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Speaker 2: We have a living legend on the Bobby Cast Today,

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Speaker 2: Hall of Famer. He's co anchor of Good Morning America.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna talk to Michael Strahan from setting a single

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Speaker 2: season sack record, he flew in Space with Blue Origin,

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Speaker 2: which we'll talk about. Like he's all over the place.

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Speaker 2: He also has a collection and it's called The Collection

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Speaker 2: by Michael Strahan. It suits, It's in one hundred Belk

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Speaker 2: business space and everything in between. If you don't know him, well,

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Speaker 2: you're about to love him. Here he is. My conversation

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Speaker 1: What's up? Man? I'm so hungry. I'm on here eating

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Speaker 2: You eat Starburst. I'm surprised that you, for two reasons,

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Speaker 1: probably harder than a rock. They're all kind of harder

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Speaker 2: I don't even know if you remember me, but I

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Speaker 2: whenever Lolana's X was blowing up. Now it's kind of

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Speaker 2: And then obviously when I you know, I want to

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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, yeah, I appreciate that. I appreciate that, and

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Speaker 2: And I spent time going up in Germany. I'd never

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Speaker 1: you the countdown clock, and then they added more time

437
00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:39,680
Speaker 1: to our countdown clock, which makes you go, huh, why

438
00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:43,359
Speaker 1: did they do that wrong? And they're coming on they're like, no,

439
00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:46,600
Speaker 1: nothing's wrong or okay, and you're watching that countdown clock,

440
00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:49,000
Speaker 1: and once you get to two and a half minutes,

441
00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:52,000
Speaker 1: then it goes on the computer. You're locked in. So

442
00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:54,600
Speaker 1: until then you got two things you can say one

443
00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:59,199
Speaker 1: time out, which means they'll come on and try to say, okay, Bobby,

444
00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:02,760
Speaker 1: you can do this, you got it, or I don't

445
00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:05,280
Speaker 1: want to fly today. Then they'll just come take you off.

446
00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:08,560
Speaker 1: And I'm looking at the countdown clock and I'm like, ooh,

447
00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:11,399
Speaker 1: is anybody on here gonna say they don't want to

448
00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:14,639
Speaker 1: party to break? And if they do, will I go

449
00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:17,760
Speaker 1: with them? And once you get past that threshold where

450
00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:20,160
Speaker 1: you realize you're locked in and you have no other

451
00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:23,160
Speaker 1: option but to do it. It is such a calming

452
00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:27,520
Speaker 1: piece over your body. You're not even scared. It's a piece.

453
00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:32,160
Speaker 1: And once we took off and the thing is moving up,

454
00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:37,000
Speaker 1: everybody just screamed, like unprompted screen because it was like

455
00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:42,680
Speaker 1: all this joy and press are relieved and you're flying. Man,

456
00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:44,679
Speaker 1: I mean you look up there to screen, it's like, oh,

457
00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:47,760
Speaker 1: we're forty thousand square feet I mean forty feet thousand

458
00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:49,920
Speaker 1: feet in the air and we have we're going three

459
00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:52,320
Speaker 1: hundred mileths per hour. You're like, okay, cars that due

460
00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:54,520
Speaker 1: three hundred and forty thousand. I've been on a plane.

461
00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:56,480
Speaker 1: Next thing, you know, you look up, you're like two

462
00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:59,560
Speaker 1: hundred thousand feet in the air doing two thousand mileths

463
00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:03,320
Speaker 1: per hour. And you were in the light looking at

464
00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:05,600
Speaker 1: the darkness. Now you're in the dark looking back at

465
00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:09,400
Speaker 1: the light. And the first time you realize that they

466
00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:12,560
Speaker 1: released the main rocket and you go like that and

467
00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:16,480
Speaker 1: you go, oh my gosh, my arms are floating. Then

468
00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:19,520
Speaker 1: once you release your seat belts, you put them, you

469
00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:22,080
Speaker 1: take them off, You push yourself with the pressure of

470
00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:24,360
Speaker 1: holding up a cell phone with two fingers. That's it.

471
00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:27,800
Speaker 1: Don't ever use your left You'll break your neck. Don't

472
00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:31,360
Speaker 1: blow like the cartoon. You're not gonna move anywhere. Don't

473
00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:33,560
Speaker 1: do that. You're not going anywhere. It doesn't work that way.

474
00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:37,040
Speaker 1: But you push off of that seat and you're just floating.

475
00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:40,320
Speaker 1: You're doing spinning, and you're looking out the window and

476
00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:43,000
Speaker 1: it looks like you know, when you leave your phone,

477
00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:46,560
Speaker 1: your TV on the iPhone and I mean the apple

478
00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:50,200
Speaker 1: and the circular screen and just looking back at the planet.

