Speaker 1: This is cut to It with Steve Smith Senior at
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Speaker 1: Steve Smith Senior and I'm ger a little John and
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Speaker 1: It's all. We've got a line of Rizzo, seven time
Speaker 1: Emmy winner. She's a hosting reporter for the MLB Network
Speaker 1: and she's the founder and president of Gudury's Guardian, a
Speaker 1: nonprofit for rescuing dogs. Alana Rizzo on the cut to
Speaker 1: It podcast, get Iced Up. Here we go, Here we go,
Speaker 1: Here we go. Okay, would you rather meet your grand
Speaker 1: children or great grandparents? Oh, great grandparents. I'd love to
Speaker 1: know the history of where I came from. I don't
Speaker 1: have kids of my own, so the likelihood of me
Speaker 1: meeting my grandkids is limbton none, So I would say
Speaker 1: great grandparents. My mom is from Cuba, my dad is
Speaker 1: um Well, my grandparents on my dad's side are Italian,
Speaker 1: so I'd love to meet my great great grandparents to
Speaker 1: find out where I came from. I kind of like
Speaker 1: those questions because you never know what you're gonna get
Speaker 1: from people like that. Was that was cool, um to hear.
Speaker 1: So that's good because that opens it up to a
Speaker 1: lot of other questions. Uh, someone that's Cuban, American and
Speaker 1: Italian and growing up in Colorado and the only Cuban
Speaker 1: ever in Colorado. Check that off. I assumed it. But
Speaker 1: now I'm right pat myself on the back, all right.
Speaker 1: What do you like to do when you're alone? I'm
Speaker 1: not alone, a ton? What do I I don't, I don't.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm never the type of that says I need space, So, um,
Speaker 1: I'm not alone. I'm not alone, a ton. I have
Speaker 1: a great fiancee, but I like spending time with It's
Speaker 1: fun when we're alone because we're usually around and either
Speaker 1: have the kids here or um family here, which is fine.
Speaker 1: I actually just moved to the East coast. I used
Speaker 1: to live in Los Angeles or here, so we were
Speaker 1: doing coast to coast, so um, yeah, it's nice too.
Speaker 1: It's nice to be in one spot with him, for sure.
Speaker 1: My wife would definitely medicate Rocks so, but but I
Speaker 1: think everyone a little bit of their own times. Well,
Speaker 1: I love this is one of the things that I've heard. Uh,
Speaker 1: Solitude is a great place to visit. However, it is
Speaker 1: a poor place to stay. That's very well put. I
Speaker 1: do think there are times when you want to be
Speaker 1: alone and collect your thoughts. But I'm not the type
Speaker 1: of I'm a very outgoing person. Um. I love people.
Speaker 1: I love being around people. I love to entertain so
Speaker 1: I love to eat really good food, drink really good one.
Speaker 1: So how do you recharge? Is it around people? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think so. I think, Um, being around family is good.
Speaker 1: I love to travel. Um, I love the beach. So
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to January. We're going I'm going to Mexico.
Speaker 1: We're going to MAUI. Um, yeah, I have recharged by
Speaker 1: being around people. I don't. I don't sleep a ton,
Speaker 1: so that's not that's not what does it for me? Um,
Speaker 1: work out when I can, not like you used to
Speaker 1: work out, but you know, maybe you still do. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I still have to work out. It's it's
Speaker 1: a great place for me. It's where I clear my
Speaker 1: clear my thoughts, get my thoughts together. UM think a
Speaker 1: lot question a lot, get some, get some answers that
Speaker 1: I don't like. Sometimes it gives me a sense to
Speaker 1: some degree outside of business stuff and work. It gives
Speaker 1: me some sense of a real purpose when I can
Speaker 1: accomplish something because I can start to feel my body
Speaker 1: at times like hey, hey, fat boy, we're getting a
Speaker 1: little chuppy today, or or hey we have it well
Speaker 1: because my body started to say, hey, we're sitting around
Speaker 1: all day or answering the phone or walking up the
Speaker 1: steps or going to the mailbox, like we need to
Speaker 1: do more than that. Rights, if you have a obviously
Speaker 1: what's your foundation? And I'm assuming you have a dog,
Speaker 1: right right, so you know if that dog and I
Speaker 1: have a working dog. I have a Belgian malon Wi
Speaker 1: So if she is if she is not walked, she
Speaker 1: will start the pace the island in our kitchen and
Speaker 1: my wife's like, babe, have you taken her on the walk.
Speaker 1: So usually what I do is I'll get up and
Speaker 1: work out, and my cool down is taking her on walk.
Speaker 1: That's important. I I had a a border colleague, that's
Speaker 1: who the foundation is named after. Gidrey and border collies
Speaker 1: are incredibly like melon laws. They're incredibly incredibly smart, and
Speaker 1: they need to be worked and they need to be
Speaker 1: active mentally and physically stimulated. And he was the same way.
Speaker 1: If he didn't get exercise, he would be very anxious.
Speaker 1: And UM, my dog, now Bentley, I rescued her as well.
Speaker 1: Um that's what the foundations about getting dogs off the
Speaker 1: streets and how to high kill shelters. And she's not
Speaker 1: as active as a as good Drew used to be.
Speaker 1: But I feel you. I feel you when it comes
Speaker 1: to and I don't work out like I should, but
Speaker 1: I can understand how much it helps your mental state too,
Speaker 1: especially when you've done it for so long. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's all you've known for so long as to have
Speaker 1: to be in shape, have to work out, have to
Speaker 1: keep your body right. So when my fiance is a
Speaker 1: professional athlete as well, and you know he hasn't he's
Speaker 1: not playing anymore, but when he doesn't work out, it
Speaker 1: affects him mentally and and I obviously, Steve you know
Speaker 1: that better than anybody. So it's important you gotta keep
Speaker 1: your mind writing for him. It's working out too. What's
Speaker 1: funny is I didn't know that for a long time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the working out for me, I stopped working out because
Speaker 1: I didn't want my body to I think that we
Speaker 1: were going back to place, so I had to actually stop.
