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story, if you don't know, is that Lionel Messi was always told he was too small, literally too short to play professional soccer. And he went from too short to play to the best player in the world in the biggest sport. Here's the tragic part. Where he's lived for 21 years — I think he was playing for Barcelona — he has to leave the team because they have financial problems and they can't afford i…
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Here's a story that I made a little note to myself that this almost made me cry. But that's not true. It actually made me cry. I saw a couple of people on Twitter today giving me some at least partial credit in one case for helping somebody quit drinking. Ed Latimore was mentioned. And as famously a non-drinker as am I.
And I have to tell you, you know most of you know my story. I've told it too many times. My stepson died of an overdose in 2018. Fentanyl was in his system. And you know that that sort of radicalizes you as that has that effect. And when I see that somebody quit an addiction because of anything I did or said — you know, even if I was just a little bit of that, because people make their own choices. I don't think other people cause you to do things. I think you make your own choices. But if I could help even a little bit, that's really meaningful to me. It's really meaningful because it gives meaning to my stepson's life if there's something that his tragic ending caused. And it caused other people to have maybe more success in quitting their addictions.
And then somebody else was saying that he had drank — I won't give their names because priva
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cy reasons even though they tweeted it. It's not my business to tell you their names. Another one said that as of today he was going to stop drinking 10 beers a day, which he'd been drinking forever. And today is the day that he's going to stop drinking 10 beers a day. Now that's pretty tough. Pretty tough. But I tweeted him so you can cheer him on. Lauren Boebert. You all know Lauren. She's a gu…
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