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S1 Ep31 | Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens: THE MAYOR'S CUP CHAMPION??? · The Guuuzan Show

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_01: How's the golf spin coming along?
• 0:07
  SPEAKER_02: Hey, that's gotta be going right here.
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_01: All right, guys, welcome back to another episode of the Goozman Show.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_01: I'm your host, Brad Gazan.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_01: As always, sat next to me, Joe Freihoffer.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_01: We have a very special guest with us today as we are on location here at Chastain Park Golf Course at the Mayor's Cup, and none other than the mayor himself, Andre Dickens.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_01: Sir, thank you so much for joining us on the show.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you for having me.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_02: I'm excited that we're out here at Chastain Park.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_02: This is an amazing golf course.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_02: So uh it's gonna be a great day.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_01: Well, we're excited to obviously play some play some golf uh ahead.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I I think the the weather's gonna be perfect for us.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_01: How uh how excited are you for for the day ahead and and how's the golf swing coming along?
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I'm excited for the day ahead because a lot of people are gonna be out here playing golf, having fun, companies, organizations, and it's all for scholarships.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_02: It's all to raise money for the young people in our city so they can go to college.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_02: And so each year we do this, we raise the funds, we have a whole lot of fun, everybody gets to be all competitive, you know.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_02: Guys are uh, you know, trying to one up one another.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_02: And they get right, right, right.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_02: And uh, you know, guys have been talking trash for the last few weeks about what teams are gonna be the best, you know, all that kind of stuff.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_02: I love it.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_02: Get that going.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and the the benefit is, you know, we raise money and people love this golf course, so it's a great day.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_01: I love it, I love it.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_01: And we're gonna touch on that, that scholarship program because I know it's so important to the city of Atlanta and something that's near and dear to your heart.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_01: But I want to go back to this past summer.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_01: Obviously, we we hosted FIFA, we were the best host city throughout the World Cup.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_01: The city of Atlanta turned up absolutely fantastic from everyone involved.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, but what when you're hosting an event like that, such as the FIFA World Cup, what does that mean to you as the mayor to then see the success uh of how great the summer was?
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it is like super exciting to know that your city's gonna be on the world stage, that people are everywhere are gonna be either coming here or watching us on TV.
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_02: You know, each time you watch a match, it says what city is it's playing at.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_02: You see it on the signs, you can uh hear the commentators saying, hey, we're in Atlanta for this match, and you know somebody on another part of the world that may have never been to Atlanta is like, man, that place looks cool.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_02: The fans are rocking.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_02: Look at that skyline.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_02: All right, I gotta get there.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_02: So, you know, on one hand, it's just really the excitement of showcasing our city and really having the world think about us.
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_02: The other side of it is the hard work and the nervousness about everything that's gotta get done, everything that's gotta go well, every piece of this that's gotta be coordinated so that the matches happen, people get in, people fly in, people take the train in, everybody's safe, everybody's having a good time, everything just goes perfect.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_02: I got two phones, I got camera systems, I got, you know, I'm walking around just like trying to be friendly to everybody, but I got stuff in the back of my mind.
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_02: So it's like the host of a big party at your house.
• 3:10
  unknown: You know?
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_01: It's enjoyable, but I'm sure a little stressful.
• 3:13
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, a little stressful.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_01: It's enjoyable though.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_01: But I mean, everyone I spoke to spoke nothing but high praise for the city and whether it was leaving locally from their house down to the stadium, people that were coming into the city absolutely crushed it.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_01: So thank you for every everything that you did as well as the city of Atlanta.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_02: And and we were like, you know, enthusiastic when they said we were the best host city.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_02: Yep.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_02: The best host stadium, you know, Mercedes-Benz Stadium is just beautiful.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_02: You can't you can't get much better than that.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_02: And and it showed.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_02: Everybody said we were the best.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_02: We were the best host city.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_02: We had the most fans at fan fest.
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_02: People were just having a ball.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_02: And then like locals were like, wait a minute, it looks cool down there.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_02: I was gonna I was gonna avoid being in the city because I thought it was gonna be crazy and traffic, and they were like, I gotta get a piece of the action.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_02: So people all over the metro were coming downtown.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_00: Mary Dickens, if we go into the the Spotify rap, let's say, of the World Cup and of Mercedes-Benz Stadium, we're talking 544,000 fans that attended.
