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Speaker 1: This is the OTP Pregame, presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans,

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Speaker 1: seventy seven years in the business of providing Tennesseeans with

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Speaker 1: is Amy Wells. I'm Mike Keith. We're glad you're with us.

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Speaker 1: The OTP Pregame is the Thursday edition of the OTP.

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Speaker 1: It's a lot of football generally, typically yes, but sometimes

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Speaker 1: you get the opportunity to have a guest that you

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Speaker 1: just simply will not turn down.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely not.

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Speaker 1: That is one of these times. Yes, ladies and gentlemen,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the OTP. Scott Hamilton, you.

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Speaker 2: Can hear it.

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Speaker 1: You can hear it. Olympic gold Medalist, broadcaster, entrepreneur, philanthropist,

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Speaker 1: cultural icon, enter, entertainer, Wow impostorpost.

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Speaker 2: I have imposter, you know, I do kind of because

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Speaker 2: it just none of it makes sense to me, and

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Speaker 2: the older I get, the less it makes sense to me.

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Speaker 2: The last sixty six years I've been playing with house

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Speaker 2: money and it's like here we go and now I'm

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Speaker 2: wild and fun ride.

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Speaker 1: Well we have to say why Scott Hamilton is here.

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Speaker 1: He wants to be with us. Peace.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just a desire.

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Speaker 1: Scott Hambleton and Friends Bridgestone Arena, November twenty fourth, raising

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Speaker 1: money to help us figure out how to get rid

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Speaker 1: of cancer.

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Speaker 2: All it is a solvable problem. Forty seven years ago

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Speaker 2: I lost my mom to cancer. And she was extraordinary.

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Speaker 2: She had no chance, There was no solution for her problem.

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Speaker 2: She suffered for two and a half years and succumbed,

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Speaker 2: and the she died was a day. I kind of

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Speaker 2: decided that I need to grow up a little bit

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Speaker 2: to win, right, So, yeah, I lost her. Two things happened.

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Speaker 2: going to do is be a fundraiser for cancer research.

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Speaker 2: So I did that for twenty years. At the end

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Speaker 2: to transition from fundraiser to activists. And the more I learned,

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Speaker 2: due to a guy named Larry Einhorn in Indiana who

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Speaker 2: more to it now, because now we met the genome.

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Speaker 2: Now we're even understanding the more even complex immune system

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Speaker 2: it's not naive to feel that while our bodies created

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Speaker 2: our bodies are detecting things that don't belong, and our

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Speaker 2: You know, we're just really a fun group to work with.

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Speaker 2: So the CARES is the acronym Cancer Alliance for Research, Education, Survivorship.

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Speaker 2: it's like make your plans. Yeah, that was it. So

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Speaker 2: You know, I was a good citizen, you know during

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Speaker 2: so much about the fortieth anniversary moment, but about what

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Speaker 1: Scott Cares dot org.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Scott Cares dot org. I know you have a

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Speaker 2: lot of questions for us. Definitely didn't contact. This is

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Speaker 3: You had the opportunity to be a part of his

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, but I was excited that we were getting

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Speaker 3: Scott Hamilton. There are not many people that can get

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Speaker 3: Mike Keith to do that outside of a broadcast, and

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Speaker 1: How did you even function with all of that pressure?

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Speaker 3: Talking about preparation your body and trusting just your instincts really,

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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 3: A lot of people who win Olympics memos, A lot

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Speaker 2: For you, that's one thing.

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Speaker 3: In a list of a thousand things that you've done.

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Speaker 3: all of these incredible things in as a philanthropist, as

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Speaker 3: a fundraiser.

435
00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:34,520
Speaker 2: As the list goes on and on and on.

436
00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:39,520
Speaker 3: You're a cultural icon, like everybody knows Scott Hamilton. Is

437
00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:42,800
Speaker 3: that because you were prepared for every moment?

438
00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:48,639
Speaker 2: No, no, no. When I won eighty four Worlds, I was

439
00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:51,960
Speaker 2: still living in my best friend's parents' basement. Really he

440
00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:54,840
Speaker 2: went off to law school with DePaul, and I was

441
00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:56,680
Speaker 2: living in the family just for a couple of weeks.

