July 7, 2025

Who is Michael Barbarita & Why Johnny Hates Sports Are Positively Pipeman

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Season 19
Tune in for Season 19, Episode 57 of The Adventures of Pipeman at 1PM ET on 07/07/25 for the live show on W4CY Radio at www.w4cy.com.

Who is Michael Barbarita – Introduction to the background of Michael Barbarita of Next Step CFO and Powerful Business Strategies and how he can help small business owners.

Do you like sports? Find out Why Johnny Hates Sports with Fred Engh, founder of the National Alliance for Youth Sports, America’s leading advocate for positive and safe sports for over 30 million youth involved in organized sports.

Subscribe to The Adventures of Pipeman at https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-adventures-of-pipeman--941822/support

More than 30 Million children in America play what is called “little league” in sports year-round. Those 30 million children are coached, for the most part, by parents, who, in far too many instances, lose perspective as they berate children for failing to live up to their expectations.

Positively Pipeman is a Motivational, Business, Marketing, Empowerment & Inspirational segment of The Adventures of Pipeman Radio Show (#pipemanradio). The live show is broadcast live on W4CY Radio (www.w4cy.com), W4VET Radio, and K4HD Radio - Hollywood Talk Radio (www.k4hd.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (www.talk4radio.com) on the Talk 4 Media Network (www.talk4media.com). This podcast is also available on Talk 4 Podcasting (www.talk4podcasting.com).

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Hi, you love them too, Yes, that's true. For see

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why for you young?

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It is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe

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Man W four CY Radio. And I'm very excited about

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our next guest because this is a positively pipeman guest. Okay,

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he has a show on our station. But get that

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for a second. He's just brilliant in what he projects

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about powerful business strategies. So what I like to know

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is who is Michael Barberita?

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Anyway, Well, thank.

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You, thank you very much. Great to be here, by

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the way, thank you for having me.

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Oh my pleasure.

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And what I'd like to do is just, you know,

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give you a little story of my background. So back

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in nineteen ninety nine, I just sold my second business successfully.

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My first business sold for multiple seventh figures, and I

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had this attitude that I could do no wrong, you know.

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I after owning and exiting to successful businesses, I thought

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I had the keys to the business kingdom, and then

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quite frankly, that I could succeed in any business. So

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in all of this glory, I started an outpatient rehabilitation

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facility called Freedom Therapy Center. Now, in all the successful

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businesses that I owned, I always and this is this

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is the critical partying. I always implemented business and financial

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strategies that my competition wasn't doing. For example, my first

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business was a ski specialty retail business, and I grew

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the company from two and a half million to eight

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million in five years. And the contributing factor to that

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growth was a strategy that we preached called a risk reversal,

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where the seller in the transaction takes most of all

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the risk. And one of the problems that the customer

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had in the ski industry is they really never knew

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if the ski they were being sold by some hotshot

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ski salesperson was the right scheme for them until they

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went up in the Mountain and tried it out. So

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what we did is we implemented what we call the

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Ski guarantees. Ski the ski three times, you don't like it,

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bring it back for a brand new pair, and keep

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bringing it back until we get it right now. Now,

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keep in mind what happens when skis hit the slope.

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They'd depreciate dramatically. It's like driving a car out of

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a show broom. So my managers and my employees thought

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I was absolutely out of my mind because all they

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could do is they envisioned thousands of pair of skis

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coming back from the field and them having to do

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all this extra work and us losing a ton of money.

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But my mindset was a little different, you know, and

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during the course of the next shows and stuff, as

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we as we go through our journey, I'm going to

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talk about how important mindset is. My mindset was that

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all the customer really wanted was a great ski experience

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they went out to, you know, put one over on

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the retailer. So what we did when we implemented, we

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the first year we implemented the program, we soy thound

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a pair of skis a twenty five percent increase from

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the previous year and only eight came back. And next

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year we sold bill Yeah, it's unbelievable. And so eleven

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thousand pair of skis the next year and only fourteen

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came back. You know it's it's.

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See, I'm like who you were talking about. I'm imagining

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when you first said this. I'm imagining like somebody like

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wipes out on the slopes the ski, the skis snap

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in half, and they bring them back because you know, hey,

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it didn't work for them, right right?

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at least, this is what my research, all we showed

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and how we ran our business is that all they

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wanted was a great ski experience. It's not a lot

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to ask.

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But then when I fast forward to Freedom Therapy Center,

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which was the outpatient rehabilitation facility, I must have taken

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stupid pills because I did exactly exactly what my competition

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was doing. The way I marketed I I bought over

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two thousand chocolate cakes, and I tried to bribe front

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office staffs to get to the doctors. That's what everybody

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was doing. I offered services the exact same way my

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competition was offering now no compelling offers, no strategic direction,

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and and and Dean, I know how to manage cash

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flow because I'm a financial guy. Oh god, we were

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averaging cash every month. I had to go into my

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savings to fund the operating losses we're having.

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And nobody wants to operate a business like that.