479
00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:54,439
Speaker 1: It makes you realize how insignificant we are to the

480
00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:59,080
Speaker 1: grand scheme of everything here, and it gives you a

481
00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:03,560
Speaker 1: different sense of what your life is, your family like

482
00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:08,520
Speaker 1: you start you get become peaceful with the fact of

483
00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:10,920
Speaker 1: death when you're getting ready to take off, because you

484
00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:13,720
Speaker 1: realize this could go awry. But then you know, I

485
00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:15,399
Speaker 1: don't want to leave my family. I don't want them

486
00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:20,280
Speaker 1: to leave me. And you realize how much love that

487
00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:24,000
Speaker 1: there is that you have inside of you, uh, and

488
00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:26,720
Speaker 1: but how insignificant the grand scheme of the world you are.

489
00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:28,959
Speaker 1: At the same time, it's just the most unique feeling

490
00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:30,800
Speaker 1: I've ever ever felt.

491
00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:32,359
Speaker 2: Man, And you didn't take it all to yell, I

492
00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:33,000
Speaker 2: don't want to do it.

493
00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:33,399
Speaker 1: You were in.

494
00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:34,080
Speaker 2: You were locked in.

495
00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:36,760
Speaker 1: Absolutely. I thought I didn't want to do it. You know,

496
00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:40,119
Speaker 1: when I got the call to do what I had,

497
00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:42,760
Speaker 1: I was at I went to the first launch that

498
00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:47,360
Speaker 1: Bethos dead. Jeff and his brother Mark and I went

499
00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:49,400
Speaker 1: for gm A and I'm like, okay, you know I'm

500
00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:52,240
Speaker 1: gonna watch these guys go up in a spaceship. I'm

501
00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:55,080
Speaker 1: not a space guy. I watched it, and I said,

502
00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:57,040
Speaker 1: this is the coolest thing. When the rocket came back

503
00:24:57,080 --> 00:25:00,680
Speaker 1: and landed on the pad by itself there you can't

504
00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:02,280
Speaker 1: see that. I'm thinking, I'll just see them up there

505
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:04,360
Speaker 1: and they'll come down like a roller coaster. That's really hot.

506
00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:04,560
Speaker 2: Hot.

507
00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:08,280
Speaker 1: No, they were gone, then they come down. I talked

508
00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:12,040
Speaker 1: to them. It was the most unbridled joy I've ever

509
00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:14,440
Speaker 1: seen out of human being in my life. Everybody who

510
00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:17,239
Speaker 1: did it, and I said, this is the coolest thing

511
00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:19,679
Speaker 1: I've ever seen. When that rocket land I think this

512
00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:23,280
Speaker 1: is like Iron Man cool. A few weeks later, I

513
00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:26,760
Speaker 1: get invited to dinner with them and another couple and

514
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:28,600
Speaker 1: I got there late because I was doing Thursday night

515
00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:31,480
Speaker 1: football at that point for Fox, and I'm eating my

516
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:34,560
Speaker 1: cold left the cold leftovers that they left me, and

517
00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:38,159
Speaker 1: I said, you know that rocket thing. I would say

518
00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:40,959
Speaker 1: I would never do that, but I would do that.

519
00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:43,040
Speaker 1: That was one of the coolest thing that I've ever seen.

520
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:45,560
Speaker 1: A few days later, I'm playing golf and I get

521
00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:47,920
Speaker 1: a call and it's Jeff and he goes, I think

522
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:51,359
Speaker 1: you know what this is about. I'm like, yeah, And

523
00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:54,240
Speaker 1: I was so excited for you. I'm in, man, I'm in.

524
00:25:54,280 --> 00:26:01,879
Speaker 1: A week before I was like, maybe I got COVID maybe, dude.

525
00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:04,200
Speaker 1: I was scared to death. I was like, what did

526
00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:06,960
Speaker 1: I sign up for? Because then the interim you got

527
00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:09,120
Speaker 1: to get your paperwork in order, you know. I'm like,

528
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:12,840
Speaker 1: this could be the last week I'd see my family

529
00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:15,159
Speaker 1: and friends. It could be it. But it ended up

530
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:18,520
Speaker 1: being magnificent. And by the time you get on that ship,

531
00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:22,240
Speaker 1: they've explained everything to you. You sat with the engineers

532
00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:24,679
Speaker 1: who built the rocket, you set with other astronauts who

533
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:27,240
Speaker 1: have gone in the space. They do an incredible job

534
00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:29,160
Speaker 1: of educating you. So when you get on the ship,

535
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:32,200
Speaker 1: you feel confident you're ready to go. My family cried.

