John Amaechi

Midnight Meets With Colin Murray

BBC

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Former NBA player and psychologist John Amaechi talks to Colin Murray about his inspirational mum, being stopped and searched, how he wishes he came out earlier and teaching people how to achieve ‘meaningful success’ through his book The Promises of Giants. Midnight Meets is part of Colin Murray’s BBC Radio 5 Live show which is on Monday to Thursday, 10.30pm to 1am – or available whenever you want via the BBC Sounds app.

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0:00.0	Hello, Gary Lednika here with Alan Shira and Mike Riches to say the match of the day Top 10 podcast is back
0:07.4	We'll be ranking our footballing Top 10s and Tibetan. It was right. Well, it's don't be me. Not a champ. It's Gary
0:14.8	First season wonders to goalkeeping blunders. Nothing is off the table. You had a few blunders in your day. Did you Gary?
0:22.0	Yeah, match of the day Top 10. Listen only on BBC sounds
0:27.4	BBC sounds music radio podcasts
0:35.4	Welcome to another podcast of midnight mates. Thank you so much for listening and downloading the episodes
0:40.8	I am acutely aware of the fact that they go from sport to music to TV to to other which is unusual
0:46.9	But I hope that the quality levels remain high enough for you to enjoy being part of it
0:51.6	I'll continue to try my best to make it worth your while and I definitely think this particular episode is this midnight mates guest is one of my favorite people
1:00.3	Full-stop period John and Michi battled against the odds to make it in the NBA
1:05.2	One of few Britons ever to do so and beyond sport
1:09.4	He's a psychologist a great thinker and
1:12.4	Commentator plus a New York Times best selling author in fact as latest book the promises of giants is what brings him back to me
1:19.3	Which always relish so I hope you enjoy listening them as much as I revel as always in his company. This is midnight meets with John
1:26.5	Michi
1:31.9	John and Michi welcome the midnight mates so happy to have you thank you. It's a pleasure
1:36.2	We're just gonna start with one thing declaration of interest here. We've known each other for a while
1:40.8	We've even had the odd night out. This is true. Right should I start by telling the story about how you start me getting beaten up?
1:48.3	Yeah, why not actually so we're up for that this night bring your own vinyl and I won't get into why it was nothing too bad
1:54.4	But two guys decided they'd have a go at me nothing to do with work or anything like that
1:59.4	And they start having to go at me and I said listen guys if you're gonna have a go at me
2:03.3	There's two you and only one of me. Can I just bring my mate over?
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