POLKcast: Polk State Baseball alum becomes Survivor star [transcript]
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Are you ever on the street and people
recognize you from the show? Hey,
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you’re Chris from Survivor.
How often does that happen?
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It happens less frequently now,
but during the show, I mean,
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it didn’t matter where I was going,
which I was surprised about. But I mean,
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I was on the plane, people recognized me,
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the airport walking in the
subway at work. I mean, one,
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one dude just came out to me like, he
was like, shell shocked. He’s like,
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look at him. He’s like, what? What do
you like? He was confused. He’s like,
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what are you doing here? Like, what
do you mean? Like, you’re on the show.
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<Laugh>.
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Another kinda free rock roll
make, maybe want tap toe,
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another kinda free foam
rock roll make, maybe Moree.
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Good morning everyone, and
welcome to the Polk Cast.
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I am your host, Mike Ferguson,
our co-host today, Andrew, too.
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How are you doing, Andrew?
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Doing well, Mike. Excited for another
Polk cast. Uh, excited to talk about, uh,
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some Polk State Baseball. And
I’m excited for our guest today,
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not just because he’s been on one of,
uh, my favorite shows of all time.
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Our guest today is a former, uh,
two-way Polk State baseball player.
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He played under both Joe Arnold
and our current coach Al Cord Beal.
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He ultimately concluded his collegiate
career at the University of Pikeville in
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Kentucky. Since then, he is gone on to
a successful modeling career and, uh,
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he’s appeared on Billboards on
Fifth Avenue in Manhattan for brands
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as Versace In 2018. Uh,
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our guest appeared on the 36th season
of the hit CBS TV show survivor.
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Joining us today is Chris
Noble. How are you, Chris?
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I’m doing all right. You guys, uh,
did some pretty good research there.
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Yeah. We’re we,
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we we tried really hard to do research
and now we’re out of questions.
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We’ve just said everything we
know about you. Yeah. In, in, uh,
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in the introduction, me and Andrew’s
modeling career never took off.
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I turned down billboards all the time.
I don’t know about you, Mike, but I’m,
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I get offered a lot, but the schedule
here at Polk State is pretty brutal. So,
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you know, I don’t have the
margin, like I, I’d like to,
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to advance my modeling career, but.
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Yeah, I mean, if anyone
was interested in me,
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I think it would be like Burger King
and maybe Dairy Queen <laugh>. Um,
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but Chris, uh, as a, as a model,
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talk about what all goes into it,
because I, I assume it’s more than just,
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uh, just looking pretty and staying
in shape. So, so talk about,
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talk a little bit about what it
means to be a model and, and what,
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what it entails.
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First. I should, you know, at
least say I I don’t do it anymore.
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That was just a, a period in my
life. So I’m, I’m retired, uh,
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in the fashion industry, you know,
uh, you know what the modeling is.
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I think the most
difficult thing is to, uh,
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honestly just be more comfortable in
the camera. I know it sounds ridiculous.
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You have to kind of get comfortable
with the photographers and stuff,
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so it’s actually a little
bit more nerve wracking,
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but in time you get kind
of accustomed to it.
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How long does a shoot take?
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It really depends whether you’re doing
kind of like the catalog type stuff for
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Sears.
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That could be all day stuff with
magazines could take a little bit because
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you’re not the only one. You know,
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when I was doing the Versace campaign,
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which was the one the billboard
was about, that was a 12 hour,
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four day or five day
straight kind of event.
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So we were at production from like 8:00
AM to 8:00 PM for four or five days in a
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row. Sometimes you’re not even
actually doing anything, you know,
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you’re just waiting. What’s the difference
between doing that and, you know,
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sitting on a computer doing work
for 12 hours, at the end of the day,
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you’re kind of sitting and just
waiting for things to get done, so.
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Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Yeah, fair
point, fair point. So is the,
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is the modeling something you did kind
of initially when you, because you, um,
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relocated to New York, right? Correct.
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I relocated to New York that I got into
the entertainment industry before then,
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it was the modeling career that
took me to New York. You know, I,
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to be fair, I never really
thought about modeling so much.
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I didn’t ever think I would
get into that at all. Uh,
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but when you get older and opportunities
present themselves and you’re trying to
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figure out ways to make
money and make a living,
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it just kind of fell into my lap.
When I got into my mid twenties,
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I realized that probably
if you want a healthy life,
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you gotta find multiple ways
or multiple sources of income,
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because as a personal trainer,
I was working really long hours,
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I was working really hard, and I didn’t
have much energy at the end of the day.
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So, uh, to be frank,
the modeling money was,
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uh, a lot more in a
shorter period of time.
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So I was able to balance
out my life more with that.
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You guys were probably thinking I
was gonna get all egotistical on it,
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but the reality was I was really just
trying to make my life a little bit.
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Easier. No, yeah. <laugh>, no, I
understand that. That’s, uh, you know,
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it’s similar. I feel like, you know,
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in maybe shooting commercials
and stuff like that too, it’s,
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it’s probably a bigger payday, but,
you know, it’s not, maybe, I mean,
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it’s still strenuous, but it’s not, okay,
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I’m gonna go run a forklift
for 12 hours and, you know,
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grind and to make probably less money
than going to shoot one big commercial.
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Um, so I, I understand that.
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Yeah, there, there was some really cool,
fun things that I got to be a part of,
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but I never really was
comfortable doing it,
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and I never really was
into doing it. Hmm. Uh,
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but when, you know,
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God gives you an opportunity to see things
and to try things and see if it’s for
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you,
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I had some really early success was kind
of foolish for me to not be open-minded
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about it. And that on ultimately
led me to Survivor. So.
