WEBVTT - TOM's Talks | Catching Up With Pat Croce 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.640 This podcast is part of the seventy Sixers Podcast network 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:08.840 search seventy Sixers podcast wherever you get your pods. In 0:00:08.840 --> 0:00:11.960 this special edition of Tom's Talks, we hear from former 0:00:12.080 --> 0:00:16.119 seventy six Ers president and entrepreneur Pat Crochee. It was 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:18.480 twenty years ago when the seventy six Ers made it 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:22.400 to the NBA Finals. Proachee talks about that postseason run, 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:25.360 ringing the bell prior to a six years playoff game, 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:29.920 a recent health challenge, and his spiritual quest. Here's Pat 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:33.720 croche Thank you so much for doing this, Pat, We 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:36.720 appreciate it. It's just great to see you. And I 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:39.200 know you've been through a lot health wise of late. 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:42.400 How are you doing, Tommy. I'm doing great. I'm truly 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:45.239 I feel great. It never stopped me. I mean I 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:49.440 really had a mile a mile touch by cancer was 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:52.680 c seldom foam on my chest. So I had some 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:56.040 surgery and radiation, but nothing compared to the people who 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:59.480 I come across in my life now and so I 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:03.720 feel is blessed. And for you, with your personality and 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:06.800 your whole mantra, you were like bringing on, what do 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:10.480 we do? Tommy? It never stopped me from zero to ten. 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:12.240 It didn't stop me. I might have had a little 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:15.039 fatigue during the radiation, but I still worked out. It 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:18.640 had nothing to do with my mental inspiration because I 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:20.560 didn't feel it was me. It was my body, but 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:22.960 it was not me. It never so we'll do what's 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:24.960 what do I need to do? Okay, let's go. Let's 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:27.800 do it and get it done with. We get together 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:30.280 on the occasion of you coming to the seventy six 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:34.240 ers game, and as we speak, you'll have already done this, 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:36.640 but you're going to ring the bell. And for you, 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:39.000 you called it coming home. It was twenty years ago 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:41.800 where you know you last led the seventy six ers 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:44.240 and that franchise or the franchise and the team at 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:46.680 that time made it to the NBA Finals. It will 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:49.920 be special for you tonight to ring the bell. You 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:53.160 know that ringing the bell. Obviously I just did it 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:58.080 finishing radiation, so it was celebratory. This is also celebratory. 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:00.240 The last time I was on that court, I did 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:02.800 walk out with Ai when he retired his jersey. But 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:07.320 the last time I was invited to come, I'm not 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:10.160 even show was invited time because it was the seventh 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:12.919 game against Milwaukee we wanted. I ran out in the 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:15.720 court and jumped in a Tumbo's arms. That to me 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:20.480 was the twenty year delta between men and now where 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:23.799 both teams were great, ranked number one in the East, 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:28.200 and the sky was the limit. I mean, the energy, 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:32.520 the enthusiasm, and the talent of this team is so exciting. 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:35.800 And we'll get into the two thousand and one entry 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:38.720 led by Iverson, but there are a lot of similarities. 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:42.480 This team has captured the imagination of the Delaware Valley. 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:45.880 They both have a major star in the Sixers with 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:48.880 Joel embi Now and of course Iverson at that team. 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:51.840 They're fun to watch, they play hard, kind of bring 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:56.239 those two worlds together, if you will. From your perspective. Well, 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:58.880 and you know they both had great coaches or have 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:02.400 great coaches. Doc Rivers, I love Doc Rivers. I've known 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:04.920 Doc for a long time, even as a player. And 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:09.320 then Larry Brown, So those two really start and lead 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:12.400 by example. They listen well, they coach well, they know 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:14.440 the x's and those but at the same time they 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.160 know the buttons to push with each and every player. 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:19.760 And then when you get on the court, it all 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:23.000 comes around the star. It all comes around. Well, let's 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:25.840 just say the sun, the star that shines the brightest, 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:31.480 whether it was Ai or Joel Ebid, that is required 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:34.240 in the NBA, and then how you mix the other 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:40.000 stars shining lights around it. And this team has the 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:45.080 potential to shine really really bright, stay healthy, shine brightly. 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:48.520 And the other similarity, or at least one of them, is, 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:51.720 you know, back then in ninety nine and six Ers 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:53.880 got into the playoffs. He've been out for nine years, 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:57.600 and there was an ascent, if you will, until they 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:01.680 got finally through Indiana and then you know, into that 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:04.400 run where as you say, they played first Toronto and 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:07.360 then Milwaukee and then eventually the Lakers. Same thing with 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:08.960 this crew, like you know, they've made it to the 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:11.800 playoffs now four years in a row, and it seems 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:14.560 like now might be the time, and there's like a 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:18.080 crescendo building. It was very similar to that time two 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:22.000 decades ago. Right, Well, it's a great metaphor, you're right, 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:25.159 And it was those two first two times ninety nine 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:27.400 and two thousand where we made it to the second round, 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:30.760 but both times that yellow machine of Indiana and Reggie 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:32.400 Miller knocked to say out. And then we have to 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:35.120 play him in the first round of two thousand and one. 