EP:57 - Voice of the Miami Heat -- Michael Baiamonte

SPEAKER_03 0:31

What's happening, party people? Hey, welcome back to the show. Maybe welcome to the show because it's your first time either way. I sure do appreciate you taking time out of your day to hang out with me for just a few minutes. Now I'm excited about every guest I have on my show, but I'm extra excited about this episode because it has to do with my beloved Miami Heat. My guest on this episode is Michael Bayamonte. He's made his mark here in the South Florida market as not only a premier voice for Florida sports, but also event hosting as well. He's been with the Miami Heat since 1990 as the public address voice announcer for our beloved three-time world champion, Miami Heat. Friends, could you please give a warm welcome to Michael B. Ladies and gentlemen, Michael B is in the house.

SPEAKER_02 1:17

Sebastian, how are you? It is wonderful to be in the house. What's up, dude? I tell you what, everything is just fantastic. Uh, it was it was great to hear from you and uh to have the invitation to come on with you. Uh, thank you so much.

SPEAKER_03 1:33

You're very, very welcome. I I believe that uh that that that intro your introduction that I just gave you was very underwhelming. So I may have to redo it down the road here in the show.

SPEAKER_02 1:44

You know, it's funny because usually the tables are turned. I'm the one who is entrusted with the big booming introduction of people. And so a lot of times when people want to bring me on, they're not sure what to do because uh what do we do? How do we introduce Michael B, who is the guy who does the introductions?

SPEAKER_03 2:01

What was I was trying to think of it yesterday, and I heard it when on one of your past episodes when you had m dot on. But what what what is your main what is the main opener? What's the main line?

SPEAKER_01 2:09

It's it's it's get on your I don't even want to and now stand up and make some noise for your Miami Heat.

SPEAKER_03 2:24

That's it right there. The million-dollar pipes, ladies and gentlemen. The championship, multiple rings, voice of the Miami Heat. So, how did this all happen? You said you were in the corporate world uh at one point in time uh and then joined the Heat organization. Let's back up and help our listeners really better understand exactly how uh you became the greatest voice in sports broadcasting.

SPEAKER_02 2:50

Well, it does go back quite a while, Sebastian. I was in corporate America, uh, as you're aware. Uh I was also at the time announcing college basketball. I was the voice of the FIU Panthers, the Florida International University Panthers.

SPEAKER_03 3:04

Oh, we're real familiar with them, especially if you're a Hurricane fan. Real familiar with them.

SPEAKER_02 3:08

Just recently uh upset the University of Miami football team for a phenomenal, biggest victory in in school history. But I was a student there, I was announcing the games. I graduated and I stayed on as the announcer. I was working in corporate America by day, and at night I was announcing men's basketball for the FIU Panthers. And uh the Miami Heat comes to town. They they they are invented. They in 1988, so franchise starts in Miami, and I put in my resume and tell them, hey, listen, I'm an announcer in town. I announce basketball, I'd love to have the job. I get a letter back, thank you so much for your interest. We have someone, don't call us, we'll call you. But it turned down, totally turned down. And I continue to do college basketball. Um, not sure what's gonna happen in the pro game. But a friend of mine who I graduated from college with, uh, who has since gone on to become the Spanish radio voice of the Miami Heat, uh gentleman by the name of Jose Pañera, we graduated from FIU together, and he at the time was in sales with the Miami Heat. They had not yet moved to Spanish broadcasting. But the fact that I mentioned that is because he was keeping my name in the proper people's ears, always dropping my name. Hey, I got a guy, I got a guy, he's really good, he's really good. One day I'm at my office in corporate America, the phone rings, and on the other end, the person says, This is so-and-so with the Miami Heat. Our announcer is sick. Can you announce the game tonight? So the first thing I think is, which one of my buddies is playing a joke on me here and uh trying to get me all worked up? But when I vetted him out and figured out that it was the truth, I said, sure, I can do the game. Went down and announced the game. It was against a team that is not even in existence anymore, the Seattle Supersonics. They have gone on now to become the Oklahoma City Thunder. Yes. And uh so I announced that game. Uh everything goes fine. I get a phone call the next morning, said, Thank you so much. Can you possibly be our full-time backup? I agreed to that, uh, did a few preseason games for the team the following year, and then at the end of that season, their current PA guy left the organization. He had a family business in San Diego, he had to go take care of. And so I get a call back and said, we'd like you to re-audition for the job, which I did, and I got the job, and that was 29 years ago, Subest. Wow, Mike. Holy cow!

