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Speaker 1: Welcome to the forty nine Ers You've Got Mal podcast

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Speaker 1: presented by Delta Dental. I'm your host, Lindsay Polaris. Today

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Speaker 1: we are joined by an offensive lineman duo. We've got

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Speaker 1: Ben Barge and Jake Brendle. Thank you for spending the

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Speaker 1: afternoon with us.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for having us yea, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Ben. This is your first time on the pod, so welcome.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: All right. So, Jake, you told me something a couple

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Speaker 1: years ago on this podcast about offensive lineman that really

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Speaker 1: stuck with me. It was you and Mike McGlinchey, a

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Speaker 1: former forty nine Ers tackle, that becoming an offensive lineman

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Speaker 1: is something that happens to you. It's not something you

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Speaker 1: dream of. So that's where we're going to start your

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Speaker 1: O line origin stories. So how did each of you

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Speaker 1: become offensive lineman?

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm the new guy. I guess as you start. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: So I played tight end as a young boy and

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Speaker 3: then throughout off high school in college, I played tight

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Speaker 3: end until my sophomore year of college and I transitioned

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Speaker 3: my year and the coaches confronted me and basically transitioned

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Speaker 3: that summer and then gained a lot of weight and

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Speaker 3: learned the position and then kind of went on from there.

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Speaker 1: Jake, what about you?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So where I grew up in Wisconsin, there was

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Speaker 4: a weight limit, so to touch the ball you had

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Speaker 4: was always like fifty pounds heavier than that. So I

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Speaker 4: was always on the offense and defensive line. Played both

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Speaker 4: ways pretty much my entire youth career until high school.

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Speaker 4: I was defensive line in I guess freshmen and sophomore

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Speaker 4: year in high school, and then our starting center ended

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Speaker 4: up graduating and the coaches forced me to go to center.

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Speaker 4: So over a three month period in summer of like

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Speaker 4: right after my sophomore year, I gained forty five pounds

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Speaker 4: and I switched from noseguard to center.

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Speaker 1: What was the toughest part about going from D line

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Speaker 1: to line tight end to line?

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Speaker 3: I mean, just like fundamentals basically, and you're obviously blocking

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Speaker 3: so having i'd say, the fundamentals and stuff of blocking

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Speaker 3: and leverage and stuff. Whereas tight end, like you're kind

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Speaker 3: of if you get a great block, it's great, and

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Speaker 3: if you don't, you know, you're tight end, but blocking

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Speaker 1: So do you miss catching the ball?

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Speaker 3: Hover a little bit? But I don't really, I don't

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Speaker 1: Like a line, would you be down to report as

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Speaker 1: eligible and.

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Speaker 3: I would be down, that would be an understatement.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Jake, what was the biggest thing you had to

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Speaker 1: learn going from D line to O line?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Obviously, Uh, just learning the offense was was was huge.

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Speaker 4: Defenses I wouldn't say, uh, they aren't as complicated, but

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Speaker 4: just learning the offense, learning the ins and out of

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Speaker 4: every offense I've been on. I mean, it's definitely been

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Speaker 4: a struggle, but at the same time, it's what you

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Speaker 1: Part of the transition to O line involved gaining weight

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Speaker 1: for the both of you. Then you had a moment

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Speaker 1: on the NFL network making a very special smoothie in

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Speaker 1: order to gain weight. It was your secret weapon. I

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Speaker 1: thought the ingredients were crazy grits, gatorade, scrambled eggs, and

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Speaker 1: peanut butter. How did you arrive at this smoothie recipe?

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Speaker 3: Desperation to be honest. Yeah, Like we would go to

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Speaker 3: a strength coach that summer, so I had to carpool

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Speaker 1: How many recipe configurations did you have to go through

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Speaker 3: I only did it for a couple of months that

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Speaker 1: When's the last time you had one of those smoothies

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Speaker 1: that summer? Yeah, that summer, Jake, what's the craziest thing

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Speaker 4: Honestly, I just ate like a complete slob for an

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Speaker 2: And what kind of frozen pizzas?

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Speaker 4: Oh, like the cheapest ones Jassable, Yeah, Jacks or Tombstone,

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Speaker 1: Maybe you know those are classics.

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Speaker 4: They used to have, like Red Barn four for ten

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Speaker 4: ten dollars. But yeah, and then blue blue Bell ice cream.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if you've had that. Yeah, Yeah, it's elite.

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Speaker 4: It's still fantastic ice cream. So I would crush like

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Speaker 1: How different are your diets now?

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Speaker 2: Bit different? Yeah? A little bit different for sure.

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Speaker 1: Is there a favorite calorie dense food that you have now?

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Speaker 2: I still like ice cream? Ice cream is great.

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Speaker 1: I'm still sticking with blue Bell.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Ice cream was awesome.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean pizza.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Ben. A lot of people aren't familiar with your story.

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Speaker 1: You are a D three product out of Saint John's

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Speaker 1: in Minnesota. How did you become a sought after draft prospect?

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Speaker 1: What did you do to market yourself?

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Speaker 3: Uh? I didn't. I did not really do anything to market.

