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Speaker 1: This is Raheem Moster and this is NFL Players Second

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Speaker 1: Acts Podcast.

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Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome. I'm Peanut to Himan, and this

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Speaker 2: is the NFL Players Second Acts Podcast. I got my

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Speaker 2: guy Roman Harbor with me while you're smiling right now, Rome,

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Speaker 2: because you messed up earlier, I did not mess up.

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Speaker 2: We are fluid. Nobody knows we mess up because this

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Speaker 2: is a podcast. And that's the beauty of podcasting. You

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Speaker 2: can make a mistake recorded tape it nobody would ever know.

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Speaker 2: That's so true, all right, it's true.

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Speaker 3: Well, look, man, make sure you give us a like,

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Speaker 3: listen to us, and a pass the word. Peanut, who's

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Speaker 3: our guest.

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Speaker 2: We got a good one. He's the NFL. He's one

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Speaker 2: of the the NFL's fastest running backs. He had a

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Speaker 2: record breaking season with the Dolphins. He made his first

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Speaker 2: Pro Bowl. He has his own podcast, call Relentlessly Motivated.

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Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the podcast Raheem Mostert,

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Speaker 2: what's going on? How y'all doing good? Going good? Great?

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Speaker 3: Also coming off his best NFL season thy touchdowns?

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Speaker 2: Forty?

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Speaker 1: Was it forty one?

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Speaker 2: Twenty one? Yeah? I have no idea that's wrong. I

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Speaker 2: was like forty what I thought it was? Eighteen? Rushing?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Received to receive it three, receive twenty one. What's one

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Speaker 2: of the things you hope to take out of the

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Speaker 2: net of the boot camp?

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Speaker 1: You know, just just repetitions. I feel like, you know,

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Speaker 1: getting experience and getting repetitions and understanding what it takes

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Speaker 1: to be a voice and an advocate to you know,

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Speaker 1: the millions of viewers and followers out there and just

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Speaker 1: trying to grow.

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Speaker 2: Well. One lesson I can give you right now was

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Speaker 2: when I first got in this business, I used to

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Speaker 2: really get mad at myself and when I made a mistake,

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Speaker 2: and Michael Strahan actually gave me this, It was like, Dude,

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Speaker 2: when you make a mistake, you gotta laugh at it.

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Speaker 2: Everyone thinks we're perfect, but we know we not perfect.

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Speaker 2: And the viewers they love to see when you make

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Speaker 2: a mistake, like the outtakes. We all love a good outtake,

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Speaker 2: Like I just had my mishappen. We laughing at it.

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Speaker 2: That's that's what I thought. You didn't mess up. Next question,

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Speaker 2: Let's go to the next question. Hate this dude.

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Speaker 1: Man, my god, you guys work well. Though I ain't

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Speaker 1: gonna compliment each other, it's awesome.

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Speaker 3: Appreciated that this is definitely my work wife. Were talking

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Speaker 3: to all the times that what am I doing my

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Speaker 3: workwife this week?

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: You might be his work wife because you bring a

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Speaker 1: lot of shoes. He's there, it is.

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Speaker 2: You're probably correct about that. All right.

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Speaker 3: So outside of me trying to I'm we're gonna figure out.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna do something for you for your birthday. By

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Speaker 3: the end of the day. In this this podcast, you're

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Speaker 3: gonna we're gonna figure something, have something.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna do something. We're gonna go surfing. Yeah, we'll

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Speaker 2: do something. We're gonna go surf.

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Speaker 1: He can do that.

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Speaker 2: I forgot to say. He got offered a Billy bongill

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Speaker 2: Bill a bong.

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Speaker 3: Excuse me, which is a surf surf alternative. I used

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Speaker 3: to wear the board teen years old. He got a contract.

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Speaker 2: Great board, shorty, you had a contract at fourteen years old? Surf?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, can you.

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to get him to get on a surfboard today,

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Speaker 2: Like we can go surfing here, you surf I don't,

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Speaker 2: but I want to do it with my guy, Like

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Speaker 2: we can do it. Let's get it in.

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Speaker 1: I can teach you all this. It's fairly easy.

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Speaker 2: Really, so I only have to pay for a person

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Speaker 1: You no, trust me, I got you all right?

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Speaker 3: So how did you how did you? How did you

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Speaker 3: pick up surfing? Because you're from New Smyrna, Florida. Yep,

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Speaker 3: So how did you pick up or get into surfing?

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Speaker 3: Because we talked a little bit before. You said, well,

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Speaker 3: I started when I was like eleven twelve, and by

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Speaker 3: fourteen I had a contract offered to me.

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Speaker 1: Yep. So originally I started skateboarding, okay, and then you know,

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Speaker 2: Uh there, Did you wear airwalks?

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Speaker 2: Okay, got For those that don't know that are too young.

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Speaker 3: Airwalks like these old shoes where they're like skate but

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Speaker 3: like kind of the original skateboarding shoes. It's like the skateboard.

