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The Final One Leg Up in 2024 - Ahmard Vital and Lou Terminello Join OneLegUpAlex 12-31-24 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett.
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  Speaker 2: I just wanted to reflect for a minute the final
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  Speaker 2: night of twenty twenty four and say thank you for
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  Speaker 2: continuing to help grow the one leg Up network. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you to my fiance Gabb who was at to listen
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  Speaker 2: to me gab for hours on end on this podcast,
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  Speaker 2: day in and day out, and she's a trooper for
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  Speaker 2: sticking by me and supporting me through all the hours
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  Speaker 2: that we've recorded here. I want to thank my mom
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  Speaker 2: and my stepdad and my family for getting me through
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  Speaker 2: one of the most transformative years. I mean, really, if
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  Speaker 2: you look at this year for me, it was a
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  Speaker 2: tale of two years. It was before May twentieth and
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  Speaker 2: then after May twenty second, when I released the Gallstone.
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  Speaker 2: I know I've talked about that a few times here,
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  Speaker 2: but it's worth mentioning one more time. The transformation from
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  Speaker 2: before when I used to go out occasionally and have
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  Speaker 2: a drink or eat crappy food. I mean, I've pretty
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  Speaker 2: much gotten rid of the big three food apps this year,
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  Speaker 2: but it took a Gallstone and being knocked out TKO'd
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  Speaker 2: for multiple days almost I guess green in the face.
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  Speaker 2: They were telling me to say no, what I'm making
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  Speaker 2: changes the rest of the year. And as I've said before,
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  Speaker 2: that moment in May by being hospitalized was a release
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  Speaker 2: of feeling excluded, because immediately after that, I said, screw it,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going out to see Anthony Rizzo. I'm taking Gabby
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  Speaker 2: to go see Yankees at Woodbridge and Frank Luna setting
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  Speaker 2: us up at Woodbridge. Special moment there the day before
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  Speaker 2: Gaby's birthday. I mean, all of you coming together, Rob
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  Speaker 2: Gomett allowing us to go to these Yankee games this season.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to the World Series, We're going to Fanatics Fest.
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  Speaker 2: There were just moments that happened this year with a cousin,
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  Speaker 2: Debbie's fiftieth birthday bash. My cousins were there, my aunts
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  Speaker 2: were there. Gaby got to meet my West Coast now
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  Speaker 2: Virginia aunt Nikki, she got to see Aunt Ricky. It
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  Speaker 2: was a special night that if I was just sailing
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  Speaker 2: along as is and May twentieth through the twenty fourth
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  Speaker 2: did not happen, that inspiration to get out there and
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  Speaker 2: live life to the fullest and say, no, what time constraints, whatever,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to make these events happen may not have
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  Speaker 2: been there, but that drive happened because of that moment
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  Speaker 2: in May, which has led to it a toll as I'm
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  Speaker 2: calling it transformative year. And then this I want to
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  Speaker 2: thank Lucas Ferrara. Lucas said something so interesting that this
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  Speaker 2: podcast had never heard before, because that again, this podcast
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  Speaker 2: never made. A radio show happened just through one interview,
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  Speaker 2: but with christinaicates Remember I had her on to talk
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  Speaker 2: about her days at the Palm and the days in hospitality.
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  Speaker 2: And Christina Gates now has a radio show. Is a
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  Speaker 2: proud moment for this podcast because I never thought this
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  Speaker 2: podcast could make a radio career happen, but it did,
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  Speaker 2: it did, and it inspired me to do more in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five to launch.
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  Speaker 3: More careers as well as my own radio career.
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  Speaker 2: It's time, it's Simon twenty twenty five to take all
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  Speaker 2: the accomplishments and the work that has been going into
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  Speaker 2: this podcast day in and day out, with the help
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  Speaker 2: of Podmatch, with the support of Theimpact dot Com affiliates, Fanatics,
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  Speaker 2: NFI Medical, recently skill Share, Sling TV. Of course, Derek's
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  Speaker 2: bags big support of the show and I appreciate his support.
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  Speaker 2: Derek Cook and Mike McDonald and Israel estate, and you'll
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  Speaker 2: find out more about his real estate in the description below.
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  Speaker 2: But all these factors are why we're ending twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: four at forty five thousand views, because the listeners support,
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  Speaker 2: the on air support, and just the drive to keep
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  Speaker 2: this going has made this podcast grow into, as Lucas
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  Speaker 2: Ferrara said in the very first Culinary Confidential, a podcast
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  Speaker 2: that launches radio shows.
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  Speaker 4: Take a listen, thanks to Alex Garrett and that podcast
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  Speaker 4: people at the station. I forwarded it to some people
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  Speaker 4: at the station and Christina, they said, there's something here,
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  Speaker 4: we like it. So Alex Garrett is single handedly responsible.
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  Speaker 2: And with that, two more interviews to end twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 2: I want to turn your attention to on the same
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  Speaker 2: podcast tonight, ahmard Vatal And of course we ended the
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  Speaker 2: whole entire show with Lou Turmanello's final take of twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty four. So please sit back, relax, and enjoy the
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  Speaker 2: final episode of the twenty twenty four edition of The
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  Speaker 2: One Leg Up Network. I shouldn't say edition, the twenty
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  Speaker 2: fourth chapter of the One Leg Up Network. I'm Alex Garrett.
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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett.
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  Speaker 2: All right, well, here we are back on one leg up
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  Speaker 2: ball Alex Garrett and with me once again is a
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  Speaker 2: mar Vita amar Welcome.
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  Speaker 3: Back, hey man, thank you for having me on.
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  Speaker 5: Man.
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  Speaker 2: You know when Wels ended our message our conversation last time,
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  Speaker 2: I played a bit of your inspirational message to the
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  Speaker 2: guys in Texas, tell us what you're doing.
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  Speaker 5: I do more of that motivation this year.
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  Speaker 3: How is your year? Year was a little rough, but
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  Speaker 3: you know we were blessed.
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  Speaker 6: And here in the state of Texas, I've been doing
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  Speaker 6: a lot of stuff with a lot of sports teams
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  Speaker 6: out here, been working with some high schools with some
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  Speaker 6: leadership work. I have a program called Brotherhood Belief where
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  Speaker 6: we really focus on the idea of servant leadership, working
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  Speaker 6: with the young men to understand that, you know, being
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  Speaker 6: a leader is not about being on top. It's actually
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  Speaker 6: about being below who those you serve right and being.
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  Speaker 3: There for them.
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  Speaker 6: And so got back from Idaho here recently I was
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  Speaker 6: out in a town called Cuna, right outside of Boise.
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  Speaker 6: I've been to Amarillo and a lot of other places.
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  Speaker 6: I've done some work with some nonprofits, working with a
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  Speaker 6: group out of Austin, Texas doing they help build tiny
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  Speaker 6: homes for the homeless community. The inner city of Austin
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  Speaker 6: has about sixty five hundred homeless people, and so they're
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  Speaker 6: looking to eradicate that. They're looking at a ten year
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  Speaker 6: plan and they just bought some land and they were
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  Speaker 6: breaking grind and we had a gala to try to
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  Speaker 6: raise some money. Thankfully, we pulled in about five figures
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  Speaker 6: worth of income and one night we had a couple
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  Speaker 6: hundred people there.
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  Speaker 3: So there was a lot of good donations coming from that.
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  Speaker 6: And really, man, just getting back out here, trying to
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  Speaker 6: redo the website, my marketing plans, my one sheet, and
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  Speaker 6: you know, update my videos and get back out there
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  Speaker 6: and do some more motivational speaking. I've been excited to
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  Speaker 6: see what twenty twenty five brings. Twenty twenty four it
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  Speaker 6: kind of kicked us in the teeth a little bit,
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  Speaker 6: some family issues and some business issues, but man, you know,
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  Speaker 6: God brought me through all of it, and we're still
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  Speaker 6: here and we're still fun.
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  Speaker 2: We have survived a quarter of a millennium. Okay, that
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  Speaker 2: is just incredible. Thing about so true that quarter of
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  Speaker 2: a century, I guess, I would say, right, so that's
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  Speaker 2: where we've been right there, all right, I'm already gotta
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  Speaker 2: say that you've been traveling.
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  Speaker 5: You mentioned Idaho.
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  Speaker 2: Boise State's probably electric right now because what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: Are you following the college football playoff world as well?
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  Speaker 6: You know, I'm catching I'm catching some action here and there.
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  Speaker 6: I'm a football junkie. I absolutely love it. College football
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  Speaker 6: is one of my phase right now. As we saw,
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  Speaker 6: you know, you expand the playoffs bring more people into
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  Speaker 6: the party. First round was a little suspect a lot
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  Speaker 6: of lopsided wins coming out of that. But you know,
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  Speaker 6: we're we're looking for the quarterfinals coming up. We got
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  Speaker 6: a couple of matchups coming up here. I know one
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  Speaker 6: of them is actually, like you said, being played today,
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  Speaker 6: Penn State versus Boise State. I would probably say Penn
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  Speaker 6: State is going to take that one. Penn State was
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  Speaker 6: absolutely dominant in Round one. Boise State I think has
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  Speaker 6: been a great story, you know, just like some of
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  Speaker 6: the other teams, you know, the Indianas and the SMUs
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  Speaker 6: great story. But I think Penn State has has a
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  Speaker 6: lot going h defense is pretty strong, and offense can
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  Speaker 6: put up some points, man, and I think that's gonna
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  Speaker 6: be an interesting game. I love I absolutely love genty
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  Speaker 6: what he's done this year. I think he was very
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  Speaker 6: close to winning the Heisman. I thought he deserved to
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  Speaker 6: win it. It's just, you know, when you have a
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  Speaker 6: super soldier who can play both sides of the ball
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  Speaker 6: and these six foot plus and can just do anything,
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  Speaker 6: hey man, it's hard to turn away from the work
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  Speaker 6: that Travis Hunter did this year with Colorado and so
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  Speaker 6: but I'm looking forward to Washington Penn State, Bois State game.
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  Speaker 3: Here today.
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  Speaker 6: I got to actually have Alabama Michigan on in the
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  Speaker 6: other room right now, so I see, I.
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  Speaker 3: See you, So what do you So? Are you a
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  Speaker 3: Michigan fan.
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  Speaker 5: No, I'm mainly or a Dame fan.
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  Speaker 2: But with Michigan, I have a friend who likes him,
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  Speaker 2: and I was I have an infinity for Harball.
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  Speaker 5: So there's kind of that too, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And now it's funny what's happening with that program. It's
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  Speaker 2: amazing Strowmore. It took him to the ball game, right that.
