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Speaker 1: Welcome in another edition of Texans All Access Players Edition.

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Speaker 1: I'm in de klu. He is Mark Vandermer sitting across

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Speaker 1: from me, Fularunso Fukasi, my Nigerian brother, my nights, your

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Speaker 1: brother defensive tackle for your Houston Texans joining us for

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Speaker 1: Players edition.

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Speaker 2: Welcome in. How you doing? I appreciate it? Man? How

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Speaker 2: you deve?

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Speaker 1: Man?

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Speaker 2: God?

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Speaker 1: Man love having you in. You know where I'm from.

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Speaker 1: We'll say, k do you said, oh, Tomaso? But we're

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Speaker 1: here in Houston, so we'll just say what did it do?

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Speaker 1: Like they say here in Houston. But man, welcome in.

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Speaker 1: Been following you, uh, you know from the Jets days,

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Speaker 1: always try to follow a lot of the Nigerian Americans.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about your your journey. You know, six round

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Speaker 1: draft pick out of a small school. After three years,

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Speaker 1: you become a full time starter, then you signed the

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Speaker 1: big deal. Can you just talk about your growth as

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Speaker 1: an NFL player and some of the things you attribute

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Speaker 1: your success to. Because a lot of guys will get

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Speaker 1: drafted that late. You know, the goal is just to

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Speaker 1: make the team, and you've only done that, become a

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Speaker 1: starter and become a big time star in this league. Man,

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Speaker 1: really just I really think God, you know, I really

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Speaker 1: think God. Like I said, even in those times where

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Speaker 1: was really starting to sharpen my tools, sharpen just how

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Speaker 1: to become a better player in the league. And when

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Speaker 1: the opportunity I rose, it was great.

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Speaker 2: It was great.

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Speaker 1: I was able to seize that opportunity and make use

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Speaker 1: of it. Getting to another deal, you know, that's every

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Speaker 1: that's every that's every guy's dream, you know. So you

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Speaker 1: get to that deal and you try to make use

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Speaker 1: of that and grow from that as well. And now

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Speaker 1: being in a position to where I can at least

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Speaker 1: show that, like, hey, like I'm more than capable. It's

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Speaker 1: a blessing, you know, being president in that it's it's

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Speaker 1: not take it for granted.

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Speaker 2: You get what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, when you you know, again just coming in the

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Speaker 1: back door late round, I think it does give you

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Speaker 1: a better perspective because a lot of the guys who

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Speaker 1: are first rounders, you know, credit to them, they busted

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Speaker 1: their tail and high school and college to get that.

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Speaker 1: But I do believe kind of with what you were saying,

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Speaker 1: sitting back watching getting the metal reps. Then when you

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Speaker 1: do get the opportunity, I feel like a lot of

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Speaker 1: times guys like us laid around, guys get to appreciate

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Speaker 2: And that's what it sounds like with you.

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Speaker 1: No, yeah, just the ability to just the opportunities to

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Speaker 1: still to still develop.

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Speaker 2: You know as a player. I think it served me.

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Speaker 3: Well playing the Jags.

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Speaker 4: I want to get into that folly because that must

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Speaker 4: have been really sweet for you to play your former team.

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Speaker 4: We've had a lot of that going on around here,

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Speaker 4: in case anybody didn't notice Digs and the.

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Speaker 3: Buffalo Bills and all the other former bills.

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Speaker 4: But what about you playing the Jags last week and

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Speaker 4: getting that victory over your former club.

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Speaker 1: I'd be lying if I told you it didn't feel good.

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Speaker 1: But you know, I think the most important part, or

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Speaker 1: the biggest thing that I take away from just you know,

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Speaker 1: just that win, just that game, is just uh, the

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Speaker 1: rally of the guys. You know, we're like we literally

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Speaker 1: each other. They didn't make it bigger than what it

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Speaker 1: And when we went out there together, it was like wow,

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Speaker 1: like you know, it was it's in those moments in

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Speaker 1: those games, it's like, man, you gotta calm down. Yep, right,

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Speaker 1: you know, so obviously seeing the guys, you know, they're

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Speaker 1: I'm saying. It's like I know your game, you know

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Speaker 1: my game. All right, let's make this an honorable matchup.

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Speaker 2: So it was. It was fun and it felt good

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Speaker 3: Well, I D's like this too.

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Speaker 4: You guys are really nice guys and wonderful to spend

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Speaker 4: time with. And I've asked you this question and D,

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Speaker 4: but what about you fully like what goes on when

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Speaker 4: you get between the lines and you have to turn

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Speaker 3: This whatever you become on the field.

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Speaker 4: I saw you tackle Cook big TfL. I mean you

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Speaker 4: made a monster play right there. You make a lot

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Speaker 4: of those kinds of plays. What happens to you as

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Speaker 2: Man, how did you answer this question?

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Speaker 1: Everyone's different, But for me, I almost try to get

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Speaker 1: into character because off the field, you know, you want

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Speaker 1: to be an honorable man. But you know, sometimes I

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Speaker 1: mentioned if my pregame music, I feel guilty listening to

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Speaker 1: But everyone's different, so I'm curious to hear your I

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Speaker 1: would agree. I would agree, and I think a lot

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Speaker 1: of guys would say this too. It's like, you don't

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Speaker 1: want to get too outside of character to way you're

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Speaker 3: That's like whoa detrimental.

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Speaker 1: Detrimental to yourself, to the team. But you get into

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Speaker 1: a certain spacing of mind where it's like, Okay, this

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Speaker 1: I believe everybody who plays any competitive sport or is

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Speaker 1: there's a level of ego you have to get to

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Speaker 1: in order to perform and be dominant, right, And it's

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Speaker 1: not to it's not to like, let's say, be a

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Speaker 1: detriment to yourself or to your team, but it's definitely

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Speaker 1: for you to play at a high level. So in

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Speaker 1: my mind, it's what's that what's that ego that I

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Speaker 1: would need to tap into it so I can be dominant, Right.

