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for a lot of adults these days. Started

1:01

as kids like myself and now I'm a

1:03

grown man showing my kid

1:05

your movie, The Sandlot. But

1:08

we were talking about it here. We were wondering, like,

1:10

you grew up in this world of

1:12

this iconic movie, this character. Well, by the

1:14

way, I heard that you're killing me smalls

1:16

was a mistake. Is that, I read something

1:18

and I know half the shit you read

1:20

online is not true. Is that not, it

1:23

was written, you kill me

1:25

smalls. You kill me small. So somehow

1:27

I changed it up. You

1:30

know, on that for the better. Thanks.

1:33

The, a lot of

1:35

credit on that movie goes to the director because

1:37

he wrote it, directed it and was the narrator.

1:39

Oh, holy shit. I didn't know. Yeah. And he

1:41

was like our big brother on set and the

1:43

amount of changes he did day of he

1:46

pivoted so much on that constantly.

1:48

So I can't take full credit because it

1:50

could have been something he said like, try

1:52

you killing me smalls, you know, I'm giving

1:54

you the credit. Yeah. Thank you. Well, I

1:56

would love to talk about growing up in

1:58

a movie. Let's talk. The bathroom sandlot stories

2:01

maybe haven't shared before and then I

2:03

would like to just talk about legs.

2:05

Your. Real life, grown up. Sure, you know,

2:08

because I'm sure everything's I'm not a

2:10

movie I obviously. So what's it like?

2:12

What's it like to get the role

2:14

on the salmon and you're gonna hang

2:16

out with bodies? I mean to you

2:18

guys lifelong friends Now year I at

2:20

least yeah, weren't work I there are

2:22

some of us that of. State

2:24

and closer you know or contact

2:26

with each other like myself and

2:28

Chance you played screams. We did

2:30

three movies together. And men

2:33

were just friends growing up so we

2:35

are always really close. I'm.

2:38

And. There's a couple guys that are like

2:40

that, but since the twentieth anniversary, we've all

2:42

gotten together so much more that we are

2:44

just like Air Brothers again. When. It

2:46

falls right back into the richest like

2:48

him ever. We haven't been apart because.

2:51

It's a big part of all of

2:53

our lives so them are more together.

2:56

Again it's it's disgrace. Sarah Some stories,

2:58

some of your favorite moments in Mass

3:00

San Law I'm in. The audition process

3:03

was wild. They originally were. But.

3:05

They had a whole cast picked out for

3:07

this movie. And they

3:09

were seventy year olds. So.

3:12

But then I think that cast was

3:14

already. Salaries are or seven any and

3:16

the direct. Maybe even six and seven.

3:18

And. The draft Or and now we got a pivot. These

3:21

guys are too young. I'm. It's.

3:23

You know it's just some of the

3:25

things we said. Come on out of

3:27

a seven year old I think it

3:29

just that's too bad news bears. Yeah,

3:31

there is another drink and Budweiser smoke

3:33

as if you're at his sister. Well

3:36

as they they basically had are. Obviously

3:38

they didn't pass them but they recast

3:40

the whole thing. And I was

3:42

the last one cast. so. I.

3:44

Have one audition for Samar because they were

3:46

they have lot of one of the kids

3:48

got sick a meme. He couldn't

3:51

do at or somethin so that they

3:53

were about to go film two weeks

3:55

later like they were i'm They were

3:57

in a crunch so I went. To

4:00

this auditioners the director was the casting

4:03

director I addition for it. Got.

4:05

A call that night. The city really like seed.

4:07

Don't think you gotta? You gotta got me the

4:09

other guys side. I'm on a baseball field with

4:11

the other guys and. Got. Along with them

4:13

and and the rest is history I'm and then we just.

4:16

What we're rock Salt Lake City to sell.

4:18

Nothing like two weeks later and were you

4:20

a baseball fan where you already playing little

4:23

league and stuff are now? I saw I

4:25

was but not everyone else was our yeah

4:27

so the way it goes as might retire

4:29

was Benny. He. Was he

4:31

played high school ball and could have gone to college

4:33

and. Rapid. That's a time in

4:35

a movie. he was you know prey on a

4:38

traveling team. He was good. he was really go

4:40

okay he was legit. Give them an astronaut Me

4:42

loss a little league not quite traveling team but

4:44

I was decent. And you know

4:47

have played plenty of sports and. Things

4:50

like that. From there, there's a big drop off. Other

4:54

I see I for a fact

4:56

lemmy a setup Larry they have

4:58

branded Adams who was the pitcher.