SPEAKER_03 5:47

So you were with the heat when the heat weren't cool. Uh yeah, we've been we've been through the the highs and the lows. Yes, you're right. The Ronnie Cycle, Glenn Rice, and all those guys were great in my eyes, but I remember I totally remember that. In fact, funny story, my friend Kendra Um Hoback's brother won the contest for naming Bernie. Oh, you're kidding.

SPEAKER_02 6:10

Yeah, his name is that's going that's going back 33 years.

SPEAKER_03 6:14

Yeah, it is. His name is uh JR. Um, and uh have have I ran into him at the gym probably five years ago, but I'll never forget that story. He goes, Yeah, I won the contest for naming uh Bernie Bernie. Oh, wow, what a great story. Well, my sister had uh come to UM in 1991, I think. No, 1992. She was her freshman year at UM, and we followed her down here, moved down here with my mom, but we were in Orlando prior to that, and she had a boss that had season tickets to the Orlando Magic. And he had there was I'll never forget, it was row AA, B B, and then it started A, B, C. His seats were seats one, two, three, and four and row B B. So we're talking right behind the visitors uh bench. So all the Jordan games and all the back in the day. So I I grew up an Orlando Magic fan. Well, then you moved to Miami. It's kind of tough, you know, when you're not in your city to really, especially because it's only four hours away. But I had fallen in love with you know professional basketball, was never any good at playing it. Um, but I'll always I always remember that announcer because he really, and you've probably heard it multiple times over the years. I mean, he were the guy that was the original one.

SPEAKER_02 7:29

I don't know who he is now, but uh it's the same guy, it's a gentleman by the name of Paul Porter. Paul Porter. Paul Porter, and Paul Paul does a great job, and they embellish a lot of Paul's work with sound effects and so forth when he's announcing the game. It makes for a great show.

SPEAKER_03 7:46

Yeah, he really hold he hold he holds that O real long. I'll never forget that, you know. So when I came and I started to learn about you and hear from it, I thought, wow, I'm like, it's not just in Orlando that there's some real like voice hype and excitement around the team, and it's really such an important, you know, uh element. In fact, I was at the inaugural game, the first ever game for the Orlando Magic, um uh back in 19 November of 1989, I think it was. Um, but uh yeah, so I remember follow the the old Miami Arena where we'd take the Metro Rail down to the overtown stop, and it was literally right across the street there.

SPEAKER_02 8:22

So that was a great venue. I mean, the the fans were so close to the court, and that building would get so loud. I'm sure you've been in you were there for some of those games. It was just a wonderful place to play basketball.

SPEAKER_03 8:35

Well, you know, the the heat really started, you know, then this whole you know LeBron thing came about um when he decided to take his talents to South Beach, and that must have just changed the the the dynamic and element. And I mean, I know the organization grew exponentially and made some huge changes and added a DJ to the mix, and of course, Dale and all these other additional things. How did things change for you after being with the organization for so long when a superstar like LeBron came to town, and then we got D Wade, and then you got the three kings, and what what was that like after such a long time? I don't want to say all those years of not being a championship team, but I don't think that we had had we won any championships prior to that? We did in 2006.

SPEAKER_02 9:18

We won with uh Greg Wade and Shaquille O'Neal, yep, uh Alonzo Morning. Um so yeah, that year we did win. Uh and then in 2010, the Heat sign Chris Bosch and do the sign and trade for LeBron James, and then you've got the what they've called the big three era here in in South Florida. And I've got an interesting take on it, Sebastian, that that your listeners might be a little surprised about. I don't want I don't want to anybody to misunderstand what I'm saying. It was a glorious four years from 2010 to 2014. We were the epicenter of the basketball universe on the planet Earth, and and that is something that not a lot of people experience. But I will say being under the microscope as much as we were was extremely, extremely stressful, more than people might understand. Uh, we had so many eyes and ears on us every single night, no matter if it was a uh a bad opponent on a Tuesday or a potential uh finals opponent on a Friday or Saturday or national television game. Any little misstep, any little missword that may have come out of my mouth was going to be magnified over and over and over again. So that's why I say it was very stressful because while as a professional, I want to put on the best show I can every single night. I've got that added stress on top of me. Hey, I want to do a great job, just be super careful. And so that's that's why I say it was extremely stressful. Having said that, would I like that again? Having lived it, yeah, I'd probably go back to it again.

