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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Lounge, presented by DraftKings. I'm Ryan Mink

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Speaker 1: here with Garrett Downing and we are thrilled to be

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Speaker 1: joined by Tavius Robinson, second time on the Lounge. We

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Speaker 1: had him on the first time when during rookie mini camp.

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Speaker 1: He was fresh, he was new to the scene. So

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Speaker 1: happy to have you back, Tavius. And you know, as

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Speaker 1: established as you are now in your second season, I

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Speaker 1: got to inform you of this. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: you know this or not. When you google Tavius Robinson,

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Speaker 1: you know, it comes up a picture of Roquan Smith.

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Speaker 1: You're a YESPN bio. The headshot is Roquan.

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Speaker 2: We got to get that up.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of messed up. I mean, there's worse guys

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Speaker 1: to be, you know, compared to I guess you know,

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Speaker 1: it could be somebody worse headshot, But we gotta get

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Speaker 1: that fix. So that's the note to ESPN al right

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Speaker 1: after this podcast. We got to get that fixed, all right. So, uh, Tavious,

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Speaker 1: I mean, just a really big season for you, kind

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Speaker 1: of a breakout second season that you know, not to

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Speaker 1: pat myself on the back, but I predicted. And just

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Speaker 1: what's it been like? For you this year kind of

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Speaker 1: establishing yourself more.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been good.

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Speaker 4: I feel like with the experience for my first year

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Speaker 4: and kind of going into my second year here, you know,

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Speaker 4: the game has really started to slow down more with

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Speaker 4: more experience out there and uh, you know, playing more

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Speaker 4: to make plays rather than make not make mistakes.

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Speaker 3: That kind of wasn't my first year.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, it's a credit to you know, the guys

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Speaker 4: in my in my room, the great veterans I have,

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Speaker 4: the coaches I have, and just uh yeah, so it's

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Speaker 4: been good so far.

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Speaker 3: Very cool.

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Speaker 2: Does it feel like the the the classic I guess

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Speaker 2: cliche is that the light bulb goes off and you

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Speaker 2: start to see things clearer? Has that been the case?

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Speaker 2: Like for you, do you feel that way or is it?

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Speaker 2: Has it been more gradual? How do you view that

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's been more gradual, but like kind

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Speaker 4: of in a light bulb sense, like you're starting to

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Speaker 4: like I'm starting to see things better. I'm starting to

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Speaker 4: see formations better, and like having more time pre snap,

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Speaker 4: like like my mind is clear so I can see

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Speaker 4: things rather than the first year, you know, it's kind

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Speaker 4: of all thrown at you know, you're trying to worry

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Speaker 4: about being in the right spot, you're not really looking

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Speaker 4: formations and stuff like that.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, it's just.

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Speaker 4: You know, my eyes I got to kind of open more,

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Speaker 4: Like I can see more on the field, and it's

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Speaker 4: allowing me to make more plays for sure.

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Speaker 2: How does that on the field, Like take me into

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Speaker 2: your shoes on a game day. You're seeing things better,

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Speaker 2: You're diagnosing the formations. How does that then allow you

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Speaker 2: to play more free?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Well, when you know what's coming and you know what

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Speaker 4: your job is, it allows you to play one hundred

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Speaker 4: percent freely and like like fast. So one thing this

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Speaker 4: year that has kind of changed what I did. Something

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Speaker 4: that kV does, Like he makes like as for every game,

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Speaker 4: it's like a pregame report of like the top things

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Speaker 4: you need to know. You just write it down. So

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Speaker 4: like after the week obviously I'm taking all my notes,

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Speaker 4: but then for each game I have like my final

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Speaker 4: final game day reports is at the top, Like I

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Speaker 4: write down the key things I need to look out for,

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Speaker 4: key formations, you know, what the tackles do, what I

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Speaker 4: like in my locker for game day, I have that

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Speaker 3: So that's that's helped a lot too.

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Speaker 1: So that's cool. How many bullet points are on that

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Speaker 4: It's quick, like it's not like a whole lot, Like

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Speaker 4: reminders for like run game, and then like which moves

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Speaker 3: They come up.

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Speaker 1: So that's really cool. And you talk about Kyle van Noy,

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Speaker 1: just how influential has he been for you?