5:00

He's halfway decent and then there's

5:03

a big drop off someone's was

5:05

always glance listen. Shaanxi

5:07

was quince in real

5:09

life. He was so

5:11

personable and. He. Basically would

5:13

convince you that he was gonna baseball even

5:15

though it was terrible he were a just

5:17

was that said l at all. Yeah, he'd

5:19

sell it. He had out a

5:21

he was that guy. I'm surprised when they

5:23

didn't actually fall in love with him. On

5:26

the sap. he was so charming if he got

5:28

the stairs, the boobs and do the whole were

5:30

it's of the and gotta be a few yards.

5:32

As a runner I. I

5:35

run from jealous. I

5:39

remember when she came on the same she

5:41

marley Sultan as had quite the career since

5:43

like. Better. Name yeah she's of

5:46

was it has been a very successful

5:48

Ash actress. About when she can answer

5:50

I think she must have And seventeen eighteen years allow

5:52

now. The director pulled a society

5:54

based goes like. Past. Don't.

5:57

Do anything stupid. Okay, there's a pretty

5:59

girl. The onset. You. As

6:01

stay away from her and like they

6:03

basically like. Locked. Us away

6:06

from Kentucky and. I.

6:08

Mean we were I was nine twelve thirteen

6:10

year old boys like imagine that we don't

6:12

tell me what you guys are dome when

6:14

the cameras aren't rolling like when the your

6:16

work and eight hours a day said cause

6:18

the the they were able to put laws

6:20

in their mouth protect kids are now. You.

6:22

Guys hanging out at a hotel to gather: Are

6:25

you get in any trouble To Gillick? What Do

6:27

you do? Everything that we well me and my

6:29

daughter out of this like the. A.

6:31

Fuckin the best summer camp ever. The

6:33

best summer camp ever. Were all thirteen

6:35

years old are getting paid. More.

6:38

Of a bosses of the Sat ear

6:40

know we. You know we sense that

6:42

he can't do this without us. You

6:44

know I remember the director of the

6:46

script supervisor was so cute. we had

6:48

a crush on her. Wardrobe was so

6:50

cute and a crush on her already

6:52

on his. Talk about all the crushes

6:54

we have already. They're horny her generally.

6:57

We went and saw basic instinct was

6:59

to play. Off

7:01

on the off times, we all

7:03

stayed in the same apartment buildings.

7:06

Gas like we're raising hell. Is

7:08

ours You put you up in an apartment complex?

7:10

Yeah? Like a tomboy. Yeah no I hondo. yeah

7:12

like I said hondo saying that Have this tool

7:14

that was. Inside.

7:16

And then you'd swim under and you'd go

7:19

outside. So as like this create an hour

7:21

while super. We. Just were in the pool

7:23

have the time. Because. They could only worse

7:25

eight hours so and we all work together so

7:27

we would be. We'd. Get an of And

7:29

we did driven home and we just rage. With.

7:32

Swim we'd have fun. When you know,

7:34

ah, get any actual trouble. I mean

7:36

Pi. I'm sure we did Iran or

7:38

onset one day. I hate tell the

7:40

story because it makes him look. Like

7:43

a bad guy but it wasn't like just

7:45

realize we're we're terrible people you tell yourself

7:47

and your old boy and late great but

7:49

allow them is this is very famous first

7:51

a be. And we were pissed

7:53

him off so bad that he pulled

7:55

me aside and the backlash. Lessons will

7:57

mother fucker. Enter

8:01

your zero are working to start again

8:03

you're going to do the shot of

8:05

I was like are you got it

8:07

man and I powers tix him in

8:09

the scene and rail like we were.

8:11

we were terrorists have multiple sources but

8:13

we were like with a C was

8:16

in the right like he's really was.

8:18

Small room with a with a clue

8:20

was the coolest crew. they never. Did.

8:22

Anything to us. We raised our like it

8:24

was. I don't know how they got through.

8:27

It does do a practical jokes pranks on

8:29

each other. anything like that. We do some

8:31

of the funniest stuff you remember. We would

8:33

make each other laugh a lot and that

8:35

was something that hard time with because it

8:38

was filmed. Kusa for your melbourne and money

8:40

with assets. sorry I'm not as I did.

8:42

I like the habit as if center city

8:44

on earth and were like crack him up

8:47

like that. you're killing me Small seen. It.