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Speaker 3: If you wore these skateboard, you skateboarded. But these are

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Speaker 1: is Evan goselman Uh. Him and his family have been

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Speaker 1: and it's just it's just a wonderful, wonderful thing, you know,

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Speaker 1: just being able to pick up that that sport. And

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Speaker 1: it's very very different in football, right, you know, you're

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Speaker 1: dealing with the ocean, You're dealing with competition. You know,

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Speaker 1: they're like, hey, we know you can skateboard, let's see

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Speaker 2: I think I think you. I definitely think you did

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Speaker 2: the right thing. And how different do you think your

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Speaker 1: I mean, who knows. You know, I look at I

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Speaker 1: look at what my my friend is doing. You know,

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Speaker 1: he traveled all over the world. He missed school here

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Speaker 1: So I would say that's probably the only thing that

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Speaker 2: I actually get these.

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Speaker 3: I saw you on the the What's the NFL Show?

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, Hard Knocks, Hard Knocks. During the season,

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Speaker 3: I'd loved it right. I think I think your coaches

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Speaker 3: he's great.

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Speaker 2: Different. He is different, He's so different, but it's great

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Speaker 3: He and my son's a huge Tyreek Hill fan because

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Speaker 3: Tyreek runs fast and he plays Madden, so he's a

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Speaker 3: big fan. I went to Alabama, so we rooted for

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Speaker 3: TUA as well. And uh, you really showed off your

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Speaker 3: beach bump side when you were you took the whole

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Speaker 2: You, does it just make me feel better?

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Speaker 1: It does? You know?

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Speaker 2: I mean because you were in Purdue and it ain't no,

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Speaker 2: it ain't up there.

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Speaker 1: There's I don't. People ask me all the time, like

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Speaker 1: how did you make that transition from you know, being

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Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, you know, sometimes you just got to

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Speaker 1: make sacrifices. Yeah, but no, I love it, man. I

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Speaker 1: love being back in the home state. Yeah, playing in

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Speaker 1: what you live for as a player, you know, being

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Speaker 1: being able to represent So it was. It's fun, man,

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Speaker 1: It's a lot of fun. You know. I was in

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Speaker 3: So I want to talk about your your experience, all right,

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Speaker 3: So and then we'll get to some other stuff.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, went to Purdue, yep, all right.

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Speaker 3: Your career Purdue was you were mostly just a kick

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Speaker 3: And I'm like, how did this guy not just kill

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Speaker 3: Then you get to the NFL and your first year

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Speaker 3: you were with the Jets, the Bears, and the forty

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Speaker 3: nine ers. Well no, no, no, you with the Eagles, Dolphins, Ravens,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a journeyman. I'm like, hold on, hold up,

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Speaker 2: this is all one year.

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Speaker 1: All one year. Yeah, it was my Well, going back

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Speaker 1: it kind of felt like I was, you know, back

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Speaker 1: At the time, I was playing receiver. I wasn't even

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Speaker 1: a running back. I was a receiver.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I see, you got the wrong info. I

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Speaker 2: had forty two like, yeah, it's that's what it is.

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Speaker 1: I was originally a receiver and then yeah, I made

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Speaker 1: the transition to play running back, and first year was good.

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Speaker 1: You know, I think it was because of the hype

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Speaker 3: It's just the truth. I've been to the club with

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Speaker 1: I mean I just always have that mindset of one up,

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

433
00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:44,200
Speaker 1: You know, I'm always thinking two steps ahead every time,

434
00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:47,120
Speaker 1: Like I don't know how I'm gonna get it done.

435
00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:49,440
Speaker 1: I just know if twenty one was a total number,

436
00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:51,840
Speaker 1: now I'm trying to reach for twenty two. And if

437
00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:55,720
Speaker 1: that's the case, I have, you know, a thousand yards

438
00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:57,880
Speaker 1: of my first thousand yard season. How can I get

439
00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:01,720
Speaker 1: fifteen thousand or fifteen hundred? You know, So just trying

440
00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:03,760
Speaker 1: to figure out whay is I can one up you know,

441
00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:05,480
Speaker 1: all the stats that I've had so far.

442
00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:09,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, so when I came into the league, I had

443
00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:11,960
Speaker 3: to start out on special teams. Nobody's told you're old,

444
00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:14,080
Speaker 3: Jet because you know, when you hit thirty.

445
00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:17,440
Speaker 1: When I in that locker room, it's there, everybody's giving

446
00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:20,080
Speaker 1: me a hard time. Everybody's giving me a hard time.

447
00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:23,280
Speaker 1: I even got old heads like Toront Armstead is telling

448
00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:25,800
Speaker 1: me I'm old Stead. That's my dog still telling me

449
00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:28,119
Speaker 1: I'm old. I'm like, come on, man, you just about

450
00:21:28,119 --> 00:21:30,480
Speaker 1: the same age, and you're a pretty only one.

451
00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:33,399
Speaker 2: I went to Carolina, y'all called me old by you.

452
00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:38,320
Speaker 2: I was like thirty three. The NFL terms kind of old.

453
00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:40,240
Speaker 2: It's fine, it's fine. Dog here.

454
00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:42,880
Speaker 1: Hey, but hey, listen, though you didn't have the gray

455
00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:45,800
Speaker 1: hairs like him, it's twenty five, and still said he

456
00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:48,720
Speaker 1: was old, Yes, just off the es.

457
00:21:49,359 --> 00:21:52,680
Speaker 2: Yes. And he said it, not even me. That's what's

458
00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:55,639
Speaker 2: so awesome. It's true. It's true. The first time I

459
00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:57,639
Speaker 2: met him, I thought he was a vet and I

460
00:21:57,720 --> 00:21:59,280
Speaker 2: was older than him and didn't even know it. I

461
00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:01,200
Speaker 2: was like, damn, he must have been in the league

462
00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:03,240
Speaker 2: like ten plus and he was like, no, no, this

463
00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:04,680
Speaker 2: is like my second year in the league. And I

464
00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:07,600
Speaker 2: was just like, the stress is real.

