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Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Legends Podcast, an NFL podcast for

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Speaker 1: the players, by the players. Here's your host, fourteen year

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Speaker 1: NFL veteran and Hall of Famer Anius Williams. Hello, Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the NFL Legends Podcast. I'm a Nisus Williams. Getting

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Speaker 1: ready to hear the fabulous story of the dynamic Warig

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Speaker 1: Dunne Baton Rouge Louisiana, Florida State Seminal Little hundred and

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Speaker 1: seventy pound running back Warick. Tell us your story, Let's

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Speaker 1: listen together. Okay, So when I was singing in high

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Speaker 1: school at the eighteen, I just turned eighteen years old.

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Speaker 1: Two days before, my mom was baton rouge hit the

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Speaker 1: police officers working uh as all due to police office

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Speaker 1: at this particular time at the Piggy Wiggly grocery store.

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Speaker 1: So she was making a routine night deposit with the

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Speaker 1: grocery store manager at a bank and two guys opened

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Speaker 1: fired on a police car and my mom was in

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Speaker 1: a mark a car and a police uniform and she

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Speaker 1: was ambushed. So she lost her life at that moment.

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Speaker 1: And I got a call probably at like twelve thirty

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Speaker 1: so that morning saying, hey, your mom has been shot,

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Speaker 1: and I thought the guy was joking. Police officer who's

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Speaker 1: a family friend, and he's like, no, I'm serious, this

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Speaker 1: this is real. So it's like, don't wake anyone up.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna come pick you up. And he came pick

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Speaker 1: me up and he took me to the hospital. And

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Speaker 1: when I walked into the hospital, they took me to

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Speaker 1: a room and the police chief that you have a

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Speaker 1: phone call police chief. It's like him, so are We're

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Speaker 1: gonna do everything we can to get these guys. I

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Speaker 1: hadn't even seen my mom's body yet, so when I

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Speaker 1: walked I said, okay, I'm still like okay, what I

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Speaker 1: don't know what's going on? And I walked into another room.

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Speaker 1: My mom his body has been surrounded by police officers

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Speaker 1: and I had to go and identify the body. And

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Speaker 1: you know, I knew at that moment in my life

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Speaker 1: I just would change forever. And two days after my

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Speaker 1: eighteenth birthday, I lose my mom. Now I became the

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Speaker 1: legal guardian of my five younger brothers and sisters. It's

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Speaker 1: life changing. It was life changing. So sticking about the

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Speaker 1: journey and the responsibility that that event UH took on,

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Speaker 1: I took a toll on myself and my family. We

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Speaker 1: were in the house that we were living in at

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Speaker 1: that time, so you know, we uh we had to

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Speaker 1: end up UH moving. I took the insurance money from

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Speaker 1: my mom's that I that I got from my mother

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Speaker 1: and ended up buying a home for us to live in.

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Speaker 1: And a little bit later after that, I left to

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Speaker 1: go to College of Florida State. And it was weird

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Speaker 1: because for four years I was in Baton Rouge every summer,

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Speaker 1: every break, every holiday, every visit, I mean every free

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Speaker 1: weekend that I had. And then after four years, I

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Speaker 1: graduated and UH got drafted. By the time Big Buccaneers

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Speaker 1: and Crest thing is doing half of my rookie season,

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Speaker 1: I lived in the hotel. I stayed at Homestead Villas

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Speaker 1: Sweets in Tampa because I want to buy a home,

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Speaker 1: um so that my brothers and sisters when they came

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Speaker 1: in town, they could have a place that they can

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Speaker 1: call home. So I ended up buying a house and

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Speaker 1: so forth. Then UH this program that coached down coach

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Speaker 1: done you at the time challenge the players who UH

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Speaker 1: had a meeting and challenge all the rookies to get

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Speaker 1: involved in the community. And I end up starting this

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Speaker 1: program called Homes for Holidays, where we assisting your parents

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Speaker 1: who become a first time homeowners and we make the

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Speaker 1: initial down payment of five thousand dollars and we were

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Speaker 1: fully furnishing these families homes. And I started this program

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Speaker 1: at n seven, my rookie year, and from that we

