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Two Time Baseball World Series Champion Scott Spiezio The Hardest Comeback · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 2: That's it. Yeah, I mean, like I say, it'd be
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  Speaker 2: so much easier just to write about baseball, but I
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  Speaker 2: think the most important thing for me to do is
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  Speaker 2: to share that what I experience could happen to anybody,
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  Speaker 2: and that there's hope and there's there's a way out,
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  Speaker 2: and life is so much better on the other side,
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  Speaker 2: serving people and helping people. And that's what it's all about.
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  Speaker 1: What I love about what you're doing with this book, Scott,
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  Speaker 1: is the fact that you know what what people are
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  Speaker 1: going through that are in sports, not just baseball, but
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  Speaker 1: we could be talking about the w NBA as well.
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  Speaker 1: You see the signs, you know everything what people are doing,
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  Speaker 1: and it's almost like you now have that open door
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  Speaker 1: to go by the way. I've just got something to
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  Speaker 1: share with you. I think you're on that path and
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  Speaker 1: you could be doing this path instead. It's almost like
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  Speaker 1: you've been given the needle in the haystack to show
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  Speaker 1: others a better way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's why people ask me if you know if
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  Speaker 2: I would change change anything, you know, if I had
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  Speaker 2: a chance to do it over And I say no,
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  Speaker 2: because I can. I can change people's lives now. I
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  Speaker 2: can be a part of changing people's lives, you know,
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  Speaker 2: get them through tough times. Yeah, I've gotten empathy and
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  Speaker 2: I can. You know. I just I couldn't understand addiction
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  Speaker 2: before it happened to me. I couldn't understand depression. I
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  Speaker 2: couldn't understand anxiety. You know, I knew pressure, but that
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  Speaker 2: was all part of the game. My dad taught me
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  Speaker 2: how to deal with that. This is something that was
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  Speaker 2: just totally out of I never thought in a million
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  Speaker 2: years that would happen to me. And so now I'm
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  Speaker 2: very compassion like, I have a ton of compassion for
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  Speaker 2: people that are dealing with it because I know how
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  Speaker 2: it is and and I know how to get out
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  Speaker 2: of it. And you know, that's why I openly share.
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  Speaker 2: I try to look for opportunities to share, you know,
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  Speaker 2: my story so that people know they're not alone, because
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  Speaker 2: I was so afraid to get help and to tell
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  Speaker 2: people about it that it almost cost me a while life.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, that's that's the most important mission for
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  Speaker 2: me right now, is to talk about how to get
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  Speaker 2: out of it and to share share my faith as well,
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  Speaker 2: which was a huge part of me recovering.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you had to feel or you should have felt
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  Speaker 1: God sitting next to you when you were putting this
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  Speaker 1: book together, because my God, I mean, you are effective
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  Speaker 1: in this book. And it had to take the universe
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  Speaker 1: and all the angels to walk in there with your
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  Speaker 1: heart sir.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I always say me and my co author Leslie Butcher,
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  Speaker 2: we always say that it was a God thing. I'm
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  Speaker 2: same with Shelby the director of my my documentary Spezio
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  Speaker 2: that's coming out on September tenth. God had his hands
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  Speaker 2: on this whole whole process and told us, you know,
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  Speaker 2: what to write and and guided us along the way.
