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Noah Kagan Presents

Bo Jackson: A Conversation With the World's Best Athlete

Noah Kagan Presents

Noah Kagan

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Everyone thinks success lasts forever... but it doesn't. In the 1980s, the world's best athlete played. To this day, he's the only athlete to be named a MLB and NFL all-star. But the year he was named a NFL all-star he retired. This is the story of Bo Jackson — the athlete who left the limelight.

Full show notes at http://okdork.com/podcast/57

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0:00.0

We were doing storyboards for a commercial.

0:02.8

This was when computers was first coming on to see.

0:05.8

We had the storyboards laid out here on the table instead of getting on the computer

0:10.2

and looking at everything, had posters laid out with drawings and we were trying to

0:15.0

figure out how we should combine these posters to do one scene and we had a little

0:20.8

too much going on so I said why don't you take this and put it with this one?

0:25.8

Let's take this one out and we can use this one in the other scene.

0:29.8

And somebody across the table said, wow, bow knows.

0:33.5

Welcome to Noah Kagan presents.

0:37.9

All right, what's up you gorgeous listeners? It's your boy. Mr. Celia Penny's aka Rabbi Can't Lose

0:47.2

aka Noah Kagan. Today's episode is with my childhood idol and because of you, yes

0:52.4

you, I got to meet him this year.

0:54.0

His name is Bo Jackson.

0:56.0

This episode is really special to me because Bo was my dad's favorite athlete.

1:00.0

My dad passed away a few years ago,

1:02.0

so it was on my bucket list to meet Bo in memory of my dad, learn more about Bo Jackson, and share his story with you. If you don't know who Bo is, and I know you know, Bo is the first dual sport athlete to be voted in all star in baseball and football.

1:17.0

He was also the face of the most successful marketing campaign, I would say ever, which is the Nike series, Bo Knows. This year to honor my dad and

1:24.9

support Bow I invited all of you to help me fundraise for Bow's charity Bow Blykes Bama

1:29.2

which helps fund the Alabama Relief Fund after devastating natural disasters.

1:33.2

Make sure to check that out at Bowbikesbama.com.

1:35.7

With your help, we raised $30,556.

1:40.2

That's insane.

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