: of those one hundred people, ninety nine people are going
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: to say no right to get to that one yes.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: So if you let one no get to you, even
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: if it's a harsh no, even if it's a hard no,
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: if you let that one note get to you and
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: derail you, you're never going to get to that one
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: yes because you need to hear that one no ninety
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: ninety times to be able to get to that one yes.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: So it's it's the mindset of you know, yes, it's
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: not easy, but playing that game with yourself sometimes if
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: you're having a bad day and you're like, okay, these
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: people are saying no or they're you know, saying fuck
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: no or whatever it is, and you're really not having
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: a good day. You know, you're sitting there and you're like, okay,
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: that's what. So you sit there, you're playing that number
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: of game. Okay, that's one. How can I get to
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: that next one? You just got to keep going to
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: the next one. That's why every relationship matters, because the
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: ability when you have a develop a relationship with somebody
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: through what I do through networking or just through relationship
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: building in general, the ability to take that number of
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: one hundred people that you have to talk to, let's say,
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: probably can say to get to that one yes, that
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: number when it's a warm introduction and you have that
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: relationship with somebody, whether you have the relationship with the
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: client themselves or someone of the client trusts, that makes
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: it easier for you to then get through that initial
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: process and that one hundred will dwindle down sometimes even ten,
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: So now you're talking to ten people. Of those ten people,
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: you'll get five yeses, so you'll get fifty percent instead
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: of one percent or five percent.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: So in other words, don't cast a big net or
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: cast a big net.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: Well, so that's the thing is you have to diversify,
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: like everyone talks about, you know, you want to be
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: smart about how you do what you do, or at
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: least for what I do. I have multiple different streams
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: and multiple different ways that I try to find clients.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: I have, you know, the wide net of just being
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: here doing my marketing, my emails, the website and all
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: that stuff that we'll get some certain types of direct marketing,
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: which you'll make it a little warmer of an introduction,
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: and then LinkedIn, which is very huge for me and
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: what I do. I'm very big on LinkedIn. With that,
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: it's a little bit of a warmer introduction that someone
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: knows me, sees my profile, sees who I am, sees
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: my background, see my face, maybe follows me and sees
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: my posts and see everything over there. They get to
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: know me a little bit. So, whether it be LinkedIn
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: or even Instagram or Facebook, where with social media you
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: have the different ability to connect with somebody without directly connecting.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: To the which is totally fifteen years ago. I feel
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: like fifteen years ago social media wasn't the way it
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: was right.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: I mean eighteen years ago in two thousand and nine,
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: I had a Facebook and a Twitter that I looked
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: at periodically. I still barely look at Twitter X whatever.
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: I'm still honestly ninety percent of the time that I'm
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: on it, I'm looking at your staff.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because I'm tagging on everything.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: That's fine, But yeah, No, it's just so the ability
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: of casting a wide net. It's it's the ability of
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: knowing where your people are that you want to connect
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: to and then developing it from there. And then you know,
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: by developing those relationships, you have those people that'll be
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: easier to connect with and harder to connect with. You
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: just diversify it, and it gives you the ability to
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: create that longevity that we were talking about, because it's
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: not just about closing one deal that doesn't make your life.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: You have to have consistency. You have to have the
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: ability to continue and do and hit those numbers in
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: the matrix that you want to hit on a regular basis.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: And if you're not hitting them, you're not making money,
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: you're not closing, you're not there's no longevity there because
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: you're gone unless you're just doing everything for free. And
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: that's no fun.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: No, that's not all right. I gotta ask you about
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: this because I only knew you fifteen years ago as
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: college buddy of mine. We didn't really talk about LFE
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: outside of campus really, I felt, but were you working,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, were you working through the college years or what?
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Tell us about that?
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah? So jeez. So I my first job was actually
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: when I was I was like ten years old. I
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: used to shovel driveways when it was snowing. I used
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: to push the lawnmower and mow people's lawns, rake leaves.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: I was babysitting. When I was in high school. I
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: was always ustling. I always trying to make money, trying
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: to do something in that regard. But when it comes
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: to college, that's really when I turned it up. I
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: was working my first years in college. I was working
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: at a bowling alley. I've always loved bowling before, as
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: you know, but like I really got into bowling. I
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: was like twenty twenty one when I really got into bowling.