SPEAKER_03 11:08

Yeah, uh, it was uh it really was an exciting time. Um, it was almost uh it almost felt surreal at times, you know, that you thought your hometown team is really the epicenter of of professional basketball. Um, so so LeBron ends up leaving town and uh you know D-Wade got back to the spotlight, which was great. And last year was just a phenomenal exit. I think he really orchestrated that entire, you know, one last dance. Just it was a really a uh a thank you to the city. Um even though he moved to LA. Uh it was a th a big thank you to the city here. So how have things changed since since since that era of of 2014 and and and things started to settle back into the role of of a normal bat, I don't want to use the word normal, but you know, your your your your typical uh professional basketball organization.

SPEAKER_02 12:01

Yeah, you know, uh the team uh for the most part is very, very similar to how how it was constituted last season. Obviously, with the loss of Dwayne Wade, that's a huge loss. Uh one you'll never uh replace maybe in the history of the franchise. But, you know, in I I don't want to say in his place, but as a new addition, uh is a player that the team added by the name of Jimmy Butler. Your listeners may know Jimmy uh started in Chicago, uh then had a stint in Minnesota and Philadelphia before coming to Miami. Uh the thing with Jimmy Butler is he seems to be a player who has really adopted what we call this heat culture. This this hard-nosed, tough guy played defense, team comes first. The same kind of attitude that was embodied by Dwayne Wade. And as a matter of fact, Wade has gone on record and said he had told his friend Jimmy Butler about how he felt the organization would fit him perfectly. So finally things aligned and Jimmy Butler comes on the team, and he really has put this team on his back and brought us brought them together in this heat culture. And the fans are embracing this. Now, not for one minute have they forgotten Dwayne Wade and what he had has done for our organization, our city. But the fans are really liking what they see with this organization now. They're playing hard, they're winning games, uh, they're in second place in the East right now, so they've gotten off to a great start. There's some electricity coming back into the arena.

SPEAKER_03 13:36

Yeah, there really is. I noticed that too. And I've been, you know, I watched from well, it's only been a you know probably about a dozen games so far, but it seems to be that we're off to a great start and uh with strong. And I and I've not knowing anything about Jimmy Butler other than knowing about him and knowing he's played for other leagues and seems to be a good fit for organization, it's really refreshing to hear that he has really adapted into this Miami heat culture and really been able to say, hey, listen, I'm here to lead, and that's exactly what we're gonna do. And if we lead, you know, the proper leadership and teamwork's in place, you know, you you win, you, you know, you win games.

SPEAKER_02 14:10

That's exactly right. And I and that's what's happening. That's exactly what's happening.

SPEAKER_03 14:14

So our our mutual friend, uh Mr. the one and only Mr. DJ M Dot, who was your most recent guest on your brand new podcast that we're gonna chat about here uh in a couple minutes, uh, is is my childhood best friend and to this day. We're still uh it's like my brother. And uh he once told me we were you you came up in conversation, and he said, Did you did you know that that guy doesn't talk for the entire day when it's game day? And he goes, Imagine you trying to pull that off, Sebastian. I'm like, no, no. So is it was that was that a was was was that a uh was was that a uh a true story?

SPEAKER_02 14:52

That that is a true story, Sebastian. Uh, you know, if if I have a like last night was a game night, I've got my calendar free. I've got nothing happening. Uh I I stay away from any other work. Uh also uh try to avoid uh kind of doing any studio work whenever I have a game so that my voice is in the best shape it can be when I when I get into that arena. So I'm happy to be able to talk to you and and you know, spoiler alert to your listeners, uh it's we don't play the heat doesn't play tonight.

SPEAKER_03 15:21

I was like, I wouldn't I wouldn't think so. But yeah, I I totally get it. I do a ton of MC and host work, and usually these are corporate events, so they last two or three or four days. I got one in Dallas next week for four days, and it really is just like a Broadway performer um or any singer or anybody utilizing their voice. I mean, it is an organ and a tool that we utilize that we can in fact wear out, and we also and also it requires maintenance. It really does. I find myself doing uh maybe I should start doing Instagram videos of my voice uh exercises and warmups because they're quite they're quite comical. Um, but uh it really, really helps. I find that if I wake, you know, and then the downside I've seen is that you know, I on stage all day talking, and then after the event's over, people want to talk and chat. And usually if it's in a happy hour or bar environment, there's music and you tend to have to talk louder. So I found myself saying no to me, I'm I'm like a one well, you know, one drink max um, you know, post-event, knowing I've got to be back on stage the next morning because I because I'd wake up the next morning and be like, my goodness, I was in bed by 10 o'clock, but yeah, I was talking for three hours straight above the music type deal. And it really does strain your voice. So I it makes complete sense how staying silent all day to preserve uh your your voice is so vital. Because once it's gone, yeah, as you know, it's not the easiest thing to to get back. And so that leads me to my next question. So what uh have you ever missed a game?

