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Speaker 1: What's up everybody? Welcome into another edition of Crush City

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Speaker 1: Territory Channeler Room, joined as always by Tyler Stafford and

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Speaker 1: a very special guest on this Sunday afternoon, New Astros

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Speaker 1: pitcher Ryan Weiss. Ryan, appreciate you taking some time out

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Speaker 1: of your off season to talk to us. How are

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Speaker 1: you doing and have things settled down yet a little bit?

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Speaker 1: Because I'm sure this off season has been pretty crazy

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Speaker 1: for you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, first and foremost, thanks for having me, guys. I mean,

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Speaker 2: in terms of have things settled down, I would say

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Speaker 2: they have not settled down. I think that's kind of

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Speaker 2: normal coming back from.

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Speaker 3: Asia, though.

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Speaker 2: It seems like you need at least like a week

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Speaker 2: or two to get your feet like ready from jet lag,

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Speaker 2: and then it's like there's just been There's been a

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Speaker 2: lot going on, but it's been a lot of good

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Speaker 2: so it's hard to complain.

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Speaker 1: I would encourage everyone that's listening, whether you're on YouTube

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Speaker 1: or whether you're on the audio platforms, to go give

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Speaker 1: Ryan a follow on TikTok. I'm not sure, Yes, I'm in.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure how many people. I'm not sure how

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Speaker 1: many of our pod listeners are TikTok people. But Ryan

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Speaker 1: is a TikTok guy. His handle is Ryan M. Would

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Speaker 1: highly recommend giving Ryan a follow for a couple reasons. One,

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Speaker 1: it allows you to get to know him a little bit,

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Speaker 1: allows you to really get some insight onto his experience

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Speaker 1: in KBO and Korea. But I think it also tells

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Speaker 1: your backstory probably better than you know. We could be

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Speaker 1: beat around the bush with it. You know, you've got

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Speaker 1: such a remarkable story of perseverance and kind of how

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Speaker 1: you have gotten to this point. So I guess I wonder,

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Speaker 1: given all of that, given everything you've had to endure

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Speaker 1: going to Asia, everything you had to endure in your

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Speaker 1: amateur life, you know, before you got to college, things

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Speaker 1: like that, how fulfilling is it now to have a

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Speaker 1: guaranteed major league contract in your hands, a place on

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Speaker 1: a forty man roster, and a spot in a big

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Speaker 1: league rotation waiting for you when you get to West

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Speaker 1: Palm Beach.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, in terms of the TikTok stuff, I I can't

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Speaker 2: take any of that credit. Uh, it is my wife.

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Speaker 2: She she kills it. She does such a good job.

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Speaker 2: I probably don't even.

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Speaker 3: Know how to post. But yeah, I mean in terms

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Speaker 3: of like the fulfillment.

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Speaker 2: I think if you asked me that, like a couple

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Speaker 2: of years ago, I would have been like, this is everything,

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Speaker 2: But now that's it's just not the I've I just

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Speaker 2: feel like I've matured a lot, and I don't idolize

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Speaker 2: baseball the way that I used to think, Like Christ

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Speaker 2: has just become a huge part of my life and

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Speaker 2: everything goes goes to him, and so I mean, it's

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Speaker 2: gonna be exciting. I'm I'm excited to to get there,

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Speaker 2: but I've been on a lot of different teams within

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Speaker 2: the last few years, so I'm just excited to kind

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Speaker 2: of get to get to know my new teammates and

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Speaker 2: just talk shop in the clubhouse and honestly just go

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Speaker 2: in games.

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Speaker 4: So I have a so, you know, for those that

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Speaker 4: don't know, you know, and you've been over in both

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Speaker 4: China and then you know the Atlantic League as well,

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Speaker 4: and then Korea. So I have a question, like, in

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Speaker 4: the last two years you were dominant over there, like

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Speaker 4: you were, you know, just crushing people. What is it

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Speaker 4: like going from Okay, you know, obviously I've seen your

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Speaker 4: your college status of you were just ridiculous. You're red

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Speaker 4: shirt freshman, You're hitting bombs, striking people out or whatever.

