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Speaker 1: we catch up with one of our absolute favorites, former

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Speaker 1: Magic player Ryan Anderson. Recently in town. He was part

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Speaker 1: of a panel to introduce our retro uniforms, our Jersey launch,

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Speaker 1: our Court launch, and he hosted a panel with Tito Turkulu,

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Speaker 1: Rishard Lewis and others. But we had a cheaance to

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Speaker 1: reminisce about his time here in city beautiful and it

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Speaker 1: was a great conversation, this organization, this city, his time

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Speaker 1: with the Orlando Magic by far the best stop on

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Speaker 1: his NBA career, and he gets into all of that

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Speaker 1: and why he loved Orlando so much, why so hard

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Speaker 1: when he got traded to the New Orleans Pelicans, And

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Speaker 1: we talked about life off the court as well, lots

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Speaker 1: to get into a fun episode of Magic. Pod Squad

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Speaker 1: with Ryan Anderson comes your way.

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Speaker 2: Now does his fawns long enough to Orlando Magic.

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Speaker 1: This is Cole.

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Speaker 2: Anthony, This is Jennon Suggs, This is PAULA Man Carroll

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Speaker 2: the Orlando Magic and you're listening to the Pod Squad.

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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to another edition of Orlando Magic Pod Squad.

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Speaker 1: Dante Marcatelli, George Galate, he played twelve NBA seasons three

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Speaker 1: right here in city beautiful and my notes. George said

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Speaker 1: that he's he's retired. That he is. He was not

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Speaker 1: in there, retired, fully retired. Ryan Anderson, Yeah, little joining us.

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Speaker 1: You didn't play last year at all. No, no, no.

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Speaker 2: A lot of people look confused. You know, they thought

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Speaker 2: they saw me out there.

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Speaker 1: I get I did.

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Speaker 2: I countless of times on the streets any city I

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Speaker 2: go to, they think I played in their city.

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Speaker 1: I just I have a face. I think I have

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Speaker 1: a face. You know, it's weird.

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Speaker 3: I texted him like twice last year, good game. I

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Speaker 3: just texted him a good game.

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Speaker 1: Ry.

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Speaker 2: I think I just thumbs up that you know, yes, yeah,

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Speaker 2: but we're just time goal twelve NBA seed.

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Speaker 1: Come on, think about touring.

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Speaker 2: So we're touring the facility.

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Speaker 1: Here we allowed to have been held out. We'll get

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Speaker 2: But what an incredible facility. What a They had to

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Speaker 2: wait Me and Richard are touring around. They had to

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Speaker 2: wait till we left to build something like this.

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Speaker 1: Of course, you know, guys brought the money in to

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Speaker 2: I was. I was in a hard hat at the

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Speaker 2: Ways Center that was getting built and that I still

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Speaker 2: that's still my favorite practice facility is still my favorite

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Speaker 2: way room training area. I mean, my fondest memories in

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Speaker 2: the NBA were here. You guys know that, no secret,

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Speaker 2: but yeah, I mean, but this place is another level

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Speaker 2: incredible spot.

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Speaker 1: But I don't even know.

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Speaker 2: Why I got into that. Why didn't we get into that?

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Speaker 1: Because you can't believe George and I, Oh, oh what

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry? What I yeah? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: No, what I was going to say is what I

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Speaker 2: my second year in the NBA fifteen years ago.

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Speaker 1: Man, amazing, think about that.

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Speaker 3: You talked, you said, time for correct to me that's

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Speaker 3: We we we sat with Tracy McGrady a while a

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Speaker 1: He's still a name dropper as me. Oh Ti Mercury.

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Speaker 3: Anyway, when I golf with Penny Hart away then we

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Speaker 3: said no, but we we were talking about things he

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Speaker 3: and that was twenty two years ago. And Dante and

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Speaker 3: I still have the same positions that we had, and

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Speaker 3: ambition in life just said to do something else.

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Speaker 2: You guys just have you gotta just amp up the

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Speaker 2: work ethic email. I just see I see you guys.

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Speaker 2: You know, I wearing the same clothes you wore fifteen.

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Speaker 1: Years able to save and I got traded.

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Speaker 2: I had toolo, Right, that's your sad Polo.

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Speaker 1: That day was a sad day for us. Right. I

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Speaker 1: and that's no knock on Gustavo I own.

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Speaker 2: I think he was a grill into that whole time frame,

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Speaker 2: and really will I wish for the for the if

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Speaker 2: there's a huge Orlando Magic fan out there that's that's

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Speaker 2: listening to this and cares at all about that time frame.

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Speaker 2: In my world, I could talk for fifteen hours about

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Speaker 2: that time frame because I thought for sure I was

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Speaker 2: course in my career. At that point, we were successful.

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Speaker 2: We still had our roots. Obviously there was some turmoil

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Speaker 2: I was about to buy out. Ere my whole life

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Speaker 2: would have just it's so crazy. One little trade. I

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Speaker 2: didn't even get offered a deal that was I was

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Speaker 2: just as sign and trade in New Orleans. Just see

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Speaker 2: you later, you easy, Yeah, have a good time. And uh,

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Speaker 2: well what are you when you think bad?

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Speaker 1: I want to get into we'll get into what you're

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Speaker 1: did you know about Orlando when you came here? Right?

