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December 9, 2022 15 mins

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Andie Martinez in Real Life podcast. This episode and conversation
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Hello everyone. This is a test test one to Mike Checker.
This is another episode of Takeaways. Guys. This is the

(00:20):
audio only podcast that is a cousin, a side piece
of the I r OH podcasts. This is like the
side chick. No, it's really not stop. This is Takeaways.
These are the things that we remember from the conversations
that I have with some of my guests. Are some
of the things that stayed with us. Uh And this
episode is we're talking about the Derek Jeter episode, the legend,

(00:44):
the goat the Baseball Hall of Fame. What else is he?
M e z is here with us? Derek Jeter might
be the greatest New York sports athlete of altar? What
do you mean? Might be the how dare one is
here with us today? By the way, you're a sports expert.

(01:07):
That's why I asked you to sit in with us. Well,
you completely have you know, got my character completely wrong.
But the thing is you don't even have to be
a sports fan to be like to understand the greatness
of Dearkat yes, yes, I understand the greatness of Dearkata completely.
And even if you were in the room Brittany's here,
my podcast producer, if you're in the room with him,

(01:28):
it's he's like he like glows right, like he's uh,
he's regal. Yes, he's regal. Everybody in the room kind
of like even if they're not like sports fans, you
just kind of like bow down, you just kind of
like and then he's very like he's not arrogant, and
he's not and he's humble, but he's confident. So it's

(01:51):
it's not like a weird regal nous where you're like uncomfortable.
He makes it. He first of all, he walked into
the room and said hello to everyone in the room,
like shake, shook all of our heads, shook everyone's hand,
the camera guy, the lighting guy, the sound guy, how's
everybody doing, Hello, guys, and then sat down. Derek Jeter
is the goat. He's been an athlete for all those years,

(02:15):
never had any kind of like a controversy around him
dating women. Derek is the goat. Love love, How could
you not? Such a good guy. Comes from a great family.
We talked about his family a lot in this episode.
So some of the takeaways for me where when he
talks about um waiting till you know, after his career

(02:36):
to have a family because he said it wouldn't have
been fair to whoever he was with. UM So we
talked about that a little bit. You'll see that in
the episode. UM. But the greatest takeaways for me from
this episode Number one, I just like being in his presence.
I could, you know, like speaking in the presence of greatness.
Being in the presence of greatness. It's just joyful, especially

(02:58):
when when his spirit is oh good. But um So,
some of the takeaways though from this interview for me
that have actually stayed with me since our conversation and
I've actually implemented them in my life at different moments.
There's two things that he said in this interview. One
of them was the last thing you think is the
first thing you do. Bars Bars play the clip. I

(03:23):
also believe the last thing you think is the first
thing you do. Go back to golf. Okay, you're golf
and don't hit it left, don't hit it left, don't
hit it left. What do you do? You hit it left, left, right?
So the last thing you think is the first thing
you do. Your mindset is what's most important, you know.
I think that that that is how you have success.
I think when you start doubting yourself, that's when you

(03:44):
have a problem. You have a real problem. So it's
almost just reinforcing yourself that, Hey, look, you know you're
gonna succeed here. It's not a question. You're gonna succeed.
And if you don't, you deal with it afterwards. You know,
what did I do? You don't do the last Yeah,
So it's just constant reinforced. Right, did you hear what
he said? So us the last thing you think is

(04:05):
the first thing you do. So if you wake up
and you go, I'm going back to sleep, you're going
to sleep all day. All day, you're gonna be sleeping.
But he's like for me, like if you're playing golf
and you're like, oh, I keep hitting it left, I
keep hitting it left. When you go to hit the ball,
the balls probably gonna go left again because you've willed it. Um.
So he really lives his life like that. The last

(04:27):
thing I think is the first thing I do. The
other day, I was a Thanksgiving night my family. We
play a left right center play left right center, you're
the worst, Like you're the worst person to be in
the room because you don't know anything that any of
us are talking about. No, left, right center is a
lot of fun, and we get my whole family gambles,
the kids, the old people, everybody, the grandparents, the kids. Um.