536
00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:34,359
Speaker 1: I don't know if they were crying because they wanted

537
00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:36,560
Speaker 1: me back or they didn't, but they said they cried

538
00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:39,640
Speaker 1: and I had the best time, the best time.

539
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,840
Speaker 2: I want to ask about the coach vic experience as

540
00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:46,119
Speaker 2: a kid growing up, love Michael Vicker Virginia Tech, like

541
00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:49,280
Speaker 2: he was that dude. I read the commercials, the Mike

542
00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:52,239
Speaker 2: vic Experience commercial on the roller coaster, you know, so

543
00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:54,360
Speaker 2: the rise of Mike Vick and then you know when

544
00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:56,640
Speaker 2: he went to prison and he's back at So I've

545
00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:59,040
Speaker 2: just kind of seen Mike Vick, the roller coaster of

546
00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:01,280
Speaker 2: Mike Vick. And I wonder now, because I don't know

547
00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:04,080
Speaker 2: him and he's coaching now, like, what did you take

548
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:06,600
Speaker 2: away from Mike Vic as an adult and as a

549
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 2: coach and as a leader of men.

550
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:11,440
Speaker 1: Well, one thing I will say about Mike. I've known

551
00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:14,840
Speaker 1: Mike a long time and I have so much respect

552
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 1: for him because he realized what got him in trouble

553
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:21,560
Speaker 1: back in the day and the way that he was

554
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:24,320
Speaker 1: living his life back in the day, that was the

555
00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 1: wrong way to live his life. And here's the guy

556
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:30,359
Speaker 1: who grew up in a certain way, doing certain things

557
00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:32,639
Speaker 1: that seem normal for the community that he came from,

558
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:35,000
Speaker 1: but they weren't and they weren't right. So he paid

559
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:38,320
Speaker 1: his debt, he went to prison, came out of prison,

560
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:41,159
Speaker 1: got back on the football field, but also had a

561
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 1: lot of you know, he owed a lot of money

562
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:46,200
Speaker 1: to a lot of people, but he didn't found bankruptc

563
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:49,240
Speaker 1: and ripped everybody off. He paid people back. So I

564
00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:50,760
Speaker 1: look at Mike and I think Mike had a lot

565
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:54,359
Speaker 1: of honor. I think as a coach, I don't know

566
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:58,120
Speaker 1: if there's any other player I would listen, I would

567
00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:01,959
Speaker 1: be amazed look at Mike and I look at Dion.

568
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:03,639
Speaker 1: I mean, the'se got some of the goats of what

569
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 1: they did. And they both are the guys who were

570
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:09,320
Speaker 1: signature like they's so incredible at the time. They're one

571
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:11,119
Speaker 1: of the few football players at the top with their

572
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:13,760
Speaker 1: own shoes which are on a parel line through Nike,

573
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 1: Like we didn't get that as football players. That's how

574
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:18,720
Speaker 1: exceptional these two were. And I love Mike as a

575
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:21,880
Speaker 1: coach because I think he's had some life experiences that

576
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:25,440
Speaker 1: other kids, these kids need to hear. The kids need

577
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 1: to experience someone who's been on top, who's been on

578
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:31,120
Speaker 1: the bottom, who's making their way back. And I think

579
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:34,439
Speaker 1: as a coach, it is so much, probably more than

580
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:37,200
Speaker 1: he thought it was going to be. It's a lot

581
00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 1: to bite off. It's a lot of work, there's a

582
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:41,760
Speaker 1: lot of time away from your family. They're the reason

583
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:43,760
Speaker 1: I got into TV, because I wouldn't want to be

584
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:46,840
Speaker 1: a coach. So I think that Mike is a great

585
00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 1: example of resilience. I think he's a great example paying

586
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:52,240
Speaker 1: your debt to society and getting back on your feet.

587
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 1: And I hopefully he can turn Norfolk State back around

588
00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:58,080
Speaker 1: because last year was a rough year. But I think

589
00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:02,320
Speaker 1: he's also learning along with these kids as the coach,

590
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:05,760
Speaker 1: and I think they're learning from him as men.

591
00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:07,600
Speaker 2: Do you think you could have played another year?

592
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:11,200
Speaker 1: Yeah? Absolutely? Why? Yeah? Why didn't I say I walked

593
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 1: off to field, Bobby, I didn't lent Okay, why and

594
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:17,640
Speaker 1: we won a super Bowl? Man? I had fifteen years.

595
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:19,120
Speaker 1: I did everything I wanted to do.

596
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:20,280
Speaker 2: There was nothing left to do.