465
00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:11,360
Speaker 1: Hey, put how long have you been in the league.

466
00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:12,840
Speaker 2: For I only been retired, bro. He's like, no, no, I'm

467
00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:16,040
Speaker 2: in my second year. I was like what. I went

468
00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:17,880
Speaker 2: to my room and talked so much. It's like, Yo,

469
00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:22,280
Speaker 2: this dude is okay. And who would have thought the

470
00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:24,480
Speaker 2: Lord would have brought us together all these years later?

471
00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:27,360
Speaker 2: Not me, me either, but I'm glad he did.

472
00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:29,320
Speaker 1: Though. Yeah, you've been I will say this, you've been

473
00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:32,080
Speaker 1: You've been rocking the gray hairs though, man, thank you. Yeah,

474
00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:32,919
Speaker 1: you've been doing that.

475
00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:33,720
Speaker 2: I appreciate that.

476
00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:34,960
Speaker 1: It condt you've.

477
00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:40,120
Speaker 2: Been doing it since the appreciate it getting them grades

478
00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:45,080
Speaker 2: since the eighties. But if you got a question, Yeah,

479
00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:48,040
Speaker 2: so I was, but you cut me off. So I

480
00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:50,040
Speaker 2: was talking about special teams, like how you got it?

481
00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:52,600
Speaker 2: You got your your start on special teams. I got

482
00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:55,080
Speaker 2: my song on special teams. I was a gunner and

483
00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:58,760
Speaker 2: I didn't see my first playing playtime really until like

484
00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:01,520
Speaker 2: the fourth game of the season. It takes a dog

485
00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:05,800
Speaker 2: to be on special teams. What can you tell me

486
00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:08,199
Speaker 2: about the trade? Tell me what traits you have to

487
00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:09,680
Speaker 2: have to be a special teams player.

488
00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:11,600
Speaker 1: In this league. Well, obviously you have to have, you know,

489
00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:13,960
Speaker 1: a little bit of wits. I feel like you have to,

490
00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:19,280
Speaker 1: you know, understand technique, especially if I'm a gunner. So yeah,

491
00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:21,400
Speaker 1: I love playing the position fun.

492
00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:23,080
Speaker 2: It's so much fun.

493
00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:26,920
Speaker 1: And nowadays I feel like the young guys don't.

494
00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:30,639
Speaker 2: Like Prima Donover. He didn't play special teams, couldn't do it.

495
00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:33,119
Speaker 3: I'm looking at you, guys, I'm like, yeah, I just

496
00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:35,800
Speaker 3: all that just skipped right over all of it.

497
00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:38,720
Speaker 2: I'm like, you gotta you, gotta you gotta look.

498
00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:40,159
Speaker 3: I thought he was gonna say, you have to be

499
00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:41,440
Speaker 3: like crazy little wild.

500
00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:42,880
Speaker 2: You have to.

501
00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:47,960
Speaker 1: Listen though every NFL player, they have something off, there's

502
00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:52,600
Speaker 1: something something is unscrewing in there. Just you know, you

503
00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:55,920
Speaker 1: have to have that as a special teamer. You really

504
00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:57,840
Speaker 1: have to have it because you're going up against guys,

505
00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:01,159
Speaker 1: especially Gunner. Yeah, Gunner, you did double teams.

506
00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:02,560
Speaker 2: And we're not built for that.

507
00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:06,200
Speaker 1: I'm not. I use my speed and leverage. That's all

508
00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:10,439
Speaker 1: I got working for me. So that's that's basically what

509
00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:13,399
Speaker 1: you gotta do in the Gunner world. But you know,

510
00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:17,480
Speaker 1: I tried my best, and you know, I know nowadays

511
00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:20,560
Speaker 1: guys don't don't cherish the position as like like it

512
00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:23,639
Speaker 1: was once, you know, but you just gotta go out

513
00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:24,320
Speaker 1: there and embrace it.

514
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:26,359
Speaker 2: It's been one of your favorite plays playing Gunner.

515
00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:30,760
Speaker 1: One of my favorite plays. It was actually two thousand

516
00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:34,439
Speaker 1: and twenty nineteen when I was with San Francisco. We

517
00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:37,920
Speaker 1: were playing the Vikings home and in the playoff game.

518
00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:42,520
Speaker 1: First it was the divisional round, and our punter punted

519
00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:47,840
Speaker 1: the ball and the returner watched the catch and I

520
00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:49,879
Speaker 1: was able to scoop it up, and I felt like

521
00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:52,520
Speaker 1: that was just like and especially it was my first

522
00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:54,399
Speaker 1: time ever playing in the playoffs, so I felt like

523
00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:56,280
Speaker 1: that was just like the moment for me right there.

524
00:24:56,640 --> 00:25:00,639
Speaker 1: I was able to recover the muff punt and fortunately

525
00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:01,880
Speaker 1: our team scored the next play.

526
00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:05,280
Speaker 2: So yeah, playmaker, I love it. Special Team's Rome. You

527
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 2: gotta you gotta be you missed out. But man, hopefully

528
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:11,400
Speaker 2: your son, hopefully little Room he can plays a special team.