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  Speaker 2: That's amazing. But then JJ McCarthy goes to Minnesota. He's
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  Speaker 2: injured the whole year. I'm hoping to see what he
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  Speaker 2: does in the NFL, though, I got to say, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's a Michigan product right there. But I'm already got
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  Speaker 2: to say this twenty twenty five is coming with a
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  Speaker 2: lot of hope and all that. And I'm sure you're
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  Speaker 2: instilling that message through your work and even through your writing.
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  Speaker 1: Am I right?
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  Speaker 3: I am? I am?
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  Speaker 6: And it's one of those things, man, where I'm actually,
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  Speaker 6: you know, really doing I'm going to get back into
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  Speaker 6: writing and I'm actually right now, I'm really kind of
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  Speaker 6: doing what I have to do, like reflection, personal inventory,
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  Speaker 6: like hey, what worked, what didn't work? What did I miss?
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  Speaker 6: Where can I trust more? What can I serve more?
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  Speaker 6: I'm really going through that process right now. It's going
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  Speaker 6: to be a brutal process because you have to be
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  Speaker 6: I have to be honest with yourself.
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  Speaker 3: Hey where did you? Where did you fall short? Where
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  Speaker 3: do where do you need to put your engine towards?
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  Speaker 2: Man?
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  Speaker 6: Because we can get so distracted so easily on so
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  Speaker 6: many things, and when you really look back at it's like,
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  Speaker 6: wait a minute, I just spent four hours doing what
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  Speaker 6: and so I really want to get down to the grassroots.
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  Speaker 6: If I flip my camera around, you see that my
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  Speaker 6: office is about halfway or forty percent complete as far
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  Speaker 6: as cleaning, And I really just need to purge.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes many times less is more.
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  Speaker 6: It's just a lot of things needs to go, a
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  Speaker 6: lot of thoughts need to go, a lot of things
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  Speaker 6: need to go, and maybe even some relationships need to go.
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  Speaker 6: And so I'm really kind of in that, you know,
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  Speaker 6: get off the grid for a little bit, you know,
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  Speaker 6: sit with myself, talk to my father and to see
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  Speaker 6: what what do you have for.
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  Speaker 3: Me this year?
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  Speaker 6: And I think that's sort of where I'm at right now.
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  Speaker 6: It's a really painful but a fulfilling part of life
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  Speaker 6: that I go through many times throughout the year.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I know that he's going to be guiding you.
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  Speaker 2: You know, your father from above and your father yere
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  Speaker 2: on earth. Right, So you got absolutely you got some
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  Speaker 2: of them for sure. I'm Mark. You mentioned a few
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  Speaker 2: things just a few minutes ago with the one you
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  Speaker 2: know that to build your brand, I mean, how important
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  Speaker 2: is that to you? And how important does the others
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  Speaker 2: have that small business mindset of going out there and
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  Speaker 2: sort of being out there with with I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to say promoting yourself, but basically with branding. I guess
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  Speaker 2: that this part I'm trying to make because you want
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  Speaker 2: to do the one sheet and all that.
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  Speaker 5: How important are those things though?
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  Speaker 2: When people want to get off the ground running, especially
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five and started the.
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  Speaker 6: New year, Absolutely, branding obviously is extremely important. It's pretty
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  Speaker 6: much a foundational piece of marketing because branding is not
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  Speaker 6: just what you do.
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  Speaker 3: Branding is who you are.
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  Speaker 6: And the interesting thing is is that when you go
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  Speaker 6: into branding, it's like, Okay, when people see.
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  Speaker 3: Me without knowing me, what am I? Who am I
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  Speaker 3: telling them? I am?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 3: What am I telling them? I represent?
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  Speaker 6: Right?
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  Speaker 3: What's it's not just what you do? Is what what?
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  Speaker 3: When you show up? What am I getting? When Alex
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  Speaker 3: shows up in my building?
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  Speaker 5: Right?
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  Speaker 3: And that's and that's that's sort of where I'm working
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  Speaker 3: right now. And the issue is is like the me
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  Speaker 3: who's online right.
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  Speaker 6: Now, it's not not me, but it's not the fool
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  Speaker 6: me That me has grown faster than he can update
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  Speaker 6: the packaging, and so I obviously need to get with
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  Speaker 6: some guess with some of my people and figure out
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  Speaker 6: how to repackage that because my faith has just grown
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  Speaker 6: exponentially in the past two years and I'm leaning in
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  Speaker 6: on it. I'm actually I have an announcements coming out
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  Speaker 6: next year where the church leadership saw some things in me,
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  Speaker 6: and I'm going to be moving in a different way.
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  Speaker 6: I probably will go on two, possibly three mission tripslet
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  Speaker 6: next year. And so it's interesting that you would ask
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  Speaker 6: me that question at this time because you know, with
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  Speaker 6: me working with the youth ministry, with me going on
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  Speaker 6: mission trips, with me serving in the church or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Are you also a chaplain at some point? Do you
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  Speaker 2: do chaplain work for these different teams you work with
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  Speaker 2: or you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, I've seen that work. I love that work.
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  Speaker 6: I haven't pursued what that looks like, but I absolutely
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  Speaker 6: would love to do it because it would.
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  Speaker 3: Be right in my wheelhouse.
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  Speaker 6: I love athletes, I love ballers, and yes, let me
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  Speaker 6: pray for you, Let me pray for your safety. Let me,
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  Speaker 6: you know, be there in the trenches with you guys
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  Speaker 6: when times are getting tough and we can lean on
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  Speaker 6: our faith to make us get it through this game.
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  Speaker 6: And we know that you know how we live, how
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  Speaker 6: we move, and how we breathe and how we do everything.
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  Speaker 3: Loyd's it's it's.
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  Speaker 6: In conjunction with what God has for us. And so
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  Speaker 6: I would like to get into that now. And I
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  Speaker 6: probably need to pursue in looking into what that, what
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  Speaker 6: that would entail, and what that what it takes to
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  Speaker 6: be able to become one of those.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let me ask you this to mar because when
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  Speaker 2: I first part you'all, I was so fascinating that you've
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  Speaker 2: taken your work on the field and brought it off
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  Speaker 2: the field with you when you see these athletes, So
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  Speaker 2: are you reminded of your journey?
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  Speaker 5: If I may ask that.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, because I believe that a lot of a lot
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  Speaker 6: of what, a lot of what who I've become was
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  Speaker 6: learned on learning and sports on the football field, on
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  Speaker 6: the track, on the basketball court. Obviously basketball didn't make
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  Speaker 6: the cut going forward, and football and track or sort
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  Speaker 6: of my things. I played college football obviously, And it's
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  Speaker 6: just so much, I mean, so many books, so many
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  Speaker 6: books from corporate America and different motivational speakers and coaches
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  Speaker 6: where what you learn on the football field is things
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  Speaker 6: you need in life, teamwork, accountability, discipline, you know, servant,
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  Speaker 6: servant leadership, all of these different things you learned on.
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  Speaker 3: The football field.
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  Speaker 6: And so I'm glad that I'm able to use all
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  Speaker 6: of that and now I have a stronger faith component
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  Speaker 6: that comes with it, as well, and I'll be honest, Alex,
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  Speaker 6: I'm trying to best bring it all together in the
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  Speaker 6: branding and in my mark and in everything I do,
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  Speaker 6: and what does that look like. Obviously I know that
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  Speaker 6: I am a christ follower doing all of these other things,
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  Speaker 6: but I'm trying to incorporate how all of that will
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  Speaker 6: come together in my presentation. I know when I show
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  Speaker 6: up on that, but how to convey that to the people.
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  Speaker 6: And so obviously I'm living it, but you obviously have
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  Speaker 6: to show you know how this all comes together and
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  Speaker 6: how things are made and done.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, you know, I'm just saying, as you're talking here,
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  Speaker 2: it seems like you've really grown in your faith this year.
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  Speaker 5: So tell me about what that journey was.
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  Speaker 6: So I'm I'm a youth ministry leader here in the Williams,
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  Speaker 6: Texas what a church called Grace Willing is part of
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  Speaker 6: a larger group called Grace International, and I've been going.
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  Speaker 6: I've been going there in nearly four years. And as
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  Speaker 6: I was as I went on my third mission trip
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  Speaker 6: this past year, we went to Utah, went to Tuila,
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  Speaker 6: Utah and worked with one of our churches out there.
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  Speaker 6: The percentage of Christians is very low so you have
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  Speaker 6: to know that we're going into a territory where there's
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  Speaker 6: going to be a lot of prodigals. And so as
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  Speaker 6: I'm going through these these different mission trips, these different
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  Speaker 6: conferences and things of that nature, I realized that I
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  Speaker 6: have an influence of being in schools. I have an
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  Speaker 6: influence of being in different in different venues, and I'm
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  Speaker 6: understanding that I can utilize that in such a great
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  Speaker 6: way going forward. And so what I've done is I've
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  Speaker 6: brought in someone to be a basically to be a
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  Speaker 6: disciple to them.
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  Speaker 3: Right, I'm a Timothy and.
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  Speaker 6: I have a Paul, But I also have a group
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  Speaker 6: of young men whom I'm discipling them. And so for
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  Speaker 6: me to be able to pour in more to our youth,
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  Speaker 6: I need to become more and I need to be
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  Speaker 6: I need to allow God to use me more. And
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: with that, I wanted to be able to to be
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: able to express that in the best way possible his will,
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: not my own will, and be better for them. And
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: so you know, obviously my Bible reading is up. I
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: have a steady prayer life. Obviously, service is just what
• 17:49
  Speaker 6: was taught to me from my fathers long ago, and
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: I continue doing that.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: But it's just it's just.
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: Doing more of the Lord's work and doing more of
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: what he's calling me to do as opposed to what
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: am I to do?
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: She to do?
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: And so that's kind of where things have changed with me.
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: I'm being more intentional. I'm meeting with men who are
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: Bible scholars and have all of this knowledge and saying, hey,
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: pour into me, and I'm submitting to them, and I'm
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: honoring them in that spot.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: And so all of.
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: These things have occurred and it's just made me a
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: stronger man overall, but it also brings it also opens
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: the door to more attacks it. You're people always think
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: they like as you as you become stronger in your faith,
• 18:27
  Speaker 6: like things get easier. No, it becomes more challenging because
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: you're accountable. More and more things come after you. But
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: then you just lean on your faith and you continue
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: to pray your way through it and and wait for
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: your father to share what you what you need to
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: do to be to make it through the moment.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Were you a type on the athlete to recognize him
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: on the field. I know a lot of these athletes,
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: you know point to the sky, and that is a
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: reference to God right a lot of the time, and
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: they're press convergences. The way they talk about their their game,
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: they actually say thank God, thank God. Were you like
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: that as an athlete?