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Speaker 4: But I feel like you've had this kind of career

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Speaker 4: where you've gone from okay, top of the team, like

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Speaker 4: I'm the lead guy, to just a guy in the

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Speaker 4: minor leagues and not even making it, then going back

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Speaker 4: being this huge part of this team over here to

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Speaker 4: now being on an Astros team where you know that

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Speaker 4: that's not gonna be the first fifteen names on opening

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Speaker 4: day that anyone is you know, thinking of, not in

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Speaker 4: a bad way, but just that's the way that the

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Speaker 4: team is set up. How do you, like, I could

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Speaker 4: just who you are in the clubhouse depending on the

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Speaker 4: people you're around. Does that make sense? Like it do you?

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Speaker 4: How do you fill those roles?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I think that's I mean, that's a really good question.

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Speaker 2: I think the younger me, uh, try to be a

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Speaker 3: But now like, I'm just gonna be me. If you

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Speaker 2: Like, everyone's different, so it's like you're you in some regard,

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Speaker 2: like everybody, every one of your teammates is your coworker,

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Speaker 2: but at the same time they can become your brother.

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Speaker 2: So it's like it's it's a it's a very interesting dynamic.

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Speaker 2: And I think going to Indie ball and then going

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Speaker 2: going from thirty five guys with thirty guys that speak

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Speaker 2: one or two guys, And so I was pretty blessed.

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Speaker 2: There's a couple guys on my team that in Korea

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Speaker 2: that spoke really good English, and that was really cool

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Speaker 2: because they're English. Last year they like was okay, but

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Speaker 2: this year, because they got to practice a lot, it

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Speaker 2: myself and and hopefully hopefully that's good enough.

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Speaker 1: You last pitched an affiliated ball in Stateside, You last

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Speaker 1: pitch an affiliated ball in twenty twenty three. Yeah, how

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Speaker 1: different are you now? How different is the pitcher now?

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Speaker 1: That was from when you were here in twenty twenty three?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, first off, when I was in twenty

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Speaker 2: I was a reliever. I don't like being reliever. I

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Speaker 2: believe that I'm a starter. We had some really good

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Speaker 2: prospects that were coming up with the d Backs, and

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Speaker 2: I kind of hit like a little I kind of

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Speaker 2: hit a struggle in twenty one and that kind of

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Speaker 2: kicked me to the bullpen. And those guys are doing

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Speaker 2: really well now, I mean that's just kind of nature

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Speaker 2: so they deserved that spot and they earned it. And

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Speaker 2: so being able to go act to being a starter.

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Speaker 2: I like the routine. I like knowing I'm gonna get

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Speaker 2: like knowing that I'm gonna be able to flip the

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Speaker 2: order over hopefully on a good day four times worst

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Speaker 2: case three, right, But that's I just like to compete,

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Speaker 2: and I hate going to pitch for one ning or

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Speaker 2: like all right, like now we're in rhythm. Like now

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Speaker 2: we're kind of in the zone. Like sometimes it takes

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Speaker 2: just say being a starter is uh has been a

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Speaker 3: It's been a lot more fun. Is that?

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Speaker 1: Is that what me the astros so attractive to you

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Speaker 1: is because I mean they have opportunities to start. This

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Speaker 1: is not this is a place that obviously needs rotation help.

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Speaker 1: And just in general, your conversations with the Astros what

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Speaker 1: had substantial interest from from a lot of other teams

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Speaker 2: Mm hmm, yeah, I would say, uh, I think the

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Speaker 2: the way that Dana was speaking, just the the way

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Speaker 2: that he kind of showed that he believes in me

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Speaker 2: and that he he kind of, for lack of a better term,

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Speaker 2: like he knows what he sees, and like I believe

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Speaker 2: that believe in a lot of other guys, but I

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Speaker 2: I do best when when someone really believes in me,

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Speaker 2: and when I know the coaching staff and the team

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Speaker 3: That really helps when.