Speaker 1: And then that was that wasn't good, and because then
Speaker 1: my body started to you know, it's like the mind
Speaker 1: as you get older, you gotta keep stimulating it or
Speaker 1: you know, keep keep keep the wheels going, keep them
Speaker 1: oil oil, slow down, and so my body started to
Speaker 1: slow down, my knees started hurting some of that stuff,
Speaker 1: and then I was going back to working out. But
Speaker 1: then when I started back working out, my body was like, hey,
Speaker 1: we're gonna play football. So it was just kind of
Speaker 1: it kind of happy place. Yeah, it was fine, a
Speaker 1: happy place. So the happy place for me is just
Speaker 1: kind of you know, I run a bike. I'll do
Speaker 1: a little bit, but nothing over the top. But then
Speaker 1: also nothing pedestrian like, so I gotta find that. I'm
Speaker 1: still trying to find, you know, living North Carolina like
Speaker 1: a NASCAR drive. I'm trying to find that groove on
Speaker 1: the road. So when I hit that, when I hit
Speaker 1: all those left turns, I'm having my tires have enough
Speaker 1: tried to know how to do and I'm still figuring
Speaker 1: it out. Almost I think it takes time. It takes
Speaker 1: time for him. You know, he stopped playing a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago. And if that's all you guys have
Speaker 1: known since the time, and you're idybody making sure that
Speaker 1: your body is right to have a career and sustain.
Speaker 1: It's it's one thing to get into the league, whatever
Speaker 1: the league it is. It's another thing entirely to stay.
Speaker 1: And then when you're done and that's taken away or
Speaker 1: you choose to walk away. Um, it's an interesting balance
Speaker 1: to to make sure that you can still maintain and
Speaker 1: not go crazy preach. Are you over there dropping nuggets?
Speaker 1: Like it? All right? Favorite spot to go to now
Speaker 1: that COVID So COVID has happened. We all been in
Speaker 1: the house all of a sudden is now Man, I
Speaker 1: am not not going where Mauie. We go to Maui
Speaker 1: every dialed in, absolutely love it. We are foodies and
Speaker 1: uh I love I love Maui everywhere. We have a
Speaker 1: place to go every night. Um, that's where I go
Speaker 1: to unpluck. You asked me what I do to to
Speaker 1: recharge Mauie. We go once a year. We didn't go
Speaker 1: best this year obviously we couldn't go last year. We
Speaker 1: got engaged in Maui. Um so yeah, that that's my spot.
Speaker 1: She said, forget the gym. It's yeah, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to the gym. That's not like that. I like that
Speaker 1: a lot more. Yeah, yeah, the gym's last time, not
Speaker 1: last on the list, but it's not high up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: loo don't didn't take multi hour flight. But you know,
Speaker 1: it's pretty knowing how much you travel, know how much
Speaker 1: you like to travel. Right, you're with the Dodgers, you're
Speaker 1: doing that deal with MLB network. Right, So what is
Speaker 1: your your go to meal while you're traveling? Lean? Right?
Speaker 1: Because of all these different airports, hotels, city on the go,
Speaker 1: how do you what do you go to go to
Speaker 1: to say hey, I'm here, no matter where it is,
Speaker 1: if it's a good airport, bad airport, good city, terrible city, rain, sleet, snow, summer.
Speaker 1: What is your go to meal on the go or
Speaker 1: snack on the go? I say meal because it's on
Speaker 1: the go. So it can't be like you're not getting
Speaker 1: a steak with you know, yes, stair discuss they'll have
Speaker 1: that and actually a Maui and it will be really
Speaker 1: really good. Yes, if I could have anything, it would
Speaker 1: probably be Cuban food. So if if we went to Miami,
Speaker 1: it would be uh favorite, you know, and at your
Speaker 1: favorite side, I would get the lack afrita, kafrita and co.
Speaker 1: It would be Cuban food going to my head. Cuban
Speaker 1: food set up, Joe, you can free the sounds like
Speaker 1: fries a little bit. It is. It's like a It's
Speaker 1: like a root. It kind of tastes like a potato,
Speaker 1: but it's a root. I don't speak Cuban, but I
Speaker 1: just picked that up. Yeah, you can. You can beat that.
Speaker 1: You could like a number of different place outside. I
Speaker 1: shut up suck us barely know English bad, I'm cultured
Speaker 1: barely no English, all right. I like that. That's cool
Speaker 1: for me. My go to always because I travel a
Speaker 1: lot for work. Smoothie or a Si bob. That's healthy.
Speaker 1: You're you're a lot healthier than that I'm trying. I
Speaker 1: grew up in l A, so I still got those
Speaker 1: kind of Homeopathic always the best place I ever lived.
Speaker 1: Homeo pathic can get can I get it in a
Speaker 1: root word? Uh ready? Organic? So like my right right now?
Speaker 1: My wife is uhh she she orders a lot of
Speaker 1: vitamin supplements, zinc vitamin C pill form, powder form. We
Speaker 1: have a defrawther not for coffee. For the supplements to
Speaker 1: help mix it up right, zinc, vitamin D, vitamin B twelve. Um.
Speaker 1: It sounds like a lot of work. It is a
Speaker 1: lot of work. That's what she deals with. And then
Speaker 1: she gives me a to go bag for morning evening.
Speaker 1: I've been having some I wear. I wear eyeglasses. I
Speaker 1: have to warry about three hours a day, and because
Speaker 1: constantly looking at screens, my eyes been twitching like they're
Speaker 1: getting lazy and all that stuff. So my wife looked
Speaker 1: up without me going back to the doctor to get
Speaker 1: a um A stronger prescription eyeglasses, she gave me some.
Speaker 1: She looked up some stuff and gave me some supplements
Speaker 1: to help strength of my eyes and stopped the twitching. Now,
Speaker 1: when she brought it up, I'm kind of like, yeah, listen,
Speaker 1: hey boo, give me my eyesights, please stop twitching. You
Speaker 1: know they got stuff for you for your eyes. They
Speaker 1: got someone that's for it. You wear a monocle. I
Speaker 1: don't know what that is, but I feel like it's
Speaker 1: a joke. No, it's it's one like Mr Peanut, just
Speaker 1: like that one. I think, Oh yeah, on TV. No
Speaker 1: means one. I got it. You laugh. It didn't even
Speaker 1: know what it was. Got to break it down, you
Speaker 1: gotta break the word. There they were, they were not talking.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to it. Let's get to it.
Speaker 1: Enough jokes on me. Where are you from in the
Speaker 1: place you call your hometown. I was born in Colorado Spring,
Speaker 1: but if I had to stay home, I'd probably say
Speaker 1: l A, Manhattan Beach. I lived there for seven years,
Speaker 1: and I was never happier than when I was living there.
