Darryl Strawberry sat down with Stephen Jackson and Matt Barnes on the popular 'All the Smoke' podcast in September, and the result was one of the show's most memorable episodes - a masterclass in what it was like to be the most electrifying hitter in baseball at the center of the sports universe.
Strawberry took the hosts inside the 1986 Mets, the swaggering, star-studded club that won 108 games and delivered the franchise's last World Series title, and reflected on what it meant to carry New York's expectations as a 21-year-old phenom.
He also walked through the arc that followed - the move home to Los Angeles, the championship years in the Bronx, and the perspective that four rings across both New York clubhouses gives him on today's game.
The conversation turned, as Strawberry's conversations always do, to the present: the ministry he leads with his wife Tracy, the people he meets on the road, and why he considers this chapter the most meaningful of his life.
For younger fans who know the name but never saw the swing, the episode doubled as an introduction to one of the great careers - and great comebacks - in baseball history.