SPEAKER_02 16:50

I have. Uh, you know, as as I let you know, I've been with the organization for 29 years. I have missed nine games in those 29 years. Wow. And who fill who fills in for you? Uh well, over those 29 years, my backup has changed uh from time to time. So uh we try to always have a quality backup uh uh on hand. And uh I will say um and sometimes it leads to other things, but uh, we had a great backup recently set, and congratulations to him. He just took a gig with the Harlem Globetrotters. Oh wow. We're kind of in transition right now, but uh we have a uh we have someone in mind that we're gonna bring in to uh to talk to about the position. But you know, listen, you don't have to be the guy in the front seat to necessarily get an o an opportunity at another gig. Here, this guy was my backup and winds up getting the top line gig with the Globetrotters and we'll be traveling the world doing doing the PA work for them.

SPEAKER_03 17:50

Wow. Well, you go ahead and put my name in the hat there, Mike. I am readily available. I've I've I've done no PA work per se, but I love microphones and I love just tell me what to say, right?

SPEAKER_02 18:02

Perfect. We'll put a script in front of you and tell you, Sebastian, go.

SPEAKER_03 18:05

Yeah, don't worry about the play by player knowing anything about basketball. Let's just, yeah, just just let them go. So, well, I you know, it's been fun to watch the, you know, I guess I rejoined the organization back in what 2005. Yes, that sounds about right. Yep. And uh that was huge for his career, as we all know. It was really that really kicked open some some large doors. But also, um, like like uh Em had mentioned on on your on your episode, this this paved the way for professional sports teams to say, hey, maybe we do need some in-game entertainment to be able to engage with the fans, just in addition uh to um the uh to to the game. Um but then we throw in the mix. I guess it was probably a few, I don't know what year Dale joined, but Dale has a very interesting story too, where he really showed up and was kind of like, hey, look at me, just let me try it, just let me try it. I'm telling you, I got an idea. I think this could work, and it actually ended up sticking. Um, and he's been with the organization for for for quite some time now. I just think it's really neat to see how the the heat organization was really to was really open to saying, hey, let's add these additional elements into the Miami Heat game experience on here. And I think it just all around, I always say, you know, the heat games are are more of a social, uh, you know, a social experience than an actual professional uh I think it's probably a good mix of most, but there's a my goodness, we got a nightclub underneath the arena, don't we? That's right, we do.

SPEAKER_02 19:31

It you know, the you use the exact word that is part of our culture. When I say our, I'm talking about the game day folks, the people like I re and mdot and Dale and myself. We call it the Miami Heat experience. So when fans come to a game, they are gonna experience something that I don't think they have had in other stadiums or other arenas. Uh, we have so much talent in that building. The people I work with, I am so fortunate. They are so good at what they do. Uh, I at times I feel like I'm nothing more than just the ringleader, kind of telling the fans where to look, what to listen for. Here's what's coming up. And then these talented people take it from there and make the experience happen.

SPEAKER_03 20:17

Yeah, it is, it is. If you haven't been to a Miami Heat Game, if you're listening and you're not from Miami, if you come to town, make sure you get to a Miami Heat Game. It is definitely um quite quite the experience on here. So, what what's you just got done launching this uh this podcast, which is just it just seemed like an absolute natural next step for your brand and what you were doing. Uh, you and I were chatting a little about it a little bit before we we started the interview here. Uh, it's called Dos Minutos. Uh, for our listeners that that may not know who you are or be familiar with that, let's let's let's talk about how the podcast came about and how you came up with the name. And of course, you know, one of your famous taglines when there's two minutes left in a quarter is Dos Minutos in the Michael and the only in the way that only Michael B can deliver dos minutos. Uh and um uh I thought when you first announced it, I thought, wow, what a perfect name, what a perfect natural next step on here. But let's help people better understand how this thing came about.