597
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 1: What was I'd won every awards, I'd done all the

598
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:26,520
Speaker 1: individual stuff, and after so many years of that, you

599
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 1: kind of go, this is not really fulfilling. The only

600
00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:31,480
Speaker 1: thing I hadn't done was one of Super Bowl. So

601
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:35,360
Speaker 1: once that happened, it's like, why am I sticking around

602
00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 1: for the money to blow my knee? Out and the

603
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:40,000
Speaker 1: next thing, I got something that's going to mess me

604
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:42,000
Speaker 1: up for the rest of my life for a few bucks,

605
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:45,720
Speaker 1: and I just kind of felt confident enough that I

606
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:48,240
Speaker 1: could make something happen outside of the game of football.

607
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:51,480
Speaker 1: And thankfully I've been able to do that. But yeah,

608
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:53,720
Speaker 1: I could have played another year. Physically, I felt great.

609
00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:55,400
Speaker 1: There are days I wake up now and I feel

610
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:56,520
Speaker 1: like I can give him another year.

611
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:00,640
Speaker 2: Did you have good financial life?

612
00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:08,040
Speaker 1: Yeah? And not because not because it was because I

613
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:12,400
Speaker 1: had a chance encounter with the guy who ended up

614
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:14,320
Speaker 1: being like one of my He is one of my

615
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:17,719
Speaker 1: best friends and my brother who has looked out for

616
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:20,560
Speaker 1: me over the years, and it was like a ten

617
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:23,240
Speaker 1: year age No, it'st well, hold on, yeah, it's like

618
00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:27,000
Speaker 1: twelve year age difference. We met on a golf trip

619
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:29,280
Speaker 1: when neither of us played golf. We ended up being

620
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 1: like sweet mates and we just really hit it off.

621
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:38,240
Speaker 1: In nineteen ninety four and he got into an accident

622
00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:40,920
Speaker 1: in the city and call and his wife called me,

623
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:43,560
Speaker 1: who was nine months pregnant at the time in her

624
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:47,840
Speaker 1: mid forties, which is back then the very risky pregnancy.

625
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,640
Speaker 1: And I went to the hospital and saw him and

626
00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:53,440
Speaker 1: made sure that she had nothing to worry about and

627
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:55,440
Speaker 1: took care of him, made sure I got all the

628
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:58,200
Speaker 1: doctors I made that happen. And his promise to me

629
00:30:58,440 --> 00:30:59,960
Speaker 1: was you took care of my wife and my own

630
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 1: born son, who is now mid twenties and works a

631
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 1: big head fun. I can't teach you. I want to

632
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:11,400
Speaker 1: do something for you. So I can't teach you football,

633
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 1: and I'm like, yeah, because from the accident when you

634
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 1: gotta hit roy roller blader, you can't take ahead, so

635
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 1: it was pretty bad how you look. So I want

636
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 1: to teach you about money. I don't want to invest

637
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:26,120
Speaker 1: your money. I don't want to control your money. I

638
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 1: don't want any say over your money. I just want

639
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 1: you to bring me every deal that anyone brings to

640
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:33,560
Speaker 1: you and all the things that you've done before you've

641
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:35,040
Speaker 1: met me, and I want to make sure we go

642
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 1: through it. I wanted to teach you how to look

643
00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 1: at money. I want to teach you how to value money.

644
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 1: I will teach you how to understand it, what question

645
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:44,000
Speaker 1: to ask when people want it, like everything, And that

646
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 1: was the life lesson of the best financial literacy that

647
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:50,480
Speaker 1: anybody can have as someone who's in that business. In

648
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:54,320
Speaker 1: the finance world, who takes you under their wing for nothing,

649
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:58,360
Speaker 1: never charge me one penny, and has been that guy

650
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,880
Speaker 1: for me for over thirty years. So I got very lucky,

651
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 1: very fortunate in relationships.

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Speaker 4: The Bobby Cast will be right back. This is the

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Speaker 4: Bobby Cast.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna ask you a question that I've asked a

655
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Speaker 2: few people recently. I don't have any kids yet. My

656
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Speaker 2: wife's about to have our first kid, so thank you

657
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Speaker 2: very much. Vegas. Could be like, give me some advice.

658
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Speaker 1: Well, when the baby's born, you come home, they don't

659
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Speaker 1: give you a manual, but don't panic. I think that

660
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 1: first of all, you'll know what you're doing without even

661
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:44,040
Speaker 1: knowing what you're doing, and you'll figure it out. And

662
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:48,840
Speaker 1: kids aren't as delicate as you think they are. They

663
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Speaker 1: were off, I mean, we were all kids and ran

664
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Speaker 1: and fell and hit our head on coffee tables and

665
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 1: everything else, and look at us, we're functioning somewhat. So

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Speaker 1: I would say, you're gonna love your kid more than

667
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 1: you ever thought you can love anything, including yourself, because

668
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 1: I tell my kids all the time, because I'm that

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Speaker 1: annoying dad who's sending them, you know, stuff, fuf Instagram

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Speaker 1: watch out for this when you're in an uber do

671
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Speaker 1: this and they're like, oh dad, you're going to take

672
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Speaker 1: self defense because oh Dad, I'm like, you don't understand

673
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 1: when you're not with me, my heart lives outside of

674
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Speaker 1: my body. You're my heart now, So wherever you go

675
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:32,040
Speaker 1: and whatever you do is me. And that's the thing

676
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:34,400
Speaker 1: about having kids. It makes you realize that your life

677
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:36,920
Speaker 1: is a lot bigger than whatever you do for a living.