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No, trust me that that's where that's yeah, that's where

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you really learn, uh, how how horrible a business could

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be when when when you have cash flow problems, it's

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just it's just awful. Everybody's calling everybody. And you know

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what was interesting too, is uh, I made one of

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those promises to myself that we business owners always make,

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you know, just certain problems since I promised myself I

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wouldn't put any more money into the company bank account

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for my savings, and of course I broke that promise.

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But you know, thank god I wasn't married. I'd be

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under the pressure of being told to get a real job.

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doing wrong. I was waking up in the middle of

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the night with cold sweats, worried about cash flowing, all

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the customers I was losing. There was a million wednesdays

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where there was no money in the company bank account,

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the payroll do on Friday, all the employees were leaving.

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They saw a sinking ship. People we owed money to

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a calling left and right. There was personal liability galore,

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and then it just all ended. I just cool. I

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just fell in my face, And it's funny, you know.

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I learned two things from that experience. From falling on

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my face. Number one, I learned that one of the

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hardest steps to take in life is the step after

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the fall, the next step.

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Yeah, So days after I sold Freedom Therapy, so I

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closed Freedom Therapy Center. Next step CFO was born. And

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then the second thing I learned is I'm no longer

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doing what my competition is doing.

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I think that's a right there.

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Like like even I've seen, Okay, there's places where they

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have pizza restaurants and one closes and the new one

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opens up, and it closes and the new one opens up,

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and it's like, I always think to myself, do these

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people not get that every other pizza place has failed

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either they have to do something different or don't do pizza.

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Yeah. I noticed that too in a few places in

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our market that repetitive same business, open closed, new business,

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open close, same industry, same same thing. It is really crazy.

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And so yeah, so you know, if you take all

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of my background, I've got about forty years of business

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ownership experience.

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And you know.

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I I you mentioned the radio show. I also wrote

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a book called Powerful Business Strategies Coothident. I am a

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magazine contributor. You know, I grew up business from two

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and a half million to eight million in the ski industry,

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and you know, I'm also what's called a certified profit coach. Dean.

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Let me tell you what a certified profit coach is.

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You know, there's so many coaches and consultants that really

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don't know how to grow a small business. And the

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reason why it's being a certified profit coach is so

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important is we go through rigorous training to prove that

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we do know how to grow a small business. And

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there are very few coaches and consultants out there that

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go through that type of vigorous training to prove that

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they can actually do it. And so I'm really proud

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of that designation. And I believe that anybody who doesn't

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hire a certified profit coach, and there's only about one

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hundred and fifty of us. It's just making a big mistake.

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Well I'll even add to that, okay, cause you just

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hit one of my things, because I have certifications in coaching.

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And it so boggles my mind these people that they

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wake up in the morning they decide to be a

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coach with no qualifications, no certifications, no education, no nothing,

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And it's like, oh my god, it's like everybody's a coach.

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And I have to say that people that are listening

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right now, watching right now, you wouldn't hire a lawyer

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that didn't pass the bar. You wouldn't hire a certified

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financial planner that wasn't a certified financial planner, you know.

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And so I think that the professional designation specifically, like

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the one that you have, it is absolutely necessary if

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you're going to be coaching somebody. I mean I had

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somebody I know that funny enough. He was a wealth coach. Okay, yeah,

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but he both He drove a beat up pickup truck

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that was all rusty and never made money in his life. Like, listen,

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if you've become wealthy and lost it all, I'm okay

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with you being a coach. You have the roadmap to

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get there. Okay, we all fall off the mountain. Okay,

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but if you have never been to the mountain, how

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do you give people the GPS directions to get there?

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You know you've never been there. And so that's why

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I just wanted to add, that's so important, important that

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people do business with people like yourself that put in

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the time and effort to become a professional. They don't

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just wake up in the morning and say, oh, I'll

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be somebody's coach.

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Right. And you know, the interesting thing too, is that

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every CFO in the Fortune five hundred has to be strategic.

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Yet many fractional CFOs get away without having to be strategic.

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In other words, many fractional CFOs just do the stuff

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that is really what most people think CFOs do, which

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is the business and cash flow forecasting, identifying critical metrics

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in the business, solving cash flow problems. But we add

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that element of business strategy, which is something that, like

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I said, if you didn't if you're a CFO in

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the Fortune five hundred and you're not, you don't understand

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business strategy, you don't get the job. And it's.

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Like a chess game to me.

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You can't play chess unless you don't know all the

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strategic moves of what's going to happen like you should not.

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And I think your experience also leads to that, Like

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forget the good experience for a second. The failing experience

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is what allows you to be able to help others

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to be strategic because you can anticipate because listen, you

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know before that happened and you even alluded to it,

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and we all get like this, we think we're unstoppable.

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We don't think about that. We can you know that

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we have to strategize against what could happen in a

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negative way because it's not going to happen to us

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until it does. And then you have somebody like you

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that can really and give people the insight to the

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strategy so that they don't walk through the same steps

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you did on the negative side, but do walk through

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the same steps on the positive side exactly.

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And so that basically ended my background. And you know,

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one of the reasons why I went into this business

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is because I learned so much from the business experience

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that I had. Yeah that you know, like, now, you

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And so how do people reach out to you? Check

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Well, here's the best way, uh, Dean uh. You know

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And then how about let's tell everybody about your show,

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how how they can see it live, how they can

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catch the podcast, all that good stuff.

