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of us. So we didn't release the podcast on video. So we're able to find the hard drive and we'll have the video of the 35 minutes we're going to put at the end of this show. If you're a new AWL, listen to it, it was a joy. It also, I mean, I've told this story before, but the

two things that were so great when we interviewed him one, he asked me beforehand if it's okay if he brings his own chair. And then he said it's the greatest chair ever. And if you watch the video, he's, I think for his back because he obviously had like so many surgeries on his back, he's just towering over us. And the second was we interviewed him. We both were very like not anxious, but like nervous going into this interview because we wanted to nail it. I wrote down all these questions. I think I might have asked two of them because Bill just talked and about two hours in. He's like, how long does this go? And we're like it's kind of up to you Bill,

like we're having a great time.

And so he just was the best.

Like I was just smiling the entire interview and you're right.

Like all these stories that have come out.

I also like as greatest he was as a broadcaster.

I loved just his little corner of the world

where it's like it's a late night game

on the West Coast

and Bill Walton's gonna get weird and he's just gonna be fun. It's crazy how good he was at basketball and how injuries took away so much of it. People should watch, there's a four part documentary, luckiest man in the world that he, that came out a couple of years ago. Actually think maybe, because I remember when it came out, like this kind of weird sound he might have it might have been because he was battling cancer.

But he was... a couple of years ago, I actually think maybe, because I remember when it came out, it's like this kind of weird, it's how he might have,

it might have been because he was battling cancer.

But he was one of the greatest college basketball players

of all time, if he hadn't had to deal with injuries

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