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Speaker 2: Is in a real fans, we're going winded. He's like, man,

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Speaker 2: those boys are gonna be something. What's up? Falcons fans?

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Friday five. I'm your host, Will McFadden.

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Speaker 2: I'm joined by Tory mclaney. We are here to discuss

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Speaker 2: what else? Free agency?

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Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, yeah, it's been a busy time.

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Speaker 2: It has been way busier than I expected it to be,

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Speaker 2: which we will get into, but first appreciate your patience

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Speaker 2: as we've kind of been navigating the combine free agency,

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Speaker 2: my paternity leave. There's been a lot going on here

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Speaker 2: in Flowery Branch. But moving forward, we do expect to

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Speaker 2: be back every Friday, So keep an eye on the feed.

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Speaker 2: Friday five will be with you from now through the

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Speaker 2: draft and then hopefully continuing on throughout the off season.

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Speaker 2: We got OTA's Mini camp, some fun stuff planned, so

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Speaker 2: keep your eyes on the feed. But today were going

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Speaker 2: to talk about free agency. Tory, I'm gonna give a

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Speaker 2: kind of quick rundown of what the Falcons have done

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Speaker 2: so far. They have signed sixteen players, five on offense,

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Speaker 2: nine on defense, two on special teams. Jake Bailey, Johan Dodson,

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Speaker 2: I should say their positions, right, Yeah, Punter Jake Bailey,

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Speaker 2: wide receiver Johan Dodson, defensive end Samson Abuocham, kicker, Nick Folk,

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Speaker 2: defensive lineman, DeShawn Hand linebacker, Christian Harris, tight end, Austin Hooper,

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Speaker 2: offensive lineman Corey Levin, defensive tackle, Lakale London, defensive end,

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Speaker 2: Aziz Ojulari quarterback, to at Taigavola, defensive end, Cameron Thomas, linebacker,

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Speaker 2: Channing Tindall, not Channing Tatum, defensive lineman Chris Williams, and

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Speaker 2: wide receiver Alamide Zikias. So please check out our free

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Speaker 2: agency tracker on Atlanta Falcons dot com where you can

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Speaker 2: kind of keep up to date with all of those

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Speaker 2: news and notes. But Tory, what's your overall reaction to

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Speaker 2: kind of that long long list that I just read

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Speaker 3: Yeah? No, I think that my main takeaway was I

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Speaker 3: don't think I was expecting this volume of signees in

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Speaker 3: where it felt like, Okay, you don't have as much

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Speaker 3: money to play with in free agency and you still

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Speaker 3: have holes to fill, but you're looking at guys probably

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Speaker 3: on like a shorter contract, a cat friendly contract, which

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Speaker 3: is basically what the Falcons did. But the volume of

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Speaker 3: having sixteen different players joining up in a matter of

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Speaker 3: like five days holistically is like was not at all

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Speaker 3: was pleasantly surprised. I also thought it was really nice

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Speaker 3: the chance to sit down with Azizogalri and Channing Tenda,

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Speaker 3: kind of built relationships with.

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Speaker 4: And you had the chance to.

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Speaker 3: Talk about Matt Ryan and his new role as president

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Speaker 3: of football with two individuals who caught passes from him. Like,

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Speaker 3: there are just some really cool storylines that I think

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Speaker 3: came out of this free agency period that we're really

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I should say that you will hear on

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Speaker 2: the back end of this episode conversations with three of

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Speaker 2: was a great conversation that we had, And I should say,

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Speaker 2: have been made, so stay tuned for that. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think that helps you build the culture in the

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Speaker 2: But the reason I bring that up is like what

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Speaker 2: And so it's almost like when you don't have enough

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Speaker 3: I also think too, And this is something Ian Cunningham

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think it speaks highly of Atlanta as

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Speaker 2: just that. But you mentioned, you know, we heard from

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Speaker 2: been ongoing. So that was really refreshing. Yeah, to see

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Speaker 3: I mean, it has to be the whole too. A conversation.

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Speaker 3: It has to be the quarterback conversation. I think that

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Speaker 3: she wrote about right, which I wrote about on Atlanta.

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Speaker 4: Falcons dot Com.

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Speaker 3: Go check it out. But I do think that that

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Speaker 3: the what if they told to it? Like it kind

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Speaker 3: is competing. We're not naming starters in March, just like

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought it was really smart approach. You know,

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Speaker 2: how people think if you put a microphone in front

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Speaker 2: that they felt they elevated the floor of the roster.

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Speaker 2: And when you already have stars in place, offensively Jean Robinson,

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Speaker 2: And I had my birthday party last weekend, so it

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Speaker 5: and it paid off for us. And that's what made

437
00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:39,560
Speaker 5: it a lot more fun because went through a lot

438
00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:43,119
Speaker 5: of things, you know, during training camp, some injuries here

439
00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:46,399
Speaker 5: and there, but you know, through it all, we were

440
00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:49,600
Speaker 5: able to stay together and be a family, like honestly

441
00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:52,399
Speaker 5: actually be a family, like cared for one another, enjoyed

442
00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:56,600
Speaker 5: coming into work and you know, winning just as so

443
00:21:56,720 --> 00:22:01,720
Speaker 5: much value on top of that, so uh it was

444
00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:04,920
Speaker 5: it was a special, special, very special year. So definitely

445
00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:06,440
Speaker 5: trying to bring that here to Atlanta.

446
00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:09,040
Speaker 3: Love, I know, I was just like I loved watching

447
00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:12,800
Speaker 3: you and Grady Andrew dormand like guys who you know

448
00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:16,480
Speaker 3: this This industry is very big, but it's also very small,

449
00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:19,680
Speaker 3: and you love seeing guys like succeed at the highest level.

450
00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:20,920
Speaker 4: So it was really cool watching y'all.

451
00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:22,680
Speaker 1: Was definitely appreciate that. Appreciate that.

452
00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:24,159
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, when you go through the ups and

453
00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:26,400
Speaker 2: downs of a season two right with with the same

454
00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:28,200
Speaker 2: group of people like you gets to know him on

455
00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:30,400
Speaker 2: on just kind of a different level. It might be

456
00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:32,920
Speaker 2: Saker sank to name just one, but do you have

457
00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:35,120
Speaker 2: a favorite pizza spot in in Chicago?