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I love it. I love it.

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Nice. Well, I love it.

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I can't wait to talk to you again next week

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on the Positively Pipeman segment of the Adventures of Pipe Man.

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And thanks for being here. And I look forward to

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a lot more great strategies for listeners and viewers. And

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I know you help a lot of people. Everybody needs

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with man. This is gonna be a good one because

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this is a show host on our network that talks

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about something that's not talked about a lot. And I

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know I've experienced I know you the listeners have probably

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And now we're going to.

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Find out why Johnny hates sports with Fred eng How

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are you?

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Good morning, pipe Man and it's great to be with

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you this morning.

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Oh great to have you. And so tell me, let's

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start off right off the get go. What was the

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what was the impetus that made you come up with

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the concept of talking about why Johnny hates sports?

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What does that represent?

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Uh, well, the whole idea of you know, people have

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asked me after the fact of you know, I wrote

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the book Why Johnny Hates Sports, and because of my background,

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I had seven kids have played and I saw all

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the things I didn't want to see happen out there.

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But the whole reason why Johnny hates sports is, you

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know what happens is kids are six years up old,

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hardly know how to tie their shoes, and yet we

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expect them to play like they play baseball or whatever

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in the major leagues. So that's what starts out with kids.

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we got to have somebody to come out here to coach,

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and it's got to be you, dad, you know, because

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we don't have coaches. So or you got what I

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call Billy Jones's father or Johnny Jones's father, or Mary

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Whatever's mother, and somebody's out there in the field trying

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to coach them. They may not have ever played this sport.

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They don't know anything about the sport at all of catching, throwing, kicking,

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hitting skills. So they're out there as a coach. So

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can you imagine the kid trying to be you know,

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having fun with somebody trying to show them to do that.

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And then the next thing that you have is you've

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got the league itself. And this league is made up

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a group of guys or plumbers, truck drivers, pharmacists care.

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Oh you mean they don't actually play in the sport

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that they're running.

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No, no, no, So you got them out there and

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they're organizing all of this. And so the main thing

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they say, well, what is our goal here? Well, what

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is every sports goal? It's winning? And so get it

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back to the idea of kids starting out at six

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years old, and the statistics show amazing, isn't it. They

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started six years old and by the age of thirteen,

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seventy percent of them will equit. And when asked why

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they quit, they say that it ceased to be fun

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because of the pressure put on parents. You know, parents

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are out there streaming, yelling because they dropped the fly ball.

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I was doing an interview one time TV in Tampa.

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Never forget right. Here's a guy in a hockey program

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kids about eight, nine years old whatever, same thing. He

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misses a goal and the camera catches him and he's

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yelling and screaming. He says, you bum billy, you can

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never do anything right. I say, how would you like

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to be that age? And your father calling you a

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bum because he missed the goal in a hockey.

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And hockey is the worst.

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Because I have all of them because I coached a

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bunch of sports, but I coached hockey and that was

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the worst, you know, And like to your point, I

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played baseball for nine years.

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By the time I got to high school, I was

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over it.

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but then it was just like I was over it

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by then. But then in coaching, I know there's other

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coaches that like, what are how are they teaching these kids?

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How played baseball? They never played themselves. That's what ended

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up me coaching, because like I would have my kid

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on a team that the coach didn't even know what

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they were talking about or or anything about the game.

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mentioned before that father gets out there at times his

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kid up and they say, well, the line's over here

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for you. You know it signed up to coach. Why

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kidding me, I'm not coaching. I got work to do.

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because Billy, your son can't play. What do you mean

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he can't play? Well, if we don't have a coach,

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then he can't play. We don't have a team. So

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there you go, and you got you got people out

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there doing it and trying to do it. But the

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worst part about it, I mean, you know, you could

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be a baseball coach and and just sit there and

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a dugout and watch what goes on. But that's not

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what I happen. Now they get all excited, you know,

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the scores two to two, and now it's fit or

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seventh thing whatever. And now that everybody starts to get nervous.

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The people in the stands start yelling at the coach,

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put him in there, put him in there, Scott saying,

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wait a minute. So it's just bedlomen And that's like

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I said, seventy percent of the kids drop out. And

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that's evident of why, you know, it's such a bad

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situation for so many kids.

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Yeah, and you know it's a bad situation for the

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parents too. I find for multiple reasons. You tell me

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what your opinion is, but number one, because you know,

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the first of all, they don't know what they're doing.

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So if there's parents that are seeing their kids that

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could have potential that aren't being taught the right way,

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and how those parents react to those coaches.

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Or you have.

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You know, like the typical coach happens a lot in

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hockey where you know, they think their kids should play

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all the time, and they're a bully and so ergo

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they're going to bully the coach and you know all

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the things that go on that these kids have to see.

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Now it's bad enough to you know, they're put under

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pressure to you know, play like their professionals instead of

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in a rec league. But now they're seeing their parents

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act ridiculous.

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Yeah.

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I mean you mentioned they're playing in a rec league.

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And what is in the last several years that's come

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along as the travel teams, and so what happens with

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the travel teams. It's really really hurting the rec programs.