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Speaker 2: I whenever I'm in a situation where it's like, oh, you,

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Speaker 2: if you don't do well today, you might be out

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Speaker 2: the door, Like that's a different kind of pressure. Like

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Speaker 2: I'd rather pitch in a championship setting to where it

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Speaker 2: like it really matters and like, oh, your life's on

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Speaker 2: I don't really think that's fun, and that's kind of

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Speaker 2: how it is in the minors, and so I was

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Speaker 2: I was very willing to go back overseas. I mean,

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Speaker 3: And that's kind of what it was. So that's why

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Speaker 3: we that's why we decided to do it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I was gonna ask. I mean, obviously I would

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Speaker 4: assume that you love playing overseas. You wouldn't keep doing

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Speaker 4: it if you didn't want to do. The city that

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Speaker 4: you were in is Dejon Jean.

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Speaker 3: That's right.

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Speaker 4: Okay, So I've I've googled the you know, just trip

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Speaker 4: Advisor things to do. Do you have a Dujiano World story?

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Speaker 4: Do you know that place? I do not, Dude, Okay,

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Speaker 4: well it's number four. So if you get back over there,

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Speaker 4: it looks like Disney World, but it's an amusement park.

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Speaker 3: I'm more of like a like we like to do

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Speaker 2: But in terms of like restaurants, the nine, it's uh,

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Speaker 4: So, I mean what you're you're like, what are you

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Speaker 4: doing during games, but like what does what does life

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it just depends what if we have an off

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Speaker 2: with my parents that ever, we went fishing one day,

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Speaker 2: just kind of scoping it out, kind of seeing what's

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Speaker 2: Shin Dan is like a really famous bakery in Dejon.

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Speaker 2: So we go there and just kind of walk around

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Speaker 2: it's so it's so different. It was cool when we

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Speaker 2: Like when you're walking into it, you're like this, like

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Speaker 2: it's just so much bigger than you. And it's like

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Speaker 2: it's just really cool because there's way more history in

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Speaker 2: Korea than there is in America, which is like for

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean it's it's just super interesting, super cool.

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Speaker 1: Did you enjoy the nickname that you got in Dejon

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Speaker 1: you are? You are Dejon Jesus.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was that was tough. I mean, especially being

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's obviously an honor, but like, I

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Speaker 2: it was like when people are, oh, you're like saving,

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Speaker 2: It's like, y'all need to chill, Like, I'm just I'm

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Speaker 2: just Ryan, Like I'm not I'm not even rying the

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Speaker 2: And so like when people were doing that, it was

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Speaker 4: I think your your first batting practice with Jordan Alvarez

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Speaker 1: Yeah, did you have a pre existing relationship with anyone

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Speaker 2: then let's just be mature, have a conversation about it

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Speaker 1: It's one thing you keep mentioning about, you know, being

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Speaker 3: Can are you?

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Speaker 1: How how is your Korean?

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Speaker 1: I think that's how I am with spent with Baseball

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Speaker 2: No, that would be really hard. I wouldn't even know

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Speaker 3: But but he was really good. I mean, I I

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Speaker 2: I could have had this success out there, definitely without

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Speaker 3: I mean, he was he was awesome.

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Speaker 4: Do you have a favorite K pop Demon Hunters song?

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Speaker 3: Golden? I mean it's It's election of course.

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Speaker 1: One thing that's always been interesting to me and I

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Speaker 3: Like they like accounts matter, and then.

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Speaker 1: That's why I wanted to ask you, like, again, I

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's honestly, like it's it's beautiful way they do it.