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: I was working in a bowling alley. I was bowling
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: forty games a week. I was, you know, So I
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: was working in Syosset in a bowling alley, and then
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: I left there and I worked in Verizon. I was
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: selling phones in a in Garden City, in the store
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: for shoot three years. So throughout the entirety of college
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: I worked. I was working at Verizon basically from twenty
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: ten through twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen. Yeah, it was like
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: twenty It was twenty ten ish to like twenty thirteen,
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: twenty fourteen. I graduated, actually graduated Queen's College in August
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: July August twenty fourteen, technically because I had to finish
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: the summer semester change my major five times. So yeah,
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: I worked at Verizon for like three and a half
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: years or something like that it was. And then after
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: that I had other jobs that I was working. But yes,
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: throughout college, I was taking four or five six classes
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: a semester, and I was working thirty forty fifty hours
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: a week.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: And you were very involved with HILLEL and all those
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: other organizations as well. Tell us how being involved on
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: campus help build your character in addition to all his
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: work you were so.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: So going back to we were saying about networking and
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: just character development personally and just in general, like going
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: out and meeting people and being able to talk to
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: people in situations maybe you don't know anybody walking into
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: a room where you maybe know one person, two people,
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: or even noble, you know, being able to talk to
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: people's developed relationships and learn. I wasn't that I was
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: involved with Hillel, but not like in the I never
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: really got into leadership until after college, you know, just
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: in general. That just wasn't It wasn't something I viewed
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: myself as. I didn't view myself as a leader honestly
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: until recently, until over the last like five or six years.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you why I say that though, because
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: I remember I zoomed through the Q cafe and there
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: you are holding court with everybody. I'm like this kid's
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: you know, big man on campus.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: Guy to guy, you know, because that's just my personality.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: I have a you know, I'm not quiet, I'm loud,
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: I'm there. So the ability to talk to people has
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: always been my thing. But I never I never viewed
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: myself as a leader, which is something that I wish
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: I would have realized when I was younger and I
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: would have learnt. Is not that you know, I have
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: the personality that could be a leader, but to cultivate
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: the right way of doing things and learning how to
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: be a better leader. And it's not about leading and
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: telling people what to do and how to do it.
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: But it's about whether it be leading by example or
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: leading by doing something within the team that it's not
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: oh hey, you know, it's me, come look at me.
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: That's what I always view a leader as. I always
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: view a leader as, oh hey, look at me. But
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: now when you look at a leader, it's not you boasting.
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: It's not you talking about how you know, big of
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: a man you are, big of a woman you are.
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: It's about doing the right thing for people around you.
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: And you know you've seen you and I send memes
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: to each other million times a day. You know you've
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: seen those memes. You have. A boss is the one
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: standing behind when everybody's pulling with the whip, and then
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: you have the leader is the one in front and
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: working and pulling along with everybody. So it's working as
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: a team, working with people. You know, a leader is
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: part of the team. A leader is not over and
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: above the team. So that was a huge learning curve
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: for me over the last like I said, five six,
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: seven years, how big.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: At the company staff wise? Is it just you or
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: how many people you got working with you?
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: So it's just me in terms of like for the
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: most part, however, I do have a few like business development,
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: you know ten ninety nine salespeople kind of thing that
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: worked for me, I think, not including my marketing team.
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: Like my marketing team, I outsourced it to this incredible
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: marketing company. CEO has been Oh. CEO has changed everything
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: for me. I spent so much money last year on
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: marketing that just went completely wrong, and I brought him in.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: He and I had become really close over the last
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: six months, and he revamped everything. He's doing even more,
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: like going into twenty twenty five, we're coming up with
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: a whole plan tech.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: Well, I love your Monday motivation posts. I don't know
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: if those are going to keep going.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I haven't done those in a while. I was
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: with a different marketing group that I was working with,
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: but that's something I was thinking about bringing back with
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: THEO and putting something together like that. But yeah, it's
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: it's a small company right now. It's really honestly just
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: me with a few people as like consultants and outsourced.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: But yeah, it's growing, hopefully over the next couple hopefully
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: over the next year, so I'm probably going to bring
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: a couple of people on as I continue to grow
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: and get to that position. That I want to get.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: You know, I think the recession scared a lot of
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: people from starting their own business. So how were you,
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: literally years after the recession able to say, you know what,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna have that entrepreneurial spirit. And quite frankly, I
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: feel like people on the ground have it more than
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: the government has it for the citizens. I mean, you
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: and I are have that spirit more than you know,
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: the White House right now specifically, So how do you
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: inspire others to get that business going? Because there's still
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: more of an unal spirit needed.