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Speaker 1: You come here the team had just gone to the finals,

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Speaker 1: and now bag yeah, you're you're coming down here to

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Speaker 2: I was on a golf course. I get a call

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Speaker 2: It's a gut punch. It's a crazy experience when you

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Speaker 2: back then deals if you if you had a four

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Speaker 2: your deal. It's not like nowadays, like instant gratification. One

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Speaker 1: But I've been in New Jersey. Party wasn't like I'm

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Speaker 2: No, I've lived in so many different cities and I

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Speaker 2: Jersey had its things, but I found things that I

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Speaker 2: kind of initial response, it's this panic mode and it's crazy.

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Speaker 2: Like next call Vince Carter on my phone. And I

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Speaker 2: I have no idea what a trade like. He was

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Speaker 2: Of always had this big brother Vince' mentality with me.

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Speaker 2: Vince Carter, Yeah, the best guy, the best veteran I

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Speaker 1: This is great.

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Speaker 2: This is you know, a veteran, I think ten eleven

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Speaker 2: then the next process of thought goes to, Wow, these

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Speaker 2: some high expectations. So man, I very quickly I fell

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Speaker 2: then obviously, as you know, I just fell in love

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Speaker 3: So what's that conversation like when you first come here

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Speaker 3: what's that conversation between you and Otis and the rest

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Speaker 3: and and Stan probably on what your role is going

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Speaker 3: to be and how you're going to fit in because that,

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Speaker 3: you know, as you stayed here longer, your role obviously

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Speaker 2: I mean my process here developed my whole career, and

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Speaker 2: I talked to March and Gore, Todd and JJ Reddick

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Speaker 1: No doubt about that, right, that guys. It brought to stage. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: But and I was that guy.

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Speaker 2: I came in and I took it. It was tough

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Speaker 2: for me. I never experienced a coach like Stan. There's

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Speaker 2: you know, a veteran guy could do no wrong.

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Speaker 2: My foot wasn't enough on the his attention to detail

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Speaker 2: there's nothing I'm doing that's good enough. I thought he

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Speaker 2: What it was is he wanted to push me to

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Speaker 2: that first year. I was there and I'm like, wow,

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Speaker 2: know that for my second season. And I did all that.

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Speaker 2: I worked my tail off and they saw it, and

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Speaker 2: then all of a sudden, Brandon Bass was here at

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Speaker 2: It takes time to build, absolutely, you know. And I

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Speaker 3: Are these wounds healed yet? Because well not for me.

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Speaker 3: I like I feel like I'm having a little flashback here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it definitely is ingrained in my mind,

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Speaker 1: You know, I know we've joked I joked about not

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Speaker 1: There was no logical explanation for not bringing it back.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: They had a different plan.

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Speaker 2: They wanted to build it a younger uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: Oh we want to start, we don't.

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Speaker 2: And also there was a lot of question there were

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Speaker 6: Level without Dwighthight interesting and so in a lot of way,

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Speaker 2: Though It's like anyway, defensively, without question, Dwight was the

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Speaker 2: greatest person to have your back. Ever, sure you know

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Speaker 2: I'd be guarding these guys, Tim Duncan's, Kevin Garnett's, I'm

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Speaker 2: not afraid to gard him because I know my boys

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Speaker 1: You were fearless defender.

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Speaker 2: When Dwight was, Yeah, I would fearless one of them

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Speaker 2: just in the running for a time and now all

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Speaker 2: always all defensive, always so, but but like that was

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Speaker 2: in NBA, Dwight, and it was incredible night in the

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Speaker 2: ever I'm gonna give this guy forty and twenty tonight,

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Speaker 2: and they'd give him forty five and twenty five.

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Speaker 1: You know, It's like he would say that, he would

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Speaker 2: In the locker room sometimes there'd be like, I remember

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Speaker 2: I remember, DeAndre was, you know, getting in a getting

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Speaker 2: and Dwight was like, I am I'm not gonna let

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Speaker 1: Have his moment. You know, I'm going to show him

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Speaker 1: not tonight. It's not gonna be it.

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Speaker 2: And that was like fifty and thirty, you know or whatever.

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Speaker 2: It's like she's but he could do that, He could

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Speaker 2: do that. That was never a world I could ever do.

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Speaker 2: I could never Those are the special but most case,

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Speaker 2: so few guys have been around that could do that.

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Speaker 2: But but yeah, I mean all defense for me, so

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Speaker 2: the fact that so the fact that Dwight's not wasn't

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Speaker 2: It's a robbery. And from my explanation, and the great

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Speaker 2: I think it's just based off of just things that

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Speaker 1: Who makes well that's over here, so he still aside.

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Speaker 1: I just can't stand that side. You've got to clear

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Speaker 2: He takes medication, depression, medica.

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I still can't get over it.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I I cry myself the slid of surgery

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Speaker 1: thirty years ago, I still think. But anyway, but anyway,

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Speaker 1: For the politicking that he did. Yeah, I think you

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Speaker 3: But listen, I still say that that is one of

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Speaker 2: I accomplished what I did, and that's.

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Speaker 3: But listen, like, by what would you do you want?

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Speaker 3: I could just give it will you send it to me?

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Speaker 3: I still live at the same house. Okay, so, but

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Speaker 3: sending out some emails and whatever else, I thought you

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Speaker 1: If you remember to me, I was. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if I paid much attention to that stuff. You didn't.

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Speaker 1: You didn't, which was good.