442
00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:59,280
Speaker 2: I have stayed for four years, and so I need

443
00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:01,680
Speaker 2: to figure out a way next. And there was no

444
00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:06,200
Speaker 2: path for a male figure skater. If I were Canadian, yes,

445
00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:10,600
Speaker 2: If I were a woman, yes, American woman like Peggy

446
00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:13,160
Speaker 2: Fleming paid the way, Dorothy Hamill paid the way. There

447
00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:15,080
Speaker 2: was just you step right into that and it's like,

448
00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:18,080
Speaker 2: you know, but for a guy, not so much. And

449
00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:20,560
Speaker 2: when I signed with the Ice Capades, the president says,

450
00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:21,879
Speaker 2: I have no idea what we're gonna do with you,

451
00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:23,399
Speaker 2: but we had to sign it because we didn't want

452
00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:25,240
Speaker 2: you to go into the competition. I had to kind

453
00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:29,560
Speaker 2: of figure out a way to build an audience and

454
00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:32,879
Speaker 2: to build their trust. So I worked really hard. I

455
00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,680
Speaker 2: never missed a press conference. I stayed at top of

456
00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:39,240
Speaker 2: my game, skated really hard, skated well, never missed a show.

457
00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:42,600
Speaker 2: I was learning about lighting and music and production, and

458
00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:45,200
Speaker 2: I was learning about you know how it all works,

459
00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:47,800
Speaker 2: because I was fascinated by it. And I was skating

460
00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:50,000
Speaker 2: really hard. And then the president of the Ice Capades,

461
00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:51,879
Speaker 2: who had grown a really good friendship with he came

462
00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:53,639
Speaker 2: and put his arm around me, started to walk and

463
00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:55,879
Speaker 2: I thought I was getting my third year option, but

464
00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:57,480
Speaker 2: he was there to tell me that the new owner

465
00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:00,240
Speaker 2: of the Ice Capades didn't want any male skaters, so

466
00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:03,080
Speaker 2: they were letting me go. So I met my manager.

467
00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:05,280
Speaker 2: He goes, meet me and Florida, I will talk about next.

468
00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:07,040
Speaker 2: And so I met him in Florida. We're sitting on

469
00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:09,840
Speaker 2: the beach in Delray Beach, Florida. Went down for the Lipton.

470
00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:12,679
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, I was a big tennis fan. And uh,

471
00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:15,280
Speaker 2: he goes, I've done everything I can, every trick in

472
00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:19,520
Speaker 2: the book. They're not gonna bring you back. And he goes,

473
00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:23,240
Speaker 2: but we've been talking internally, and you seem to know

474
00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:26,560
Speaker 2: a lot about the sport and you know shows. Can

475
00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:30,160
Speaker 2: you help us put together a tour? And I remember

476
00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:33,040
Speaker 2: looking at him and I said, let me check my calendar.

477
00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:38,320
Speaker 2: I'm so unemployed it's unbelievable. And so I just pen

478
00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:41,760
Speaker 2: to paper, I went, I started, I started recruiting. I said,

479
00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:43,840
Speaker 2: you're gonna go. I need you the production. I needed this,

480
00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:45,560
Speaker 2: I need I need it. You're gonna choreograph.

481
00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:46,080
Speaker 1: We're gonna do this.

482
00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:48,359
Speaker 2: We're gonna bring the skaters together. We're gonna and we

483
00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:52,040
Speaker 2: put on a show thirty eight years ago that turned

484
00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:55,000
Speaker 2: into Stars on Ice and it was amazing. I remember

485
00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:58,000
Speaker 2: we were six years in. I'm on the road with Orser.

486
00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:00,560
Speaker 2: We're just having a blast together. We're doing all these shows.

487
00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:03,520
Speaker 2: You know, I've got Peter and Kitty Carruthers, I've got Gordy,

488
00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:06,880
Speaker 2: even grink Off. I've got like, you know, Roslyn Sumners.

489
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:07,679
Speaker 1: It's all.

490
00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:10,080
Speaker 2: The Olympians wanted to be a part of that, and

491
00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:13,200
Speaker 2: so we took them all. I'm covering my first Olympics

492
00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:16,359
Speaker 2: for CBS and at the end of the competition, Christy

493
00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:19,840
Speaker 2: Almagucci miraculously wins the gold medal and they asked her

494
00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:23,159
Speaker 2: what's next. She goes, I'm joining Stars on Ice and

495
00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:28,040
Speaker 2: I was like, well, now we're really pregnant. What are

496
00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:30,040
Speaker 2: we gonna do now. So we went from thirty to

497
00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:32,879
Speaker 2: sixty cities, and then you know, Canada got bigger. Everything

498
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:35,680
Speaker 2: got bigger, bigger and bigger. Paul Wiley joined us, and

499
00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:38,239
Speaker 2: then Tory Linden joined us, and then Katerinavit joined us,

500
00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:40,560
Speaker 2: and it's just like Kurt Browning joined us, and we

501
00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:42,760
Speaker 2: just kept getting bigger and we're selling out arenas all

502
00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:45,240
Speaker 2: over the country. It was just this huge success story.

