Defend the Block 193 - Jimmy King
MGoBlue Podcasts with Jon Jansen
The Varsity Podcast Network
4.8 • 754 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Brian catches up with a Michigan legend this week, as Fab Five member Jimmy King makes his Defend the Block debut. King details his return to school to finish his Michigan degree (4:30), discusses why being a presence in this region is so important to him (11:00), and shares some thoughts about the upcoming season for the Wolverines (15:00).
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| 0:00.0 | In the early days of the pandemic, when we were all staying home trying to keep away from others |
| 0:04.6 | in order to try to stop the spread of COVID, I tried my best to find ways to get my mind off |
| 0:09.2 | what was going on and to try to stay as busy as a sports broadcaster could be when there's |
| 0:14.0 | no sports going on. One of the things I did was clean out my personal email address. My work email |
| 0:19.5 | has normally been fairly well organized. My |
| 0:22.3 | personal one, mostly in my life, has very much not been. I was one of those people with some |
| 0:28.5 | ridiculous number, four or five digits of unread emails. One of those numbers that just stands out |
| 0:33.3 | and looks kind of odd on your phone from a notification standpoint. Needless to say, the process |
| 0:39.1 | took a little while. But that process did also take me back to plenty of memories I'd forgotten |
| 0:43.7 | about, jobs I'd applied to, newsletters I signed up for, hobbies I had, and then lost. There were |
| 0:49.1 | emails going back more than a decade. It was wild. My takeaway was that, wow, you know, things have changed around me |
| 0:56.0 | and with me. I could have never imagined some of those things still being part of my life |
| 1:01.1 | years later, had I taken a detour from where I am now as I looked back at all these emails. |
| 1:07.1 | Well, imagine going back even further to a past version of yourself, to past responsibilities you had. |
| 1:14.5 | For Fab Five member, Jimmy King, he did that recently. |
| 1:18.2 | He had a few credit hours to finish in order to graduate from the University of Michigan. |
| 1:22.7 | And this was so distant in his past that, sure enough, his daughter would also be working toward the end of her |
| 1:28.9 | college career and would eventually walk at graduation with him. Most aspects of your life tend to go |
| 1:35.3 | in one of two directions. Some people, hobbies, passions in your life stay with you for a long time. |
| 1:42.1 | Many, many, many others are fleeting. Here one day, seemingly gone the next. |
| 1:47.7 | Like I can delete an email. Rarely do you have something that becomes and is a big piece of you for a |
| 1:53.4 | significant stretch of time. Then it goes away for a much longer period of time, and you loop back to it. |
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