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Speaker 2: I feel like I was just so happy to have

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Speaker 1: At the time.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if at the time they were doing

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Speaker 1: Sign whatever it was money.

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Speaker 2: I just want to be here. Yeah, right, Seriously, that's

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Speaker 2: I was going to take a severe pay cut, and

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Speaker 2: I almost regret not doing that. I would have taken

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Speaker 2: way less money to stick to stay.

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Speaker 3: But now I'm getting sad all over it.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, I regret not making those phone calls

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Speaker 2: You know, but.

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Speaker 1: Are you But I mean, look at the jacket you're

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Speaker 1: But like it, dude.

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Speaker 2: Once I left this city, my life changed dramatic, That's true.

438
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Speaker 1: So a lot of my.

439
00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:22,120
Speaker 2: Youth and my innocence and just sort of my being

440
00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:23,280
Speaker 2: a young man.

441
00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:26,120
Speaker 3: Dissolved after I went away fast.

442
00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:29,520
Speaker 2: I went away quick, and so a lot of change,

443
00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:31,640
Speaker 2: a lot of that, you know, for anybody that knows

444
00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:34,080
Speaker 2: my story. And I'm happy talking about it, and we'll

445
00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:36,679
Speaker 2: talk about the podcast, I'm sure later. I want to.

446
00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:41,479
Speaker 2: You know, suicide, a suicide happened in my life with

447
00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:44,160
Speaker 2: the girl that I was dating in New Orleans, and

448
00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:46,320
Speaker 2: and that happened within the first year I was in

449
00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:49,560
Speaker 2: New Orleans, and so she lived here in Orlando my

450
00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:51,520
Speaker 2: last year we were we didn't live together, but we

451
00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:55,280
Speaker 2: lived in the same city and our different apartments, but

452
00:21:56,080 --> 00:21:58,359
Speaker 2: we you know, we fell in love with this city together.

453
00:21:58,400 --> 00:21:58,600
Speaker 2: You know.

454
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Speaker 1: So when that something like that.

455
00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:06,360
Speaker 2: Happens, you your life dramatically changes into like the fight

456
00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:09,320
Speaker 2: or flight mode and you have to go right into.

457
00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:13,159
Speaker 1: Okay, who am I now? And how deal with this?

458
00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:16,879
Speaker 2: So life changed a lot heading forward into I'm not

459
00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:20,159
Speaker 2: saying that obviously the trade caused all of this stuff,

460
00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:23,040
Speaker 2: but it's sure, sure man, My it's that just makes

461
00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:25,280
Speaker 2: my time here even that much more special because it

462
00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:29,959
Speaker 2: was like the roots of all of my innocence and like,

463
00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:33,560
Speaker 2: you know, being a becoming a man happened here.

464
00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:37,520
Speaker 1: But but sorry, that was quite a bit of a segue.

465
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Speaker 1: But go ahead. Do you think about that? Do you

466
00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:44,159
Speaker 1: allow yourself time now to go back and reflect on

467
00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:45,879
Speaker 1: that and that that was such a I mean, I

468
00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:47,880
Speaker 1: can't even imagine, right, And we've talked about it about

469
00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:51,040
Speaker 1: it not on air, right obviously, you know, and what

470
00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:53,959
Speaker 1: you've been through is just is amazing what you've been

471
00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:55,280
Speaker 1: able to overcome, it really is.

472
00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:57,760
Speaker 2: But you have also opened up to me with things

473
00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:00,760
Speaker 2: as well, and that's what's most important. And talking about

474
00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:04,920
Speaker 2: this this stuff that's a very stigma type topic. It's

475
00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:09,440
Speaker 2: not something that it doesn't just come naturally to talk

476
00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:12,639
Speaker 2: about it. You have to just you have to understand

477
00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:14,760
Speaker 2: what the mission is here, you know, and the mission

478
00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:17,680
Speaker 2: is to help people, and you have to move forward

479
00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:20,760
Speaker 2: and you have to check on and figure out the

480
00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:23,280
Speaker 2: best way you can use your platform or whatever that

481
00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:27,959
Speaker 2: platform might be, to help people or just to communicate

482
00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:34,080
Speaker 2: whatever it is you're going through mental health stuff. Yeah, obviously,

483
00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:39,080
Speaker 2: every single person I've ever talked to about the suicide

484
00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:43,560
Speaker 2: topic has had some sort of a thought or some

485
00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:47,000
Speaker 2: sort of a moment where it's entered their mind. Not

486
00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:50,600
Speaker 2: if they're going to do it or not, but it's life.

487
00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:50,880
Speaker 1: Man.

488
00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:54,960
Speaker 2: There's tough things that happen in life, and it's something

489
00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:59,040
Speaker 2: that's it's just sort of pushed aside, like we're all

490
00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:01,719
Speaker 2: supposed to behave like these perfect people on Instagram and

491
00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:06,199
Speaker 2: have these you know, watch these shows on TV that

492
00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:10,600
Speaker 2: are reality shows, but they are not real life. And

493
00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:12,800
Speaker 2: for me, I want to talk about it. I want

494
00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:15,320
Speaker 2: to use my I think my greatest I was talking

495
00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:17,840
Speaker 2: about this this morning with a buddy of mine. My

496
00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:21,480
Speaker 2: greatest talent and gift in life is my vulnerability. I

497
00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:25,520
Speaker 2: think that is my one thing that I am proud

498
00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:29,080
Speaker 2: to say that I am comfortable being vulnerable and I

499
00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:30,919
Speaker 2: want to talk about this stuff and help people.