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: Thinking back, I was, But if I have to be
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: honest with you and the audience, I was kind of
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: a I don't want to say a show Christian, but
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: I just it was just something. It wasn't a at
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: that time high school and college. There was not a
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: deep rooted faith. I believed in God. I had my
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: Bible next to me, I prayed and all of those
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: different things, but it wasn't anywhere near who I am now.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: But I did recognize that God was my strength.
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: I did used to recognize Him in my touchdowns and
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: different different things like that. And we prayed before games,
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: and we prayed for protection and all of those different things.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: And I tell you what, the most emotional part of
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: any football game, high school, college, whatever level is when
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: they're at midfield doing the final prayer as they come
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: together after facing each other for forty minutes or sixty minutes,
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: they come down to midfield and just pray with each other.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: I think that's one of the most strongest parts of
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: the whole game. And I know many people don't stick
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: around to see that, but when you see that, it's
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: a pretty moving moment.
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: Actually, yeah, well you see all the saints, all the faith,
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: all those all those following together and they hold hands
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: whether they won.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: Or lost, and they circle together because not.
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: Only do we know that that it is Him as
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: the reason why we're able to play this game and
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: we came away safely.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: But we're a lot.
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: We have life because He was so for us to
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: come together and gather together and go to Him in
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: prayer is such a powerful statement and it's beautiful and
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: I and I'm glad to see more of that. I
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: heard the Boise State coach after the after the I
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: think it was after the conference championship win, and he
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: and he spoke very very strong about his faith, talked
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: about Christ, and it was just like it.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: Was just a breath of fresh air.
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: And it was a lot of people who were just like, yes,
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: more of this, more of this, because because we've turned
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: so much to so much darkness, so much paganism, so
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: much idle worship of self, to the point where it's
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: just like this life that we have, it's not about us.
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: It's just not right, it's so much bigger than that.
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: But and I'm glad we're getting back to that, and
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: there's a lot of good people on the ground, and
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: and I pray that I'm continuing to be a representation
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: of that myself and go out and do the good
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: work and show others that you know, there is something
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: bigger than yourself to be able to conmy.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: By the way, when you do those mission trips in
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: twenty five, keep us posted because I love to know
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: more about what they what you were doing, you know,
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: in the work of the Lord, So that'll be awesome.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: The other thing about football players, and I think all
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: athletes recognize this is God gave you a gift to play,
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: you know. I think there's that undoubted truth, isn't it.
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: It absolutely is, And it's and it's interesting you say
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: that because that's you're grateful for the talent He gave you.
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: Like you know, if you're you're six ft plus, I
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: mean you're blessed with with with height, with physical ability.
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: Some people, you know, are just born being able to
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: run fast. Now, of course you have to continue to
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: cultivate those talents. But you look at some people and say,
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: like everybody didn't get that, Like, that's just the truth.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: Some people can run like the wins, some people can jump,
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: some people are very physically naturally large and just doing
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: the doing the waste to go along with that. I mean, you,
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: I can do all the ways in the world. I'm
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: not going to be six foot five ever, that's just
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: not going to happen.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: But it's done a really good job there of making
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: sure athletes get the education because they realize not everybody's
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: gonna be a number one draft pick.
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: Now everyone's going.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: To be even drafted in the NFL, NBA, NHL. It
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: doesn't happen everybody.
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: So do you feel like.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: The n n c A is done a good job
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: insuing education or could do they more? Could they do
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: more for those athletes that may not have the chance
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: to make it? If you if you if you know
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: what I mean, you know, it's.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: Debatable what the role of the n C double.
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: A is right now and and and and and in
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: all of totality, like right we we can we can
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: you know, look and say, okay, what role does the
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: n C double A play at this point in time?
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: And I owe money these these uh, these these colleges
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: have recruiting going. You got the TV contracts and different
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: things like that. But I don't believe that the student
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: athlete student athlete has been promoted as much as it should. Yes,
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: I think the percentage, the percentage of young men who
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: go on to play college football is small from high
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: school and the percentage to go to the NFL is even.
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: A quarter of that.
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: And so obviously a lot of these guys they're going
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: to go on and be pros and something else. And
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: I know when I was coming up in the nineties,
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: it was always known that, like you know, you went
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: to school to play football and that's the only thing
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: you went to go do. I think that mindshed has
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: shifted these days a little bit more to where guys
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: are going and they are getting their education. Some guys
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: are going to get advanced degrees, which I think is awesome.
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: You graduate with your degree, you go to another school
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: and start a master's program. I think that's amazing. I
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: love when guys go ahead and graduate from college and
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: then join coaching staffs and go I want to do
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: those types of things and pour into young men. I
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: think though all those things are great, and you're right,
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: the pathway of success for most of these guys is
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: not going to come on Sundays on Sundays playing in
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: the NFL, or Mondays or Thursdays. It's going to come
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: from doing professional work. Some things you learned at your
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: four year institution and you move on with your life
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: and do great and amazing things you did. You use
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: sports as a means to earn yourself a better life.
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: Your school is paid for, maybe you made a little
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: bit of money while you're in college, and now you've
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: gone on to do something else and hopefully you have
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: no debt. That's a beautiful thing, and I think more
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: guys need to embrace that and make sure that you
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: have a degree that's actually going to be worth something
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: on the open market. That's a whole nother podcast for
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: another day, but it's a beautiful thing when guys can
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: utilize their skills and talents to leverage that into becoming
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: successful in life, because that's exactly what you're doing.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: I think some of these teams need to hire you,
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: especially you for the first round picks. You know, I
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: don't know, I feel like the wet behind the years
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: guys just get drafted.
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: You need this kind of.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Encouragement going into their their year. And even those who
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: are in the college level, are you doing college level
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: at all or what? Or NFL level or is it
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: a high school based.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: So I still have some colleges on a team.
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: I have a couple of a couple of junior colleges
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: and community college I've worked with.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: There's been some d one schools.
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: It's just it's been a couple of years since I
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: went back into some of those schools. I've done more
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: with nonprofits and startup businesses and and and small small
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: businesses and things of that nature as of late. But
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: I am going to start firing back up my my
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: contacts in the college world because I mean, you know,
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: I got several colleges here in the state of Texas
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: I've been working with, and so I just need to
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: just I need to get back in touch with them.
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: Like I said, this year had a lot of family
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: issues going on, so we just were sort of off
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: the grid, making sure the foundation of the family was good.
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: And then we'll get we're gonna get back on the
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: playing field of life and and doing the good work
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: with more people.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: But yeah, it's been a good it's been a good run.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: You know you mentioned my team. By the way, I
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: do love Notre Dame. That's my number one college crew,
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: so I keep watching them. I've been thinking Texas is
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: someone to watch out the Longhorns or someone to watch
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: out for this college football playoff.
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: And I don't think I'm gonna be wrong on that.
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: I might know that, uh that that that defense is
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: is is nasty. I'd say them and Georgia are really
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: just doing doing some great doing some great things out there.
• 26:29
  Speaker 6: Obviously Texas offense is is putting up some points as well,
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: But that defense is I think top two, top three
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: in the country.
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: I've seen so many fourth downstoffs from that defense. It
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: has been has been absolutely amazing. I mean, being a
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: guy from the state of Texas typically am I always
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: gonna wrap my Texas schools most of them as far
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: as wanting to have success on the field and things
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: of that nature. But yes, not I agree your team.
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: Your team is looking looking pretty solid right now. I
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: love I love the transformation Freeman made from year one
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: to year two, how they bounce back from that.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: Really, I can't remember the team.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Well, it was Northern Illinois University, Yeah, who actually won
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: a bunch more money by winning that game. By the way, Yes,
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: and it's funny. I had someone who was an alumni
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: of Northern Illinois on my podcast a few weeks later.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: How about that for timing? But no, that was a
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: special win for them. But you're right, Notre Dame bounced back.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: I didn't like the idea that they were going to
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: fire they should fire Freeman. You know, I'm like, no,
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: don't go with that. You know, he's a great coach
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: and his recruiting is so amazing, and you know it
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: was impressed by the Bears. The Bears are impressed by
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: his coaching too, So we'll see if that ever happens.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: But you know, Omar, I got to say this as
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: we're talking. When we first talked, you were doing a
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: lot of this on TV. You were doing the college
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: football analysis. But has growing deeper in your faith sort
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: of taking away from that big lights TV sports analysis?
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Would you say or what's you know? Is that a
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: reason why you're no, It's just I got I got
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: out of doing the daily grind of sports. Recruiting analysts
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: work pretty much altogether. I do a couple of things
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: here from a written standpoint, But the TV work has
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: been has been off for a few years now, and
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: my faith has doesn't really have any correlation with it.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: Because now whatever I do going forward.
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: Let's just say I went back into sports journalism and
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: I got back into writing and doing the late night
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: Fox show here in the Houston area, and I'm going
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: back to high school games, and I'm going back and
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: covering college games, and I'm doing college football recruiting again.
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: My faith is going to be the leader on the
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: front end of that going forward. Whatever I do now,
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: I'm taking the ministry on the battlefield with me with
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: the work I do. So whatever I do, it's just
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: now is going to be intensified and the fact that
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: that my faith is going to go along with me,
• 28:50
  Speaker 6: and I'm going to you know, be very open about that,
• 28:53
  Speaker 6: not to be pushy, but to be open.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: About it, right, And that's just what we're called to do.
• 28:59
  Speaker 6: We're called to share and be you know, good servants
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: unto others. And so that's going to be the difference
• 29:04
  Speaker 6: in me going forward, and I look forward to that
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: transformation and it's still me. It's still like downloading downloading
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: now and it's still I'm still going through that process.
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: But we're here, and I'm more than willing to uh
• 29:17
  Speaker 6: to start making that journey, which I've already been doing
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: up to this point, and continuing.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: To do that.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: When you're on the field, right, did you feel like
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: as an a guy coming in for a tackle, did
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: you feel like, all right, God, you gotta get me
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: through this one tackle one after the other. Right?
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: Didn't feel like that sometimes?
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: Or Alison still feels like that sometimes, just from the
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: standpoint that you know, the trap, the road for which
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: I got here is an interesting one. And you can
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: probably go back and poll all the people I went
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: to college with and they'd be like, that guy's a
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: youth ministry leader.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: Really, that guy teaches the youth, he's leading the youth.
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: He's you know, he's a man of God, he's a
• 29:57
  Speaker 6: man of faith, and it there would be many who
• 30:01
  Speaker 6: was just like I would never imagine that he would
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: do that.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: And then you know, and just to be honest, sometimes, man,
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: you don't I don't.
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: Deserve some of the things that have occurred to me. Right,
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: I didn't earn this, some of this stuff. I've fallen
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: short many of times. But I know that his grace
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: is what is the reason why I'm able to still
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: do the work, and I'm able to be in at trenches.
