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Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com

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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This he's Talking Cowboys

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Speaker 1: training live from the Dallas Cowboys World Howquarters at the

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Speaker 1: Star in Chris Jodday. Hello and welcome to Talking Cowboys

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Speaker 1: one on one. I'm HECKM. Harrison, and today, guys, I

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Speaker 1: have the awesome opportunity to talk with the guy that

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Speaker 1: really needs no introduction. Uh. He is a former Appalachian

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Speaker 1: State quarterback, former NFL scout, a co host on on

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Speaker 1: NFL Network. Also Man, His podcast is amazing. He and

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Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks and moves the sticks. He is a color

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Speaker 1: commentator for the San Diego Charges. The one and Only

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Speaker 1: Daniel Jeremiah. How are you, DJ? I'm doing great, Heck.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you having me on. Two things. First, h A,

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Speaker 1: I love your energy and your smile. It gets pepping

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Speaker 1: me up this morning. And then in the background, I

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Speaker 1: need the story. First of all, I love the Muhammad

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Speaker 1: Ali pick, but I need the story on the on

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Speaker 1: the bleachers behind you, the bleacher chairs there, because those

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Speaker 1: are pretty dope man. That is from Texas Stadium. I

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Speaker 1: was a nice yeah. So once the rubble went down,

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Speaker 1: I had to get those man. I pulled those out

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Speaker 1: one oh six and one oh seven. Man, So you

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Speaker 1: gotta be a Cowboy fan to sit in those chairs.

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna ask you to see if we could

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Speaker 1: get you a VIP access over here in these seats.

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Speaker 1: All right, I tell you true story, true story as

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Speaker 1: we get started here. I grew up a diehard Cowboy fan.

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Speaker 1: You know, I grew up in San Diego, but my

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Speaker 1: dad would do a lot of the chapels for the

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Speaker 1: Charges and for the visiting teams. Or my dad went

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Speaker 1: to seminary in Dallas. He went to Dallas Theological Seminary.

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Speaker 1: So he used to sell programs at Cowboys games, like

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Speaker 1: when he was right out of college. So he had

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Speaker 1: been a Cowboy fan from way back. And then the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys used to come out there as they do now.

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Speaker 1: Spent a lot of time in California, so he developed

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Speaker 1: a good relationship with coach Landry at that time. So

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Speaker 1: as a kid, we would go down and see that

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Speaker 1: the preseason game against the Charges, and we would go

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Speaker 1: to the Cowboys practice. So I've been a Cowboy fan

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Speaker 1: all growing up. You know. The nineties was when I

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Speaker 1: was in high school. So those are fun times. But

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Speaker 1: I had never been to Texas Stadium. And I went

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Speaker 1: on a trip with my dad and we had a

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Speaker 1: layover at DFW and it was a long layover, and

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Speaker 1: so I don't ren remember where we're going, but I

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Speaker 1: know we had a long layover in my dad said, okay,

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Speaker 1: we got off the plane. It was a lot easier,

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Speaker 1: like pre nine to eleven at that time to be

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Speaker 1: getting in and out of airports. So we've got a cab.

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Speaker 1: We went to Texas Stadium. I don't know how there

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Speaker 1: was security was not there apparently, because we walked into

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Speaker 1: the stadium, walked onto the fifty yard line to the

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Speaker 1: star and I remember I was probably like twelve something

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Speaker 1: like that, and I just remember how crown the field was.

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Speaker 1: I had never seen a field that was that crown.

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Speaker 1: You stand in the middle and just look downhill to

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Speaker 1: ever been in Technas Stadium and see those bleachers there

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, no, that is crazy, man, That Crown

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Speaker 1: and early nineties, so that had to be at that time.

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Speaker 1: But DJ Man, I really appreciate you for joining me.

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Speaker 1: But I gotta ask you, man, how are you and

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Speaker 1: your family doing doing all of this COVID nineteen that

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Speaker 1: like all of us, right, we're just hitting in there

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Speaker 1: just to a new way of life. We've been able

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Speaker 1: you know, California, like Texas, we've seen you know, spikes.

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Speaker 1: So we're very careful wear a mask and social distance

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Speaker 1: are you? How are you going? By the way, man, Man, Man, hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm the same. I'm the Juno champion in my household,

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Speaker 1: so crownding myself. So this a lot of card game,

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Speaker 1: card games, board games, all of that going on over here.

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Speaker 1: But with the time that I have with you, man,

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Speaker 1: I want to get right into a DJ and so

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Speaker 1: I'm going to ask you to play Roger Goodell. You

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Speaker 1: waiting to hear what this season is going to be like.

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Speaker 1: And again I'm asking you to play Roger Goodale. So

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Speaker 1: to see your lazy boy, and you're thinking to yourself self,

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Speaker 1: I'm a genius. I'm the leader of the largest one

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Speaker 1: best way to go through a season start to finish. Well,

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Speaker 1: He's got so many decisions he's got to make, and

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Speaker 1: of your podcasts, and I want to ask you Mike

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Speaker 1: Dak Prescott. I've heard you make a lot about twelve personnel,

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Speaker 1: those top offenses are utilizing that. Well. The Cowboys, you know,

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