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  Speaker 2: And my whole team from top to bottom, our believers
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  Speaker 2: and and we we we meet every week and we
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  Speaker 2: start with with prayer and to try to let God
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  Speaker 2: lead the way. And that's what we did while writing
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  Speaker 2: the book.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's one of the things that Stephen Ferdy from
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  Speaker 1: Elevation Church, which is where I study, he would always say,
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  Speaker 1: you got to turn around and you got to face
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  Speaker 1: the fire. Get back in there. And I feel like
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  Speaker 1: it that's exactly what you've done. You have faced the fire,
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  Speaker 1: and you're taking with you people that will learn from
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  Speaker 1: that not touch it. But you're going to teach them
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  Speaker 1: not to touch it.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I'm hoping. That's why I like to go
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  Speaker 2: to schools and talk because it's just there's so much
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  Speaker 2: now that you know, like this feenanol is and everything
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  Speaker 2: and drugs are so much more potent. It just takes
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  Speaker 2: one mistake and it could cost your life. And so
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  Speaker 2: I want I don't want to be that guy that's
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  Speaker 2: gloom and doom that goes in there. But I want
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  Speaker 2: by sharing my story, I can show them that man,
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  Speaker 2: like here, I had everything. There's nothing that I could want,
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  Speaker 2: and yet I tried. I tried this once and it
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  Speaker 2: ended up grabb me and and taking everything from me
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  Speaker 2: in almost my life. And so you know, without trying
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  Speaker 2: to tell them don't do it, don't do it, they
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  Speaker 2: can hear my story and say, like, man, that seems
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  Speaker 2: like a hard price to pay for for one, you know,
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  Speaker 2: one fun night. And and you know, like I tell people,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I was out with some of the biggest stars,
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  Speaker 2: you know, some of the biggest rock stars and stars
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  Speaker 2: in the world, movie stars in the world. And yet
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  Speaker 2: I don't remember that much in those times because I
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  Speaker 2: was not in a great place. And and what I
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  Speaker 2: remember most now is helping people. And you know, somebody
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  Speaker 2: called me up and saying, hey, man, thanks for your help.
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  Speaker 2: I'm five years sober now and I saved my saved
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  Speaker 2: my marriage or I'm you know, I'm I'm two years
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  Speaker 2: sober I'm thirty days sober, I'm one day sober. I
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  Speaker 2: made it twenty four hours, you know, and every one
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  Speaker 2: of those is a huge it's it's just a huge
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  Speaker 2: rush to get those those type of those phone calls
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  Speaker 2: and just see people flourishing in their faith or in
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  Speaker 2: their sobriety. There's nothing like it. It's like winning the
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  Speaker 2: World Series.
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  Speaker 1: Please don't move. There's more with Scott Specio coming up
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  Speaker 1: next the name of the book The Hardest Comeback. We
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  Speaker 1: are back with baseball legend and author Scott Spiezio. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna get a little personal, only because I too have tattoos,
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  Speaker 1: but I also know that my tattoos hide things. I
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  Speaker 1: know people get tattoos to hide things. Mine hide the
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  Speaker 1: scars because I'm a cutter. I really use the tattoos
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  Speaker 1: to stop cutting. Are you hiding something behind your tattoo?
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  Speaker 2: So I had two tattoos. One of them is. One
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  Speaker 2: of them's my band. I had a rock band called
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  Speaker 2: San France and it's it's it's kind of like it's
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  Speaker 2: almost like a toad frog, like a pretty scary looking frog,
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  Speaker 2: because we're like new metal. The drummer for Seven Dusk,
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  Speaker 2: Morgan Rose was was the guy that produced my album
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  Speaker 2: and played on a couple of songs, so that one
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  Speaker 2: was not to cover anything. My first tattoo was of
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  Speaker 2: my second wife, and it was a picture of her.
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  Speaker 2: She was a model. It was a picture of her.
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  Speaker 2: And everybody said, don't get it, don't get it. What
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  Speaker 2: happens if you guys split up? And I said, well,
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  Speaker 2: I'll just put double horns on her. And we did.
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  Speaker 2: We split up. You know, I you know, I messed
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  Speaker 2: up my first marriage, which was great and and and
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  Speaker 2: I did it. I don't know why I did it.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't thinking correctly at the time. And when I
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  Speaker 2: when I finally did get around to covering it up,
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  Speaker 2: I put a cross on it. So that's my cover up.
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  Speaker 1: Addiction, recovery and redemption. What about the fear of returning,
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  Speaker 1: because that seems to be a big fear of mine.