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You got kids in communities, you know, no matter where

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you live in the country, there's parts of rec departments

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and they've got fields all over town Northwest Park, Southwest Park,

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East whatever. And on those parks they got ball fields

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that they built with the idea that kids would play baseball. Well,

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the rec department doesn't organize it. They allow the permits

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for Billy Jones, It's father and whoever come in say hey,

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we've got to have a baseball program for our kids.

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And that's how it starts. So you got the tune

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of millions of kids across the country that are now

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playing in rec programs. And then in the last few years,

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what happens is they're going to try to get a permit.

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Let's a sorry that it's not available. What do you

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mean it's not available, Well, we have travel teams that

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have paid money to lease the field. And so the

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travel teams, you know, they appeal to the parents' ego

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and they say, yeah, look, you know if you sign up,

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and who's doing this, this is a code or excuse me,

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the organizer of the trivel team who's getting paid, and

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the coaches are getting paid. And so they say to

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the parent, Luke, your kid doesn't sign up for this

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I mean, he's a good ballplayer and he's going to

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make it in the major leagues or he's going to

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get his or college scholarship. So you don't want to

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miss out on this. You know how much these people

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are paying for a year for the kid to go

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out there and play at travel.

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Oh, I'm sure the lesseners don't know unless they're paying it,

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because it's a lot of money.

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Fifteen thousand dollars. I was on somebody one of the

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interviews the other day. He said, you know it must

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cost you about five thousand dollars and it's lady left.

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He said, yeah, I wish he was five thousand. Fifteen

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thousand we paid last year. I said, well, you go

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to the tournament, you got to take the kids. You

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got to say the hotel, you gotta pay the coaches,

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00:27:06.799 --> 00:27:11.319
you gotta pay everything. And the worst part about it

457
00:27:11.359 --> 00:27:15.680
is now these guys that are calling themselves professional coaches,

458
00:27:16.759 --> 00:27:19.960
they're saying, you know, if your kid doesn't you out

459
00:27:20.000 --> 00:27:25.640
there to play all year long? Yeah, it guess what happens.

460
00:27:25.880 --> 00:27:28.359
Just like you were talking before, you get to a

461
00:27:28.400 --> 00:27:30.680
certain age and you get burnt out and say hell this,

462
00:27:30.839 --> 00:27:34.160
Ho'm about out of here. And because it's just too much.

463
00:27:35.079 --> 00:27:38.160
I find where we are too in Florida, it's even

464
00:27:38.240 --> 00:27:41.039
more prevalent because like I'm from New Jersey, and what

465
00:27:41.160 --> 00:27:43.480
was cool about in New Jersey when I was raising

466
00:27:43.519 --> 00:27:46.559
my kids is that they could play a different sport

467
00:27:46.640 --> 00:27:49.720
for different seasons because there was you know, it only

468
00:27:49.759 --> 00:27:54.880
with certain seasons. Here, what I really didn't like is, oh,

469
00:27:54.920 --> 00:27:57.319
if you take the season off of this sport to

470
00:27:57.359 --> 00:28:01.039
go play another sport, well, you're not in in the

471
00:28:01.160 --> 00:28:05.079
end anymore. Like you're not part of the click anymore.

472
00:28:05.680 --> 00:28:09.200
It's like you have to you can't miss one season

473
00:28:09.279 --> 00:28:11.839
or else you you fall to the bottom of the heap.

474
00:28:12.759 --> 00:28:15.440
Yeah, you know. The worst part of that whole deal

475
00:28:16.200 --> 00:28:20.279
is you got the kid that you know, he's got

476
00:28:20.359 --> 00:28:22.880
friends and he's got other things that he may want

477
00:28:22.920 --> 00:28:25.359
to do, but he eats this. And so I don't

478
00:28:25.400 --> 00:28:29.200
want to disappoint my parents because they're spending all this money.

479
00:28:29.640 --> 00:28:31.960
So I'll just stick with it and stay out there.

480
00:28:32.279 --> 00:28:36.160
I tell him that, right, Like the parents are like, no,

481
00:28:36.920 --> 00:28:38.880
you know, if you want to quit after the season,

482
00:28:39.000 --> 00:28:41.240
you can, but you have to stick with it no

483
00:28:41.319 --> 00:28:43.920
matter what. Or they don't even give the option of

484
00:28:44.039 --> 00:28:46.480
quitting after the season. It's like, no, you need to

485
00:28:46.519 --> 00:28:49.200
do this, and I think kids want to try different

486
00:28:49.279 --> 00:28:50.079
sports too.