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: And I know that based on the word we read like,
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: he didn't always choose the most polished, the most righteous,
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: the most respected people, right, but he chose those who
• 30:34
  Speaker 6: had a heart to want to serve and give. And
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: that I will say I do have. And so as
• 30:39
  Speaker 6: I go and I grow in my faith in things
• 30:41
  Speaker 6: of the nature, I'm grateful that now I can look
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: at myself and say, you know, God gave me another chance,
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: and I'm going to continue doing this. And I love
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: the young people I work with. I think they're amazing
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: to see the next generation unfold before me, and I
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: can look at them and say, Hey, this road that
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: you're about to travel, let me tell you about some
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: of the pittholes, the potholes that you may fall into
• 31:04
  Speaker 6: that I fell into many times and now I've come
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: out of those. But let me save you from spraining
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: your ankle a couple of times and be able to
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: get you on a pathway that's going to bring more
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: good into your life.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: Let me tell you, I feel like youth ministry is
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: so vital because here they are. You have an opportunity
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: to get kids the perspective that they don't get in
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: the classroom. And Okay, we could talk about separation of
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: church and state all we want, but I also feel
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: like they're not getting any kind of faith based thing
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: in the public school system. I mean, if I can
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: opine for a minute, so do you feel like you're
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: that backstop to say, Okay, here's this other perspective I
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: want you to look at, which is God.
• 31:45
  Speaker 6: Well, you know, to be honest, elics, I told you
• 31:48
  Speaker 6: I just got back from I just got back from
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: Kuna write Us out of Boise, Idaho, and I offered
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: coach you know, I did a leadership session with his coaches.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: I did a leadership session with his team captains.
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: And I always do a community service project when I
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: come down to a city because I want to give
• 32:04
  Speaker 6: back to the community which poured into me and giving
• 32:07
  Speaker 6: me the opportunity to be able to speak unto their
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: students or teachers or coaches, to have whomever I'm there
• 32:11
  Speaker 6: to speak with. And I offer the Bible study while
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: I was there, not forceful. It's open to whoever wants
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: to come by. And we had a coach and a
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: couple of players come by and Right before I jumped
• 32:23
  Speaker 6: on the plane, we had a Bible study.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: And so those are type of things I'm going to
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: do going forward. I'll offer.
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: You know, just like when you guys go praying at
• 32:33
  Speaker 6: the fifty yard line, it's not forced. We're going out
• 32:36
  Speaker 6: there and kneeling. We're gonna pray and we're gonna honor God.
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: If you want to come, fine, If not, no one is.
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: No one is upset. It's not forceful. So that's what's
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: going to be happening with the new me. That's the
• 32:46
  Speaker 6: new me. I'm getting used to saying, Hey, this is
• 32:48
  Speaker 6: what I want to offer for you. Here's what's available
• 32:51
  Speaker 6: to your guys. And yes, we do need a restore
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: sense of morality, which does which is biblical, because a
• 32:57
  Speaker 6: lot of the morality we have come from the Bible.
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  Speaker 6: It does need to be restored, you know, the separation
• 33:04
  Speaker 6: between church and state. I mean, come on, like, can
• 33:07
  Speaker 6: we say that the public school is better now than
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: it was twenty five years ago.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: No, we can't exactly that. The morality has just taken
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: a decline.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: So and at that point, you know, there are people
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: out there in our generation, by the way, cheering the
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: murder of the CEO in Cold Blood. I mean, is
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: that a sign that we're not at all where we
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: should be?
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: I feel like it is, isn't it.
• 33:36
  Speaker 6: Well, we we know we live in a fallen state.
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: We know that that's that's understandable. We all fall short,
• 33:41
  Speaker 6: we all sin and all those things. But I do
• 33:44
  Speaker 6: agree that the that there's a facet of there's a
• 33:49
  Speaker 6: there's a there's a there's a portion of the society
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: who is so far on the other side and glorifying
• 33:56
  Speaker 6: you know, sex and death and you know, this level
• 34:01
  Speaker 6: of equality that doesn't exist right, there's there's there's so
• 34:06
  Speaker 6: many things that are going on simultaneously. And whereas I
• 34:11
  Speaker 6: obviously don't like to see people, you know, do wrong
• 34:16
  Speaker 6: unto old people, under children, not protecting women or disrespecting other.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: Men, I don't like seeing any of that. I definitely
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: don't condone murder. Right, So when we get to a
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: point where.
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: It's like, okay, that's justified because you had a couple
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: of claims that were denied, No, that that that we
• 34:36
  Speaker 6: we can't get we can't be there that that can't
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: be the case.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: We can't say, like I can look at someone and
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: say that they're they're immoral, but it's not up for
• 34:45
  Speaker 6: me for them to see punishment from me, right, I
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: trust my Lord Savior to take care of that, right,
• 34:53
  Speaker 6: and it will come back around to you because it
• 34:54
  Speaker 6: rains on the just and the unjust.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: However, cheering on murder.
• 35:00
  Speaker 6: As someone who did not I don't want to say legally.
• 35:05
  Speaker 6: I mean, I don't know what category we want to
• 35:07
  Speaker 6: put it in.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: It's just like it didn't deserve, did not deserve to
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: be killed like that in the middle of Manhattan. I mean,
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: and I it's impacted us because we're in New York,
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: you know, and it's like it just it's a share,
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: it's an eerie healing and I'm here even more pissed
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: off that people are cheering it.
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: That's that's the point.
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: And I think the school system is.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: The reason why they are because they've been grown to
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: hate CEOs and everything like that, and of course they're
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: not grown to love the Lord. I think that's what
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: the point of all this is. So uh, this has
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: been great. I always want to bring up for your
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five message before I let you go, and
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: even a prayer if you want to give our listeners today.
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: Okay, we can definitely uh pray going. We can pray
• 35:52
  Speaker 6: going into twenty twenty five. I'll ask you, Alex, do
• 35:56
  Speaker 6: you have any prayer requests for your podcast, for your family,
• 36:00
  Speaker 6: or for your show.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: Well, transformative year that hit me. I mean I was
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: in the hospital for a whole week dealing with the
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: goldstone issue, which SI lent me for a whole month.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: So like, I want that transformative thing that I think
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: God helped me with because he got me through that, right,
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: I want that to be a lasting impact. I don't
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: go back into those habits that led me to the
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: hospital in the first place. So that's my one prayer
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: that I learned from this transformative year and run with it.
• 36:29
  Speaker 6: We want, we definitely want to be able to take
• 36:31
  Speaker 6: care of all of our people. So for all the
• 36:35
  Speaker 6: listeners out there and for my brother Alex, let us
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: let us go into prayer. Father Lord, we thank you
• 36:44
  Speaker 6: for this time and for your presence. We thank you
• 36:46
  Speaker 6: for your grace and mercy which you have extended to us.
• 36:49
  Speaker 6: Heavenly Father Lord, I pray that should be with Alex
• 36:51
  Speaker 6: during his time with his podcast, with his family, with
• 36:54
  Speaker 6: everything that he's involved with. Heavenly Father for Lord, we
• 36:57
  Speaker 6: know that you have brought him out of some some
• 37:00
  Speaker 6: some sickness and some different ailments of his body. Heavenly Father, Lord,
• 37:03
  Speaker 6: I pray that you just bless his body, Heavenly Father,
• 37:06
  Speaker 6: cover him in your blood, heal every cell of his
• 37:08
  Speaker 6: body and be able to restore the gallstones that have
• 37:12
  Speaker 6: been worked on. Heavenly Father, Lord, and I pray that
• 37:14
  Speaker 6: you not only bless him, but bless his home, Heavenly Father.
• 37:17
  Speaker 6: For his fiancee's recently dealing with some surgeries, Heavenly Father, Lord,
• 37:21
  Speaker 6: I pray that you bless her and bring her to
• 37:23
  Speaker 6: full health, Heavenly Father. As they go through and they're
• 37:26
  Speaker 6: dealing with these different issues, Heavenly Father, and they're going
• 37:28
  Speaker 6: to see doctors, nurses and hospital staff. Heavenly Father, Lord,
• 37:32
  Speaker 6: I pray that you bless the staff, the hospitals, the doctors,
• 37:36
  Speaker 6: the nurses, the office workers, everybody involved in the health
• 37:39
  Speaker 6: care process. For Alice and his fiancee, Heavenly Father, I
• 37:42
  Speaker 6: pray that you bless them, Heavenly Father, Godly minds and
• 37:45
  Speaker 6: healing hands, Heavenly Father, Lord, bless them and bring peace
• 37:48
  Speaker 6: and comfort over them, Heavenly Father, and full healing in
• 37:51
  Speaker 6: your name, Father, Lord, I pray that this be a
• 37:54
  Speaker 6: transformative year for Alex Heavenly Father, and Lord, that you
• 37:57
  Speaker 6: bring him increase Heavenly Father, spiritually, mentally, physically, and financially.
• 38:02
  Speaker 6: Heavenly Father, thirty sixty one hundredfold blessings unto them, Heavenly Father,
• 38:06
  Speaker 6: I pray that you bless his mind, his heart, his ministry,
• 38:09
  Speaker 6: Heavenly Father, his work, and his financial being.
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: Heavenly Father.
• 38:13
  Speaker 6: Lord, I just ask you, the Lord, bring him the
• 38:15
  Speaker 6: cares and the joys of his heart. Heavenly Father, that
• 38:17
  Speaker 6: he may see an increase in his health, Heavenly Father,
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: may see an increase in the love of his home.
• 38:23
  Speaker 6: Heavenly Father, and Lord, I pray that the provision you
• 38:25
  Speaker 6: put unto him, Heavenly Father, is extended to all whom
• 38:29
  Speaker 6: he loves, Heavenly Father, all of his audience, Heavenly Father's
• 38:32
  Speaker 6: family and everyone.
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: Heavenly Father.
• 38:34
  Speaker 6: Lord, we thank you for this man in what you
• 38:36
  Speaker 6: have done for him through the medium he has here
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: with the podcast, Heavenly Father, pray it reaches those Lord
• 38:42
  Speaker 6: who need to hear a good word, Heavenly Father, a
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: word from you, a word of wisdom, heaven Father, and
• 38:48
  Speaker 6: a word of just blessings and respect and accountability and responsibility,
• 38:56
  Speaker 6: Heavenly Father. Lord, I pray the Lord that those who
• 38:59
  Speaker 6: are in need need of some level of encouragement, Heavenly Father,
• 39:03
  Speaker 6: that they are led to Alex in all that he
• 39:05
  Speaker 6: does here Lord and.
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: Providing for his audience.
• 39:08
  Speaker 6: Father Lord, we take Alex's health, we take his fiance's health,
• 39:12
  Speaker 6: We take his work, his podcast, his mind is.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: Hard, his spirit is soul.