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure you've already got these numbers as well.
• 4:12
  SPEAKER_00: 1.4 million food and beverage items that were served during that World Cup.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_00: And then everybody's saying Atlanta's a soccer city, right?
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_00: We knew it from this guy's time of playing for the future, too, with NWSL.
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_00: What does that say about ATL and the craving for the world's game right here in our backyard?
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, Atlanta is a sports town.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_02: We are a soccer city.
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  SPEAKER_02: We have really defined ourselves as such, and people have agreed with us.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_02: The world came to Atlanta and they saw that this place loves soccer.
• 4:41
  SPEAKER_02: It had an enthusiastic fan base, and then we were having watch parties all around the metro Atlanta area.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_02: So if you couldn't make it to downtown or you couldn't go to fan fest, people were watching all over the city, all over the metro.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_02: We had big screens up in various parks.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_02: We also had all the bars and pubs had it.
• 5:00
  SPEAKER_02: Um Atlanta United gear was on full display, right?
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_02: Because if you know, you know, you might have worn USA jersey on one day, but you go into another match the next day, what are you gonna wear?
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_02: You're gonna wear your local stuff.
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_02: You're gonna wear your Atlanta United gear.
• 5:13
  SPEAKER_02: So Atlanta United was all out there, everybody's like loving on our club uh in Atlanta.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_02: And man, it was a great feeling.
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_02: And and the fans now know the rules, they understand the game because once you see that many matches, you know, locally on a big screen, and you know the oohs and ahs, you know, you start like, okay, you know, I and then, you know, we have the headquarters of the National Federation here.
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_02: The the U.S.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_02: Federation is right here in Atlanta.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_02: So I think we're gonna be seeing a lot of tots grow up to be teens that play soccer, go on to be professionals that play soccer.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_01: I love it, I love it.
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_01: Just continuing to grow the world's game.
• 5:50
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, so we're obviously here on the golf course.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_01: We touched on it earlier about the scholarship program.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_01: Tell us about it and in terms of how it continues to impact the city, but also the youth of the city.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you know, we raise a lot of money to be able to help people go to college, and that's the mayor's youth scholarship program.
• 6:07
  SPEAKER_02: Um, the businesses, the philanthropy saying, hey, we want to help you out with that.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_02: And so we make sure they have a good time.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_02: We do golf, we have a race, you know, a 5K, we do a few events because you know, you want to make sure people have fun that make them want to come out and do this stuff to give the money, but they know that this is for a cause.
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_02: And man, this makes a big difference in students' lives.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_02: You know, you know, the college tuition has gone up a whole lot every single year.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_02: It gets more and more and more expensive uh at the various colleges and universities across the nation.
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_02: The local kids are trying are trying to go to college and we want them to go so they can come back here and work in Atlanta and really be the future.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_02: But if they can't afford it, then they either don't go to college or they have to keep a second job while they're in college, which really might take away from their studies.
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_02: So this helps them tremendously.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_02: We were able to help hundreds of students last year just from the golf uh tournament, and we plan to do the same this year.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_02: So they get about four thousand dollars a year, so it's two thousand in each semester.
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_02: You know, a c uh uh that that could be uh the the difference between them staying at home or uh having to take out a huge loan or what have you.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_02: And everybody isn't even loan eligible if you don't have families that have the uh background to be able to demonstrate that they can pay it back.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_02: So we step in with funds that people really, really need.
• 7:27
  SPEAKER_02: And ours our funds are flexible.
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_02: So if you already have a scholarship, but uh you still need an extra two thousand dollars, three thousand dollars, our money just comes in and it goes wherever you need it.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_02: It can go to housing, it can go to campus, it can go to books, it can go to you know, whatever.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_02: And so our program is really helpful for kids in need.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_01: I'd love that.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_01: And you continue to invest in in the kids and and invest in in the future, right?
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_01: Because kids are our future, and you know, we're we're here at Chastain Park where you know, again, you know, the uh the building and construction of a new gymnasium.