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:37.520 But you learn, right. If you haven't learned, you're going 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:40.560 to keep repeating the same mistakes. So two thousand and 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:44.840 one learned. Now we shall see this two and twenty 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:48.200 one team if they've learned from their entry into the playoffs, 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:53.479 is not good enough. Pat you embody Philadelphia. You know, 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:56.880 growing up in Landsdown and being just totally woven into 0:04:56.920 --> 0:05:01.400 the fabric of what a Philadelphia fan is from your perspective, 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:04.200 somebody who was right there in the trenches as a 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:05.640 fan and then made it all the way to the 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:09.000 boardroom as an owner of a franchise, basically the face 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:12.360 the business side of a franchise. How do you describe 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:20.239 a Philadelphia fan smart? I do? I think they're smart. 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:24.440 I think they're smart when it comes to sports. Yes, 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:26.880 they're a fan. But people say they're so hard. No, 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:30.640 they don't want to take any bs. They know when 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:33.839 you are bs and them. They know what it takes 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:36.919 to win. They know. I'm not saying they're a coach. 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:40.719 I'm saying they know the games. They know that's what's required, 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:43.040 whether it was the Flyers or the Phillies or the 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:46.280 Eagles or the Sixers. It doesn't matter. They know when 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:50.000 you're not giving them as straight, but they also know 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:52.920 that when you're giving it all. So if you don't 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:55.320 win it at all, they still put you on their 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:58.000 shoulders like they did to our team in two thousand 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:01.200 and one. They know everything slept out on that court, 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:04.400 and I think they know right now that this team 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:08.680 has the potential to generate a parade, and they're behind 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:12.719 this team knowing that. I'm not saying they're expecting it, 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:16.640 but they will evaluate it along the way to make 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:20.000 sure that that team gives everything they got in every possession. 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:22.560 You had a lot of fun with it too. I 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:25.679 mean that's kind of your nature right to push things 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.040 to the edge. Whether it was I still honest to 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:30.560 Pete and I know it's been Larry Platt wrote that 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:33.560 great piece about you. But when I drive over the 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:36.000 Walt Women Bridge, like dozens of times over the years, 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:39.400 I think, man, that dude, hey climbed I can barely 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:42.240 hold on to the wheel like sometime, but you climbed 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:45.840 up there. I remember the one where early on it 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:47.640 and we do it. There's a lot going on right 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:51.039 now with the playoffs and getting into the marketplace. Still 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:53.719 to this day, it's awesome. But like you did that 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:56.680 deal where you cap the cabbies right right there, like 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:59.720 it's seventeenth in market, Like a lot of guys would 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:01.880 have been arrested, but you were out there handed out 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:05.520 caps and sixers hats and like you were out there 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:09.600 and it blended well. It made perfect sense. Speak to 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:12.240 that a little bit, Tom. No one has ever brought 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:15.080 that up, nor have I ever thought about that. And 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:17.880 that was earlier on in my reign, and it was 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:20.920 a Dave Kosky creation because I told him I would 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:24.280 love to see all the cabbies where our hat because 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:27.280 at the time, in ninety six ninety seven, we weren't 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:31.040 too good and there weren't that many fans. It was subtle, 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:35.040 but not really. The revolution hadn't started yet, and so 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:38.960 he came up with the idea to CAPTI Cabby, meaning 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:42.480 we'll go down Center City and give everyone. I think 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:45.360 it was a free pep seat and free salt cutzel 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:47.760 and a cap too, and we'll just put it out there. 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:48.920 I didn't know how we were going to do it. 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:50.960 I just knew that when I'm in a city, I 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:53.920 always talked to the cab driver. And if they haven't 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:57.800 Denver Nuggets, hat On or Lakers had, how's the team 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:02.360 I wanted them to wear Sixers had. Well, it was outrageous. 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:06.200 We stopped all traffic for hours. There had to be 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:12.160 what hundreds of cabs all interlocked, blocking all track. You're right, 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:15.280 I should have been arrested. It was. People were hanging 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:18.160 out of their windows in the office buildings, screaming and 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:20.400 young as if it was a ticker tape parade. It 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:22.960 was so much fun. I'm thinking, oh, this is good, 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:27.360 this is good. The Sixers team, the two thousand and 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:29.640 one team that we're referring to in the anniversary of 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:32.720 them going to the finals, is coming up, including game one. 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:36.360 And this team was so beloved at Sixers team because 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:40.160 of Iverson and all of the forces that he brought 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:43.120 to the table. And then, like we said, the ability 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:45.480 to compete and play hard, and you had so many 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:49.480 great role players and obviously they were very successful. But 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:52.200 they didn't win the championship. The Sixers fell short. You know, 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:54.960 we finished second place to the Lakers, but they did 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:57.080 win the first game, and you were out in Los 0:08:57.080 --> 0:08:59.760 Angeles's stables. I remember we went to dinner. In fact, 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:01.840 I had, and I said, in Beverly Hills, right next 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:04.520 to the late Gary Papa. He did a live shot. 