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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Past podcast. It is Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: February sixth, and the Ravens introduced a new defensive coordinator,

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Speaker 1: zachary Or earlier today. Zach is gonna take over for

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Speaker 1: Mike McDonald, who left to become the head coach of

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Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks. Zach is a former player and his

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Speaker 1: passion clearly comes across when he talks with the media.

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Speaker 1: Today is to go ahead and listen to that full

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Speaker 1: press conference.

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Speaker 2: How y'all doing already? Man, I just want to thank

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Speaker 2: you guys for coming out. I want to thank my family,

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Speaker 2: Thank my fiance, my mom, dad, my brothers, my son,

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Speaker 2: close friends, everybody that's supported me throughout throughout my life.

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Speaker 2: I want to thank the organization, Thank mister Bashatti, coach

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Speaker 2: John Harbaugh, Eric de Consta, Sashi Brown, everybody in the organization.

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Speaker 2: So many people in this wonder wonderful organization who's shown

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Speaker 2: me so much love all throughout the years. Just can't

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Speaker 2: thank him enough. Man, So excited, fired up, determined. Uh

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Speaker 2: for the opportunity that I have, man, and I'm ready

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Speaker 2: to get to work.

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Speaker 3: Exact even you know, during your playing career, did you

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Speaker 3: kind an and did ever thought about, hey, you know,

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Speaker 3: post career and you know offenly getting into coach or

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Speaker 3: anything like that.

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Speaker 4: Uh not.

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Speaker 2: While I was playing. My plan was honestly, make it

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Speaker 2: to the National Football League, play like ten fifteen years,

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Speaker 2: you know, go back home, coach some high school football.

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Speaker 2: But never thought I'd be coaching the National Football League.

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Speaker 2: Uh So this is this is a blessing. And obviously

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Speaker 2: with my situation when I got the opportunity to start

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Speaker 2: coaching the National Football League, this was one of one

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Speaker 2: goal of mine. So it's just crazy to see it

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Speaker 2: all come together. But initially it definitely was not. I

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Speaker 2: never I never thought this would happen.

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Speaker 4: Zach.

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Speaker 5: Can you think but the last time I could get

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Speaker 5: a press conference in the year which is a national retirement.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and from that point to now this this journey.

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Speaker 5: But can can you take us through a little bit

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Speaker 5: kind of what's it been like emotionally?

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Speaker 6: It gets you back to.

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Speaker 2: This point, man, It it was tough. It was tough

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Speaker 2: initially when I had to come in and sit with

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Speaker 2: you guys last time and hang up the cleats, hang

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Speaker 2: up the pads, hang up the helmet. But like I said,

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Speaker 2: I had great support from my family and from the organization.

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Speaker 2: You know, they they they sup poured me right away

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Speaker 2: talking about the organization. They was like, I know, you

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Speaker 2: wanted to get right into coaching. Once you get once

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Speaker 2: you come right back up here and get the work.

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Speaker 2: And I did that and I learned what it took

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Speaker 2: to be a coach in National Football League, learn from

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Speaker 2: a lot of great people, and you know, just continue

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Speaker 2: to work, work, work, work, work, fell in love with

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Speaker 2: the game as a coach, and you know, now we're here.

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Speaker 2: But it definitely, it definitely was a crazy journey from

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Speaker 2: that moment last time I was here to now. But

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Speaker 2: like I said, I'm excited. And it just shows, man,

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Speaker 2: you you put into work, you treat people right the

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Speaker 6: You just you just alluded to it.

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Speaker 5: I mean when you when you did start to make

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Speaker 5: that transition, who are the people that you leaning on

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Speaker 2: Man? It was it's so many people. I mean when

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Speaker 2: I first got here. I remember when I first got

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Speaker 2: And so he's one of the guys, obviously Coach Harball.

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Speaker 2: I mean, man, it's so many, so many guys in

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Speaker 2: the list a list of people, but just so many

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Speaker 2: people helped me out along the way, helped me get

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Speaker 2: successful in his profession. And I can't thank those people enough.

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Speaker 2: And I know I named some people, but I know

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Speaker 7: Sounded like it happened, it all kind of came together

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so Monday it was crazy. I didn't have had

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Speaker 2: And you know, I had conversations with coach Harball starting

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Speaker 2: going through the interview process with him as well as Tuesday.