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Speaker 1: I'm to be honest, I'm not the guy that's going

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Speaker 1: to go out there and try to like deliberately harm somebody, right,

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. That's not me, you know

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Speaker 1: what I mean. But I am the guy that needs

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Speaker 1: I need to get to a place to where like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I want you to know at the end of this

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Speaker 1: game that this was an honorable matchup, you know what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying. And you felt like you exhausted yourself because

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Speaker 1: you know, and that's a place that everyone gets to,

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Speaker 1: at the end of it. But you know, you realize

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Speaker 1: it's like, what is it? What do they call it?

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Speaker 1: A badge of honor?

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Speaker 4: Know?

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Speaker 3: So, yeah, everything's within the rules, within the rules.

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Speaker 4: So Demico Ryans is so positive and this is something

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Speaker 4: I've really noticed with this team last year and this year,

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Speaker 4: and maybe even more this year with pulling out four

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Speaker 4: victories that all came down to the wire, and at times,

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Speaker 4: especially this last game in the fourth quarter, it's getting

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Speaker 4: a little dicey. Some mistakes made, but everything just locks up.

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Speaker 4: From the time the intentional grounding occurred, it was total

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Speaker 4: complimentary football. Punt, big stop by the d the Bills

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Speaker 4: don't move in an inch. In fact, the defense what

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Speaker 4: then another punt, great return by Woods, completion, field goal,

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Speaker 2: Man, I'll be honest, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: It's almost like and obviously, you know, we still have

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Speaker 1: a lot of tough opponents that are coming up. But

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Speaker 1: so far it's almost been pretty like cosmic, almost, you know,

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Speaker 1: the guys just we unify, we rally, you know what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying. And coach me, he's just oh, Man, he's

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Speaker 1: probably gonna go down like as probably the best head

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Speaker 1: coach I've had in my career, you know, because he

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Speaker 1: keeps the main thing, the main thing, you know what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying. He keeps it in an area where it's like,

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Speaker 1: all right, these are the areas that we need to

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Speaker 1: grow in. How do we need to grow in them?

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Speaker 1: And let's go growing them. I've grown a lot as

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Speaker 1: year seven. I still feel like I'm ascending, but I've

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Speaker 1: grown a lot. I've really started to understand football a

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Speaker 2: It's encouraging.

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Speaker 1: When you walk into the locker room and you see

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Speaker 1: having just a casual conversation, but they're talking about the

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Speaker 1: on film. They're talking about their next opponent. Right, they're

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Speaker 1: correcting each other. We're correcting each other, right, We're learning

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Speaker 1: at least from my perspective, and I have a very

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Speaker 1: optimistic view of things, No man is bigger than the other.

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Speaker 1: I've some rookies have said some things this year and

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Speaker 1: and it showed up in my film Rookies, you know

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Typically, you know, we playing this in

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Speaker 1: Some don't know that they're doing it. But you get

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Speaker 1: a young guy that's like, hey, you know, Folly, you

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Speaker 1: ever thought about trying this? No, I haven't. Let me

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Speaker 1: try it. Yeah, and it works. So I think this

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Speaker 1: team is just I'm learning a lot. I'm observing and

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Speaker 1: I'm learning a lot from this team, and it's given

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Speaker 1: me an extra layer to add to, like, you know,

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Speaker 1: me as a person and as a player. So it's beautiful.

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Speaker 1: That's very cool to hear, and it shows your wisdom,

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Speaker 1: your maturity to be able to take some quote unquote

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Speaker 1: When you were signing or when you were doing your

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Speaker 1: due diligence thinking of what team you were going to

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Speaker 1: sign with. What led you to Houston? If I'm being honest,

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Speaker 1: completely honest, right, not to sound we're here for right,

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Speaker 1: but not not to sound like you know, over religious

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Speaker 4: But so that led you to the answer to come here?

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Speaker 4: Fair because I know you visited other teams, you had

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Speaker 4: some options, maybe the Bills were one of them. Reportedly,

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Speaker 4: I just read that, Look you're here, that's all I

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Speaker 4: care about. But that's interesting. Well, you have a lot

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Speaker 1: to Jacksonville and I'm just like oh man, this is different,

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying.

435
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Speaker 2: So now when I get.

436
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Speaker 1: Here, I guess it's because I've experienced both ends, you know,

437
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Speaker 1: the super fast and the super laid back, that I'm

438
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Speaker 1: just like, Okay, I can just I can take this

439
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Speaker 1: thing step by step. I can really just you know,

440
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Speaker 1: sit back and look, you know, and and draw the

441
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Speaker 1: things that I need to learn from myself.

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Speaker 4: So, and do you live in Philadelphia. That's not exactly

443
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Speaker 4: tumble weeds and stuff. I mean, this is a big city.

444
00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:47,240
Speaker 4: It's you know, not New York either, but it's kind

445
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Speaker 4: of close.

446
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Speaker 1: But that was the culture shot because I'll never forget

447
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Speaker 1: the first time I was in Philadelphia. You know, here

448
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Speaker 1: in Texas, even if you don't know anybody, if you

449
00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:56,360
Speaker 1: don't know somebody, you say what's up to them?

450
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Speaker 2: When you make eye contact?

451
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Speaker 1: And I remember I did that a feeling and they

452
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Speaker 1: looked at me like are.

453
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Speaker 3: You telling me?

454
00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:06,000
Speaker 1: So it was kind of a culture shot. But New York,

455
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Speaker 1: I think is even more so than Philadelphia.

456
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Speaker 4: Well, my kid and I went, you know, I grew

457
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Speaker 4: up in the New York area, and my kid and

458
00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:14,560
Speaker 4: I went for a trip a year and a half ago.

459
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Speaker 4: People could not have been nicer in Manhattan. They could

460
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Speaker 4: not have been nicer, I think because you know, they

461
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Speaker 4: want the tourist thing coming in. You know, we were

462
00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:24,840
Speaker 4: we looked like Texans visiting New York. You know, I

463
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Speaker 4: have no New York left in me.

464
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Speaker 2: So cowboy boots? Did you have? Cowboy No?

465
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Speaker 4: But it's just you know I had the Texans gear

466
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Speaker 4: on and stuff, so it's a dead giveaway.

467
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Speaker 2: A right.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of cowboy boots, you spent time in Florida, you're

469
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Speaker 1: in Houston. Do you have a pair of cowboy boots yet?

