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Speaker 1: What's Up Messed Up listeners, Today, we have an unbelievably

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Speaker 1: special interview with you guys. Justin Verlander sat down with

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Speaker 1: me and James. It was crazy, It's unbelievable, but.

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Speaker 2: We're not good like mint our words. It was amazing.

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Speaker 1: We go.

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Speaker 2: Everyone should go check out the brand Nemo interview to

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Speaker 2: the core that sang interview, but Justin Verlander, he needs

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Speaker 2: no int introduction. The guy's a superstar. He's our big

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Speaker 2: signing like this is the move.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. He was incredibly nice, incredibly friendly. He had awesome

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Speaker 1: answers for you guys. You should be excited to hear them.

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Speaker 1: So let's have us stop talking now and go listen

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Speaker 1: to Justin Verlander.

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Speaker 2: Get Up, Get Up?

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Speaker 1: What's not?

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Speaker 2: Mets fans back with Mark and James the Messed Up Podcast.

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Speaker 2: We have an incredibly special tree for you guys today.

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Speaker 1: We starting picture.

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Speaker 2: Who needs no introduction is Justin Verlander, new member of

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Speaker 2: the New York Mets. First of all, Justin, thank you

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Speaker 2: so much for being here. We appreciate this tremendously. And

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Speaker 2: the first question I have to ask you, what's on

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Speaker 2: everybody's mind is why New York and why the.

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Speaker 3: Mets you know, I think early on in this in

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Speaker 3: this offseason, I had a conversation with Steve and it

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Speaker 3: was just the call was not what I expected. It

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Speaker 3: after that, when it really came time for me and

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Speaker 3: just continued to stick out to me because it just

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Speaker 3: to treat this organization. It's you know, it's not just

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Speaker 3: a thing for him that he owns. He's intimately involved

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Speaker 3: and he wants to make make sure that the people

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Speaker 3: that are part of this organization are the right fit

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Speaker 3: and wants to get to know them personally. And I mean,

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Speaker 3: what more could you ask for as a player than

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Speaker 1: With the Mets making a lot of moves this offseason

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Speaker 1: bringing you in as well on a good team, how

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Speaker 1: does how excited does it make you to be a

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Speaker 3: I mean, really excited. You know, I think you know,

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Speaker 3: Billy touched on it in the press conference. One of

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Speaker 3: Billy like, hey, you're losing a lot of pieces here,

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Speaker 3: And he kind of ran me through his thought process,

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Speaker 3: You know, I've been watching my phone see you know,

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Speaker 3: And I mean, shoot, I was on just vacation recently

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Speaker 2: As fans too. That's so incredible for us to hear,

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Speaker 2: and especially seeing you take that leap of faith. The

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Speaker 2: been built here by Steven Billy in such a short

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Speaker 2: period of time. But talking about your career, now, you've

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Speaker 2: had such an incredibly, such an incredib accomplishments in your career.

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Speaker 2: You have the personal wars, you have a team will

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Speaker 2: Series champion. Well, you've done all that already. What keeps

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Speaker 3: You know this this game isn't easy. It's it's a

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Speaker 1: We heard earlier during your press conference that you've actually

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Speaker 1: What would you say is your favorite thing about the city.

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Speaker 3: The food pretty good, yeah, oh boy? And just the vibe. Man,

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Speaker 3: I mean, as a as a visiting player, you're always

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Speaker 3: we're in Midtown And lord, did I know Midtown is

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Speaker 3: that's what I tell all my teammates now, the guys

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Speaker 2: That's so funny you say that because you gave the

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Speaker 2: Something else you mentioned your press conference I found really

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Speaker 2: We heard the story from when you were younger in

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Speaker 3: To be honest, I haven't even talked about a long time.

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Speaker 1: In terms of, you know, your career, Like James said earlier,

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Speaker 1: you've done a lot. The number three hundred obviously has

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Speaker 3: cool recently because you start passing some names in your

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Speaker 1: Good name.

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Speaker 3: And so sometimes those names flash up on the boarder

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Speaker 2: All right, justin one more question before we close out again.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for saying and take a few minutes.

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Speaker 2: All Mets fans know you. You've been around a very long time.

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Speaker 2: I've had one of the best careers of any picture

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Speaker 2: So tell Mets fans right now what they can expect

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, I think you know, I think the

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Speaker 3: competitiveness speaks for itself. You're gonna get somebody who is

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Speaker 3: take them mound that I can promise you. I think

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Speaker 3: what I've gotten better at as I've gotten older is

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Speaker 3: help everyone around me is something that I've really thrived

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Speaker 3: in more recently. And you know, to be able to

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Speaker 3: And I'm hopeful that I can be a part of

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Speaker 1: Justin Thank you so much. That was amazing, never expected.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the best.

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Speaker 3: Thanks a lot.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations, great contrack.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, amazing, thank you,