Speaker 1: I just love l A. I love the weather. I
Speaker 1: love you just feel motivated, you feel like doing stuff,
Speaker 1: you feel productive, everyone's out working out, um, you have
Speaker 1: good food options. I just I love the mood. My
Speaker 1: mood changes by the weather, so that seasonal depression stuff
Speaker 1: is real, and l A is e d every day.
Speaker 1: And I just felt good there. I felt happy. I mean,
Speaker 1: I love I love living on the East Coast, my
Speaker 1: fiance because I live in one place now, whereas before
Speaker 1: we were back and forth all the time, and that's
Speaker 1: a pain. But there's just something about living by the
Speaker 1: water and something about the vibe of the South Bay
Speaker 1: that I loved. I love living there. I love I
Speaker 1: love everything about I lived on. My apartment was a
Speaker 1: piece of garbage. It was like six square feet and
Speaker 1: it was it was a frame. But it was a
Speaker 1: bill million dollars. Yeah, it was a billion dollars. And
Speaker 1: but it was four blocks from the water. And there's
Speaker 1: just something about that, you know, that to to come
Speaker 1: out and see the Pacific Ocean, and then, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I loved it. So I'd have to say, if I,
Speaker 1: if I could live anywhere in the United States, had
Speaker 1: been Manhattan Beach. So which do you consider to shape you? Which?
Speaker 1: Which place? I mean, other than the obvious geographical differences. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well I've been. It's that I've been all over the country.
Speaker 1: I lived internationally too, so I grew up born and
Speaker 1: raised in Colora Springs, and then this job took me
Speaker 1: everywhere I went from I've lived. I've lived in every
Speaker 1: time zone. So I went from Colorado to Texas, Texas
Speaker 1: to Wisconsin, Wisconsin, back to Colorado, Colorado, New York, New York,
Speaker 1: l A. And now I live in Massachusetts. So you know,
Speaker 1: I think my mom shaped me more than where I lived,
Speaker 1: you know, being a product of a single Cuban mother
Speaker 1: um who did not play talk about side. I. I mean,
Speaker 1: you didn't you She could just look at you and
Speaker 1: you knew you were dead. You know. She never had
Speaker 1: to raise a voice or raise a hand because that
Speaker 1: that Cuban death stare, that's that's legit. So black mom
Speaker 1: was like that too. Oh yeah, So if your mom
Speaker 1: did raise her voice because randomly, maybe a lot of
Speaker 1: just did not listen this one time, give me your
Speaker 1: best mom impression of her getting on your ass, oh man,
Speaker 1: trying to in her language too, get glasses stupulous that
Speaker 1: I haven't far bared. Okay, you're not, say, look at
Speaker 1: so I heard. I don't want to have to tell
Speaker 1: you again. I'm only gonna tell you and I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's not a good answer, Yeah, it was. It was
Speaker 1: more of what do you think? You know, you don't
Speaker 1: do that type of stuff here. We don't act like
Speaker 1: that type of crazy. I was a really actually I
Speaker 1: was a really good kid. It was more of my
Speaker 1: sister who's seven years young, that would push the envelope,
Speaker 1: was the one that would would test the boundaries, like
Speaker 1: you know, sinking out of the house, going to the
Speaker 1: going into the woods and drinking beer. I would never
Speaker 1: I would be I was such a good, goody two
Speaker 1: shoot kid, because I was terrified of my Cuban mother
Speaker 1: what she was. There's nothing a police officer could do
Speaker 1: to me that would be worse than what my mom
Speaker 1: would do to me. Well, you know, we have your
Speaker 1: sister online too. Growing up in Colorado for you, you know,
Speaker 1: being a mother, having a mother that was Cuban American right,
Speaker 1: and being a single mom. What what was it like
Speaker 1: for you to to to experienced that as a as
Speaker 1: a kid? You know, I remember my parents got divorced
Speaker 1: when I was ten, so my dad wasn't really in
Speaker 1: the picture for probably twenty five years of my life.
Speaker 1: And it was actually a tragedy in the family that
Speaker 1: caught it kind of like brought everybody back together to
Speaker 1: a certain extent. So my mom was, oh, thank you.
Speaker 1: My mom was born and raised in Havannah, Cuba, so
Speaker 1: she with my grandparents escaped the communist regime. So it
Speaker 1: was like little Havana is Miami, Florida. So she came
Speaker 1: to the States when she was twenty two. You know
Speaker 1: the story that you've heard a million times coming to
Speaker 1: the States for a better life. It was her, my grandparents,
Speaker 1: my uncle, and my aunt and my mom had already
Speaker 1: gone through university in Cuba. So she was a twenty
Speaker 1: two year old in Miami, Florida, a new culture, new experience,
Speaker 1: and she basically taught herself how to speak English by
Speaker 1: watching television. The commercials, the repetition of the commercials are
Speaker 1: what taught her how to speak English. Well, fast forward
Speaker 1: many many years and she ends up getting her master's degree,
Speaker 1: and you know it's becomes a Spanish teacher, all the
Speaker 1: while doing it while raising two daughters on her own,
Speaker 1: working full time and going to school one class at
Speaker 1: a time, and we basically got our master's degrees around
Speaker 1: the same time. And just seeing that, um, who whoa, whoa,
Speaker 1: whoa whoa you My mom and I got our master's
Speaker 1: degrees around the same time, around the same time period. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my mom was the one class at a time, you know.
Speaker 1: And I did the traditional path obviously, like I went
Speaker 1: to school and uh then I worked for five years
Speaker 1: and I went back to school to get a master's
Speaker 1: And just the way that the timing worked out. So
Speaker 1: my mom is the most amazing woman. If I could
Speaker 1: be half the person she is, I'm good to go.
Speaker 1: So I was raised in a very strict household where
Speaker 1: you didn't you didn't do anything wrong because my mom
Speaker 1: was killing herself to to make it happen for us.