470
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Speaker 2: Not yet? Are you resisting it or do? Will you

471
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Speaker 2: get some at some point? I want some time.

472
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Speaker 4: He signed here after the rodeo, so you'll be here

473
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Speaker 4: for the rodeo this year, and you got to go

474
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Speaker 4: to the rodeo at least one night. You got to

475
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Speaker 4: sample the Houston livestock show in rodeo. This is Houston culture.

476
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Speaker 4: It's the off season. It'll be after the super Bowl,

477
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Speaker 4: so you can check it out. It's gonna be awesome.

478
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Speaker 2: Honestly, yeah, I'm going to check it out.

479
00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:04,080
Speaker 4: I mean, they have great concerts, so you can pick

480
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Speaker 4: the act that you like and then go to the

481
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Speaker 4: rodeo see it beforehand.

482
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Speaker 3: It's it's something to say.

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Speaker 1: Really, yeah, it's funny. Me and the guys was just

484
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Speaker 1: talking about some cowboy boots. All right, you know I

485
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Speaker 1: get up here at some point.

486
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Speaker 2: It's for you.

487
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Speaker 1: I'm assuming you're gonna have to have them custom made

488
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Speaker 1: to fit, right, This is what I hear. Yeah, yeah,

489
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Speaker 1: if you yeah, you'll probably need to get them custom made.

490
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Speaker 1: All right, Speaking of things going on back on the field,

491
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Speaker 1: one thing I always like to talk to with d

492
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Speaker 1: Lineman favorite pass rush moves, So like, what's your go

493
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Speaker 1: to move? Third and whatever? You know, it's a past

494
00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:36,160
Speaker 1: you're not even thinking of a run in your mind.

495
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Speaker 1: What's your move? Ah?

496
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Speaker 2: Some sort of power, got it? You know? Yeah, explain power.

497
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Speaker 4: For the listeners so they understand power meaning, uh, just

498
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Speaker 4: knock the guy over.

499
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Speaker 1: Yeah, just you know, try to just uh get my

500
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Speaker 1: hands on him, you know, affect his hands. Right, I'm

501
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Speaker 1: I'm I think everybody. I think I'm a year seven now,

502
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Speaker 1: everybody at least that No, there's nothing for mess about me.

503
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Speaker 4: So I've got the swim spins tornado move. No, you're

504
00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:10,840
Speaker 4: just gonna bull rush knock the guy over.

505
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Speaker 3: Let's go. Yeah, well, it's effective. It's effective.

506
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Speaker 1: Lovely, all right, quick time out. We'll get back to

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Speaker 1: Texan All Access Players Edition. Don't touch that down. Welcome in,

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Speaker 1: Welcome back, Texans All Access. I'm Indy Koulou. Here is

509
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Speaker 1: Mark VanderMeer, or main Man Foley as they call him,

510
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Speaker 1: sitting across from us talking a little football.

511
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Speaker 3: Phil Unzo, you like that.

512
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Speaker 4: I asked you that, I think when we first met,

513
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Speaker 4: when we interviewed you here, he said, Phil of Rooms.

514
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Speaker 3: I like saying it too. When you make a big play.

515
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Speaker 3: That's cool. Hot Takes.

516
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Speaker 4: We got hot tags brought to you by Campbell's Chunky

517
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Speaker 4: Soup soup that eats like a meal. Be sure to

518
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Speaker 4: pick up the new Nashville style Hot Chicken Soup at

519
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Speaker 4: Kroger today. All right, I want to get to some

520
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Speaker 4: you grew up in the New York area Hot takes

521
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Speaker 4: from there?

522
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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 4: First of all, Mets are Yankees. Yankees Yankee even though

524
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Speaker 4: you grew up near the stadium relatively.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yank you. Okay, that's that's ninety percent of my surroundings.

526
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Speaker 4: Okay, all right, well you got both of them right

527
00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:07,879
Speaker 4: now going in the postseason, so there's something there. Uh,

528
00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:11,040
Speaker 4: grew up a Jets or Giants fan?

529
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Speaker 2: Honestly, neither really.

530
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Speaker 3: Okay, what's the team that you grew up with?

531
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Speaker 2: I grew up watching Baltimore and Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 4: Okay, why was that? You liked the physical nature that

533
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Speaker 4: rivalry that it's.

534
00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:25,359
Speaker 2: Just you know, ray Lewis.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, yet all those guys, you know, and then

536
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Speaker 1: that New York Giants defensive line that they had in seven.

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Speaker 2: Week Oh yeah, yeah, straight hand. Yeah, just Super Bowl right?

538
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Speaker 1: Oh see, yeah, you know, so those were the guys

539
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Speaker 1: that you know I watched. I didn't really I didn't

540
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Speaker 1: really have a specific team that I liked. I just

541
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Speaker 1: players just watching, you know, watching players watching football.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: I didn't start playing football until I was like in

544
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Speaker 1: the eighth grade. Let me guess you started with soccer?

545
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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 3: No?

547
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Speaker 2: Basketball? Well in New York?

548
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Speaker 1: Bad That was gonna be one of my other questions. Well, first,

549
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Speaker 1: every Nigerian American I know starts with soccer, so that's

550
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Speaker 1: a little different. But then being from New York, I

551
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Speaker 1: assume basketball is king up there. No, yeah, so I

552
00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:15,479
Speaker 1: started I played soccer too, right, Basketball and soccer, but

553
00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:16,880
Speaker 1: football team once later?

554
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Speaker 4: All right, you have to live in New York and

555
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Speaker 4: one of the other boroughs, not Queens because you grew

556
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Speaker 4: up in Queens, right, So which one is it? Is

557
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Speaker 4: it the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Staten Island? Which one you

558
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Speaker 4: have to live in? One of them?

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Speaker 2: Hey, man, I'm loyal, man.

560
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Speaker 3: You can't name one?

561
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Speaker 4: Lloyd, Queens Man Rockaway, can't name one? Okay, got it?

562
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Speaker 4: Nick Fan Yeah okay, so no, no Brooklyn Nets that

563
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Speaker 4: never got to.

564
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Speaker 2: You, No, damn.