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Speaker 4: So influential, Like that part was a big part that

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Speaker 4: I've added this year. And then like the formations things

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Speaker 4: he always caused it football one or two, like get

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Speaker 4: like again, it just allows you to play so much faster.

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Speaker 4: So definitely grateful to have a be like him in

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Kyle, Like on the little cheat sheet that you

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Speaker 2: put together, was that something that he came to you

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Speaker 2: and said, hey, you should try this or did you

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Speaker 2: kind of notice this in his locker and you're like, hey,

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Speaker 2: what's this. I think that it's working out pretty well

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Speaker 2: for you, so maybe I try to emulate that. How

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Speaker 4: I noticed one of the earlier games he had his

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Speaker 4: cheat sheet and he was kind of looking at it

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Speaker 4: was like, and then I had asked him about it

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Speaker 4: turned it into my own thing. Did my own little

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Speaker 3: So that's cool. To keep that going for the rest

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Speaker 3: of my career, that's cool.

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Speaker 1: One thing that really stands out to me about your

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Speaker 1: game is just the physicality and you just you put

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Speaker 1: feel like that's why, you know, part of the reason

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Speaker 1: that your snaps have been increasing. You've earned it along

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Speaker 1: the way. But we played these run heavy teams like

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Speaker 1: the Eagles, you know, the Steelers. You see a lot

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Speaker 1: you're getting after the passer more. You have three and

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Speaker 1: a half sacks this year, fourth most on the team.

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Speaker 1: But also when it comes to physicality, set in that

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I really think I think that's you know,

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Speaker 4: one of the main reasons why I was brought here

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Speaker 3: So that's uh something that I hold with pride.

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Speaker 4: You know. That's how I try to play every day,

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Speaker 4: we're in pads. So yeah, that's something that I'm always

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Speaker 4: you know, while I continue to get better at rushing.

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Speaker 1: So how would you describe Raven Steelers? Is this your

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Speaker 3: M M most definitely.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I love this type of game, you know. I

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Speaker 4: I watched videos during the week. I watched videos of

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Speaker 1: So any of the hits from over the years kind

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Speaker 3: There's one with ray Lewis over the middle. It's in

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Speaker 1: Keith Miller probably probably on Heith Miller. There's a couple

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Speaker 3: Of course, because a bunch of plays in that game.

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Speaker 3: So those are a bunch of them.

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Speaker 1: I think Khalodi Nada broke shar mende Hall's chest or clavicle,

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Speaker 2: They actually the biggest one from kind of a similar

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Speaker 1: Oh that's a good one.

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Speaker 2: And that was That was on and Roethlisberger. And Ben

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Speaker 2: a clean play, but they threw the like they threw

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Speaker 2: a flag, and like I still to this day, I

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Speaker 2: think it was just one of those like we have

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Speaker 2: to throw the flag because you hit him so hard.

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Speaker 2: He didn't hit him ahead, he didn't hit him low,

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Speaker 2: he didn't hit him light. It was just like that

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Speaker 2: have to throw the flag on that, So maybe you'll

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Speaker 2: have one of those plays this weekend. No flag, no flag,

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Speaker 2: no flag. But I'm just like when when this game

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Speaker 2: second year, Like, do you do you feel the need

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I just thought that I feel the need to.

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Speaker 4: It's more like, you know, coming in as a rookie,

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Speaker 4: I knew what typpy game it was like seeing that

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Speaker 4: grow up and you're watching that. You know, the Ravens Steelers,

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Speaker 4: and it's always the most physical, hard hitting, violent game.

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Speaker 4: You know, two violent teams. But yeah, going into the week,

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Speaker 4: I mean, it's you don't want to like change your

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Speaker 4: But obviously there's history and it's a big rivalry, probably

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Speaker 4: the biggest in the NFL, so that that's always in

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Speaker 3: For sure.

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Speaker 1: How much obviously the Ravens you know, haven't won a

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Speaker 1: lot of games against the Steelers in recent years. How

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Speaker 1: much does that eat at you? And do you feel

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Speaker 1: like still, hey, you know the saying is you're not

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Speaker 1: a Raven until you beat the Steelers. Do you want

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Speaker 1: to get that badge?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, one hundred percent.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, because you know, I've played them three times now

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Speaker 4: and we haven't won one yet, So it's definitely huge

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Speaker 4: and I want that win against them for sure.