(04:50):
But so when somebody was rolling the dice and he
said he was like, oh, I'm never gonna get it.
And I looked at him. I was like, the last
thing you say that the first thing you do. And
then he goes, all right, I'm gonna get a all whatever.
I'm gonna get all the old doll dot dot dot.
You don't have to give the money away, And he
rolled a perfect Not to say that that's always gonna happen,

(05:12):
but in that moment it really worked. He was like,
he looked at me, he was like, Wow, what is that.
I was like, Dirk Jeter, take away my guy? Was
that him the first time he played that game? You know,
when Derek Jeter said it, I thought about how the
universe kind of like conspires to help push positively push
you forward. So when you're trying something for the first time,

(05:33):
you know, the theory of beginner's luck, like like the
first time you might have did golf, you might have
hit something really good and been oppressive. But then every
single thing after that then it gets harder. But the
universe gives you that first like push to show you success,
so that way you can always think back, Yes, you
can always think back to that. He said that too,
by the way, that was another takeaway he talked about that.

(05:54):
He said he always thinks about the last time that
he had success. So if he talked about being in
high school, did you know he played high school basketball basketball?
His sister was dope to sus want, I assume you
did not college basketball. When he played college basketball, he
said he had. He always would think about the time

(06:15):
where he would have a really good shot every time
he was up there, so that that's what he was thinking. Therefore,
that he would be more likely to re kind of
do that again. Never bad thoughts, never bad and thoughts
and then the other thing I remember we talked about
just about greatness because something I do because I like
to play games. I like to play pool, I like
to bowl, I like to play golf. I tend to

(06:36):
choke on the eight ball. I tend to play a
phenomenal game of pool and then the eight ball. I'm
almost done and then I joke and I scratched or
I miss it. Okay, not needs to know what eight
boy we call him? We call him pockets? Is that
how you lose? Like? How is it that you're losing?
If I call a pocket, it goes to the left
of the pocket, whatever the case is. When I'm about
to close, because I get tight, I get like my

(06:59):
energy shifts because it's almost there. You almost have the wind,
so you get nervous and you don't deliver at the end.
And so I thought, how do you guys, like when
you're it's the World Series and you're up to bat
and there's two men on base and two outs, how
do you not choke? How do you not let anxiety
or stress or your mind? You don't even go there,

(07:20):
That's what he says. There. It's two things. You don't
even go there. But the other thing is you have
practiced so much that you have been in this moment before.
This is not a foreign moment to you. So when
you're at the if you're a basketball player and you're
at the at the at the free throw line, you
have been at that free throw line so many times

(07:40):
that nothing about this is foreign. So it's about preparing
for greatness, preparing yourself to have that memory, muscle memory
so that you can be great in those moments. Can
relate to a lot of this conversation, what about about
the greatness my two cents in so as a DJ, Yes,

(08:01):
you know what I mean. You have to remember when
you when the crowd was like, you are the god DJ,
right when you bodied the crowd. I'm hearing you. See
where you're going with this? See where you're going. You've
done it so many times that it's not far into
you when you have the DJ in front of some
When I go on stage, it's like second nature to
me now because you've done Because I've done so much,
you feel nervous when you started doing TV because DJ

(08:24):
and the club might be different than actually because I've
done so many things in the industry UM with the
camera involved, it actually made me not nervous or TV
because because he's done the work, he's done the ten
thousand hours, he's been prepared for all of those moments.
So that's how you not choke up or you're not
getting nervous, and you prepare for greatness is by repetition exactly.

(08:45):
I mean Derek Jeter had a lot of those jewels.
He talked a lot about, um, not being afraid to fail.
I like this clip. This is him talking about having
to fail as a baseball player. If you're going to
be good at anything, it takes time too, and it
takes patience. Um. You know, one thing I always like
to ask people that have been successful, is what's your

(09:06):
biggest failure along the way. I think you learned from
other people's failures. People assume you wake up one day
and all of a sudden, here you are. You're in
the Hall of Fame right now. It doesn't work like that.
Takes a lot of years. Um. So I I just
think it's just so much work has to go into it.
There's no magic formula. They don't wake up and you're

(09:27):
good at something. And you have to have patients along
the way. Even though I don't have a lot of it,
I'm trying to learn patients. And once again, you know,
I've come from a sport where it's you get a
hit or you don't. You win a game or you don't. Right,
it's instant gratification or failure. What about the comparison between
Jared Jeter and Kobe Bryant. And that's strange, right, like,