458
00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:38,200
Speaker 1: Are you a pizza I am a pizza guy.

459
00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:41,240
Speaker 5: I feel like I didn't tap into the pizza scene

460
00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:42,280
Speaker 5: as much as I should have.

461
00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:44,560
Speaker 2: What was your what was your go to?

462
00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:50,960
Speaker 5: Sushika? Yeah, big sushi guy and uh Sushi by Scratch.

463
00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:54,400
Speaker 3: It's like, so, wait, are you making it yourself?

464
00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:57,520
Speaker 1: Heaven's no Lord?

465
00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:00,760
Speaker 5: Is that the name of a spot? That's the name

466
00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:06,320
Speaker 5: of a spot out there? Yeah, it's like, yeah, you.

467
00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:07,360
Speaker 3: Could have said anything and I've been.

468
00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:11,720
Speaker 5: Like yeah, yeah yeah, it's like where they make the

469
00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:16,240
Speaker 5: sushi in front of you. Yeah, Caleb took me to

470
00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:20,040
Speaker 5: to that spot, and uh yeah that's that's the one.

471
00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:21,600
Speaker 1: That's the one, for sure. For sure.

472
00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:24,560
Speaker 2: It seems like you're you're really well traveled. I mean,

473
00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:28,159
Speaker 2: you got Japanese dog, You've been to Brazil getting sushi. Like,

474
00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:30,080
Speaker 2: do you have any favorite places that you've.

475
00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:35,080
Speaker 1: Ever Zeila in Brazil's number one? Okay, yeah, yeah.

476
00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:40,880
Speaker 5: There's what about it stands out everything food, the culture,

477
00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:46,760
Speaker 5: just the people out there. Everybody's welcoming and uh, it

478
00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:50,240
Speaker 5: was just a great experience for me, I would say.

479
00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:53,040
Speaker 5: Other than Brazil, though, I did like Barcelona as well.

480
00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:58,320
Speaker 5: Love love Spain, Love Spain. I know a little Spanish

481
00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:02,040
Speaker 5: spani to get us, you know, just a little bit.

482
00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:07,920
Speaker 3: Well we're going to Madrid.

483
00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:08,960
Speaker 4: Madrid, so excited.

484
00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:10,240
Speaker 1: Was definitely not way.

485
00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:12,800
Speaker 3: I love We went to Germany this past year, going

486
00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:13,960
Speaker 3: to Madrid this year.

487
00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:15,680
Speaker 4: Like it's gonna be it's gonna be fun.

488
00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:18,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love I love Spain, I love Spain.

489
00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:21,840
Speaker 3: So looking kind of forward into twenty twenty six, you're

490
00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:25,000
Speaker 3: rejoining Drake London in this receiver room.

491
00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:26,280
Speaker 4: I believe you were.

492
00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:29,320
Speaker 3: Was your last year, his rookie year, it was okay,

493
00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:30,119
Speaker 3: so he was baby.

494
00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:31,000
Speaker 4: That was baby Drake.

495
00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:32,960
Speaker 1: It was baby Drake.

496
00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:35,880
Speaker 3: Now now he's well established, he's grown up a lot.

497
00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:40,040
Speaker 3: But for you, what excites you about coming into this

498
00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:43,680
Speaker 3: room in particular and also working within Kevin Stebanski's offense.

499
00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:48,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I'll speak on Drake first. You know, obviously

500
00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:49,879
Speaker 5: he was here. I was here when he was a rookie,

501
00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:53,840
Speaker 5: and uh, just seeing where his game has gone since

502
00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:56,359
Speaker 5: then is like very cool to see, Like he's always

503
00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:59,160
Speaker 5: had the talent. Yeah, and he just he really put

504
00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:02,000
Speaker 5: it together. You really put it together. And I love

505
00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:04,320
Speaker 5: the passion that he plays with, like he got that

506
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:08,440
Speaker 5: dog in him and he does switch most definitely, most

507
00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:09,600
Speaker 5: definitely I love that.

508
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:11,120
Speaker 1: I love that at bottom, and.

509
00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:13,440
Speaker 5: Uh, just excited to get back to work with him

510
00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:17,160
Speaker 5: and then Johan too. I was with him in Washington

511
00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:19,439
Speaker 5: for a little bit, so excited to be back with

512
00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:21,399
Speaker 5: him and uh, you know, I'll get to meet the

513
00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:23,879
Speaker 5: other guys and stuff. So I'm just just excited to

514
00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:25,600
Speaker 5: get to work with them and then to build a

515
00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:26,320
Speaker 5: winning culture here.

516
00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:30,360
Speaker 2: Did Drake have that switch even as a rookie.

517
00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:34,359
Speaker 5: Most definitely, most definitely. H Yeah, he's always had it.

518
00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:38,160
Speaker 5: I don't think he's never not had it. Yeah, for sure.

519
00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:41,720
Speaker 5: But that's that's my guy. And then working with Kevin,

520
00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:43,480
Speaker 5: we went to the same high school.

521
00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:46,520
Speaker 3: Okay, someone told me this. I believe that was our

522
00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:49,639
Speaker 3: team photographer Taylor, because she was she's also from that

523
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:53,240
Speaker 3: area and went to high school in a place close

524
00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:55,679
Speaker 3: to where y'all are, where y'all are from, And so

525
00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:57,560
Speaker 3: she texted me this morning she was like, he went

526
00:25:57,560 --> 00:25:59,200
Speaker 3: to the same high school as Vin Swanska And I

527
00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:01,080
Speaker 3: was like, crazy.

528
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:01,280
Speaker 4: Small world.

529
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:01,840
Speaker 1: Wow.

530
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:05,800
Speaker 5: And I've been actually played Cleveland like the last like

531
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:09,159
Speaker 5: three years, I think, uh two or three years, so

532
00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:12,080
Speaker 5: been able to just you know play against them, and

533
00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:14,040
Speaker 5: then we always would like chat before the game after

534
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:15,960
Speaker 5: the game, and uh, you know, just finally get a

535
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,199
Speaker 5: chance to work with him alongside with him is It's

536
00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:21,000
Speaker 5: going to be pretty cool. And we've been been talking

537
00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:23,399
Speaker 5: about that for a while now, so for it to

538
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:25,199
Speaker 5: come to life here in Atlanta is Uh, it's a

539
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:27,320
Speaker 5: great opportunity. I'm excited about it.