• 39:16
  Speaker 6: We take everything Lord that has been asked for on
• 39:20
  Speaker 6: this list, Heavenly Father, and we submit it into your
• 39:22
  Speaker 6: hands and to your authority.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: Know it is done. For Lord, you said what we
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: ask for in your name. It is done. And for
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: that and all the love and blessings we've received, we
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: are so truly grateful.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: Lord.
• 39:33
  Speaker 6: We love you, We thank you. We submit this into
• 39:36
  Speaker 6: your hands, into your authority, Heavenly Father. And anything that
• 39:39
  Speaker 6: is not of you, Heavenly Father, anything that is not
• 39:42
  Speaker 6: beneficial and according to your will, Heavenly Father, we place
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: it at your feet, at your altar at the cross, Father,
• 39:48
  Speaker 6: knowing that your grace is sufficient for all of our needs,
• 39:50
  Speaker 6: and your strength is made perfect and our weakness. Heavenly
• 39:53
  Speaker 6: Father and Lord, and we are so grateful. We love you,
• 39:56
  Speaker 6: We thank you and this and your mighty gracious and
• 39:58
  Speaker 6: loving Then we pray the beautiful name Jesus.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: Amen. Thank you so much, Amarkin for joining us on
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: one leg up to end the year and to begin
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five.
• 40:11
  Speaker 6: Thank you, sir, appreciate you for having me on man
• 40:13
  Speaker 6: and bless you and your fiance and your podcast, and
• 40:15
  Speaker 6: we'll see you again.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: So and before I let you go real quick, you
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: can follow a mard at if I got this rate,
• 40:21
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  Speaker 2: On Twitter or what's your Twitter?
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  Speaker 3: Everywhere?
• 40:32
  Speaker 6: It's some all vitall everywhere, YouTube everywhere, it's the same thing.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: No, no surname, it's.
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: Just that all right, Amar, Thanks again, and enjoy the
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: rest of college football playoff and we'll see what we
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: have coming up toward the end of the month.
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: Here, all right, thank you, Alis, I appreciate you.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: God bless you.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: Here's your host Alex Garrett.
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: All right, well, as we sit here to end twenty
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: twenty four, how can we not do a Terminalo's take
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: to wind down the air? Am I right?
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: Louis Alex, you are correct. It's good to be with
• 41:13
  Speaker 5: you as we wind down twenty twenty four.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: What a year, And I called it a transformative year
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: because personally I went from a hospital but in May
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: to like getting out there in the world. I think
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: that hospitation taught me a lot and transforming the sense
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: of not only just getting healthier, but just being out
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: there more. And I think that was excess this year.
• 41:33
  Speaker 5: So we learn everything from We learned something from every
• 41:37
  Speaker 5: experience that we have in life, positive and and negative.
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: Nobody wants to be in a hospital, but you do
• 41:45
  Speaker 5: learn from it and you realize how you prioritize being
• 41:49
  Speaker 5: as healthy as you can. So hopefully that do you
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: have a lot of good health in twenty twenty.
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: Five right absolutely into twenty twenty five. That's my hope
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: of gold and that includes sports covered as well. We'll
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: ramp that up also. But lou looking back in twenty four,
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: I mean, there's so many storylines. Where do you want
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: to start because I feel like this to be a
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: gear in review, and there's so much review. I would
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: say because baseball has been on our mind a lot
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: the last few months. I mean Otani's deal to set
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: the tone for the season. I mean, that was a
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: big thing, and you think it has ripple effects. Now
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: moving forward to the twenty twenty five well I do.
• 42:29
  Speaker 5: Obviously you know Otani's signing and he signed like two
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: weeks before the end of twenty twenty three. Uh, does
• 42:38
  Speaker 5: definitely has ripple effects. I mean, I don't think Soto
• 42:44
  Speaker 5: would have been offered seven sixty by the Yankees in
• 42:48
  Speaker 5: seven sixty five by the Mets if Otani had been
• 42:53
  Speaker 5: as hat signed for five hundred million dollars. So I
• 42:57
  Speaker 5: do think that finly has a ripple effect on everybody.
• 43:02
  Speaker 5: I mean, you even look at at some of these
• 43:05
  Speaker 5: some of these pitchers, Walker Bueller, a very talented right
• 43:11
  Speaker 5: hander who came through for the Dodgers at the end
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: of the World Series, but it is still a very
• 43:17
  Speaker 5: fragile injury situation with him signed for twenty one million dollars.
• 43:22
  Speaker 5: You know, it's one year, but I mean it's a
• 43:23
  Speaker 5: it's a lot of money. There's a lot of money
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: going out there. Sean Manaia had a good year for
• 43:28
  Speaker 5: the Mets, especially after the Mets turned around. In June,
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: signed a three year deal and the term isn't bad.
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: Twenty five million dollars. You know, we're forgetting how much
• 43:38
  Speaker 5: twenty five million dollars is. How much fifteen million dollars.
• 43:42
  Speaker 5: Of course, guys are now getting Soto's deals going to
• 43:45
  Speaker 5: average fifty one million dollars a year for the length
• 43:48
  Speaker 5: of his contract. Oh, Khani seventy million, Judge forty million.
• 43:53
  Speaker 5: We're forgetting that. You know, ten million, eleven million dollars
• 43:56
  Speaker 5: is a lot of money. And I mean, I think
• 44:01
  Speaker 5: that's really a top storyline, you know in baseball. Baseball
• 44:05
  Speaker 5: still hasn't solved the problem. Yeah, I know they have,
• 44:09
  Speaker 5: you know that they have the luxury tax situation, but
• 44:12
  Speaker 5: they haven't solved a competitive balance situation. They really haven't,
• 44:16
  Speaker 5: So I don't know if that's going to get worse
• 44:19
  Speaker 5: as time goes on. We'll never see a salary cap
• 44:23
  Speaker 5: in baseball. They've always been able to keep it out.
• 44:25
  Speaker 5: But that's what separates baseball from you know, from the
• 44:29
  Speaker 5: other sports. And you know, we've seen Manford trying these
• 44:32
  Speaker 5: these gimmicks and we've talked about them. We're not going
• 44:34
  Speaker 5: to beat them to death here now. Talking about possibly
• 44:37
  Speaker 5: his gold in that bat, which obviously was totally criticized
• 44:43
  Speaker 5: by everybody associated with baseball, whether it be a fan
• 44:46
  Speaker 5: and executive, whether it be somebody in the media. But
• 44:50
  Speaker 5: they tried, you know, they tried all these gimmick things,
• 44:54
  Speaker 5: which when you start gimmicking the sport, the sport becomes
• 44:57
  Speaker 5: a gimmick. So we'll see. So to me, that's a
• 45:00
  Speaker 5: big story. Soto to the Mets, huge story. I mean,
• 45:04
  Speaker 5: obviously a player going from the Yankees to the Mets,
• 45:08
  Speaker 5: even though he was there only one year, is big.
• 45:12
  Speaker 5: You know, the Mets taking soda away from the Yankees.
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: That, by the way, what is the difference between pinch
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: hitting and golden rule? I don't understand it.
• 45:21
  Speaker 5: Well, the gold in that bat was going to be Yeah,
• 45:26
  Speaker 5: we'll just make it real quick, so say in the
• 45:29
  Speaker 5: bomb of the eighth inning, and well, and we'll do
• 45:32
  Speaker 5: Yankees Mets. DZ comes in, the bases are loaded, one out,
• 45:40
  Speaker 5: DS strikes Judge out, two outs. So who bats behind Judge?
• 45:46
  Speaker 5: I think most of the time this year was Austin Wells.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 45:51
  Speaker 5: Boone decides, you know what, I'm going to use my
• 45:53
  Speaker 5: one gold in that back to do it one time.
• 45:56
  Speaker 5: Judge stay up there. Judge gets a second chance to
• 46:00
  Speaker 5: a swing against Diz and maybe this time hits a
• 46:03
  Speaker 5: grand Slam, or hits a three run homer or hits
• 46:05
  Speaker 5: a single. That's what that's what it is. You can
• 46:08
  Speaker 5: you can use one player and you can put him
• 46:11
  Speaker 5: in at any time.
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: That totally would take away from the excitement of the sport, though,
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: because if you so, I got the big guy, that's
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: the whole point is.
• 46:18
  Speaker 5: That's that's right, Alex, that's right. That's exactly right. That
• 46:22
  Speaker 5: that that that's right. I mean, what a buzz kill.
• 46:25
  Speaker 5: You strike out, you strike out Otani, you strike out Judge,
• 46:28
  Speaker 5: you strike out Soto, you strike out Bobby but Jr.
• 46:31
  Speaker 5: But no, you know what, We're gonna keep him up
• 46:33
  Speaker 5: there for another at bat, and that relief pitcher is
• 46:35
  Speaker 5: going to have to go through that player again and
• 46:38
  Speaker 5: try to get him battle.
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: When people think a strike three call wasn't made, that
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: gave someone the opportunity to extuly get an extract back,
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: you know, that's right.
• 46:46
  Speaker 5: You're you're right. So so I mean, I I think
• 46:49
  Speaker 5: that you know that that that was that's a big,
• 46:51
  Speaker 5: a big story that you know, the high salary uh
• 46:55
  Speaker 5: Soto jumping eight miles uh uh from the Brons to Queens,
• 47:01
  Speaker 5: and I twit make for a very interesting basis.
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: And no, Atani winning the World Series is something major
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: League Baseball wanted for a long time. He's just going
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: to get it in the Angels, so I think him
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: switching to the Dodgers has given that opportunity. And you know,
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: though he wasn't especially against the Yanks, he wasn't as
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: prolific a home run here as as he was the
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: rest of the year. But but he did win a ring,
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: and I think major League Baseball and I certainly the
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: Dodgers were happy, but they sure are. Oh Tani was
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: a story. I mean that is just true. That twenty
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: was a story. In twenty twenty four next and.
• 47:33
  Speaker 5: In twenty twenty five, he's going to be in this
• 47:35
  Speaker 5: starting rotation, so that will intrigue. And he is the
• 47:39
  Speaker 5: number one brand, he's internationally famous, and you know, we'll
• 47:44
  Speaker 5: see but that that's that's my that's my big story
• 47:48
  Speaker 5: in baseball. I mean, if you're wrong, look at the NFL.
• 47:51
  Speaker 5: I mean locally, obviously we thought the Jets were going
• 47:54
  Speaker 5: to be We're going to be a very good team.
• 47:56
  Speaker 5: I did not think like some of these people that
• 47:59
  Speaker 5: they were Super Bowl bound. But I thought they would be,
• 48:03
  Speaker 5: you know, in the race right to the end. It's
• 48:06
  Speaker 5: like a ten and seventeen. There's a lot of reasons
• 48:09
  Speaker 5: why that didn't happen. Obviously, it's a disaster from the
• 48:15
  Speaker 5: get go, and you know now they're back to square
• 48:18
  Speaker 5: one like they've been so many times for the last
• 48:21
  Speaker 5: many decades.
