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Mackey & Judd -- a Minnesota Sports Podcast

FEATURED: Ryan Leaf on how his journey post-NFL

Mackey & Judd -- a Minnesota Sports Podcast

SKOR North | Hubbard Radio

Football, Minnesota Wild, Basketball, Minnesota Timberwolves, Minnesota Twins, Minnesota Sports, Minnesota Vikings, Sports, Minnesota

4.5755 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2018

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf joined Mackey and Judd to discuss his life, getting through his struggles, and what he's doing now to help people by using his life experiences. Plus, which quarterback Leaf likes in this years draft.

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0:00.0

All right, Mackie and Judd, we are back. We are back on Radio Row at Mall of America here all throughout the week.

0:07.1

And if you want to find out about all the cool experiences, the Super Bowl 52 experiences, mallofamerica.com.

0:13.4

Four details. He is a former number two overall pick and currently doing some great things to help people with addiction and mental health disorders

0:22.4

Ryan Leaf transcend recovery community.com. Thank you for coming over here. We saw your name

0:30.1

offered up as a potential guest and we said we got to talk to this guy. He's been doing some cool

0:33.6

things. So welcome to the show, man. Yeah, I really appreciate it. This is going to get

0:38.3

pretty hectic, like Thursday and Friday. This is a small, I mean, we're in a food court, for God

0:44.5

saying. I know. We're in a food. This is Middle America. We are in Middle America. This is exactly.

0:49.7

Did you ever think you'd be between like a Cinebond and a mini golf course? I thought I'd be working at a Cinebond probably yeah the way things were going in my life I just shouldn't say that people

0:58.0

working at Cinebun are amazing people that's a shake shack here too I mean come on it's great um no it's

1:03.1

it's this is just a really a rewarding opportunity to be able to do something like this the fact that

1:08.1

a platform is offered up to me to be of help and be a service

1:10.9

like this, this is really, really great. What's it like, I mean, just your story, I think so many

1:18.3

people saw sort of the start of the bad days. Do you get tired of talking about it? Do you embrace

1:24.2

that? Because there are guys who have gone down your path, and I think the majority of those guys, we just don't hear from them again.

1:31.1

I mean, something bad might happen to them, but they flame out and they're gone.

1:35.6

What's it like to go through what you went through publicly?

1:39.5

Go through the middle of things, which was very tough and perhaps not as public, but certainly out there,

1:45.7

and now to come out on a side where on a daily basis you help so many people.

1:50.2

Well, I mean, and I don't mean to minimize it at all, but what I went through, it was just, yeah,

1:55.1

it was very public, but it was nothing that somebody who lives a life goes, this is life.

2:01.1

You know, people there's ups and downs.

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