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Speaker 2: I want to go back to your point about setting

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Speaker 2: the edge and when you got here. Obviously you were

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Speaker 2: a physical player in college, but is there any part

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Speaker 2: of a mentality shift outside linebackers love to get the quarterbacks.

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Speaker 2: Quarterbacks often get getting set, get you paid against you,

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Speaker 2: the attention, all the stuff. But like, there really is

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Speaker 2: something here in this organization about for your position needing

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Speaker 2: to have somebody who can be physical and be an edgsetter,

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Speaker 2: Like that's part of Raven's football. And so I'm curious

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Speaker 2: when you got here was that something that there was

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Speaker 2: any part of a mentality shift? Did you already have that?

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Speaker 2: How did you really embrace the edge setting role?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good question.

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Speaker 4: I think I already kind of had that, and that's

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Speaker 4: kind of going back to college, and like kind of

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Speaker 4: my coaches in college, Lane Kiff and Randall Joyner, their

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Speaker 4: biggest thing is like, like you always want to play

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Speaker 1: Do you do you get you know, whether it's media

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Speaker 3: So it's cool. The support's amazing for sure, is.

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Speaker 2: You've converted them.

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Speaker 2: You have the ticket request I'm sure would be large

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Speaker 3: In America.

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Speaker 1: That's what I said. That's exactly said. I'm not down

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Speaker 2: Thank you for appreciate it, man, Thank you so much,

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Speaker 1: And now we have a special German treat. We are

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Speaker 1: My teacher failed me. We're gonna blame him.

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Speaker 2: It was all building towards this moment of this podcast.

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Speaker 2: I was three years of journey, right, yeah, all down

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Speaker 1: But thank you for joining us and Ravens fans, you know,

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Speaker 6: especially for somebod the accounting house, the bar, absolutely awesome,

443
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Speaker 6: and also the fans, which are we're all there, coming

444
00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:44,760
Speaker 6: from America, coming from all over the world. It was just,

445
00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:49,119
Speaker 6: you know, like a big party. And then actually you

446
00:17:49,119 --> 00:17:52,520
Speaker 6: can say, like the starting point of this relationship is

447
00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:53,240
Speaker 6: your podcast.

448
00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:55,760
Speaker 1: At the Counting House.

449
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Speaker 5: It was so amazing. Like I was front row, he

450
00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:02,199
Speaker 5: was front and I didn't know who's standing next to me,

451
00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:04,280
Speaker 5: and I was just watching you guys and listening. And

452
00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:07,600
Speaker 5: then I suddenly took a look at the banner that

453
00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:10,200
Speaker 5: they were holding and I was like, are you guys German?

454
00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:13,119
Speaker 5: And they're like, yeah, we're from a were the German flock.

455
00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:16,320
Speaker 5: And then they kind of adopted me since I was

456
00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:19,679
Speaker 5: alone there, and we kind of kept in touch like

457
00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:23,320
Speaker 5: well after that and I came up with that idea,

458
00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:26,200
Speaker 5: like after that London game, I was like, oh my god, damn,

459
00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:28,320
Speaker 5: there so fantastic. I need to go. I need to

460
00:18:28,359 --> 00:18:31,399
Speaker 5: go to Baltimore. I need to go there where, like

461
00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:35,840
Speaker 5: where it's happening. So and and I took a look

462
00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:38,760
Speaker 5: at the schedule of the season and was like, hey,

463
00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:42,119
Speaker 5: I could actually do two games, and we texted and

464
00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:45,120
Speaker 5: Carson was like, oh my god, I'm coming with you.

465
00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:49,280
Speaker 5: After that it kind of started and he came up

466
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Speaker 5: with this idea.