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Let’s talk about Survivor a
little bit. We understand, um,
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that your, your mom was, uh, was part
of the inspiration for you going,
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uh, going on this show? Talk about that.
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A little. Yeah. I mean, my, my mom has
had Ms my whole life. She was diagnosed,
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uh, at 27. She’s originally
from Long Island, but,
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uh, they grew up, my,
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my grandfather moved the family down to
the Space Coast over there in Merritt
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Island when they were
in their, uh, you know,
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my mom would’ve been probably early
teens, uh, after my parents split up.
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She lived on the Space Coast.
So my whole life, you know,
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whether we were down in the Keys, um,
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living there or she was living up on
the Space Coast, you know, I would,
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you know, go, go see her all the time.
She’s in an assisted living facility.
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And being, uh, you know,
obviously a Pulse State alum,
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it was very easy for me to bounce
back and forth between Winter Haven
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and Melbourne when her health
was a little compromised, which,
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uh, happened a fair amount of
times during my tenure at Polk.
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So, when you go through life
circumstances like that,
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especially when it’s
a loved one, you know,
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your perspective on life changes and
it was a big motivating factor for me
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to wanna be successful
in baseball and, uh,
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to have an opportunity to use
some kind of fame to spread
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the awareness of ms.
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So, h uh, talk a little more about how
the connection with Survivor came to be.
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You said, kind of just having that open
mind to whatever the next opportunity,
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uh, that comes your way, you know,
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and kind of being faithful and
that kind of kept opening up doors.
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And so kind of, how did logistically
Survivor come to be? Had you been,
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you know, a fan so that show in the
past and had an awareness of it?
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Or was it something that kind of just
came to you, you hadn’t heard of and said,
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Hey, let’s just do it. Kind
of, what did that look like?
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You know, it’s a crazy
set of circumstances.
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I’ll try and make this story
pretty short and simple. So,
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you guys did great research about me,
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but I actually finished out my last
baseball, my collegiate year and a half.
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And where I finished and got my degree
at a small school in Nebraska called Don
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College. I transferred
there after Pikeville, uh,
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because they had a winning program.
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They had a degree that satisfied
what I wanted compared to Pikeville.
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My time at do was great. I got my
degree, but for baseball purposes,
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it didn’t go how I wanted to,
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and to kind of just tying what we talked
about with my mom and everything else,
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a lot of people don’t
realize, but, you know,
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my mom’s health was really
bad when I was at, uh,
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dome and it was affecting my
play. And I was already, uh,
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kind of, uh, in a higher state of anxiety.
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Cause it was my third
school in three years,
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and I was kind of in my senior
year and, uh, you know, my,
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my arm started, uh, hurting.
I was completely stressed.
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So I actually made a decision to stop
playing baseball in early spring and just
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focus on getting my degree.
I thought that was my,
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probably the more important thing for me
to do since I didn’t think I was gonna
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have another step into
baseball after college.
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Um,
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so I had a teammate out there
and he reached out to me back
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in probably early 2017, randomly.
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He had obviously seen
that I had, you know,
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been successful in, you know,
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the entertainment industry and,
you know, I was fit. And you know,
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obviously he knew I was athletic.
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We played baseball out there and
someone he worked for at a law firm
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was on Survivor very early
on in the se in the series,
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like very early on, like maybe
back early two thousands.
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And he was helping them
cast a specific prototype.
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And he had asked my buddy if he knew
someone that kind of fit this prototype,
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which, um,
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to sum it up was like a Captain
America type prototype. Cause they,
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they don’t laugh,
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but that is how they like to
figure things out for roles. Right.
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And, um, you know, and I was the
first one that popped up in his head.
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And so he texted me, he is like, Hey,
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would you have any interest if I con if
I just gave someone your contact about
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this, blah, blah, blah? Honestly,
I just was like, sure. I mean,
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I didn’t think much of it, but
I’m like, okay. And, you know,
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within a day or two, I was already in the,
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in the thick of things and
I was out in LA doing the,
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the interviews and before you knew
it, I was out in PG <laugh>. So, yeah,
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it was, uh, it was a crazy set
of circumstances, uh, you know,
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but the big man upstairs was
looking out for me for sure.
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That’s awesome. So.
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On the show you, how long were
you there? And, uh, what was,
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what was the experience like?
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So I was there 22 days. I
was the first, uh, you know,
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boot after the merger. Uh, my
experience out there was incredible.
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It’s 100% real. It’s the most
challenging thing I’ve ever done.
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Not sure if this is the
exact number or not,
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but I think I was one of only three
people in the entire series to ever
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make it to the merge without
going to a tribal council.
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So it’s safe to say that whatever
team I was on, we dominated. Yeah.
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So I might have fi finished
in the middle of the pack,
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but I was definitely superior to most
people out there. That’s how I feel.
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But you get a bunch of people
scared of you or, you know,
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they don’t like a strong personality,
they’ll try and get rid of you real fast.
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Survivor,
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I feel like has a big emphasis on the
physical challenge and also the mental
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aspect of being isolated and all that too,
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coming from a athletic background
and a competitive standpoint,
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being a very competitive person
can kind of pick up on that.
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Like how did that that kind of help you,
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those experiences and being in
high competitive environments with,
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with baseball that kind
of translate at all?
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Yeah, of course. I, I,
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I 100% went in thinking I would
dominate whoever I had to face. Uh,
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frankly, I,
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I always knew I was gonna be superior
to probably everybody athletically.
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And I know, know, my
willpower is very strong,
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so I wasn’t too concerned about that.