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  Speaker 1: Every day it's knocking on my heart. Go back to
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  Speaker 1: a dude, Go back to a dude. You can do it,
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  Speaker 1: you can do it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I don't. I don't have any fear.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just I'm smart enough to know. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: went to eleven rehabs in ten years, and I mean
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  Speaker 2: hundreds of meetings and counselors things, and you know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: I'm active in my church, and you know, went through
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  Speaker 2: a discipleship and and so I'm I'm aware to not
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  Speaker 2: put myself in situations to stay away from people that
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  Speaker 2: are making bad decisions. But one of the things that
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  Speaker 2: I did when I when I was on my deathbed
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  Speaker 2: being in the hospital, was I prayed and I said, God,
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  Speaker 2: I've bet you know, I've done this before. I've asked
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  Speaker 2: her your help. You know, I get sober and then
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  Speaker 2: I drive myself off the cliff. I said, the one
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  Speaker 2: thing that keeps getting me is the cravings. So I said, God,
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  Speaker 2: will you please take away my cravings? And from that
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  Speaker 2: day on, kids you not, I've had zero cravings. As
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  Speaker 2: a matter of fact, when I see, like if I
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  Speaker 2: see a bottle of alcohol, I will get physically ill,
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  Speaker 2: like I'll be almost ready to vomit. And it seems
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  Speaker 2: to be getting stronger as I get older, which is
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  Speaker 2: is crazy. It's a pure it's a pure miracle. It's
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  Speaker 2: it's unbelievable. So I'm smart enough I try not to
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  Speaker 2: go around it. I always say, if there's a purpose
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  Speaker 2: for being at a bar or at a wedding or
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  Speaker 2: you know, something like that. I'll go usually, like same
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  Speaker 2: thing with golf outings, I'll leave early before people start
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  Speaker 2: really hammering, you know. So I'll make my appearance and
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  Speaker 2: then I'm out, and I just you know, it's weird.
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  Speaker 2: It just doesn't bother me anymore. I was very, very
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  Speaker 2: very cautious my first two years, like incredibly cautious. You
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  Speaker 2: know they say, change people, places things. I did all that.
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  Speaker 2: I had a girl that named Tanya that was an
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  Speaker 2: incredible friend that if somebody pulls up in my driveway
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  Speaker 2: and you know, had a bottle of alcohol in their hands,
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  Speaker 2: she'd chase them away. Yes, you know. And so I
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  Speaker 2: kind of had a tack dog that was, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a true friend that was pushing people away. And it
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  Speaker 2: really helped me. But yeah, God, God did a miracle
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  Speaker 2: in my life.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I love what's happening in your life and the
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  Speaker 1: way that God is moving through you. And the reason
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  Speaker 1: why is because this is an opportunity because of your transparency,
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  Speaker 1: that we can pray with you, we can pray for you,
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  Speaker 1: and together we can pray for the entire world. And
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  Speaker 1: you ain't afraid to talk about stuff like that. Dude,
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  Speaker 1: So where can people reach out to you to find
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  Speaker 1: out more about everything that you're doing with God's world
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  Speaker 1: in the way that you're being just like Peter and
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  Speaker 1: you're leading people towards something that is going to be
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  Speaker 1: greater in their lives.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can get me on Instagram or Facebook. In
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  Speaker 2: my book, I actually leave my email for people that
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  Speaker 2: are struggling. It's Special Baseball twenty one at gmail dot
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  Speaker 2: com because I I, you know, people are like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: do you really want to put that in there. I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: you know what, people reach through me reached me all
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  Speaker 2: the time on Facebook Messenger, and I mean there's a
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  Speaker 2: story of somebody reaching out to me. I'm a sister
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  Speaker 2: and her brother was struggling. Her brother brother played in
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  Speaker 2: the minor leagues and was a you know, incredible player
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  Speaker 2: and ended up struggling with adderall in alcohol. And I
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  Speaker 2: brought him up with his dad and my dad and
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  Speaker 2: mom and me talked to him for for about three hours,
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  Speaker 2: and uh, and he's he slipped after that a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: but then came back and now he's uh, he's got
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  Speaker 2: his EMT degree and is helping others and uh, it's
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  Speaker 2: just a great story. You know so yeah, if you
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  Speaker 2: have I can always I always say like I'll share
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  Speaker 2: with you what what helped me and and try to
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  Speaker 2: help you to get on the right track.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, you got to come back to the show anytime
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  Speaker 1: in the future, Scott. The door is always going to
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  Speaker 1: be open for you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Errol, thank you so much. This was a great,
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  Speaker 2: great interview, great talk with you, and I really appreciate,
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  Speaker 2: appreciate you. Man.
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  Speaker 1: Will you be brilliant today, Sir, I will do my best.
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  Speaker 2: Man you too. You already started off in a great way. Man,
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.