00:00Everybody was asking you, are you coming back?
00:02Are you coming back?
00:03I mean, what was kind of the thing that put it over the top for you
00:06where you said, I'm definitely, I'm in, I'm in?
00:10The AI text had a lot to do with it.
00:13For those who don't know it, because I was on the air with you
00:16when you actually told President Steve about the AI text.
00:19That's right, you were.
00:19Yes, tell our listeners about the AI text.
00:22I got it.
00:22So when LeBron announced on July 24th, that was a Friday,
00:26and my phone, everybody's phone blew up.
00:28You know, it's a great thing to ask people, where were you in there?
00:31Exactly.
00:31Like, at media day, someone should ask LeBron, where were you?
00:34Where were you?
00:35When LeBron signed with the 6th.
00:37So a lot of text messages, and I was trying to answer them back, like today.
00:40And then I went to bed, and then I woke up, and I'm like,
00:43there's a bunch more, and there's one that didn't have a name.
00:45And it's like, hey, I really think you should come back one more year.
00:50You got another chapter in you.
00:52If you don't, I understand, you know, love you, brother, or something, AI.
00:57And I'm like, AI.
00:58AI.
00:59And I checked the area code, and it was Charlotte.
01:01And I'm like, oh, it could be him.
01:02Then I waited until about noon that Saturday, and I texted the number back.
01:07I said, is this really Alan?
01:09He's like, who'd you think it was?
01:10You know, like just something he would say.
01:13Yeah, of course.
01:13And then we'd text him back and forth, and he's like, yeah, you got to come back.
01:16I'm like, you know, I guess I should.
01:19You know, I just don't want people to think, like, you know, people that retire
01:22and then they un-retire, or you're coming back
01:25because they signed LeBron, you know, I didn't want to be that guy.
01:27This is the ultimate exception.
01:28You can be that guy.
01:29We want you to be that guy.
01:30People are clamoring for you to be that guy.
01:32Bye-bye.
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