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The only thing that I had my reservations
about was when it came to puzzles and
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certain things like that that I’m not
as good at. And I’d have no problem,
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you know, uh, on a team setting,
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admitting and having other
people do that kind of stuff. So,
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you know, from that mental aspect,
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that was the only thing I was
concerned about. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>.
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And I know what kind of personality I am,
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so I knew if you’re taking
20 people in a group,
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I knew some people definitely wouldn’t
like me no matter how hard I tried. Uh,
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it’s how I’ve been my whole life.
But I knew some people would,
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would admire me as well. So, uh,
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having to just try and
work really hard at,
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at building communication
with people was, yeah.
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The one thing I wanted to try and be
the best at. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, uh,
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can’t, but you can’t win over everybody.
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You know? I, I, I’ve enjoyed the
show, watch the, but you know,
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I have some friends that won’t get
into it cuz they say, okay, yeah,
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they’re on the island.
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But what they’re not showing you is the
the five star hotel that’s right there.
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Or the, the, the, you know, the
catering, you know, it’s not,
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they kind of poke at it. But one thing
I read in one of your interviews was,
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you know, there was a time where,
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was there like a hurricane or a huge
tropical storm came through while you guys
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were filming and was like,
no joke. Like pretty scary.
00:13:11.050 –> 00:13:14.890
<Laugh>. Yeah. You know, I, I, I mean,
growing up in Florida and whatnot, I,
00:13:14.890 –> 00:13:18.570
I mean it definitely wasn’t like a
tropical storm or anything of that nature,
00:13:19.150 –> 00:13:24.010
but, you know, it was a, a, a cell that
built up over the ocean there. And it,
00:13:24.220 –> 00:13:29.050
it came in right at night and it
was just down pouring all night.
00:13:29.050 –> 00:13:33.410
Like, it wasn’t light rain, it was a
downpour. We were on an edge of a cliff.
00:13:34.850 –> 00:13:39.210
We’re getting counted by the wind,
but that’s where our shelter was. So,
00:13:40.300 –> 00:13:43.770
uh, you know, we were all literally
having to like, cuddle up together.
00:13:45.020 –> 00:13:49.820
It was definitely the toughest
night of my life for sure. Uh,
00:13:49.820 –> 00:13:53.810
we didn’t get any sleep. Uh, we
were cold, we were all pruned.
00:13:54.010 –> 00:13:54.780
Right.
00:13:54.780 –> 00:13:58.090
Uh, we were trying to walk around
the island. We were so desperate.
00:13:58.090 –> 00:14:01.850
We were walking around the island trying
to find some kind of warmth or shelter.
00:14:01.850 –> 00:14:03.810
It just wasn’t happening.
It was miserable.
00:14:03.990 –> 00:14:07.930
But we woke up the next
day and we dominated the
challenge like we anticipated.
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So.
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<Laugh> Love it. Do you.
00:14:11.170 –> 00:14:15.090
Ever, are you ever on the street and
people recognize you from the show? Hey,
00:14:15.090 –> 00:14:17.450
you’re Chris from Survivor.
How often does that happen?
00:14:18.340 –> 00:14:22.090
It happens less frequently now,
but during the show, I mean,
00:14:22.090 –> 00:14:25.810
it didn’t matter where I was going,
which I was surprised about. But I mean,
00:14:25.810 –> 00:14:27.730
I was on the plane, people recognize me,
00:14:27.730 –> 00:14:31.970
the airport walking in the
subway at work. I mean, one,
00:14:31.970 –> 00:14:36.010
one dude just came up to me like, he
was like, shellshocked. He’s like, look,
00:14:36.010 –> 00:14:38.610
I’m just like, what? What are you
like, he was confused. He’s like,
00:14:38.610 –> 00:14:41.730
what are you doing here? Like, what
do you mean? Like, you’re on the show.
00:14:42.090 –> 00:14:43.530
<Laugh>? I’m.
00:14:43.530 –> 00:14:46.690
Like, yeah. I’m like, it was filmed
six months ago. This is where I work.
00:14:47.130 –> 00:14:49.720
<laugh> we’re like, he
was like, I don’t know.
00:14:49.720 –> 00:14:53.360
He was like very confused and like,
he was awkwardly just like, what?
00:14:53.910 –> 00:14:57.720
Yeah. That’s funny. They not, the concept
that this isn’t live, right. Yeah.
00:14:57.720 –> 00:14:58.560
That’s funny. Yeah.
00:14:58.560 –> 00:15:02.560
Yeah. The, the thing that honestly like,
it, it, it was great and all that to,
00:15:03.050 –> 00:15:06.760
to receive that kind of, um, you know,
I wouldn’t say attention, but to,
00:15:06.900 –> 00:15:11.760
you know, when people recognize you,
it’s, it’s always a flattering thing. Uh,
00:15:12.020 –> 00:15:16.280
the best part about all of it though
was people reaching out to me when I had
00:15:16.280 –> 00:15:20.800
social media, which I did
have during the show, uh,
00:15:21.290 –> 00:15:25.000
talking to me and, and
telling their story about, uh,
00:15:25.000 –> 00:15:28.680
someone in their family or
them themselves with ms.
00:15:28.900 –> 00:15:32.480
And really just thanking
me for bringing out,
00:15:33.780 –> 00:15:37.650
uh, that awareness and that story.
Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. And for some,
00:15:37.650 –> 00:15:42.240
it really meant a lot to them
because a lot of people involved
00:15:42.350 –> 00:15:47.090
with ms, especially the
supporting cast, uh,
00:15:47.090 –> 00:15:50.930
they, they, uh, are
overcome with a lot of, uh,
00:15:52.070 –> 00:15:56.430
obstacles too because it’s a difficult
disease for just one or two people to
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help take care of when it comes to a
family member. So that anxiety and that,
00:16:01.290 –> 00:16:05.670
you know, exhaustion, they, they
definitely let me know that they, uh,
00:16:05.820 –> 00:16:09.270
they appreciated me talking
about it cuz it takes,
00:16:09.270 –> 00:16:11.950
it’s not just the person
that’s ill, unfortunately.