Speaker 1: And you know, my dad wasn't in the picture and
Speaker 1: my mom was everything. So to this day, I send
Speaker 1: my mom Father's Day cards, um, because she's just an
Speaker 1: important figure in my life. And she never pressured me,
Speaker 1: but always supported me. And I think there's a there's
Speaker 1: a big difference in that. So I'm very lucky that
Speaker 1: that she's my mom. What other attributes do you think
Speaker 1: you've gleaned from your mom? I think work ethic number one. Um,
Speaker 1: the you know, risking, kind of betting on yourself. You know,
Speaker 1: I completely switched scares to go back into go back
Speaker 1: to school, to get into journalism. Um, you know, not
Speaker 1: putting up with anything, not putting up with any bs.
Speaker 1: You know, my dad sent like two eighty three bullshit
Speaker 1: dollars a month for two kids, you know, and my
Speaker 1: mom was at the time like a secretary. And you
Speaker 1: know that's I always laugh at that Tuopac song that
Speaker 1: you know, Mama made miracles, everything'sgiving, because that's kind of
Speaker 1: what I felt like. I didn't know we were broke.
Speaker 1: I didn't know we didn't have any money. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: which there's actually there's actually a blessing in that because
Speaker 1: you don't know what you don't know. You don't know
Speaker 1: what you don't have. There's I get what you're saying.
Speaker 1: There's there's a protection in it. I mean, I've grown
Speaker 1: up similar the same way, and it's it's been well
Speaker 1: into my thirties before I realized, like dang, when we
Speaker 1: got that box and it had the white label that
Speaker 1: just had beans in pork, like that's from the food back.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that to I mean like twenties thirties
Speaker 1: realizing like when you look back and when you working
Speaker 1: in the industry, like you you realize, like dang, that's
Speaker 1: what that was from. I just don't. You don't you
Speaker 1: don't know what you don't know. Back then, I thought
Speaker 1: the definition of being rich was if I had, um,
Speaker 1: leather seats in a car and a garage. I thought
Speaker 1: that's what it meant to be rich if you had
Speaker 1: if you had like a garage. Mine was if you
Speaker 1: if someone If I went over someone's house and they
Speaker 1: had steps, I thought they were rich. If you have
Speaker 1: steps in your house. I was like, oh, they're rich.
Speaker 1: I don't. I'm thrown off because I knew my ash
Speaker 1: was poor. Waves I figured out, No, I'm saying, But
Speaker 1: what I'm saying is what's revealed, even like those those
Speaker 1: minor things where I think, this is what a line
Speaker 1: of saying, like you didn't you don't know what your
Speaker 1: mom goes through in order to get you. You just
Speaker 1: know what you didn't miss a meal, but you don't
Speaker 1: know what your mom did in order to get that
Speaker 1: meal on the table. Like that stuff. At least for me,
Speaker 1: it didn't get revealed way later on, right, Like, of
Speaker 1: course I knew my mom had two jobs. Knew she
Speaker 1: worked at the movies, and I know she had an admage,
Speaker 1: like I knew that, But some of the things that
Speaker 1: in between stuff of like all right, well, I just
Speaker 1: thought we had a box fool. I didn't know that
Speaker 1: the box food came from the food band because she
Speaker 1: went there on the front. But you go down like
Speaker 1: stuff like that, because my grandma and my aunt had
Speaker 1: done that, so I didn't I didn't know. I'm just
Speaker 1: kind of dumbed it down for me, is I knew,
Speaker 1: I didn't know. I didn't know I was poor, poor,
Speaker 1: But I knew like we were struggling, like I I realized,
Speaker 1: I didn't realize in our twenties that we were poor.
Speaker 1: We didn't have anything. I realized it like sixteen seventeen twelve,
Speaker 1: like the normalcy of food stamps for us. You're right,
Speaker 1: you know, I knew I was a lunch you know,
Speaker 1: I have free lunch, So I knew that we didn't
Speaker 1: have a lot, but I knew my ass was pole Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't feel that way. I mean we did,
Speaker 1: we did free and reduced lunches too, but I didn't.
Speaker 1: I don't think I had it, you know, to to
Speaker 1: your level. I think there's people that in my life
Speaker 1: and my community that you know, we certainly were fortunate
Speaker 1: to have more than that, and I just didn't, you know,
Speaker 1: I didn't back in the day where there was a
Speaker 1: store called Picking Safe, and that was the store that
Speaker 1: was like, you know, we were gold clothing. And I
Speaker 1: remember my mom getting made fun of because like my
Speaker 1: mom had shirts from Picken Save and now it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, just stupid, stupid stuff. I remember like saving
Speaker 1: money forever to buy my first pair of British nights,
Speaker 1: and I bought my first pair of picker. My mom
Speaker 1: made me give them or take them back because she
Speaker 1: thought they meant blood killers there take them back. That
Speaker 1: devastated me. I didn't know. I mean, I just wanted
Speaker 1: these pink and white beecaves. I didn't know. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: it's just you know, no, I had listen, I had
Speaker 1: more payless shoes store shoes than any don't get it twisted.
Speaker 1: I didn't have mis I had bikes from I remember
Speaker 1: I bought my my mom bought. So I was in
Speaker 1: the seventh grade, right reminiscent. I had some female l
Speaker 1: A gears. They were black, I remember, remember hold they
Speaker 1: were with the white l A gear on the back
Speaker 1: and they were purple. So they were purple. So I
Speaker 1: took the marker and marked it black. But how do
Speaker 1: we get there l A gears? It was on Centinella
Speaker 1: Avenue over there. Down the street from that goes Chicken
Speaker 1: Waffles down to Peko and we got We got them
Speaker 1: from a dude out of a trunk at my aunt
Speaker 1: Valerie's house. And for like even Mom was trying to
Speaker 1: willing them down, trying to get him to go down.
Speaker 1: It was like we end up paying like twenty five
Speaker 1: bucks and mom was like she was pushing like he
Speaker 1: is not and bucks out of the back trunk of
Speaker 1: a coupe deville with dope boys that he got from
Speaker 1: somewhere else. So, yes, like this is awesome, because it's not.
Speaker 1: It's not more of like, um, this conversation isn't like, oh,
Speaker 1: who was poorer or who who knew who was? I
Speaker 1: just think it's awesome and it's it's good to here,
Speaker 1: like the very the various point of views of poor,
Speaker 1: like your poor you didn't realize until after what you experience.