565
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Speaker 3: Yeah, even though they're kind of nearby.

566
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Speaker 1: They are, But I'm on the Peens. Is a five

567
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Speaker 1: forgive me for is it five boroughs?

568
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Speaker 3: Five boroughs?

569
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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: So Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx, Manhattan. So what's Harlem considered? That's

571
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Speaker 1: part of that's part of Manhattan. It's between Manhattan and

572
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Speaker 1: the Bronx. But it's really Manhattan.

573
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Speaker 2: So it's not a borough. It's just an area in

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Speaker 2: a borough.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, y yeah, but Alem has a special place

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Speaker 1: in people's hearts.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, north of one hundred Street basically, right, I

578
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Speaker 4: mean that's how you sort of describe that.

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Speaker 2: Y'all take the borough things serious?

580
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Speaker 3: Huh uh? Yeah, there was.

581
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Speaker 4: So there's an old show some of our listeners will

582
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Speaker 4: remember welcome back Codder Okay. And it began because they

583
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Speaker 4: were in Brooklyn and there was a sign welcome to Brooklyn.

584
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Speaker 4: The fourth largest city in America, like Brooklyn itself at

585
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Speaker 4: the time, and it's probably still up there. If you

586
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Speaker 4: just isolate Brooklyn as a borough, it's one of the

587
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Speaker 4: biggest cities in the country. Yeah, but all of Manhattan

588
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:45,760
Speaker 4: is all the boroughs, so it's huge. It's the biggest

589
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Speaker 4: city of the county. Are you from Mark, I'm from

590
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Speaker 4: the Burbs.

591
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Speaker 3: Indeed, I'm from Westchester County.

592
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Speaker 1: So do you look down on that right now?

593
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Speaker 3: We're Texans. That's what it is.

594
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:04,680
Speaker 4: You came here to be Texans, all right.

595
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 3: So we have we have Pizza hot as a partner.

596
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Speaker 3: It's awesome.

597
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:10,080
Speaker 4: But I know that the New York slice thing is

598
00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:12,159
Speaker 4: is a religious thing in New.

599
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Speaker 3: York, So is that is it that way for you?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, especially when never me and my brothers get back home.

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Speaker 1: H Yeah, We're gonna go get a slice, man, Yeah,

603
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 1: slice of cheese. We're gonna eat a lot of things.

604
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 1: Definitely don't cook food, right yeah, yeah, go see you.

605
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:27,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, you have the Nigerian food.

606
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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.

607
00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:31,720
Speaker 1: Your love and and so on and so forth, but

608
00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:34,840
Speaker 1: definitely gonna get like your pizza, you know, gets your slice,

609
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:37,919
Speaker 1: your classic cheese slice, so very nice.

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Speaker 3: It's it's a thing. It's a thing. Gotta be there.

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Speaker 4: Nothing like a hot slice in New York. But it's

612
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:45,960
Speaker 4: cold and you have the hot pizza and you burn

613
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:49,000
Speaker 4: the roof of your mouth and it's awesome, great stuff.

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Speaker 2: Great fold fold.

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Speaker 4: Uh sometimes because you know, if the pizza is gonna

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Speaker 4: stand up, right, I'm not folding, but like sometimes that

617
00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 4: you know, I got a pizza that needs to be folded.

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Speaker 2: Right, man, I'm a folder all the way. Oh yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 2: It's usually just one piece, right, because it's so big.

620
00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:07,320
Speaker 4: Well, it's not that it's big, it's uh, it's it's

621
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Speaker 4: great to have the slice because it's sitting out preferably

622
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Speaker 4: not too long. You put it back in the oven

623
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Speaker 4: and now the sides, the edges get crispy, and it's

624
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:17,280
Speaker 4: just there's nothing like it, you know, with an nice

625
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:18,560
Speaker 4: cold Coca cola all.

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Speaker 2: My last dumb question, so Wall Street? What burrows Wall

627
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Speaker 2: Street in Manhattan?

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Speaker 1: Manhattan? Okay, yeah, one day I want to visit New

629
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Speaker 1: York because growing up I'm much older than you, but

630
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Speaker 1: listening to hip hop obviously that's where hip hop started.

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Speaker 2: You know.

632
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:35,840
Speaker 1: I would hear a KRST one, you know, talk about it.

633
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:42,000
Speaker 1: Nas and Biggie's from is Brooklyn, Brooklyn. Yeah, but Queen

634
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Speaker 1: Nas is Queens Queens. Okay, so I know a little bit,

635
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,800
Speaker 1: but I just want to shoutouts man, Yeah, is that

636
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Speaker 1: your favorite?

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Speaker 2: He's one of my favorites. Is Jig up there? Yes?

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Speaker 1: But I like other people more. Okay, you know, yes,

639
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. But I like I like,

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Speaker 1: I like Nas right, A lot of my ogs used

641
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 1: to listen to Carras once. I learned about cars when young.

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00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:13,240
Speaker 1: Oh he's well, where's from stan Island?

643
00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 2: Right?

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00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:15,880
Speaker 1: He had your he had your big l you know,

645
00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:20,640
Speaker 1: yellow cool j Right, you had your fifty Obviously fifty

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Speaker 1: was more. It's closer to closer than me, you know

647
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. You know he's Houston now, yeah, no,

648
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Speaker 1: since Houston's strong. No, I know fifty man, man, what

649
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Speaker 1: you can You're not going to day without listening to

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Speaker 1: fifty man. So I learned a lot of I learned

651
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Speaker 1: a lot about those guys. So Jay, he's up there,

652
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Speaker 1: you know, But I like I like, I like other

653
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Speaker 1: guys just a little more. Have you had a chance

654
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:44,040
Speaker 1: to experience the Southern hip hop culture and listen to

655
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:47,240
Speaker 1: some of the Houston guys a little bit. I'm still

656
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 1: I'm still getting familiar with it, you know, but there's

657
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 1: some there's some there's some stuff that I'm I'm trying to,

658
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 1: you know, get used to.

659
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 2: Do you stay here? It's a little different, It's way different.

660
00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:00,480
Speaker 3: So uh, part of my durance.

661
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:03,360
Speaker 4: But that you said hip hop originated in New York,

662
00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:05,760
Speaker 4: would LA people object to that?