00:16:12.460 –> 00:16:17.350
It’s the family and the friends
that are affected as well. Um,
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and so if people understood
that and helped them out,
everyone would, would win.
00:16:22.900 –> 00:16:24.630
Yeah. Are are there ways, you know,
00:16:24.630 –> 00:16:27.670
obviously that’s a gr was a phenomenal
platform to be able to use to,
00:16:27.840 –> 00:16:32.590
to tell your story and connect with
others in that community who have either
00:16:32.590 –> 00:16:35.830
walked through m ms or walking through
with a family member friend, loved one.
00:16:35.980 –> 00:16:39.950
Have you continued to kind of try to
use the platforms you’ve been given and
00:16:39.950 –> 00:16:40.150
and,
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and try to bring awareness to this and
other facets and even what you’re doing
00:16:43.390 –> 00:16:44.060
now?
00:16:44.060 –> 00:16:48.230
Yeah. Up in, up until, uh,
you know, I did a, you know,
00:16:48.230 –> 00:16:52.310
when the pandemic hit the
problem that a lot of these, uh,
00:16:52.930 –> 00:16:57.430
foundations or societies have to
deal with is one of their main
00:16:57.540 –> 00:17:01.080
ways of, uh, making the money,
00:17:01.080 –> 00:17:05.120
making the donations and stuff
is like at in-person events.
00:17:05.780 –> 00:17:07.600
And especially being in New York,
00:17:07.830 –> 00:17:12.120
when I was doing stuff with the National
MS Society, you know, they had the,
00:17:12.620 –> 00:17:17.520
you could run up the Rockefeller Center,
like literally all like 70 floors.
00:17:17.830 –> 00:17:21.760
They would have events all throughout
the city a couple times a year where
00:17:22.000 –> 00:17:25.760
thousands of people would gather. And
that was a good way to kind of, uh,
00:17:26.440 –> 00:17:29.080
motivate people and get them
to donate and stuff like that.
00:17:29.080 –> 00:17:32.320
But once the pandemic hit all
that, especially being in New York,
00:17:32.320 –> 00:17:36.560
frankly just went away. I mean,
we weren’t even allowed to.
00:17:37.170 –> 00:17:41.640
So I did a virtual
event with them probably
00:17:42.480 –> 00:17:47.120
sometime, you know, August,
- And after that, you know,
00:17:47.120 –> 00:17:48.560
things have kind of just died down.
00:17:48.560 –> 00:17:52.240
And I’m at a different point
in my life where, you know,
00:17:52.240 –> 00:17:56.640
I did that kind of stuff with the
National NS Society to raise money and to
00:17:56.640 –> 00:17:57.400
speak at events.
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And I did that for about two or
three years after the show had aired.
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Uh, but now I’m at a different
point in my life where my,
00:18:05.210 –> 00:18:09.320
my energy and and time is
devoted to other things.
00:18:10.440 –> 00:18:13.050
Yeah. What are some
things kind of, you know,
00:18:13.050 –> 00:18:15.890
you mentioned being outta the
modeling now, kind of shifting focus,
00:18:15.890 –> 00:18:19.570
kind of what is, what does life look
for you, you know, post pandemic now,
00:18:19.570 –> 00:18:22.410
kind of, what are you, where are
you investing in your time and your,
00:18:22.410 –> 00:18:23.290
in in your energy?
00:18:24.070 –> 00:18:28.720
I, I’m really just investing my time
in my job and my, my family, you know,
00:18:28.720 –> 00:18:32.480
I’m married now working,
especially in New York City,
00:18:33.030 –> 00:18:36.840
offers a lot of opportunities
to build, which is great.
00:18:36.840 –> 00:18:39.630
And I’ve been very fortunate. Uh,
00:18:39.690 –> 00:18:42.070
but at the same time it’s
a very expensive city.
00:18:42.710 –> 00:18:46.730
And with the economy not doing well and
everything else in me being in a more
00:18:46.730 –> 00:18:48.450
luxury, uh,
00:18:49.650 –> 00:18:53.930
industry where when it comes to
fitness people, that’s, that’s a side,
00:18:54.160 –> 00:18:56.330
side money, you know, for people to spend.
00:18:56.330 –> 00:19:00.570
It’s not necessarily what
everyone’s gonna spend. Uh,
00:19:00.570 –> 00:19:04.410
their only money left over on.
So I’ve been very fortunate,
00:19:04.990 –> 00:19:07.050
but it’s always, you know,
00:19:07.050 –> 00:19:11.690
stressful cause you just don’t know
what’s gonna happen in the real world over
00:19:11.690 –> 00:19:15.690
the next couple months or year
or two. And yeah. When you work,
00:19:15.690 –> 00:19:19.050
when you work for yourself and it’s
not just training when you have a small
00:19:19.330 –> 00:19:23.290
business or other things like that. I’m
sure that’s probably the mindset people,
00:19:23.500 –> 00:19:28.490
uh, especially in these times have
kind of adopted is I gotta, you know,
00:19:28.880 –> 00:19:29.370
hone,
00:19:29.370 –> 00:19:32.850
hone in on things cuz you just don’t know
what’s gonna change in a year or two.
00:19:33.040 –> 00:19:33.530
Yeah.