540
00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:28,959
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. All right.

541
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:30,919
Speaker 2: We got a few just kind of like fun ones

542
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:33,119
Speaker 2: for you, and then we're gonna wrap it up. What

543
00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:34,879
Speaker 2: was the last TV show that you watched that you

544
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:36,119
Speaker 2: absolutely loved?

545
00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:43,000
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, it's this show called from okay from

546
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:43,480
Speaker 5: I have.

547
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:50,960
Speaker 2: A few Actually, yeah, well I have I have two Traders. Yeah,

548
00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:56,680
Speaker 2: I love Traders. Off listen listen Traders? Is that show

549
00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:57,200
Speaker 2: it is?

550
00:26:57,280 --> 00:27:02,280
Speaker 3: I applied for the season. Yeah, I did, because I did.

551
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:03,640
Speaker 1: Yes, it's that good.

552
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:05,440
Speaker 3: It's that good because I'm like, I think I could.

553
00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:06,159
Speaker 3: I think I could do it.

554
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 1: Would you be a trader or so?

555
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:11,399
Speaker 3: I think that of course everybody wants to be a trader.

556
00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:13,480
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't. You don't want to be a

557
00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:14,200
Speaker 1: terrible trader?

558
00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 3: Okay, see I think that I could be. Okay, but

559
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:19,720
Speaker 3: I would have the problem of like I wouldn't want

560
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:21,480
Speaker 3: to be made to people, you know, like and I

561
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:23,600
Speaker 3: was faithful. You just kind of are playing with everybody

562
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:24,840
Speaker 3: and you're suspicious the whole time.

563
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:28,679
Speaker 5: But I think i'd be a great faithful Okay, if

564
00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:31,760
Speaker 5: I was a trader, I would just be I would

565
00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:32,480
Speaker 5: have my tails.

566
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:36,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, I get to twitch, and let's get him nervous.

567
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:40,159
Speaker 2: That's why Rob was so good. So but his Pulse

568
00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:41,760
Speaker 2: never rose above like this is.

569
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:43,880
Speaker 5: This is what I'll say about Rob, though, I feel

570
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:47,160
Speaker 5: like if Rob was on a different season with different faithfuls,

571
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:48,440
Speaker 5: he would have got caught.

572
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:49,159
Speaker 4: I agree with that.

573
00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:51,439
Speaker 3: I think that that that group, it was just a

574
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:54,600
Speaker 3: perfect storm. If he was on last season with like

575
00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:58,399
Speaker 3: Scatty or even yeah Cet, like Trichelle, they would have

576
00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:00,880
Speaker 3: they would have like he's too he's too good.

577
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:03,200
Speaker 1: They would have they would have figured that out.

578
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:08,280
Speaker 5: So Traders is like, yeah, elite, I've been in just

579
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:11,280
Speaker 5: all four seasons in like two weeks. It was it

580
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 5: was really good. And then the show from how do

581
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 5: I describe it?

582
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:22,600
Speaker 1: It's just a really good Okay, this is the thing.

583
00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:24,880
Speaker 1: It's onn MGM.

584
00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:26,480
Speaker 2: Plus Okay, I love that.

585
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:30,480
Speaker 1: I don't. I hate it. I actually hate it. I

586
00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:31,320
Speaker 1: actually hate that.

587
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:37,480
Speaker 5: But it's a show about a town that it's just

588
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:40,960
Speaker 5: it's it's a hard show to describe, but it's just

589
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:41,600
Speaker 5: it's really good.

590
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:44,240
Speaker 3: After I'll get back to you.

591
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:46,920
Speaker 2: Most definitely, it was definitely from from from its kind

592
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:49,680
Speaker 2: of plus like that's the first I'm aware of what

593
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:51,600
Speaker 2: that is. That the first time I've ever heard that

594
00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:53,320
Speaker 2: they have content exactly.

595
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,120
Speaker 1: It's it's it's good. It won't disappoint, won't disappoint.

596
00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 2: How long do you think you could survive in a

597
00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:00,560
Speaker 2: remote forest? Wolves?

598
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:02,320
Speaker 1: Uh?

599
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:06,160
Speaker 2: No, water, like I have to do everything just dropped

600
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:07,640
Speaker 2: in there. This is just me.

601
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 5: Yeah, uh give me thirty six hours are gone. As

602
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,440
Speaker 5: soon as my body shuts down without food and water,

603
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:21,040
Speaker 5: it's yeah over. I'll probably get some off on some water,

604
00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:24,280
Speaker 5: but having to like catch a fish by myself or

605
00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:25,640
Speaker 5: you know, skin.

606
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:30,480
Speaker 1: And skin in anything, literally anything, it's over with. Okay.

607
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not a survivalist either.

608
00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 1: Yeah. Sorry, give me a wi Fi and I.

609
00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:39,480
Speaker 4: Don't have my please, I start sweating.

610
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:40,840
Speaker 2: I'm like, well that it's over.

611
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:42,400
Speaker 1: It's over all right.

612
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,000
Speaker 2: This one's kind of adjacent. But if you had the

613
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 2: chance to go to outer space, would you do it?

614
00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:49,160
Speaker 1: I feel like outer space is in a real thing.

615
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:51,440
Speaker 1: That's now that's a different.

616
00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:53,720
Speaker 3: That's a that's a completely different conversation.

617
00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 5: Yeah, but you know I have my theories about outer space.

618
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:01,200
Speaker 5: Feel like nobody's been to the moon.

619
00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:04,520
Speaker 2: Okay, so yeah, you think there's all staged on an MGM.

620
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:12,480
Speaker 5: Plus set MGM plus They are getting so much today, good.

621
00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:13,600
Speaker 2: It's going to break in here. It be like stop

622
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:15,240
Speaker 2: good for MGM.

623
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:17,200
Speaker 4: Plus I love that.

624
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:17,920
Speaker 1: We love that.

625
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:22,160
Speaker 5: But yeah, I don't think space is necessarily real in

626
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:23,360
Speaker 5: the way that we think of it.

627
00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:24,800
Speaker 1: Okay, I love that.

628
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna put a pin in that.

629
00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:27,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll come back on.

630
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:30,240
Speaker 2: It's gonna be so good. We're gonna do a whole

631
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:32,720
Speaker 2: space episode. We're gonna be wearing astronaut suits. It's gonna

632
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 2: be awesome.

