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Anything Goes with James English

226: England International Cricket Player To Drug Smuggler - Chris Lewis Tells His Story

Anything Goes with James English

Anything Goes with James English

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🗓️ 25 November 2021

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Anything goes with James English Ep/226

England International Cricket Player To Drug Smuggler - Chris Lewis tells his story

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0:00.0

Oh, Boom, I'm a man, and today's guest, we've got big Chris Lewis, how had you, brother?

0:19.7

Good to see you.

0:21.1

Nice to be here, mate.

0:22.3

Nice to finally catch up. Yeah, I know, mate. Nice to finally catch up.

0:23.4

Yeah, I know, mate. It's been a while. Yeah, yeah. Speaking for a while, but first and foremost, how are you, brother?

0:28.4

I'm good. Better than ever, actually, as it happens.

0:32.8

Good mate. Very fascinating story.

0:34.8

English international cricket player to then drug smuggling.

0:38.3

You end up getting a 13 year sentence like mad dance shi-shattering it, but it's but it's an interesting story that people like to hear people

0:46.4

love to hear that mad shit. The way you speak to it like the way you talk you think man he's a big quiet man and then obviously you talk you think, man, he's a big quiet man, like, and then obviously you meet here a big present, six feet free,

0:57.0

and then you're like, a fucking hell man, but 13 years is a long time, brother.

1:01.0

Well, let's just say say it was a journey and perhaps just to encapsulate all of it, you know, if part of that time I didn't scare myself to death, going to jail and a few other stuff, I've enjoyed

1:18.3

the ride. I've learned so much, I've become so much more because of those journeys, you know. In the beginning as a young boy, I just dreamt about

1:29.9

playing cricket, about emulating my heroes, the idea behind that is that you play

1:36.2

cookie, you'll be famous, you'll be able to afford the things that you want, life is

1:42.2

sorted, you know? you're young it's silver you know

1:45.7

about a bit of cash and I'm having a bit of fun you don't look beyond that I guess I was fortunate enough to be able to achieve those things and you get there and then of course there's more.

2:01.0

You look at that and you go, okay, in my case it was to be a professional cricketer, and you go, an international

2:07.4

cricketer and then you want to be one of the best and all the while you're looking for that enjoyment, that space where you feel good, you know,

2:18.0

and you get those things and you realize that it's not necessarily that space isn't necessarily there or it's not the things you know

2:25.8

so you move on you you make a different plan and I certainly in my case sometimes you

2:32.2

get it horribly wrong and you you end up in a dull place also but at the end of it now it's actually all over

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