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:06.840 I was as close to being on Action News, but 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:08.840 I was right next to you too. But what do 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:11.719 you remember about that? And why did that resonate so 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:15.360 much with everybody? Particularly the Game one victory, Tommy, I 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.520 know you were at that night, that that restaurant we 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:20.480 were at, and I had my own entourage. It was 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:23.679 on trash before entourage, without the sex because my wife 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:26.280 was there. It was just fun like and it was 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:31.160 wild because it went into overtime, like overtime, here is 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:33.640 this dark horse and that year the Lakers had never 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:37.960 lost a playoff game, right, weren't they undefeated throughout the playoffs? 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:41.120 And so here it goes into overtime and Iverson steps 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:44.080 over to Ron Lou And I mean I was in 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:46.720 the stands just going. My hair was on fire, I 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:49.880 was out of my mind, and it was just such 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:53.080 a great feeling that here was an opportunity for all 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:58.000 of Philadelphia to show the world that we are winners, 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:01.800 that whatever you might think between New York and Washington, 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:05.640 that we're second best. 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Gambling problem called one eight 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:18.199 hundred gambler now back to my chat with Pat Crochet, 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:23.720 so of lay Pat and just reading about, like I said, 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:26.720 this piece of biography, if you will that, Larry Platt 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:29.040 went on, you've you've gone on a journey of sorts 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:34.600 right to find oneness, spiritualness and centeredness. Speak to that. 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:37.200 I know it goes way beyond the little description I 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:39.760 put forth. But but what have you found? And what 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:41.520 did you do? What are some of the things you've 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:45.120 done of the last few years? Regarding that a time 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:47.920 it started about six years ago, and it wasn't I 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:51.480 wasn't not a spiritual seek or something happened and it 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:54.160 was this quote. Most of our life occurs in our 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:57.920 head and memory, imagination, speculation, interpretation. So if you want 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:01.199 to change your life, you'd best be by changing your mind. 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:06.160 When can you change your mind? I know I can 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:08.360 change a body, it's a physical therapist train or I've 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:12.800 changed all kinds of bodies. I've changed my opinion many times. 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:15.080 But can you change a mind? And then I went 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:19.280 into it and through that something happened, something cracked. And 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:21.200 then I went deeper and went around the world and 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:26.120 visited all kinds of sages and yogis and had retreats 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:29.080 and along the way what you realize Tom And it's 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:33.640 very simple that nothing on the outside and this temporary 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:39.600 external world can bring permanive inner happiness. You have to stop, 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:43.000 be still and turn around and look within, whether it 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:46.840 requires prayer or meditation. Meditation help with me, because you 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:50.719 realize that those crazy ass thoughts in your head aren't you. 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:55.800 They're not true, so let them flow through. But unless 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:59.040 you learn that and you realize, you start I was 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:01.040 always thought I was voice in my head. I didn't 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:04.079 know there was such an activity. And what happens is 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:07.120 it can make you suffer. You revert and get pulled 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:10.079 to the past in comparisons, and you get protected to 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:14.800 the future and expectations, anticipations, judgments. But what about now. 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:17.600 A's where life is, and that's what happens. You let 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:20.400 go of the past and future unless you're talking about 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:24.200 the twenty one team, and that's okay. Anything joyful is okay. 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:26.000 And then you bring it back to the now. And 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:30.400 so to share with your viewers, be in the present 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:33.800 moment as much as you can make the present moment 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:37.679 your friend. How the universe unfolds before you is for you, 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:40.559 not against you. You may not want it, you may 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:44.480 not like it, but it's for your evolution, for your awakening, 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:47.280 and so take advantage of it and then see what 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:51.280 it brings and use it. You can change your future. 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:56.000 So like I know, when you ran, you know, you 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:58.360 ran six miles a day. You did it in the morning, 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:01.920 and you used to say that was to tamp down, 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:06.440 you know, whatever, voices whatever. Your mom you called her 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:09.480 a saint, she was a devout Catholic. All of those 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:13.559 things were woven into your past. But this was wholly different. 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:17.280 This was obviously a lot more in terms of research 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:20.240 and finding out more knowledge to get to this point. 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:23.080 In this realization that you've just spoke of, correct and 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:26.240 that's the word tim self realization. Not this separates up 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:29.080 the ego being attached to our beliefs and feelings, but 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:33.040 something much bigger that which is aware of your thoughts 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:37.000 and feelings, a universal awareness that you and I are 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:40.720 the exact same eye, the same I am once where 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:43.320 I am Tom or I am pack. Then everything changes. 