500
00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:33,760
Speaker 1: And you are. That's unbelievable. You are know that, but

501
00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:35,880
Speaker 1: to know that, but let everybody know you're so you're

502
00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:37,239
Speaker 1: going to come out with a part where you're going

503
00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:39,120
Speaker 1: to do that. You've got a podcast coming out where

504
00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:42,160
Speaker 1: you Is that what we can expect of these vulnerable conversations? Absolutely?

505
00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:45,840
Speaker 2: Yeah. The the intention of this. So this started buddy

506
00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:48,600
Speaker 2: of mine, Brady Howe and I. He works with the

507
00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:52,600
Speaker 2: Sons and he's very passionate about the mental health topic

508
00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:55,159
Speaker 2: and he's trying to within that the organization sort of

509
00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:58,560
Speaker 2: waken up or and even in the NBA he's talking

510
00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:00,200
Speaker 2: with a bunch of other teams. I think I think

511
00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:04,200
Speaker 2: that it's a greatly looked over aspect in the game

512
00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:04,600
Speaker 2: right now.

513
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:06,360
Speaker 1: I really wouldn't you. I mean, oh yeah for sure,

514
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:07,440
Speaker 1: because you look at.

515
00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:09,520
Speaker 2: This facility you guys have here. It's incredible. I mean

516
00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:13,840
Speaker 2: I toured everything. There's not a place though where you know.

517
00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:16,560
Speaker 2: I not like you have to have a therapist office,

518
00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:19,600
Speaker 2: but there needs to be accessibility and these people need

519
00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:21,480
Speaker 2: to be a part of the team, a part of

520
00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 2: the staff, introduced like family, like even you guys are

521
00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:27,480
Speaker 2: with the players. This guy can't just be oh, here's

522
00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:30,359
Speaker 2: there's so and so over there mandatory by Adam Silver

523
00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:33,000
Speaker 2: just put in place, let's go. You could talk to

524
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:36,520
Speaker 2: him when you want. Nobody in the NBA is going

525
00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:38,520
Speaker 2: to go and talk to them. Maybe a rare case

526
00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:41,560
Speaker 2: here and there. So for me, we've been talking to

527
00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:46,239
Speaker 2: By the way, we have a number of episodes uh

528
00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:50,119
Speaker 2: uh fully completed and we're waiting for the right timing

529
00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:52,560
Speaker 2: to release. We want to get a little bit more apilate.

530
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:55,760
Speaker 2: We have plans next month to record a few more,

531
00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:57,919
Speaker 2: so this is going to be coming out of the

532
00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:00,560
Speaker 2: next few months. I'm really excited about it because it's

533
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:04,720
Speaker 2: I just want to have real conversations with real people.

534
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:09,800
Speaker 2: Who are these athletes, not real conversations with athletes or

535
00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:12,600
Speaker 2: or not just conversations with athletes. You know what I'm saying, Like,

536
00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:14,919
Speaker 2: how many more times do we need to have the

537
00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:18,959
Speaker 2: debate of is Michael Jordan or Lebron James the greatest

538
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:19,840
Speaker 2: basketball player ever?

539
00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:21,040
Speaker 1: You get crossed that off your list?

540
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:23,600
Speaker 3: Hold on, I come with a lot of notes and

541
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:25,720
Speaker 3: that that actually was on the top of my list.

542
00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:28,520
Speaker 1: So that's but there's not a lot of these covers

543
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:28,920
Speaker 1: the being had.

544
00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:30,679
Speaker 2: I think it's great, right, So we're going to have

545
00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:33,720
Speaker 2: some guests on that are are you know, it's not

546
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:36,159
Speaker 2: just mental health. We want to talk about how to

547
00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:38,440
Speaker 2: perform at the greatest level. And some of the as

548
00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:40,200
Speaker 2: to do with mental health. Some of it is tips.

549
00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:45,000
Speaker 2: You know, we have some awesome, awesome people that are

550
00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:49,280
Speaker 2: doing stuff with the UFC and that have breathing techniques

551
00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:52,560
Speaker 2: and you know, just things that you can really take

552
00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:55,359
Speaker 2: home as a listener. And I think we'll at the

553
00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:56,560
Speaker 2: end of the day. I want to do this to

554
00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:59,600
Speaker 2: help people. So if we can have one listener have

555
00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:04,200
Speaker 2: a tip or you know, be be open to being

556
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,480
Speaker 2: more vulnerable to talk about what they're going on, what's

557
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 2: going on in their life and that's personal.

558
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 3: When does it When does this debut? When can we

559
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 3: expect the podcast?

560
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:15,199
Speaker 2: I so we tentatively in the next like two months,

561
00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:17,240
Speaker 2: we'll have it up, but I will I would love

562
00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:18,200
Speaker 2: if you don't mind.

563
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:21,840
Speaker 1: I'd love to like let you guys know, gosh, absolutely.

564
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:25,639
Speaker 2: Maybe you can you listeners be awesome to know.

565
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:27,920
Speaker 1: What's it called we do? We have a title called

566
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:28,520
Speaker 1: the Session.