678
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Speaker 1: And you know, whatever car you drive and how many

679
00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:44,480
Speaker 1: people you know doesn't matter. Kids are the krem to

680
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Speaker 1: krem of what life is about. If you have them,

681
00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:52,480
Speaker 1: and you'll be fine, don't be nervous, and you'll you'll

682
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Speaker 1: crush it and whatever they most, for the most part,

683
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 1: whatever they learn in life, I think it's Fathers were

684
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Speaker 1: always told that, you know what I mean, you got

685
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Speaker 1: a baby, what are we supposed to really do? And

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Speaker 1: I'd read I read a book of years ago that

687
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Speaker 1: said the first three years of your kid's life are

688
00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:09,920
Speaker 1: the most important of the father because we always get

689
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Speaker 1: this idea that oh, I'm not breast freeding, I'm not

690
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:16,520
Speaker 1: doing this, I'm not doing that, but being there, your

691
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:20,719
Speaker 1: rhythm of your heart, the smell like everything and your

692
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 1: kids could get as at tapped to you as they

693
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Speaker 1: can to anybody. And I'm telling you, man, it's going

694
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:26,840
Speaker 1: to be magical. I can't wait. Do you talk to

695
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:29,360
Speaker 1: you in a few months or a year and you're like, Michael,

696
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:31,879
Speaker 1: this is the most amazing thing ever. And I'm having

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Speaker 1: a second one.

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Speaker 2: I got three final questions for you. I love when

699
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:42,960
Speaker 2: people do like lines of clothes because there's a lot

700
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Speaker 2: of like themselves in it. And I know that you

701
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:48,480
Speaker 2: have at Belk stores. You have is it suits? Like

702
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Speaker 2: what do you have? And how much of it is

703
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:51,200
Speaker 2: like your style?

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Speaker 1: It's all of it's my style everything. So we have suits,

705
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:58,799
Speaker 1: we have belts, we have all the men accessories. So

706
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 1: everything that you need to get suited and booted is

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00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 1: what we got and it's all my style. I don't

708
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:06,479
Speaker 1: wear everything. Every time you see me in a suit,

709
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:10,320
Speaker 1: it's my suit. See me in his shirt, it's my shirt.

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00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:13,279
Speaker 1: I don't go out and buy something else and wear

711
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:16,120
Speaker 1: and try to say, oh yeah, this is mine everything,

712
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:18,880
Speaker 1: because I believe if I'm gonna put my name on,

713
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 1: it's got to be me. And but I am kind

714
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:25,879
Speaker 1: of a I'm not a bougie guy. If that's a

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Speaker 1: word like, I'm not this fancy, hoity toity guy because

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00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:35,799
Speaker 1: my suits are affordable, but they're nice and there's a

717
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:37,920
Speaker 1: lot of thought that goes into them, and I would

718
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:41,400
Speaker 1: touch every fabric. Oh, I like this pocket, I like

719
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:45,280
Speaker 1: that lapel, like obsessing over it because I didn't want someone.

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Speaker 1: If something the success and you're getting credit for it

721
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:52,920
Speaker 1: and you were really really invested, you can feel good

722
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:56,759
Speaker 1: about it. If it were success and I had nothing

723
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:58,120
Speaker 1: to do with it and they're giving a lot of

724
00:35:58,120 --> 00:35:59,880
Speaker 1: credit to me, I would feel bad just like it

725
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:03,480
Speaker 1: fit the failure and I didn't put anything into it.

726
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 1: Then I'm mad at myself because maybe I could have

727
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:07,880
Speaker 1: made it success by investing. But if it's the failure

728
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 1: and I put everything intwo of it, I could live

729
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 1: with that. At least I try. So everything is me everything,

730
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Speaker 1: So I love the business. It's organic to me and

731
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:21,040
Speaker 1: organic to my life. And being a football player, we

732
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:23,239
Speaker 1: had to dress up. I love getting on the road

733
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:25,360
Speaker 1: trips because you would see some of the most interesting

734
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:30,040
Speaker 1: outfits you'd ever see. A chameleon suit that changed colors

735
00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:33,439
Speaker 1: with every freaking way you walk, to suits that looked

736
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:37,319
Speaker 1: like skittles bags with yellow, green and purple and everything else.