00:19:33.530 –> 00:19:38.370
Chris, um, here at Polk you played for
two different coaches. You went on I did.
00:19:38.370 –> 00:19:43.010
And played baseball at, uh, two
different, uh, four year schools.
00:19:43.060 –> 00:19:46.730
Uh, what kind of impact has baseball, uh,
00:19:46.730 –> 00:19:50.650
or how has baseball kind of molded you
to, to turn into the person and the,
00:19:50.650 –> 00:19:52.570
the professional, uh, that you are today?
00:19:53.410 –> 00:19:58.330
Baseball’s molded me into being someone
that I would consider successful in my
00:19:58.330 –> 00:20:01.330
career. And I try and really,
00:20:01.940 –> 00:20:03.890
as far as discipline is concerned,
00:20:03.890 –> 00:20:07.890
I really try and duplicate
what I learned in college,
00:20:08.020 –> 00:20:12.890
playing a sport and going
to school and apply that
00:20:12.890 –> 00:20:13.530
to real life.
00:20:13.530 –> 00:20:18.370
Cause if you’re not disciplined when it
comes to balancing a collegiate sport
00:20:19.130 –> 00:20:20.510
and getting good grades,
00:20:20.510 –> 00:20:24.430
which I don’t think college
athletes or student athletes,
00:20:24.430 –> 00:20:28.790
however you want to categorize them,
I don’t think they get enough respect.
00:20:28.790 –> 00:20:30.230
In fact, I think a lot of, uh,
00:20:30.660 –> 00:20:35.390
normal students in
college like to bash the
00:20:35.390 –> 00:20:38.870
collegiate athletes mm-hmm. <affirmative>.
But I’d love to see anybody,
00:20:38.870 –> 00:20:43.610
and I mean anybody try
and balance playing a
00:20:43.610 –> 00:20:48.240
college sport and going to
school and getting good grades.
00:20:48.590 –> 00:20:49.423
Yeah.
00:20:49.720 –> 00:20:51.920
Hmm. It is extremely difficult.
00:20:52.500 –> 00:20:54.800
I’d love to see an average person wake up,
00:20:55.010 –> 00:20:58.120
go work out at 6, 5 30 in the morning,
00:20:58.710 –> 00:21:02.720
take all morning classes up
until the early afternoon,
00:21:03.060 –> 00:21:06.840
and then go practice for three or four
hours and do that five or six days a
00:21:06.840 –> 00:21:08.760
week. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> for
eight months out of the year.
00:21:08.830 –> 00:21:12.600
It’s a very challenging thing.
So when I was done with all that,
00:21:12.600 –> 00:21:16.240
it was very easy for me to do the job
I do now, which is, I, I’m a trainer,
00:21:16.330 –> 00:21:19.680
so I wake up at five 30,
I’m training people all day.
00:21:19.680 –> 00:21:23.160
I’ll have my breaks here and there.
Some days I might have 10 people,
00:21:23.160 –> 00:21:25.520
some days I might have five. Uh,
00:21:25.520 –> 00:21:30.480
but I have the discipline and I
have the mental fortitude to do that
00:21:30.480 –> 00:21:31.270
all the time.
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Mm-hmm. <affirmative> Chris, uh, coach
Corbi says, you guys, uh, stay in touch.
00:21:35.320 –> 00:21:39.280
You swing by, uh, once in a while when
you’re in the air and you look about,
00:21:39.280 –> 00:21:43.120
when you look back at your time here at
Polk State, what kind of stands out, uh,
00:21:43.120 –> 00:21:43.960
the most, do you.
00:21:44.390 –> 00:21:47.840
I wish I could swing by
more, you know, coach Corbe,
00:21:48.430 –> 00:21:52.680
I have a lot of respect for, he’s
really a great coach and I, I,
00:21:52.790 –> 00:21:56.040
I do wish I had another year
to have played under him,
00:21:56.040 –> 00:22:00.920
but that just wasn’t what the timeline
had for me. For me personally,
00:22:00.920 –> 00:22:05.120
Polk State’s always going to
be a special part of my life.
00:22:06.050 –> 00:22:07.680
Uh, when I,
00:22:07.710 –> 00:22:12.480
I walked on actually
under Joe Arnold. And I,
00:22:12.550 –> 00:22:17.160
I have a lot of respect and
gratitude towards Coach Arnold
00:22:17.250 –> 00:22:20.960
as well. I mean, it’s hard to
believe this isn’t like 15 years ago,
00:22:21.010 –> 00:22:24.040
so bear with me as I even
recall, what’s what happened.
00:22:24.040 –> 00:22:26.400
But to make a long story short,
00:22:27.010 –> 00:22:32.000
my coach in high school when he was
brought me in to see Coach Arnold for a
00:22:32.000 –> 00:22:35.200
workout as a walk on, was
trying to push me as a pitcher.
00:22:35.390 –> 00:22:39.040
I never really wanted to pitch. I wanted
to be an athlete. That’s what I was.
00:22:39.620 –> 00:22:42.720
And so I was given the opportunity
though, to come on as a pitcher.
00:22:42.820 –> 00:22:45.840
And believe it or not, I was
working out like a meathead.
00:22:45.840 –> 00:22:49.080
And I think I was screwing up my
arm in the middle of fall ball.
00:22:49.080 –> 00:22:53.720
And my arm started giving out after
like three weeks of fall ball. And my,
00:22:54.390 –> 00:22:57.300
my, uh, you know, uh,
00:22:57.300 –> 00:23:00.220
consistency definitely went
down and I ended up getting cut.
00:23:01.240 –> 00:23:04.660
Not many people know this story. I, I
ended up getting cut by Coach Arnold.