567
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:31,600
Speaker 2: So you didn't want to be like therapy session, but

568
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:34,400
Speaker 2: the session kind of like you know.

569
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:37,359
Speaker 1: So you're cutting your chops as an interviewer, right, you

570
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:41,959
Speaker 1: get absolute drag information out of people. Absolutely a second

571
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:45,080
Speaker 1: career learn I mean, are you surprised. I'm surprised.

572
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:46,640
Speaker 4: Men.

573
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:48,160
Speaker 1: They're in another.

574
00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:51,400
Speaker 2: World also, and we've talked about this, yes, three of us.

575
00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:56,840
Speaker 2: I would have played here, you know, retire, retired, had

576
00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:59,840
Speaker 2: my the house in winter Park, were me and each

577
00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:00,679
Speaker 2: other for lunch.

578
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:03,560
Speaker 1: You know, if you still drive by that house, I

579
00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:05,280
Speaker 1: know we you know never there.

580
00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:07,240
Speaker 3: You and I was planning on living in the little

581
00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 3: apartment above the garage.

582
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 1: I don't know been together.

583
00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:15,240
Speaker 2: Don ded Hagen and Dunkin Donuts we had the I

584
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:16,760
Speaker 2: don't want to throw them under the bus.

585
00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:19,399
Speaker 1: It was just I don't want to do so you

586
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:21,720
Speaker 1: got to make up a disguise, make Larry if you

587
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:23,280
Speaker 1: go to make Larry dunk donuts.

588
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:26,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it was anyway, we don't want to throw

589
00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:28,920
Speaker 2: him under the butt on. It was the worst experience.

590
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:31,440
Speaker 1: The smokes love him, though. Why don't you tell so

591
00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:33,119
Speaker 1: you're dunk and Donuts guy. Why don't you let anybody

592
00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:35,439
Speaker 1: know what your goat to drink is? Though? What's my

593
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 1: go to? Your go to?

594
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:36,600
Speaker 2: Oh?

595
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:38,400
Speaker 1: Add dunkin Donut. I didn't enjoy it.

596
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:39,240
Speaker 2: I didn't enjoy it.

597
00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:41,560
Speaker 1: Sweetweet hazel nut.

598
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,880
Speaker 2: Large iced coffee with unsweet hazel nut. Yeah, comond milk.

599
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,440
Speaker 1: It's not an almond milk. He's a purest half and half.

600
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he wants to cut down the calories, like

601
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:51,280
Speaker 2: what is what are you doing?

602
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 1: My problem? That's the only Yeah. And the unsweet hazel

603
00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:58,080
Speaker 1: up like I'm gonna get hazel out. I think it's

604
00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:00,160
Speaker 1: going to be sweet. Yeah, But but there was I

605
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:03,280
Speaker 1: agree coffee. No, not to some extent, to some extent,

606
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:04,760
Speaker 1: but it was a little sweet as he liked it.

607
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 1: There was, But we are in agreement. There is no

608
00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 1: better coffee.

609
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:10,640
Speaker 3: Was that the little bottle in his pocket that he

610
00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 3: that he liked better than.

611
00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 2: Wait a second, Yeah, I do you guys have Phil's

612
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 2: coffee here that I don't know anything? That's the best

613
00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:24,280
Speaker 2: Cold River ever had. Okay, but Duncan I think is

614
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 2: far superior coffee as Starbucks.

615
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:28,920
Speaker 1: Yes, right, I would agree. Yeah, Starbucks is not a

616
00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:30,480
Speaker 1: sponsor ours, right, we would love to have Dunk and

617
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 1: Daughters sponsored. I mean, I love it.

618
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:34,200
Speaker 2: It's just that one location and we won't even say

619
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:34,600
Speaker 2: where it is.

620
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 1: Don't go to that one even, we won't even go

621
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:39,560
Speaker 1: to that one forty five minutes. But you mentioned the

622
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 1: West coast. That's where you're at now. I don'tybody know

623
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:44,960
Speaker 1: where you're at that beach, Mosa Beach doing calib you

624
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:45,880
Speaker 1: pulled them back home.

625
00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:48,840
Speaker 2: You got a ambly love you guys, Marry I'm too

626
00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:50,720
Speaker 2: killed when you guys come out. I loved it when

627
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 2: you guys have come over.

628
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:54,200
Speaker 1: We had so much fun, so much fun. We stay

629
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:56,840
Speaker 1: one mile from you when we go out there and great,

630
00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:59,560
Speaker 1: thanks Wait a second, great? Was that is that for real?

631
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:02,800
Speaker 1: Right down the street? No, we're going this time this time?

632
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:03,239
Speaker 1: Work up?

633
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:06,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I know you don't want to intrude sometimes

634
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 2: I don't want intrude.

635
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:09,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I don't answer calls.

636
00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 3: Right, I mean, can I tell you the amount of

637
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:13,479
Speaker 3: times I've talked in Houston.

638
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:17,600
Speaker 2: We're in Houston at the time, though, that's why defense. Yeah,

639
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:19,280
Speaker 2: that's so if it would be weird if you were like, hey,

640
00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:19,840
Speaker 2: we're right down.

641
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 3: The street, I'm I'm in Houston.

