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Speaker 1: What's up everybody, and welcome to the latest edition of

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Speaker 1: the Falcons in Focus podcast presented by Ticketmaster, recorded in

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Speaker 1: the ticket Master studios.

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Speaker 2: You can see about the fancy logo back there.

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Speaker 3: And if you aren't singing and your listening, then trust.

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Speaker 4: Is a podcast.

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Speaker 2: There's cameras and stuff.

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Speaker 4: Not everyone watches though.

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Speaker 2: Well, okay, we're off to a roaring start here. I'm

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Speaker 2: Scott Bear.

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Speaker 1: That's story, Bacolandy. This is Mike Cues, brand new Falcons cornerback.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having just done signing on the dotted line

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Speaker 1: two year deal to join a secondary that's got like

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Speaker 1: a lot of talent.

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Speaker 4: Man's a fun group.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a fun group. I think it's going to

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Speaker 1: be an exciting room to be in, right.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Suah, I'm looking forward to it. Man. So I'm

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Speaker 5: just ready to get the work man and see what

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Speaker 5: we could really put together.

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Speaker 3: Now, you played with Richie Grant in twenty seventeen at UCF.

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Speaker 4: Take me back to that time. What was Richie Grant like.

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Speaker 3: In twenty seventeen, because he was a young and at

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Speaker 3: that point, what was he like?

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Speaker 5: What?

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Speaker 2: What?

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Speaker 4: What? What kind of stuff y'all get into?

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Speaker 2: Give us all We got to get.

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Speaker 5: I mean, like you said, he was the young pup,

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Speaker 5: so you know, that's I had to treat him like

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Speaker 5: that little bro, you know, give him a few points

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Speaker 5: here and there. Richie even helped me get a pick

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Speaker 5: one time. I remember he it was against Memphis quarterback

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Speaker 5: through the ball his way, he tipped it and it

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Speaker 5: just fell right into my hands. So yeah, yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, he was always that little bro that you

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Speaker 5: you could pick on, but you know, to bring out

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Speaker 5: the best of them. And I'm sure y'all seen that

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Speaker 5: the years he's been here. But he's a good player

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Speaker 5: and I'm looking forward to, you know, reuniting with him again.

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Speaker 1: Have we had any text messages, any correspondence now that

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Speaker 1: you're officially on the same teammate.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I haven't gotten a chance to get to

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Speaker 5: all of them yet, but they're flowing there right now. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I bet you Richie's pretty pumped and really like you

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Speaker 1: go to UCF and then they just like don't lose

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Speaker 1: a game anymore, right, I mean, like that season for

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Speaker 1: that school, I mean, like what an experience that must

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Speaker 1: have been, you know, because it's like they're.

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Speaker 2: Like they're playing with the big boys. Undefeated.

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Speaker 1: I mean, like, what was that season like that experience,

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Speaker 1: like when you show up, you know, some special things

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Speaker 1: happen and you guys are off.

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Speaker 5: And running, I mean going underfeed. Who doesn't like winning?

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Speaker 5: Yeah right, you know what I mean when you're playing

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Speaker 5: a competitive sport like football. So that year was nothing

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Speaker 5: but memories. Man. It was just it was so fun,

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Speaker 5: just you know, being around those guys, and it was

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Speaker 5: so you know, whenever we stepped on the field, it

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Speaker 5: was just all fun, like we were playing in the backyard.

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Speaker 5: So you know that it was a really good time.

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Speaker 5: I miss it.

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Speaker 4: What made that team so special? Do you think thinking

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Speaker 4: back to it?

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Speaker 5: Thinking back to it, because I.

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Speaker 1: Feel like I don't know, that doesn't happen very often

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Speaker 1: to catch the night like that.

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Speaker 5: I know that the year I can't really speak the years.

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Speaker 5: Probably I got there for a year, but I know,

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Speaker 5: I mean, it wasn't it wasn't that great. I think

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Speaker 5: and thirteen, which is crazy, or maybe they won a

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Speaker 5: formula to get everybody on the same page, I think

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Speaker 5: And Scott Frost, I think he did a great job

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Speaker 5: of that too as well. Shout out to Scott Frost

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Speaker 5: on the podcast. But yeah, I think just you know,

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Speaker 5: just having that camaraderie off the field really does play

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Speaker 5: a big part of any team's connection, you know, whenever

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Speaker 1: Now, you know, if we're talking about you see after

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Speaker 1: that season, you know, we got to ask.

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Speaker 5: About the play the play play the US play.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, what is it?

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Speaker 2: War on iPhone? You guys go what down? Were tied

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Speaker 4: Were yeah, it was go ahead?

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Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure.

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Speaker 1: And then the ball just comes floating down to Miro.

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Speaker 5: Because listen, the very first kickoff of that game, he

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Speaker 5: kicked it short and we ran the same play that

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Speaker 5: I scored on later in that game we ran. At

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Speaker 5: the first play, I was one tackle away from going

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Speaker 5: I just knew, Like once I got the ball in

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Speaker 5: my hands. It was over. It it was over.

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Speaker 3: What do you remember kind of like of that moment,

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Speaker 3: because look, watching the video was one thing, but I

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Speaker 3: imagine being there was something completely different. I mean looking

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Speaker 3: at the stands and everybody was in black, I'm pretty sure.

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Speaker 5: I mean it was just like, yeah, it was crazy.

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Speaker 5: I remember scoring and running, uh like towards our tunnel

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Speaker 5: and then the kick return team they were all following

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Speaker 5: I feel so I was at the bottom of a pile,

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Speaker 3: Just waiting trying.