663
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:09,440
Speaker 3: Not at all? They would agree wholeheartedly hip hop started

664
00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:09,880
Speaker 3: in New York.

665
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:13,160
Speaker 1: Even as a guy who I only like Southern hip hop,

666
00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:15,160
Speaker 1: like I'm not a big East Coast but.

667
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:17,920
Speaker 2: You have to respect that it all started in New York.

668
00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:21,760
Speaker 1: From breakdancing too, I'm probably going before your time, the

669
00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:25,240
Speaker 1: movies Breaking and Break Breaking. Yeah, I mean that's in

670
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:27,680
Speaker 1: New York. Like when I'm forty nine, So when I

671
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,680
Speaker 1: was eight nine years old watching TV, it was all

672
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:33,800
Speaker 1: about New York. So you have to respect and I

673
00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:36,680
Speaker 1: think most LA hip hop fans will say it start

674
00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:37,240
Speaker 1: in New York.

675
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:44,240
Speaker 4: I got yay, Yeah you heard trust better Okay, Folly

676
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:47,480
Speaker 4: Fantacasi with us all right, couple of things here, Beach

677
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:49,880
Speaker 4: Channel High School, that's where you went.

678
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:50,640
Speaker 3: I looked it up.

679
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:53,760
Speaker 4: You're the first player from Beach Channel High School to

680
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:55,080
Speaker 4: go to a D one college.

681
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:59,320
Speaker 3: Wow and play football? Is your brother the second? Was

682
00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:01,320
Speaker 3: he the second one because he went to Rutgers?

683
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:01,560
Speaker 1: Right?

684
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, he went to Rutgers. My brother went to Grand Street?

685
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:06,040
Speaker 3: Okay, Oh, different school?

686
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:07,040
Speaker 2: Different school?

687
00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:07,800
Speaker 3: Did it close all?

688
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 4: Because I read that Beach Channel closed and they made

689
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 4: it into several little schools or something?

690
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:12,080
Speaker 2: Yeah?

691
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:17,960
Speaker 1: So so B Channel was once one school, right. Over time,

692
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:21,520
Speaker 1: you know, they they segmented the school into different schools.

693
00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:24,200
Speaker 1: So you had Beach Channel, right, and then you had

694
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 1: two other schools. The school that I went to was

695
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 1: Channel View School for Research, okay, right, which was in

696
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 1: the same building. So B Channel was It was no

697
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 1: longer B Channel High School. It was called B Channel

698
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:38,880
Speaker 1: Educational Campus because you had several schools within building. Right,

699
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:42,120
Speaker 1: So I went to Channel View right, School for Research.

700
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,840
Speaker 4: So it's right on the water, man, it's right on

701
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 4: the water end. Do you look at it on the map,

702
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:49,600
Speaker 4: You're like, my goodness, right there?

703
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was it was nice. You didn't realize we

704
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 1: didn't realize how how good we had it until we.

705
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:56,560
Speaker 4: Left right on the edges of New York Harbor. Yeah,

706
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:57,560
Speaker 4: it's amazing.

707
00:31:57,600 --> 00:31:58,240
Speaker 2: See the city.

708
00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:01,520
Speaker 1: So multiple schools in the same ain't building. So are

709
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 1: there different athletic teams under the same roof?

710
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:06,520
Speaker 2: No one team?

711
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:10,000
Speaker 3: Okay, they all come together, all come together as one team.

712
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 1: But it was just different schools. So how did you

713
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 1: get introduced to football? I started playing in the eighth grade.

714
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:21,920
Speaker 1: I was on the bus. I was on the bus

715
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:25,719
Speaker 1: coming home from school. Me and I don't even know

716
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:28,720
Speaker 1: I don't even know where he is now. But his

717
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 1: name is Ronald, right. He was a big kid, Like

718
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:34,720
Speaker 1: we were both big kids, right, coming from coming from school.

719
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:38,320
Speaker 1: Guy on the bus was sitting down staring at us.

720
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:42,000
Speaker 1: We're just like in New York on the bus, you know,

721
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 1: we're freaking you know, seventh and eighth grade is We're like, yo, hey,

722
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 1: well I just got looking, like so we're getting through,

723
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:56,200
Speaker 1: we're getting ready to like right, you know. So then

724
00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:58,600
Speaker 1: we're looking and then we go what's up, you know,

725
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 1: and he goes, hey, man, you guys are big, and

726
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:02,440
Speaker 1: I was.

727
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:05,800
Speaker 2: Like, we was just like, yeah, you want to fight us?

728
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 1: So long to make the long story, to cut the

729
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:12,120
Speaker 1: long story short. He essentially is just like, you guys

730
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 1: want to play football, and we was like yeah, So

731
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:17,360
Speaker 1: he gave us paperwork, right, he had paperwork on him.

732
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 1: He gave us paperwork, and he said to meet him

733
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:26,200
Speaker 1: at this park called that was called far Rockaway High School. Right,

734
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:29,040
Speaker 1: that's where you know, at that particular time where all

735
00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 1: the all the all the kids I wanted to play,

736
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 1: that's where we all met up for applications and practice

737
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 1: and whatnot.

738
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 2: So went there.

739
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:43,400
Speaker 1: Our parents were really apprehensive at first, Yeah, really really apprehensive,

740
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 1: like you know, if they're growing up at a time

741
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:48,560
Speaker 1: where football is like yeah football.

742
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 2: No no no, no, no no no no no. Basketball.

743
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:59,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, education not a question, right, football I

744
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:01,960
Speaker 1: don't know. But you know, God bless you know my

745
00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 1: dad and just his wisdom, because he really believes that

746
00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:09,520
Speaker 1: you never know where a child's glory, You never know

747
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:11,920
Speaker 1: what God can take a child's glory to. So you

748
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:14,400
Speaker 1: never want to limit your kid, especially when they're extremely

749
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 1: passionate about something. Right, at least give your child the

750
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:20,680
Speaker 1: opportunity to just try it, you know. So my mom

751
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:26,640
Speaker 1: and my dad they let me go, and here I am.

752
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:28,560
Speaker 3: Fully Pocai with us. Did you know high school?