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: I think very much. So I think both yes and no.
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: So going back to what I said before, to be
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: an entrepreneur, to run your own thing, it's a whole
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: different mentality. You know, You're like, I don't have a salary.
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: The only the person that pays my salary is the
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: same person you know that wipes my ass. It's me.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: You know, it's a horrible analogy, but it's true. Like, sure,
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: I don't I don't make money if I don't close.
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: So like that's the thing is a lot of people
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: are used to, you know, having the nine to five
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: job or whatever it is, where you have a salary,
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: you have a known income, I don't you know. So
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: the reason why I go to answer your other question,
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: the reason why I opened up my company and I
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: dove into this. Actually I opened up a different company
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: doing the same exact thing with a business partner. You know.
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: It sadly didn't end up working out. He's a great guy,
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: wish him the best. But I opened up a company
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: with him back in June of twenty twenty. So right
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: in the height of everything, I was working for a
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: different group. We were doing business financing and small balance
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: real estate financing. We were doing incredible. One of my
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: he's still one of my good friends to today's name
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: is Brian Hunt. Incredible guy. So I was running vizdev
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: for his company. He opened it up. It was literally
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: meet him and our buddy Kim, the three of us,
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: three dudes sitting at his kitchen table at first and
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: building this company back in September of October of twenty nineteen.
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: And it was incredible. It was one of those was
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: like an entrepreneurial It was the three of us. We
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: had that entrepreneurial mindset. We were working at it. It
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: was one of those stories. We were doing incredible. It
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: was a slow burn at the beginning. But that's going
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: back to what I was saying before September, October, November,
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: it wasn't great. We didn't start really jumping until November
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: December of twenty nineteen, and then January of twenty twenty
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: we started really seeing the fruits of our labor grow
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: to it's it's a compound effect. We're working on it,
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: we're working on it, we're working on it, and then
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: everything just started going. And then February we have an
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: incredible year. We beat like literally every a year. We
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: had incredible months. So in January we did X. February
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: we did two X. We doubled what we did in
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: January in month of February. And then in March of
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: twenty twenty, before the world shut down, we were set
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: to or me by myself with my team on the
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: business development side, we were set to triple the entire
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: output of the company in March, like a third of
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: the way through March, we're set, we're setting a trajectory.
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: I'm going to triple the entire output of the company.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: But then the sales side, separate from us, they were
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: also on pace to have a banner month as well.
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: And then the world shut down, nothing closed, we didn't
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: do anything. I'm literally sitting there with Brian over the
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: next couple of months and we're just like, what the
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: hell are we going to do? You know, I've had
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: my real estate license for a while I was running,
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: I was doing real estate sales and stuff like that.
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: I was in the middle of getting my MBA, and
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: I I was focusing on like the real estate and
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: the finance side, and that was when I really I
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: was working on a couple of commercial and investment real
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: estate deals and I was falling in love with that side.
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: And my friend of mine and my ex business partner,
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: he turns to me, He's like, why don't we just
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: open up our own company and keep doing this? Because
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: we were working on a couple of projects together. And
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: so I had a conversation with Brian and I'm like,
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: I wasn't leaving Brian like telling him, you know, Sea,
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: I don't want to be a like we're still really
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: good friends, and I sent him business. He sends me business.
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: To this day. We still talked, you know, a couple
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: of times a week usually, but I ended up leaving
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: from him because I'm like, if I'm going to try
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: and do my own things. If I'm going to try
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: and build something that's mine, what better time to do
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: it when the world is shut down, when everything is
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: there's so much unknown, and people are running and people
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: don't know what to do. So whenever there's there's a saying,
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: whenever there's blood in the street, you go first one.