8:49

When you watch that, Tom Diary

8:51

was the most trained actor on

8:54

the movie. And ah you

8:56

can tell like she was a

8:58

fat. He's a fantastic actor and

9:00

just like. the some

9:03

of us has had of naturally like I hadn't

9:05

been in the business or obvious add like this

9:07

natural fun thing that. We. Just where I

9:09

was the director is able to put into the movie

9:11

but I wasn't an actor you know, But.

9:13

His see what I go? You want some

9:15

more? a mess He sits down and he

9:18

does. Ah more y M

9:20

M's his delivery is so deadpans

9:22

and I started cracking up and

9:24

then admire your kill me smalls

9:26

there's probably twenty take the got

9:28

ruined says he's cracking up. So.

9:30

We we just. Had so Mm.

9:33

I'm sure we have the perfect take

9:35

him and some asshole off camera says

9:37

something and ruins it like it. It

9:39

was just that kind of a set, you know,

9:41

and. I. Have a I think they just

9:44

primer and to accept it. I'm. Be

9:46

I we got a lot of trouble offs

9:49

and we we are the weekends year. That.

9:51

Are into basic instinct. We snuck into an R

9:53

rated movie of thirteen. watched it. I'm.

9:56

We. were i mean we had the also they gave

9:58

us per diem and our parents Let's keep it. So

10:00

you get $50 cash every day. And

10:03

this is 1992 and we got 50 bucks. And

10:06

we were just a day. So then by the end

10:08

of the week, you're at, you know, 350

10:10

bucks in your pocket. Giving

10:12

it to you on the weekend, too. You know, it's a

10:14

little, oh, yeah. So

10:17

we're like roll hundreds. Yeah. I

10:20

remember we go shopping and just

10:22

buy all sorts of crazy shit

10:25

and watch

10:27

movies and hang out. And

10:29

how long are you up there the entire time?

10:31

We were probably there three months because, yeah,

10:33

you know, it was probably a 45 day shoot and

10:37

without weekends. So you guys are in every

10:39

damn near everything. Yeah. We're

10:42

in almost everything together. So yeah, we

10:44

definitely. What an experience. Yeah. So

10:47

what's all right. Let's shift gears.

10:49

What's actual life like for Patrick

10:51

outside of that? Like what's at

10:53

that age? Yeah. Same

10:55

age. What do you like movies done?

10:57

Forget about Hollywood and stuff. Do you

10:59

have friends in L.A.? You go home and see

11:01

schoolmates. Like what happens then? Lucky

11:03

for me, I had started school in L.A. before

11:06

Sandlot. So I remember when it came out, I

11:08

drove they all the whole school went

11:11

to see Sandlot. They're all that's awesome.

11:13

And there was like this long line.

11:15

Oh, hell yeah. But it wasn't

11:17

different for me. I like 15

11:19

left that school for one semester to

11:21

try another school out. And that was

11:24

hell. Why? What happened? I

11:26

was the Sandlot kid. Big green now

11:28

is in our school and we don't

11:30

know him. So I

11:32

got in fights and like luckily

11:35

the seniors loved me. So

11:37

I had these huge football players that were like

11:39

just my dogs. So I didn't really get messed

11:41

with too much. But I got

11:44

in a few fights and then I left

11:46

after a semester because I was like this

11:48

is I went back to my old school where all

11:50

my friends were. That should

11:52

have been on the honeydew. I forgot.

11:54

There was something. Yeah. Okay. Okay.

11:58

Yeah. Okay. Yeah,

12:00

yeah, add it, add it. Guys,

12:03

do you have any questions for Patrick over there?

12:05

My main one was just, I think you asked

12:07

earlier, you know, like having 13 boys on this

12:09

set, like just the type of stuff you guys

12:11

would get into. Yeah, I remember Shane,

12:14

I tell this story, Shano Bizinski was the youngest,

12:16

he was the little brother. And

12:18

he and I used to get into it the most. Like

12:21

in real life? Yeah, like we didn't get

12:23

along well. And his mom, his mom's sweetheart,

12:25

but she was the one I got into

12:27

it with too. Like realize there's that dynamic

12:29

too. There's 13 I get into with

12:31

a mom. There are some parents you loved and some

12:33

you're like, get out of my face, you know, like

12:35

you ain't my mom. So

12:37

one day I pissed Shane off so

12:39

much that he just held off and socked me

12:42

in the face. What? Right in the middle of

12:44

the sandlot. Now he's in the middle. During the

12:46

set? Is that all film? You stepped back up

12:48

out on camera? I wish he did. But I'm

12:51

like twice his size and I kind of like

12:54

moved and looked back at him. It was like my

12:56

Terminator moment. I was like, and I like laughed in

12:58

his face. And

13:00

then I went and told his mom, I was like, you know, your son

13:02

just hit me in the face and she looked at me and went good.