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: But the bigger story everybody's watching is whether.
• 48:24
  Speaker 5: Mahomes can really do it again.
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: And let me tell you, they have been having the
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: most lucky wins in some circumstances this year. It's almost
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: it almost makes me wonder if going to twenty twenty
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: five they can get away with it in the postseason.
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: I know you say, don't bet against Mahomes, but these wins,
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: are they gonna fly in the playoffs? I don't know
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: if they will.
• 48:45
  Speaker 5: Louis Well, I think they're getting ready. I mean, the
• 48:48
  Speaker 5: last couple of weeks it seems like they have raised
• 48:53
  Speaker 5: their game. I thought they were gonna lose in Pittsburgh,
• 48:57
  Speaker 5: and they man handled Pittsburgh. Soon this week they will
• 49:02
  Speaker 5: rest almost everybody. They have a bye, and again they'll
• 49:09
  Speaker 5: be playing both games at get Arrowhead. I think that
• 49:12
  Speaker 5: gives them a great advantage if I'm not a betting man,
• 49:16
  Speaker 5: but right now and we'll talk about it before probably
• 49:21
  Speaker 5: next week as a playoffs start, I'm going to say
• 49:24
  Speaker 5: that they are. They are still, in my opinion, the
• 49:27
  Speaker 5: favorite to go to New Orleans and represent the American
• 49:31
  Speaker 5: Football Conference again in the Super Bowl. That that that
• 49:36
  Speaker 5: would be my uh.
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: By the way, and do you notice since the buzz
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: of Taylor and Travis has died down? I guess because
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: they're a normal couple. I guess you would say, no
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: one's noticing that Kelsey keeps breaking these records and we're
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: seeing that this year. He just keeps making a record
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: almost weekly, it feels like, so he's still doing his thing,
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: whether Taylor's at the ballpark or not.
• 49:56
  Speaker 5: Louis Well, he's obviously, he's a Hall of Fame tight end.
• 49:59
  Speaker 5: He he has great chemistry. As we've talked to in
• 50:01
  Speaker 5: the past with Mahomes, they know each other. They know
• 50:04
  Speaker 5: each other like the back of the hand, very much
• 50:06
  Speaker 5: like Lamar Jackson and Mark Andrews. That's a quarterback tight end.
• 50:10
  Speaker 5: The combination that's been effected for years and doesn't get
• 50:14
  Speaker 5: the same notoriety, mainly because Baltimore has failed in the postseason.
• 50:21
  Speaker 5: But that Jackson to Mark Andrews quarterback to tight end
• 50:26
  Speaker 5: chemistry combination is as as good as anybody's. So we'll
• 50:30
  Speaker 5: see and Alex this year. You know, you talk about MVPs.
• 50:33
  Speaker 5: I know I'm dan off to be pale a little bit.
• 50:37
  Speaker 5: You're talking about MVPs. I don't know who's the MVP
• 50:40
  Speaker 5: in the league. How can you vote? How can you
• 50:42
  Speaker 5: go against Lamar Jackson, who is better than ever? He
• 50:46
  Speaker 5: has improved his game.
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: But I haven't as simlingly had the year of his
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: life right now that he I only anybody expect them
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: to have, especially after losing Digs. But look what a
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: year he's created.
• 50:58
  Speaker 5: Well, Josh Allen is carrying a bill on his back.
• 51:02
  Speaker 5: Joe Burrow is carrying the Bills on his back on
• 51:06
  Speaker 5: his excuse me, he's carrying the Bengals on his back
• 51:09
  Speaker 5: on his shoulders. That is not a good team. The
• 51:12
  Speaker 5: fact that they go into Saturday Night with a chance
• 51:14
  Speaker 5: to get into the playoffs, yes, they're gonna need a
• 51:17
  Speaker 5: lot of help, so I don't think they'll get in.
• 51:19
  Speaker 5: He has had not a good year. He has had
• 51:21
  Speaker 5: one of the great years of quarterbacking and NFL history.
• 51:25
  Speaker 5: He's definitely an MVP candidate. Barkley is an MVP candidate,
• 51:30
  Speaker 5: Jared Goff is an MVP candidate. Sam Donald is an
• 51:34
  Speaker 5: NBA candidate, and you know what, I'm not gonna say candidate.
• 51:36
  Speaker 5: They're all candidates, but all these guys are MVP worthy.
• 51:40
  Speaker 5: If any one of those.
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: Guys would say Darcy that's right now because of the
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: turnaround he's had. I know, Golf and the Lions have
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: been unbelievable, but the Vikings went from you know, I
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: don't want to say mediocre against with Cousins, well they were.
• 51:55
  Speaker 5: They were seven and ten last year and they're fourteen
• 51:58
  Speaker 5: and two now, but.
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: To excellent with former jet as Sam Darnold, I think
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: he's gonna be the MVP. I just have it here
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: on that. But it's gonna be fun because I guess
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: the Lines and Vikings are duking it out now for
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: the number one or the Vikings have it right.
• 52:13
  Speaker 5: Now and they will play on They will play on
• 52:15
  Speaker 5: Sunday night in the last game of the year. I
• 52:17
  Speaker 5: believe it's game number two seventy two, and yes, both
• 52:22
  Speaker 5: teams are in the playoffs, but the winner, the winner
• 52:25
  Speaker 5: doesn't have to play the next week. And if I'm
• 52:28
  Speaker 5: the Detroit Lions whose defense is so battered, I think
• 52:32
  Speaker 5: they really need that we go off right now the
• 52:34
  Speaker 5: line to try and out score everybody. Even last night
• 52:37
  Speaker 5: against San Francisco, San Francisco, all beaten up, really had
• 52:41
  Speaker 5: no problem moving the ball up and down the field
• 52:43
  Speaker 5: against Detroit. Detroit's defense is really in bad shape. I
• 52:48
  Speaker 5: cannot say that they're going to be these the favorites
• 52:51
  Speaker 5: coming out of the NFC right now. They need to
• 52:55
  Speaker 5: win on a Sunday night to Troy really have a
• 53:00
  Speaker 5: good chance to get to New Orleans. In my opinion,
• 53:03
  Speaker 5: going in, I would say Philadelphia is the favorite.
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: So to be clear, Campbell is right to play all
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: his guys, right or is he wrong to play some
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: of these guys.
• 53:17
  Speaker 5: Campbell is one of those coaches who plays all his guys.
• 53:19
  Speaker 5: He played them all last night. He will play them
• 53:21
  Speaker 5: all this week as well. Kevin McConnell, O'Connell's done a
• 53:25
  Speaker 5: great job because they want to get that week. They
• 53:28
  Speaker 5: want to get that week off. I don't care what
• 53:31
  Speaker 5: you say, you know they say sometimes it's a little
• 53:33
  Speaker 5: rust if you get to buy you know what this
• 53:36
  Speaker 5: is football. The less games you have to play the
• 53:39
  Speaker 5: let's wear and tear on your body. The less of
• 53:42
  Speaker 5: an opportunity for a key offensive or defensive or golf
• 53:46
  Speaker 5: a bit a quarterback like Donald or Jared Goff get hurt.
• 53:51
  Speaker 5: I mean, one of those guys get hurt, They're done.
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: I'm about big one. You look them about the Lions
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: real quick. Didn't Montgomery have the league? Isn't he on
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: the rest of the season. He was their star running.
• 54:02
  Speaker 5: Back as he was Now they have depth at running back, uh,
• 54:06
  Speaker 5: and there's an outside chance he might be ready sometime
• 54:08
  Speaker 5: in the playoffs Montgomery. But the key thing is they
• 54:11
  Speaker 5: gotta get some of these defensive guys back. And they
• 54:14
  Speaker 5: might get Alex Ends alone back a key linebacker for
• 54:18
  Speaker 5: them for the playoffs, but they need more. They've had.
• 54:21
  Speaker 5: Not only was starting defensive players injured, the backups were injured.
• 54:25
  Speaker 5: So it's it's gonna be it's gonna be very, very difficult,
• 54:28
  Speaker 5: I think right now, depending on their health, uh, for
• 54:32
  Speaker 5: them to get to New Orleans.
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: Now, you know a team that I'm really excited to
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: see fans had before Washington because that's the I don't
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: care if they change the names or not. It's a
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: dynastics team. They had the era of Gibb and all that,
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: and they really just ran away from that until now.
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: And now there's finally excitement back in Washington. Isn't Washington
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: like one of those vintage teams you want to succeed
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: every year? I feel like it would be right.
• 54:57
  Speaker 5: Well, I don't care about Washington. I care I only
• 55:00
  Speaker 5: care about the teams I rooted for. But I watched
• 55:02
  Speaker 5: it that one of them. But you are one, right, Alex.
• 55:06
  Speaker 5: They were four and thirteen last year. They've gone through
• 55:08
  Speaker 5: a long, long period of being a non contender. You know,
• 55:12
  Speaker 5: I've gone from feign thirteen and uh, you know right
• 55:16
  Speaker 5: now they are eleven and five and uh, Jayden Daniels,
• 55:22
  Speaker 5: I mean, obviously a couple of weeks ago he had
• 55:25
  Speaker 5: fallen back into a group of a couple of guys
• 55:28
  Speaker 5: for Offensive Rookie the Year. Well, he's separated from that.
• 55:31
  Speaker 5: He's gonna win the Offensive Rookie the Year easily, and
• 55:34
  Speaker 5: after winning the Heisman Trophy last year, he has done
• 55:38
  Speaker 5: a great job in his first year. It'll be interesting
• 55:41
  Speaker 5: to see how far they go. But what a turnaround
• 55:43
  Speaker 5: here for one of the flags of franchises in the NFL,
• 55:46
  Speaker 5: like you just said, so, it'll be interesting to see
• 55:51
  Speaker 5: the kid's great.
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: That yeah, and we talk about the storyline of the
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: NFL was how these rookies were going to do of
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: all of them, and I'll actually both Nick's all so,
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: I had quite a season two for the Broncos, bringing
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: them to the playoffs. Back to the playoffs, I would say, so,
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: not a bad draft class for twenty twenty four, wouldn't
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: you say.
• 56:09
  Speaker 5: Alex, I agree, And uh, Caleb Williams had I think
• 56:14
  Speaker 5: he's still going to be good. I'm not putting this
• 56:16
  Speaker 5: on him. You know, I lost ten in a row.
• 56:21
  Speaker 5: But Caleb Williams, Daniels Nicks, Nicks who's gotten better every week.
• 56:31
  Speaker 5: And Drake May I know he didn't start from the
• 56:34
  Speaker 5: beginning of the year, which is probably a good thing.