SPEAKER_02 21:16

So I uh I had been doing my thing, and uh, as we mentioned uh earlier, uh I was in corporate America before I joined the Miami Heat. Well, I uh had a couple of guys that I used to work with, and again, we're talking many, many years ago, came to me uh recently uh over the summer and said, Hey, we want to do something collaboratively with you, Michael B. Uh it's been it was guys that I had worked with in the past. We had done some uh different things, some talent, talent type shows together. Uh and so I said, Sure, what what's your what's your idea? They said, We want to do a podcast. I said, Okay, uh what do you guys want to talk about? I said, Well, let's talk about things we like, things that That are interesting to us. We've got a number of friends and fans that follow not only me as the voice of the Miami Heat, but also them as their time in corporate America with all their former uh co-workers. And so we said, all right, well, we'll give it a shot. And so the first thing, as you mentioned, is all right, what are we going to call it? And so I thought, well, maybe we'll use one of my signature phrases. And uh the most popular one that's out there today, and we I gave you one earlier to stand up and make some noise, but there's one I think now that's Trump that is a little bit more popular. It's the two minutes dos minutos. And to give our your listeners a little backstory on how that happened, um, South Florida uh we know is made up of a large number of Hispanic and Latin base constituencies. And so is the the fan base of the Miami Heat. I mean, it matches Miami Dade County perfectly. And so we were in a production meeting one day, and someone said the idea hey, can we can we inject some Spanish into Michael B's announcing of the game? And so we talked about it a little bit and uh talked about how how we could make that work and make it something that the Latin community would embrace, but the American community could understand as well. So you're not really trying to push anybody away, you're trying to just bring everybody together. So I I thought about it for a while and I said, okay, guys, I think it's gonna have to do with numbers. We're gonna have to find some way in the game to interject some Spanish with numbers. I said, and the main numbers in basketball are one, two, and three. That's good because everybody, whether you speak Spanish or not, everybody knows uno dos trace.

SPEAKER_03 23:53

Everybody knows that. Right.

SPEAKER_02 23:55

So I start thinking about how am I gonna incorporate that? Well, one of the rules in the in the NBA is at two minutes of every quarter, I am required to announce that over the PA system because the rules of the game change in the last two minutes of every quarter. So I'm actually saying it to alert the teams, the players, and the officials that we are in the last two minutes of the quarter, and so the the rules have changed. So I'm thinking to myself, well, this makes sense because I have to say two minutes. What if I say two minutes and then repeat it in Spanish? Two, everybody knows dos, minutes, minutos. I mean, it sounds almost exactly the same. So if you don't speak a lick of Spanish, you know what I'm saying. And if you do, you're saying, hey, he just said that in Spanish. That's pretty cool. So that's where two minutes, dos minutos was invented. But Sebastian, I'll take it one step further where it has now become iconic. My production manager says to me in the same meeting, I've got a better idea. You're gonna say two minutes, you're gonna say the word dos, and we are going to condition the fans to scream out minutos back to you. And I said, Well, that sounds like a great idea, but how in the world are we gonna get 19,000 people to know that they are supposed to scream minutos after I say dos? He says, just leave that up to me. So that first season, we made signs, signs that said minutos, and our hype group, who we call the hoop troop, they're in various sections of the American Airlines arena with these minutos signs, and they're they're prepping the section. Hey, he's gonna say, Hey, Dos, I'm gonna raise up this sign and you're gonna scream minutos. We did that religiously for the entire season, and it is caught on. This is going back over a decade now, Sebastian. It has caught on so much in the South Florida community that I am confident you could go to any public place in South Florida and scream out the word dos, and somebody is gonna yell back to you, Minutos. So we figured why not take that as the name of the podcast? And so the two minutes, dos minutos podcast was born. I love it. I love it. And you've done how many episodes so far? Well, we're up to nine episodes now. Uh, we've got a number of uh interviews, which are really, really neat, including our very good friend DJ M Dot, who is the touring DJ for none other than Jamie Foxx, uh, a guy who was inspired and mentored by two world-renowned DJs and DJ Iree and DJ Khaled. And he tells his stories in only his way and style. Uh, and it's uh that episode is an is a really nice episode. And Sebastian, I thank you for listening to it. If your listeners get a chance, uh take a listen to it. Uh mixing music and megastars with DJ M Dot is the name of the episode.

SPEAKER_03 27:20

And he's my best friend, so you better listen to that episode.

SPEAKER_02 27:23

You hear me, listeners?

SPEAKER_03 27:25

I can't believe here we are 30. We we talk about it all the time. Like we're both fathers. My daughter just went to college, he just had his kid. Yeah. Uh, you know, we're we're chasing the dream, and here we are 30 years later, it's a bunch of kids that used to stroll the streets of Kendall.