13:05

No. Yeah,

13:08

she said it. This is the 90s,

13:11

you know, the parents are from the 90s. We were from the 90s.

13:14

Like, you know, it's just different

13:16

times. That guy's called you a

13:18

motherfucker. She's saying good. And

13:21

she was right. I handed her, I

13:23

deserved it. I probably said some nasty shit.

13:26

I was definitely the like the Joker on set.

13:29

I was the misfit for sure. Like out of

13:31

everyone. Yeah, I was I was raised the most

13:33

hell for sure. Are you guys

13:35

going out to eat and stuff like that together? Like

13:37

you're raising hell in the restaurants in Utah. Like,

13:39

yeah, I guess so. I think we did. But

13:43

I don't remember doing that as much. They

13:46

kept us in the apartment building a lot

13:48

because they sort of just went like here.

13:52

Pool big open area.

13:55

Just party here and then come to

13:57

work. You know, so after

13:59

that. though, we did

14:01

the publicity tour. Then the movie starts

14:04

catching a little bit

14:06

of notoriety. Yeah, let's talk about that

14:08

shift. Well, Matt, you asked

14:10

me a question here earlier where, when

14:13

did I know it was a thing? I was

14:15

in the public library, I was

14:18

13, and the preview, I

14:20

was 14 now, the previews start coming out.

14:22

And because of the previews,

14:25

I get recognized in

14:27

the library before the thing's even out. And

14:30

when that happened, I was like, oh, that

14:32

was a moment where I went, the

14:34

movie's not even out yet. This is going to

14:36

be a big movie. And like, I think things are going to

14:38

change. So we

14:40

go on publicity tour, and they split us all

14:42

up in twos. And so

14:45

Shauncey and I squints to ours, and we do

14:47

the western United States,

14:49

mainly California. But so we're going to

14:52

San Francisco, San Diego, like that kind

14:54

of stuff. And they are putting us

14:56

up at all the best hotels. So we're at

14:58

the Ritz and oh, hell, yeah, and we're, you

15:00

know, 14. We both had

15:02

our moms there. And realize too, the funny

15:04

thing is, like, my mom is

15:06

28 years older than me. So she's

15:09

younger than I am now with

15:11

me at the Ritz, getting the

15:13

royal treatment. So they go,

15:15

you guys can buy whatever you want, do whatever

15:17

you want. So the moms go get

15:19

spa treatments at the Ritz. Shauncey

15:22

and I have our home alone

15:24

moment where we order everything on

15:26

the menu. They literally bring us

15:28

ice cream food. We go to

15:30

the gift shop, we have robes,

15:33

we buy shirts. We

15:35

spent thousands of dollars. The next morning, we got

15:37

a knock on the door. They came in person.

15:39

Then they went, when we said

15:41

anything, you

15:44

guys need to chill out. They

15:46

cut us off. They cut us off. We're like, don't,

15:48

don't say anything you want them. And

15:53

their 40 year old mom, who

15:55

probably also had some bottles of

15:57

wine. It was, we spent thousands.

16:02

And now a segment called Ask

16:04

Patrick because honestly we asked these

16:06

questions off mic and it sounded like shit so

16:08

we created a whole segment around it so here

16:11

we go. In the movie

16:13

The Sandlot was the dog Hercules

16:15

really that scary? No

16:18

so Hercules was there was

16:20

three dogs. Really? Yeah

16:22

because they were so big they

16:24

would tire out and

16:27

they also had like the hero dog which

16:30

was the male dog was just this big

16:34

huge version so that was

16:36

the dog that would just sit there

16:39

and do nothing because it was

16:41

so big that like walking half

16:43

a block the dog would have to take

16:45

a take a breathing. So that was like

16:47

that they called it the hero dog for

16:49

the just like the standing still shots then

16:51

they had two female dogs which were more

16:53

the running ones so if you

16:56

watch the movie closely there's scenes in that chase

16:58

scene where the the dogs are a little smaller

17:00

looking and one

17:02

of them was a male one of them was female

17:05

because there's that scene where the dog jumped through the

17:07

window and the balls are just like right in the

17:09

camera. That was not

17:11

a girl. And then

17:13

they had puppets for

17:15

like the the flashback

17:18

scenes so like the

17:20

paw and all the paw and then there's that

17:22

one scene where he flashbacks to his grandfather and

17:24

the dogs massive that was like a dude

17:27

in a dog suit. Oh really? Yeah yeah

17:29

yeah yeah there you go you can see

17:31

it's massive. Oh yeah there you

17:33

go. Like that thing. So

17:36

they had a puppet.