Speaker 1: Then your your mom realized and knew it when she
Speaker 1: was going on, And then my poorness was I knew
Speaker 1: I was poor. We were operating out of it to
Speaker 1: the point of where like I'm going to the store
Speaker 1: with the fought out of food stamp right to buy
Speaker 1: bread and coming back. You don't spin it on no candy,
Speaker 1: like you're supposed to get some bread and that's what
Speaker 1: you're supposed to get and make sure you double check
Speaker 1: is not moldy, right, and so, but you appreciate it
Speaker 1: makes it that much. Oh, there's nothing in the world
Speaker 1: that would have rather had the mind. I had a
Speaker 1: great child, I had wonderful things, but those are things
Speaker 1: that shape you. Those are the things that shape you too.
Speaker 1: And and then as you I'm sure a lone, as
Speaker 1: you went through your career, those intangibles that you got
Speaker 1: from your mother and and through your lived experience, it
Speaker 1: creates that. It creates that grind culture for you, no question,
Speaker 1: I mean there there is uh. I would be nothing
Speaker 1: without those challenges and struggles. I'd be nothing without um
Speaker 1: the sacrifices that I saw my mom go through. And
Speaker 1: I remember when I got to the point where I
Speaker 1: could secretly pay her car insurance every six months, and
Speaker 1: you know, I would buy I would be the one
Speaker 1: that bought Brianna school supplies. And my mom always provided
Speaker 1: for us. I don't I don't want to paint a
Speaker 1: picture like whoa whoa was me this, that and the other.
Speaker 1: I said, we had a great childhood. But to get
Speaker 1: to the point where I could take some of the
Speaker 1: burden off of her as was you know, it was
Speaker 1: a it was a blessing. And and to be able
Speaker 1: to pay for school myself and finally get all those
Speaker 1: stupid student loans paid off. And you know, just to
Speaker 1: come from I think my parents, or my mom specifically
Speaker 1: It's like those are the types of stories. That's what
Speaker 1: the American dream is. You come to this place or
Speaker 1: you try to make your your life better than you
Speaker 1: had it, and you want your kids to be more
Speaker 1: successful than you were. And my mom did that. And
Speaker 1: now you know, there's nothing in the world I wouldn't
Speaker 1: do for her, because if not for the way she was,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be nearly as successful as I am. She's
Speaker 1: an amazing woman. And you know, to think of this,
Speaker 1: could you imagine. I mean, they they left Cuba leegally,
Speaker 1: but it took them five years to get out. And
Speaker 1: imagine if you guys, take the stuff you have right now,
Speaker 1: and someone were to the government rushes into that room
Speaker 1: where you are and you basically have to just give
Speaker 1: them your keys to your home, everything you own, the
Speaker 1: clothes on your back is what you can take. You
Speaker 1: walk out the door and you have to go to
Speaker 1: another country. That's what they had to do. I can't imagine.
Speaker 1: And she hasn't been back since, and she won't go
Speaker 1: back until the communist regime is completely over, which may
Speaker 1: not even be in her lifetime. But that's what they
Speaker 1: had to do, and they never bitched about it. They
Speaker 1: never complained. They came to this country and they and
Speaker 1: they made it and they and they figured it out.
Speaker 1: And that's that's why I am the way I am.
Speaker 1: Just I can't even imagine, you know, we complain about
Speaker 1: everything now. I can't imagine what that would have been
Speaker 1: like to be uprooted from everything you knew, go to
Speaker 1: a country, don't know the language, have no friends, have
Speaker 1: no life, have no job. Until you know, you figure
Speaker 1: it out. So yeah, I'm fortunate to be where I
Speaker 1: am because of her. You have the opportunity to get
Speaker 1: up and experience everything your experiencing because of what your
Speaker 1: mom had to endure for you to be here and
Speaker 1: be present today, no question, that's part of your story.
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Speaker 1: I got all my answers questions. Um, yeah, I got
Speaker 1: all my questions answered. That's what I'm here for. A
Speaker 1: brother cut to a podcast dot com. It seems like
Speaker 1: there's a lot that you're into. You a woman, You've
Speaker 1: got a lot of interests, you are with the one brand,
Speaker 1: and you also have this foundation that you were talking
Speaker 1: about earlier around dogs. Why is it important to you
Speaker 1: to have these different things going on outside of your
Speaker 1: day to day job with MLB Network. Well, I think
Speaker 1: it's important to aid to have balance. You know. I
Speaker 1: think this is the first time in my life where
Speaker 1: I've had work and life balance. It's always been such
Speaker 1: a grind, you know, trying to get to the next
Speaker 1: level and and you know, continue to prove yourself and
Speaker 1: you know, achieve achieved bigger, stronger, faster type of situation.
Speaker 1: And now for the first time, I've just you know,
Speaker 1: I've been doing this for fifteen, sixteen, seventeen years, So
Speaker 1: it's nice to have a balance between life and work.
Speaker 1: And um, you know, leaving the Dodgers was not an
Speaker 1: easy decision, and uh, they were so good to me
Speaker 1: and I will forever be indebted to that organization. They've
Speaker 1: treated me like family, which is not to say that
Speaker 1: all all organizations do that. UM. A lot don't, and
Speaker 1: I've been I was very fortunate to be there for
Speaker 1: seven years and and cover some pretty incredible things and
Speaker 1: meet some really amazing people UM. But Gidres is a
Speaker 1: passion project for me. I'm very much into rescuing animals UM,
Speaker 1: particularly dogs, and I adopted Gidre when UM back in
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine, and it just opened up my
Speaker 1: my mind and my heart to the need for adoption
Speaker 1: and fostering. And big cities Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Dallas,
Speaker 1: Miami have a massive, massive overcrowding problem in shelters and
Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of dogs get euthanized on a yearly
Speaker 1: basis just because of overcrowding. And you know l A
Speaker 1: and you know the the inner cities and some of
Speaker 1: these bigger cities have a huge problem of story dogs
Speaker 1: and people that don't are people. Latin folk UM don't
Speaker 1: always understand like you know, and black folks too don't
Speaker 1: always It's just a different like family of an ant
Speaker 1: arc how to treat an animal, and it's not They're
Speaker 1: not seen as parts of as a member of the family.
Speaker 1: So just education that's important to me. So goodres is
Speaker 1: a passion project of mine. And the wine stuff. I'm
Speaker 1: just a Scout and Seller consultant. I enjoy having a
Speaker 1: side hustle. I enjoyed diversifying income. It's not my company,
Speaker 1: but I'm just a consultant for it. I love to
Speaker 1: drink wine, I love to have friends over entertain and
Speaker 1: I like to be busy. I'm not I'm not good idol.