503
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:47,359
Speaker 2: And it got to the point where I figured, if

504
00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:50,119
Speaker 2: I skated four years, I'm fooling a lot of people

505
00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,960
Speaker 2: as a pro. If I skates six years, I'm obviously

506
00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:58,200
Speaker 2: a fraud. But now like I'm headed towards like fifteen

507
00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:04,520
Speaker 2: years full touring, NonStop sixteen years ago and then you know,

508
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:07,440
Speaker 2: I get cancer and so I had to skip the

509
00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:10,280
Speaker 2: last ten cities of the sixty city tour and then

510
00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:13,320
Speaker 2: Canada and I went through chemo and then I'd be

511
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:16,000
Speaker 2: old thirty eight staple surgery. And my whole thing was

512
00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:18,320
Speaker 2: I'm going to be back on the ice next year, wow, wow,

513
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:22,320
Speaker 2: no matter what. So from the day I was diagnosed

514
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:25,880
Speaker 2: till first performance back, which they did a CBS television

515
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:28,159
Speaker 2: special call back on the Ice, it was six and

516
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:31,080
Speaker 2: a half months. Looking back on that, it's like impossible,

517
00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:34,040
Speaker 2: like that that ever happened. But I was back on

518
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:37,080
Speaker 2: the road the next year, and then on the third

519
00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:40,800
Speaker 2: anniversary of my diagnosis doing Stars in Ice in Memphis,

520
00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:45,240
Speaker 2: and I meet my wife backstage and it's like it

521
00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:48,160
Speaker 2: just you just can't make this stuff up. So all

522
00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:50,760
Speaker 2: of that right, and it was you just had to

523
00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:52,680
Speaker 2: make it up as you go. Where do you get

524
00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:58,760
Speaker 2: your inspiration in? Mine were all rock stars, right, Bruce Springsteen.

525
00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:00,600
Speaker 2: I'm going to blue call my way. I'm going to

526
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:01,959
Speaker 2: figure out a way to grow an audience, and I'm

527
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 2: gonna work harder than anybody. I'm going to show up

528
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:05,400
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna do that. I'm

529
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:07,520
Speaker 2: gonna be Bruce Springsteen. It's like that because he was

530
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:09,639
Speaker 2: like amazing. And then I'm gonna like Neil Diamond. Have

531
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:10,880
Speaker 2: you ever been to a Neil Diamond show?

532
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:11,520
Speaker 1: Have not?

533
00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:15,560
Speaker 2: Oh? The joy coming from the stage was infectious. I

534
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:16,840
Speaker 2: want to be like that. I want to be like

535
00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:18,879
Speaker 2: I want it just to be the great every night

536
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:20,639
Speaker 2: i'm on on the I want to be the greatest

537
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:22,000
Speaker 2: night of my life. I want to be like Neil

538
00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:25,159
Speaker 2: Diamond right, and then the last one was Robert Plant.

539
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:28,920
Speaker 2: Robert Plant wasn't afraid of anything. He was going to

540
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,879
Speaker 2: take on every rhythm, every texture, every he was going

541
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:35,840
Speaker 2: to explore music posts led Zeppelin. I remember seeing a quote,

542
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:38,720
Speaker 2: one of those inspirational quotes in the training room at Ottawa,

543
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:41,600
Speaker 2: no journey truly begins until you can no longer see

544
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:44,280
Speaker 2: dry land. And I wanted that to be my every year.

545
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:46,399
Speaker 2: So I get this Olympic Old medal, I come back

546
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:49,600
Speaker 2: to a parade. I trained in relative isolation. So now

547
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:52,880
Speaker 2: I go from being you know, this guy's tracing eights

548
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:55,720
Speaker 2: on my own to being in a parade and Larimer

549
00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:58,920
Speaker 2: Square five thousand people if packed, and the governor's wife

550
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,040
Speaker 2: is there, and the mayor's there, and it's like, I

551
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 2: don't know how to do any of this stuff. And

552
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:05,880
Speaker 2: so I survived that thinking Wow, this is really fun

553
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 2: and parties it's like yay. I's like toast the down yay.

554
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 2: And then I get called into the governor's office and

555
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:19,000
Speaker 2: I discovered Colorado right, Governor Colrade Lamb, Governor Lamb, and

556
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:21,159
Speaker 2: he couldn't make it. He had other things he had

557
00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:23,159
Speaker 2: to do. On the paray day so his wife represented,

558
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,560
Speaker 2: but she was a cancer survivor. And I went to

559
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:28,040
Speaker 2: his office and I'm in a jacket and tie thing.

