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<v Speaker 1>This is Later with Lee Matthews the Lee Matthews Podcast

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<v Speaker 1>more what you hear Weekday Have to Do is on

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<v Speaker 1>the Drive. Although you've seen him in a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>films like Disney's The Big Green, Son in Law, Punk's

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<v Speaker 1>Ricky Six, Very Mean Men, Lifeblood, and many more, Patrick

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<v Speaker 1>Renna is mostly known as Ham in the sports classic

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<v Speaker 1>The Sandlot, and he's back with another baseball story in

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<v Speaker 1>You Gotta Believe out now in theaters. It's great to

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<v Speaker 1>have you Patrick Renna along with us today.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Hey, how you doing. Thanks for having me.

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<v Speaker 1>So what will we see in You Gotta Believe? This

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<v Speaker 1>is more than just a sports story?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it sure is. I mean that's a great part

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<v Speaker 2>of it. You know, it's about the two thousand and

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<v Speaker 2>two Fort Worth Little League team that made it way

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<v Speaker 2>further than any one could have even imagined. But then

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<v Speaker 2>there's another, you know, really heartfelt you know, family store

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<v Speaker 2>had a really cool message in in the title of the.

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<v Speaker 3>Movie You Gotta Believe.

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<v Speaker 2>And it's about the Ratlift family and the Kelly family

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<v Speaker 2>and you know, overcoming some you know, pretty uh intense

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<v Speaker 2>life life moments that unfortunately they went through. But I

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<v Speaker 2>suppose finding at the end of it.

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<v Speaker 3>The story and you Gotta believe, you know, and.

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<v Speaker 1>That inspiration co stars Luke Wilson. By the way, Greg kinnear,

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<v Speaker 1>along with Sarah Gaddin, h Kelly Kellysy and Molly Parker.

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<v Speaker 1>Patrick Renna is also in its You Gotta Believe? What

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<v Speaker 1>role do you play?

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<v Speaker 2>I played Cliff, So when I met the real Cliff

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<v Speaker 2>last night, that was pretty cool because it was the

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<v Speaker 2>premiere here in Fort Worth. But I played the you know,

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<v Speaker 2>I suppose the superintendent or the he kind of run.

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<v Speaker 3>The whole sports program at the school.

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<v Speaker 2>So Greg kennears and as well, I didn't I don't

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<v Speaker 2>know if you had mentioned him, but he played the

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<v Speaker 2>coach of the team, and so my role is to

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<v Speaker 2>convince him to take this group of kids that you know,

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<v Speaker 2>maybe it will be an embarrassment for everyone involved to

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<v Speaker 2>even stow up to the you know, the city championships,

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<v Speaker 2>and I have to convince him to do it. So,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, obviously glad he did it because then they

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<v Speaker 2>went all the way.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, I as a child that played little league

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<v Speaker 1>baseball for two years, and I don't know if there

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<v Speaker 1>was a more pathetic, abysmal, unathletic and uncoordinated baseball player

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<v Speaker 1>ever made. But somehow, somehow I made it through.

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<v Speaker 2>Well. Isn't that the beauty of baseball is? No matter

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<v Speaker 2>how bad you are at it, you're you're gonna make

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<v Speaker 2>it through.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah? Yeah, Uh. Later I discovered that, uh me being

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<v Speaker 1>kind of the encouraging one, encouraging all the other players

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<v Speaker 1>to do well, pat them on the back when they

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<v Speaker 1>made a run, that that was my better job.

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<v Speaker 2>There you go, radio, Yeah, found you found your voice.

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<v Speaker 2>There you go.

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<v Speaker 1>Patrick renn as with us. You remember him as Ham

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<v Speaker 1>in the Sand Lot. His new movie is you Gotta

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<v Speaker 1>believe even if you didn't play little league baseball, you

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<v Speaker 1>can relate to these stories, can't you?

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<v Speaker 2>Oh? Yeah, I agree?

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<v Speaker 3>I think so.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, baseball also is you know, people ask why

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<v Speaker 2>baseball is so uh the sport that Hollywood kind of

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<v Speaker 2>makes movies about. But I think also the sport is

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<v Speaker 2>very easy to follow, no matter if you're you know,

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<v Speaker 2>just an avid sports fan or to someone just you know,

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<v Speaker 2>watching with the family. Everyone knows you hit it and

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<v Speaker 2>it goes over the fence, you win. So uh, I

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<v Speaker 2>think that's what makes that sport in itself very watchable.

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<v Speaker 2>And whether you love baseball or not. Yeah, there's this

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<v Speaker 2>this heartwarming story of these kids that have no business

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<v Speaker 2>making it getting all the way.

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<v Speaker 1>So especially as little leaguers. That's where that's the real uh.