00:23:05.050 –> 00:23:06.420
I’ll never forget that feeling.
00:23:07.270 –> 00:23:10.320
I walked out of the clubhouse when
I didn’t see my name on the paper.
00:23:11.330 –> 00:23:14.620
Thinking about it already makes me
a little upset because, you know,
00:23:14.620 –> 00:23:17.700
I haven’t thought about in a long
time. And I started crying. I,
00:23:17.730 –> 00:23:18.700
I went in the car,
00:23:19.370 –> 00:23:24.020
I started driving off and I called
my coach from high school. I called,
00:23:25.770 –> 00:23:28.250
actually, I think that’s about all who
I called. And I was crying in the car.
00:23:28.250 –> 00:23:32.330
I was like, damn. Like, and there was
just this part of me that just said, I, I,
00:23:32.330 –> 00:23:36.130
I can’t let this happen. And
I just, uh, you know, that,
00:23:36.480 –> 00:23:40.610
that little split by past the
soccer fields mm-hmm. You know,
00:23:40.610 –> 00:23:45.520
where you go off into town or you go off
to the west side of the field. Mm-hmm.
00:23:45.560 –> 00:23:49.120
<affirmative>, I did a U-turn right
there. I did a U-turn and I said,
00:23:49.790 –> 00:23:54.560
f f this. I went, I drove back. I
didn’t even care that I had tears.
00:23:54.590 –> 00:23:57.720
I, I didn’t care. A bunch of
grown men walking around in there.
00:23:57.720 –> 00:24:00.520
I just walked right in. And I went
to coach and I said, look, coach,
00:24:00.520 –> 00:24:03.000
I gotta be honest with you, I
didn’t wanna come here as a pitcher.
00:24:03.270 –> 00:24:06.440
I know I didn’t do well. Just
gimme another opportunity.
00:24:06.750 –> 00:24:10.380
I was a really good
hitter. I hit over 400, uh,
00:24:10.470 –> 00:24:14.260
my junior and senior year in
South Florida in high school.
00:24:14.260 –> 00:24:18.260
We actually played good competition.
Just gimme a chance. And mind you,
00:24:18.260 –> 00:24:21.740
I hadn’t been taken BP this whole time.
And finally he’s like, okay. He’s like,
00:24:21.760 –> 00:24:25.940
why don’t you come out today and we’ll
see what happens? Mm-hmm. <affirmative>.
00:24:25.940 –> 00:24:29.020
I’m like, alright. So we
had an inter squad that day.
00:24:29.020 –> 00:24:31.340
I went four for five with like five RVIs.
00:24:31.340 –> 00:24:34.740
I made a diving catch in the outfield
and I never played outfield before.
00:24:35.040 –> 00:24:37.620
And then I remember walking off the
field, it’s like, all right man.
00:24:37.800 –> 00:24:40.820
And before you knew it,
believe it or not, I,
00:24:40.820 –> 00:24:45.140
I mean I got red shirted and we had
a couple injuries in the beginning of
00:24:45.380 –> 00:24:49.660
freshman year, my true freshman year.
I ended up getting pulled from my,
00:24:49.670 –> 00:24:52.020
my red shirt and I ended up starting.
00:24:52.670 –> 00:24:56.980
So my first start was against
St. Petersburg at St. Pete.
00:24:57.320 –> 00:25:01.180
I’d never played outfield before, but
I made a nice catch or two that’s,
00:25:01.200 –> 00:25:04.980
you know, that’s an understatement. And
with an infielders knit in the outfield.
00:25:05.260 –> 00:25:09.340
And Coach Ronald was impressed enough
to just throw me out there. Wow.
00:25:09.340 –> 00:25:12.720
And I remember, I’m not
joking, I’m talking about,
00:25:12.720 –> 00:25:17.440
this is my first start where
we’re in conference play and I see
00:25:17.760 –> 00:25:22.640
ucf, S F F A U, all these, these big
D one schools were there, you know,
00:25:22.640 –> 00:25:25.120
they got their hats on
scouts. You know, there’s St.
00:25:25.120 –> 00:25:27.760
Pete always had a lot of talent.
They never put it together,
00:25:27.760 –> 00:25:30.080
but they always had a lot
of talent and they cheated,
00:25:30.080 –> 00:25:34.080
which is why they were on probation.
That’s, that’s neither here nor there.
00:25:34.500 –> 00:25:36.840
And so I’m running out
there to the outfield coach,
00:25:36.840 –> 00:25:40.040
Arnold stops me at third base.
He’s like, Hey man. He’s like,
00:25:40.200 –> 00:25:43.800
don’t try and do anything crazy. I
just want you to make the routine play.
00:25:44.410 –> 00:25:47.840
He knew I had never played outfield
before and now he’s just throwing me into
00:25:47.840 –> 00:25:51.560
the fire. So I’m like, okay,
alright. First inning goes by cool.
00:25:51.560 –> 00:25:56.160
Second inning goes by like the four
hole for St. Pete, just Jacks one.
00:25:56.160 –> 00:25:59.560
I mean, Jax won the left field. I
already knew it was over my head.
00:25:59.560 –> 00:26:02.160
I just turn around and
I just go dead sprint.
00:26:02.500 –> 00:26:07.360
And I turn over my left side and I realize
that it was actually gonna be falling
00:26:07.360 –> 00:26:11.640
onto my, my opposite shoulder. And
because I had no practice, I I,
00:26:11.640 –> 00:26:15.680
I didn’t feel comfortable just
turning in the, the correct way.
00:26:15.680 –> 00:26:20.400
Instead I turned my whole body at a
dead sprint and I dove and I caught it.