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Speaker 2: And it was like catchers are just different, like they

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's always It's has always been interesting to me,

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Speaker 2: they even the players out there, the ones that don't

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Speaker 2: like that's that's like a very vulnerable place to be

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Speaker 2: as someone who doesn't know the language, like asking a

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Speaker 3: So I mean, they just love to learn. I mean

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Speaker 3: they love to learn out.

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Speaker 2: There, and they don't really have a lot of pride,

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Speaker 2: Like if a guy's working on another pitch, like he's

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Speaker 2: not afraid to work on two other pitches but not

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Speaker 4: All right, Well, Chandler, you're going to be in there,

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Speaker 4: so I'm going to text you like a two and

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Speaker 4: a half minute long question to ask Ryan after his

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Speaker 3: We'll see who's catching me.

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Speaker 1: I do wonder, you know, Tyler, just reference after your

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Speaker 1: that has that kind of hit you yet or or

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Speaker 1: do you think it'll maybe wait till like the day

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Speaker 1: it actually happens.

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Speaker 2: Nah, I think when I was on the forty mate

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Speaker 3: I was itching to get up. Same with the Royals,

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Speaker 3: I was itching.

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Speaker 2: I put so much thought into it's gonna sound funny,

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Speaker 2: but like what I was gonna wear to the stadium

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Speaker 2: and like that's why going to create was so good

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Speaker 2: for me, because I just completely removed myself from like

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Speaker 2: all of that. And so I mean it's like I said,

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Speaker 2: it's gonna it'll be cool, I think, But like I'm

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Speaker 2: just I just want to pitch. I just want to

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Speaker 2: that matters at the end of the day.

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Speaker 1: I'm curious, what, what what allowed your mind to shift?

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Speaker 1: Like was it simply going to Korea or was like

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Speaker 1: what what out you to make that draft such a

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Speaker 1: difference in the way of thinking.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just think I was idolizing it. I don't

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Speaker 2: think I was as secure in myself and and and whatnot,

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Speaker 2: and I was just idolizing the thought of being a

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Speaker 2: rather be a better person, which I try to be.

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Speaker 2: I'm probably not, but I try to be a better person,

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Speaker 2: and then like baseball will be what it's gonna be,

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Speaker 2: and I'm just gonna I'm just gonna trust in God

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Speaker 2: and trust that whatever plan he has is what I'm

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Speaker 2: supposed to do. And if this is where he wants

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Speaker 2: me to meet, then I just want to be able

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Speaker 2: to impact people around me.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, like what I want to say, I probably shouldn't.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, that's that's probably what It's probably good.

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Speaker 1: Good answer media training already. I don't know, Ryan, this

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Speaker 1: has been excellent. I appreciate you taking We appreciate you

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Speaker 1: taking time to talk to us today. We told you

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Speaker 1: we keep you fifteen to twenty minutes. We're going up

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Speaker 1: to twenty two minutes now, so we like to be

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Speaker 1: like to be true what we say. So that's about the.

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Speaker 4: Shortest Chandler's done, actually, because normally he lies and then

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Speaker 4: we're here two and a half times what he says.

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Speaker 4: So he got you out on time today. He didn't like, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: that's what he was.

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Speaker 1: Okay, don't put words in my mouth. Come on, that's

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Speaker 1: not cool.

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Speaker 3: Ryan.

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Speaker 1: Again, this was excellent. Again, if you want to see

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Speaker 1: Ryan and his wife's work on TikTok, Ryan M Ryan

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Speaker 1: m Weiss on TikTok. I think that will allow a

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Speaker 1: lot of you to to really appreciate kind of what

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Speaker 1: it was like in KBO, what Ryan, kind of how

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Speaker 1: Ryan got to this point and you can know a

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Speaker 1: lot more about him before reporting to West Palm Beach

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Speaker 1: in February for spring training with the Ashers. Ryan, this

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Speaker 1: was great. Thank you so much for the time, and

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Speaker 1: enjoy the rest of your off season.

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Speaker 3: Sounds good, guys, Thanks for having me all right.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Ryan,