467
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Speaker 6: The Treats. So the idea of the Treats is basically,

468
00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:56,399
Speaker 6: you know, when they released the schedule, I was seeing

469
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Speaker 6: that this was another away game on Christmas Day, and

470
00:19:01,119 --> 00:19:03,679
Speaker 6: I really felt really really horrible for the team because,

471
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Speaker 6: I mean, I was working in the media industry, so

472
00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:07,760
Speaker 6: now how it is when you're working away from family

473
00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:11,520
Speaker 6: for a long time, even like very long time, being

474
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Speaker 6: not there for Christmas and this, I mean, and you

475
00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:17,399
Speaker 6: guys you only have like one day to celebrate and

476
00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:23,119
Speaker 6: then players are playing, you're working there. I felt like, man,

477
00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:26,680
Speaker 6: what should I do? And then I thought like, hey,

478
00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:30,360
Speaker 6: it's Christmas time? Why not do something you know, Christmas related?

479
00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:34,760
Speaker 6: And it was coming up with that, Hey, because I

480
00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:38,400
Speaker 6: knew somebody else you also know, and I found out

481
00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:42,520
Speaker 6: that you Americans don't have any clue about German Christmas candies.

482
00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:48,480
Speaker 6: So that's why I thought, Okay, maybe it's a nice

483
00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:51,760
Speaker 6: gesture just to fill a suitcase full of Christmas candy

484
00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:53,360
Speaker 6: and give it away to the Ravens.

485
00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:56,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you guys board on a plane, get on

486
00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:59,000
Speaker 2: a plane, and you have a suitcase completely packed full

487
00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:01,960
Speaker 2: of treats that you're basically Santa coming here to the

488
00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:04,960
Speaker 2: organization and delivering the gifts and delivering the treats to

489
00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:08,080
Speaker 2: the organization to folks who are working on Christmas. And

490
00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:10,520
Speaker 2: this is this is the bag, right, this is one

491
00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:12,200
Speaker 2: of one of the bags.

492
00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:13,720
Speaker 5: You didn't bring any underwear.

493
00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:18,280
Speaker 2: This is like Christmas. The clothes on your back, that's

494
00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:18,960
Speaker 2: all that you got.

495
00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:23,160
Speaker 1: The rest of the hotels really, you.

496
00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:25,560
Speaker 6: Know, when you're packing, you're backpacking.

497
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Speaker 1: That's amazing. So it's like seventy eight pounds of food

498
00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:33,359
Speaker 1: or something like that. And we did the math on this.

499
00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:35,760
Speaker 1: Carson did the math for me because you know my

500
00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:38,840
Speaker 1: mass kills, and we calculated it was it was like

501
00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:42,280
Speaker 1: over seventy five percent of your luggage space was used

502
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Speaker 1: for treats. Amazing, amazing.

503
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Speaker 6: The reason for that is, you know, I checked because

504
00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:51,400
Speaker 6: of fortunately on the website you can see like how

505
00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:53,320
Speaker 6: many people working for it? I count myself because you

506
00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:56,080
Speaker 6: couldn't see like a number of it, like oh, it's

507
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Speaker 6: a hundred people. So you know, like having like one

508
00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:01,800
Speaker 6: stolen and one back of these is not enough. So

509
00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:04,840
Speaker 6: for like, okay, what could I do? It's not too

510
00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:09,280
Speaker 6: expensive like that, Like where which is my arrange? Financially?

511
00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:11,720
Speaker 6: I thought like, okay, then I have to skip close.

512
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Speaker 2: So if first of all, that's like super generous of

513
00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:19,399
Speaker 2: you and an awesome, awesome gesture from you, I'm just

514
00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:22,640
Speaker 2: curious what is it? You guys are obviously big time

515
00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:25,239
Speaker 2: Ravens fans, which is awesome, so aparent, what is it?

516
00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:28,439
Speaker 2: How did you become Ravens fans? And what is it

517
00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:31,400
Speaker 2: like being a fan of the Ravens and American football

518
00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:32,080
Speaker 2: in Germany?

519
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Speaker 6: So do you want to go first or come on?

520
00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:36,240
Speaker 6: Your story?

521
00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:39,440
Speaker 5: Well, my story is actually quite worrying way.

522
00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:41,600
Speaker 1: Well it started I don't think so in.