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know, how important are are you sports for kids as they continue to to grow and and as they understand what Atlanta is as as a whole, but then to be able to have the resources such as this new gym here at NYO.
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_01: What what what are what does that platform give kids in in the city of Atlanta?
• 8:17
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we we continue to grow and we continue to have more kids and we want those kids to be active in sports.
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_02: It teaches them you know conflict resolution, it teaches them teamwork, it sets their mind towards a goal, it gets them off of the devices and cell phones, they get out and play.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_02: So we're building a new gym right here.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_02: You don't want to be in a city that doesn't have construction going on.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_02: That's a dying city.
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_02: So you see, we're we're having this golf course, we're doing this interview, and right in the background, there's folks working on a beautiful gym.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_02: We got a new parking garage going up to be able to support all this activity here.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_02: But the kids are why we do all this work because the young people they need outlets to get their energy out.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_02: They need to learn these skills so that they can have fun.
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_02: That camaraderie is very good for them in the workplace and in business and in the classroom.
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_02: Uh so we see kids that have um great after-school programs and great uh athletic programs, they excel in academics.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_02: They are uh committed, they're disciplined, they're focused.
• 9:18
  SPEAKER_02: And so we want to keep them busy in whether it's golf, whether it's tennis, whether it's basketball, um, you know, all the above.
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_02: So this is an important investment.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_02: And you know, the kids, everything from you know, summer jobs after school to you know fun camps and stuff, to uh getting ready for scholarships for college.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_00: On that vein, too, first off, thank you for the GA100 event we had with you a couple weeks back.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_00: We met up, of course, at the Andrew and Walter uh Young Family YMCA right there, seeing all those kids come out, right?
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_00: Seeing them with a brand new surface to be able to play the world's game, seeing them go up to Ambassador Young, Dr.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_00: Young, just give them hugs, right?
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_00: Middle of the speech, too.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_00: It was amazing.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_00: What was that like for you to share an afternoon with us to throw your kid on as well and to see that kind of growth in person?
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_02: Now that was a great day, you know, and I just really have to give a shout out to Arthur Blank, to Atlanta United, and to the everybody that came up with the great idea of the 100 pitches uh that really will be a part of the legacy of the FIFA World Cup.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we had a lot of fans.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we had some fantastic matches.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_02: Now, what happens next is throughout Georgia, there's these new pitches where they can play soccer.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_02: Kids in the community can just go play for free, learn the world's game, and really have a a blast doing it, and they will say that this is a quality surface, not just something that is you know gonna decay or be terrible.
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_02: So, you know, and we did it with Andrew Young and Dr.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_02: Walter Young, and and you're right, the kids came up hugging as he was speaking, you know, like and like the kids could, you know, just like, hey, I just want to go touch a legend.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_02: So it's like that that that's cool that that happens in our city.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_02: And he was so kind and so gentle, he'll let him take a picture and all that stuff.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and yeah, this is down the street from you know where I played, you know, and this growing up and stuff, and um, you know, to see that side of town to be able to have a great YMCA to have this great new investment um to for the kids to be able to play soccer on.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_02: And you know, and we got an after-school program in there for them.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_02: Uh they they need it, they deserve it, and uh see the public-private partnerships step up to be able to do that.
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, the commitment from the city, the YMCA, the you know, uh the you know, of course, uh the blanks and the um and Atlanta United, and I think it was a couple other insurance companies and others that was involved in it.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_02: So it's like everybody's saying, let's do this together, that group project really is important to me.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_02: It makes me feel good that we're all doing this stuff together.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_01: Amazing.
• 11:43
  SPEAKER_01: Well, you didn't just grow up in Atlanta, you're you're also a girl dad.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_01: I'm a girl dad.
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_01: How excited are you for for the introduction of the NWCL team coming to the city of Atlanta and and just the inspiration that they're gonna be able to provide to so many young girls and women uh here in the city uh with uh the the introduction of our new NWSL team?