529
00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:13,000
Speaker 2: No no, no, no, no, no no, no.

530
00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:15,320
Speaker 1: We I mean he said gonna skip that.

531
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:18,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we skip that. Bro, We're good, Like, don't

532
00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:20,400
Speaker 2: even worry about that. It's all good.

533
00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:25,359
Speaker 3: And so I want to know this though, Braham, what

534
00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:30,480
Speaker 3: have you learned about yourself personally? Since you know, going

535
00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:34,159
Speaker 3: from being an undrafted guy bouncing around teams early in

536
00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:37,000
Speaker 3: your career to then getting finally getting some reps, breaking

537
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:38,800
Speaker 3: through with the forty nine ers, running the football in

538
00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:41,840
Speaker 3: a little playoff run too. Now you know, being a

539
00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:43,840
Speaker 3: key member of that Super Bowl team when you guys

540
00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:47,000
Speaker 3: went to where now you're setting team records at the

541
00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:49,960
Speaker 3: age of at the young age of thirty one, now

542
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,960
Speaker 3: going into being thirty two in the year you have

543
00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:54,800
Speaker 3: been what what do you know or what have you

544
00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:56,520
Speaker 3: learned about yourself?

545
00:25:56,680 --> 00:26:00,280
Speaker 1: Yeah? People ask me all the time, like, what's a

546
00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:03,360
Speaker 1: what's you a question? Younger? He would you know ask

547
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:06,360
Speaker 1: himself if he were to see what he's done so far,

548
00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:10,520
Speaker 1: and you know, one thing or one statement I would

549
00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 1: make is, man, just keep keep grinding. Like you know,

550
00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 1: everybody wants the fortune, they want the fame, right, they

551
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:19,119
Speaker 1: want the Super Bowl wins, they want the playoff wins.

552
00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:23,200
Speaker 1: But I've always had the aspiration of a gold jacket mindset.

553
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:27,040
Speaker 1: And so what that means to me is, hey, you know,

554
00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:29,399
Speaker 1: whatever it takes to go and get that gold jacket. Now.

555
00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:31,560
Speaker 1: I know that it might not be the case, you know,

556
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:35,280
Speaker 1: at least when I'm alive. You know, maybe maybe I'll

557
00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:39,280
Speaker 1: get it someday. But I've always wanted that gold jacket.

558
00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:41,480
Speaker 1: That's that's always been my motivation. Why do you play

559
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:44,600
Speaker 1: this game? You know, to be mortal, to be recognized

560
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:48,639
Speaker 1: as one that's immortal. And and for me, that's that

561
00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:51,879
Speaker 1: would be a successful career. That's that's what I you know,

562
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 1: that's the epitome of being having a successful career. Some people,

563
00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:59,320
Speaker 1: like I said, they like the money. Money's fine, they

564
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:02,240
Speaker 1: like the fame. Fame is great, But I want to

565
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:03,920
Speaker 1: be more. I want to be known as a guy

566
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:08,560
Speaker 1: that you know, you know, never looked back and gave

567
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:11,720
Speaker 1: everything he got to the game. So you know, I

568
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:16,040
Speaker 1: always I always want that. That's that's my that's that's

569
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:18,879
Speaker 1: my little thing. Yeah, that's dope.

570
00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:21,720
Speaker 2: That's like yeah.

571
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:23,919
Speaker 1: And I will tell you this too, you know. You know,

572
00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:28,280
Speaker 1: so my wife, she's from Cleveland, and you know, Canton,

573
00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 1: Ohio is the where you want to be enshrined.

574
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:33,600
Speaker 2: Right, Have you ever been there?

575
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:36,720
Speaker 1: No, I'm gonna tell you why. Every fourth of July,

576
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:38,920
Speaker 1: you know, we get that time off. That's the time

577
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,680
Speaker 1: where we we you know, can spend with our families,

578
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:45,159
Speaker 1: just to consider the second off season. Right, me and

579
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:48,440
Speaker 1: my wife and her family, we would drive from Cleveland,

580
00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:51,800
Speaker 1: Ohio to Nashville, Tennessee, and on the way we would

581
00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:55,440
Speaker 1: pass Canton, Ohio. And I felt like each and every year,

582
00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:59,720
Speaker 1: you know, since I've been playing, that's always been my routine.

583
00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:02,399
Speaker 1: You know, I passed by just to get the feel of,

584
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 1: you know, the what it takes to get in there.

585
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 1: That's that's I like that road trip, That's that's what

586
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:13,479
Speaker 1: I want to do. And so going out there and

587
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:16,400
Speaker 1: just rying past the Hall of Fame, it just gives

588
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:19,000
Speaker 1: me that extra boost of confidence that the you know,

589
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:23,760
Speaker 1: to help myself that that year and I've never been

590
00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 1: in there. I know, we get you know, access to

591
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:28,360
Speaker 1: as players and former players that go in there anytime

592
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:31,360
Speaker 1: we want, right, I would love to do that, But

593
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 1: I feel like the only time I want to be

594
00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:35,280
Speaker 1: in there is when I get the bus, Like you know,

595
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 1: I get enshrine. It's always been motivation, man, I like that.

596
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:42,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's different, but you know it's I like that.