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: You know, that's when that's when you buy. You know,
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: that's when you go when things are going wrong, when
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: everything is going to shit and you're sitting there, what
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: am I going to do? You have to commit? So
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: that's my thing. Also, I won one thing with me
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: Every year, I try to have one phrase, one saying
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: that I live by. This year has been commit this year.
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: It's literally been for me to commit to my dream,
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: commit to this business, commit to what I want to do.
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: Because when we opened up that original company in twenty twenty,
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: I was learning I do about this industry to get
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: myself into trouble. But I wasn't that I'm I wasn't
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: that you know, experience. I didn't know that much. Thankfully
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: I had some good mentors, some good teachers, and through
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: business development and networking, I met some really awesome people
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: who I was able to talk to, ask questions and
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: learn from.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: By the way, I'm going to post this podcast that
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: we did back during the pandemic when we first talked
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: about this opening. I think we did like a grand
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: opening kind of podcast for you.
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: I remember that, yeah, right around and then I remember
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: that that was Yeah, it was from my that was
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: from my study.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, And we did that and I got
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: to post that for people to have a reference for us.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: So the point is we're both alumni, but we both
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: have this arc of success that we're working on each
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: other too. You know, we're working it out together too,
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: which I like. And when you impart wisdom to folks
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: like myself, it was still kind of like not trading
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: the waters, but just working at this podcast almost every
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: day and you're still impart of that wisdom fifteen years
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: old or what's that like for you to do that
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: for your friends and your clients. I mean, you got
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: a lot of wisdom to share.
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: Well. So I don't view myself as somebody who is
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: you know this, you know big. I don't think people
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: look up to me in that way. That's that's not
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: who I don't feel that way. I don't feel like
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: I'm imparting wisdom, but like there's certain things, yeah, certain things,
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: I know, certain things I'm confident. But going back to
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: we were saying, also, you know, will to answer your
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: question about working together and basically feeling like that, and
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: then you know, I'm working with a few with my
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: buddy THEO, he's running my marketing. He also opened up
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: his company a few years a handful of years ago.
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: So like to have people that you feel like are
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: in the same situation as you. You know that you're
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: working a lot. You know, yeah, we're not working together,
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: but we're working alongside. We're going similar trajectories. We're working,
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: we have similar mindsets, we have similar dreams of what
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: we want to be, where we want to be, how
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: we want to be, and what type of person we
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: want to be. It's kind of like to be able
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: to do my part, to feel like I'm helping and
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: working with somebody, and if you if someone has any questions,
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: I need someone to talk to, has just needs a shoulder,
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: just needs a sounding board, just like to talk about something,
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: or you know, you know, you were saying, like, oh,
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: imparting wisdom. If there's something that I feel that you
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: feel like I have that I can give to you,
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: like please, you know, that's just take it, like, let
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: me help you, let me give you know, let me
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: because I don't view myself as being you know, that smart,
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: or being anyone's mentor or being anything all that special.
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: You know, I'm still grinding, I'm still learning. I'm not
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: I'm nowhere near where I plan on being or where
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: I want to be. I'm better than where I was,
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: that's for certain. I look back and I'm better than
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: where I was, but I'm nowhere near where I want
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: to be. And I think that's the biggest part, is
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: not losing that hunger and seeing the people around you
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: and not being oh, I'm going to be better. It's
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: we're going to be better. So it's someone like you.
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: You know, you're one of my closest friends for the
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: last fifteen years. You know, whatever I can do to
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: help whoever I can put you around, wherever I could,
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: whatever I can do that is helpful to you, My buddy,
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: Like I said, my buddy THEO, my buddy Andrew who's
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: running who's an executive director. One of the other events
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: that I've thrown for this waterproofing company, they're waterproofing, exciting whatever.
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: They're a big construction company and in the city and likes.
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: He's one of their executive directors, he's running their sales team.
