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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Person Behind the Pads podcast, a chat

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Speaker 1: with the Colts player about Live off the grid iron

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Speaker 1: from inside the Indiana Union Construction Industry radio studio.

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Speaker 2: This is Person Behind the Pads. I am Lara Overton

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Speaker 2: and I am joined by Alec Gearson. Normally we would

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Speaker 2: introduce as Colts Wide Receiver, but for the purposes of

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Speaker 2: this podcast, it is Aleck Pierce, son of Greg and Stephanie,

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Speaker 2: brother to Justin and Cayden. Earlier this year, you and

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Speaker 2: I had a great conversation when your brother and his

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Speaker 2: team at Princeton were in the NCAA tournament and you

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Speaker 2: guys all headed to Louisville to watch the games and

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Speaker 2: do all of that. And you come from a very

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Speaker 2: well rounded, multi sport family. You're very, very close to

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Speaker 2: your brothers and your parents. What was it like growing

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Speaker 2: up as the middle of the three Pierce brothers.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it's super fun. Like you said, we're very

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Speaker 3: We just love sports and love competing and all that. So,

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Speaker 3: you know, I have my best friend and Ben Norgard,

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Speaker 3: he was basically like always my teammate, and then it

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Speaker 3: was my older brother and my younger brother and we'd

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Speaker 3: play like whatever. We played like some with football, some

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Speaker 3: basketball in the front yard, or go to the park

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Speaker 3: and play football, and it's like it's always a really

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Speaker 3: good time. And you know, I think it just kind

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Speaker 3: of created us all like super competitive, you know that,

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Speaker 3: because that's just what we enjoyed doing from the start.

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Speaker 2: If I were to ask your brothers, Kid and Justin

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Speaker 2: to describe your personality, how would they describe you?

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Speaker 3: I think they'd say, like, I'm like, I'm goofy, like

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Speaker 2: I'd say, how do your each personalities? How unique are

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we all we all got some some

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Speaker 3: similar things. But it's more so like you know, Justin's

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Speaker 4: So Justin played collegiately.

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Speaker 2: William and Mary then played at University of North Carolina,

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Speaker 2: now playing professionally overseas. Of course, Caid right now at

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Speaker 2: Princeton pursuing his basketball career and of course academic career

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Speaker 2: as well. What was growing up one of the things

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Speaker 2: you look more forward to most, aside from playing sports

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I really I really enjoyed, like all our family

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Speaker 3: get together as we have, like thanks you. It was

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Speaker 3: always my favorite holiday. I loved I love the food,

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Speaker 3: and I love just hanging out with my cousins. You know.

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Speaker 3: We played games, play a lot of cards, stuff like that.

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Speaker 4: Did your cousins glow up?

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Speaker 2: You grew up just outside of Chicago Chicago suburbs, were

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Speaker 4: Just a whole crew running together. That's awesome.

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Speaker 2: Both of your parents were athletes at Northwestern and your

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Speaker 2: dad played football, mom played volleyball. Right, Was it just

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Speaker 2: like did the back of Stephanie Pearce's minivan or rescue

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Speaker 2: For that, and a lot of people will say growing

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Speaker 3: For me, you know, I I loved me in the

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Speaker 3: Just how he's like, he's just he's just been a winner,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's there. That team.

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Speaker 2: That Princeton team was like the Cinderella story of this

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Speaker 2: You mentioned that Caide's a good, good golfer. I know

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Speaker 2: Yeah, if you were to have to pick between your

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Speaker 4: Nice. What is your strength on the golf course? Where's

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Speaker 4: Nice. Among your current teammates, who's the best like all

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Speaker 3: Would you say, yeah, I play a lot with Ethan Fernia. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: That's where is your favorite course to play locally. What's

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Speaker 3: We play right right down the block Eagle Creek is like,

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Speaker 3: it was just like I kind of get away, you know,

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Speaker 3: it's like you just got a special place in our hearts.

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Speaker 3: You know. It's just I mean, it's a local meuni right,

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Speaker 4: Shout out to the neighborhood golf course.

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Speaker 3: Shout out to those guys out there, Marcus at the

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Speaker 4: That's fantastic.

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Speaker 2: Which, so I got to know your parents a bit

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Speaker 4: They're incredible people, and.

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Speaker 2: But oh well, I know that schedules are incredibly difficult

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Speaker 4: He's a peers. I'm sure it was like nothing less

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Speaker 3: You know, Princeton. Seriously, I could tell they he was

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Speaker 3: telling me his last final Sunday at like seven o'clock

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Speaker 2: Lord, there no doubt that is that's grueling. But I

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Speaker 2: Ivy League, right, that is exactly what he signed up for. Alec,

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Speaker 2: you have been fantastic. As we wrap this up, when

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Speaker 2: that you have with each of your brothers.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, just just a tight bond. I mean there's someone

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Speaker 3: but it's like it's bigger than that obviously their family.

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Speaker 3: It's and it's like, you know, just I can always

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Speaker 3: So I just really appreciate them for that, and you

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Speaker 4: Awesome. We appreciate you so much.

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Speaker 2: That is the person behind the Pads podcast with this

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Speaker 2: week's guest Alec Pierce