(09:49):
because from a sports perspective, is their comparison sports wise? Yes,
I think the MoMA mentality that Kobe has, it's kind
of the same thing of which Derek Jeta comes from.
That that that persevering and doing anything it takes to
be the best. But um, yeah, those are two go
to their their sports, Kobe and basketball and and in
baseball it goes to show you it all. It's all

(10:10):
about your mindset and how you want to achieve the greatness.
Because Kobe wouldn't let anything stop them, just like Jita wouldn't.
It's about the level of passion that they both had,
I think, because like the way they expressed their greatness
and confidence was polar opposite. Kobe was way more brag yeah,
way more ragged doocious. Derek is such a subtle, calm

(10:31):
type of quiet confidence. But they both had such very
similar accomplishments and both girl dads. I think they both
have five rings. Um like, is that right? Yeah, got
five as well? Yes, So that that's probably the comparison
because they're very different types of spirits and they're not

(10:54):
the same type of person, but it's the passion, Like
they loved their games so bad that they would leave
a game and work out more, wake up early, two days,
three days about lebron Yea Serenas. If you're great, that
family stuff, it's got to take a back page because
you got as a great you want to be grateful.

(11:17):
Are there any great that? Oh, well, Kobe did. But
Kobe had struggles with his family life early while he
was still in that mode. Because I'm wondering that any
of the greats are successful at having a family while
they're on the journey of tough though, because men can
have they can wait longer than a woman can. Look
at Serena Williams, she said she was planning to go,

(11:40):
but really what pushed her out the door was she
wants to continue expanding her family and for women that
looks a little different. I mean, the biggest star of
the world to me in sports is Serena Williams. We
gotta get her on the podcast word Serena Serena if
you're listening, another great. So, yeah, we talked about Kobe.

(12:03):
I think another thing too, is that they retired at
the same time. Oh yes, yes, so I think that
that always kind of like connects them in some type
of way. But anyway, so if you didn't see the episode,
Derek shares that, um, you know that he didn't really
know Kobe very well well early on. Kobe was very
closed off early on. Yeah, that's true, but he said that, um,

(12:23):
he they got to know each other more after they retired,
and that all of their conversations, none of it was
about sports. It was never about baseball, basketball. It was
always about the kids, was always about being a dad.
It's always about family. Um. And then Derek wrote a
really lovely letter to uh to Kobe in the Players Tribute,
and so we talked about that a little bit on
the episode. Maybe we should play a little clip. We

(12:45):
never had a conversation about baseball or basketball. Really, it
was all family related. I used to get on him
because he had so many girls right before I got
another girl, man, um, and then you know, here I
am with three of my own. So it's just it's
it's it's amazing that you remember conversations and interactions with people.

(13:09):
You admire people for what they've done in their profession,
but getting a chance to actually get to know him
is what stands out to me. Not what you necessarily
do on the basketball court or baseball field is who
you are as a person. You know what. Another moment
I like too of this episode because I feel like, um,

(13:30):
I don't know, I feel like he put his guard
down for a second when he talks about being envious,
because we were talking about superpowers and what his superpowers
are and what other people's superpowers are, and you know,
you can't be such a clean have this clean image
and be sold just perfect without having to kind of
watch what you say and watch what you do and

(13:51):
watch how you move. And he said that that was
one of the things that he envies if he had
to envy a superpower and other people like he envied
people who could just kind of like say whatever they want,
like be comfortable to able to enough to be or
say anything they want at any point? Am I rewarding this?
Let me what did he say exactly? Man? I would

(14:13):
say people's ability to be so comfortable in certain situations,
Like I'm very comfortable around people, I know, right, but
you get into it just takes me so long to
get comfortable with people. So I maybe it's don't maybe
it's some more of an outgoing personality, right, But that's

(14:37):
that's not not who I am that way with my
friends and family. But until I know you, I won't
be that way. So I've always admired people that are
so comfortable and not even saying comfortable in your own skin,
very comfortable in my own skin, but just comfortable, love
enough to let your guard down. I like to see that,
even Derek Jeter looks at other people with not envy,

(15:00):
but admiration, like that's a that's a trait. I would
the guy who everybody looks to, that has all the
great traits still could see traits and other people that
he could admire. Um. Anyway, we love Derek Jeter. He's
a goat, He's a Hall of Famer. We made a
Hall of Fame, a secret Hall of Fame handshake that
I will take away and carry with me forever. And

(15:21):
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