642
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:24,960
Speaker 2: So I was in Houston, so I got I got

643
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,800
Speaker 2: released my last season, My contract got cut up into

644
00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:33,040
Speaker 2: three three years when I was in Miami, and so

645
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:37,720
Speaker 2: I was thinking about standing a tax free state for

646
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:41,080
Speaker 2: those three years. And we had already had her place there, uh,

647
00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:43,560
Speaker 2: you know, raise our two kids there now We're in

648
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:47,520
Speaker 2: Hermosa Beach with my beautiful wife and our two kids,

649
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:49,280
Speaker 2: and and I love it out there.

650
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:52,240
Speaker 1: Grow Honestly, it's gonna say our boys all growns up,

651
00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:57,520
Speaker 1: grows up in fashion. The wife wants another, wants three kids. Yeah,

652
00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:00,440
Speaker 1: we can talk about that. Yeah, I wait on your

653
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:03,280
Speaker 1: guy on like live. Should we talk about it? We

654
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 1: can if you want to.

655
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 3: I mean, it depends on how deep you want to

656
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 3: get into the wheeze on this thing.

657
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:11,480
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, well maybe after because we got to share.

658
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:13,880
Speaker 1: All right, that's true, that's your more quite all right?

659
00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 1: It is it is.

660
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 2: I have a boy and a girl. I love him

661
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:21,320
Speaker 2: so much. They're incredible. If I could wait a few

662
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,640
Speaker 2: more years to have another one, I think, without questioning

663
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:26,080
Speaker 2: one another one. But you know what, it's not up

664
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 2: to me, is it right?

665
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 1: It is not up to you. Is anything up to us?

666
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 5: No?

667
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 3: No, none of it is.

668
00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 1: I didn't ask Lanta if I could do this podcast. Yeah,

669
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:37,640
Speaker 1: I had to ask you. I even we wanted that.

670
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:39,160
Speaker 1: I had to ask Lanta did he even do this?

671
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 1: That's how it goes to Ryan today. She said, what

672
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 1: do you find that you've given up now as a

673
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:45,920
Speaker 1: dad that you didn't think you would be able to.

674
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:48,960
Speaker 1: But you now, I was always a huge like life.

675
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:50,240
Speaker 1: I always knew you with.

676
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 2: Club and you were a fuck just clubbing all the day.

677
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 2: I would go to a bean like Techno, I'd go abuse,

678
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 2: fly out to the Beza. Yeah, my wife at home,

679
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 2: I'm going to a Beza again and club from from

680
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:05,720
Speaker 2: midnight to news the next day.

681
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 1: I can't believe they've done burning Man without you there. No,

682
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:08,840
Speaker 1: I don't know.

683
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 2: I know burning Man, Yeah, Coachella all the hard How

684
00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 2: the heart?

685
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 3: How does your How does your current podcast host get

686
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 3: you to stay on any topic?

687
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 4: There is there any way that that occurs. It's during sessions.

688
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 4: Let's just say this session is a much more serious

689
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 4: word fair. But there's room lends itself so fun. There's

690
00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:30,200
Speaker 4: gotta be you guys.

691
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 1: You lose your Yeah, your personality still has to come out.

692
00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:37,360
Speaker 2: The club days are over, Okay, you know they're They've

693
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:40,000
Speaker 2: been over for a long time. I was never a

694
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 2: huge club guy, but I have had my I did

695
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:44,239
Speaker 2: go to a Pisa boys, did you did you? I

696
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:45,120
Speaker 2: had a good time too.

697
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:46,880
Speaker 1: Is that where that tattoo is from?

698
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 3: Is that where the tattoos feel full?

699
00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:48,560
Speaker 1: Back?

700
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 4: Yeah?

701
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 3: The big eagle on your back.

702
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you remember seeing on Facebook that

703
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:57,120
Speaker 1: he had his retirement party and h yeah yeah, I

704
00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:59,160
Speaker 1: remember three people in the veil room for this. Yeah,

705
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:00,040
Speaker 1: I remember that.

706
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:03,520
Speaker 2: I wasn't in charge of the invite. I mean it's

707
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:05,200
Speaker 2: a surprise party, guy fair.

708
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 3: Wow, that's true surprise party where I saw a lot

709
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:10,560
Speaker 3: of other Magic Stafford's at the surprize party.

710
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:14,760
Speaker 2: That's cool. It was really just everybody I cared about, right,

711
00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:18,000
Speaker 2: like you guys except for you guys come out.

712
00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 1: In thirtieth birthday, but it was in the mill right

713
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:22,959
Speaker 1: have quite made it?

714
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 2: No?

715
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad. It's so great to see. I could

716
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 1: literally could do this for another day or two, but

717
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 1: we've been going to be mindful of your time.

718
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 3: Do you think if Ryan, say, Ryan never left with

719
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:34,160
Speaker 3: the three of us, that would be the show, wouldn't

720
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:36,920
Speaker 3: it be? Yeah? I was gonna that would be It

721
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 3: would be Ryan's show and then the two of us.

722
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:41,080
Speaker 2: I don't want. I wanted to be the three of

723
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 2: us equal partners and I want We've talked about this,

724
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 2: do you want to buy it? I would have so

725
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 2: much fun with you guys doing whatever, But I don't

726
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:53,400
Speaker 2: know if if people would want.

727
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 1: To see it.

728
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 3: But does that matter?

729
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:56,720
Speaker 1: Who want to see it? What do I care if

730
00:33:56,760 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 1: they want to see?

