Shaquille O'Neal
Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist
NBC News
4.5 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2019
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast. |
| 0:05.1 | My thanks is always for clicking and listening along this week. |
| 0:08.2 | My guest is a larger than life legend goes by the name of Shaquille O'Neal. |
| 0:13.4 | Yes, Shaq, one of the most dominant athletes in the history of sports, one of the greatest |
| 0:18.5 | players in NBA history. |
| 0:20.8 | Let me set the scene for you as I always like to do. |
| 0:23.5 | He lives in rural Georgia about 45 minutes outside Atlanta, drive down to the little town |
| 0:28.6 | where he lives, go to a spot called PJs Cafe, restaurant on the town square right there, |
| 0:34.7 | hanging out, waiting for Shaq to come in and man, does he make an arrival? |
| 0:38.2 | Comes in solo, but in his jacked up pickup truck, in all of 7 foot 1 and 300 whatever |
| 0:45.7 | pounds, but kind of rock solid these days, big arms, just wearing a purple polo shirt |
| 0:52.2 | and sunglasses. |
| 0:54.9 | Some glasses for the entire interview, I believe and I'll have to check with the Sunday |
| 0:58.6 | today historian, it's only the second interview that we've done for this Sunday show where |
| 1:04.6 | the guest has worn sunglasses throughout the other being ice cube. |
| 1:08.2 | So ice cube and Shaq, the two guests wearing sunglasses throughout the interview, we got |
| 1:12.6 | together and talked business. |
| 1:15.2 | There was no real peg, usually you interview somebody for a show or a movie or a song or |
| 1:20.5 | an album, whatever it is. |
| 1:22.2 | Shaq just wanted to talk. |
| 1:23.2 | So we sat down, we talked basketball, yes, but to me the most interesting part of the |
| 1:26.7 | conversation was his business success. |
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