Speaker 1: I will always do something and it allows me to
Speaker 1: you know, makes them extra cash and and she need
Speaker 1: to fly mama out here. What is a consultant for wine?
Speaker 1: So basically, Scout and Seller is a company that was
Speaker 1: started about four years ago in Dallas, Texas by a woman.
Speaker 1: It's it's clean crafted wine. So it's um, no added
Speaker 1: slull fid's, no added preservatives, no added sugar, just like
Speaker 1: all the good all the good stuff without the bad stuff. Um,
Speaker 1: we can't promote health benefits. I'm not suggesting. I'm not saying.
Speaker 1: I just love how you said that, but I'm just
Speaker 1: asking on a consulting part of wine, because what do
Speaker 1: you I just like sell wine. I still one like
Speaker 1: I have a website. It's like Scott and Cellar dot
Speaker 1: com slash a wanta rizzo and people can go buy
Speaker 1: wine for me. Okay kind of, but it's fine. It's
Speaker 1: not Yeah, it's not rockets. I need to go to
Speaker 1: Alan And when I figure out, like what kind of
Speaker 1: wine I need to pay Meal, Like, you can't put
Speaker 1: the moscatto with like you're on to stick. You can't
Speaker 1: put them. You can't put the mist that black that
Speaker 1: black folks go to. When Drake wrapped about mascatto and
Speaker 1: so far Gone, everybody went to Getscott. It was that
Speaker 1: was actually the first wine I take some miscatto because
Speaker 1: it was it was a lot of sugar, but because
Speaker 1: the dessert wine. Yeah it's a dessert wine. It is
Speaker 1: known for dessert wine. Butt out the frame moscatto was
Speaker 1: like old English, right, It's like, uh, it's like the duck,
Speaker 1: orange juice, eight ball, moscato flameche Those are the best,
Speaker 1: are the best. This might be super random and old,
Speaker 1: but is Giddre was Gidrey named after Ron? Yes? Yes, so,
Speaker 1: I always I always joked that gid was a South Paw.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you a little more so. When I
Speaker 1: was young, I grew up in Syracuse and we used
Speaker 1: to watch the Giddy used to babysit me when I
Speaker 1: was younger, story, you know what everything. Yeah, he did,
Speaker 1: so we'd go see the Chiefs. Bobby Cox was your
Speaker 1: manager back in the day. Carrie Deneene all the old school. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So when you said Gidrey, like I go away. He
Speaker 1: still he still lives in New Orleans. He's funny. I
Speaker 1: had to. I interviewed him for something on MLB network
Speaker 1: and I told him. I said, listen, I named my
Speaker 1: dog after you, and he was like, oh, that's nice.
Speaker 1: I said no, no no, no, no, no, no, wait, I said,
Speaker 1: I also named my found Asian after you. So um, yeah,
Speaker 1: so let's who. It's named after my dad. My dad's
Speaker 1: from New York. And you know, before before I was covering, uh,
Speaker 1: the Rockies, I guess I was a Yankee fan. I
Speaker 1: just love the name, uh, And there was already a
Speaker 1: Jeter in the family. So I named him Gidrey. As
Speaker 1: you said that that's where I went to. I was like,
Speaker 1: that's cool. Yeah, So it's Goodrey's Guardian Foundation. And now
Speaker 1: my dog's name is Bentley after Dirk Spentley because I
Speaker 1: love country music. So you also you recently had Hank
Speaker 1: Hank Aaron's wife in studio. What was that experience? Like,
Speaker 1: She's such a lovely, so classy, just such a lovely,
Speaker 1: lovely woman and obviously still very emotional of the passing
Speaker 1: of her husband, who's an icon in this game and
Speaker 1: a giant of a man literally and just just a wonderful,
Speaker 1: wonderful human being. And had an opportunity because it was
Speaker 1: the Hank Aaron Award, UM and Vladimir Guerra Jr. Won
Speaker 1: it this year, UM in the American League and then
Speaker 1: Bryce Harper wanted in the National League and have an
Speaker 1: opportunity to have her in studio was was very special.
Speaker 1: And you know, Glad was there and Um I was
Speaker 1: there to do the translation in Spanish for him, and UM,
Speaker 1: she's just a lovely woman and um, you know what
Speaker 1: he meant to baseball, UM is so special. And to
Speaker 1: be able to see her and you know, kind of
Speaker 1: serve as the translator between her and Glad, and you know,
Speaker 1: obviously Harold Reynolds was there and stuff too, So it
Speaker 1: was very special. Um, but we lost an unbelievable man
Speaker 1: in this sport, lost an unbelievable icon. I was traveling
Speaker 1: UM and had a laywhere in Atlanta. I've been in
Speaker 1: you know, living in Charlotte twenty years now, and I
Speaker 1: have a layover in the line and I've had numerous
Speaker 1: laborers in Atlanta and hadn't paid attention one time. And
Speaker 1: this action in this gate terminal E I never paid
Speaker 1: attention to. And they have it is the International Um
Speaker 1: part where a lot of and it actually has a
Speaker 1: really good delta lounge where One of the interesting things
Speaker 1: is I had never paid attention to the display they had,
Speaker 1: which was Martin Luther King and they had a picture
Speaker 1: of Martin Luther King and he was playing he was
Speaker 1: pitching a baseball with his daughters and they had the
Speaker 1: bat and the ball. Then they had a picture of
Speaker 1: when Martin Luther King uh spoke at one of the
Speaker 1: churches and had his rope, and then they had I
Speaker 1: believe his speech, one of his speeches and it was
Speaker 1: hand written and you can see the ink and all
Speaker 1: that stuff, and they preserved it and they had all
Speaker 1: these little things. And I just noticed twenty years later that,
Speaker 1: you know, when I was a kid, I was I
Speaker 1: was given assignment our whole class at the time to
Speaker 1: learn Dr Martin Luther King's speech, And what I'm getting
Speaker 1: to is, there are so many times that I've had
Speaker 1: been in that airport, but this one time I got
Speaker 1: to see this display, and I took my time walking around.