731
00:33:57,440 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 2: Right? You guys are still around us for all these years,

732
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 2: and you got how many listeners seventy?

733
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, seventy you're gonna have forty after this. Well you

734
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 1: were still around by not doing that kind of stuff.

735
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 1: Oh maybe right, But I'm in I would love to

736
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 1: at any capacity. Now. Maybe there's still a world where.

737
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:15,120
Speaker 2: It could happen. I think so I moved to Nashville,

738
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:18,840
Speaker 2: we could be a little closer and maybe creep over to.

739
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 3: He bought a town outside of Nashville. You bought a town,

740
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:27,400
Speaker 3: small town? Really, I'm naming it Anderson. Yeah, could you

741
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 3: dante Ville?

742
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:31,760
Speaker 1: Doing that? It's only Dante's name. This is so it's better.

743
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:37,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you want but he asked Galante? Yeah, Galanteville.

744
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:38,040
Speaker 2: I don't want it.

745
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:40,959
Speaker 3: Maybe I'd like dante Ville better, Dante Town.

746
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,400
Speaker 1: I'll take it. I love that build.

747
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:45,120
Speaker 3: You just to building a building.

748
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:47,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll build you like a host office, like a

749
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 2: post It's like a family cemetery.

750
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 1: Cool. I don't name it all right, thanks fantastic. As

751
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:54,640
Speaker 1: long as you have a little as long as you

752
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:56,279
Speaker 1: have a little in law apartment for him. That's all

753
00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:56,680
Speaker 1: he wants.

754
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:58,680
Speaker 3: He wants just put a statue out front of a

755
00:34:58,680 --> 00:34:59,839
Speaker 3: hand that just goes like this, do.

756
00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:02,400
Speaker 1: You watch NBA? Do your kids know that you played

757
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:04,120
Speaker 1: in the NBA? Like how that I was going to

758
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:06,160
Speaker 1: ask that touch with that, like how much of your

759
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:07,720
Speaker 1: NBA life are you still?

760
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:12,120
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, I for probably a good year or two

761
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,400
Speaker 2: after I was done playing. It was hard for me

762
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 2: to watch because I, you know, all those guys are

763
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:19,520
Speaker 2: my buddies or uh yeah, it just is so fresh

764
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:21,359
Speaker 2: in my mind and kind of the way my career

765
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:24,879
Speaker 2: ended was each step of the way, nothing really has

766
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:30,759
Speaker 2: been that necessarily smooth and just the way you'd anticipate

767
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:34,680
Speaker 2: up your career going. So for me signing in Houston,

768
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:39,080
Speaker 2: just a lot changed very quickly over there within that regime.

769
00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:41,240
Speaker 2: And we could dive into that and a whole other time.

770
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:44,400
Speaker 2: Another good conversation now that I'm retired to have I

771
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:46,279
Speaker 2: want to have that get a real end of that one.

772
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:48,839
Speaker 1: But because there's a guy that you played with that's

773
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,000
Speaker 1: trying to force his way onto his fifth team here,

774
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:53,799
Speaker 1: Yeah I love to know, right, Yeah, very good player,

775
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:56,719
Speaker 1: very good player. But anyway, yeah, I had, but you did,

776
00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:59,319
Speaker 1: You've had different stops along the way. Yeah, yeah, So

777
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 1: for me, it yeah.

778
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:03,440
Speaker 2: It was I kind of distanced myself a little bit

779
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:06,960
Speaker 2: away from basketball. But I it's been really fun just

780
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 2: getting over my own things. And I mean, this is

781
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:12,520
Speaker 2: a part of like with talking about this session podcast,

782
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 2: this is a part of my own journey too. I

783
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:17,399
Speaker 2: want to learn and grow and figure out the best

784
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:21,200
Speaker 2: ways for to live my life. So I'm not doing

785
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:23,759
Speaker 2: this podcast like an expert. The only thing I know

786
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:26,520
Speaker 2: is what I've experienced, and I think I can open

787
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:28,839
Speaker 2: up the platform for other people to talk as well.

788
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:35,360
Speaker 2: But but yeah, the kids, my son is sort of aware,

789
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:37,919
Speaker 2: like what did daddy do? Oh? He played basketball? I mean,

790
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:40,640
Speaker 2: but he's not super into basketball right now. He's not

791
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:44,319
Speaker 2: really into sports. They just want to watch Frozen all day.

792
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:48,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, Frozen still holds up. I'm glad to hear that.

793
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:49,799
Speaker 2: But it was the first time we watched it the

794
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 2: other day. This is probably the longest lasting because you know,

795
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 2: you watch movies with kids and it's like you'll give

796
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:59,359
Speaker 2: it a month watching the same thing. Right we're entering

797
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 2: into two months. Yeah, with the Frozen silk Okay, the music.

798
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 2: I think it's just the song.

799
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 1: Well, it could be. There's certain things you got to pull,

800
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:08,879
Speaker 1: like Teletubby's we had to pull the plug on court.

801
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 1: There's certain shows you just don't allow in the house.

802
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:14,080
Speaker 3: Well that was Lanta for Dante though, like she said

803
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:15,480
Speaker 3: to him, like you're a forty seven year old man.

