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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Chris Harry with you on Chargers Weekly. Coming

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Speaker 1: up on this fourth of July edition, We're gonna throw

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Speaker 1: it back to a March interview with linebacker Thomas Davis

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Speaker 1: on his first day as a Charger. But first another

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Speaker 1: linebacker from the class of two thousand and five. There's

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Speaker 1: never a moment, Sewn Merriman isn't busy, and this weekend

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Speaker 1: is no exception. All Right, it may feel like a

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Speaker 1: slow period for football here in early July, but we

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Speaker 1: got some things going on. A Chargers dot Com Lights

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Speaker 1: Out sweepstakes is now live on the website and now

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Speaker 1: joining me the man himself, Shawn Merriman, Sean, I'm not

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Speaker 1: eligible for this prize, but I wish I was. Man,

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Speaker 1: how are you? I'm doing well? Man, well, I think

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Speaker 1: what you have to do with just change your name,

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Speaker 1: put it in another name, whatever, and uh, let's jump in.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure we can have a have a good time

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Speaker 1: and a good workout. Yeah, Chargers Legal will catch me

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day. But I want to

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Speaker 1: run down I want to run down the price right

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Speaker 1: A private MMA training session with you, A five hundred

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Speaker 1: dollars shopping excursion, lunch in a LA hot spot and

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Speaker 1: of course VIP treatment at a lights out extreme fighting event. First,

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Speaker 1: what is a MMA training session with Sean Merriman Lake

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Speaker 1: It's a beast man, Uh you know, so, yeah, I

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Speaker 1: would just talk to One of the funnest things for

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Speaker 1: me now is still being able to keep my body together,

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Speaker 1: right men playing football because I was eight nine years

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Speaker 1: know longer can go on, uh do some of these

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Speaker 1: same things to go and get ready for a Sunday, right.

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Speaker 1: So MMA has always been an outlet for me. Uh

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Speaker 1: really just keep my condition, keep my body and tax

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Speaker 1: filing really good. And I want to get a chance

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Speaker 1: to run some of these wonders through one of my

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Speaker 1: work shout so I think they'll really enjoyed it. We

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Speaker 1: may have discussed this before, Sean, but did you do

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Speaker 1: something similar during your career in terms of MMA training?

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Speaker 1: Where was that more post career? No, I didn't joining

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Speaker 1: my career. Actually, I started between two thousand and five

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Speaker 1: and two thousand and six off season. Initially, I just

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Speaker 1: wanted to help my conditioning, my hand out coordination, and

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Speaker 1: has number one. It was key. So I wanted to

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Speaker 1: the actually two thousand and six I end up leading

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Speaker 1: the NFL A fact. I think it um you know,

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Speaker 1: translated very well and I ended up falling just falling

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Speaker 1: it up to sport. I think there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: similarities between football and MMA and comeback sports in general,

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Speaker 1: and it's a it's a really easy transition coming from

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Speaker 1: where I came from. What do you think the biggest

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Speaker 1: benefit is for some of the players that are currently

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Speaker 1: in the league that you know, I see a lot

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Speaker 1: of NFL players in the offseason do MMA style workouts

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Speaker 1: with Jay Glazer of the Legs. Uh, what is that session? Like?

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Speaker 1: How does that translate to the NFL? Well, for one, UM,

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Speaker 1: some of these guys that we face, I mean six

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Speaker 1: of great football. Well, man, it's a big weekend for you.

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Speaker 1: Lights out Extreme Fighting too? Is this Saturday? Burbank Marriott

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Speaker 1: It's amazing, man. We got a We got two titles

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Speaker 1: And in Ama was a natural fit for you know,

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Speaker 1: You know, just working for a team like the Chargers,

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Speaker 1: you you learn about all functions of an organization, right,

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Speaker 1: because you have something that you're passionate about. You wake

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Speaker 1: just sing outstanding man really has It's awesome. Man, Wait

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Speaker 1: when is when is three? I know? I know two?

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Speaker 1: Is this Saturday? If you have a day for three yet? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: We actually September twenty first. We have a lot down

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Speaker 1: We're continuously growing U and more and more people are

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Speaker 1: finding out about about this great promotion and this great league,

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Speaker 1: We just we want to grow, man, we want to

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Speaker 1: be a premier league. Well, if I'm doing the math correctly,

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Speaker 1: I think the Charges are in town. I think that's

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Speaker 1: We know that expectations are always high, especially when you're

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Speaker 1: coming off the twelve and fourth season. You get to

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Speaker 1: there's a team that has so much, so many expectations

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Speaker 1: It's been pretty crazy? Hey, everybody, Yeah, Kelly Davis, We're excited.

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Speaker 1: welcome into LA Thank you so much. All right, guys,

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Speaker 1: that's gonna do it. My Thanks to you all for

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Speaker 1: listening as always. If you like, would you hear this offseason,

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Speaker 1: we love it. If he gave us a rating and

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Speaker 1: review on Apple Podcasts, please help spread the word. Have

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Speaker 1: a great Fourth of July weekend, Stay safe out there,

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Speaker 1: and until next time, I'm Chris Harry