The Anchormen Show Ep 65- Hold the Line w/ Royce White
The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz
Matt Gaetz
4.2 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Former NBA player turned U.S. Senate Candidate in Minnesota, Royce White, joins to discuss his struggles with anxiety on and off the court, how he fought to change the NBA’s mental health policies, walking away from big money contracts and endorsements… and how that has all prepared him for public office. White talks about the resurgence of masculinity, and how 2026 is a watershed moment for Christians in America.
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| 0:00.0 | Now it's time for the Anchorman podcast with Matt Gates and Dan Ball. |
| 0:13.2 | Welcome back to the Anchorman Show. |
| 0:15.2 | We're going to talk politics. |
| 0:17.2 | We're going to talk MAGA. |
| 0:19.1 | We're going to talk mental health. We're going to talk sports. |
| 0:22.4 | I have on the show today the person who, by far, is the most interesting political candidate in America. |
| 0:30.7 | Now, I don't know that he's the most likely to win, and that's because he's fighting behind enemy lines in a deep blue state that has elected |
| 0:39.3 | Democrats statewide with some regularity. |
| 0:42.2 | But Royce White is unlike any candidate you've heard of. |
| 0:45.6 | This guy has achieved at the highest levels of athletics, and he did something that you |
| 0:52.1 | don't typically see in sports. |
| 0:54.0 | He made change at great personal cost. |
| 0:56.7 | What we see so much now is selfishness. |
| 1:00.4 | And this is a guy who did things a different way. |
| 1:02.4 | I want you to know, and I want you to learn more about this man running in a, really a chopping the wood campaign for the United States Senate in Minnesota, |
| 1:12.3 | how he went from one of the top picks in the NBA draft to someone who really drove |
| 1:18.1 | one of the most powerful institutions in American culture and American life to reforms |
| 1:23.2 | that were badly needed. And this is the second hour of our discussion. I would encourage you to check out the Call Me Crazy podcast. |
| 1:30.8 | My man Royce White is the host. |
| 1:32.7 | I was on his show this week, and I had so much fun. |
| 1:36.4 | I wanted to continue the conversation. |
| 1:38.9 | Royce, thank you so much for being back with me. |
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