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Speaker 3: I don't know. I just like played football and tried

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Speaker 3: you have to obviously play hard and dominate and you know,

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Speaker 3: But I just that was the conference, in the competition

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Speaker 1: For the both of you, The Niners are not your

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Speaker 1: first NFL organization, Jake, I think you had five teams, Ben,

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Speaker 1: this is your second. What makes San Francisco the right

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Speaker 1: thing for each of you?

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Speaker 2: Don't gonna go first.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, honestly, it's it's it's a great offense to be

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 4: I feel like I'm a little bit undersized as a center,

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Speaker 4: So being part of a wide zone first run run

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Speaker 4: it's I mean, it's great. It's it's been a great

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I would just say pretty much the exact same thing.

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Speaker 3: It's a great offense and there's certain players that fit

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Speaker 1: So yeah, who have each of you learned the most

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Speaker 1: from during your time here in San Francisco?

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Speaker 3: Mean him, definitely him, Coaches, I mean players, it's kind

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Speaker 3: of everything. Kind of teach you.

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Speaker 1: Ben, You're coming off your first start and this was

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Speaker 1: a week thirteen game in which the whole left side

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Speaker 1: of the line looked a little bit different. How were

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Speaker 1: you guys all able to get on the same page

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Speaker 1: have a really successful run blocking game over one hundred

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think just throughout the week, preparing, asking questions,

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Speaker 3: making sure that you expose what you don't know, and

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Speaker 3: throughout the week in order to prepare and just like

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Speaker 3: every week, I mean preparing and watching your film go

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know.

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Speaker 4: And Uh, anytime you have kind of a loose footing

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Speaker 4: anchor in. Uh, was was really advantageous for us on offense.

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Speaker 4: I think I think I think we did have a

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Speaker 4: good run game. Obviously we didn't have the result, but

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Speaker 4: definitely learn something from that experience.

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Speaker 1: Where does that snow Globe game rank on in terms

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Speaker 1: of adverse weather that you've played in.

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Speaker 2: I mean it's pretty high.

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Speaker 4: For Yeah, yeah, for sure, I've I've never had to

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Speaker 4: clear my feet at the line of scrimmage, like clear

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Speaker 4: had some snow games, but nothing like that.

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Speaker 1: Right, you were from Minnesota, you were playing in Minnesota,

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Speaker 1: This might not be so different for you.

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Speaker 3: I had one I had won my junior year that

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Speaker 3: was that was identical. That was a playoff game and

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Speaker 3: it was in November December. But yeah, they were like

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Speaker 3: clearing all the Saint John's, all the monks were clearing

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Speaker 1: All right, So off the field, both of you are

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Speaker 1: very involved with our community outreach and we've got some

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Speaker 1: really cool cleats on the table here because this weekend

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Speaker 1: is the My Cause Mike Cleats initiative from the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Can both of you talk about your causes? I know

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Speaker 1: for you, Jake, Living for Zachary and then Ben Big

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Speaker 1: Brother Big Brothers and Sisters of Southeast Florida.

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Speaker 2: Hey, I want to go first.

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Speaker 4: So I've actually been really close to this nonprofit called

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Speaker 4: Living for Zachary. It's based out of the DFW Fort

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Speaker 4: Worth area, and it's really started kind of out a tragedy.

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Speaker 4: A teammate of mine in high school ended up losing

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Speaker 4: his life due to sudden kardiac arrest and an off

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Speaker 4: so that wouldn't happen again. So what they do is

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Speaker 4: they they do a ton of things, but just to

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Speaker 4: name a few, is they donate ads to sports complexes

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Speaker 4: that don't have them. They also give out free heart

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Speaker 4: screenings to youth athletes, so you can just sign up.

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Speaker 4: I think it's twice or three times a year that

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Speaker 4: they offer those through Baylor Health. And then they also

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Speaker 4: give out scholarships to aspiring future mds.

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Speaker 2: So it's pretty cool, amazing.

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Speaker 3: Mine is a big brothers Big sisters and the artwork

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Speaker 3: was done by my little brother John.

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Speaker 2: That's awesome.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so he like made all of it, and I've

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Speaker 3: been with them for for about four years now. But

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Speaker 3: it's an organization that basically has mentors for little sisters

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Speaker 1: So, I know you touched upon a little bit of

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Speaker 1: the artwork, but take us in detail of the design

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Speaker 1: of these cleats and why you made the artistic decisions

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Speaker 1: This one is for you, Ben Derek. What's your best

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Speaker 3: I mean control, you can control. You only have the scholarship,

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Speaker 1: What is your non negotiable in terms of a game

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Speaker 1: For the both of you from Angelo, what were your

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Speaker 3: When I first showed up, I was like, Wow, this

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Speaker 4: Dude, Jerk was a nice word, Yeah, I mean you

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Speaker 1: So, since we talked about it before, the smoothie is,

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Speaker 4: Now I think there are menus like three times as big,

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Speaker 3: So doesn't Vernon Davis own some here? I'm sure, pretty

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Speaker 2: I'm a family man.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but I used to.

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Speaker 4: I used to do some crazy stuff back in the

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Speaker 4: day on on two wheels.

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Speaker 1: So we will have to see some unearthed footage of this.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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