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_02: This is huge.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_02: You know, I I'm excited by you know the NWSL League is expanding and it's coming here in Atlanta.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_02: We're gonna have a team that's gonna play and it's gonna be amazing to see the faces of the young girls and the and the moms and the women and us, the girl dads, and and and the and the people that just love sports.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_02: You know, if you love sports, you love no matter who plays men, women, um, and you really want folks to have a great time.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_02: When I'm watching the Atlanta Dream right now, uh I've been a dream fan from the beginning.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_02: And so watching Atlanta Dream, you know, uh about to go to the playoffs, imagine pretty soon we're gonna have an Atlanta women's team in soccer that's also gonna, you know, ignite us and electrify us and really uh keep that bright spot in the ladies' eyes and the child's eyes that says, hey, we're competing on the big stage, we're competing across the nation, and we're wearing the A for Atlanta, man, that's gonna really, really feel good.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_02: It just rounds out all that we have in the sports ecosystem when we have a women's soccer team.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_00: Mayor Dickens, this is a question that we had when we were coming into the show today.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_00: What's a typical day look like as an Atlanta mayor?
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_00: We were like, where's he gonna be coming from if just pulling and go?
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_00: Like, he's a busy guy.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_00: Busy man, what does that look like a day today for you?
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_00: Is there an explanation for that?
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_02: It's it's it's crazy because I try to explain that every day is different, but they all have a lot in it.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_02: I'll give you an example.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_02: Um, so I uh the the I go to the gym from you know, I try not to tell everybody exactly what time so people don't just like be like I'm camping out at the gym.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, right next to you.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_02: Hey mayor, um how about uh, you know, I need a job, or you know, hey mayor, like I want you to come speak at my, you know, what a neighborhood, you know, picnic.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_02: But um, you know, but six to seven, fifteen or so, uh four days a week, I go to the gym.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_02: So I wake up at 5, 5.15, get dressed, go to the gym, and I, you know, get showered and go right to work.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_02: First phone call of the day is always with the police chief.
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_02: Every morning since I've been mayor, talk with the police chief.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_02: What happened last night?
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_02: What are we planning for today?
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_02: It's every day.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_02: We go over everything and the plans for the weekend and plans for any major events, making sure public safety is number one to me.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_02: So literally every day we start uh after the workout, I do that.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_02: Um today I talked to the interfaith leader, the the uh uh the reverend, because there's some plans for uh uh interfaith luncheon.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_02: So I talked to him this morning for 30 minutes, got in the car, came here, you know, doing this interview, gonna do the golf tournament.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_02: But while the golf tournament is going on, I go out there and take a bunch of pictures.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_02: I got four meetings back at City Hall while the golf tournament is going on.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_02: I come back here, give out the trophies for the winners of the golf tournament.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_02: Then I have one more meeting, and then I actually am flying out uh to San Francisco to go lure some tech companies to Atlanta and then try to get some private equity and investment for the next three days, and I come back and do all this stuff, you know.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_00: And that's a Wednesday.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_02: It never it never stops.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_02: It never stops.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_00: So you want to be a mayor one day, 5 a.m.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_00: club.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_00: No options.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_02: Last night I was, you know, uh doing an interview, uh, a fireside chat panel till nine at night, and you know, got home and still had two or three more phone calls.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_02: Like things that throughout the day, when people are like, I just need five minutes, or man, when you get 10 minutes, can I call you?
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_02: You know, by the time that's like when I get home, I take off my shoes, take off my tie, and I knock out those allegedly five-minute phone calls that actually go about 50 30 minutes, and uh, you know, and then I get to take a rest.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_01: And what what do you what do you do to take a rest?
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_01: What do you do to unwind at the end of a long day?
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_01: Because I'm I'm tired just hearing that because I mean I can't imagine.