804
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:19,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I don't want you watching enough already, like

805
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:21,880
Speaker 1: enough of the telest The last thing I'm gonna say, George,

806
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:24,279
Speaker 1: You've been doing this for forty two years. I've been

807
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:27,000
Speaker 1: doing it for forty one, right, covering this, cover this

808
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:32,359
Speaker 1: forty two years? No, forty two, I'm fifty. Would you

809
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:35,720
Speaker 1: say he's I don't know? You give those grays I created?

810
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:38,560
Speaker 2: It was believable when you said, was I believable? Just

811
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:43,480
Speaker 2: look at George though, you no what's of Grail's creeping

812
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:45,560
Speaker 2: out there? How long have you guys really been doing this?

813
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:48,120
Speaker 3: This was this will be my twenty ninth year, and

814
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:49,759
Speaker 3: this is twenty sixty six for Doc.

815
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 2: Wait, you know when somebody exaggerates like they really, they

816
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 2: exaggerate way more than right.

817
00:37:55,360 --> 00:38:01,279
Speaker 1: That actually it's not that far. Good point. All the

818
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 1: guys that have come through these doors and we've met

819
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:04,759
Speaker 1: them all, right, we had them all and this is

820
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:06,640
Speaker 1: a credit to you, Ryan. This is what we'll end with,

821
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 1: and it is just that I think this game can

822
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:11,720
Speaker 1: change people.

823
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:13,440
Speaker 2: I'm top twenty five, it can change that.

824
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:16,480
Speaker 1: He is the best defensive player we've had to the

825
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 1: history of just you. Are we going to Yeah, no

826
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:23,799
Speaker 1: general top life player anyway, No, no, no, no no.

827
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:25,920
Speaker 1: But as far as people that have obviously you had

828
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:28,239
Speaker 1: a great career here and and there may not be.

829
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:31,359
Speaker 1: You've got Dennis Scott, You've got Ryan Anderson, and who

830
00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 1: Rashard Lewis.

831
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:34,759
Speaker 3: Are three point shooters, right, I mean he's right up there.

832
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:37,040
Speaker 3: Ryan on the floor is obsessed one of the best

833
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:38,359
Speaker 3: offensive rebounders we had.

834
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:38,640
Speaker 2: Right.

835
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 1: But I'm talking people people that this game has not

836
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:46,319
Speaker 1: changed you, and everything that you've been through that you've

837
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:48,920
Speaker 1: overcome is a credit to you. And I know we've

838
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 1: talked about that, but I write, would you not agree?

839
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:54,279
Speaker 1: It's very rare that this game, this game, this life

840
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:55,800
Speaker 1: doesn't change people, and he has.

841
00:38:55,719 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 3: A He's definitely definitely one of the ones that as

842
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:03,719
Speaker 3: he is who he is and that's why we love him, right, Yeah,

843
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:04,920
Speaker 3: that's what you guys.

844
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:06,640
Speaker 2: Well, I'd say the same thing about you guys. You

845
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:10,920
Speaker 2: guys are real. I connect and I've connected with so

846
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:16,919
Speaker 2: many especially people within this organization, just even just seeing

847
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:18,880
Speaker 2: so many people I haven't seen in years, but it

848
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:21,040
Speaker 2: feels like I saw I've seen it, you know, been

849
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 2: staying in touch with everybody here right for the most part.

850
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 2: But I just appreciate this organization. I appreciate you guys.

851
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:29,680
Speaker 1: And it's a fun time.

852
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:35,200
Speaker 2: We close because it's it was a special time, but

853
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:38,759
Speaker 2: we It's good to be connected with real, genuine people.

854
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 2: And I found that here and I always felt that

855
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:43,880
Speaker 2: home here and I still always do. And I'm and

856
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 2: I'll crash at your guys's house some time. Yeah, they

857
00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:48,920
Speaker 2: put me up at the Grand Bohemian, and I know

858
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:51,399
Speaker 2: I was a little offended. I didn't like Dante let

859
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:52,080
Speaker 2: me stay.

860
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:53,640
Speaker 3: Well, I heard, I heard you had a sleep over

861
00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 3: it and then want me to call.

862
00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:56,080
Speaker 1: I wasn't invited.

863
00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:57,280
Speaker 3: I didn't even know what was happening.

864
00:39:57,440 --> 00:39:58,919
Speaker 2: But he didn't invite me to his house.

865
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 1: That's true. That's true. And I wasn't home. Clearly could

866
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:02,719
Speaker 1: have to know last night.

867
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:05,239
Speaker 3: Hey, Lowe, you're right, I could have taught Yeah, you

868
00:40:05,239 --> 00:40:06,400
Speaker 3: want to you want to spend the night.

869
00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:08,560
Speaker 1: No, it's too and he had he made got he

870
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:12,280
Speaker 1: got up and made waffles and pancakes this morning. I'm sorry,

871
00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:15,319
Speaker 1: of course he does. Of course he did. It's great

872
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:17,279
Speaker 1: to see him, and I hope you come back more often.

873
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:18,920
Speaker 2: Right, we're gonna have you in town more often.

874
00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:19,520
Speaker 1: I think this would.

875
00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:22,680
Speaker 2: I'd great to have you out any I'll sit down

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Speaker 2: with you guys forever and talk. I loved you anytime. Anytime.

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Speaker 1: Well, best of luck with the podcast. We can't wait

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Speaker 1: to follow it and we'll see you soon. Welcome, Welcome

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Speaker 1: back guys, Ryan Anderson. That'll do it for this edition

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Speaker 1: of Magic Pod Squad