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Speaker 5: To catch, just waiting to get up to celebrate with

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Speaker 5: was a crazy moment, honestly, that that whole place just erupted.

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Speaker 5: And it's a feeling that I will never you know,

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Speaker 5: forget or uh probably one of the best moments of

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I just think about it and I've asked,

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Speaker 1: you know, CP, one of the best kick every Williams.

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Speaker 2: You know some guys who have been through that, Like

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Speaker 2: when you like, when do you know I'm gone, Like, like,

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Speaker 2: is there a moment?

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Speaker 5: Is there? You know?

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Speaker 1: Because it seems like everything's happening so fast, right that

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Speaker 2: Trying to get through it and survive. But it was

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Speaker 2: there a moment you're like, all.

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Speaker 5: Right before even though I answered that, the moment that

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, that's the best, right. So once I saw

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Speaker 5: me and him, I was like, yeah, I'm going you

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Speaker 2: That is not allowed.

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Speaker 5: You won't. You will never be able to live that now,

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Speaker 5: in the in the meeting rooms or just ever, I guess.

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Speaker 5: But I saw the kicker, I said, yeah, this is

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Speaker 1: I mean, and really, if you think about your your

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Speaker 1: trajectory for lack of a better term, right, you you

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Speaker 1: started North Carolina, you go back to a juco, you

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Speaker 1: play one year at UCF, and then you do well enough,

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Speaker 1: I mean you don't lose, but then you're drafted in

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Speaker 1: like in the first round.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, right, you know, from.

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Speaker 1: The lows to finding a way to earn it the

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Speaker 1: first round draft picks slot. I mean, if we're thinking

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Speaker 1: a half plus years, Like you go to Kansas, right,

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Speaker 1: Garden City, Kansas, we have some questions about guards.

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Speaker 5: But you go from.

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Speaker 1: Garden City, Kansas to a first round draft selection, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, wow, Like what a kind of comeback surge there.

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Speaker 5: It was definitely a quick turnaround, man. And I'm always

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Speaker 5: just you know, blessed to you know, be in that situation.

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Speaker 5: But it had it happened really quick. Like I said,

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Speaker 5: I came from Juco. I got to UCU pretty late.

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Speaker 5: I think I got there like eight days before the season,

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Speaker 5: you know, flip that switch. As soon as I got

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Speaker 5: you know, the year that I had, it was always

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Speaker 5: and then it's just like, guys are right, and uh,

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Speaker 5: I finally believed it, and then uh you know, there

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Speaker 2: I love it.

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Speaker 3: I mean what what I mean talking about like going

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Speaker 5: Definitely, I feel.

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Speaker 4: Bad for all the Garden City people being like, who

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Speaker 4: dare she? But I'm thank you for backing me up

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Speaker 4: on that. What was that like?

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Speaker 3: Because for the first time, you were kind of out

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Speaker 4: Under you, Like what what were what was that?

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Speaker 5: You're like, it was really hard. It's the fact that

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Speaker 5: then go back down to JUCO. So it's like you

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Speaker 5: that was really heavy on my mental. It kind of

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Speaker 5: questioned if I really wanted to play the game, and

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Speaker 5: uh no, I kind of. I got over that hump,

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Speaker 5: found a love of the game again. And you know,

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Speaker 5: we actually had a undefeated season in Garden City too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: That's what made it fun, man, just being around connecting

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Speaker 5: brought us close. We were all close, and like I said, man,

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Speaker 5: it was just we made it fun and it's it's

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Speaker 5: just that much easier going out there playing football when

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Speaker 4: So at the end of the day fall a game.

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Speaker 4: It's fun.

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Speaker 2: I mean, so like, what is there to do for fun?

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Speaker 2: And garden City again?

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Speaker 5: You actually wrong, guys, that's the wrong guy.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's perfect because you're focused on football.

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Speaker 5: Right, it's easy to say for a college kid, he

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Speaker 5: has to get out and do stuff. I mean, it

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Speaker 5: definitely made me put my foot down and uh, you know,

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Speaker 5: made it into a business trip. Yeah, I kind of

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Speaker 5: looked at it that way.

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Speaker 1: Right, and that and that you got business done, you

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Speaker 1: got back into D one. Yeah, and then you were saying,

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Speaker 1: okay that you thought you're hearing Okay, maybe I'm going

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Speaker 1: to be there in the first round, right, the first

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Speaker 1: round's rapping. You're in the thirty you know, twenty nine,

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Speaker 1: twenty eight, thirty. Oh yeah, are you thinking maybe I'm

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Speaker 1: a Day two guys? Or you clutching by the like

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Speaker 3: here recently. Now everyone's favorite part of the podcast rapid Fire.

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Speaker 4: You ready, there are no wrong answer?

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Speaker 2: I think, I don't think.

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Speaker 4: We can do a little of that. I keep doing

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Speaker 2: The first question, everybody is the favorite play of their career.

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Speaker 5: We definitely discussed Yeah, okay.

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Speaker 4: I do rot. I thought, what's his name?

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Speaker 5: His name is Zeus, Zeus.

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Speaker 2: Devin Hester, former Atlanta Falcone. Him into the Hall of Fame,

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Speaker 2: please please, it's about time. That's a respect on the returnment.

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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, for real, if you were a superhero, what

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Speaker 5: I wish I could sing.

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Speaker 5: So like singing, drawing is pretty That's that's like a

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Speaker 5: Huh no, No, Richie.

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Speaker 4: Richie have you seen Richie in the Carrier's legendary?

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Speaker 3: Apparently according to Richie, I don't know about anybody.

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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, this is fun. This was fun.

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Speaker 1: Falcons and Focused Podcast presented by Ticketmaster. Great conversation. I

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