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:46.720 Then we costume the eye. But if we all know, 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:49.880 like this green bead signifies, we're all in this together 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:54.880 as one one being, one all knowing being, And then 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:59.360 from there, go and enjoy this world of experience. It 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:03.040 makes the whole experience different. What happens is your perception 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:06.120 of the world is a direct reflection of your state 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:09.240 of awareness. So if you're more aware and you take 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:13.160 off some of the coloring or customing, then your perception 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:16.960 of the world is, Oh, like, this journey is enjoyable 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:19.920 no matter what happens, whether it's the motorcycle accident or 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:22.840 the cancer, it doesn't matter. Take care of it, take 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:26.840 care of business, and let's move on. That sounds like 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:31.800 a recipe, a formula for what is now a fractured world, 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:34.920 like we're going through quite a bit. I mean, a 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:37.960 couple of doses of that, if you will, could help 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:40.680 our society in a larger sense. And that's in part 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:43.480 what you're trying to share a little bit in some 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:45.520 of this healed work that you're doing. I know that 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:49.240 centers around the American Cancer Society, But right, I mean, 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:52.880 doesn't that Now you're totally right. It is ACS healed 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:57.160 American Cancer Society's healed health and energy through active living, 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:02.640 every day active living. It doesn't say blackett living, white living, 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:08.240 Catholic living, Jewish living. No, No, there are no dimensions, 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:14.080 no qualifications, no attributes to who is active living, and 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:18.600 the more body, mind, and spirit we share, the greater 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:23.080 we are. It's universal, this universal love. When you see 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:25.800 when you see your loved one, whoever that might be, 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:28.960 whether they have cancer or not, and you look into 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:31.800 their eyes and you feel that empathy for them, that love. 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:34.640 You're not a subject in them, an object. There's just 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:38.040 loving and that's the oneness. That's what this green bead 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:40.520 stands for. So any of your viewers you want to 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:44.280 go to acshel dot com just register if you want 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:47.800 to make it a little donation, but you'll get this, 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:50.680 you'll get this Mala bee with that one green bead. 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:53.920 It's our heel bracelet. And Tommy, I want everyone this 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:57.440 is a calling for me. Like in nineteen ninety six 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:01.040 the Sixers were calling for me to do something good 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:03.640 for the city of Philadelphia. This is something good for 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:07.240 the world, starting right here in Philadelphia to help heal 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:10.760 that fracture. And once you realize that you don't need 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:15.080 to suffer, you don't then share suffering. That's really important. 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:18.880 Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional, and we can 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:24.320 allow any suffering to go by coming right now to 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:27.560 bring it full circle a little bit. Not everybody gets 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:31.480 to feel what you'll feel tonight or at other points 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:35.439 certainly in your motivational speaking career throughout the years. And 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:39.680 that is you know what Iverson did or what can be? Does? 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:42.200 You know you're going to ring that bell and you're 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:45.600 going to feel a wave of emotion from tonight eleven 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:49.879 thousand people but really collectively around the entire valley that 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:52.359 they're going to reconnect, if you will, with you and 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:56.560 the sixers. What's that like to feel that wave, to 0:17:56.600 --> 0:17:59.960 be the conductor and feel that wave of energy coming 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:05.960 back and have a course through you. I think it's 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:11.800 so grand that it transcends words. It transcends words. But 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:13.720 let me give you a quote. I love this poem 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:17.639 poet has He's a soupie poet from the fourteenth century. 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:20.000 I am the hole in the flute that the christ 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:23.440 breath moves through. Listen to this music. So tonight I'm 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:26.479 going to be that hole in the flute and listen 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:30.600 to the music. Just listen to the vibration, listen to 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:34.840 the energy, and just watch it resonate, not just in 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:38.280 that arena. See, we think that just what we do 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:42.119 manifest right in front of no. What we do is 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:46.399 a vibrational energy that pervades everywhere, so that high vibrational 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:51.000 frequency from that arena will pervade all the way through 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:56.480 the fracture you talk about and start the healing. Perfect, Pat, 0:18:56.520 --> 0:18:58.320 We wish you the best, Thank you so much for 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:01.000 the time, and we'll talk to you down on the road. Tommy. 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:03.080 I'm so happy for your success and you're still the 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:06.159 voice of the Sixers. Yeah, man, be well, Pat. Thank you. 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:10.840 If you like what you're hearing, consider subscribing to the 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:14.679 seventy Sixers podcast network feed or giving us a follow 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:17.639 wherever you get your paws and if that happens to 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:20.440 be on Apple Podcasts, we'd love for you to give 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:23.560 us a rating. 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