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Speaker 2: You know, it was it was two days of real, real,

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Speaker 2: Talked to Green Bay on Monday, interviewed with them Wednesday,

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Speaker 2: and you know, Wednesday, after the after the interview with

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Speaker 6: After really over the.

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Speaker 8: Last seven years, it's been a quick assent for you

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Speaker 8: starting out as a coach now.

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Speaker 6: Being in DC.

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Speaker 8: Is there a moment a conversation where that kind of

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Speaker 8: sticks out for you where you thought, okay, being an

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Speaker 8: NFL assistant, the coach position, coach, whatever, but that you

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Speaker 8: could be a defensive coordinator, that you could have aspirations.

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Speaker 6: That have you sitting where you are right now. Is

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Speaker 6: there anything that stands out?

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Speaker 2: I just think just the just the process. The more

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Speaker 2: the more I got into it, the more I started

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Speaker 2: to dive more in the coaching. The first year was

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Speaker 2: and so uh so on. So I wouldn't say it

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Speaker 2: by year three or four, like I was, I'm fully

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Speaker 2: the process of of game planning and going through the

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Speaker 2: process of studying opponents, offseason studies, all the all the

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Speaker 2: little details that go into it. I was fully entrenched

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Speaker 2: but just the the whole process. Man, Like I I

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Speaker 2: I never thought I would say this is like I

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Speaker 9: So you've all been a leader as you know, a

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Speaker 2: Were some differences in how you have to be I

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Speaker 2: it really don't matter what position you in, whether you're

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Speaker 2: gotta lead by example. So you gotta do things right

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Speaker 2: I think that that carries over from being a player

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Speaker 2: just gotta show the passion, show that you really care

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Speaker 2: uh for for the person that you're trying to lead

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Speaker 2: I think that they'll they'll follow you as long as

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Speaker 2: you're you're doing what you say you're gonna do and

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Speaker 6: U call basically defensive. What have you done to prepare

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Speaker 6: And how do you kind of do you is that

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Speaker 10: Really?

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Speaker 2: I think what we do a great job here is

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Speaker 2: everybody it's a collaborative effort going into the game plan.

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Speaker 2: So obviously the coordinator is gonna have the final say so,

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Speaker 2: but we all we all have game planned areas. We

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Speaker 2: all watch all the film together and we come with

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Speaker 2: and everybody's voice is heard, and ultimately one person makes

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Speaker 2: say probably about three years ago, people were telling me like, hey,

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Speaker 2: if you got aspirations of being a coordinator, when you're

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Speaker 2: watching the film throughout the week, watching the film on

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Speaker 2: So always always did that, always had the conversations, and

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Speaker 2: like I said, being here, it's easy because it's a

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Speaker 10: So now or you talked about who you band that

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and you did overall that. Did you have any

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Speaker 10: Fan baker, that's the coordinator doing like McConnell's situation, because

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Speaker 10: I guess at the veas you're playing in the Super Bowl,

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I knew it was a possibility, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 2: just because you you started seeing guys on our staff,

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Speaker 2: you definitely knew it was a possibility. But like you

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Speaker 2: never know until the thing actually starts happening. So I

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Speaker 2: knew it was a possibility. Uh, you know, I was focused,

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Speaker 2: my fiance could tell you. You know, I just started,

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Speaker 2: was a possibility in the back of your mind.

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Speaker 4: Exact where you're gonna coach game from the coach from

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Speaker 4: and which way do you think is better?

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Speaker 9: Were you?

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Speaker 2: I got I gotta be on the field, you know

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Speaker 2: what I mean? I got I gotta look at you know,

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Speaker 2: players in their eyes and see what's going on and

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Speaker 2: so you know, people have their different ways. I gotta

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Speaker 5: Players that what did you What did you look for

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Speaker 5: from the decordinator and how much do you think it

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Speaker 10: The historic for going to others the defense and trying

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Speaker 2: I'm looking forward just diving into the diving into the tape.

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Speaker 2: Cause it's a process that you gotta go through each

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Speaker 12: So much has been made about your your age. You know,

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Speaker 6: That does that mean anything to you?