633
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:34,560
Speaker 1: Perfect. I'm down.

634
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:37,360
Speaker 2: Well, Alamaday, welcome back. Thank you. Great to have you.

635
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 2: It's great to chat with you. We look forward to

636
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:40,760
Speaker 2: seeing you back out there on the field.

637
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:41,960
Speaker 1: Was definitely appreciate y'all.

638
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 2: We're joined now by a Z's Ojalari, the Falcon's newest

639
00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:51,320
Speaker 2: pass rusher, and a former Georgia bulldog, which of course

640
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:54,240
Speaker 2: makes Toy and I happy. Of course. What's up, man,

641
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:54,800
Speaker 2: how you doing?

642
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:57,040
Speaker 6: What's up? I'm amazing, Thanks for having me.

643
00:30:57,640 --> 00:30:58,080
Speaker 7: We love that.

644
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:01,280
Speaker 3: Okay. So you're a dog through and through. You're a

645
00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:05,720
Speaker 3: george boy, through and through. From Bostal, Georgia, went to

646
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:08,320
Speaker 3: Marriotta High School, went to the University of Georgia, and

647
00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:11,280
Speaker 3: now you're playing for the Atlanta Falcons. Can you kind

648
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 3: of just surmise what all of that that means to

649
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:15,960
Speaker 3: you at this point in your career.

650
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:18,680
Speaker 6: Man, It's just it's a big blessing and thankful for

651
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:21,560
Speaker 6: the opportunity, you know, just being back with the home team.

652
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:23,520
Speaker 6: This is what you dream of as a kid. Man,

653
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:26,719
Speaker 6: You growing up watching the football games and you're like, oh, man,

654
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:28,320
Speaker 6: I want to play for focus on grow up, man,

655
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 6: I don't want to play for focus. And now what's happening.

656
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:32,160
Speaker 6: It's like, it's so surreal and I'm just blessing the

657
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:32,720
Speaker 6: happy beer.

658
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:33,960
Speaker 2: Did you grow up with Falcons?

659
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:36,000
Speaker 6: Yeah? I did? You know growing up watching you know

660
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 6: Matt Ryan, you know Roddy White, you know Big Beazy,

661
00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:43,719
Speaker 6: you know. I mean, well, I'm just it was amazing,

662
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 6: you know.

663
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:47,960
Speaker 2: So now a chance to sit and meet Matt.

664
00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:53,720
Speaker 6: Man. It's amazing to meet him, man, to chop it

665
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:55,440
Speaker 6: up with him. And now I'm here, So it's crazy.

666
00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:59,520
Speaker 3: Oh I love it. So let's talk about our glory days.

667
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:00,480
Speaker 3: We all went to the.

668
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:02,040
Speaker 6: University of Georgia.

669
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 3: Glory, glory, glory to old Georgia. How about them dogs?

670
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 3: What is your favorite memory repping.

671
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:12,040
Speaker 6: The g favorite memory, I will say.

672
00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:14,160
Speaker 3: And is it the Peach Bowl Peach Bowl.

673
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:16,600
Speaker 6: Is up there too, but I'll say we beat Notre

674
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 6: Dame between nineteen and that was the day. That was

675
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 6: one of the ones. That night was amazing. You know,

676
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 6: it was a great game and they set those lights off.

677
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 6: Fourth quarter was a rocket, got the chill. So I'll

678
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 6: say those two in the Peach Bowl for sure, going

679
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 6: off with a win. It was my last last game

680
00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 6: in Georgia, so in Mercedes, so that was that was amazing.

681
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:45,240
Speaker 3: So that Peach Bowl. It was funny because we asked

682
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:51,280
Speaker 3: Channing what his like favorite memory in Mercedespin Stadium was. Now,

683
00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 3: you played a good number of games in Mercedes Bens

684
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:57,400
Speaker 3: as well, do you have a favorite, like one play.

685
00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 6: That you're like, I always remember the uh it was

686
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 6: against Cincinnati Again to people, I'll always remember the stripsack

687
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:06,719
Speaker 6: fort bumble and my boy Adam Anderson scooped it up

688
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:08,720
Speaker 6: and recovered it. It was a turning point in the game.

689
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,720
Speaker 6: We need that big play so bad and it helped

690
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:14,240
Speaker 6: us provode us to end up helping us win the game.

691
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:16,360
Speaker 6: So that's one of my favorite players there.

692
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 2: So I know everybody has kind of talked about Philadelphia

693
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:24,280
Speaker 2: and ever all the Georgia Bulldogs kind of that defense. Yeah,

694
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:26,360
Speaker 2: you were just with them and part of that crew.

695
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 2: But now Atlanta is starting to catch back up. We

696
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:32,280
Speaker 2: got Jayalen Walker, we got Channing, we got you. You know,

697
00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 2: what does it mean to you to kind of be

698
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:36,760
Speaker 2: reuniting with Channing and then you know, getting to play

699
00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 2: with Jalen.

700
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:40,160
Speaker 6: It's amazing, you know because like we we we we've

701
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:43,480
Speaker 6: been doing this like since college. You know, Charlie Warner too.

702
00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't forget.

703
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:48,080
Speaker 6: Yeah, we used to go out all the time the practice.

704
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 6: You know, he tied in. He's a great player, great blockers. Uh,

705
00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:53,600
Speaker 6: and he works hard and we all work hard coming

706
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:55,400
Speaker 6: from un versus Georgia, and it's just I feel like

707
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:57,560
Speaker 6: we continue to push each other here and push the

708
00:33:57,560 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 6: others around us and try to make each other keep

709
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:01,800
Speaker 6: continue to improve. And that's big.

710
00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 3: I feel like everything that we always talk with with

711
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 3: scouts and just people across the NFL landscape is how

712
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:10,719
Speaker 3: ready made Georgia players are for the league and for

713
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:14,640
Speaker 3: the NFL. When you think back to your years at Georgia,

714
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:19,920
Speaker 3: what what foundations established you to come into the league

715
00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:22,440
Speaker 3: and have the hot start that you were able to have.

