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moving!

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Episode 13
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this is the dreamers podcast where
dreamers share their stories to inspire

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you

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now join host Joe Pardo as he interviews
a dreamer who’s living their dreams

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yeah

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yeah

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yeah

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welcome to the dreamers podcast I’m your
host Joe part of and today I’m

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interviewing Mike scope was living
history by helping people around the

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world plan

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disney vacation as well as getting them
into a healthy lifestyle

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welcome to show mike and joe you know i
was thinking today as I was coming back

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from work he related to that game
announcer Don Pardo

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no unfortunately I’m not okay so that
prices right money is not coming my way

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ok no it doesn’t matter i’ll still agree
to be interviewed

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oh thanks that’s really very nice of you
who

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that’s what I do so let’s start by
giving already into a background about

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yourself

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wow how far back do you want to go do
you want to start with the healthy

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lifestyle or do you want to start with
the podcast ww today I mean I started

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out as a child

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Oh what can i say i always been into
sports and athletics a was never home I

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was always playing baseball or
basketball or whatever as I got into

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high school war and more sports it got
to the point where when i was 18 i was

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coaching my first baseball team not
playing but coaching and I coached from

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coach from 18 to i don’t know but i know
that in in merrimack New Hampshire my

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guess my hometown now are most of my
life I coach more baseball games than

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anybody in the town in the history of
the town coach basketball

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I know this sounds a lot different than
what my profile is supposed to be on w

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today but I’ve touched the lives of a
lot of kids lot of children to the point

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where I was coaching so long and I’ve
told the story a lot of people shake

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their heads that one of the first boys
that I have a coached actually coached

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my son in a tournament basketball team
because he I was coaching so long that

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the kid why coach he ended up growing up
into an adult and he started coaching

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boys to it was it was really funny but
that was a big part of my life try

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to shape values on these boys girls too

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there have been many times where I
caught the wrath of a lot of parents

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because rather than try to win a game i
tried to build character and was kind of