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Speaker 5: Guess what it is, or was the tops when you

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Speaker 2: What will you shoot? Organized? And we got to get

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Speaker 10: Right if you have the opportunity to talk to guys

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Speaker 2: Yeah, man, a lot of people reached out. I've seen

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Speaker 6: Have you taught about those das your following europe defensive.

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Speaker 2: Ensive corn I haven't thought of that specifically. I know

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Speaker 6: Had certain years to adjust to to the coaching side.

442
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Speaker 10: But does it ever hit you, especially in this last week, man,

443
00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:18,200
Speaker 10: John was my first hit coaching set up in the

444
00:19:18,359 --> 00:19:20,800
Speaker 10: NFL area is one of those guys, and you helping

445
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Speaker 10: me in person, whist mayors. Kind of working on the

446
00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:26,200
Speaker 10: other side of the curtain and seeing how teams get

447
00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:28,560
Speaker 10: going from that side, has ever straight you far?

448
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Speaker 2: Yeah, man, it's it was. It's crazy. Like me as

449
00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:36,800
Speaker 2: a as a player, you kind of really don't see

450
00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:39,000
Speaker 2: all the behind the scenes, all the work that a

451
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Speaker 2: lot of people in the organization uh put in to

452
00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:44,840
Speaker 2: make everything, uh you know great for you as a

453
00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:46,760
Speaker 2: player to go out there and just go play football.

454
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Speaker 9: You know.

455
00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:50,000
Speaker 2: Me being on the uh other side of things, you

456
00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:52,280
Speaker 2: kind of see all the details, the day in, day

457
00:19:52,359 --> 00:19:56,000
Speaker 2: out operations of what it takes to you know, to

458
00:19:56,119 --> 00:19:58,639
Speaker 2: help the organization, you know, be great and and be

459
00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:02,280
Speaker 2: well ran like the Ravens organization is. So like you said,

460
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Speaker 2: I've been I've been on the coaching side a lot,

461
00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:07,560
Speaker 2: so it's not as surprising now, you know. But when

462
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Speaker 2: I first made that transition, I was like, Okay, now

463
00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:13,200
Speaker 2: I see why this organization always has a legit chance

464
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Speaker 2: to compete for championships.

465
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Speaker 6: I kind of played the linebacker and playing at a

466
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Speaker 6: high level. How does that perspective help you?

467
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Speaker 3: Do you think that that because that's your unique perspective

468
00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:26,000
Speaker 3: that you can bring to the how do you think

469
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Speaker 3: that helps you as the defensive world?

470
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Speaker 2: I mean, obviously, you know when you when you play

471
00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:35,080
Speaker 2: the game, you kind of get you kind of you

472
00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:37,760
Speaker 2: do have the experience of actually being out there on

473
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Speaker 2: the field in the cleats, and you know a lot

474
00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:43,200
Speaker 2: of times you put stuff up on the board and

475
00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:45,840
Speaker 2: it sounds good and everything, but when you're really out there,

476
00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:47,960
Speaker 2: stuff's moving a lot faster, you got somebody trying to

477
00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:50,920
Speaker 2: hit you, and things of that nature. So that helps

478
00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:53,000
Speaker 2: you can kind of be like, Okay, I understand what

479
00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:57,000
Speaker 2: you saw in this specific situation, but you know, honestly

480
00:20:57,040 --> 00:21:00,760
Speaker 2: as a coach that that really doesn't help you from

481
00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:05,080
Speaker 2: the standpoint of teaching, coaching and getting information to the players,

482
00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:07,080
Speaker 2: because as a coach is really not what you know.

483
00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:09,040
Speaker 2: It's what your players know and what you can get

484
00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:10,679
Speaker 2: them to know. So that's why you see a lot

485
00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:13,399
Speaker 2: of players, you know, that's why you don't see a

486
00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:15,560
Speaker 2: lot of players really just get into coaching and things

487
00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:18,080
Speaker 2: of that nature, because coaching and playing is two totally

488
00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:18,640
Speaker 2: different things.

489
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Speaker 9: You know.