• 15:49
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm a busy guy, you know.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_01: I'd like I'd like to be on the move, but it's crazy.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_02: I walk in the house, I turn, I hit on the TV uh in my uh den, and you know, that's playing Sports Center or CNN.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_02: It just depends on what what I'm in the mood for, what the day likely has in it.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_02: If it's uh Monday, it's like Monday night football, so I'm definitely, you know, got sports going on.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_02: But uh so that's going, you know, I uh, you know, love to uh listen to music.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_02: I'm a music head, you know, love my hip hop, Afro beats, or uh, you know, just music in general.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_02: So uh that's always playing if if if if the if if I'm not listening to what's on TV, I'm listening to music.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_02: And then, you know, I love to uh just I have a nice backyard, I look out and you know, stare at the animals or stare at the you know, I just have to woos out for a minute, you know, just take a breath.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_02: Just need to take a break.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_02: But it's really just take your shoes off and like kick back and you know, think about the day and then, you know, buy and then you gotta eat.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_02: You gotta eat somewhere in there.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_02: For the first meal of the day at 10 30 p.m.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_01: and go to sleep for a few hours and do it all again the next day.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_02: And the trainer, the trainer that I work out with, he's like, you gotta get seven hours at least of sleep.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_02: And you gotta eat, you know, you can't eat within the last two hours before you go to sleep.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_02: You don't want all that on your stomach, and you gotta wake up and you gotta drink this water and this.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, dude, I'm just happy to make it to the gym.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_02: You got these pre-gym requirements.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_02: You gotta eat before the gym, you gotta eat at night, you gotta get seven hours of sleep to maximize what you're trying to do.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, dude, I'm you know, I'm I'm I'm gonna get half of that done.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_01: He needs to add a few more hours to the day then if that's what he wants out of here.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, here, take this phone and answer these calls.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_02: Exactly.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_00: Don't screw it up.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_00: For sure, for sure.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_00: To send us out and send you to the T-Box.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_00: We've got a little rapid fire segment we'd like to call the Home Depot mailbag, always delivered on time and quickly, like a Home Depot delivery.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_00: So we just got some rapid fire questions for you, Mr.
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_00: Mayor.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_00: What is your go-to comfort food in Atlanta?
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_02: Oh man, I uh I love wings, lemon pepper, I love fried fish.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and really, I just eat all anything people give me.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_02: So I'm at the I'm at all these events and they just make plates for me and I eat whatever I can, but you know, as fast as I can.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_02: So uh I I mean I love a great you know burger too, uh, no matter what, you know.
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_02: This guy, too.
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_02: We're just talking about burgers for sure.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_02: Cheeseburger, can't beat it.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_02: Cheeseburger and some and some good french fries.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_02: Like, you know, anybody that makes bad fries is dumb.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_02: Like, why make bad fries?
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_02: It's just a waste.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_02: It's just a waste.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_02: We've been eating french fries our whole life.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_02: Do better.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_02: Anybody make I'm here with it.
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_02: I'm here with it.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_00: Finish the sentence.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_00: You're not a real Atlantin unless you've uh cheerful Atlanta sports team.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_02: There we go.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_02: I love it though.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_02: I love it.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_00: Love that.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_00: What's your go-to karaoke song?
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_00: Oh man.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_00: Um It's probably been a minute for you.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I haven't played.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, man.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_02: The way cell phone cameras work, the mayor or the karaoke, it'll go viral.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_02: Me saying singing Mariah Carey this Christmas.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, uh I mean I'll have one for Christmas.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_00: It's almost time.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_00: It's almost time.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_00: It's almost time.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_00: It is the season.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_02: I would be blasted.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_00: If you had not become the mayor, what would you have become or pursued as a career?
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_02: So when I was younger, I played a whole lot of baseball.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_02: That was my favorite sport.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_02: I played baseball 10 years straight.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_02: I wanted to play for the Atlanta Braves just because I love the Braves and I played baseball.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_02: And that was, you know, I went to a uh they used to give us, if you made all A's or A's and B's, they would give you tickets to go to the Braves game to fill up the stadium back in the 80s.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_02: And so I was gonna be a baseball player and you know, got to high school, did decent, but was nowhere near pro-ready.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_02: So I had to choose a real different career path, you know, and I went and uh became an engineer.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_02: So I I would if I wasn't mayor, I'd be an engineer.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_02: So cool.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_00: Well, to have you here, thank you so much.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_00: And thanks for that.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_00: That was awesome.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_00: Presented by Home Depot.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_00: Shout out to the Home Depot for all you guys do, and thank you for your time.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_00: So cool.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you so much, Mr.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_01: Mayor.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_01: We should send you off to the first T-Box.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_01: We appreciate you taking the time, joining us here on the Goose An Show.
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_01: That's all from us.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_01: All right, man.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_01: Thank y'all, man.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_01: Hit him long and straight.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_01: Thank y'all.