00:26:20.400 –> 00:26:24.280
But I landed headfirst into the
fence. Uh, I thought I broke my wrist.
00:26:24.590 –> 00:26:28.240
I ended up breaking my back,
00:26:28.240 –> 00:26:32.320
which I didn’t know for a year. Um,
and I had a hyper-extended neck.
00:26:32.320 –> 00:26:35.480
So I laid there for like two
or three minutes. Alex Lozada,
00:26:35.820 –> 00:26:39.360
who was our center fielder, who
played at Florida Golf Coast after us,
00:26:39.360 –> 00:26:42.680
great player. You guys should do him
one day. Uh, he runs over. He’s like,
00:26:42.680 –> 00:26:46.520
you’re one, one crazy mother ever. He’s
like, I can’t believe what you just did.
00:26:46.790 –> 00:26:49.640
You’re crazy <laugh>. He’s like,
are you? And then he finally asks,
00:26:49.640 –> 00:26:52.400
are you okay <laugh>? And
that’s all I remember.
00:26:52.400 –> 00:26:55.680
And then I’m in the dugout and I’m about
to pick up a back cause I had a bat.
00:26:55.680 –> 00:26:58.080
And then that’s when I realized
that I couldn’t lift my arm.
00:26:58.080 –> 00:27:01.440
Cause it must have been
broken. And, you know,
00:27:01.440 –> 00:27:05.920
later I found out it was
just sprained. Uh, but yeah,
00:27:06.290 –> 00:27:10.360
uh, I, my year was over and then
I had to get a medical hardship.
00:27:11.220 –> 00:27:14.360
You guys probably didn’t anticipate
this whole story, but I tell you,
00:27:14.360 –> 00:27:18.800
I’m full <laugh>. And so then the
next, so then the next year, you know,
00:27:18.800 –> 00:27:22.600
I ended up, uh, starting for, you know,
part of the year and then platooning,
00:27:22.810 –> 00:27:27.360
uh, I earned a scholarship
and then Coach Arnold retired.
00:27:28.250 –> 00:27:33.200
Uh, I found out that that
injury from that, um,
00:27:33.750 –> 00:27:37.000
diving head first into the fence, uh, had,
00:27:37.000 –> 00:27:39.640
I had actually had two stress
fractures in my L five.
00:27:39.970 –> 00:27:44.200
So I played a whole nother year of
baseball, you know, with Coach Arnold.
00:27:44.770 –> 00:27:47.320
Uh, you know, realizing
that I had a broken back.
00:27:47.320 –> 00:27:49.920
I didn’t know it until the end
of the year when I got an mri.
00:27:50.270 –> 00:27:53.320
I was already behind the eight
ball once Coach Cordal came in,
00:27:53.320 –> 00:27:57.240
cuz I wasn’t allowed to pick up a bat
swing or throw a baseball for three
00:27:57.240 –> 00:28:01.320
months. And that was the only three months
between, you know, may and fall ball.
00:28:01.970 –> 00:28:06.240
So I came in and I didn’t do
the, didn’t do as good. Um,
00:28:06.240 –> 00:28:07.120
I didn’t complain.
00:28:07.120 –> 00:28:12.080
I never told him that I was coming off
a broken back cuz I didn’t wanna come
00:28:12.080 –> 00:28:16.930
across as being, you know, a
an excuse maker or a wimp. And,
00:28:16.930 –> 00:28:19.970
uh, it set me back a
little bit. Coach Corbis,
00:28:19.970 –> 00:28:22.430
the best coach I could
have ever asked for.
00:28:22.430 –> 00:28:25.470
But I didn’t produce the way I
wanted to and I didn’t necessarily,
00:28:26.000 –> 00:28:28.990
my college career after that
didn’t pan out the way I wanted to.
00:28:29.210 –> 00:28:33.430
But I learned a, a heck ton. And Coach
Corbe brings the best out of everybody.
00:28:33.640 –> 00:28:38.310
So I’m happy about their success ever
since too. So there you go. That’s,
00:28:38.310 –> 00:28:40.790
that’s as personal story I could
get. Cause there’s a lot of.
00:28:40.790 –> 00:28:45.390
Details. Love it. Sounds, sounds like
that wasn’t a, a bad catch for a pitcher.
00:28:45.390 –> 00:28:47.230
It wasn’t good enough
to, uh, to make the team.
00:28:47.810 –> 00:28:51.630
Not have been catch. Oh, you know, uh,
you know, uh, there was a challenge in,
00:28:51.630 –> 00:28:55.870
in the show that I think I showed
what I could do. Baseball related.
00:28:56.790 –> 00:28:57.250
<Laugh>.
00:28:57.250 –> 00:28:59.910
You guys might have to go check.
It might have been day 13,
00:28:59.910 –> 00:29:01.150
episode three or four.
00:29:01.370 –> 00:29:03.070
All right, we’ll hop on the YouTube.
00:29:03.520 –> 00:29:05.470
It, it’s legendary. You’ll see.
00:29:05.950 –> 00:29:10.590
<Laugh>. Okay. <laugh> Chris,
uh, is there anything else, um,
00:29:11.040 –> 00:29:14.870
we, we didn’t ask that you
would care to add either, uh,
00:29:14.870 –> 00:29:18.990
about your journey or, uh, or
your time here at Polk that, uh,
00:29:18.990 –> 00:29:20.190
you’d wanna leave anyone with?
00:29:20.820 –> 00:29:24.470
I mean, all, all I can really say
outside of all that without, you know,
00:29:24.470 –> 00:29:28.350
talking up a storm is
Polk State Winterhaven.