560
00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:30,480
Speaker 2: It's a photo op because they all are right yeah,

561
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 2: and he sits me down, excuses everybody, and we just

562
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:35,639
Speaker 2: I'm sitting across the desk from me. He said, seemed

563
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:37,520
Speaker 2: like a nice young man. I was like, thank you.

564
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 2: He goes, no, my wife told me yesterday you had

565
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 2: some time to visit. And I go, she's a great lady,

566
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 2: and he goes, yes, she is. And I just felt

567
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:45,719
Speaker 2: like I needed to pour into you a little bit.

568
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:49,240
Speaker 2: And I go okay, and he said, look, have you

569
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:52,000
Speaker 2: ever heard of the hometown hero syndrome? I said no,

570
00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:55,240
Speaker 2: and he goes, well, hometown hero syndrome is basically this.

571
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,080
Speaker 2: You're the captain of high school football team. You're the quarterback,

572
00:28:58,360 --> 00:28:59,760
Speaker 2: you throw a bomb at the end of the game

573
00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:02,440
Speaker 2: to win the state championship, and you get carried off

574
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:06,240
Speaker 2: the field on seemed shoulders, and you expect the rest

575
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:09,560
Speaker 2: of your life to be that way. He goes it

576
00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:11,840
Speaker 2: just isn't. I want you to enjoy the fruits of

577
00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 2: your labor, but I also want you to know that

578
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 2: it's not always going to be like this, There'll be

579
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:22,120
Speaker 2: a day when nobody celebrates your accomplishments anymore. And I

580
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:25,120
Speaker 2: was like, I'll never forget this moment. And it was

581
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,360
Speaker 2: so generous, and it was so kind, and it was

582
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:31,880
Speaker 2: so wise. And the next thing I did was I

583
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:34,800
Speaker 2: spoke at the Paralympic banquet in Denver, Colorado, which was

584
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 2: at a hotel basically across the street where I just

585
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,680
Speaker 2: met the governor, and I walked in with my medal,

586
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 2: you know, and all these athletes, blind, without legs, every

587
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 2: possible obstruction you can imagine, had the same metal I did.

588
00:29:56,120 --> 00:30:00,720
Speaker 2: But I'm able bodied, and I was offended that I

589
00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:03,600
Speaker 2: would think that anything I ever did was worth anything.

590
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:06,320
Speaker 2: And so my own big old metal lived in a

591
00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 2: brown paper bag at the bottom of my underwaar door

592
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 2: for eight years until I could figure out a way

593
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:13,280
Speaker 2: to get rid of it. I couldn't wait to get

594
00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:16,240
Speaker 2: rid of it. It offended me in every possible way.

595
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:20,400
Speaker 2: There's so much I want to experience, there's so many

596
00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:22,600
Speaker 2: things I want to do. To get stuck in this

597
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:25,960
Speaker 2: moment would be a crime, It would be obnoxious. So

598
00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 2: at the end of that eight years, I was inducted

599
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:31,080
Speaker 2: into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame, and the

600
00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:34,760
Speaker 2: museum reached out to me and they said, hey, would

601
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 2: you like to leave anything here at the museum, you know,

602
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:42,640
Speaker 2: as part of your induction. I go everything, and I

603
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:45,320
Speaker 2: go to me. I go everything from my first little

604
00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:48,160
Speaker 2: silver medal in nineteen sixty eight in the sub juvenile

605
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:54,880
Speaker 2: pre men competition. Everything, and they took everything, and it's

606
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:57,600
Speaker 2: all there, and so I don't have to I don't

607
00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:00,480
Speaker 2: have to get stuck. And I had no idea what

608
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 2: any of that meant until you know, I meet my wife.

609
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 2: She brings me into my face. When I really started

610
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 2: digging in and building my understanding of who I am

611
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 2: in Christ, I realized that those things are idols, and

612
00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 2: idols are things you worship instead of who you really

613
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:22,600
Speaker 2: should be worshiping. And that was already in me back then,

614
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:25,280
Speaker 2: before I ever dedicated my life to the Lord. And

615
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 2: it was remarkable. I can look back and I can

616
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:31,320
Speaker 2: start connecting dots now in different ways that it was always.

617
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:36,000
Speaker 2: I was an unintended, unwanted child. My mother saw me through,

618
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:38,360
Speaker 2: brought me into the world and put me up for adoption.