716
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:25,400
Speaker 6: I feel like it's just the way coach Smart and

717
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:27,440
Speaker 6: the staff do things out there and down in Athens,

718
00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 6: and uh, it's just it's just different, you know. The

719
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:32,800
Speaker 6: way they approach everything is like a professional mindset in

720
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 6: a professional way, and I feel like that helps all

721
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:38,120
Speaker 6: the players that's there right now and transition to the

722
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:40,040
Speaker 6: next level. And I feel that's a big thing that

723
00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:43,960
Speaker 6: they do well. And everything's everything's tough and hard, you know,

724
00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:46,760
Speaker 6: so nothing's easy, and I feel like that's what prefers

725
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 6: us well for the next level. For sure.

726
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:52,040
Speaker 2: I was I was looking back after you were drafted

727
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 2: by the Giants and had some of your quotes. I

728
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:56,320
Speaker 2: think it was actually the first kind of press conference

729
00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:58,880
Speaker 2: or media call you did, and you said, I'm definitely

730
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:02,520
Speaker 2: relentless effort, never a question. I can rust the passer,

731
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:04,880
Speaker 2: stop the run, dropping the coverage, all of that stuff.

732
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:07,880
Speaker 2: I mean, that feels tailor made for a Jeff Oulbrick

733
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:11,279
Speaker 2: defense for sure. What are the Falcons getting in you?

734
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:13,200
Speaker 2: And then what have they told you about just kind

735
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:15,400
Speaker 2: of how they plan to use you in this defense?

736
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:18,759
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll say a relentless player that's uh down to

737
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:22,719
Speaker 6: do whatever can for his teammates, violent, physical, you know,

738
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:27,360
Speaker 6: uh quick, KABINDI rush the passers at the edge, dropping coverage.

739
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:29,920
Speaker 6: I have to And you know, I'm gonna be there

740
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,480
Speaker 6: for my teammates whatever I need to do. You know,

741
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:35,239
Speaker 6: I'm always just just ready to work. I'm excited to

742
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:39,680
Speaker 6: be here, ready to just you know, just keep working.

743
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:42,160
Speaker 6: And you know it's it's gonna be a good plan.

744
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:42,480
Speaker 4: You know.

745
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,359
Speaker 6: Uh the tack style defense he runs here and it's

746
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:48,560
Speaker 6: aggressive it is and uh flight is gonna work really well,

747
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:49,600
Speaker 6: you know, love it.

748
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:51,880
Speaker 3: And now does your family still live in like the

749
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:56,800
Speaker 3: Marietta area? Okay, so what were there? What's their reaction

750
00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:59,279
Speaker 3: when when you told them, Hey, I'm gonna comeing home,

751
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:01,440
Speaker 3: Like just surreal.

752
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:04,480
Speaker 6: They're so happy and so excited, Like it's it's crazy,

753
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 6: the excitement and the joy and the love out of

754
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:09,880
Speaker 6: the moment. It's just they're so happy.

755
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:19,840
Speaker 3: Travel very.

756
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:21,399
Speaker 2: That's terrific. Down the road, right down the road, Torri.

757
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 2: You got any more football oriented questions or should we

758
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:25,439
Speaker 2: get to some.

759
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:27,799
Speaker 3: Of the No, this isn't a football oriented question. It's

760
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:30,600
Speaker 3: more just like a fact check for me. Was your

761
00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 3: maternal grandfather a Nigerian prince?

762
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:34,000
Speaker 6: Yeah?

763
00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:37,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Nigerian Prince.

764
00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:40,960
Speaker 2: Share share a little bit about him.

765
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 1: Man.

766
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:43,560
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know growing up he I mean when he

767
00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:46,040
Speaker 6: came to America. Yeah, he used to stay with us

768
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 6: and he's babysit us when your mom parents want to work.

769
00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:51,120
Speaker 6: He used to be there babysitting us and we run

770
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 6: around the house making noise and all that. He used

771
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 6: to be bad, but he always used to bring us

772
00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 6: down there downstairs and uh he just hold us and

773
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:01,160
Speaker 6: try to keep his quest it is chill. And he

774
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 6: feed us grapes and sweets and candies and stuff. So yeah,

775
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:09,239
Speaker 6: and stuff. And he always knew that we will be

776
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:12,680
Speaker 6: He always uh talked to us and like just let

777
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:14,239
Speaker 6: us know, like, yeah, you guys are gonna be great.

778
00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:15,799
Speaker 6: You guys gonna be something in life. You guys are

779
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:18,440
Speaker 6: gonna be making positive impact in the community. And uh

780
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:21,760
Speaker 6: me and all my young siblings, and we were blessed

781
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:24,080
Speaker 6: to be able to do that, and uh having him

782
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 6: in our life was just a blessing. And you know,

783
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 6: so it's it's been great. You know, he has a

784
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:31,200
Speaker 6: lot of great artworks and stuff we have. You know,

785
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:34,799
Speaker 6: we have the house and stuff too, So it's it's

786
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 6: amazing to have those things in his memory, and uh

787
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:39,480
Speaker 6: he has this amazing man.

788
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:41,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really cool. I think I saw like has

789
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:47,479
Speaker 3: private collections and like Madrid, London, Nigeria, Like yeah, yeah,

790
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:48,080
Speaker 3: Like it's.

791
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:51,480
Speaker 6: Just travel a lot too. My mom was just traveling

792
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:53,400
Speaker 6: around the country everywhere.

793
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 3: It's so fun too, because I saw something where your

794
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 3: mom said something along line, so what you were saying

795
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:00,279
Speaker 3: where he was like, I know that, I feel because

796
00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:05,400
Speaker 3: is going to be something like I think that's like, yeah.

797
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:08,920
Speaker 2: Oh god, man, that's I've got. I've got two little boys,

798
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:10,840
Speaker 2: but I can't imagine what it would take to like

799
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:14,800
Speaker 2: have two future NFL players, Like I already feel like

800
00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 2: I'm out of breath. With him being like chase me

801
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 2: around the house, y'all were probably on a totally different

802
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 2: He was like Whended, He's like, man, those boys are

803
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:23,840
Speaker 2: gonna be something.

804
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:31,920
Speaker 6: Was it was we made work, all right.

805
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:34,720
Speaker 2: So a couple of of just off the wall questions.

806
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:38,560
Speaker 2: When you're sick, What are some things you like to do, eat, drink,

807
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:41,239
Speaker 2: watch on TV to get you feeling good?