597
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,160
Speaker 2: It's cool. I've been here twice, once as a player

598
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:48,280
Speaker 2: in five and then my second time was when Brian

599
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 2: Urlacker he got inducted to the Hall of Fame.

600
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:53,360
Speaker 1: And I mean, and it's nice to go in there

601
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:56,440
Speaker 1: and experience it, right, I want to someday like, but

602
00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 1: I also wanted to be in there. It's like, you know,

603
00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:01,160
Speaker 1: when you're playing in the Super Bowl, you get tickets

604
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:02,960
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl. They give you tickets that you

605
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 1: got to go and pay for. But as a player,

606
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:06,840
Speaker 1: do you want to watch two other teams?

607
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 2: No?

608
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:10,280
Speaker 1: You don't exactly. It's like, okay, well I'm gonna just

609
00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:11,880
Speaker 1: sell my tickets or I'm gonna just do what I

610
00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 1: gotta do, you know, but you don't want to sit

611
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 1: in there and watch the game. I mean, if you

612
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 1: cherish the super Bowl.

613
00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:20,480
Speaker 2: Most people do what you just said. They don't want

614
00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:23,080
Speaker 2: to watch another team play, because if you're not in

615
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 2: the playoffs or if you're not in the super Bowl,

616
00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:27,680
Speaker 2: you're not trying to go watch two other teams or

617
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 2: one other team hoisted up the trophy and celebrating like you. Ain't.

618
00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:33,720
Speaker 2: Most of the good ones, most of the like the

619
00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:35,720
Speaker 2: the guys with the grit and the attitude, were not

620
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:38,600
Speaker 2: trying to do that. So yeah, yeah, yeah, saying.

621
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 1: So that's that's how I feel about going.

622
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:42,120
Speaker 2: And ken right, I got the Hall of Fame.

623
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:43,800
Speaker 1: I don't want to go, and I don't want to

624
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:47,040
Speaker 1: step foot in there until I know I'm in there, right, So.

625
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 3: Well, one day if you go. I think it's just

626
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 3: really cool. Some of the old school stuff they have

627
00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:55,600
Speaker 3: in there. Yeah, like what the players used to wear

628
00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:59,560
Speaker 3: to like weird stuff. Now I fall off like they had,

629
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:02,480
Speaker 3: like it was a whole onesie with a cut.

630
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:05,360
Speaker 2: It's crazy, it's weird. He's they love the helmets something,

631
00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:07,160
Speaker 2: put them in their back pocket and go to work.

632
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:11,320
Speaker 2: It was like, weird. All right, it's crazy. We'll be

633
00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:17,200
Speaker 2: right back. I got I got one for you. Everybody

634
00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:19,600
Speaker 2: has that. Welcome to the NFL moment where they didn't

635
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:22,200
Speaker 2: get smacked in the jaw, whether they got to pay

636
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:24,640
Speaker 2: for a bill at the rookie dinner, or they got

637
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:27,280
Speaker 2: to stand up and sing a song at training camp,

638
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:30,480
Speaker 2: or they get tossed in a cold tub, whatever, what

639
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:32,360
Speaker 2: was your welcome to the NFL moment?

640
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:36,000
Speaker 1: You know, being being as though I've been on so many,

641
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:38,800
Speaker 1: so many, you got a bunch of them. No, I

642
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:43,600
Speaker 1: don't have any of them for real. Besides funny story.

643
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 1: I brought it up a couple of years ago to

644
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:48,320
Speaker 1: Kyle yust Check. I was with Baltimore. He was there,

645
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 1: and he's we're all in the you know, running back room.

646
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:56,520
Speaker 1: And the only time I had to welcome to NFL

647
00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:58,480
Speaker 1: moment is when he made me pay for Chick fil a.

648
00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:01,120
Speaker 1: That's that's the only moment I got.

649
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:02,720
Speaker 2: That's it easy.

650
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:03,720
Speaker 1: That came off easy.

651
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 2: You got off easy. But it's twenty bucks.

652
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 1: But think about this, though, as an undrafted guy like

653
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 1: I got undrafted in Philly, and the taxes out there

654
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 1: in Philly are crazy. My signing bonus was five thousand dollars.

655
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 2: That's more than what Chris Harris had doubt he.

656
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 1: Had house said, But taxes out there in Philly. It

657
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:24,959
Speaker 1: only been ended up being fifteen hundred.

658
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:27,479
Speaker 2: Okay, so you need no one made you buy him

659
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:28,520
Speaker 2: a cheese steak or nothing.

660
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:30,680
Speaker 1: No, all I had to do was just buy a

661
00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:32,800
Speaker 1: couple of rounds of Chipotle.

662
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 2: So, like, what do you do when you get fifteen

663
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:37,600
Speaker 2: hundred dollars from the NFL? Like, what do you do?

664
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:38,360
Speaker 1: You know what I did?

665
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 2: Like that's less than the scholarship, chick.

666
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:43,840
Speaker 1: So listen, I don't know what I did with my

667
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:48,520
Speaker 1: fifteen hundred. I knew of a. So my former teammate

668
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:51,680
Speaker 1: at Purdue, he's from Philly and his family's from Philly.

669
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 1: They introduced me to a financial advisor. And the financial

670
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 1: advisor was like, hey, look, I know you got fifteen

671
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 1: hundred dollars. You give me that fifteen hundred. I promise

672
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 1: you you won't have to pay me ever again. And

673
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:08,480
Speaker 1: I've been with him since this day, the company to

674
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:08,960
Speaker 1: this day.