523
00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:45,680
Speaker 5: Twenty nineteen just a friend of mine was fan of

524
00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:49,720
Speaker 5: like New Orleans Saints, and I was like, I didn't

525
00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:52,119
Speaker 5: understand the game. I was like everybody else, like what

526
00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:54,720
Speaker 5: is that game about? Why is everybody so crazy about

527
00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:58,280
Speaker 5: some guys like jumping on top of each other doing there?

528
00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:01,000
Speaker 5: And I was just curious. So I started to read

529
00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:03,560
Speaker 5: the rules because I just wanted to know. And then

530
00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:06,600
Speaker 5: I just followed that season of twenty nineteen and I

531
00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:09,240
Speaker 5: was like, oh my god, it is interesting. There are

532
00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:12,200
Speaker 5: so many layers, there are so many levels, so many

533
00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:17,080
Speaker 5: details to be understood. So and then I was like

534
00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:19,800
Speaker 5: drawn into it more and more. And then I was like, okay,

535
00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:23,080
Speaker 5: I need a team, Like I know, I'm in it.

536
00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:24,520
Speaker 5: I'm addicted. I need a team.

537
00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:24,840
Speaker 3: Yeah.

538
00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:28,800
Speaker 5: So I followed that season where Lamar was like super special.

539
00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:32,440
Speaker 5: He did things that no other quarterback did, like running

540
00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:34,639
Speaker 5: and unpredictable, and I was like, oh my god, this

541
00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:36,760
Speaker 5: is very interesting. And in the beginning I was a

542
00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:38,760
Speaker 5: little bit afraid, like I was, oh my god, I'm

543
00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:44,359
Speaker 5: scared of that person and whatever. Yeah, so the team

544
00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:47,479
Speaker 5: was really great, and I read more about the Ravens,

545
00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:51,200
Speaker 5: about the background, about the name, and since I read

546
00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:55,159
Speaker 5: a lot of stories of Edgar and Poe myself and

547
00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:56,840
Speaker 5: I like writing, and I was like, oh my god,

548
00:22:57,359 --> 00:23:01,200
Speaker 5: this is a very nice and poetic shows for a team,

549
00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:03,680
Speaker 5: so it was like, yeah, it's.

550
00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:05,160
Speaker 2: Gonna be the Ravens.

551
00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:08,679
Speaker 5: I'm like more and more every year every season, I

552
00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:11,280
Speaker 5: learn more and more and I dive deeper into it

553
00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:15,520
Speaker 5: and it's just beautiful. It's just And also I'm actually

554
00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:20,960
Speaker 5: still proud that I'm like a female fan by myself.

555
00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,400
Speaker 5: I'm not like part of a boyfriend or whatever. It's

556
00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:27,680
Speaker 5: somehow my gut feeling says to me, it's important because

557
00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:31,359
Speaker 5: I see, especially here that the female community is quite big.

558
00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:34,720
Speaker 5: Even when we did the tour earlier today at the stadium,

559
00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:39,840
Speaker 5: there was like there were like fifteen women or girls

560
00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:43,399
Speaker 5: who visited the stadium. So the female community is growing

561
00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:46,159
Speaker 5: and it is a strong gain. I feel like a

562
00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:49,679
Speaker 5: strong woman, So why not being a fan, I just

563
00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:54,080
Speaker 5: can encourage every single woman to just dive into it.

564
00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:55,320
Speaker 5: It's fantastic.

565
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Speaker 1: I told you. I told you.

566
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Speaker 6: My story sounds bored, so busy. For me, it was

567
00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:08,240
Speaker 6: so because in my family have to say my letters

568
00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:11,280
Speaker 6: from the military. There was always like we have to

569
00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:14,719
Speaker 6: do sport. So it's like in the mindset and I

570
00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:19,439
Speaker 6: was twenty eleven to twelve, I was backpacking. Afterwards, I

571
00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:23,160
Speaker 6: wanted to do something new. Then I fund was like saying, hey,

572
00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:25,439
Speaker 6: what about doing a team sport? And it was like

573
00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:27,560
Speaker 6: what team sport? And you said, like American football, was

574
00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:30,520
Speaker 6: like yeah, about that Super Bowl and all that. But

575
00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:34,520
Speaker 6: then I thought about it. Americans really liked teamwork and

576
00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:36,880
Speaker 6: all that, so it could work out so that while

577
00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:41,720
Speaker 6: I was joining then really a minor rewiner German team

578
00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:45,199
Speaker 6: in East Berlin. They are called Berlin Bullets and we

579
00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:49,000
Speaker 6: have several of them in the area, and that's where

580
00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:50,600
Speaker 6: I started playing.

