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Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics.

Something to help you live up to those four Stoic virtues of courage, justice, temperance and wisdom.

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I guess this would have been, yeah, this would have been the book tour for Stillness is the key. I was in Los Angeles and you know they just book you on all this stuff. And so you know they were like you're doing this podcast with this guy named Tony and it's in his house west side of LA.

So I had over there and you know I was like so like just doing like the thing the next thing in front of me that I think this is my memory of it right that my I wasn't really aware exactly where I was going or what I was doing.

But I pull up to this insane house in Beverly Hills and I was super early and so I went for a long walk around the neighborhood. I finally get back I go in the house and I'm doing the podcast at Tony Gonzalez house maybe the greatest tight end of all time.

Certainly one of the greatest NFL players of the last several decades he spent 12 seasons with the chiefs five seasons with the Falcons Hall of Famer.

It was an analyst for Fox now is an Amazon now he's an analyst for Amazon. But one of the greats of all time and all of a sudden we're sitting down and he and I think we're in one of my books and that we had this great conversation.

It came out it was a cool experience and then I just went on to the next thing it's weird you have these sort of moments in time and you don't think you could have no conception of like what like the next thing it's going to be where you're going to re bump into someone or whatever.

But I remember flash forward through a pandemic I open a bookstore all this stuff I get a text from the manager the bookstore and she says this is really weird but this guy named Tony Gonzalez is in the bookstore and he says he knows you can I give him a copy of the new book this courage had just come in.

And I was like are you kidding me of course anyways he had moved to Austin and we've gotten reconnected he's come out to the bookstore a couple times we love to eat a base camp which is this awesome sandwich place right about half block from the bookstore one of my favorite places to eat lunch if you ever come out to the pain and porch.

They're closed on Sunday Monday so that the only you can only do it during the week but and Saturdays but with love base camp he brought out his wife October one time and I would say we become friends and it's been awesome and after him coming out and having a bunch of long and very philosophical conversations on the back porch of the pain and porch.

I said tell me what you want to come back out and we could do the podcast and talk about the same stuff and people could listen and he said absolutely and I'm so glad he did we had an awesome conversation and I'm just you know you're just sitting there and again I'm flashing back to our original meeting but it's like this dude was in 14 probals six first team all pros played in almost 300 NFL games by the way he only fumbled.

Twice like try to wrap your head around the strength and training and skill it would take to absorb the hits that this guy is taking and to never drop the ball Tony will be the first to tell you that his NFL career wasn't easy road to the top that's actually something we talked about he wasn't one of those guys that just click as soon as you got in the lead he was a slow and steady climb but once you got there I mean he did not drop the ball literally and figuratively and

that's what we talked about in today's episode think you're really going to like it you can follow him on Twitter and Instagram at Tony Gonzalez 88 I really enjoyed this conversation and you watch a video of it on YouTube as well because we recorded it and I really appreciate it and Tony I hope to see you at the

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