619
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 2: I was given incredible sacrificial parents who gave me the

620
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:45,040
Speaker 2: foundation I needed to kind of step into the next

621
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 2: and every single step of the way, God was there,

622
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:55,440
Speaker 2: Jesus was there, and I didn't know until I just

623
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 2: sort of looked up. And the second I looked up,

624
00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:00,880
Speaker 2: I realized it's all connected. And for anybody out there

625
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:02,840
Speaker 2: that's watching this, it's going through cancer. And I can

626
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 2: tell you that it was the hardest period of my

627
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 2: life next to losing my mom. But it was important

628
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:15,720
Speaker 2: and it made it possible everything I get to do today.

629
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 2: I wouldn't have met my wife had not had cancer.

630
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 2: I wouldn't have my children had I not had cancer.

631
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 2: So how do I look at that as a curse?

632
00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:24,080
Speaker 1: Right?

633
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 2: And then looking at my son, aid and the day

634
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 2: he was born, his feet were here, his head was here.

635
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 2: I never saw flesh of my own flesh before. I'm

636
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 2: looking into my eyes and it's like, wow, that's miraculous.

637
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 2: All the other stuff is activity.

638
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:42,880
Speaker 1: Your gift wasn't skating. It's gratitude.

639
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:44,960
Speaker 2: I like that. I'll take that.

640
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:45,880
Speaker 1: You should.

641
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:49,720
Speaker 2: Every decade has its own identity, like zero to ten.

642
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 2: It took forever, how long as they're intent took, Yeah,

643
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:57,400
Speaker 2: it took forever. And all these things happened, like you know,

644
00:32:57,480 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 2: you're you get out of diapers and you go into

645
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 2: pre school, and then you're in school, and then you

646
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:04,760
Speaker 2: turn ten and it's like double digits. And then from

647
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:07,240
Speaker 2: ten to twenty, lots of really cool things happen. You know,

648
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:10,040
Speaker 2: you start, you know, you go through puberty, driver's license,

649
00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:11,760
Speaker 2: you know, you turn eighteen, you graduate high school, you

650
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:14,360
Speaker 2: go to college, and then twenties it's like, oh, game on.

651
00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 2: Now you've got to start asserting your identity and on

652
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 2: you independence and everything. And then from thirty to forty,

653
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 2: it's like the cement starting to set on your life

654
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:24,720
Speaker 2: and you kind of understand he or maybe you start

655
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 2: a family, maybe you're and you kind of know who

656
00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 2: you are and what your place is of the world.

657
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 2: And then forties is like I can finally be comfortable

658
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:34,760
Speaker 2: in my own skin. The key to the fifties I

659
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:37,200
Speaker 2: learned was when you get out of bed in the morning,

660
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:39,920
Speaker 2: take advantage of it, because that's as good as you're

661
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:41,320
Speaker 2: going to feel for the rest of your life.

662
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Speaker 1: Thanks.

663
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:49,160
Speaker 2: And then the sixties is such a remarkable decade of

664
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:53,200
Speaker 2: pure gratitude in every situation. It's like thank you, Laarden,

665
00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:59,000
Speaker 2: Like I I'm here and I'm able to do things,

666
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:02,600
Speaker 2: and and I've made all these friends, and I've got

667
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 2: all these experiences and I can just look back on

668
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 2: it on just take a breath and go that was

669
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:09,759
Speaker 2: This has been such an incredible ride that it's just

670
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 2: pure gratitude. So yeah, it's a superpower, I guess, and

671
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 2: thank you.

672
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 1: For that listening to your message and hearing. I mean,

673
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:20,719
Speaker 1: you've gotten to be so many different places and see

674
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 1: so many different things, and you've had bad things happen.

675
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:26,239
Speaker 1: You've obviously had a lot of good things happen, but

676
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 1: at the same time, you've shared the journey with so

677
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:31,439
Speaker 1: many other people, Like I'm talking about my nephew getting

678
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:35,799
Speaker 1: to play hockey and have that experience in large part

679
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:37,200
Speaker 1: because of what you put.

680
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:40,360
Speaker 2: Forward hours that's the predators and well but you but.

681
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 1: You've been big, you know, to get kids skating in

682
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:45,839
Speaker 1: different ways, just to have normal people enjoy I mean

683
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:49,279
Speaker 1: Amy wants to take go to scott Hamilton's skating school.

684
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:52,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was looking at classes today. Our adult program

685
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:53,720
Speaker 2: is spectacular.

686
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:54,160
Speaker 1: It's all.

687
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:55,920
Speaker 2: It's all I've wanted to do. No, it's our dull

688
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:59,800
Speaker 2: program is spectacular. We got great coaches. It's really remarkable.