581
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Speaker 1: What positions did you play? O?

582
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Speaker 3: Line? Oh?

583
00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:54,000
Speaker 1: Line? Right?

584
00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:59,680
Speaker 6: Yeah, but I was not good because you know, even

585
00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:01,400
Speaker 6: for the I sent it, that was not really good.

586
00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:07,520
Speaker 6: But also to do that because when you're working in

587
00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:10,080
Speaker 6: the media, you have like fifteen hour shifts in Germany

588
00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:12,040
Speaker 6: like fourteen hours, sixteen hours when he was sort of

589
00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:14,760
Speaker 6: filming all that, so it couldn't attend every training. That

590
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:16,800
Speaker 6: was hurting me of my starting.

591
00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:20,240
Speaker 2: The media industry. Had you'd have been an All pro

592
00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:22,680
Speaker 2: if it weren't for the media. Sure, yeah, that was

593
00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:23,440
Speaker 2: where we were headed.

594
00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:27,159
Speaker 6: Yeah, but you mean, i ll say, you know, an

595
00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:33,240
Speaker 6: All pro in Germany meets probably high school in America.

596
00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 6: So yeah, and then when we like we're havin together

597
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:39,239
Speaker 6: as a team. We had this tradition like you have

598
00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:41,720
Speaker 6: to watch the superw together in American sports, where like

599
00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:47,720
Speaker 6: do the American treatment, like with all this coastlow burghers, barbecues,

600
00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:50,239
Speaker 6: bar roups and all that. So we come together. And

601
00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,760
Speaker 6: my first was actually the Super the Ravens. That's great,

602
00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:58,280
Speaker 6: and then I wanted to root for a team because

603
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:01,320
Speaker 6: my teammates made me too, so and then they were

604
00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:03,679
Speaker 6: telling the story of the Harbors, and basically for me,

605
00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:07,760
Speaker 6: it was that you have like this accomplished Jim Harbor quarterback,

606
00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:11,280
Speaker 6: then coach, really successful working his way up, and then

607
00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:14,000
Speaker 6: you have John Harbor. He had to start with coaching

608
00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:16,280
Speaker 6: because he was not such a good player as Jim,

609
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:19,199
Speaker 6: and I felt like, hmm, this is like an underdog

610
00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:21,399
Speaker 6: story and I like underdogs, so that's why I was

611
00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:24,920
Speaker 6: rooting them for John. And it was really great because

612
00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:27,480
Speaker 6: after waiting for almost half an hour because of the blackout,

613
00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:30,639
Speaker 6: they won. It was like the most amazing feeling, you know,

614
00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:34,200
Speaker 6: you had, And then afterwards I started following the Ravens.

615
00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:37,399
Speaker 6: But it was really difficult on that time because nowadays

616
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:41,360
Speaker 6: in Germany it's like the best ever because you can

617
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:44,840
Speaker 6: almost watch every game nowadays now, but back then it

618
00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:49,480
Speaker 6: was not possible. Maybe playoffs if you had money, maybe

619
00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:54,160
Speaker 6: game pass, but that was really expensive. And Super Bowl.

620
00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:57,560
Speaker 6: That's it. So basically, for the first four years watching Ravens,

621
00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:00,239
Speaker 6: I was only watching the games that were broadcasting. If

622
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:03,040
Speaker 6: they were broadcasting that, that's usually only playoffs.

623
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:04,840
Speaker 1: Okay, wow, that's really nice.

624
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 5: It's growing more and more, like American football is growing

625
00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:10,440
Speaker 5: more and more in Europe right now. They're also building

626
00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:14,360
Speaker 5: up their own like European League, which is also nice. Yeah, yeah,

627
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 5: it's it's really nice to see that development.