487
00:28:51.000 --> 00:28:55.039
Yeah. The funny thing with a show that I do

488
00:28:55.200 --> 00:28:58.400
is you kind of well know called why Johnny eight Sports,

489
00:28:58.720 --> 00:29:01.559
which a little proa here is on Friday morning at

490
00:29:01.559 --> 00:29:06.839
eleven am for anybody that's listening here, but you know,

491
00:29:07.119 --> 00:29:10.480
talking about it the other day one of the shows

492
00:29:10.519 --> 00:29:14.599
that the woman was saying, yeah, we spent fifteen thousand

493
00:29:14.720 --> 00:29:17.759
dollars for a year. You know, I said, well, why

494
00:29:17.880 --> 00:29:20.960
you spend that money? They said, well, you know, my

495
00:29:21.079 --> 00:29:24.920
kid can get a scholarship. They don't do this, They're

496
00:29:24.960 --> 00:29:27.799
not going to get a scholarship. They said, well, what

497
00:29:27.920 --> 00:29:30.799
if you just forgot about all that and started saving

498
00:29:30.839 --> 00:29:35.000
all that money, because we're not going to be guaranteed

499
00:29:35.039 --> 00:29:38.079
to get a scholarship, but if you put the money aside,

500
00:29:38.079 --> 00:29:40.799
you'll have money for them to go to college because

501
00:29:40.920 --> 00:29:44.839
you know, the statistics will show. It's amazing the parents,

502
00:29:45.519 --> 00:29:48.559
even though they know this, they don't give it. Damn

503
00:29:49.799 --> 00:29:54.039
he can make it. But less than two percent of

504
00:29:54.240 --> 00:29:58.519
any kid that goes out in a baseball program and

505
00:29:58.799 --> 00:30:02.480
signs a major league contract will ever play in the

506
00:30:02.559 --> 00:30:06.839
major leagues, you know, amazing. So so you know some

507
00:30:06.920 --> 00:30:09.240
of the people that I've had on the show. A

508
00:30:09.319 --> 00:30:12.200
guy that actually, you're going to have you back next week.

509
00:30:12.680 --> 00:30:15.519
He went through the whole process of that. I asked

510
00:30:15.559 --> 00:30:18.519
him about it, said, you know your parents push you

511
00:30:18.559 --> 00:30:22.039
into that because it's oh yeah, absolutely, they knew I

512
00:30:22.119 --> 00:30:24.319
was going to make it to the major leagues. And

513
00:30:24.440 --> 00:30:28.319
he signed a contract, played for the Cardinals in the

514
00:30:28.400 --> 00:30:31.000
minor leagues, and he said, I rode around a bus

515
00:30:31.079 --> 00:30:35.279
all around the Carolina's worst experience in my life. Never

516
00:30:35.400 --> 00:30:37.200
played a day in the major leagues.

517
00:30:37.799 --> 00:30:38.319
Wow.

518
00:30:38.599 --> 00:30:39.000
Wow.

519
00:30:39.559 --> 00:30:43.599
And then you know you're talking about parents before. Like

520
00:30:43.920 --> 00:30:48.519
I was at one of my grandson's football games, a tournament,

521
00:30:49.039 --> 00:30:54.000
one of those tournaments, and this guy brought his kid

522
00:30:54.200 --> 00:30:57.039
into the bathroom and the whole place could hear him

523
00:30:57.079 --> 00:31:01.200
screaming at the kid, like and just whole belittling the

524
00:31:01.279 --> 00:31:04.880
kid because maybe he made a mistake in the game.

525
00:31:05.240 --> 00:31:06.680
In the game, you.

526
00:31:06.640 --> 00:31:13.359
Know, Yeah, you talk about hockey. Hockey and football are

527
00:31:13.400 --> 00:31:17.279
the two wors for kids and sports. I'll tell you

528
00:31:17.279 --> 00:31:20.440
a quick story. But mother, mother was telling me one

529
00:31:20.480 --> 00:31:23.640
time in one of the talk somebody's getting somewhere. She

530
00:31:23.720 --> 00:31:26.480
came up afterwards and she said, I gotta tell you

531
00:31:26.519 --> 00:31:29.559
what happened to my son in the football program. He

532
00:31:29.759 --> 00:31:34.359
was going to go to a dental appointment and I

533
00:31:34.359 --> 00:31:36.240
had to go over to practice and pick him up.

534
00:31:36.519 --> 00:31:38.359
And I got there and when I got there, I

535
00:31:38.359 --> 00:31:41.240
couldn't find him. And I went over the coach. I said,

536
00:31:41.240 --> 00:31:44.359
where's my son. He said, he's over the car over there,

537
00:31:44.960 --> 00:31:47.480
he said. She said, I said, what's he doing in

538
00:31:47.519 --> 00:31:51.240
the cars? She said, well, he's over there. She goes over,

539
00:31:51.799 --> 00:31:55.839
opens the door of the car and this is in summer,

540
00:31:56.799 --> 00:32:01.519
and it's hot, and the cars running, the heats turned

541
00:32:01.559 --> 00:32:04.559
on high, and he's wrapped in plastic wrap.

542
00:32:05.359 --> 00:32:06.880
Oh yeah, I know about that.

543
00:32:07.480 --> 00:32:12.640
And see, So what happens is the league says, all right, now,

544
00:32:12.640 --> 00:32:16.440
we got this real good quarterback, and he's got a

545
00:32:16.480 --> 00:32:19.880
weigh one hundred and fifteen pounds. He weighs anymore than that,

546
00:32:21.200 --> 00:32:24.720
they're gonna have weigh in tomorrow. You gotta lose it.