689
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 2: I'm from three to I think our oldest learned escape. Personally,

690
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:06,239
Speaker 2: I'm probably in their eighties, and it's just like it's fun,

691
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 2: you know. And a lot of parents are put their

692
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:11,360
Speaker 2: kids in hockey. The kids want the gear and they

693
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:13,960
Speaker 2: want there, but they go straight into the house league.

694
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:19,320
Speaker 2: And it's like, would you put your your child in

695
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:21,920
Speaker 2: soccer if they didn't know how to run? No, probably

696
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 2: not let them come to us. I was with when

697
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:26,480
Speaker 2: my son was playing house league. I was talking to

698
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:28,719
Speaker 2: one of the dads and I go, how you liking

699
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:30,680
Speaker 2: all this? He goes, oh, it's so much fun. He

700
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:33,200
Speaker 2: just doesn't know how to stop. And I go, that's

701
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 2: that's a fun issue. And I go, you know, we

702
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:39,800
Speaker 2: do learn to skate Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday in Antioch and

703
00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 2: I go put them in a class. We do a

704
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:44,440
Speaker 2: whole hockey. There's a whole hockey kids in there. They

705
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:46,040
Speaker 2: get to wear their gear, they get to do all

706
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:48,239
Speaker 2: their things. The next Tuesday, his son was in the

707
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:52,360
Speaker 2: class and he learned how to stop both ways, and

708
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:55,840
Speaker 2: just the the self esteemed you could just see the

709
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:58,719
Speaker 2: joy just erupted, and it's like that's the stuff I mean,

710
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:01,279
Speaker 2: I'll do this forever. I mean, it's kind of been

711
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 2: my happy place. You know, they are busy. I was

712
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:06,080
Speaker 2: doing other things, and now I'm kind of like, we're

713
00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 2: re kind of inventing what this getting academy looks like,

714
00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:11,239
Speaker 2: and we're we're going to send off for the kids

715
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 2: going to sectionals. And it was it was a lot

716
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:15,960
Speaker 2: of kids going to sectionals now and so many of

717
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,839
Speaker 2: them started took their first steps with us. Now they're

718
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:19,799
Speaker 2: competing at that level.

719
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 1: Well, that's what I'm talking about, because the thing about

720
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:26,879
Speaker 1: sports is there's such a joy when you find your thing.

721
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:29,680
Speaker 1: You know, for my son, it wasn't football, it was

722
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:33,239
Speaker 1: running cross country. Good for you find your thing. I mean,

723
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:36,400
Speaker 1: if you get that, it just makes such a difference.

724
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:39,800
Speaker 1: And by offering more things, it's huge. This part of

725
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 1: the country was one of the first places in the

726
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:45,760
Speaker 1: South to play soccer. They started playing soccer in Middle Tennessee,

727
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:50,440
Speaker 1: you know, pretty competitively in the seventies, way before other places.

728
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:53,840
Speaker 1: That's good, man, what joy is good? Why not?

729
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:56,399
Speaker 2: Why not? I remember my first days on the ice,

730
00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:59,120
Speaker 2: you know, I had to do this supplement that I

731
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:01,160
Speaker 2: hated because it takes to like chalk right, you know,

732
00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:02,840
Speaker 2: the only thing to keep your meal alive, you know,

733
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:05,480
Speaker 2: all that stuff, And so I wouldn't drink anymore. I

734
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 2: kept telling my mom I was going into the bathroom

735
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 2: to drink it. I just dump it down the sink

736
00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:13,239
Speaker 2: and a little in my think it's like I got caught.

737
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:15,880
Speaker 1: It makes me feel better about him, Yeah, it really does.

738
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:19,799
Speaker 2: So they our family physician lived about three doors down,

739
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:23,040
Speaker 2: and he came over and we my we he has

740
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:24,720
Speaker 2: to drink this stuff, and he won't do it anymore.

741
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:26,400
Speaker 2: I said, I'm not going to drink this stuff anymore.

742
00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:28,200
Speaker 2: So they put a tube up my nose and down

743
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:31,319
Speaker 2: my esopagiss and so they feed me this supplement through

744
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 2: the tube. I never had to taste it again. It's

745
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 2: like game on, let's go. So when I went to

746
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:38,000
Speaker 2: the first skating class I ever went to, I had

747
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:39,680
Speaker 2: a tube coming out of my nose taped to the

748
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:41,480
Speaker 2: side of my face. The end was over my ear,

749
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:44,680
Speaker 2: and I was like one hundred and twenty, well, kids,

750
00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:47,719
Speaker 2: And it's like after a few weeks, I realized that

751
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:49,680
Speaker 2: I could do something as well as well kids.

752
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:51,839
Speaker 1: And I was like, huh.