737
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 1: So yeah, interesting life.

738
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Speaker 2: Okay, two questions left. This one's probably gonna be tough,

739
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:44,759
Speaker 2: but I got if you could go one through three, like,

740
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:47,399
Speaker 2: who have you been able to interview that you were

741
00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:50,319
Speaker 2: starstruck by when you sat down with them?

742
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:51,320
Speaker 3: Wow?

743
00:36:54,480 --> 00:37:00,799
Speaker 1: Julia Roberts. Julia Roberts, how about that go first time? Fantastic.

744
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:04,839
Speaker 1: I interviewed her at the Beverly Wilster Hotel the anniversary

745
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:07,360
Speaker 1: of Pretty Woman, and I interviewed her in the suite

746
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 1: where they shot the movie. And when we finished the interview,

747
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:12,520
Speaker 1: she asked me if I want to have a glass

748
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:16,759
Speaker 1: of rose? So I said absolutely, because who turns down

749
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:19,319
Speaker 1: Julia Roberts in a glass of rose? And we ended

750
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 1: up finishing off a bottle of rose and it was

751
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:25,319
Speaker 1: It was fantastic. And her birthday is the same as

752
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 1: my twins, so you know, every year I sent her

753
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:30,880
Speaker 1: a case of rose. I don't know if she drinks

754
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:32,839
Speaker 1: it or not, but you know, I send it to her.

755
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 1: But yeah, Julia Roberts was one.

756
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:37,320
Speaker 2: Man.

757
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:42,640
Speaker 1: It's so weird because I've interviewed people multiple times now,

758
00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 1: so I'm not really as nervous. Oh, I had Nicole

759
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:50,960
Speaker 1: Kidman yesterday and Jamie Lee Curtis.

760
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 2: Nicole Kidman is so nice. She lives here, like yeah,

761
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 2: and I know she's local and I know her, and

762
00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:58,520
Speaker 2: I knew her and Keith when they were together, and

763
00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 2: I knew them both really well. She's so nice, Like

764
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:03,239
Speaker 2: she shouldn't be that nice, you know what.

765
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:07,480
Speaker 1: She's so nice. And Jamie Lee and her, of course

766
00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 1: complimented each other, and I love the way in which

767
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:13,759
Speaker 1: they met and they're working on this project together, and

768
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:18,719
Speaker 1: so I Jamie Lee said how nice she was, and

769
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:22,040
Speaker 1: you could just see it. She's a gentle soul man.

770
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:25,160
Speaker 1: So she kind of intimidated me because I love her work,

771
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:27,360
Speaker 1: like I love everything she does. I think she just

772
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:33,200
Speaker 1: is fantastic. And the last one who would be number three?

773
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Speaker 2: You stop? What about it? We're gonna stop it, Like

774
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:40,160
Speaker 2: what about an athletic? When I interviewed Derek Jeter, thought

775
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:42,359
Speaker 2: that was pretty cool? Or it's usually anybody from when

776
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:44,279
Speaker 2: I was a kid that I looked up to, because

777
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:46,439
Speaker 2: when I meet them, I'm like, this is crazy, because

778
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:48,239
Speaker 2: I still have that inside of me, even if I

779
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:50,920
Speaker 2: know everything's like real and you know, people are people,

780
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:52,719
Speaker 2: but like when I meet somebody from when I was

781
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 2: a kid. I still have those feelings.

782
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know what, the guy that they're really

783
00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 1: good like, Jeter's my buddy. I mean, I don't get

784
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 1: me started on that knucklehead, but I love it. The

785
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:07,320
Speaker 1: one guy who I loved too is a good friend

786
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 1: and everything else, but you see him and you're still like,

787
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:13,239
Speaker 1: WHOA what. I remember the first time I interviewed him

788
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:17,000
Speaker 1: with first year he got into NASCAR, and I was like,

789
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:22,600
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan. I mean, MJ is still MJ. And so

790
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:25,319
Speaker 1: that was like the one guy. And as a kid,

791
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 1: I started trying to walk a little bow legged and

792
00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:30,440
Speaker 1: stuff like that, and wish I had grown to six

793
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:33,200
Speaker 1: six and about two fifteen so I could have played basketball,

794
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:34,880
Speaker 1: but that didn't quite work out, so I had to

795
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 1: go to football. But MJ. MJ is like one of

796
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 1: those athletes that I look at I'm like, Okay, this

797
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:43,520
Speaker 1: is Michael Jordan. This is the guy who I still

798
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 1: get a bunch of highlights on Instagram for my buddies.