547
00:32:24.799 --> 00:32:26.920
And then, Tommy, you got to get in there and

548
00:32:27.079 --> 00:32:30.240
lose all his weight. So he gets hit there and

549
00:32:31.279 --> 00:32:34.799
it's you know, heat exhaustion. I mean, could the poor

550
00:32:34.920 --> 00:32:37.599
kid could die from that? And then the mother knew it,

551
00:32:37.640 --> 00:32:41.400
and she ended up suing the coach, so you could

552
00:32:41.680 --> 00:32:45.599
realize that. I mean, there's so many ugly, ugly stories

553
00:32:45.640 --> 00:32:50.119
about youth football coaches because and I can say this

554
00:32:50.240 --> 00:32:55.359
because I was a head football coach in Wilmington, Delaware

555
00:32:55.440 --> 00:32:59.720
in high school, and so I knew about football. And

556
00:33:00.000 --> 00:33:03.759
one thing is football is a tough game, tough game

557
00:33:03.839 --> 00:33:06.960
for tough kids. And if you're not that, then you

558
00:33:06.960 --> 00:33:10.440
shouldn't be playing it. And when the parents get their

559
00:33:10.519 --> 00:33:13.480
kids out there, and they're gonna be trying to play football,

560
00:33:13.559 --> 00:33:15.279
and they should need to be out in the field

561
00:33:15.319 --> 00:33:17.559
because they don't want to be they don't like to

562
00:33:17.559 --> 00:33:22.519
get hit, and it's it's just a rat race. But

563
00:33:22.559 --> 00:33:28.920
I'll tell you the biggest fallacy of youth sports. It's

564
00:33:28.960 --> 00:33:33.720
called the maturing level. You got a kid that comes out,

565
00:33:34.240 --> 00:33:37.880
then let's say we get back to it seven year old. Well,

566
00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:43.240
maturation wise, there can be four year difference between that

567
00:33:43.319 --> 00:33:45.920
age group. So now you got a seven year old

568
00:33:46.279 --> 00:33:50.039
who managed to receive that kid is twelve years old

569
00:33:50.160 --> 00:33:54.160
or what he's not seven years old, Well he is

570
00:33:54.240 --> 00:33:56.960
because he matured early. So now you got him and

571
00:33:57.119 --> 00:34:00.559
gets what the coach does. Oh Man, let's get baseball.

572
00:34:00.599 --> 00:34:03.400
It's gonna be my pitcher. Football, it's gonna be my

573
00:34:03.519 --> 00:34:07.839
quarterback because they think of him as his big kid.

574
00:34:08.239 --> 00:34:10.880
So now you've got the other seven year old who

575
00:34:10.960 --> 00:34:14.679
is a reverse and now he can be as a

576
00:34:14.800 --> 00:34:18.400
seven year old and gave the body of a four

577
00:34:18.480 --> 00:34:22.000
year old. And so now you have those two and

578
00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:24.719
the league doesn't care how old are your son seven

579
00:34:24.800 --> 00:34:28.239
years old? You're in his group seven year old. And

580
00:34:28.320 --> 00:34:31.079
so you know, you used to watch the Little League

581
00:34:31.119 --> 00:34:33.719
World Series and you're look at a kid on the mount.

582
00:34:33.800 --> 00:34:39.159
He say, what the hell? Kid twelve so old? He's

583
00:34:40.239 --> 00:34:44.079
six one and I'm not kidding. You've probably seen it,

584
00:34:44.159 --> 00:34:46.800
the kid in the Little League World Series six to

585
00:34:46.880 --> 00:34:50.239
one throwing a ball, you know, eighty miles an hour.

586
00:34:50.920 --> 00:34:54.599
And how my ten year old grandson is almost my

587
00:34:54.880 --> 00:34:58.880
size height wise, and he's definitely stockier than me. So

588
00:34:59.119 --> 00:35:02.360
in football he goes through that like he you know,

589
00:35:02.440 --> 00:35:07.199
if he's in the ten tenu then there's a bunch

590
00:35:07.239 --> 00:35:10.760
of kids that are like up to his knee and stomachs.

591
00:35:10.960 --> 00:35:16.880
I he's playing with and gets with the uncle and

592
00:35:16.960 --> 00:35:20.719
the parents and everybody else says, my boy out there,

593
00:35:20.800 --> 00:35:23.360
you know it look like he's big and he's going

594
00:35:23.440 --> 00:35:26.159
to dominate in his whole thing. And you never know

595
00:35:26.239 --> 00:35:30.360
what's in the kid's mind. I mean, you know, he

596
00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:35.039
may be bigger and whatnot, but inside he's not and

597
00:35:35.119 --> 00:35:39.119
he maybe doesn't even want to be out there. But yeah,

598
00:35:39.280 --> 00:35:41.360
I mean, I don't want to paint the picture that

599
00:35:41.639 --> 00:35:46.800
all youth sports are not good because for the overwhelming majority,

600
00:35:47.239 --> 00:35:52.079
it's a great learning experience and to develop self confidence,

601
00:35:52.199 --> 00:35:58.079
self esteem, self work because you just developed that. Not

602
00:35:58.199 --> 00:36:02.960
to even mention the physical benefits of starting out learning

603
00:36:03.000 --> 00:36:07.039
how exercise, you know, is important. So like I said,

604
00:36:07.039 --> 00:36:07.519
I don't want to.

