Tracy Morgan On How Sobriety Changed His Life - Friend of Jerry: Episode 17
Friend of Jerry
Barstool Sports
5.0 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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On this weeks episode of Friend of Jerry, Tracy Morgan joins the show to tell stories of his troubled childhood, his struggles with alcohol, and how 20 years of sobriety has changed his life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, friend of Jerry Listeners, you can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. |
| 0:06.2 | Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. And now, this is the moment you've all been waiting for! Standing five feet for it's just all. We're waiting at 185 pounds! |
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| 2:26.3 | True. I didn't know what to expect. We pull up to the, it's a mansion. I mean, mansion and you know, I got there at 1215. I'm going over my notes and stuff. You know, Kevin comes about 1245. We're supposed to get in there for one Avery's with them. And you know we pull up to the gate and it's like 12.55 and I didn't know if I should ring the bell or not and |
| 2:48.7 | It's had this big debate. And I was nervous because we rang the bell and like two or three minutes later there was no response. The door just opened to the gate. So we get inside and you rang the bell and said we're off to a bad start after as the gate was opening And I was like how is this a bad start? You're like well if they wanted us here They would have came on the inner common been like oh, hey, how's it going exactly here that we didn't We thought we're off to a bit. Yeah, so we thought we were definitely off to a bad start and Another reason why thought we were off the bad start to is well before the bad start, we go inside and the Tracy has this huge, I don't know what it's called. |
| 3:30.3 | It's like a shoe protect. |
| 3:31.2 | I like it. |
| 3:31.8 | Yeah. |
| 3:32.4 | It's like a shoe. |
| 3:33.0 | You put your press your foot on this thing and like a film, like a plastic film, |
| 3:37.7 | like sucks onto the onto the bottom of your shoe because all the marble he has all over |
| 3:41.6 | his house. |
| 3:42.1 | Yeah. |
| 3:42.3 | Which is really cool. And then I get to meet Tracy first and we go, we give a pound and then pretty much he's like, that was the first interaction you went. Fist bump with Tracy. Yeah, because you guys write the door still and it was kind of weird. And we were thinking about where we're gonna do the interview and Tracy's trace He's just you know sitting there with all his jewelry on he's like |
| 4:06.6 | Well, I don't know |
| 4:08.7 | Maybe I want to do it in front of the shark tank |
| 4:12.2 | Maybe I want to do it in front of the basketball court maybe the bull in alley |
| 4:17.0 | Like all right, well, you know, we'll figure it out and I'm like it's up to you |
| 4:20.9 | He's like I go with them and set you know figure it out |
| 4:23.1 | So we did the bowling alley, which was unbelievable. |
| 4:26.3 | Yeah, and it's nothing against the shark tank either |
| 4:29.1 | because that was one of the craziest things I've ever seen. |
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