628
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 1: And you're you're part of the German Flock, right, which

629
00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:24,440
Speaker 1: was founded in twenty seventeen. You have your merchip. Oh

630
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:29,800
Speaker 1: here we go. Nice, So which is it's an official

631
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:32,480
Speaker 1: it's an official that this is like if you remember

632
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:36,680
Speaker 1: you're getting the stuff. Oh my gosh, amazing, there's a swag.

633
00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:38,600
Speaker 1: There's the swag the double scar.

634
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 2: Because the other scar fresh from Wanda.

635
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,240
Speaker 6: Actually we have an inofficial member because it was getting

636
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 6: my first one, which was the Foundry stuff, which is

637
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:48,440
Speaker 6: a bit bider that was going to day Flowers.

638
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:56,320
Speaker 1: Oh okay, he's part of the German Flock and so like,

639
00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:58,159
Speaker 1: how big has that group gotten.

640
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:06,120
Speaker 6: I've just like in twenty seven it started, seventeens are starting.

641
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 6: The only thing is I have to say at the

642
00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:12,320
Speaker 6: moment it's diminishing a bit because of the London games

643
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:15,760
Speaker 6: were really good. But that's actually what I want to do,

644
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,480
Speaker 6: Like starting next year is like growing up the community

645
00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:21,159
Speaker 6: because I mean we're more and more fans, like in

646
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:23,280
Speaker 6: groups and all that. We have more than a thousand

647
00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:26,600
Speaker 6: German fans cheering for the Ravens. That's great, yeah, but

648
00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:29,960
Speaker 6: we have to organize more more.

649
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,160
Speaker 1: Of I think what we needed is a Ravens game

650
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:35,000
Speaker 1: in Germany. Yes, Oh, that's what I think we need.

651
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:37,160
Speaker 2: Is that the dream right there?

652
00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:39,760
Speaker 5: Yeah, that would be just fantastic.

653
00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:42,400
Speaker 6: Oh my god, that would be honestly, that would be

654
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,240
Speaker 6: probably like the true A plus game of the world.

655
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:48,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know you guys would be there. Well, so

656
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:49,360
Speaker 2: you got you went to the game in New York

657
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:51,480
Speaker 2: this weekend, and you're going to the game in Baltimore

658
00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:54,840
Speaker 2: this weekend. You picked a good one. Steelers. This is uh,

659
00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:57,200
Speaker 2: this is always an exciting one and especially this year

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Speaker 2: with the division online for both of you, just how

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Speaker 2: excited are you to walk into that. I know you went,

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Speaker 2: You've toured the stadium, but it's a warning. It's a

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Speaker 2: little different with fans that compared to when it's empty.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's a little bit more energy in there

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Speaker 2: on a game day. So how excited are you to

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Speaker 2: walk into that stadium on a game day?

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Speaker 6: I would say, like shaking heart.

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Speaker 5: I have butterflies in my stomach. It's baby goats, baby

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Speaker 5: goats all over the place. I cannot eat. I'm like

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Speaker 5: my heartbeat is like somewhere there, and I'm like about

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Speaker 5: to cry because I'm so emotional already and we're still

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Speaker 5: not there yet. It's still on Saturday, but it's just

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Speaker 5: a couple of hours. Yeah, days, I know.

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Speaker 2: It's just Coach Harper always says, don't peak, you know,

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Speaker 2: like for a night game. This thing is always don't

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Speaker 2: peak too soon. The game's not till Saturday at four thirty.

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Speaker 2: So you have to you have to build up the emotion. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you got to. You got to build up to that

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Speaker 2: Saturday for thirty.

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Speaker 5: Really, I'm a very emotionless person. It's so hard.

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Speaker 1: That's great. What do you expect it to be? Like

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Speaker 1: Carson and we need a score prediction? Yes, for both

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Speaker 1: of you.

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Speaker 2: I have a feeling I know which side you're going

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Speaker 2: to lean on.