605
00:36:07.519 --> 00:36:10.440
Take it keeps them out of trouble too.

606
00:36:11.000 --> 00:36:13.519
Like if you don't have your kids in those kinds

607
00:36:13.519 --> 00:36:16.119
of activities, they're going to be doing other activities that

608
00:36:16.159 --> 00:36:17.760
are much more dangerous.

609
00:36:18.079 --> 00:36:21.639
Oh yeah, I live right across the street from park

610
00:36:21.679 --> 00:36:28.039
here in Big Park, and every afternoon Sundays it's just

611
00:36:28.719 --> 00:36:32.440
packed with kids playing soccer, and I think, you know,

612
00:36:32.920 --> 00:36:34.960
they didn't have it. What those kids going to be doing?

613
00:36:35.960 --> 00:36:38.440
Yeah, I'm probably going to be doing drugs and alcohol

614
00:36:38.559 --> 00:36:39.239
in that park.

615
00:36:40.239 --> 00:36:45.079
Yeah, you got it. And so you know that's the

616
00:36:45.119 --> 00:36:48.480
good part about with sports and what it does for kids,

617
00:36:48.519 --> 00:36:51.679
But we've got to get rid of the ugly part

618
00:36:51.760 --> 00:36:54.079
and we've been trying to do it with our organization

619
00:36:54.320 --> 00:36:56.440
for several years.

620
00:36:56.719 --> 00:36:59.440
Yeah, tell everybody a little bit more about your organization,

621
00:36:59.639 --> 00:37:01.880
how they can reach out to you, how they can help,

622
00:37:02.679 --> 00:37:03.679
all that good stuff.

623
00:37:04.320 --> 00:37:04.559
Yeah.

624
00:37:04.960 --> 00:37:11.079
The organization is the National Alliance for Youth Sports. I

625
00:37:11.199 --> 00:37:17.400
started the organization way back in the before the two

626
00:37:17.440 --> 00:37:23.800
thousand and what happened is based on all of that.

627
00:37:24.239 --> 00:37:27.119
I was saying that coaches need to be trained, and

628
00:37:27.159 --> 00:37:31.920
then started the organization. Would you believe today that throughout

629
00:37:31.960 --> 00:37:36.840
the country, four million plus coaches and communities across the

630
00:37:36.920 --> 00:37:42.599
country have gone through the program and been conducted by

631
00:37:43.000 --> 00:37:48.519
local recreation professionals. So there are about two thousand recreation

632
00:37:49.320 --> 00:37:55.280
departments that have a certified Youth Sport administrator who conducts

633
00:37:55.360 --> 00:38:01.679
training for parents and coaches and administrators of them. So, yeah,

634
00:38:01.719 --> 00:38:05.159
that that has been going on, and it's a nonprofit

635
00:38:05.320 --> 00:38:10.679
organization that that that it's just been helping educate because

636
00:38:10.719 --> 00:38:13.800
that's the only thing you can do. You can educate people,

637
00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:19.760
and then in communities they make it mandatory. You like

638
00:38:19.840 --> 00:38:25.360
the story in Jupiter a few years back that they

639
00:38:25.400 --> 00:38:28.480
decided they was going to make it mandatory that if

640
00:38:28.519 --> 00:38:31.519
you're a parent, you'd have to go through our parent

641
00:38:31.840 --> 00:38:36.519
program that teaches parents how to behave in the importance

642
00:38:36.599 --> 00:38:39.320
of what means the kids, and the parent didn't give

643
00:38:39.360 --> 00:38:44.760
to the program, their kid couldn't play, so they caught.

644
00:38:46.199 --> 00:38:46.639
I like that.

645
00:38:47.400 --> 00:38:50.760
It caught national news and I was on everything from

646
00:38:50.800 --> 00:38:55.679
Good Morning America to ESPN or whatever, and people say, well,

647
00:38:55.880 --> 00:38:59.119
you can't do that to parents. They did it, and

648
00:38:59.159 --> 00:39:02.880
now any programs across the country do it, and it

649
00:39:02.920 --> 00:39:06.480
should be done so parents can come in and you know,

650
00:39:07.000 --> 00:39:10.480
sit there and say, you can't misbehave.

651
00:39:10.679 --> 00:39:15.079
This is about kids, it's not about you exactly.

652
00:39:15.159 --> 00:39:19.239
I think it's a brilliant idea and I think it

653
00:39:19.320 --> 00:39:22.800
should be required because two main parents don't know how

654
00:39:22.800 --> 00:39:24.800
to act. And that's why I was referring to before

655
00:39:25.320 --> 00:39:29.400
the kids are seeing this, you know, and like I

656
00:39:29.480 --> 00:39:32.960
think of the kid that their parent is the one misbehaving.

657
00:39:33.480 --> 00:39:35.679
How embarrassing it is because then they have to go

658
00:39:35.760 --> 00:39:37.880
back to school with these kids that are playing with

659
00:39:38.159 --> 00:39:41.159
or and play with them on the team. And you know,

660
00:39:41.639 --> 00:39:44.840
kids sometimes aren't nice to other kids, especially in those

661
00:39:44.880 --> 00:39:46.360
embarrassing situations.