808
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 6: We have this, well, my mom has a lot of

809
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:50,680
Speaker 6: remedies natural you know, well, it's a lot. Is this

810
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:53,320
Speaker 6: This is a thing called a Bowli Keys from Nigeria.

811
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:56,400
Speaker 6: It's like you can put it in like it's like

812
00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:59,280
Speaker 6: a it's like a vapor up.

813
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, like a medicinal like vapor you can put in

814
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:04,760
Speaker 2: a bowl hot water.

815
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,319
Speaker 3: Just clear clear everything out.

816
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:11,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's amazing.

817
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:15,280
Speaker 6: It works definitely. In pepper soup is like a ninjine

818
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 6: and cyber soup. It's very spicy hot, so they probably

819
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:20,919
Speaker 6: put goat me in there, beef or whatever you want

820
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 6: really or fish some people do, and it's really spicy soup.

821
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 6: Help your you know, sisters, it's all out clearing.

822
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:30,360
Speaker 2: It's like the shrimp cocktail.

823
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 3: And in Indianapolis that's exactly right.

824
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 6: Yeah right there, you know other than you know, to

825
00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:38,840
Speaker 6: drink tea and regular teas and stuff.

826
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:42,239
Speaker 2: But yeah, okay, it's a good answer. What is the

827
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:43,720
Speaker 2: best gift You've ever given?

828
00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:50,600
Speaker 6: Gift I ever given? Uh? Oh gift? You know.

829
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 2: I always feel bad just like dropping these on everybody

830
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 2: because like they would take me a minute.

831
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:58,440
Speaker 3: To well the first one when you started, when you're

832
00:39:58,520 --> 00:39:59,839
Speaker 3: sick and I'm like, who's.

833
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:04,240
Speaker 6: Sick, I'll say my parents. Cars.

834
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:08,239
Speaker 2: You know, I don't think I've got anybody.

835
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:13,279
Speaker 3: Car personally out of my own budget. But no, that's great.

836
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 3: I love that answer.

837
00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 2: All right, Uh, what's the most recent thing that you

838
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:19,279
Speaker 2: have taught yourself.

839
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:24,160
Speaker 6: Recent taught myself? Well, I haven't I taught myself, but

840
00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:29,920
Speaker 6: I'm trying to learn to play the guitar. I'm starting

841
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:31,479
Speaker 6: right now. I'm still a beginner phase.

842
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:32,640
Speaker 4: But you're watching a.

843
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:40,160
Speaker 3: Lot of YouTube YouTube. Yeah, yeah, no, that's how it was.

844
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:42,160
Speaker 3: In the pandemic. I tried to teach myself how to

845
00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:44,560
Speaker 3: play piano, and so I was just like it was

846
00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:48,920
Speaker 3: me with a keyboard on my kitchen table with YouTube playing,

847
00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:50,840
Speaker 3: and I'm like, well, this is what's gonna happen.

848
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:53,319
Speaker 2: For sure to you like this, I tried to try

849
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:59,040
Speaker 2: to learn evermore on piano. Sw Yeah, all right, last

850
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:01,279
Speaker 2: one for you, as he's are you a beach guy

851
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:02,080
Speaker 2: or a mountain guy?

852
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:06,120
Speaker 6: That's cool because I mean I wouldn't mind going on

853
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:08,319
Speaker 6: a mountain hike or a trail. But I do love

854
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:10,280
Speaker 6: the beach though, because you know, the water, the sand

855
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:12,960
Speaker 6: and the sun is baking the sun and just vibe

856
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 6: and relax like the sound of the waves. So I

857
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:17,080
Speaker 6: might I might lean towards beach.

858
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:18,080
Speaker 4: Answer.

859
00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:20,400
Speaker 2: I don't think ever asked anybody that question.

860
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 1: For the beach, right, I.

861
00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:27,160
Speaker 3: Mean I'm the same way I love a good like

862
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:31,239
Speaker 3: mountain good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, good hike. But like if

863
00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:34,080
Speaker 3: i'm picking, I'm going absolutely awesome.

864
00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 2: Well this was great as these Thank you so much.

865
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:37,360
Speaker 2: We're obviously so excited.

866
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:41,759
Speaker 6: I'm happy to be here. Appreciate you. Thank you.

867
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 2: We are sitting down now with the Atlanta falcons newest

868
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:49,279
Speaker 2: defensive ends, Samson and Bookham. Samson, thank you so much

869
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:50,120
Speaker 2: for taking the time.

870
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:50,919
Speaker 7: Appreciate it.

871
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:51,759
Speaker 6: Thank you, thank you.

872
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:54,400
Speaker 2: So I am really excited to get the chance to

873
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:56,080
Speaker 2: talk to you. I want to talk a little bit

874
00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:58,480
Speaker 2: about your play on the field. But first, uh we

875
00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:01,439
Speaker 2: were chatting before. We have record about where you're from.

876
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:04,239
Speaker 2: But you were initially born in Nigeria, that's correct. You

877
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:07,239
Speaker 2: moved here when you're nine years old. What was that experience, Like.

878
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:11,640
Speaker 7: Well, I knew what jelly was supposed to taste, like yeah,

879
00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:14,240
Speaker 7: for the first time, so yeah.

880
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:16,439
Speaker 3: Jelly specifically like a grape jelly.

881
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:21,319
Speaker 7: Grape jelly. Yeah, I remember my first like actual pbnj here. Wow,

882
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 7: it's fantastic, Oh my gosh, because it's very it was

883
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:27,360
Speaker 7: like scarce over there, so like you had to like

884
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:29,439
Speaker 7: be rich to like have jelly back there.

885
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:32,760
Speaker 2: So that was one of your first kind of like indulgences.

886
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 1: I guess, yeah.

887
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:35,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, you go to the grocery store and you're like,

888
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:36,080
Speaker 3: where's the jelly?

889
00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 7: No, no, no, no. We found a bread first. That

890
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:41,120
Speaker 7: was also something that we couldn't really get a lot of.

891
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:43,279
Speaker 7: But we found the bread, found a jelly, peanut butter.

892
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:43,960
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying.

893
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:46,400
Speaker 7: It was breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

894
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 2: Now, see Tory, Tory's not big on She's more of

895
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:51,240
Speaker 2: a preserves girl.

