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The Dr. Phil Podcast

Shaquille O'Neal In Full Force

The Dr. Phil Podcast

Dr. Phil McGraw

Mental Health, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness

4.413.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2019

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Former NBA legend Shaquille O'Neal is a Sheriff's deputy in Georgia. He has a deep love and appreciation for law officers and how hard they work and how much they risk doing their jobs. He's also a platinum recording artist who's released four albums, working with the likes of Michael Jackson and Aaron Carter. He is one of the first African Americans to play a major comic book hero in a movie. He's performed comedic roles in dozens of television shows and films, and has appeared in numerous music videos, and has even voiced a character in a Smurf movie. He's appeared in dozens of best-selling video games as himself, has created and hosted numerous television shows for major networks, is a beloved product spokesman, a beloved professional wrestler appearing in major WWE events, a highly successful investor and real estate entrepreneur, a minority owner of a major sports franchise, a tech investor and he also owns a Krispy Kreme store in Atlanta. His mother, Lucille O'Neal is his best friend and confidant. His late father, Army Sergeant Phillip A. Harrison served as one of Shaq's greatest coaches of all time. He grew up poor on the streets of Newark New Jersey but has never stopped helping those in need now that he's a worldwide brand and host of one of the most significant sports talk shows on television. Shaquille is one of the most outrageous and beloved personalities in the world as well as having one of the greatest professional careers in the history of athletics. He's one of those one-word name celebrities who are instantly recognizable anywhere on the planet. To read his list of accomplishments on the court would quite literally take up our entire podcast. But I don't need to do that. We hope you enjoy diving in deep with Mr. Shaquille O'Neal aka Shaq! For more information: https://www.drphilintheblanks.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

My father walks on the court close the time up, but he takes me inside. What are you doing?

0:04.1

So you know my I'm working on my doctor J.

0:06.3

You ain't no doctor J. B the first check so now that he embarrassed me in front of everybody

0:10.6

Every dog was trying to tear the rim down because I was mad at him

0:13.8

How close did you get to go in the wrong way?

0:17.6

Very close. I wanted people to like me or fear me just like on the basketball court

0:22.2

That was the one and only Shaqille O'Neal

0:25.2

Shaq and I am the one and only doctor Phil and you're listening to Phil in the blanks my new podcast

0:31.4

And this is the first episode and you're right. I'm sitting down talking to Shaq

0:36.0

And I am not talking to him about basketball because everybody talks to him about basketball

0:40.8

What I wanted to do was find out who Shaq really is full disclosure

0:45.5

He and I are friends so I really kind of know the areas to talk to him about to ask about he's a dad and

0:52.1

Trust me. He takes it very seriously

0:54.6

He does not raise his kids the way he was raised and I'm gonna ask him why because he says it worked for him

1:02.1

Why doesn't he use it for his own kids?

1:04.4

So we're gonna be talking about that his mother Lucille O'Neal

1:08.4

He holds her in the highest regard

1:11.0

But he's not just a basketball player this guy is a champion with everything he touches platinum album gold album

1:17.9

He's made movies in fact he and I did scary movie for together and

1:23.0

Boy lot Oscar buzz around that I'm kidding of course. He's a reserve police officer

1:28.2

He's an analyst on TNT for the NBA. He grew up a lot different his mother had to carry his birth certificate

1:35.6

Whether all the time because he was so big nobody believed he was so young now

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