490
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Speaker 2: As a player, you just got to understand, okay, this

491
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Speaker 2: is what I do, just how it fits into what

492
00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:25,200
Speaker 2: we're doing. As a coach, you got to be able

493
00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:27,760
Speaker 2: to know what's coming next and be able to spit

494
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Speaker 2: that information out to your players and make sure they're

495
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Speaker 2: prepared to go.

496
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Speaker 14: Come from the football fan, what were those conversations like

497
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Speaker 14: when you told your dad brothers about what was going

498
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Speaker 14: on here and.

499
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Speaker 6: The opportunity to we have.

500
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Speaker 2: They were fired up. They were fired up. And you know,

501
00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:50,080
Speaker 2: more than anything, my family, they get a chance to see,

502
00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:52,080
Speaker 2: you know, the work and stuff that I put in

503
00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:55,280
Speaker 2: behind the scenes that not necessarily everybody sees, and even

504
00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:58,400
Speaker 2: just in this building, you know. So just the conversations

505
00:21:58,600 --> 00:21:59,000
Speaker 2: were great.

506
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Speaker 10: Man.

507
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Speaker 2: They was fired up. It was excited.

508
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Speaker 9: You know.

509
00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:04,760
Speaker 2: They they've been supportive and then they always ended off

510
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Speaker 2: the phone. All right, now, I get off the phone,

511
00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:07,040
Speaker 2: get ready to get to work. You got a lot

512
00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:10,080
Speaker 2: of work to do. So you know, they they understand me.

513
00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:12,320
Speaker 2: I'm I'm so I'm so happy for them and they're

514
00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:16,400
Speaker 2: happy for me. But they understand, you know, what what's

515
00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:18,840
Speaker 2: what's at stake and what's up next? So you know

516
00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:20,639
Speaker 2: they're gonna be there every step of the way with me.

517
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Speaker 14: And in ways, did how much you enjoyed coaching and

518
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Speaker 14: when you got back involved, did that help you avoid

519
00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:32,119
Speaker 14: any kind of lingering kind of disappointment to you know

520
00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:34,200
Speaker 14: way your career, your playing career.

521
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Speaker 2: It did, Man, it did. And that's why I tell

522
00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:40,520
Speaker 2: people all the time, and I bleed purple and black

523
00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:43,399
Speaker 2: like this this organization just this means something to me.

524
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Speaker 2: This means a little more to me. It's not just

525
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Speaker 2: me just coaching, uh, you know for International Football League,

526
00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:51,480
Speaker 2: just for any other organization. I'm coaching for the organization

527
00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:53,800
Speaker 2: that that that had my back. Like when I went

528
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Speaker 2: through what I went through, they didn't allow me to

529
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Speaker 2: really put my head down, you know, I was I

530
00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:01,000
Speaker 2: didn't know what the next step was gonna be. Boom

531
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Speaker 2: coach harbord IZI, mister Bushatti. They called me, they say, hey,

532
00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:06,600
Speaker 2: I know you want to getting the coaching. You're coming

533
00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:08,479
Speaker 2: right back up here and getting ready to work with us.

534
00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:11,960
Speaker 2: And them doing that for me just just shows that

535
00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:15,040
Speaker 2: they have my back in a tough situation. So they

536
00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:17,600
Speaker 2: gonna get everything I got, you know, out of me.

537
00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:19,480
Speaker 2: And like I said, it means something I bleed purple

538
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Speaker 2: and black.

539
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Speaker 12: Is your comfortability with the organization. I'm working with John

540
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Speaker 12: and understanding Steve Bushatti, the owner and everything.

541
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Speaker 6: Does that help whether.

542
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Speaker 12: Taking on this new challenge of being a defensive coordinator.

543
00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:34,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, it does help, cause I understand the standard and

544
00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:37,480
Speaker 2: the expectation. You know, I I've I've lived it. And

545
00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:40,439
Speaker 2: then I think, what's been so great about me being here?

546
00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:42,359
Speaker 2: I feel like God placed me here for a reason,

547
00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:46,360
Speaker 2: just because all the values and standards that this organization

548
00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:49,080
Speaker 2: stands for on and off the field. I stand for.

549
00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:50,879
Speaker 2: Listen to a couple of things off the field, man,

550
00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:54,359
Speaker 2: just being a good person, treating people with respect and

551
00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:55,280
Speaker 2: and working hard.

552
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Speaker 11: Man.