662
00:39:47.480 --> 00:39:51.760
Oh, there's no question. I mean, there's so many stories

663
00:39:51.800 --> 00:39:54.880
that people have told me over the years of you know,

664
00:39:55.320 --> 00:40:01.800
how the kids here, I Judge tell him telling me

665
00:40:01.880 --> 00:40:05.079
one time is to Judge in Alabama and he said,

666
00:40:05.119 --> 00:40:08.679
we were riding home in the car and my son

667
00:40:08.960 --> 00:40:11.280
was riding in the back seat. My wife's next to me,

668
00:40:11.800 --> 00:40:17.239
he said. My wife turns to him and just rates

669
00:40:17.320 --> 00:40:20.159
him the whole way home, telling him what he did

670
00:40:20.239 --> 00:40:23.360
wrong in the game, and he cast them to lose

671
00:40:23.440 --> 00:40:27.400
the game because of what he did. And he said,

672
00:40:28.159 --> 00:40:32.199
that was my wife saying that. And so let's say

673
00:40:32.239 --> 00:40:37.880
if people you know it, I don't pay really you're psychologists, psychiatrists,

674
00:40:37.880 --> 00:40:41.159
of judge or whoever it is. People are all the same,

675
00:40:41.199 --> 00:40:44.599
and they need to understand their words have such an

676
00:40:44.679 --> 00:40:46.119
impact on kids.

677
00:40:46.559 --> 00:40:52.199
Yeah, yeah, it's fine because my oldest daughter, she was

678
00:40:52.199 --> 00:40:57.000
in gymnastics and stuff like gymnastics and cheerleading. Oh man,

679
00:40:57.320 --> 00:41:00.360
those parents get serious.

680
00:41:00.960 --> 00:41:06.320
Yeah, it doesn't matter, right, I'd say to people though,

681
00:41:07.000 --> 00:41:13.079
you know when when we talk about parent behavior and sports,

682
00:41:13.119 --> 00:41:17.000
it's so different that that's parents. Parent can be up

683
00:41:17.039 --> 00:41:20.920
in the stands and the kid strikes out and parent

684
00:41:21.599 --> 00:41:26.599
yells you don a barm strike out. Can you imagine

685
00:41:27.079 --> 00:41:29.960
the same thing happens in school and they're having a

686
00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:33.639
spelling bee and the parents are in the room watching

687
00:41:33.679 --> 00:41:36.480
the spelling bee and the kid misspells the word. The

688
00:41:36.519 --> 00:41:41.239
parent jumps up and yells, can you be so stupid? Sam?

689
00:41:41.440 --> 00:41:46.119
That we've been working me. There's everybody in the room

690
00:41:46.159 --> 00:41:49.480
and looking, who is this idiot? But they don't do

691
00:41:49.519 --> 00:41:52.400
it in baseball. It's just part of it, and people

692
00:41:52.400 --> 00:41:55.639
will look, well, that's part of the game, the parents,

693
00:41:56.360 --> 00:41:57.559
but it's not anymore.

694
00:41:57.760 --> 00:41:59.800
I mean, it's the game.

695
00:42:01.000 --> 00:42:04.639
So we're thankful that we have an organization like yours

696
00:42:04.639 --> 00:42:09.280
that can help the kids, the parents, the coaches, everybody.

697
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One last time before we go, give out all your

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information for your organization, how people can help, how they

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can contact you, but also information on your show right

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here on W four c Y Radio, Why Johnny Hates Sports.

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They can tune in every Friday eleven am Eastern time

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and take it away.

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Fred.

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Yeah, if you would think about doing it would be

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great because the organization is nays org. That's a national

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lines for you sports, and all you'd have to do

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is say, oh, click in there at ays dot org

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and just say wow, and you'll see all the things

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that the organization does and how you can get involved

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in one way or another. And then, of course is

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what Dane is saying is every Friday morning at eleven am.

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I've been able to have some really interesting people, recreation people,

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and the last few weeks we talked about you know,

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travel teams and as recreation people what they see in

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their communities about it. And then other people have had

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our her Kirk Street whose ESPN, he's broadcaster and talking

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about kids in sports and so people at different levels, sports, psychologists,

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psychology talking about all these important things. And you know

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parents that are there and listeners that are listening to this.

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You got kids. I think it's really important for you

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to hear what other people are saying because then you

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can begin to look inside yoursel off to say, oh, yeah,

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he's talking about me.

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Yeah right, So sometimes you have to hear that outside voice.

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You got it. So it's Friday morning at eleven am,

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and we look forward to seeing you.

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Well, thanks a lot, Aunt for all you do.

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And your show is amazing. So everybody's got to tune

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in or they can't listen to my show. And and

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it's same same bat channel right here on W four

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c Y Radio, W four c Y dot com and Fred,

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thank you for being on the Adventures of pipe Man.

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Uh you got a dean and uh I like seeing

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your Pipeman shows from time to time talking about different

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different categories.

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Oh yeah, you never know what pipe man personality is

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gonna show up.

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All here great being with you.

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Get up.

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