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: He's he and I've become really close Brian, Like I
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: was telling, like, those group of people you know a
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: guy in other words, you know, yeah, you want to
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: know a guy because you want to have the right
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: group of people around you that they want to win,
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: and they want you to win, and you want them
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: to win. So you want to be surrounded by those
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: people who will bust their ass for you and with you,
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: but not at your detriment. They will do their best
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: to help lift you up if you need and you
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: will do your best also to help lift them up
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: if they need so well.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: Of course, one of the goals, one of the goals
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: down the road is still get the show sponsored. So
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: I know we've been talks about just you know, reaching
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: out to people and seeing if they're interested, and I
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: appreciate that support also us.
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: Honestly, at the end of the day, all all you
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: need is one once once you get to that point
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: where you're like, so I'm trying to build an investment fund.
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: Once I get one investor to join into my fund
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: and to buy into me, buy into my partner Rebecca
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: on this deal, and buy into everything. It makes it
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: so much easier for other people to see the value
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: because everyone always is afraid to be the first one.
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: So actually, if you think about it, a little bit
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: of a little bit of a scripture, so in the
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: Bible when the Jews are leaving Egypt and an exodus,
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: so no one wanted to go into the water. No
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: one wanted to be the first one to step into
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: the red sea. No one was too afraid because they weren't.
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: And this one guy went in and not only did
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: he go in, he went all the way in, so
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: they said the water went over his head. Then the
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: water split. So you just need that one person to
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: make that leap and to work with you, and then
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: everything is revealed and everyone will So it's it's just
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: that one step and all you need is one Yes,
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: all you need is one person to find value in you,
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: and then sky's the limit.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: But I think it's pretty cool that we both have
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: our own companies off the ground and running. Even if
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: that were way about one investor, you know, it's like
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: we're off the ground running.
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: Anyway somewhere brother, exactly right.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: Well, Aneshie, this has been really special. Fifteen years later,
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: I'm still glad to have you on the anniversary because
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: who do I turn to every time I'm like applying
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: to something, it's awesome? You do I turn to every
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: time I get approved for something? It's awesy? So this
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: is very fitny to have you on today.
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: Oh wait, you're probably one of those people that I
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: talked to the most, probably one of the time five
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: people that I text and talking about a regular basis.
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: So you know, I look forward I sincerely look forward
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: to doing this fifteen years from now and doing thirty years.
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: You know it's going to be and hopefully in thirty
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: years we're going to be you know, something that we
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: both can couldn't even fathom.
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: It is going to be happening one Yankee or met
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: player at a time. For me, that's kind of how
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: I view you know, you got to get those person
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: over there.
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: All you like, all you need is that one yes.
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: All you need is you know, that one person to
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: say yes, that one player to be on. You got that,
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: uh the interview with Nestor a little bit ago. You
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: got to see Waldo Cabrera. Yeah, like you got some
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: good Who is that guy that you that you did that.
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: Quick impromptu with like Terry Bradshaw.
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: A my Bradshaw, Like you just you just got to
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: keep grinding. You know. On the other side of hard
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: work is success. You just got to keep working at
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: it and you can't give up. But you know, the
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: word no is just okay, maybe not this way, but
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: another way. If you don't give up and you keep working,
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: you're gonna do.
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: You feel like everything's working in the background that we
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: don't see. I have that approach also, is like all right,
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: maybe not now, but down the road it will happen.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: Things are working in the background that we don't even see.
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: And I do believe that's because God's got that wheel
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: in the sky turning for us.
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: So if we saw everything that was going on for
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: our benefit or for our detriment, it would be a
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: totally different story. But we don't. So you look back
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: at everything, like for me, what I'm doing right now,
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: commercial investment, real estate, landing, Like I wasn't thinking about
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: doing this fifteen years ago. I wanted to be I
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: don't even know what I wanted to be. I wanted
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: to be an agent. I was thinking about like being, uh,
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: being a talent agent or something like that. I don't know.
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: I had no more because you're you're in the sports
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: world man.
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: That I was watching. I was watching Entourage. I wanted
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: to be already cold, like come on, but you know
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: now I'm doing this. And everything in life happens for
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: a reason. You know, everything the butterfly, the butterfly effect.
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: Everything happens in a certain way at its time. And
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: maybe you didn't succeed at X, because if you succeeded
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: at that something, that whatever. There's always a rhyme or
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: reason for everything. And we don't know. It's not our
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: job to know why everything happens. We are you know,
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: at the end of the day red God's mercy that
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: he is the one who controls the world. And you know,
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: we're sitting here and we're doing what we can to
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  Speaker 3: do what we think is best. But we also have
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  Speaker 3: to learn that we don't know what is best.