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Speaker 6: You so all right? For me, honestly, I just I

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Speaker 6: think it would be really amazing. I mean, it's winter time,

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Speaker 6: so it's getting dark, so it's basically like a Thursday

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Speaker 6: night game, just not Thursday night. So the thing, the

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Speaker 6: atmosphere is just probably blown our heads off and then

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Speaker 6: we had to get new heads for that, and then

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Speaker 6: afterwards it's just going to be electric. And maybe I

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Speaker 6: start first with the score prediction, but I think it

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Speaker 6: will be love stcoing game again because the season is

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Speaker 6: just so nasty. But I don't know why, but I

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Speaker 6: feel like we're really going to do that. Probably buy

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Speaker 6: a hair but are we going to do that? I mean,

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Speaker 6: this team is so focused. I mean, for me, it

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Speaker 6: was the first time seeing Lamar curse in public and

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Speaker 6: seeing the death stair of Mark Andrews, like he's probably

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Speaker 6: now at the moment at the level.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so awesome. Well, especially if if they get if

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Speaker 1: we let them have a taste of the German snacks, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that will elevate them even more.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we just have to make sure that make doesn't

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Speaker 2: try to keep all the German stature himself.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's the key here.

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Speaker 2: He's gonna I'll pass him out. I'll pass him out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Thank you so much for joining us, and I

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Speaker 1: know you'll have a blast on Saturday. Thank you, thank you,

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Speaker 1: thank you for both of you.

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Speaker 2: Well, you're listening to the Lounge podcast. We're coming to

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Speaker 2: you from the Sea Geek Studio. We also want to

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Speaker 2: Crown is Yours. Also shout out to wah Wah. If

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Speaker 2: you know a kid who would love to be a

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Speaker 2: wah wah kickoff game, get a chance to be on

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Speaker 2: the field for a Ravens game. Go out there and

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Speaker 2: get that tea after a kickoff is an exciting time.

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Speaker 2: Plus you get wahwah swag bag. So you get the

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Speaker 2: chance to be on the field, get the tea, and

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Speaker 2: you get that wahwah swag bag. If you know a

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Speaker 2: kid who would love to do that, I think there's

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Speaker 2: a lot of kids who would love to do that.

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Speaker 2: Then you love to do it, you would love to

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Speaker 2: it to you. But if you want a kid to

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Speaker 2: Busy Baltimore evens dot com slash Kickoff Kids. So it

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Speaker 2: was fun episode today talking both with Tavis and our

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Speaker 2: friends from Germany. International episode, an international episode of the Lounge.

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Speaker 1: That's right. Yeah, we love our international listeners. Thank you

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Speaker 1: to all those watching and listening. We know there's a

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Speaker 1: bunch of them. We get emails for international listeners all

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Speaker 1: the time, so it's fun to have an international episode.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I always say this. I think that the support

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Speaker 2: from fans internationally, and you saw it we just when

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Speaker 2: we sat down with the two of them. It's just

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Speaker 2: like that fandom. You have to work hard to be

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Speaker 2: a fan.

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Speaker 1: It's rabid.

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Speaker 2: You have to work hard to be a fan. It's

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Speaker 2: not you can't turn on the radio, you can't turn

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Speaker 2: on the TV. It's not just there in front of you.

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Speaker 2: You have to seek it out and you have to

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Speaker 2: be really intentional about it. And I think it's awesome

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Speaker 2: to see that and to see it like a weekend

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Speaker 2: like this where they get a chance to see game

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Speaker 2: in New York, Big Win, come here, go to a

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Speaker 2: Steelers game. It's just a really cool culmmination of all

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Speaker 2: that excitement.

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Speaker 1: To be honest, when we launched this podcast many moons ago,

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Speaker 1: that was one of the first takeaways for me. One

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Speaker 1: of the things that struck me first was that, gosh,

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Speaker 1: we hear from a lot of international listeners that we

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Speaker 1: had a strong fan base there. So so honestly, thank

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Speaker 1: you to all of you out there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was kind of like early on, like, is

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Speaker 2: anybody in America listening.

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Speaker 1: To us aside from our founders.

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Speaker 2: Does this get distributed in America or is this only overseas?

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Speaker 2: But yeah, it's been it's been awesome, So thank you.

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Speaker 2: And as always, speaking of emails, we love to get

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Speaker 2: those emails. You can email us the lounge at Ravens

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Speaker 2: dot NFL dot net. We always appreciate hearing from you,

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Speaker 2: and we are going to be back with you again

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Speaker 2: later this week to really talk about that game against

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Speaker 2: the Steelers. Stationial listening. Talk with you again soon,