00:29:28.940 –> 00:29:33.870
I was there for three years. Uh, I
had that medical hardship and I then,
00:29:33.870 –> 00:29:37.150
I played two other years. So
I got a little extended time.
00:29:37.820 –> 00:29:41.940
I got my AA there. Uh, Winterhaven,
00:29:42.290 –> 00:29:44.340
I don’t get to go there much anymore,
00:29:45.160 –> 00:29:48.980
but there’s always a
place in my heart for, uh,
00:29:48.980 –> 00:29:53.180
the town and for Polk because it really,
00:29:54.350 –> 00:29:59.100
uh, I got to face a lot of
adversity at a very early age.
00:29:59.560 –> 00:30:02.380
And there were people there that, uh,
00:30:02.380 –> 00:30:05.700
believed in me and gave me chances
00:30:06.960 –> 00:30:10.530
that I’m not sure I ever would’ve had
anywhere else. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. So,
00:30:11.020 –> 00:30:14.930
uh, there’s always gonna
be a special place in, uh,
00:30:15.300 –> 00:30:17.930
in my heart for Winterhaven,
you know, for Coach Arnold,
00:30:18.150 –> 00:30:22.450
for Coach Corbe for
being Taas, who was, um,
00:30:23.070 –> 00:30:26.570
the athletic director
there for a long time. Uh,
00:30:26.570 –> 00:30:31.530
and some other professors and
uh, people in the administration.
00:30:31.530 –> 00:30:33.410
They always treated me very well and nice.
00:30:33.410 –> 00:30:37.690
So I have a lot of respect
for everyone there and,
00:30:38.300 –> 00:30:42.440
um, it means a lot. And
also, did you guys ever,
00:30:43.410 –> 00:30:46.160
uh, interview Lance Jeter?
00:30:47.790 –> 00:30:48.623
We did the.
00:30:48.900 –> 00:30:49.610
Probably one.
00:30:49.610 –> 00:30:53.660
I believe there is a profile, a profile
on him, on, on social media about, uh,
00:30:53.710 –> 00:30:56.060
legends of Polk Pass. I
think Mike did on him.
00:30:56.690 –> 00:30:59.060
Yeah. So he was, I would consider him,
00:30:59.060 –> 00:31:02.460
he must have been probably one
of the legends for basketball.
00:31:02.830 –> 00:31:07.700
He was really good player. And,
uh, just to talk a little smack,
00:31:07.700 –> 00:31:11.660
him and I played one-on-one cause we
were there at the same time. And, uh,
00:31:11.660 –> 00:31:12.660
he kicked my butt,
00:31:12.660 –> 00:31:14.980
but he’s one of the only ones that
ever could beat me one-on-one.
00:31:15.740 –> 00:31:15.820
<Laugh>.
00:31:15.820 –> 00:31:16.653
Okay.
00:31:17.050 –> 00:31:17.883
Love it.
00:31:18.050 –> 00:31:22.820
Yeah. Lance is a tremendous
athlete. <laugh>. Um,
00:31:22.820 –> 00:31:24.220
Chris, we, we, I.
00:31:24.220 –> 00:31:25.260
Want, I I wanna pay him.
00:31:25.330 –> 00:31:28.620
I wanted to pay him some respect cause
him and I would talk a lot of crap
00:31:28.650 –> 00:31:31.140
jokingly. And, uh, oh
yeah. He, at least, uh,
00:31:31.190 –> 00:31:35.100
he gave me the opportunity
as a baseball player to, uh,
00:31:35.100 –> 00:31:36.260
challenge his talents.
00:31:36.260 –> 00:31:38.420
Yes. Yeah. What a fun
dynamic. That’s awesome.
00:31:38.940 –> 00:31:40.180
<Laugh>. Yeah. And,
00:31:40.180 –> 00:31:44.300
and I think Lance actually had the
opportunity to play football out of, uh,
00:31:44.300 –> 00:31:47.300
high school too. Had he, had he
wanted that. I think he was, yeah.
00:31:47.300 –> 00:31:49.700
I think Cincinnati or one of
those Ohio schools. Yeah, no,
00:31:49.700 –> 00:31:52.180
he was a great athlete. Yeah.
He always took me down low,
00:31:52.180 –> 00:31:56.780
which just I couldn’t handle the guy’s
a monster <laugh>, he’s like 6 3, 2 20,
00:31:56.910 –> 00:31:57.260
so.
00:31:57.260 –> 00:31:57.700
Right.
00:31:57.700 –> 00:31:58.533
Right.
00:31:59.020 –> 00:32:01.780
Chris, we, we sincerely
appreciate you, uh,
00:32:01.780 –> 00:32:05.500
you giving us a few minutes of your
time, uh, to be here today. I mean,
00:32:05.500 –> 00:32:09.180
this was great getting talked to
you and, uh, sharing your insight,
00:32:09.180 –> 00:32:11.820
your experiences with us. We,
we really do appreciate it.
00:32:12.280 –> 00:32:14.980
Hey, I appreciate you
guys and, uh, you know,
00:32:15.180 –> 00:32:18.580
everyone at Winter Haven and
at Polk State, you know, uh,
00:32:18.890 –> 00:32:20.380
I have a much love for.
00:32:20.380 –> 00:32:25.300
Yeah. We also appreciate everyone who,
uh, who has taken the time to listen. Uh,
00:32:25.300 –> 00:32:30.020
once again. Um, thank you to Chris
Noble for appearing on the show for, uh,
00:32:30.020 –> 00:32:34.700
for my co-host Andrew too. I am Mike
Ferguson. And, uh, thank you for, uh,
00:32:34.700 –> 00:32:35.580
listening to the podcast.
00:32:37.530 –> 00:32:40.840
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