[music playing] the Baltimore Ravens select michael oher, Offensive Tackle, mississippi. When the nfl draft came around in 2009, michael oher brought the tuohys to his Introductory Press Conference and introduced them as kind of his parents, which he thought they were. They meant a lot to me. I dont think id be here without them. They showed me a lot of things. They taught me a lot. So i owe them everything. Michael, do you want to introduce them . Sure. You got my dad, sean tuohy, on the first row seat. Mom, Leigh Anne Tuohy, brother sean, and collins, older sis. Theres always 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 truths in every story. If i looked at this story, i would say, its about a young man who had his voice taken from him early on. Do you have any place to stay tonight . Dont you dare lie to me. The blind side told this story in a very boiled down way of michael oher, A Young Black Kid coming from the projects of memphis, from a dysfunctional family, who is embraced and eventually adopted by this whi
[music playing] the Baltimore Ravens select michael oher, Offensive Tackle, mississippi. When the nfl draft came around in 2009, michael oher brought the tuohys to his Introductory Press Conference and introduced them as kind of his parents, which he thought they were. They meant a lot to me. I dont think id be here without them. They showed me a lot of things. They taught me a lot. So i owe them everything. Michael, do you want to introduce them . Sure. You got my dad, sean tuohy, on the first row seat. Mom, Leigh Anne Tuohy, brother sean, and collins, older sis. Theres always 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 truths in every story. If i looked at this story, i would say, its about a young man who had his voice taken from him early on. Do you have any place to stay tonight . Dont you dare lie to me. The blind side told this story in a very boiled down way of michael oher, A Young Black Kid coming from the projects of memphis, from a dysfunctional family, who is embraced and eventually adopted by this whi
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Very excited that youre all here this is a great crowd my name is evan ratliff. I am one of the hosts of the long form podcast. This is aaron lammer. Im also one of the hosts of the longform podcast and i believe you probably all know zeke fox, everybody. So were here for, the launch and celebration of number go up and this is being recorded for the long form podcast. Now normally only one host would interview an author, a writer on our show. In this case, aaron and i were, fighting over this book, who was going to get a chance to talk to him . Partly because weve never had zeke on the show. Hes many, many pieces for Bloomberg Businessweek that we want to talk about. And we waited until book came out because we mostly want to talk about the book. So we decided to both be questioners of today. So if you havent read the book yet, if youre just getting a copy today, youre in for an enormous treat with this book. Socioeconomically well kick it off. I just want to say as a preamble, i did n