Speaker 1: I read pretty much everything on there, and I looked
Speaker 1: at the pictures and I was like, Wow, how ignorant
Speaker 1: have I been that? Yet? This has been at my
Speaker 1: fingertips for so long? So you've been a woman, a
Speaker 1: woman of ethnicity talked to us because I don't want
Speaker 1: to miss this opportunity. I don't want to be ignorant,
Speaker 1: but I am ignorant because the ignorance is lack of knowledge.
Speaker 1: How much, because I'm a lot of baseball guy through
Speaker 1: and through, how much have men of color, men of
Speaker 1: the Latino descent, impacted baseball in which we've had a
Speaker 1: Jackie Robinson Day and everybody wears the number until that
Speaker 1: modern movie shows we don't really know the impact. How
Speaker 1: much have men of color or people of color in
Speaker 1: baseball I wouldn't say marginal, but haven't really gotten their
Speaker 1: flowers and in the way they should because of the
Speaker 1: history and the lack of color baseball. I mean, you
Speaker 1: think about the fact that there had to be a
Speaker 1: Negro League's before. Um, they weren't allowed to play in
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. I mean, you look at branch Rickey,
Speaker 1: who signed Jackie Robinson. You obviously just mentioned the late
Speaker 1: great Jackie Robinson. Branch Tricky not only signed Jackie Robinson,
Speaker 1: he also signed Roberto Clemente. UM and to be able
Speaker 1: to they had unbelievable impact in baseball. And you look
Speaker 1: at now the fact that you know, some of these
Speaker 1: guys are finally getting into the Hall of Fame based
Speaker 1: on the Veterans Committee and the gold Era Committee and
Speaker 1: those types of things. Um, there's so many and I
Speaker 1: highly encourage before I forget, there's so many opportunities to learn.
Speaker 1: Um to your point of going and looking at the
Speaker 1: play and everything. You absolutely must go to the Negro
Speaker 1: Leagues Museum in Kansas City, and you absolutely must go
Speaker 1: to the Roberto Clemente Museum in Pittsburgh. They are unbelievable.
Speaker 1: And you were talking about Martin Luther King, Don Newcombe.
Speaker 1: If you guys are Dodgers fans, you know the late
Speaker 1: great Don Newcombe. Um, you know new Dr king and
Speaker 1: and and did many things in terms of the civil
Speaker 1: rights movement. With Dr King, as did Jackie, and they
Speaker 1: had such an impact not only on the game just
Speaker 1: making it better from a pure standpoint of skill and
Speaker 1: athleticism and just baseball i Q. But what they had
Speaker 1: to go through and endure just to play the sport
Speaker 1: that we love is unbelievable. And you know, it is
Speaker 1: such an international game now, I mean, you think about
Speaker 1: the fact that there's I mean, I'm guessing here, I
Speaker 1: don't know this, but there's probably ten, eleven, twelve different
Speaker 1: countries represented in in baseball. Um. You know, now it's
Speaker 1: a requirement that we have uh, Spanish speaking translators in
Speaker 1: every single clubhouse, where before, you know, two or three
Speaker 1: years ago, that wasn't even a thing. We've always had,
Speaker 1: you know, translators obviously for our Korean players, are Japanese players,
Speaker 1: are Chinese, Taiwanese players, UM. But think about the Latin influence,
Speaker 1: the black and Latin influence players that have come from Cuba,
Speaker 1: the Dominican Republic, um. You know, Venice, Venezuela, Puerto Rico,
Speaker 1: which I understand is a part of the United States,
Speaker 1: but you know, but it's it's a it's a huge
Speaker 1: it's a huge impact that they've had on this sport,
Speaker 1: and now they're finally being able to They're they're making
Speaker 1: changes to the Hall of Fame, the Baseball Hall system
Speaker 1: to be able to recognize some of these great players.
Speaker 1: Buck O'Neill just went in this year, Minosa, Mini Minosa,
Speaker 1: And I think it's one of those things where it's
Speaker 1: it's you always have to take the town to pause
Speaker 1: and reflect, like it's so easy to reduce down to
Speaker 1: Hank here and you just remember those visuals of him,
Speaker 1: you know, rounding in the bases and and breaking Babe
Speaker 1: Bruce record, but not remembering that he was getting hate
Speaker 1: mail right before he was getting ready to break that record,
Speaker 1: or um. He was doing this during separate but equal,
Speaker 1: so he was often having to book his own travel
Speaker 1: because he couldn't be with his white counterparts, or him
Speaker 1: and Jackie Robinson getting batteries thrown at them or getting
Speaker 1: spat on or rocks being thrown at them. And you
Speaker 1: even brought up the Latino players, like a lot of
Speaker 1: them in the early nineteen hundreds, they would not list
Speaker 1: that they were Latino so that they pay so they
Speaker 1: would they would, I do not want to say, disguise
Speaker 1: themselves as white men, but they would make sure they
Speaker 1: didn't list with there was they could play. And this
Speaker 1: is even before so I think something remove there. They
Speaker 1: removed their hair diash to just be given an opportunity
Speaker 1: well and just to survive. Honestly. The reason, it's the
Speaker 1: reason that when we come over to the United States
Speaker 1: and you know, people come into Ellis Island in New York,
Speaker 1: that people are I don't even know if my last
Speaker 1: name is really resolved. It could have been, like you know,
Speaker 1: some been super long that was very ethnic. So I
Speaker 1: guess you can come over here with that. But I
Speaker 1: think the other part two is we talk about, like
Speaker 1: you started off saying, the lack of color and baseball,
Speaker 1: but I think the flip side of the coin too
Speaker 1: was remembering that in some instances, baseball has been a
Speaker 1: barrier breaker, right when you think about these Latino players
Speaker 1: in the early nineteen hundreds, you think about Jackie Robinson,
Speaker 1: and you think about Hankar and even down to just
Speaker 1: this year about the All Star Game getting moved, whether
Speaker 1: however you feel about that, but aligning with the voter,
Speaker 1: with the voter laws, like a lot of times, they've
Speaker 1: been on the front lines too, So I think you
Speaker 1: have to give it as just to do on both
Speaker 1: ends to where yeah, there have been a lack, but
Speaker 1: it's also a lot of times they're they're the ones
Speaker 1: who are, you know, on the front lines of um
Speaker 1: of segregation and along those lines. So you have to
Speaker 1: look at it on dual sides of the coin. And
Speaker 1: I think we're doing a better job now in baseball
Speaker 1: of trying to bring Caucasian players, Black players, Latin players,
Speaker 1: Asian players together. I mean the players alliance that has