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Speaker 1: did three homes that first year, and after that, I

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Speaker 1: was like, man, I gotta do this again. I need

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Speaker 1: to take this home to where it all started, in

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Speaker 1: Baton Rouge. So I went to three homes. We did

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Speaker 1: homes in Baton Rouge the next year, and now it's

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Speaker 1: twenty years later with a hundred and fifty nine homes

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Speaker 1: that we've helped single parent families. And I could say

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Speaker 1: that for so many years we it was a program

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Speaker 1: for seventy two thousand two. Then I started a charity

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Speaker 1: in two thousand two. I worked on charities and for

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Speaker 1: the longest time we just worked with single mothers, and

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Speaker 1: then we opened the program up to single fathers. And

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Speaker 1: now twenty years later, we're just going to go to

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Speaker 1: help families because there's a lot of families that are

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Speaker 1: in need. Throughout that time, I had a lot of assistance.

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Speaker 1: I needed a lot of help with guidance, you know,

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Speaker 1: being eighteen years old, having a lot of a lot

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Speaker 1: of my plate offf making grown up decisions and only

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Speaker 1: being eighteen, I think I was mature, being on my years.

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Speaker 1: My mom, My mom talked to me a lot about

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Speaker 1: growing up things, you know, just about different plans and

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Speaker 1: so forth. So, you know, just coming I knew what

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Speaker 1: she wanted in a sense, but to get there, I

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Speaker 1: had no idea. And you know, I tried to have

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Speaker 1: people in my life that gave me examples of this

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Speaker 1: is what they would do, and I took their examples

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Speaker 1: and I made the best decisions for my my family.

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Speaker 1: I think for me, it really changed my It changed

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Speaker 1: my outlook our life, that you have people who really care,

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Speaker 1: people who who are not thinking about themselves, what are

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Speaker 1: thinking about other people. And it brought me a lot

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Speaker 1: of hope, a lot of I would say since in

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Speaker 1: security that if you have a tragedy, that people will

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Speaker 1: stand up and be there for you, People will support

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Speaker 1: you your time of need. And they gave me a

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Speaker 1: new hope to believe in life after losing the most

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Speaker 1: important person in my life. That gave me new hope

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Speaker 1: that there's a lot of people who do care. And yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm thankful like over the years that I've been able

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Speaker 1: to live by my mom's dreaming through other single parents,

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Speaker 1: other now other families, that I've been able to take

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Speaker 1: her dream and use it as therapy and a sense

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Speaker 1: for myself to impact the community in a way that

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Speaker 1: is definitely life changing. That that's helping leave a legacy

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Speaker 1: that no matter where we come from, no matter what

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Speaker 1: we go through, that if you take advantage of your opportunities,

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Speaker 1: you can take advantage of the the chance. It's just

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Speaker 1: that people give your life, you know, positive things could happen.

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Speaker 1: And I I think I've been able to move forward

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Speaker 1: in a way that that hopefully gives that has given

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Speaker 1: people a lot of hope that we all struggle, We're

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Speaker 1: all going to go through things. Yeah, life could be

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Speaker 1: a lot worse, and if you do the little things,

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Speaker 1: the right things, it's gonna it's gonna be people that

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Speaker 1: are come into your life that God is going to

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Speaker 1: bring into your life that's going to help, that's gonna

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Speaker 1: help you, that's gonna help change it, help move you forward.

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Speaker 1: And I'm just so thankful that I've met people that

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Speaker 1: care about my dream of my passion to help people

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Speaker 1: h work. You've shared your story, You've been inspired. It's

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Speaker 1: one thing to be motivated whole another thing to be

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Speaker 1: inspired and allowing just a tragic, okay thing in your

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Speaker 1: family with your mom being ambushed. You've been an eighteen

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Speaker 1: year old and all of a sudden now having to

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Speaker 1: make adult decisions. You've done a wonderful job. Appreciate your

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Speaker 1: carrying on her legacy. And I know in heaven where

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Speaker 1: she is, she's smiling because you can. You're continuing on

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Speaker 1: and serving families in the many communities include including bad

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Speaker 1: Rouge in the territory of the Southern University. Thank you,

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