753
00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:33,600
Speaker 4: Were you thinking NFL maybe or NFL definitely? What were

754
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:38,040
Speaker 4: your thoughts about, Yeah, there's college football, but what's after that?

755
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 4: What was your mindset like as a high school player

756
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 4: when you've started to get really good.

757
00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:46,359
Speaker 2: Well, to be honest, Uh, that's funny. IM gonna stop

758
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:47,600
Speaker 2: saying that. Stop saying that.

759
00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 1: But it's interesting how you asked that question, because I

760
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:55,920
Speaker 1: think when I started playing, I was on my way home.

761
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:58,759
Speaker 2: I was on my way to school from home.

762
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:01,680
Speaker 1: In the morning, and it's like a like an eight

763
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:03,239
Speaker 1: minute walk, you know what I mean, not too far

764
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:05,880
Speaker 1: of a walk, you know, walk, walk up the road, right,

765
00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 1: make a right, you know, on like this little intersection

766
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:10,520
Speaker 1: of the road, and I wait for the bus to

767
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 1: Q twenty two. And on my way walking to the bus,

768
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:16,480
Speaker 1: I remember praying. I was like, God, I don't know

769
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:18,600
Speaker 1: what your plans are, but this is something I would

770
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:21,200
Speaker 1: really love to do. And I'm just praying for strength

771
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:24,319
Speaker 1: and I'm praying that you help me get here. And God,

772
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:26,960
Speaker 1: if you help me get here, I promised to tell

773
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:28,680
Speaker 1: the story, and.

774
00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:29,359
Speaker 3: I'm telling it.

775
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:31,120
Speaker 1: How old are you at this time? At this time,

776
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:32,960
Speaker 1: I was in the ninth grade, Wow.

777
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:36,279
Speaker 3: Wow, that's a great story. And now you're telling it.

778
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:37,520
Speaker 3: Now everybody's hearing it.

779
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:42,520
Speaker 1: So I walked walked up that road. And in high school,

780
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:44,359
Speaker 1: I went through some injuries. In high school, I was like, God,

781
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:46,920
Speaker 1: I thought, I'm trying to do this. Got what's going on?

782
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 2: You know?

783
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:51,000
Speaker 1: But you know, God, bless my support group, you know,

784
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:54,840
Speaker 1: for their support. But yeah, that was the prayer that

785
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:58,360
Speaker 1: I prayed in two thousand and nine, right, two thousand

786
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 1: and nine, twenty ten, and now when twenty twenty four,

787
00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 1: and God, you see I'm I'm I'm holding I'm holding

788
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 1: my promise.

789
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:08,279
Speaker 2: You know.

790
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:12,480
Speaker 1: It's it really, That's why. That's why I truly believe

791
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 1: that like prayer is powerful. It is as long as

792
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:19,239
Speaker 1: your your heart is clean, you know, and you have

793
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:21,719
Speaker 1: good intent her in your in your body and your

794
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:26,239
Speaker 1: being sincere, and obviously as long as it's according to

795
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 1: God's will. So I asked, I prayed about it.

796
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:30,319
Speaker 2: He willed it.

797
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:33,359
Speaker 1: And here I am saying that it's saying in year

798
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:36,279
Speaker 1: seven in the league, and this is one of the

799
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:37,960
Speaker 1: first times that I'm telling the story and.

800
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:41,040
Speaker 4: Playing for Damico Ryans for the four and one Houston Texans.

801
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:46,520
Speaker 4: Foldy Photocosi. That's awesome. Uh, Yukon. When you first visit Yukon,

802
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:49,360
Speaker 4: and for those who don't know, because I know you

803
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:52,239
Speaker 4: pull it, you pull off an exit I eighty four

804
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:54,479
Speaker 4: and you go on this long road and you're thinking,

805
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:57,239
Speaker 4: where am I going? You're driving through the woods, what

806
00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:01,160
Speaker 4: is this? I don't know about this. So and for

807
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:03,279
Speaker 4: me personally, I'm not going to get into the whole story.

808
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:06,320
Speaker 4: But Yukon's always been the massive villain of everywhere I've worked.

809
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:07,640
Speaker 3: You Mass Miami.

810
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:12,200
Speaker 4: I went to Boston University villain so Yukon, but I

811
00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:15,759
Speaker 4: respect them anyway, nice campus, but you get there.

812
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 3: Were there other options? Was that? No doubt your first choice? Uh?

813
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:23,040
Speaker 1: There was only Yukon in the University of Buffalo that

814
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:25,319
Speaker 1: offered me, you know, at least d one.

815
00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:27,839
Speaker 4: Yeah, and one of them is a drive and one

816
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 4: of them's a long driver of short flights.

817
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:33,400
Speaker 2: So yeah. So yeah.

818
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 1: So it was really just those two schools and that

819
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:40,280
Speaker 1: I'm going to Yukon. I visited and I was just like, uh,

820
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 1: this is where I was supposed to be. It was

821
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 1: my recruiting coach was John Hooley Man, really fiery guy.

822
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:46,880
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.

823
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 1: And one thing, one thing that he said to me

824
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:52,040
Speaker 1: that caught my ear then was he said that I'm

825
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 1: going to make you a better player than you are

826
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:56,920
Speaker 1: right now. And for some reason it just caught my

827
00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,359
Speaker 1: ear that, like, all right, I'm going to be better

828
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 1: than where I'm at now. He's promised me. He's promising

829
00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:04,640
Speaker 1: me that, and I went and it worked out. It

830
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 1: worked out well, all right, it's working out well. Talking

831
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:09,040
Speaker 1: to our main man right now, I'm going to take

832
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:12,480
Speaker 1: a quick time out. One more segment to go, Texans

833
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:16,360
Speaker 1: All Access Players Edition. One more segment to go. Welcome in,

834
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:21,080
Speaker 1: Welcome Back. This is Texans All Access Players Edition. I

835
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:24,200
Speaker 1: am Indy klu He is Mark Vandermert speaking with Now.

836
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:27,440
Speaker 1: I'm calling you Foley only because I hear other people say,

837
00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:28,719
Speaker 1: but you know, I want to call you by your

838
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 1: government name. What do you prefer going by? Foley's fine? Okay, okay, pollis.