799
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:50,120
Speaker 3: Let's take a quick pause for a message from our sponsor,

800
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:04,160
Speaker 3: and we're back on the Bobby Cast.

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Speaker 2: Final question for you. You've done many things, and you've

802
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:12,040
Speaker 2: been successful at many things like what's the key? What's

803
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:14,360
Speaker 2: the key to people doing things and making it.

804
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:21,719
Speaker 1: Really enjoyed and having through the athm for it. Just

805
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:25,799
Speaker 1: don't show up at mail in mail it in. Be interested.

806
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:28,440
Speaker 1: I think that's the thing a lot of people do

807
00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 1: things because then we've all done things like oh, I'm

808
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:33,240
Speaker 1: gonna make a lot of money. But you just don't

809
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:35,320
Speaker 1: jump into something and make a lot of money. You

810
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:37,200
Speaker 1: got to build up to those things. But the only

811
00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 1: way you're going to build up to it if you

812
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 1: have an interest and to stay in it. And I've

813
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:46,200
Speaker 1: always been interested in things and that I've done. I

814
00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:48,279
Speaker 1: think I try to do things that really make me

815
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:51,880
Speaker 1: want to do them, and that's just has seemed to

816
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:54,560
Speaker 1: be the magic. On top of just being nice to people.

817
00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:59,600
Speaker 1: I think that is like the greatest thing for me

818
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:02,839
Speaker 1: is just people being nice to people, understanding people, having

819
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:05,360
Speaker 1: a feeling for people, like I said earlier, making people

820
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:08,680
Speaker 1: feel seen, because if you treat people in that way,

821
00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:13,799
Speaker 1: people were going to be around you. We never have

822
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:15,839
Speaker 1: you ever seen somebody walks in a room and you're

823
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:18,560
Speaker 1: like oh, man, or somebody walks in the room and

824
00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 1: you're like hey, And I think that's just from the

825
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:23,719
Speaker 1: vibe and energy that you give off. So for me,

826
00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:26,160
Speaker 1: I've just tried to give off the vibe of you know,

827
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:28,000
Speaker 1: I'm easy. I don't want anything from anybody. I don't

828
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:30,360
Speaker 1: need anything from anybody. I just want to truly be

829
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:33,960
Speaker 1: friends with people. I think there's so much more fun

830
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:38,000
Speaker 1: in that than always having an angle. So yeah, show up,

831
00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 1: be authentic, be interested, and do the best you can

832
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:42,920
Speaker 1: at it.

833
00:41:43,719 --> 00:41:47,200
Speaker 2: Life ain't that complicated. I'm gonna check out. I'm gonna

834
00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:48,600
Speaker 2: check out the suits. If those are the ones you're

835
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:50,160
Speaker 2: wearing on TV. I'm gonna check out the suits.

836
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:50,920
Speaker 1: Then that's it.

837
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:51,600
Speaker 2: You let me know.

838
00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:54,480
Speaker 1: I'll sing you some man. I got you now, nobody

839
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:55,360
Speaker 1: get your sizes.

840
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:59,240
Speaker 2: We'll shit you some suits, all right, all right, apper

841
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:02,160
Speaker 2: dad man, I appreciate that. Like I said, I'm not

842
00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:04,399
Speaker 2: just saying it because you know we're on Netflix now

843
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:07,319
Speaker 2: or whatever. It's like you were always so kind to me,

844
00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:09,800
Speaker 2: even if you didn't know you were, Like you naturally

845
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:11,960
Speaker 2: were that guy that you're talking about right now, Like

846
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:14,480
Speaker 2: that's who you were to me. And that is always

847
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:16,800
Speaker 2: the impression when people ask about someone like you, or

848
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:19,160
Speaker 2: even someone like Dion, who I know like it's like

849
00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:21,600
Speaker 2: people make you feel a certain way when you're around them,

850
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:23,279
Speaker 2: and you were that guy. So I really appreciate you

851
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:24,120
Speaker 2: being so nice to me.

852
00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:27,760
Speaker 1: No, you kidding me. You've a great man and ana

853
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:30,960
Speaker 1: and we've talked about it today. Dance with the Stars,

854
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:36,359
Speaker 1: by the way, congratulations again every athlete that I've talked

855
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 1: to who's done it, and Emmitt Smith won the first

856
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:40,839
Speaker 1: year he came to New York and I took him

857
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:43,680
Speaker 1: to dinner and literally we couldn't walk in the restaurant

858
00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 1: like women getting up from each table we passed, and

859
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:47,279
Speaker 1: he'd have to dance with each one of them to

860
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:50,319
Speaker 1: get just to the table. Can we just eat hungry?