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_01: Keep doing what y'all are doing.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_01: Well, Joe, what an unbelievable episode.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_01: Being able to sit down with the mayor of Atlanta, Mayor Andre Dickens himself, being able to listen to him talk about uh the different initiatives that he has uh for for the city and and being able to be out there in person.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_01: Uh fantastic experience.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, big thanks to him.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I got one question for you, brother.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_00: How'd you hit him, by the way?
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_00: Oh I mean far and straight?
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_01: Listen, there were a few, just not enough of those.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_01: Um breakfast balls, were they allowed?
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, there were a few.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_01: There were a few.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_01: Uh it was a bit of a scramble format, and and I don't think my ball was used all that often.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_01: But every now and then, and so I contributed to the group.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_01: I I don't think we won the competition, uh, the tournament.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_01: Um top four of them.
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_01: I think we're in the top four.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I'll I'll definitely say top four.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_01: There were only five teams.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_01: So um definitely in the top four.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_01: It was uh it was a good day out for sure.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_01: Um yeah, it's it's it's always great when you get to be able to sit down and chat to our guests in person, you know.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's been a fantastic year, uh, I think that we've had uh doing this podcast for the first time.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you to to all of our listeners, our viewers.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_01: Uh just uh appreciate all the support.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_01: We're learning uh as we go by week to week.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_01: Um it's been an amazing experience, man.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_00: No, I just want to thank you.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_00: I feel like you've come onto the scene post-retirement and done a bit of everything.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_00: Like it feels like you got busier.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_00: I feel like you would say the same thing for sure.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_00: Breeze definitely got the final word there.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_00: You guys have a much-deserved vacation coming up, but uh, I want to congratulate you.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_00: You've done an incredible job with this podcast.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_00: It's so cool to be next to you and see you in this next chapter of your career.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_00: Um, hopefully you guys have loved it too.
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_00: We'd love to hear from you what you think of the formats.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_00: We've had everybody.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_00: It makes me think back of Kev Egan coming in here for that first ever episode.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_00: It feels like literally a lifetime ago.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_00: And the stories that you've been able to tell uh has been really cool.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_00: So thankful to be here with you.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_00: Uh really excited for season two, man.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_01: We've got a lot of a lot of plans in place for the new year ahead and and all the the different guests that that we're gonna have.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_01: And um, you know, I appreciate you, man.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's been great to be able to sit down in in the podcast uh studio here um at the training ground and be able to to chat all things from from you know political figures to former teammates to uh different athletes.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_01: We've we've taken the show on the road, on location, uh whether at the stadium, at Mercedes-Benz, uh, or other various places.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's been tremendous.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_01: Loved every second, man.
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_01: So I appreciate you, dude.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_00: I've heard we're trying to get on the road a little bit more next year, too.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_00: I need to leave the fans with.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_01: I don't I don't I don't I don't know who we need to speak to.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_01: We gotta up that we gotta up that budget though, you know, and and see if we can take this show on the road.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, it's been fantastic to be out on the front porch at Mercedes-Benz Stadium and and doing live shows.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, to have that interaction with our supporters, with our fans.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_00: It's been tremendous.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_00: Now, first of all, man, I just want to say how proud I am of you, brother.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_00: It's been so cool to be on this podcast journey with you in your first year of retirement.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_00: You smashed it.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_00: I want to say a massive thank you to all the much more talented people behind the camera that are making this happen.
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_00: Chris Jordan, Matt Moore, Ravi Moody, Cam Hall, Marissa Arons, so many different people to thank uh for making this magic happen, week in and week out.
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, to all the people who have tuned in to listen to Brad and myself and the show, it's been a massive adventure to be with you guys.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_00: And we got so many more exciting things coming for season two.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_01: They're making all the magic happen behind the behind the scenes.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_01: And so big thank you to all those folks.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, you guys make this this podcast what it is.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_01: So Joe and I certainly appreciate you.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_01: Big shout out to Home Depot for all of their support, uh, getting behind this podcast and believing in us, uh, especially season one, some new territory.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_01: So, big thank you to to the Home Depot and all of your support.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_01: And like I said, see you guys all in season two.