896
00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:54,440
Speaker 3: I think that makes me sound way fancier than I

897
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:59,200
Speaker 3: actually am. Well, so if I have the story correctly,

898
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:05,319
Speaker 3: you're the youngest of seven kids, and you came over

899
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:08,880
Speaker 3: to the United States like in groups essentially, where like

900
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:11,840
Speaker 3: your older siblings are already your dad and your older siblings,

901
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:15,440
Speaker 3: then you and your like your siblings are around the

902
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:19,279
Speaker 3: same age. And then your mom came sometime later. What

903
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:21,120
Speaker 3: do you remember. I know you were nine years old,

904
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 3: but what do you remember about like that time and

905
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:26,240
Speaker 3: once your whole family was able to get back together,

906
00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:27,480
Speaker 3: Like what that meant to y'all?

907
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:30,520
Speaker 7: Well, Like when my mom came, it was crazy, it

908
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:34,240
Speaker 7: was insane. When she came because my dad is he's

909
00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:37,880
Speaker 7: not the when it comes to Nigerian parents, dads are

910
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:41,680
Speaker 7: kind of like a very strict gotcha. Yeah, you know

911
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:44,000
Speaker 7: what I'm saying. Like my mom had to be strict

912
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:46,719
Speaker 7: because she was a single mom when all of us

913
00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:48,279
Speaker 7: were back there, So she had.

914
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:48,680
Speaker 6: To be strict.

915
00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:51,640
Speaker 7: So when she came here, it was like, oh my gosh,

916
00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:54,880
Speaker 7: we can take a little break, or at least so

917
00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:58,919
Speaker 7: we thought. So, you know, it was kind of cool,

918
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:01,760
Speaker 7: like I was so happy to see her, Like, yeah,

919
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:04,920
Speaker 7: just having your mom around you and having your dad

920
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:07,320
Speaker 7: at the same time, it's just no comparison.

921
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:10,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, family back together sor right. So you moved to

922
00:44:10,719 --> 00:44:13,760
Speaker 2: Civic Northwest, but then you spent your kind of early

923
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:18,560
Speaker 2: playing days in La San Francisco. It wasn't until Indianapolis

924
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:20,840
Speaker 2: that you kind of left the West Coast. What was

925
00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:24,880
Speaker 2: different about that experience moving to Indiana and what have

926
00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 2: you heard about Atlanta which is gonna be a totally

927
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:28,840
Speaker 2: different thing in and of itself.

928
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:32,880
Speaker 7: Shoot, let me tell you though. When they came to

929
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:37,840
Speaker 7: them taxes, the taxes, Okay, I kid, you know that

930
00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:41,000
Speaker 7: was like the number one eye opener was them taxes

931
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:45,120
Speaker 7: that I was getting in California, I was like, oh, yeah,

932
00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:48,440
Speaker 7: you know, it's pretty bad, you know, but it's okay.

933
00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:52,919
Speaker 7: Then I went to Indy and then you know, check

934
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:56,480
Speaker 7: started clearing a little better, and I was like, I

935
00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:58,719
Speaker 7: don't think I don't want to go back to California.

936
00:44:58,719 --> 00:44:59,680
Speaker 7: I let a lie to you.

937
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:01,200
Speaker 6: I don't think I want to go back there.

938
00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:03,320
Speaker 3: I have to appreciate this answer because it's probably the

939
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:05,680
Speaker 3: most real answer we've ever gotten on this podcast.

940
00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:07,880
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, oh yeah. I mean, like the food is

941
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:12,560
Speaker 7: definitely like to die for in California. Don't but I'm

942
00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:15,600
Speaker 7: saving my money though, I'm saving my money a little

943
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:18,319
Speaker 7: bit and then coming to Atlanta, Like, I know that

944
00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:21,880
Speaker 7: it's more fun than Indy. Yeah, it's more funding.

945
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 3: We're a little bit biased, like I we're both from

946
00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:27,600
Speaker 3: the general Georgia area. It's a I think it's a

947
00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:29,719
Speaker 3: great place to live because you're super close to the beach,

948
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 3: you're super close to the mountains. Like ten out of ten,

949
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:34,520
Speaker 3: great food here, great food.

950
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:36,440
Speaker 7: Still, I still got to figure out so many things

951
00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:38,600
Speaker 7: that y'all be doing. It's like outdoors a little bit.

952
00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:40,439
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, there's a lot of places to go hike.

953
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:42,400
Speaker 3: There's lakes, all kinds of stuff.

954
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:45,000
Speaker 2: So I got to go fishing someone.

955
00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:47,960
Speaker 4: You'll you'll find some spots.

956
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 3: So you are actually reuniting with Nate Alie, who was

957
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:57,560
Speaker 3: your position coach with the Indianapolis Colts. Do you have

958
00:45:57,640 --> 00:46:01,239
Speaker 3: a favorite Nate Ali's story because everyone around here loves him,

959
00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:03,800
Speaker 3: so I and I know he is a different character,

960
00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:04,920
Speaker 3: He's a different breed of.

961
00:46:05,480 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 4: D line coach.

962
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:10,120
Speaker 1: Favorite one.

963
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:12,800
Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell you this. We heard the story about

964
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:15,440
Speaker 3: how he would like turn off the lights and like

965
00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:16,640
Speaker 3: run through a dark room.

966
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 4: We heard about that one.

967
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:20,360
Speaker 7: I mean he didn't know. Yeah he didn't. He didn't

968
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:22,319
Speaker 7: like he has some sayings, but he never turned off

969
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:24,719
Speaker 7: the lights, like honestly I did. I just would have

970
00:46:24,719 --> 00:46:28,560
Speaker 7: been weird. I would be like you good, like what

971
00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:31,960
Speaker 7: type of time you want? But no, No, he a

972
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:34,040
Speaker 7: good dude man Like I've had a lot of success

973
00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:36,239
Speaker 7: with him, and I love his energy just what he

974
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:39,279
Speaker 7: brings uh to the guys around him, just to try

975
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:42,440
Speaker 7: to elevate him and all that. So you know, it's

976
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:44,200
Speaker 7: it's good to reennite with him because I know that

977
00:46:44,239 --> 00:46:46,680
Speaker 7: we're gonna do something special, you know. So we got

978
00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:49,279
Speaker 7: some big goals and we're gonna We're gonna get it accomplished.

979
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:52,520
Speaker 2: I was watching just a little bit of tape on you.