861
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:54,839
Speaker 1: But every athlete I talked to you said, man, that

862
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:59,840
Speaker 1: is the freaking hardest thing we've ever done. I said,

863
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:01,879
Speaker 1: That's why I'll never be on the show. I don't

864
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:05,440
Speaker 1: want to work that hard boy. See you go on

865
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:08,560
Speaker 1: and not what I'm dancing background or anything. That's what

866
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:11,319
Speaker 1: I loved about it, man, And it's how tough. I

867
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:13,719
Speaker 1: know it is because I've been around everybody's been on

868
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:14,840
Speaker 1: that show. And for you to go out there and

869
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:17,359
Speaker 1: crush it like that, I was fun to see man.

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00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:19,040
Speaker 1: So congrats again, Champion.

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00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:21,960
Speaker 2: I appreciate that. I'll end on this since you brought

872
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:24,279
Speaker 2: up Emma. This is my favorite Emma Smith story. I

873
00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 2: didn't know Emmett at the time. It's the finale and

874
00:43:27,239 --> 00:43:28,839
Speaker 2: you know, and you've judged Dancing with the Stars, right,

875
00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:31,880
Speaker 2: You've like you've been up there and you soudge. Yeah.

876
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:36,680
Speaker 2: So on the finale, everybody's super tight because you're just

877
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:38,600
Speaker 2: trying to do your best. There's everybody's trying to win.

878
00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 2: You're doing multiple dances. I'm in the back and I've

879
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:43,279
Speaker 2: got one more dance to do. I did not know

880
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:44,960
Speaker 2: what I was doing the whole season, like I was

881
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:47,480
Speaker 2: just every week. I was just piecing it together. And

882
00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:49,799
Speaker 2: I run into Emmett in the back. There was like

883
00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:52,920
Speaker 2: the craft service is the catering thing, and he sees me,

884
00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:55,920
Speaker 2: I'm a little bit outside my mind, and he also

885
00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:57,480
Speaker 2: knows what it's like to be in that spot because

886
00:43:57,520 --> 00:43:59,040
Speaker 2: he won the show, and he said he came up

887
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:00,919
Speaker 2: to me and he said, how you feel one? And

888
00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:03,680
Speaker 2: I was a little too just wired for the show

889
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:05,480
Speaker 2: to go, holy crap, this is EMMITTT.

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Speaker 1: Smith.

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00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:07,920
Speaker 2: And so I was just talking to Emmett another a

892
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:10,239
Speaker 2: champion of Dancing on the Stars. I said, I'm doing

893
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:12,440
Speaker 2: pretty good and he said, he said, look look at

894
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:14,600
Speaker 2: me in the eyes, and so I like focused on

895
00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 2: for a second. He put his hand on my shoulder

896
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:20,400
Speaker 2: and he said, look, you have worked every bit as hard,

897
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:22,799
Speaker 2: if not more than any single person to be here.

898
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:24,480
Speaker 2: You have one more dance to do. That dance is

899
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:26,560
Speaker 2: already done. You haven't done it yet, but it's already

900
00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:28,640
Speaker 2: done because of all the work that you've put in.

901
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 2: Just go out there and exist. You're gonna win this show.

902
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:33,319
Speaker 2: And then I went out and I'll never forget that.

903
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:35,239
Speaker 2: And after I won, the first person to hop up

904
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:37,320
Speaker 2: on stage with me was Emmett to take a picture

905
00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:39,319
Speaker 2: like he gave. He gave me the go get one

906
00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:41,040
Speaker 2: for the giver's speech right before I won.

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Speaker 1: I love it. Hey, I kind of got some chills

908
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:46,719
Speaker 1: down on me.

909
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:51,399
Speaker 2: Tell them the make me do me doo. Uh, Mike,

910
00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:53,640
Speaker 2: thank you, thank you so much for the time and

911
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:57,120
Speaker 2: uh continued successes and hopefully our pats will cross again soon.

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00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:00,319
Speaker 1: I hope. So man, anything for you, Bobby love it.

913
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:03,120
Speaker 1: I appreciate you man, and continue success and everything you

914
00:45:03,239 --> 00:45:05,680
Speaker 1: do and the honor and pleasure to do this with you,

915
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:06,440
Speaker 1: so thank you. Man.

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00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:07,920
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get a couple of those suits, even if

917
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:09,200
Speaker 2: I gotta buy them, I'm gonna get them and I'm

918
00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:11,160
Speaker 2: gonna wear them all. We got you, all right, We

919
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:13,959
Speaker 2: got you all right. Thank you, Mike, Thanks brother, see

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00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:14,279
Speaker 2: you later.

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Speaker 4: Thanks for listening to a Bobby Cast production.