753
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:54,239
Speaker 2: And then after a few more weeks, I realized I

754
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:56,400
Speaker 2: could skate as well as the best athletes in my grade.

755
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:58,840
Speaker 2: That was always the littlest. I was always the sickest,

756
00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 2: I was always the weakest, I was always thestiest. Right,

757
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:04,759
Speaker 2: I finally found something that gave me that taste of

758
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:08,400
Speaker 2: self esteem, and I just became a rank rap. You know,

759
00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:09,480
Speaker 2: we're all sports fans.

760
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:09,759
Speaker 3: You know.

761
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:12,160
Speaker 2: We love to we love to watch, we love to cheer,

762
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:14,920
Speaker 2: we love to do all these things. And behind every

763
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 2: single one of these athletes is you know, you look

764
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:21,160
Speaker 2: at every Titan, a family sacrificed. Oh yeah, for that

765
00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:23,800
Speaker 2: person to be on that field doing something at a

766
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:28,120
Speaker 2: level they never dreamed possible. Being a sports fan is

767
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:31,360
Speaker 2: like the greatest thing ever. My wife is loves sports,

768
00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 2: loves sports, so we you know, we sit and watch

769
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:37,440
Speaker 2: football together and it's it's really I hate when the

770
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:41,160
Speaker 2: football season ends. So yeah, you know, but again it's

771
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:43,359
Speaker 2: like my you know, I'm a huge hockey fan. I'm

772
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:45,320
Speaker 2: a huge Predators fan. When I get to go to

773
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 2: the Olympics, that's my only night out usually is going

774
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:52,880
Speaker 2: to a hockey game because Olympic hockey. Like I was

775
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:55,840
Speaker 2: at the all the USA Games in nineteen eighty, I

776
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:58,879
Speaker 2: went to all of them. Wow, and it was really

777
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:02,719
Speaker 2: fun and the Russia game was electric, and then every

778
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:04,360
Speaker 2: Olympics I just try to find a way to go

779
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:07,919
Speaker 2: to Finland. Sweden is my favorite because they're such nice people,

780
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:09,920
Speaker 2: but they really hate each other on the each other

781
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:10,399
Speaker 2: on the ice.

782
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:15,680
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783
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786
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:30,640
Speaker 1: Tighten Up Home is at the forefront of all that

787
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 1: we do. It's why we're so committed to caring for

788
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:36,839
Speaker 1: the places and spaces in which we work and live.

789
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:42,440
Speaker 1: Ashley the Official Furniture Provider of the Tennessee Titans. So

790
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:46,439
Speaker 1: this is the otp pregame. So we have five questions, Yeah,

791
00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:48,439
Speaker 1: and it was Amy's.

792
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:48,839
Speaker 2: Keep them short.

793
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:51,719
Speaker 1: I promised so that it was Amy's idea to make

794
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 1: the five questions the five topics about scott Hamilton and

795
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:59,920
Speaker 1: French November twenty fourth, Bridge Stone Areta get your ticket.

796
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:01,920
Speaker 1: There's an after party there.

797
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:04,080
Speaker 2: It's so good. It's such a great event. And you

798
00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:07,400
Speaker 2: know what's wild is we haven't still built our audience

799
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:09,719
Speaker 2: like we need to in order to sustain.

800
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:13,719
Speaker 1: Well after this. Oh yeah, honestly will be there.

801
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:15,719
Speaker 2: We're the only people in the world that could do

802
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:17,759
Speaker 2: this event, like this event can happen anywhere else, and

803
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:20,799
Speaker 2: it's only performed once ever, and then the next year

804
00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:24,359
Speaker 2: is totally different. Last ye, right, this is eight last

805
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:27,719
Speaker 2: year's nineties country. This year is Christmas and it's gonna beautiful.

806
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:28,600
Speaker 2: It's gonna be amazing.

807
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:32,680
Speaker 1: Okay, it's always good. Topic one, does Scott Hambleton skate

808
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:35,600
Speaker 1: at the Scott Hamilton and Friends Holiday Spectacular.

809
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:39,120
Speaker 2: I have not performed. I did a little step out

810
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:43,160
Speaker 2: one year, but I never say never. I replaced never

811
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:45,880
Speaker 2: with I can't imagine a scenario that would allow.

812
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 1: However, however, however, however, that topic two, Scott Hamilton is

813
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 1: the most famous person at Scott Hambleton and Friends. Who

814
00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:56,759
Speaker 1: is the second most famous person this year?

815
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:01,040
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, you've got Kirk Brown and coming back.