553
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Speaker 2: I value all that. And then on the football field

554
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Speaker 2: from a football standpoint, you know, talk about playing together

555
00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:05,359
Speaker 2: as a team, playing physical, playing violent, and finishing everything

556
00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:07,240
Speaker 2: you do. And that's what I've believed in as a

557
00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:09,560
Speaker 2: football player before I even got here. So when I

558
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:11,960
Speaker 2: got here, it was just like a match made in heaven.

559
00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:15,720
Speaker 2: But definitely makes it easier cause I understand the standard expectation,

560
00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:17,880
Speaker 2: I lived it and been part of it, and I'm

561
00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:20,400
Speaker 2: excited for it. That's that's I wouldn't want any other way?

562
00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:23,359
Speaker 2: Could could you take us inside that conversation you had

563
00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:24,800
Speaker 2: with Steve Ashatti when he was.

564
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Speaker 6: Kind of welcoming you back to the Ravens, and then

565
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Speaker 6: how long.

566
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Speaker 13: Did it take for you to flip your mind from

567
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Speaker 13: the disappointment and from being a player to them being

568
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Speaker 13: a coach?

569
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Speaker 2: All right? So he called me, I'll tell you this

570
00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:40,520
Speaker 2: is true story. So he called me, and I just

571
00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:44,760
Speaker 2: had got my performance player bonus and that year, you know,

572
00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:46,439
Speaker 2: it's all it's out there puppet rap like that year

573
00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:47,640
Speaker 2: it was like it was like four hundred and seven,

574
00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:50,440
Speaker 2: four hundred and seven thousand dollars. So he first he

575
00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:51,560
Speaker 2: called me and say, hey, I see you got you

576
00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:54,680
Speaker 2: a nice little parting gift, all right. So I was

577
00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:55,879
Speaker 2: like yeah, I was like Dad, I know he was

578
00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:57,320
Speaker 2: checking that, you know, I know he was looking at that.

579
00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:00,639
Speaker 2: But he called me. I was like, I understand you

580
00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:02,520
Speaker 2: wanted to get into coaching. We think highly, we think

581
00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:05,440
Speaker 2: highly of you. You know, everybody speaks the world of you.

582
00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:07,560
Speaker 2: I've seen you work. Everybody say you're a hard worker.

583
00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:09,240
Speaker 2: And I know you weren't getting a coaching He was like,

584
00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:10,880
Speaker 2: we would love to have you back in the organization.

585
00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:13,080
Speaker 2: If that's something you want to do. And he was like,

586
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:15,240
Speaker 2: you'll be you know, we'll get Izzy in contact with you.

587
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:18,000
Speaker 2: So I said great, I said, thank, I'll be right back.

588
00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:20,840
Speaker 2: Shoot the next day I'm calling. I'm probably blowing I

589
00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:22,800
Speaker 2: phone up, Hey, Izzy, when you're ready for me to

590
00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:25,960
Speaker 2: come back up. It's like I got you and he did, man,

591
00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:29,399
Speaker 2: and and it was great and just them, you know,

592
00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:32,120
Speaker 2: him him making the phone call and the organization doing

593
00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:34,480
Speaker 2: that for me, Like I said, what meant the most

594
00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:36,560
Speaker 2: because I didn't have time to sit there and hang

595
00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:38,960
Speaker 2: my head. And I got right back to work and

596
00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:41,640
Speaker 2: they helped, you know, teach me and get me ready

597
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:43,960
Speaker 2: for my second career, which is coaching. They been with

598
00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:45,840
Speaker 2: me every step of the way and supporting me every

599
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Speaker 2: step of the way.

600
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Speaker 6: How did how did John tell you? Just conversation?