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<v Speaker 1>And this is this this is different than the bad

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<v Speaker 1>News bears, where you have these scrappy kids who are

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<v Speaker 1>who are well are they? I don't know. Maybe are

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<v Speaker 1>the kids on this team scrappy and underprivileged?

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<v Speaker 2>I don't think it's as much underprivileged as it is

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<v Speaker 2>sort of how you describe yourself. Maybe they did.

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<v Speaker 3>They weren't the most talented.

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<v Speaker 2>I think they were obviously pretty good, and when they

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<v Speaker 2>started playing as a team, they really surprised everyone. But

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<v Speaker 2>that's the most exciting part about it is they weren't

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<v Speaker 2>the college prospect guys. They weren't, you know, they weren't

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<v Speaker 2>getting scholarships to high schools and college they were you know,

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<v Speaker 2>I don't. I think they were just the team that

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<v Speaker 2>shouldn't have been there, and they banded together and became

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<v Speaker 2>an all star team.

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<v Speaker 1>Patrick ren Us with us you know him as Ham

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<v Speaker 1>and the classic sand Lot, also son in Law, Bad Roomies,

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<v Speaker 1>and many more. But you got to believe us out

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<v Speaker 1>now and also co stars Greg Kinnear and Luke Wilson

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<v Speaker 1>and many others Major production and also produced there in

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<v Speaker 1>the Dallas Fort Worth area.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, that was.

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<v Speaker 2>Really cool, and we had the premiere here in Fort Worth,

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<v Speaker 2>and you know it's about Fort Worth, so coming back

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<v Speaker 2>here is really special.

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<v Speaker 1>Was a lot of it filmed in the same area,

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<v Speaker 1>in the same maybe fields.

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<v Speaker 3>I think they filmed some of it.

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<v Speaker 2>What they could, you know, it's I think you have

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<v Speaker 2>to move around and then find where the easiest places.

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<v Speaker 3>Are to film. But I know that they.

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<v Speaker 2>Did as much as they could, and then of course

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<v Speaker 2>they wanted to have the screening and the premiere here.

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<v Speaker 2>They wouldn't choose another city to release the film then

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<v Speaker 2>back home.

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<v Speaker 1>The movies based on the real life two thousand and

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<v Speaker 1>two West Side Little League gold Stars from Fort Worth,

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<v Speaker 1>so it does hit pretty close to home. Oh, our

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<v Speaker 1>tye clever.

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<v Speaker 2>You should put together a little pamphlet on all these

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<v Speaker 2>little punge you got. I love.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, jeez, I'm going to hell Patrick, Renna, but you

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<v Speaker 1>got to believe out now.

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<v Speaker 3>I'll go with you.

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<v Speaker 1>I'll drag this sure, sure. Yeah. As far as baseball

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<v Speaker 1>is concerned, have you ever played competitively? I?

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, well, that's just that's an interesting word you chose.

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<v Speaker 3>Competitively.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know. It was definitely competitive in my mind

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<v Speaker 2>against the other guys that maybe weren't college prospects themselves.

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<v Speaker 2>But I played baseball. That was my sport. I never

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<v Speaker 2>you know, I played in high school a little bit.

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<v Speaker 3>I was in a smaller private school.

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<v Speaker 2>But I made the team and I played second base.

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<v Speaker 3>That was pretty decent.

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<v Speaker 2>You know. Again, I didn't go to college for baseball,

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<v Speaker 2>so I wasn't wasn't that good, But I definitely, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>that's my sport, and I'm a generally athletic guy.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, when I said competitively, I didn't know if in

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<v Speaker 1>your acting career something like little league was something you

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<v Speaker 1>could do.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh well, I started. My first movie was Samlot, So

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<v Speaker 2>I started at thirteen. So I had my whole childhood

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<v Speaker 2>and played all those sports leading up to that. When

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<v Speaker 2>I turned thirteen, I only did two.

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<v Speaker 3>I did three movies from thirteen fourteen fifteen, so I

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<v Speaker 3>was still in.

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<v Speaker 2>School during all that time. And then when I turned

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<v Speaker 2>sixteen in to drive. Then I started really getting into

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<v Speaker 2>acting full time.

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<v Speaker 3>I am upbringing Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, all right, Well his name is Patrick Renn and

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<v Speaker 1>you can see his work in the new release You

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<v Speaker 1>Gotta Believe, which is out now and it's in theaters everywhere.

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<v Speaker 1>It's about the two thousand and two West Side Little

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<v Speaker 1>League Goals stars that come from behind. You'll have to

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<v Speaker 1>see the movie to see how well they do. And

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<v Speaker 1>we thank you for joining us today, Patrick Renna, thanks

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<v Speaker 1>for having me, Thanks for listening to Later with Lee Matthews,

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