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Here’s to One Leg Up On Wisdom in 2025! 1-22-25 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett. All right, well, here are
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  Speaker 1: on one leg up with Alex Garrett. There's so much
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  Speaker 1: to get to. We have a new Yankees Hall of
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  Speaker 1: Famerceci Sabathia and former Yankee eg Row who will go
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  Speaker 1: in as a Mariner. We've got the Jets hiring Aaron Glenn.
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  Speaker 1: We've got some news from Washington, but before we get
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  Speaker 1: to any of that, and some great interviews to get
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  Speaker 1: to this week. But before we get to any of that,
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  Speaker 1: I just want to explain to you how special this
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  Speaker 1: week always is the five days between January seventeenth and
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  Speaker 1: January twenty first, because, and though we weren't on yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: I have to make this known. I've always enjoyed celebrating
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  Speaker 1: my stepdad vis birthday on the seventeenth of January, and
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  Speaker 1: then just a few days later, my dad, my Pops,
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  Speaker 1: John Garrett's birthday on January twenty first, and for many
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  Speaker 1: years it was a beautiful few days where we get
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  Speaker 1: to celebrate both from one side with Vic and then
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  Speaker 1: the other side with my dad. And I couldn't let
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  Speaker 1: another show go by without mentioning that, yes, I'm very
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  Speaker 1: thankful to have my stepdad to keep calling on his birthday.
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  Speaker 1: And I do miss being able to visit and call
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  Speaker 1: my dad on his birthday Jurny twenty first, because, as
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  Speaker 1: you know, he did pass away almost two years ago now,
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  Speaker 1: and you know those this weekend and the time between
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  Speaker 1: my stepdad Vic's birthday and my pop's birthday was reflective
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  Speaker 1: and it made me think about how exciting it was
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  Speaker 1: to celebrate everybody in that one span of time. And now,
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  Speaker 1: even though my Pop's not here, we still celebrate him, right,
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  Speaker 1: We still get to shout him out on his birthday,
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  Speaker 1: and now we call it a heavenly birthday, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: But it was just a really special few days. And
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  Speaker 1: one thing about my family, my mom, my dad, Vic,
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  Speaker 1: and my pops and my grandmother DEDI of course, is
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  Speaker 1: they all come to me with their wisdom and their
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  Speaker 1: care and their strong, strong advice. So it's no wonder
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  Speaker 1: that I ended yesterday with a visit from a wild
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  Speaker 1: creature I've never seen before in real life, and Owl
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  Speaker 1: was up above my head basically on one of the
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  Speaker 1: nearby trees. And I truly believe on my dad's birthday
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  Speaker 1: that was him and my grandmother all in one coming
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  Speaker 1: to say hello, and to say this year is going
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  Speaker 1: to be very special and fortuitous because owls are interesting.
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  Speaker 1: I never thought they'd stay and sort of wait for
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  Speaker 1: you to get a picture of them, but this one did.
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  Speaker 1: And I even not challenge it, but I even was
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  Speaker 1: a little risky. I put the flash on my iPhone
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  Speaker 1: to see if it would show any of the color
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  Speaker 1: of the owl. But it basically it took its silhouette
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  Speaker 1: and even with the flash, it stayed through it. It
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  Speaker 1: was like ready for its photo shoot. And even though
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  Speaker 1: it was sixteen degrees last night, I felt very strongly
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  Speaker 1: to get that picture because it was the first time
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  Speaker 1: I'd ever seen an owl. Firstly, but it was remarkable,
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  Speaker 1: remarkable that this owl had visited on the day of
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  Speaker 1: my dad's birthday. It would have been his I get
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  Speaker 1: my math right eighty seventh yesterday. So I love that
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  Speaker 1: my pups and my grandmother are watching over me every
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  Speaker 1: day and watching over my stepdad and mom victim mom
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  Speaker 1: every day. And of course it was also around the
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  Speaker 1: time we lost my Grandmam out that anniversary is five years,
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  Speaker 1: which I can't believe. So I mean she was involved
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  Speaker 1: with that too, because she was very much involved with
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  Speaker 1: all of our lives, and as I talk about it,
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  Speaker 1: I think she was there to say hello and that
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  Speaker 1: she's along with us and my sister Abby on this journey.
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  Speaker 1: And it all came to me in the shape of
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  Speaker 1: an app an owl. So thank you God for saying
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  Speaker 1: that owl, and thank you to my dad, my Pops,
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  Speaker 1: my Grandma's for coming to check in and let me
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  Speaker 1: know that it's gonna be a great year. It's only
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  Speaker 1: January twenty second. We've got eleven months more to make
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  Speaker 1: this a great year. And if that owl did not
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  Speaker 1: mean something, I don't know. I think it did. I
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  Speaker 1: think it certainly did. And I can break down the
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  Speaker 1: wisdom that all of these family have shared. But I
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  Speaker 1: thought about this today. My Pops often lectured me with
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  Speaker 1: his wisdom, and that was never an easy lecture. So
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  Speaker 1: I turned to my mom and my stepdad for not
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  Speaker 1: only their wisdom, but they're soothing kind of advice, their
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  Speaker 1: warm advice. And now as I look back and think
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  Speaker 1: of it now, I'm so glad I have my mom
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  Speaker 1: and Vic to give me their wisdom along the way.
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  Speaker 1: And I listen intently a little more maybe them when
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  Speaker 1: my Pops was around, because the dynamic was looking to
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  Speaker 1: them for that soothing kind of wisdom, I guess you
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  Speaker 1: would say. But in the end, that owl represents that
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  Speaker 1: they all are have all been wise in their advice
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  Speaker 1: to me on this journey, and I'm so thankful for that,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm so apprecia of that, and I love them all.
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  Speaker 1: And for those who have gone before us, we can't
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  Speaker 1: stop thinking about you. We know you're with us every
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  Speaker 1: day and we love and appreciate you. And the wisdom
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  Speaker 1: I can share today is enjoy your loved ones while
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  Speaker 1: they're here. I Spend every minute you can with them,
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  Speaker 1: so that wisdom can be soaked in and passed along
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  Speaker 1: to you as you grow up and get further in
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  Speaker 1: your journey in life. So that's the wisdom I can
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  Speaker 1: share today. And I truly believe between my grandmother and
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  Speaker 1: my dad, my pops and mom, they've all had one
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  Speaker 1: leg up on wisdom and that owl was a symbolization
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  Speaker 1: of it. And so here's to a year of wisdom
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  Speaker 1: on one leg up with Alex Garrett.