839
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:34,759
Speaker 3: Fine, but when he makes a big play, it's full

840
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:36,359
Speaker 3: of runzo. Yes, there we go.

841
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 4: All right, So we've got a question for you about

842
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 4: your night before the Game ritual. And this is presented

843
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844
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845
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846
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:50,440
Speaker 3: All right, full of runzo.

847
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:52,600
Speaker 4: So the night before the game, do you have a

848
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:56,200
Speaker 4: routine the same thing? Do you change it up? How

849
00:38:56,239 --> 00:38:57,839
Speaker 4: do you handle that? And then take us into game

850
00:38:57,880 --> 00:38:58,399
Speaker 4: day as well?

851
00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:01,839
Speaker 1: Night before the game, come in, I have a big

852
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:05,160
Speaker 1: ball of pasta, you know, pasta, some bacon, some shrimp

853
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:06,480
Speaker 1: to my afreido.

854
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:06,600
Speaker 2: Some pasto.

855
00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:08,759
Speaker 3: Do you like to get the same meal?

856
00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, I get the same meal every night, every night

857
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 1: because typically the day of game day, I'm eating a

858
00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:17,759
Speaker 1: little lighter, you know. So I get my carbs from

859
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:20,919
Speaker 1: the night before, big ball of pasta, you know. Check

860
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:23,440
Speaker 1: up on my folks, my mom, my, dad, my brothers,

861
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:26,040
Speaker 1: call my I have a mental coach by the name

862
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 1: of Matt Calderoni. Give him a call. And that call

863
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:32,719
Speaker 1: is just about where's the intention? What was the week's worth?

864
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 3: Like?

865
00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:36,800
Speaker 1: Wasn't intentional? Were you walking in a purpose that settles

866
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:40,919
Speaker 1: me in a way of just like, okay, you prepared right,

867
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:46,080
Speaker 1: It's been really helpful for me to get another perspective

868
00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: in that. In that way, I pray, right, pray, try

869
00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 1: to hear you know what God's impulses could be for

870
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:56,759
Speaker 1: me at that particular moment, if there is any go

871
00:39:56,880 --> 00:40:00,680
Speaker 1: to sleep, wake up, get ready a game.

872
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:01,319
Speaker 3: Let's go.

873
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:04,279
Speaker 4: Do you watch college games like when you're on the

874
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:06,120
Speaker 4: road in the hotel? Do you watch some college games

875
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:06,560
Speaker 4: on TV?

876
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 2: Yeah?

877
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:10,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, right now, I haven't really watched too many.

878
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:11,920
Speaker 2: Right.

879
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:14,600
Speaker 1: I watched the bit of Yukon. You know they're they're

880
00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:16,440
Speaker 1: killing it right now, so shout out Yukon.

881
00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:17,359
Speaker 2: Right.

882
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:21,080
Speaker 1: I watched Bowling Green. You know a little brother he

883
00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:25,160
Speaker 1: plays there. Bowling Green is a pretty pretty good football

884
00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:25,839
Speaker 1: team right now?

885
00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 4: All right, so you have your you have another brother

886
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:33,240
Speaker 4: who played he's a free agent now right, yes, and

887
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:36,160
Speaker 4: the brother who played the Rutgers Ruggers. Do you have

888
00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:38,760
Speaker 4: a little brother playing for the Bowling Green Falcons?

889
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 2: Yes?

890
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:41,480
Speaker 3: All right? Any other brothers, sisters?

891
00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:45,800
Speaker 2: No? No, no, no, I got two little brothers. Okay,

892
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 2: that that aren't so little?

893
00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:51,719
Speaker 3: So is Bowling Green. What's your Bowling Green brother's name?

894
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:53,879
Speaker 2: His name is Toun Day Day.

895
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:55,800
Speaker 3: Is he going to be a pro you think or

896
00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:56,879
Speaker 3: have a shot to do it?

897
00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:57,640
Speaker 2: God willing?

898
00:40:57,800 --> 00:41:01,239
Speaker 1: I mean, he's definitely a hard worker, you know him

899
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:03,320
Speaker 1: being the youngest, he puts a lot of pressure on himself.

900
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:08,439
Speaker 1: But I I would say this, I think he's headed

901
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:11,600
Speaker 1: in the right direction. That's well, that's huge to have

902
00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:15,360
Speaker 1: three boys and I'm assuming all on scholarship. Yeah, to

903
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 1: all play scholarship. Do you want football? So coming up?

904
00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:20,920
Speaker 1: I know a lot of its genetics, a lot of it,

905
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 1: you know, But was there some kind of training regimen.

906
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:25,720
Speaker 1: Was there something that y'all did a little bit different

907
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:28,839
Speaker 1: in your household than your friends or you know, your

908
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:31,920
Speaker 1: other teammates in high school. Bro, we were just in bonded,

909
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:37,239
Speaker 1: yam all. You know, you know, we spent a lot

910
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:40,759
Speaker 1: of time outside. To be honest, I don't know. It

911
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:42,400
Speaker 1: was just I was I was like sort of the

912
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:46,719
Speaker 1: guinea pig, you know, worked out, just just trying to

913
00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:49,080
Speaker 1: find whatever way to get strong and get fast.

914
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 2: You know.

915
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:51,799
Speaker 1: At one point I thought, all right, if I could

916
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:54,440
Speaker 1: look like Michael Strand, I think I'll be headed in

917
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 1: the right direction. Obviously, you know, different body types, you

918
00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:01,920
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. But now we just ate. You know,

919
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:04,799
Speaker 1: you had three wolves in the house just eating up

920
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:08,600
Speaker 1: the fridge and my mom's always cooking, so just that

921
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 1: it really.

922
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 4: Your parents immigrated here and they have three boys who

923
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:15,640
Speaker 4: all go to college on football scholarships.

924
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:18,360
Speaker 2: I mean that is huge.

925
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:21,200
Speaker 4: They must they must say, what a country right where

926
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 4: we can do this? And and you know, we had

927
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:25,400
Speaker 4: Dari in here a couple of weeks ago and his

928
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:27,720
Speaker 4: parents immigrated and you know he plays in the NFL.