601
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so we we talked. Like I said, it was

602
00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:00,240
Speaker 2: It's crazy how everything happened. We talked Monday, you know,

603
00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:04,320
Speaker 2: went through the interview process, talk Tuesday again, still and

604
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:06,919
Speaker 2: still you know, asking me questions, grilled, you know, basically

605
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:10,040
Speaker 2: kind of grilling me a little bit. And then Wednesday

606
00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:12,239
Speaker 2: called me into his office and helped. Mom's like, man,

607
00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 2: what do you want to talk about. You know, It's

608
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,160
Speaker 2: like I just talking to this dude, you know, Monday, Tuesday,

609
00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:18,120
Speaker 2: like what's up? You know, I'm like, I thought i'd

610
00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:21,120
Speaker 2: answer every question you had, so you know, we're still

611
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:24,120
Speaker 2: talking Wednesday. And then he was like he asked me again,

612
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:26,440
Speaker 2: He said you ready to call it and I was like, yes,

613
00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:29,280
Speaker 2: I'm ready, and he was like, all right, we' mom

614
00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:31,600
Speaker 2: from you the position and that's how it went. So

615
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:34,080
Speaker 2: it was great. Man. I heard those words man in

616
00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:36,640
Speaker 2: a smile. You know, I was grinning from ear to ear.

617
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:39,040
Speaker 2: And I'm just thankful that he has that belief in me.

618
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:40,959
Speaker 2: And like I said, I'm gonna work my butt off

619
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Speaker 2: and do everything I can to you know, make it right.

620
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Speaker 6: You were the people that reached out to you after

621
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Speaker 6: you was republic that. I mean, I'm sure your phone

622
00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:53,000
Speaker 6: was flubbed, as I do.

623
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Speaker 9: You haven't even responded to anybody at this point yet,

624
00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:56,560
Speaker 9: or who are the ones that stuck out?

625
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Speaker 11: Man?

626
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Speaker 2: A lot of people respond to me man like, and

627
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:01,760
Speaker 2: let me just say this right now. If I haven't

628
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:03,560
Speaker 2: got back to you, I promise you haven't switched up.

629
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:05,359
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, you know what, I'm sorry, but I got

630
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:08,560
Speaker 2: like eight hundred some messages, but a lot of people obviously.

631
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:14,360
Speaker 2: What sticks out is man, just family, friends, coaches, I've

632
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:18,800
Speaker 2: worked with, players, I've played with, the players, players that

633
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:21,840
Speaker 2: I've coached. I mean, it's been it's been so much love.

634
00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:25,679
Speaker 2: You know, it's been so much love, man, And it's

635
00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:29,639
Speaker 2: I can't I can't thank everybody enough. Man, just to see, uh,

636
00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:32,320
Speaker 2: you know, all the love that I've been getting has

637
00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:34,119
Speaker 2: been wonderful, and it just makes me just want to

638
00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:36,440
Speaker 2: grind even harder, makes me just want to go even

639
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:38,560
Speaker 2: harder because you've got that many people showing you love.

640
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:40,840
Speaker 2: That means they believe in you. And when somebody believes

641
00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:43,120
Speaker 2: in you, you do everything you can to make it write.

642
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:45,600
Speaker 2: And that's what I'm focused on. That's what I'm excited about.

643
00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:50,680
Speaker 13: You said, the collaborative effort, call them ways the best level.

644
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:53,000
Speaker 13: But at the hell, it's going to be you. And

645
00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:56,440
Speaker 13: what gives you confidence that you can call ravens defense

646
00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:58,399
Speaker 13: and there's life rounds.

647
00:27:58,880 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 10: Yeah.

648
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:02,359
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I've seen it done, I've been

649
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:04,560
Speaker 2: a part of it. And what makes me confident is

650
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,359
Speaker 2: my preparation. I'm gonna put in. I'm gonna prepare my

651
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:10,119
Speaker 2: butt off, and that's where your confidence comes in. Anything

652
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:12,480
Speaker 2: you do. When you're not confident that you can do

653
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:14,879
Speaker 2: a job, that means you haven't prepared. So if you

654
00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:17,120
Speaker 2: prepare the right way like you're supposed to prepare, you're

655
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 2: gonna be confident. And I plan on preparing the right way.

656
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 9: Right.

657
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Speaker 2: Thank you appreciate y'all.

658
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Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to the Ravens Press Past podcast.

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Speaker 1: If you want to hear more from Zach, head over

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Speaker 1: to the Lounge podcast feed. He sat down with us

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Speaker 1: point and what this opportunity means for him. You can

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Speaker 1: check that out on our Apple website and wherever you

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Speaker 1: get your podcast. Thank you so much for listening, and

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Speaker 1: we'll be back with you again. Sid