675
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 2: Great investment.

676
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:12,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so they helped me up with four one

677
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:17,160
Speaker 1: ks and you know all this other stuff and benefits

678
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:20,760
Speaker 1: and everything like that life insurance. I use that money

679
00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 1: to just pay for them. Oh so yeah, it was

680
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 1: I was the best money spent right there. Yeah, money spend.

681
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 1: They helped me say save my life.

682
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:32,480
Speaker 2: Like that, so I got I got to know them.

683
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:34,000
Speaker 2: For you. We asked this question to a lot of

684
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 2: our guys Mount Rushmore. Who's on your personal Mount Rushmore

685
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:45,360
Speaker 2: of helping you getting you to this place? Teammates, family, coaches, Yeah,

686
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:48,520
Speaker 2: who who's on your personal Mount Rushmore?

687
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 1: Personal route? Mount Rushmore? Okay four just in case, Yeah, four,

688
00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:58,240
Speaker 1: I would say first, my see, I would consider my

689
00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:02,560
Speaker 1: wife and family, her parents, and that's one on you

690
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 1: can do this. So wife and her her family, her

691
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 1: mom and dad. They looked out for me when I

692
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:11,600
Speaker 1: barely had a dondo my name in college. When did

693
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 1: you meet your wife in college? Freshman year of college?

694
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:19,080
Speaker 1: And we started dating second semester and been yeah, thirteen

695
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 1: years strong. So herd her parents. Actually my my first

696
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:31,200
Speaker 1: ever pop watch. He passed away the year I went

697
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:33,400
Speaker 1: to the super Bowl, so he was he didn't make

698
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 1: it to the super Bowl that year. Back in our

699
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 1: hometown or our home state, coach Port Chop Mike Stokes. Yeah,

700
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 1: he brought me in as a little kid and and

701
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 1: he helped raise me, you know, show me what it

702
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 1: what it means to be a man. So definitely have

703
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:53,040
Speaker 1: him up there had the running backs coach at the

704
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 1: forty nine ers, Bobby Turner throwback. Yeah, he's he helped

705
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:02,600
Speaker 1: me gross much as a player, so much as a player,

706
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 1: And what did.

707
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 2: He teach that other running back coaches hadn't taught you?

708
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 1: Details? Details. He was so detail oriented. I mean even today,

709
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:16,160
Speaker 1: I'm I'm texting Christian McCaffrey last year and he's like, man,

710
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:19,719
Speaker 1: Bobby t is just he's so detailed about everything. And

711
00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:21,920
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I went through the same thing, brother,

712
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:24,680
Speaker 1: Like I mean, it's the same guy that like, if

713
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:28,600
Speaker 1: you step wrong, he's give me another back, like instantly

714
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 1: put somebody else in. I don't I don't care who

715
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:32,960
Speaker 1: it is. It's not this Joe. They'll tell you how

716
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:33,279
Speaker 1: it is.

717
00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:34,279
Speaker 2: You're accountable.

718
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:36,759
Speaker 1: Hold you're accountable. So definitely have to have that.

719
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:39,440
Speaker 3: That's so not to cut you off, but that's so

720
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:41,600
Speaker 3: interesting to me because a lot of people say running

721
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:43,920
Speaker 3: back is the easiest position to play, because how do

722
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:46,040
Speaker 3: you teach your running back to run? Like they just

723
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:49,439
Speaker 3: you just run and you know where you start at,

724
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:51,319
Speaker 3: and then that's they just do what they do.

725
00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:52,800
Speaker 1: It's but to hear.

726
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 2: You say, actually, is a running back coach. That's so detailed.

727
00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:58,919
Speaker 3: Orient Yeah, all the little things that most people don't

728
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 3: ever talk about running backs.

729
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:01,880
Speaker 1: I mean think about it, like if you're in this

730
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:04,920
Speaker 1: scheme right, like you guys play defense, Like if you're

731
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:07,160
Speaker 1: in a scheme and you have one step that's off,

732
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:11,239
Speaker 1: that can cost you, you know, a receiver going deep

733
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:17,120
Speaker 1: or a mistackle just by one minute step. Right. It's

734
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:20,200
Speaker 1: the same thing as running back in a certain scheme,

735
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 1: like the Kyle Shanahan scheme. You know, you have to

736
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:25,920
Speaker 1: have the right foot and you have to be able to,

737
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 1: you know, make that transition. And he's been in it

738
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 1: so long with this. He was with Mike Shanahan in

739
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:36,360
Speaker 1: Denver and that's where you know he took off. So

740
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:39,840
Speaker 1: and you see what he did with Terrell Davis. You

741
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:46,400
Speaker 1: know he was Orlandis Gary, a bunch of guys, Clint Porters,

742
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:48,360
Speaker 1: you know, he had Clint Porters at his peak.

743
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:50,760
Speaker 3: Was Otis Anderson too. No, that was with the Giants

744
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:53,919
Speaker 3: way back. Sorry there's another guy too in that group.

745
00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 3: But sorry, your last guy.