• 56:37
  Speaker 5: His potential is outstanding and he'll be he'll be one
• 56:41
  Speaker 5: as we go into twenty twenty five to look at
• 56:45
  Speaker 5: as he goes through his second training camp, and he'll
• 56:47
  Speaker 5: be the starter from opening day. But yes, that was
• 56:51
  Speaker 5: a good draft class of quarterbacks. Unlike this year, we don't.
• 56:54
  Speaker 5: We have a lot of question marks it with these
• 56:57
  Speaker 5: with these quarterbacks coming.
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: In now before we get to the NHL and some NBA.
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: The storyline for me of all of twenty twenty four
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: was how much and I know that WNBA about how
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: much the WNBA was shaken up by Kaitlyn Clark and
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: just she was a storyline for the entire year. Would
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: you agree or no?
• 57:20
  Speaker 5: I would say that's one of the big stories in
• 57:22
  Speaker 5: twenty twenty four sports Kitlen Clark, no doubt about it. Yes,
• 57:28
  Speaker 5: the WNBA was rising, the arrow was pointing up, but
• 57:32
  Speaker 5: she had the arrow pointing quicker than anybody could imagine.
• 57:36
  Speaker 5: I can't. I really hate when people try to find
• 57:40
  Speaker 5: chinks in her armor. It's very I think that's very weak.
• 57:47
  Speaker 5: She's done more, not only for the WNBA, for women's
• 57:51
  Speaker 5: sports in a long time. I mean fantastic player and
• 57:56
  Speaker 5: the fantastic brand. And she's done what Jordan did uh
• 58:02
  Speaker 5: for the NBA in the eighties, after Bird and Magic
• 58:07
  Speaker 5: and doctor j did it in the early eighties. That's
• 58:11
  Speaker 5: what they do. You know, you just from now and
• 58:14
  Speaker 5: we look back, if w NBA continues on his trajectory,
• 58:18
  Speaker 5: we'll look at Klein Clark, who did this. I mean, yes,
• 58:22
  Speaker 5: there's other players, but there's been a lot of other
• 58:24
  Speaker 5: great players, but they didn't have the cache that that
• 58:28
  Speaker 5: Clark did close.
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: And I'm you're miss if I didn't say the local
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: storyline was the Liberty. I mean, they're the only championship
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: team of the entire city right now this year, so
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: of course they're the storyline. I mean, look what they've
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: done with Sabrina, I and s and Stewart and I mean,
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: what a what a crew to.
• 58:50
  Speaker 5: A super team? Yeah, a super team absolutely.
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: So, I mean I don't know if you have thoughts
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: on that, but I just thought, there that's the storyline
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: here in New York as they won.
• 59:00
  Speaker 5: And then well, if they did win the championship, obviously,
• 59:03
  Speaker 5: on the pecking order of teams in New York, you know,
• 59:06
  Speaker 5: they're probably at the very bottom as far as popularity
• 59:11
  Speaker 5: and the impact in New York. Obviously the two baseball
• 59:14
  Speaker 5: teams are the top two. So you know, so we'll
• 59:19
  Speaker 5: see there's still a young league, as you know, so
• 59:21
  Speaker 5: there's it's still just it's all in front of the
• 59:24
  Speaker 5: WNBA and the Liberty and all of the teams in
• 59:28
  Speaker 5: that league.
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: All right now. No on the local city line across
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: the way the entire thing. Then look, Baseball I know,
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: we go back to it. Yanks were in the World Series,
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: Mets were two games in the World Series. It's twenty
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: five years since the Subway Series. Do the shakeups that
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: both teams underwent this offseason? I mean, could we see
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: a Subway Series reprisal in twenty twenty five? Were we
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: almost there or what?
• 59:55
  Speaker 5: Yes? I would say so. A couple of things here.
• 59:58
  Speaker 5: The Yankees have a much easier path the American As
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 5: we sit here on New Year's Eves, the American League stinks.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 5: Let's face it, it stinks. The Cleveland Indians trade the
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 5: right side of their infield, of their all star second basement,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 5: Andre Simonez, a young player, and a Trey Nahler, a
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 5: guy who was a power hit their first basement over
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 5: one hundred rbs. I have no idea why they did that.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 5: You know, Uh, it's just a much easier path. You
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 5: look at the best teams in baseball, the Yankees, the Mets,
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 5: the Dodgers, the Phillies, the Braves, the Diamondbacks, the Padres.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 5: Where's where's an American League team? None?
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: No longer.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 5: Baltimore can't sign Corbyn Burns. They're not gonna be able to.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 5: They're not going to sign Santander their big offensive player.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 5: Will they be able to sign Gunner Henderson in a
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 5: couple of years. That's a problem. And like I said,
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 5: the Pats or the Yankees to get to the World Series.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 5: If they don't get to the World Series, that would
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 5: be a disappointment. Now in the Mets case, they're gonna
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 5: have to go through what they went through last year.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 5: They're gonna have to be They're gonna have to fight
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 5: the Braves and the Phillies in their division. They're going
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 5: to have to play the Braves and the Phillies and
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 5: the playoffs. For the Padres or the Dodgers's it's a
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 5: much tougher It's a much tougher road as we speak today.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 5: Now there's still six seven weeks to go before training camp.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 5: They can still be some roster changes to some of
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 5: these other teams. So we'll see. But as we sit
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 5: here today on New Year's Eve, yeah, the Yankees might
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 5: be in the World Series again and the Mets might
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 5: be the only thing. The Mets will have a much
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 5: much tougher road. And I think the Yankees did a
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 5: great job if they lost Son, No, you know, signing
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 5: Max Freed would I have given a thirty year old
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 5: picture eight years I wouldn't. But whatever Goldschmid, whatever he
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 5: gives them is a bonus, and he might be better
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 5: than he was last year, I know. I think getting
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 5: Devin Williams is going to solidify the bullpen. I think
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 5: the Yankees are doing great, in great shape, I really do.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 5: But it will be a very interesting baseball season, and
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 5: those two three games series between the Yankees and the
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 5: Mets are gonna be are gonna be epic.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: It'll be like twenty five years ago because that energy
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: and even in the regular season.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 5: Absolutely, I mean I think that was the.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: Year that is at the homer against Clemens. Wasn't that
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: two thousand or was that ninety nine?
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 5: I'm forgetting that that was two thousand and one oh one,
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 5: But of course two thousand of the Piazza hitting the
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 5: head and then of course the bat thrown at him.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 5: I mean, what a wild year it was. Yeah.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: Also, that was the year they had a day night doubleheader,
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: one inn Yankee and one in Shay Stadium.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 5: I went to the one at Shay. I did not
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 5: go to the one at night, the one where Piazza
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 5: got deamed.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: We definitely went up to both games because my dad
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: and I were like that, you know, we just showed
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: up one last thing though, and I feel like the
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: Knicks are ending twenty four great. But I want to
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: get to the hole that the Jets and Giants do
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: leave us. They leave us with not knowing when a
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: head coaches the Jets do anyway, I don't know what
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: the Giants are going to do. They leave us with
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 2: the whole of what they're going to do for quarterback.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 3: I think that's the biggest You're.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 5: Right, Alex, what what what's gonna what each team is
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 5: going to do for quarterback? For the Jets, who's going
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 5: to be their coach? Is there is they're going who's
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 5: going to be their general manager?
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 3: Uh?
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 5: You know that's that's going to uh predicate everything what
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 5: they do. You know a lot of people say, hey,
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 5: bring Rogers back because the other the free agents out there,
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 5: as far as quarterbacks go, none of them are effected
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 5: With the Giants. The Giants need a lot of need
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 5: a lot of roster help, they need a quarterback. And again,
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 5: the fact that people are upset that the Giants won
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 5: on on some days nonsense, because as I've told you
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 5: a thousand times. Uh, players and coaches don't care about
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 5: draft picks and tanking in the NFL because most of
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 5: those guys aren't going to be on the team next
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 5: year anyway, and they want to play well, get get
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 5: get on film. So next year if the Giants, if
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 5: they're not on the Giants, some team in the league
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 5: will say, you know what, that guy did a nice job,
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 5: let's bring him in. So that's what it's all about.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: And and I think they're gonna have to find a
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: guy that's gonna be right to Malik because I think
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: they're gonna want to build around malink neighbors. There's no
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: doubt about that.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 5: Well, again, you don't build around a wide receiver. But Elik,
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 5: he's a difference maker. You're one hundred right. And Uh again,
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 5: who's going to be the quarterback for the Jets? Who's
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 5: going to be the quarterback for the Giants? I don't know,
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 5: I really don't know. I mean, it all depends on
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 5: on who's the coach and droll manager. Obviously, the knee
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 5: jerk reaction of firing Sala. Obviously nobody's going to confuse
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 5: Robert Sala with Visulambardy or Bill Park sells. But the
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 5: timing when they fired him totally totally sunk the Jets
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 5: season because I'm written knee jerk reaction by an owner
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 5: and all these owners, you know, they're, oh, Willie Johnson's
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 5: a bad owner. Well, you know what the Spano's family
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 5: with the Charges forever, I've been bad owners, been bad owners.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 5: They're not going to get Harbor or Harbor won't want
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 5: to go there because they're a bad owner. Look what
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 5: Harbor has done for Los Angeles chargers who were five
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 5: and twelve last year and with less offensive talent, with
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 5: less offensive talent, are going to be a pain in
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 5: the butt, not only this year but for years to come.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 5: He's a great coach. He's exactly what the New York
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 5: Jets needed. So we'll see. I had a feeling that
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 5: Jets are going to do this quick. I think this
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 5: is going to happen within the first ten days of
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 5: twenty twenty five.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: I agree, all right, Uh oh, it's five o'clock today
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: here in New York. They share the same arena, and
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 2: let's just whip around that for a second. Yep, biggest
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: story lane for the Knicks has no longer become that
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: they were ousted in seven games by the Pacers. But
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: that they got Carl Anthony made an incredible, incredible difference
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: in this team. I mean, kat Is the difference is
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: the story line of twenty twenty four.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 3: What didn't you say for the Knicks?
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 5: Well, I think you just look at you look at
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 5: the Knicks a year and a half ago. They a
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 5: couple of years ago they signed this is his third
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 5: year with the team. They signed Bronson. Okay, he was
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 5: looked at as a good point guard, nothing spectacular. Well
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  Speaker 5: since last year he's been a superstar and he's developed
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  Speaker 5: his game for somehow, and you know, we've talked about it.
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  Speaker 5: Nixon Nets never made a trade. They didn't even talk
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  Speaker 5: to each other, and somehow, all of a sudden, they
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  Speaker 5: traded best player to their number one rival, both business
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  Speaker 5: rival and on the court for five number one draft picks.