SPEAKER_02 27:39

That's listen, that's where the best friends are made. And and you can see it here now, all these years later. Uh, here we are, and now I've recently joined this friendship, I guess, over the last decade, but I'm happy to be a part of it.

SPEAKER_03 27:53

He's good, people. I love that kid. I love that kid. So um I uh, you know, I got grand plans of one day uh I've got to introduce you and you've got to introduce me. And I don't know what that looks like. I got the idea uh for this next bit here based on the MDOT interview, because obviously you can't have the voice of the Miami Heat on your podcast without doing a little like improv action, right? So um I I usually have the voice of God done uh as I take the stage by the sound booth. I don't know if you've ever had that done before, but nine times out of ten, it's probably not going to go that well. In fact, my real, I'll have to say it. I mean, just say it like it is. It's gonna be bad.

SPEAKER_02 28:35

It was, it was.

SPEAKER_03 28:36

And I'll never forget my my MC reel to this day is, and it's my buddy Don, who worked with the production company of a gig I did in San Diego for a few years called the Traffic and Conversion Summit. And he actually has a great voice. So he goes, no problem, I'll do your VOG, not a problem. I go, okay, all I need you to say is, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage your MC for this event, Sebastian Russ. And he totally mangled MC, is what it sounded like. And uh so I went to the back after he got done with that and I said, uh, Don, can we work on can you want to work on your big words tomorrow on here? So needless to say, he completely mangled it. So I'd be curious to hear what it would look like if you were tasked with the uh with the with the um task of tasked with the task of I'm looking for another word here, uh, of bringing me up to the stage because for some reason or another, you're VOG and I'm the MC of the gig.

SPEAKER_01 29:35

So what does that what does that look like? And now, please welcome to the stage your MC for the event Sebastian Rosk.

SPEAKER_03 29:53

Q the DJM.music. That was fantastic. I still think that for every heat game you should be introduced. So if that was the case, I don't know that'll ever happen, right? That would be like Mike, can't you do your own job here? But in the event that would happen, and someone was crazy enough to give me a microphone before the heat game uh started, um, it would probably sound something like this. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the PA Announcement Microphone, the voice of the Miami Heat, Michael B. How's that?

SPEAKER_02 30:31

Very nice. All right, good. Very nice. So I like it because we're not doing we're not doing the dueling bombastic voices there. I like that.

SPEAKER_03 30:40

You know, what is that? What is that radio personality? Tom Tom Lykis out in LA used to call that uh voice turbating.

SPEAKER_02 30:46

Ah, great, great word. That's a great word.

SPEAKER_03 30:50

Well, my dad was in radio for 30 years, so I grew up in the, you know, he'd go out and sell the ads and go back to the station and literally, you know, cut the ads, like literally scotch tape with the reels back in the day. And I'd be on there on yeah, on weekends cutting tracks for anything that could be, you know, the ad would sound good with a little kid saying the the actual ad. So I grew up with headphones on my head and in the studio, didn't really have a passion uh for radio. And here we are some you know, 30 years later, and I found uh, you know, my passion is is is definitely what I always like to say. If there's a microphone or a stage or a camera anywhere in sight, I am all over it. And as you know, most people don't have that mentality. People's number one fear is uh public speaking, number two is dying. I don't really understand those how those two work.

SPEAKER_02 31:38

I'm not interested too much in the second one, but the first one I'm all in for.

SPEAKER_03 31:42

Yes, absolutely. Exactly, exactly. Well, Mike, man, it's been great to catch up. I was trying to, we were trying to figure out where we had initially met. It's been a few years. I know we've been connected on uh on Facebook for for for quite some time here, but it's just great to be uh, you know, I consider you a peer, even though your job is way cooler than mine. Um uh, but it's fun to be able to just say, hey, listen, I got a podcast. I'd love to have you on my podcast to talk about your podcast. I mean, it's just the times and day and times that we are living in.

SPEAKER_02 32:10

And listen, I appreciate you having me on and and giving me an opportunity to let your listeners know about the two minutes, dos minutos podcast. You can find it anywhere you enjoy podcasts, and I hope you'll you'll take a listen. And and Sebastian, again, thank you so much.

SPEAKER_03 32:22

No, it's been my absolute pleasure, Mike. I look forward to uh to seeing you again sometime soon here. I gotta come by and check out that studio.

SPEAKER_02 32:29

Oh, absolutely. The Zeus Tech Studios. Come by and see us. We'd love to have you come by.

SPEAKER_03 32:33

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