746
00:35:55,520 --> 00:36:00,239
Speaker 1: On my last person on my Mount Rushmore. I mean

747
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 1: it would be obviously be my current running back coach

748
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:07,759
Speaker 1: to Eric Stewsville, he's awesome. He's just like Bobby T

749
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:11,360
Speaker 1: but a younger version. But he's also you know, he

750
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 1: wants the best for his players. So I have two

751
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:15,640
Speaker 1: coaches that are up there for sure.

752
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 2: That's awesome. Yeah, man, thank you for coming on the show. Yeah,

753
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:21,880
Speaker 2: I appreciate you all having you did that. Man, you

754
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:22,520
Speaker 2: did awesome.

755
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:25,800
Speaker 3: It wasn't as good as your last football season, but

756
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:28,680
Speaker 3: it was good as good as your last season.

757
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:32,759
Speaker 2: Thanks for blessing us though. Man, natural this podcast the thing,

758
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 2: you know, thanks for.

759
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:36,400
Speaker 1: If y'all ever want me on this thing, man, I mean,

760
00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:39,919
Speaker 1: I'm I'm all ears. We can always talk to talk

761
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:40,480
Speaker 1: it up. Man.

762
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:42,759
Speaker 2: We'd like to bring on guests for a second time

763
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:43,439
Speaker 2: every now and then.

764
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:46,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, I think what you guys are doing is unbelievable,

765
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 1: you know, the whole you know, players second act. You

766
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:51,840
Speaker 1: guys are really trying to reach out and help guys

767
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:54,880
Speaker 1: you know, on the field like myself and off the

768
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:57,359
Speaker 1: field that will retire. So you guys are doing it, man,

769
00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:01,239
Speaker 1: and it's pretty enlightening. There's hope, there's always gonna be hoped.

770
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, you guys, I think the most enlightening thing that

771
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 3: I've learned by doing this podcast is that there is

772
00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 3: no there are no directions, There is no one way

773
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:14,360
Speaker 3: to do anything. Yeah, especially in the quote unquote second

774
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 3: acts terms where a lot of guys leave this sport

775
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:19,920
Speaker 3: not usually on their own terms. And so coming to

776
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:23,120
Speaker 3: realization of that, then you have family aspects, you have

777
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 3: all these other dynamics that are going on, and not

778
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:26,640
Speaker 3: everybody's healthy mentally as well.

779
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 2: So how we all deal with it?

780
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 3: Man, It's been really cool to try and hear everybody

781
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 3: else's story and to get you know, also about how

782
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:35,080
Speaker 3: we get to where we are. That really shows you

783
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 3: the other side, like getting to know like I didn't

784
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:40,319
Speaker 3: know you were from Florida. Now you're finally back in Florida,

785
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:43,000
Speaker 3: you know, after going to Purdue where you had more

786
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 3: kick return yards than actually rushing yards.

787
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:48,080
Speaker 2: And so it's like all of these things.

788
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 3: You learn about these players who we just sit back

789
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:52,879
Speaker 3: and root for nowadays that man we look up and man,

790
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:55,759
Speaker 3: there's so much more than just a person behind the helmet.

791
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:56,479
Speaker 2: Man, they're great people.

792
00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 1: Now let me ask you guys this question. What was

793
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:01,960
Speaker 1: like a transition that you guys, like, what was like

794
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 1: an adverse moments in regards to like playing and then

795
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 1: having that transition, like what was one of those things

796
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:14,239
Speaker 1: where you had to learn from, like what helped you either.

797
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 2: One I think for me was if I could go

798
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:21,840
Speaker 2: back and do it again, I just would have I

799
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 2: think I would have spoke more. I think I would

800
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,520
Speaker 2: have reached out the room when I retired, or reached

801
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:28,200
Speaker 2: out to one of my other friends who was already

802
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:31,239
Speaker 2: retired a dub and I just kind of would have

803
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:36,440
Speaker 2: spoke about how I was handling my retirement. You know,

804
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 2: like Rome said, when we leave this game, you leave

805
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 2: the sport. Nobody ever leaves on their own term. You know,

806
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:46,319
Speaker 2: football retires you you don't retire from football. And I

807
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:48,920
Speaker 2: personally felt like I had more football left in me,

808
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 2: but my body was like, no, you don't, you know,

809
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 2: with that torn ACL So I think I just would

810
00:38:56,680 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 2: have reached out more to some of my friends and

811
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:03,120
Speaker 2: just been like, man, I'm kind of struggling in this

812
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:05,399
Speaker 2: space right now, just being retired, because you go from

813
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:09,320
Speaker 2: playing football from the time you were seven Pop Warner

814
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 2: till you're in your thirty so you're you're playing football

815
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 2: twenty something years, and then one day it just stops

816
00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 2: and you gotta just kind of like Okay, now what

817
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:21,719
Speaker 2: do I do? And I had a job, I had

818
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:23,920
Speaker 2: stuff lined up for me. But I don't care who

819
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 2: you are, you still everyone will will will go through

820
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:31,319
Speaker 2: like what you got. I don't even call it the

821
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:34,360
Speaker 2: what if. I think you have to grieve your career.

822
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:36,960
Speaker 2: It's like a death and you have to grieve it.

823
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:41,879
Speaker 2: And I think my biggest struggles I didn't grieve my death.

824
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:44,000
Speaker 2: I just tried to play it off like everything was cool.