Speaker 1: been formed from you know, active players and the Mookie
Speaker 1: Bets of the world and former players, the cc Sabathias
Speaker 1: of the world. But it's not just African American players
Speaker 1: that are involved in this. It's you know, everybody coming
Speaker 1: together and for the same the same way that a
Speaker 1: man needs to stand up for a woman and say, hey,
Speaker 1: make sure you guys watch this all female broadcast. It's
Speaker 1: the same thing when you have a guy like the
Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaws of the world standing next to the guys
Speaker 1: like Mookie Bets of the world and saying, hey, he's
Speaker 1: my teammate, he's my brother. I'm if he doesn't want
Speaker 1: to play on this day, I'm standing with him as
Speaker 1: as as a as a as a human not as
Speaker 1: a white player, as a human being standing next to my,
Speaker 1: my my teammates and my glory. And you know, we
Speaker 1: have a long way to go, but I am proud
Speaker 1: of the strides that to your point that you know,
Speaker 1: I do believe baseball is making because it is a
Speaker 1: global game and it is an international sport. Good good,
Speaker 1: they's getting down. Hey Gerard, why did you get that
Speaker 1: T shirt? You mean, Oh yes, I got it from
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Speaker 1: Shout out to our guys at seven or four shot.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you can go on, buy you a T shirt,
Speaker 1: subscribe to us wherever you listen to podcasts. I do
Speaker 1: think for a long time in baseball, some of the
Speaker 1: considered the founding fathers are people that necessarily don't always
Speaker 1: have not represented the whole culture of baseball. Like Cecil
Speaker 1: Page have been playing baseball a long time, but yet
Speaker 1: some of his records because the Negro League was not
Speaker 1: even recognized as a real leg that he his his
Speaker 1: stats weren't there or or even in football, like you know,
Speaker 1: statistically they weren't recording people, but it wasn't they weren't
Speaker 1: recording because of color and skin. They just didn't have
Speaker 1: the bandwidth to do the statistics. But in baseball, it's
Speaker 1: always been statistics they've always captured, right, And they talk
Speaker 1: about the Lou Garrett's Babe routes, you know, the handcarons,
Speaker 1: But there's even people before them that we're doing things
Speaker 1: that didn't get an opportunity to capture that because they said, well,
Speaker 1: this individual is a person that we don't really deem acceptable,
Speaker 1: so we're not gonna acknowledge what they were doing three
Speaker 1: or four years before they before Babe Ruth came on
Speaker 1: the scene as Babe Ruth, right, you know, So I
Speaker 1: I just I appreciate you answering that and and just
Speaker 1: talking about it. But it is also one of those
Speaker 1: things that I noticed what I missed, and it was
Speaker 1: right before my eyes over all the years that I've traveled,
Speaker 1: So I was just wondering, how many things have you
Speaker 1: kind of sometimes don't get the opportunity to talk about
Speaker 1: because the people that are, you know, asking the questions
Speaker 1: don't always willing to be vulnerable to say, hey, I
Speaker 1: was ignorant to this. No, I appreciate the question, and
Speaker 1: I appreciate your honesty with it. I do think. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can't. I can't say it enough. You have to
Speaker 1: be I'm not I'm not a proponent of a racing
Speaker 1: history and acting like it never happened. I'm I'm a
Speaker 1: proponent of of learning from it and moving forward. I
Speaker 1: think it's so important to see what all of the
Speaker 1: African American players did and that negro Leagues Museum. It's
Speaker 1: a it's a must, it is a musty. And we
Speaker 1: have very few off days in baseball, UM, but one
Speaker 1: off day I had was in Pittsburgh and going to
Speaker 1: that Roberto Clemente Museum was one of the highlights of
Speaker 1: my career. Not to mention they have a winery downstairs,
Speaker 1: so you can just you know, win wine and baseball
Speaker 1: there we go. If there would have been a bunch
Speaker 1: of dogs there, it would have been the best day life.
Speaker 1: But you know, it's it's important to be able to
Speaker 1: um to understand what what all of these people went through.
Speaker 1: I mean, just to be able to play, and just
Speaker 1: to be able to survive, just to be able to
Speaker 1: provide for their families, you know. And another thing too,
Speaker 1: I think we're in a dangerous territory along more of
Speaker 1: what you were saying Steve about you know, just because
Speaker 1: I don't like the behavior doesn't mean I don't like you.
Speaker 1: I think we're in a very dangerous territory that just
Speaker 1: because you disagree with somebody does not mean you have
Speaker 1: to cancel that person. Um. I think we're in a
Speaker 1: very dangerous spot of cancel culture. I think UM. And
Speaker 1: another thing when it comes just to professional athletes about
Speaker 1: you know, may not like the behavior, but you can
Speaker 1: still like the person. I think fans people not as
Speaker 1: you know, not a professional athlete. You need to understand
Speaker 1: that you guys are people first and players second. I
Speaker 1: think people. I think we idolize celebrities, professional athletes, musicians,
Speaker 1: um to the point where we forget that they are
Speaker 1: people first, and we forget that they have families and feelings.
Speaker 1: And yes, I know they get paid a lot of money,
Speaker 1: get it, But it doesn't mean that you can treat
Speaker 1: people with such disrespect and vitral. And that's something that
Speaker 1: that frustrates me too, you know, and because then ultimately
Speaker 1: it comes out as the athlete was stuck up with
Speaker 1: an athlete? Was this where it's like you don't tell
Speaker 1: the full story of Hey I interrupted that individual's birthday party,
Speaker 1: or he in you know, or just the spewing that
Speaker 1: you guys get on the field are the things that
Speaker 1: you know. And it's like in God forbid you say
Speaker 1: anything back because then you're the you know, you're the
Speaker 1: bad guy. So yeah, I think this comes down to
Speaker 1: respect in general, and I don't think it's that difficult,
Speaker 1: but just seemed to have gotten away from that a
Speaker 1: little bit. Well, we really appreciate your time and this
Speaker 1: was awesome. Welcome en, No, it was fun. I really
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed talking to you, and thanks for the
Speaker 1: opportunity and keep in touch. You are a unique person,
Speaker 1: you are well worth it, you are competent, and most
Speaker 1: of all, your lovable. I'm Steve Smith Singer, I'm Gerard
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