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  Speaker 1: And spreading positivity, which I feel like that show fifteen
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: years ago was trying to do while giving a sports
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: try to give a little positivity on the campus of
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: Queen's College, and I think I think we're working on that.
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: One last thing you mentioned diversity, and you know, people
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: have kind of chided me for having five thousand different podcasts,
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: but I do believe having diversity like that, with the adapting,
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: with the sports, with the news, it's sellable. That's kind
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: of why I do that. Okay, each feature could be marketable.
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  Speaker 1: Am I wrong in that approach?
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  Speaker 3: I don't think so. If you keep it completely separate,
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: then it makes sense because the people that are going
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: to want to listen to the political side will listen
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: to the politics. People that want to listen to sports
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: will listen to sports. But if one person is like, oh,
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: well he's talking about sports and I don't give a
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: crap about that, it's not going to work. But if
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: you're on top of everything, and you're because also if
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: you think about it from jumping a little ahead, also,
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  Speaker 3: if you think about it from a from an advertising
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  Speaker 3: point of view, you're going to have certain advertisers that
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: are going to want to advertise for politics, certain advertisers
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: that are going to want to advertise for sports, like
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: you have with fanatics and those guys. You know, they're
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: not going to want to do politics, but they do sports.
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: You know, so having too many is one thing, but
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: having niche that are doing that, you're doing it right,
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: it's worthwhile. It could work, It could work nicely in
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: your benefit if it if it's done correctly, and if
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: it's not, you know, you're not doing three things thirty
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  Speaker 3: three point three percent each. If you're doing three things
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  Speaker 3: at one hundred percent each, that's doable. But if you're
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: just going to do each one at thirty three percent each,
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: you're better off just focusing you all into one. That's
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: kind of what got me into doing what I'm doing
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: is because I was kind of doing this, kind of
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: doing that, kind of doing that a few years ago,
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: and it was just like, if I'm going to be
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: the best at something and be successful, I need to
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: focus my energies for what I was doing in one direction,
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: and for you focusing your energies in this case, as
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: long as you're putting the right energy into each one
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: and you're working on all of them, I don't think
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: it's a bad idea.
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: Well, I will tell you we're at the one hundred
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: and nine ninth episode of adapting, so this is going
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: to be two hundreds because your story is adaptability. How
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: you've been able to adapt from one niche to the
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: next and succeed. I mean you're successful. You've been closing
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: half a million to million dollar. I'm like, this guy
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: is blocking it right now. And if people want your
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: help though and your support, even in the real estate
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: world or whatever, how can they reach you?
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: Honestly, I make a joke, I'm one of the easiest
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: doc people out there because all you got to do
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: is Google my name and you'll find my information. You
• 52:16
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  Speaker 3: at Dark Horsecapitolgroup dot com. Or you could always shoot
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  Speaker 3: me text my phone numbers out there somewhere. I'm not
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: going to put it up because I don't need it
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: out there anymore. But yeah, you know, shoot me an email,
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  Speaker 3: reach out to the company, look me up on LinkedIn,
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  Speaker 3: Asher Asher all wife A s ah g E R
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  Speaker 3: underscore ash er A s h E R. Love to help, love,
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  Speaker 3: to connect people, and if anyone needs advice on something
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: and they think I'm the right person to go to
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  Speaker 3: for whatever reason, I'd loved out well.
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  Speaker 1: You are a man of wisdom and a good dude.
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: So thanks for joining me as always and especially on
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: the daylight today.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much anytime, brother, That's what I'm here for,
• 53:19
  Speaker 3: and I love it.
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: Hopefully love me as well, and we will do this
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: again down the road.
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: I know it. Hell yeah, I look forward to it.
• 53:27
  Speaker 12: Thank you for listening, Thank you to Asher for joining,
• 53:30
  Speaker 12: and thank you all listening to the fifteenth anniversary special
• 53:35
  Speaker 12: about the Sports Hour became one Leg Up in a
• 53:38
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