816
00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:03,720
Speaker 2: You caught your Gordieva coming back, who's won two Olympic

817
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:07,480
Speaker 2: gold medals. Beautiful, amazing skater a large ball day. I mean,

818
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:10,600
Speaker 2: what he does on social media is incredible. So you

819
00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:13,759
Speaker 2: see Wine ins. Yes, pretty big deal, a really big deal.

820
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:16,120
Speaker 2: I mean, Stephen Curtis Chapman just went into the ground.

821
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 2: He's an Opry member. Now got Chip Beeston. I always

822
00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:21,480
Speaker 2: try to make sure that the show is populated with

823
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:25,120
Speaker 2: familiar names, faces and abilities.

824
00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:29,680
Speaker 1: Topic three. The Titans play in Houston earlier that day

825
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:30,919
Speaker 1: on November twenty four.

826
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:33,279
Speaker 2: No reason not to be at the show, by the way, Oh,

827
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 2: there's plenty of.

828
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:36,040
Speaker 1: Times, plenty of time, plenty of time.

829
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:40,640
Speaker 2: Remember, celebrate the victory and then get down town.

830
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:42,800
Speaker 1: And here's what's really important. You can always listen to

831
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:44,000
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter on the radio.

832
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:46,520
Speaker 2: There you go, Titans Radio, Tights Radio for you.

833
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:49,200
Speaker 1: One four to five zone in Nashville. So will you

834
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:51,800
Speaker 1: give the Titans a shout out after we beat the Texans?

835
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:53,480
Speaker 2: Oh? Man, they beat the Texas absolutely.

836
00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:57,480
Speaker 1: Topic four, who's your favorite musical guest at Scott Hamilton

837
00:41:57,560 --> 00:41:58,279
Speaker 1: and Trentz.

838
00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 2: Sitting down backstage before rehearsal of the Wretha Franklin was

839
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:03,600
Speaker 2: really cool. Gosh, yeah, it was really cool and she

840
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:07,319
Speaker 2: loved figure skating. We had Kenny Loggins, huge Kenny Loggins fan,

841
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:11,200
Speaker 2: Michael McDonald. It's like Peter Sitterra it's like Amy Grant.

842
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:13,719
Speaker 2: It's Vince did the show in Cleveland one year and

843
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:16,840
Speaker 2: he almost killed me. The guy is hilarious. But it

844
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:20,399
Speaker 2: was all these people. Wisa Minelli did the show there

845
00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:23,960
Speaker 2: one year. It was like Royalty had come on our stage.

846
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:27,879
Speaker 2: Cindy Lauper was booked to do so and she walked

847
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:32,120
Speaker 2: in and she goes, where am I. Hi, Cindy, I'm Scott.

848
00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:35,040
Speaker 2: You're welcome. She goes where am I. I realized that

849
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:37,160
Speaker 2: her management probably didn't tell her she was doing a

850
00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:42,360
Speaker 2: skating show. And I go, well, this is my annual

851
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:45,480
Speaker 2: fundraiser for cancer. We've raised tens of millions of dollars

852
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:48,560
Speaker 2: and would you like to meet some more skaters because

853
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:50,200
Speaker 2: I needed to hook her because I was going to

854
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:54,080
Speaker 2: lose her. And she goes shure and I go, Sidney,

855
00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:57,360
Speaker 2: this is Dorothy Dorothy Hammel and Cindy's eyes went like

856
00:42:57,480 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 2: that and she nice to meet you guys. Guys, we

857
00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:07,960
Speaker 2: have a precarious situation here. I need everybody's cooperation. It

858
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:11,920
Speaker 2: was hilarious. So we've had all these huge artists, these

859
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:15,080
Speaker 2: big moments, and it's just been spectacular.

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00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:18,160
Speaker 1: Last one, Okay, how do you buy tickets? To the

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Speaker 1: Scott Hamilton and Friends Holiday Spectacular.

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Speaker 2: This is our seizure event that does more to fund

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Speaker 2: we're really, really really hoping that this is our biggest

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Speaker 2: invest year ever. It's remarkable that this event has an

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Speaker 2: origin of that gift, and so we fund research. Larry

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Speaker 2: Einhorn was the research scientist that saved my life. Testicular

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Speaker 2: cancer had five percent survival rates fifty years ago. Thanks

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Speaker 2: to him, they're ninety five percent twenty seven years later.

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Speaker 2: I'm still here. My mom never had a chance. Now

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Speaker 2: The best place to be is where there's hope, and

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Speaker 2: there's hope with us, and we are truly trying to

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Speaker 1: You are you have joined us, will thank you for

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Speaker 1: Scott Appleton and Aby Wells I Mike Keith, thanks for

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Speaker 1: joining us for the otp pregate