17:39

That's a dude in that thing? Yeah. Holy

17:41

shit that big. It might have been two

17:43

guys. I was gonna say it might be.

17:46

So they had that but that was only

17:48

used a few times. There

18:00

with your kids. I was saying

18:02

or for sure as goonies and I showed

18:04

it to my six year old about six

18:06

months ago. And he watched

18:08

the entire thing straight through. He was not

18:10

scared. Once off some I came on didn't

18:13

the I was exists okay as a as

18:15

gray on that table heads yeah he looked

18:17

at mega just how he does the say

18:19

as I die I just trust me just

18:22

way way I trust me. Trump's gonna make

18:24

this all out of mana of the I

18:26

Also goods and that ending I stood he

18:28

allowed schrag guy or saga. you know it's

18:30

funny I show her that movie and then.

18:33

She. Went on a vacation with her mom

18:35

up to Seattle and they went into organ

18:37

and they went to the yeah the breach

18:39

of am I going to more massacres There

18:41

was a whole goonies this story I'm glad

18:43

as it is the i'm like I'm glad

18:45

you were Now you know what's up with

18:47

the goose? So good that ending I still

18:50

cry like a baby or sad the the

18:52

dad with data. The saying goes because you're

18:54

my best and med center of like I

18:56

literally. Have pride

18:58

just thinking about it at the go

19:00

to do. Where

19:03

is Wendy? Pepper Corn? She's.

19:07

Around she's got a couple kids. her

19:09

husband's a pretty good producer and all

19:11

he wouldn't like I said she's She's

19:13

done a lot of movies a you

19:15

check her out she on I Bbc

19:17

I think Years and Screams Whose and

19:19

a couple other horror movies. She's.

19:23

Done. Like thirty forty movies. Give me

19:25

some mom and the audition juror like

19:27

saw that already passed on. The are

19:29

hot damn it I have the worst

19:31

one ever and it's with someone I'm

19:33

such a big fan of. Cedric the

19:35

Entertainer, a Tv show. And this

19:37

is a problem to this is why I was

19:40

saying when you're partying and Hollywood, you don't. Put.

19:42

The work in. To. Be an actor

19:45

right? So you get an audition or I

19:47

was one ago as who cares? So. I.

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Would the I would do a really bad job and

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additions or a little period of time and one of

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homeless for the huge Tv show with Cedric the Entertainer

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to he's In There I go up I'm not off

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book, I don't know my thing at all. I

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fully bomb on stage and

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I stopped myself. On stage? Well, it was weird.

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It was almost like a test, but they had

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this little theater. So they're in a room like

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this sometimes? No, they had a little theater and

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they had the stage and they were sitting there

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and the lights were on me. So it was

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a little intimidating too, but I could see him,

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and huge fan, and halfway through I

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was like, oh guys,

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this is bad. I just stopped

20:23

myself and I was like, I'm just gonna go. I

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swear to God and they

20:30

just stared at me and I was like, yep,

20:33

I'm just gonna go. And I walked

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out and I, because

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I just was doing so bad that I was

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like, let's just end the misery here. But

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they, I think they must have agreed. Because they

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didn't think anything. It's a muscle. Yeah, it is.

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And like, unless I can show up as

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they're like, just be you, then

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I'm not an actor. So

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I'm not putting that time into that muscle

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and it's like anything else. That's fucking great.

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Yeah, I mean, Anthony Hopkins says like, I

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think he would read his lines a thousand

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times or something. That's how,

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and you know that, how long that takes and

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how mentally stable you have to be to get

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through something like that. Imagine doing Silence of the

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Lambs and you're reading those lines a thousand times.

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Yeah, well that's when you become an actor. Not

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just a commercial actor. Yeah, holy shit. Dude Patrick,

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thank you so much for doing this. This was

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great. I appreciate you coming on. You're a legend.

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Please plug, promote anything you'd like. Yeah.

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Patrick, run on all the socials. Got

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a podcast coming out soon too. And

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yeah, looking forward to it. Got a couple of movies coming out in 2024.

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So look for those and yeah, still

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around. I'm still here. I love it.

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Good for you. Thank you so much. It's

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been a pleasure. As always, Ryan Sickler on

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all social media, ryansickler.com. All tour dates on

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my website as well. ryansickler.com. We'll talk to

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you all next week.