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  Speaker 5: Strange to me, you know, maybe we can get Bobby
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  Speaker 5: Marks on one day, the old Nest's assistant general manager,
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  Speaker 5: my old coworker, and we could talk. We could talk
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  Speaker 5: about that, they get him. And then seven or eight
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  Speaker 5: days before training camp opens, the Minnesota Timberwolves, who came
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  Speaker 5: within an eyelash of getting to the conference finals, and
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  Speaker 5: obviously we're going to be good for a great number
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  Speaker 5: of years. Trade trade Karl Anthony Towns and there was
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  Speaker 5: really no explanation given why they traded him. He's not
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  Speaker 5: a bad kid, he's his contract, there was no contract issues.
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  Speaker 5: They trade him to the Knicks. Well, obviously he's been
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  Speaker 5: fantastic for the next he leads the league in rebounding.
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  Speaker 5: He's an MVP candidate, and the Knicks have had had
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  Speaker 5: even though they had an easy schedule in December, Alex,
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  Speaker 5: they crush most of these teams. You know, they're not
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  Speaker 5: messing around a Thiboeau doesn't mess around as coach.
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  Speaker 2: They all like they're averaging at least hundred twenty points
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  Speaker 2: a game right now?
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  Speaker 5: For me, well, yeah, and it's an NBA. It's an
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  Speaker 5: offensive NBA era, which again I come from a different
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  Speaker 5: era of NBA. But they are they're they're deep, and
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  Speaker 5: it's going to be very interesting. I mean, obviously I
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  Speaker 5: think they have a chance to get to at least
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  Speaker 5: a conference final, depending on the brackets.
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  Speaker 2: The Nets, that's your that's your team you work for
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  Speaker 2: for what twenty eight years or so, I mean, tell
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  Speaker 2: us about your Nets, what's going on.
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  Speaker 5: Well, they just traded two more guys because they're winning
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  Speaker 5: too many games. And that's an NBA problem, an NBA
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  Speaker 5: problem that I hate. And it's not only a new
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 5: NBA problem. It was an NBA problem even when when
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  Speaker 5: I was in the league. I mean in the mid eighties,
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 5: the Houston Rockets tanked to get Ralph Samson, which led
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  Speaker 5: to the lottery. There was no lottery before that. They tanked,
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  Speaker 5: have the worst strike in the league. Now the Nets
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  Speaker 5: are tanking to make sure they get into the top
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  Speaker 5: to the top three or top four.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 5: They traded Dennis Schroeder, a very good a very good guard,
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  Speaker 5: a total professional, a leader to the Lakers, I mean
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  Speaker 5: to the Warriors. They traded Finney Smith to the Lakers,
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  Speaker 5: a good defender, a guy who hit the three. He's
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  Speaker 5: going to help the Lakers a lot. And then the
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  Speaker 5: Nets got the Angelo Russell back on an expiring contract,
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  Speaker 5: which means they're not going to resign him next year.
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  Speaker 5: This is all about, This is all about the summer
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  Speaker 5: of twenty five for the Nets. I'm glad that I'm
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  Speaker 5: on a season ticket holder. I'm glad that I don't
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  Speaker 5: have to pay these ridiculous sums of money to go
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  Speaker 5: to a game, and I'm going to do, Alex. Thirty
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  Speaker 5: nine percent of NBA players this year, NBA starters have
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 5: missed at least one game. The fact that these NBA
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  Speaker 5: players do not play every game is a modern disaster
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 5: in my opinion. Michael Jordan never missed the game. Julius
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 5: Serving never missed the game. We talked about a thousand times.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not going to bring it up again.
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  Speaker 6: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: I remember there was one point where they were going
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: to start to find the NBA teams for not putting
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: out their stars or all that at one point.
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  Speaker 5: Well it is and uh you know, especially for you
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 5: know all these now on all these national TV deals.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 5: Oh you go, you go home, like in the old days,
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 5: you go home to watch the Celtics play the Pistons,
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 5: and you want you're gonna see McHale and Byrd and
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 5: Robert Parrish against Isaiah Thomas and uh Bill Lambert Beer
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 5: and Rick Mahorn and Vinnie Johnson. You know, it's it's different.
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  Speaker 5: But that the fact that the nets for tanking, Alex
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  Speaker 5: Gon be honest with you, I'm a I really have
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  Speaker 5: put them on the back burner. Right now. I'll you
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  Speaker 5: visit that in the offseason. We'll see what they do.
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: That is rough well in the and then also in
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: the garden you had the Rangers and hockey ur WHI
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: should really end. I know we could talk college football playoffs,
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: but we'll we'll recap as we get to the national championship.
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: How we talk I think about that because that's too
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 2: much to intercept to dissect right now, round by round.
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  Speaker 3: Let's wait disease in the title game and go from there. Louis,
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  Speaker 3: But I think.
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  Speaker 2: The most dramatic storyline of twenty twenty four in New
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  Speaker 2: York City, I guess nationally, because they were the whole
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: ice team all of last playoffs.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 5: Right are the Rangers?
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 2: You had steps away from the Stanley Cup Final to
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: this disaster class almost not just every once, every every
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: game now, and that's just shocking. They have a lot
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: of the guys from last year. So is this a
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: cultural problem? What's going on the locker room? I mean,
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: what's going on here?
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  Speaker 3: Louis?
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  Speaker 5: It's Alex. It's really mind boggling to me because they
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  Speaker 5: have they have veteran players, they have a deep team,
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 5: they have great goaltending, they have their roster of defensemen
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  Speaker 5: should be good. But we saw it early on when
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 5: they got off to that twelve to four and one start,
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 5: and Sorokan bailed them out of those lot of those games.
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  Speaker 5: But you figure it, Okay, it's the start of season.
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  Speaker 5: You know they'll tighten up. Well they didn't, and you
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 5: know they there's just too much, too much periods of
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 5: horrendous play. Their power play which was lethal, which was lethal,
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 5: is is nowhere. I mean, it's it's so it's become
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 5: so weak with the same guys, Krider, it's a banaj
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 5: ed panerin Adam Fox. The last night they dropped as
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 5: Abanajead to the second power play and then put La
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 5: Froniera and lot for a year after signing his contract.
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  Speaker 5: Has had a bad year after having a very good
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 5: walk year last year. Uh. Do the Rangers still have
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  Speaker 5: a shot to get back in it. Yes, they're only
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 5: seven points out of a playoff spot. I can't believe
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 5: I'm saying that they just let's see what happens between
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 5: now and the Foreign Nations break when they have that,
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 5: that that two week break for the tournament in mid
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 5: in mid February happens. But I'm gonna make a prediction.
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 5: I think I think Lavolett might get fired.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: I think it is a good chance he might have
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: very wants to quit. Also, I don't know if that's true.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 5: Okay, I didn't hear that, But you know, there comes
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 5: a point where, especially a veteran coach, a guy who's
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 5: coaches Stanley Cup championship team like he did in Carolina,
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 5: the guy who's been around in all kinds of different situations,
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 5: know when he's not getting through to the players anymore.
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 5: And sometimes that's when they he'll might resign, just walk out.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 5: They know that's a jury problem.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: I feel like that the jury issue as well, isn't it.
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 5: I think it is. I think it is. I think
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 5: the fact that he leaked that everybody was available.
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  Speaker 2: Was bad.
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 5: The fact that he didn't handle the tuber situation in
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 5: the summertime and did it after the season began. Looking back,
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 5: that's that was something I've probably hurt the team. And
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 5: you know, Sarrogan's not going to value out every night.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 2: That's not me, Egor, you're talking about the Island.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, I'm getting him confused. With his Russian counterpart
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 5: and good friend, uh Shasterkin's not going to bail him
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 5: out every night. And if I said Sorogan earlier, I misspoke.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 5: But Igor Ssterkin, great player, he's not going to bail
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 5: him out every night.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they locked him up for this eight year deal
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 2: middle of the season, I think to put everything at ease,
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  Speaker 2: and then you know.
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  Speaker 5: And that's not to say that that back far yet.
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 2: Out No, no, no, I'm saying I'm glad he stayed though.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's a really good sighting. It's not going
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: to backfire. I think he's the future of the Rangers,
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 2: so in.
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 5: That absolutely, he's the young kid.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: But were you surprised that been this season and rather
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 2: than wait till the offseason.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 5: I don't think truly wanted to get that far. That's
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 5: what I think. I think he just wanted to get
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 5: Latona signed and moved on. So so we'll see. They're
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 5: not dead yet. But really, I mean, you look at
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 5: them and you said this team won the Presidence Trophy
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 5: last year. It's almost hard to believe it's the same
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 5: roster with the same coach.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 2: Well, we'll have to see what happens, but for now, Louis,
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: it's been an eventful twenty twenty four this show continues
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: to take off every week, and I think adding a
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 2: LinkedIn component where we put on LinkedIn almost every week
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: has helped grow the show. What did you say?
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  Speaker 5: I would say, I'm looking forward to doing some things
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  Speaker 5: to make it grow even more in twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 5: And I appreciate you always including me on a weekly basis.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 5: I enjoyed very much talking sports and talking sports with you,
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  Speaker 5: And again I can't I can't thank you enough Alex
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 5: for having me on as on a weekly basis.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Lou, love you man, Happy and blessed New Year,
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  Speaker 2: and let's do this all again in twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 2: shall we.
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  Speaker 5: I'm looking forward to where a lot of good things
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 5: happen in twenty twenty five. Really, I really feel good
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  Speaker 5: about it.
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  Speaker 2: Me too, Amen to that. All right, Turbo, those take
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 2: for the last time in twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 5: Did we review everything? I think we reviewed everything here.
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 5: I think we're all separate. Yeah, I mean, obviously there's
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 5: there's a lot of things with the review, but we
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 5: could then then the podcast would be twenty four hours, so.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 2: Exactly all right, Maybe dissect more as we go into
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, but for now, this is the Final Terminal's.
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  Speaker 3: Take of twenty twenty four. Thanks for joining, Louis.
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  Speaker 5: Alex, thank you so much for Happy new hear to
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 5: you and Gabby.
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  Speaker 2: A few other folks I should say thank you to
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  Speaker 2: NR Hour and so appreciative of Jake Cosak and his
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 2: friendship and mentorship. Anna Ray, I thank you guys before
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  Speaker 2: on the podcast, but you guys have been a big
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: part of this year. Continuing Caleb Harley the encouragement now
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  Speaker 2: you guys have given me and of course can't forget
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 2: Oswaldo and justin Time Baseball. I mentioned those guys in
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  Speaker 2: shout them out as well for being part of this
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• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: course meeting Major League mad Mes and Eisen was awesome.
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  Speaker 2: of course John JM. Pearl nineties YNGS kid, Thanks for
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  Speaker 2: everything again this year, and happy birthday as well. It's
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 2: your birthday on New Year's Eve. Have about that, and
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