980
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:55,880
Speaker 2: I like the power, ability to shed blocks, all of that.

981
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:58,000
Speaker 2: But how would you yourself kind of describe your game

982
00:46:58,080 --> 00:47:00,200
Speaker 2: to fans who may have never seen.

983
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:00,520
Speaker 1: You played before.

984
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:05,239
Speaker 7: Honestly, just aggressive, little messy, but just aggressive little. I

985
00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:08,200
Speaker 7: mean to play d n like to play or play

986
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:10,439
Speaker 7: D line in general, you have to have a little

987
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:12,680
Speaker 7: screw lose because every time you're trying to take on

988
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 7: three hundred plus pound guys, you know what I'm saying,

989
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:18,640
Speaker 7: So you can't be a normal person trying to do that. Yeah,

990
00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:22,360
Speaker 7: So just aggressive and just trying to get after whoever

991
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:24,120
Speaker 7: that has the ball, whether it be the quarterback or

992
00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:26,160
Speaker 7: the running back. Wide rehieve, it really doesn't matter.

993
00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 3: I want to go back to twenty twenty three, the

994
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:32,439
Speaker 3: year that you had nine and a half sacks. What

995
00:47:32,560 --> 00:47:35,320
Speaker 3: was so special about that year because from the outside

996
00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:37,560
Speaker 3: looking in to me, it looked like it was kind

997
00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:41,640
Speaker 3: of the culmination of your entire career, Like leading up

998
00:47:41,680 --> 00:47:44,279
Speaker 3: to that year is like everything that you learned to

999
00:47:44,360 --> 00:47:46,160
Speaker 3: get to that year and that was when you finally

1000
00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:49,560
Speaker 3: like exploded. What do you remember about like that year

1001
00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:51,000
Speaker 3: and what made it so special?

1002
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:54,839
Speaker 7: Honestly, I think what I did that year, I got

1003
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:58,239
Speaker 7: stronger in my faith and because that, I just let

1004
00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:01,640
Speaker 7: I let God take control of everything, and I just

1005
00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:04,239
Speaker 7: kind of like minimized all the things that I was

1006
00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:07,759
Speaker 7: thinking of. All that was on my mind is how

1007
00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:10,360
Speaker 7: I was gonna get the quarterback on the ground. That

1008
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:14,120
Speaker 7: that's that's literally. It wasn't even like the run was cool,

1009
00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:17,799
Speaker 7: you feel me, But the first thing on the mind

1010
00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:19,560
Speaker 7: was how am I going to get this quarterback on

1011
00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:21,920
Speaker 7: the ground. And that was the whole room, you know,

1012
00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:24,520
Speaker 7: because we knew what it meant to bring them down,

1013
00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:27,520
Speaker 7: Like quarterbacks don't like getting hit, especially nowadays, you know

1014
00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:29,120
Speaker 7: what I'm saying. So it's like, if you can hit,

1015
00:48:29,239 --> 00:48:33,040
Speaker 7: if you can hit them multiple times, you're gonna cost someplace.

1016
00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:35,480
Speaker 7: You know, You're gonna You're gonna change the game. It's

1017
00:48:35,520 --> 00:48:38,680
Speaker 7: gonna help everybody else just to have an easier game.

1018
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:40,560
Speaker 7: If we can get the quarterback on the ground.

1019
00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:44,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, start getting happy, feet, drop their eyes all that.

1020
00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:48,960
Speaker 7: And then interceptions happened that way, turnovers happened, like you

1021
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:49,759
Speaker 7: can change the game.

1022
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:51,759
Speaker 2: Awesome. Well, this last one for you a little bit

1023
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:54,800
Speaker 2: of an outside the box one. But some historical figures

1024
00:48:54,880 --> 00:48:57,719
Speaker 2: have epithets attached to their name, like you know, the

1025
00:48:57,760 --> 00:49:00,799
Speaker 2: mad or the Whys or what have you. What would

1026
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:05,960
Speaker 2: you like yours to be? It would be Samson the blank, Oh.

1027
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:07,719
Speaker 3: The aggressor.

1028
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:08,480
Speaker 4: I'm going back.

1029
00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:13,200
Speaker 7: No, no, no, not the aggressor. You want something like cooler, Yeah,

1030
00:49:13,239 --> 00:49:13,960
Speaker 7: something cooler.

1031
00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:16,360
Speaker 3: I liked what you said about the screw loose.

1032
00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:23,720
Speaker 7: No, not that, and I just sound crazy.

1033
00:49:24,120 --> 00:49:24,560
Speaker 1: Hmmm.

1034
00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:27,239
Speaker 3: Well, I mean you're sitting right here right now. You

1035
00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:32,120
Speaker 3: seem pretty like chill and like super like collected, like

1036
00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:34,840
Speaker 3: Samson the collected or Samson the Chill.

1037
00:49:35,040 --> 00:49:45,640
Speaker 2: Mm, Samson the imposer. No, Mark, well, terrible, terrible, damn.

1038
00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:47,080
Speaker 2: I didn't think it was that that bad.

1039
00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:52,000
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.

1040
00:49:52,080 --> 00:49:55,680
Speaker 7: Probably something biblical, I guess. Oh yeah, probably something biblical.

1041
00:49:57,080 --> 00:49:59,200
Speaker 7: Foleys wanted to pick up on wisdom whenever I talk

1042
00:49:59,239 --> 00:49:59,640
Speaker 7: to people.

1043
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:04,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, the wise, I'll take that, or enlightened enlightened.

1044
00:50:07,719 --> 00:50:10,680
Speaker 2: At which is literally in the class. All right, I

1045
00:50:10,719 --> 00:50:11,040
Speaker 2: love that.

1046
00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:12,040
Speaker 4: I love it.

1047
00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:14,040
Speaker 3: That's what we're gonna start calling, just like we.

1048
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:17,160
Speaker 4: See you in the calf, the wise and the wise.

1049
00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:20,000
Speaker 2: Well, thank you for for sitting down with us and

1050
00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:21,840
Speaker 2: this was a quick chat, but we look forward to

1051
00:50:21,880 --> 00:50:24,239
Speaker 2: many more with you in the coming year.

1052
00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:26,440
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I appreciate it. Thank you for having me

1053
00:50:26,680 --> 00:50:27,880
Speaker 7: of course, God bless