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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

353: Scott Hamilton—I Never Got to Drive the Zamboni

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

History, Society & Culture

4.940.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

The Olympic gold medalist and four-time national and world ice skating champion is the most upbeat and cheerful human ever, and he shares his amazing journey from a sickly, smaller-than-average kid to an Olympic champion, what it's like to survive two forms of cancer, and why he claims the brain tumor he was born with was the greatest thing that ever happened to him.
 

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0:00.0

Here we go with episode number 353, the way I heard it.

0:07.5

It's called I Never Got to Drive the Zamboni with our good friend Scott Hamilton.

0:13.1

Because Chuck, I don't know, maybe I'm taking liberties, maybe I'm overreaching,

0:16.7

but I now think we can call Scott Hamilton our good friend.

0:20.3

I think everybody that meets Scott Hamilton feels like a good friend.

0:24.3

Scott Hamilton just exudes a confidence and a welcoming nature.

0:29.6

From the minute he signed on to the minute he said goodbye,

0:33.2

he was a delight to be around and he shines.

0:36.5

He pops.

0:37.1

His little bald head exudes something that is joyful.

0:41.1

He's full of joy, this man.

0:42.9

He is a joyful dude.

0:44.7

And really, this comes out in our conversation.

0:48.0

Guys like him, people like him, are really part of the reason I wanted to do this podcast

0:52.4

or at least change the format a couple years ago. The world is just full of people that I want to talk to. And I found myself sitting

0:59.8

across from Scott about, I don't know, maybe five, six months ago at Dave Ramsey's house down in

1:06.6

Nashville, just outside of town. And it was just one of those dinners. You don't think you're going

1:11.7

to have that kind of dinner. I didn't even know Scott was coming. I just thought it was half a dozen

1:16.5

of us. And Dave was like, I'm going to invite some neighbors over. Well, his neighbors are Scott and

1:20.8

Tracy. And suddenly, you know, you're sitting across from a gold medal winner. And I had questions,

1:26.2

but he had questions. Like, he went to school on my ridiculous career. And I had questions, but he had questions.

1:28.4

Like, he went to school on my ridiculous career, and he had so much to say about microworks

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