929
00:42:27,719 --> 00:42:29,239
Speaker 3: His sister plays in a WNBA.

930
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:32,959
Speaker 4: So their story is they got a cool story. Yeah,

931
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:35,880
Speaker 4: the great story. Great and you have a great story.

932
00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:41,280
Speaker 4: So there, So that's pregame routine. Uh what about quick

933
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:43,560
Speaker 4: note here as we're running out of time, I got

934
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:47,359
Speaker 4: a couple of quick ones here. Your D line teammates

935
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:50,360
Speaker 4: Mario comes in as well the same.

936
00:42:50,239 --> 00:42:50,799
Speaker 3: Year you do.

937
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:52,880
Speaker 4: And you guys are doing a really good job inside.

938
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 4: So what about him and just the room in general.

939
00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:58,120
Speaker 4: We asked Khalil Davis about this. And by the way,

940
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 4: you're gonna have a huge game because Kalie was in

941
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:03,719
Speaker 4: here last week he had his first sack of the year.

942
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:06,440
Speaker 4: You've been out of having a big year anyway, So

943
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:08,160
Speaker 4: get ready for Sunday at New England.

944
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 3: It's gonna be even bigger.

945
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:11,160
Speaker 2: I appreciate that.

946
00:43:11,719 --> 00:43:13,480
Speaker 4: And Dar, we know what Dari has done the last

947
00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:14,960
Speaker 4: two weeks since he's been in here, so this is

948
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:15,920
Speaker 4: a magical place.

949
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:18,759
Speaker 2: Fully, you know I received that.

950
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:26,960
Speaker 1: But the d Lion Room solid men, Yeah, like solid,

951
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:32,759
Speaker 1: solid solid men, solid man, like every man in there.

952
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:33,160
Speaker 2: You know.

953
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:37,480
Speaker 1: That's that's the best way I can describe them, you know,

954
00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 1: really able to grow with one another and really sharpened,

955
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:46,720
Speaker 1: you know, the mindsets of each other and truly truly

956
00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:51,439
Speaker 1: feel like, all right, you know this guy is really

957
00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:53,879
Speaker 1: my brother right now. You know, he's really he's really

958
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:57,000
Speaker 1: he's really showing up for me. You know, I'm talking

959
00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:02,920
Speaker 1: about speaking life into each other. That's I really, I

960
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:06,719
Speaker 1: truly really appreciate you know, this group, you know, and

961
00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:08,759
Speaker 1: like you know, some people can you know say that

962
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:11,279
Speaker 1: it can it kind of be a little bit of

963
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:16,480
Speaker 1: mouth service, but nah, not with these guys. Like not

964
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 1: with these guys. Like not with these guys. Where did

965
00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:25,319
Speaker 1: that come from? As far as the the respect and

966
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:28,720
Speaker 1: the relationship y'all have. Because when we had Khalil Davison

967
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:31,279
Speaker 1: here and he said some glowing things about you that

968
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:33,880
Speaker 1: he just gets wisdom from you. And he says that

969
00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:36,400
Speaker 1: you don't talk much, so when you do, he's listening

970
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:38,239
Speaker 1: and he's trying to just pick your brain every chance

971
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:40,640
Speaker 1: he gets. But for y'all to only have been together

972
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:43,000
Speaker 1: for a year, some of the guys two years. When

973
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:45,000
Speaker 1: I personally talk to y'all, it just sounds like y'all

974
00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:47,560
Speaker 1: been together for a decade. So was there something you're

975
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:50,319
Speaker 1: in training camp that brought y'all closer? Where did that

976
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:53,319
Speaker 1: come from? The special bonds? To be honest, I don't know,

977
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:56,880
Speaker 1: I do not know. It just we all got together

978
00:44:57,000 --> 00:45:00,480
Speaker 1: and we were just like a this is the group,

979
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:03,000
Speaker 1: let's rock together, you know. And from from day one

980
00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:07,759
Speaker 1: of OTAs you know, first of and also to coach

981
00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:11,560
Speaker 1: Ride and coach Nate, Man, those guys, those guys man,

982
00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:17,120
Speaker 1: their energy, their love of enthusiasm, their love of care right,

983
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:20,960
Speaker 1: it made me realize that, like hold On, you can

984
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:25,839
Speaker 1: have serious personal relationships with your guys right, still coach

985
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:29,680
Speaker 1: them hard, right, and still grow as a group, you know,

986
00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:32,719
Speaker 1: and you know, as a coach, i'd imagine you still

987
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:36,520
Speaker 1: have to make tough decisions at times. But man, being authentic,

988
00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:42,399
Speaker 1: truly authentic like those two man, I take my hat

989
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:45,359
Speaker 1: off to them, you know, and I think the entire

990
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:51,200
Speaker 1: group is just it's just been amazing so OTAs you know,

991
00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:55,440
Speaker 1: going through it in camp, being with each other, spending

992
00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:57,960
Speaker 1: time together, going out to eat, laughing with one another,

993
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:03,440
Speaker 1: you know, sharing idea, crafting. It's it's been amazing. It's

994
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:04,719
Speaker 1: been amazing to be a.

995
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:07,960
Speaker 2: Part of all Right That's going to do it for

996
00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:08,520
Speaker 2: us today.

997
00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:11,000
Speaker 1: Like Mark said, you've already had a great season, but

998
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:13,720
Speaker 1: we expect more, especially now that you've been here hanging

999
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:16,319
Speaker 1: out with us. Fully, really appreciate your time on your

1000
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:18,879
Speaker 1: day off and just the wisdom, you know. And it's

1001
00:46:18,880 --> 00:46:21,400
Speaker 1: cool that now the listeners get to know who that

1002
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:23,520
Speaker 1: guy is on the inside making all those plays, So

1003
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:25,759
Speaker 1: we appreciate your time and keep up the great work.

1004
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:27,600
Speaker 2: I appreciate it for us. Thank you for having me.

1005
00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:28,960
Speaker 2: All Right That's going to do it for us.

1006
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:32,480
Speaker 1: Texans All Access Players Edition, Big shout out to our

1007
00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:33,280
Speaker 1: main man, Fully,