825
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:45,480
Speaker 2: So if I could go back and do it again,

826
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:48,479
Speaker 2: I took I would have taken some time like Rome,

827
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:51,399
Speaker 2: and I just would have just grieve football and got

828
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:53,160
Speaker 2: over it and just handled it and then went on

829
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:54,920
Speaker 2: about my life and did something else or did what

830
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 2: I wanted to do.

831
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:57,719
Speaker 3: And I went with him. I went all the way

832
00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 3: on the other side end of the spectrum, took three

833
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:03,640
Speaker 3: hundred and sixty five days and did absolutely nothing. So

834
00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:05,759
Speaker 3: it's like whatever I don't get done today, I'll do

835
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:08,080
Speaker 3: it tomorrow. And it kind of got like kind of

836
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:10,440
Speaker 3: repetitive to where it was like, dude, I need to

837
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:14,279
Speaker 3: do something, like I was like not doing anything, and

838
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:16,960
Speaker 3: so it got like all right, I got to pick

839
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:18,920
Speaker 3: myself up. What am I gonna do with my life

840
00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:22,400
Speaker 3: now because I poured everything I had into football, and

841
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:24,680
Speaker 3: then when you have all these other distraction things like na, nah,

842
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:27,160
Speaker 3: I'm a football player, so like I'm gonna really do that,

843
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:30,399
Speaker 3: and then instead of I maybe should have maybe put

844
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:33,040
Speaker 3: a couple embers and some other fires, but I didn't.

845
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:35,479
Speaker 3: And so after that three hundred and sixty five days,

846
00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:37,239
Speaker 3: I really had to kind of find myself and be

847
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:41,759
Speaker 3: honest with you. Coming to this thing, this broadcast boot camp,

848
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:45,200
Speaker 3: well it's called the Broadcast Workshop now help put me

849
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:47,879
Speaker 3: in position to baby I could find, Oh, I do

850
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:50,720
Speaker 3: like doing to being in this media space a little

851
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:52,759
Speaker 3: bit more. And you guys are gonna go through a

852
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 3: lot of different ringers. You're gonna go through the radio,

853
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:56,239
Speaker 3: You're gonna go through a little bit of podcasts, you're

854
00:40:56,239 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 3: gonna do some TV stuff, some live game action. So

855
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:02,120
Speaker 3: and you'll figure all these things out and you'll realize, like, oh, man,

856
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:04,360
Speaker 3: you to like it. You don't, but it's great that

857
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:06,400
Speaker 3: you're doing it while you're still playing. I did it

858
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:10,239
Speaker 3: a year into my retirement and and I'm doing it now,

859
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:12,799
Speaker 3: so it's good. But I think it's a great question, man,

860
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 3: And really just starting to have these conversations is what

861
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:19,160
Speaker 3: leads you to be in a more successful retirement area

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Speaker 3: because you don't go into it as dark as we did.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. No, And that's the thing that I'm starting to

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Speaker 1: realize too, is like you know, I was once you

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Speaker 1: you know, I didn't speak about, you know, what I

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Speaker 1: wanted to do, and it was tough for me to

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Speaker 1: communicate with people until I actually started. You know, Hey,

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Speaker 1: this is what you gotta do. You got to you

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Speaker 1: gotta start, you know, having conversations, being comfortable, you know,

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Speaker 1: being comfortable with yourself. And you know, fortunately I'm still able.

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Speaker 1: I'm going into year ten. I'm still able to continue

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Speaker 1: to play you know, a little bit while a little

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Speaker 1: bit longer. But I know I have to make that

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Speaker 1: transition where I have to grieve a little bit about

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Speaker 1: football because I've done it for so many years that

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Speaker 1: now I'm you know, I got to understand what's the

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Speaker 1: next chapter of my life. And I've feel like doing

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Speaker 1: this type of stuff is definitely gonna help me, you know,

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Speaker 1: and I'm already doing it with my own podcasts. But

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Speaker 1: like you said, to your point where you really have

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Speaker 1: to figure out you know, hey, yeah, I do want

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Speaker 1: to take a break from you know, not doing anything

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Speaker 1: for my good three sixty five and then you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be bored. But I gotta figure out what's

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Speaker 1: the next objective. And for me, I feel like I'm

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Speaker 1: putting embers in different fires, like a real estate and

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Speaker 1: you know, being a part owner of a roof and

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Speaker 1: company down in South Florida. So there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: different things that I feel like it's going well for me,

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Speaker 1: but like I'm always still trying to grow and learn,

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Speaker 1: and I feel like you guys are just you know,

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Speaker 1: you guys are the epitome right now. You're what you're doing.

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Speaker 1: I see what you guys are doing. This is not

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Speaker 1: my first time, you know, knowing about you guys. I've

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Speaker 1: watched your show and everything, so appreciate it. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's just like I see these guys, and this would be.

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Speaker 3: My last little bit of advice, is that you putting

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Speaker 3: these embers and all these other things. It'll never scratch

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Speaker 3: at It's completely yeah right, it'll never right, but it

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Speaker 3: will afford you some time to figure out what you

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Speaker 3: want to do next, you know what I mean, which

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Speaker 3: is a blessing. And so just realize that as well,

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Speaker 3: Peanut Man, you want to get us out here. Rahem Man,

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Speaker 3: appreciate it, Bro appreciate You're great.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, that was awesome. Yeah, that's the NFL Player

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Speaker 3: Five star review, five star review, leave a comment. Peanut

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Speaker 3: Rome raheem, that's us. We out y'all