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Speaker 1: about Calvin, he's Mr Community and we're gonna talk about

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Speaker 1: that obviously. But first things first, Happy Thanksgiving? Thanksgiving? What

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Speaker 1: is Calvin Beecham's favorite Thanksgiving food? Favorite Thanksgiving food? I

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Speaker 1: love sweet potato pie. I love sweet potato pie. Love

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Speaker 1: people love yams and sweet potatoes, but I love sweet

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Speaker 1: potato pie. Now do you are you okay with pumpkin pie?

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Speaker 1: Are you never? I've never really been a fit. I've

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Speaker 1: never really had it. I'm not going to say that

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Speaker 1: I don't like it. It's just i've never really had it.

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Speaker 1: Like my my family we cooked sweepotatoes, So I really

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Speaker 1: didn't know what a pumpkin pie was until I got

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Speaker 1: up here Northeast sweep potatoes. See, I've never really had

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Speaker 1: sweet potato pie. You gotta try it, I know, I know.

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Speaker 1: I just think it's the same family as pompkin same family.

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Speaker 1: So where do you stand between sweet potato and pumpkin pie?

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Speaker 1: I like them both. Uh. You know. My thing with

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Speaker 1: for thirty right, So I don't eat breakface, I won't

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Speaker 1: then yeah, the meal itself. I'm not a huge turkey guy,

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Speaker 1: so kelvin stuff. Let let me ask you this as

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Speaker 1: a football player, you guys typically have practice on Thursday?

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Speaker 1: Is thanks what's Thanksgiving like in season for you? Like?

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Speaker 1: Are you able to remove yourself and enjoy Thanksgiving for

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Speaker 1: when you're in the moment or is it almost it

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Speaker 1: just feels like another day and you get something to do,

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Speaker 1: Like is it weird as a player and Thanksgiving? You know,

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Speaker 1: I've answered this question a couple of times lately, um,

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Speaker 1: And I tell folks I hadn't been able to celebrate

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Speaker 1: you know, back in oh seven, So I don't know

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Speaker 1: what a traditional Thanksgiving day would be like. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's been so long. I know, I know how it

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Speaker 1: that possible? You know that that Sunday I've played on

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Speaker 1: spend thans Giving? That? So it kind of just a

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Speaker 1: I like the triple header approach the NFL STA because

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Speaker 1: True And this Thanksgiving or two days before this Thanksgiving

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Speaker 1: up with you man, it's the clean water um, and

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Speaker 1: just come on out. She's in the car and she

426
00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:46,879
Speaker 1: happens to see a fox like cross in front of

427
00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:49,879
Speaker 1: the car and she hits the brake. I'm like, what

428
00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:51,640
Speaker 1: are you doing? Well, I want to hit the fox.

429
00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:54,720
Speaker 1: I'm like, listen, baby, girl, hit the fox and let's

430
00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:56,399
Speaker 1: get this thing that gets to the driveway. It's like

431
00:20:56,440 --> 00:20:59,520
Speaker 1: going to the facility. So this is I'm pushing at

432
00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:04,280
Speaker 1: five more and my green tyhole and I finally get

433
00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:05,680
Speaker 1: it back over to the park and let my wife

434
00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:08,280
Speaker 1: brings me in and I tell her, I'm like, listen,

435
00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:10,480
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is why I love the Chevy ty Hood,

436
00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:12,280
Speaker 1: the ninety six Sevy time hold. I'm like and she's

437
00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:16,320
Speaker 1: like wow. I'm like it's good for our marriage because

438
00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:19,000
Speaker 1: you know, the thing is is I still have to

439
00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:22,480
Speaker 1: do things like that. It sounds my trans my girard

440
00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:24,440
Speaker 1: shift from my transmission or come off. So I have

441
00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:27,480
Speaker 1: to get up under the car, put the put the like,

442
00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:29,880
Speaker 1: get the gird shift from, push it back into park,

443
00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:32,639
Speaker 1: put the gird shift back on. Uh go get a

444
00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:35,159
Speaker 1: rip tie like a little tie and tied tied the

445
00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:37,000
Speaker 1: thing back on there. Because I just say, I've been late.

446
00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:38,240
Speaker 1: I've been too lazy to take it over to the

447
00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:39,800
Speaker 1: dealership to get it done right. So I'm kind of

448
00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:45,800
Speaker 1: like using some Southern engineering. But but if I could

449
00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:47,840
Speaker 1: change the oil, I would change the oifer. I can

450
00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:50,240
Speaker 1: change the transmission fluid. I would change the transmission fluorid.

451
00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:53,600
Speaker 1: If I you know, could could you know, jack it up,

452
00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:55,600
Speaker 1: take the take the tires off from rotating on my own,

453
00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:57,679
Speaker 1: I would do that. I just don't have the time too.

454
00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:00,320
Speaker 1: So you know I've worked with or, which is player,

455
00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:03,119
Speaker 1: you know director player development here and he can be

456
00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:06,600
Speaker 1: hooked up with one of the mavis Um shops here

457
00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:09,199
Speaker 1: in the area and then we get things done. All right.

458
00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:12,399
Speaker 1: So if you see anybody pushing a green time on

459
00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:18,879
Speaker 1: the morning it's like five thirty, it's Calvin Beacham. So

460
00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:21,520
Speaker 1: I mean, you're running this thing until I can't go anymore,

461
00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:24,239
Speaker 1: right man, this is this ain't going nowhere? I think

462
00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:27,000
Speaker 1: is I just changed the mode of transmission about two

463
00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:31,240
Speaker 1: years ago, so it's fine, got the interior completely redone.

464
00:22:31,359 --> 00:22:33,159
Speaker 1: I just got to get the seabuds. Do you think

465
00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:38,280
Speaker 1: this is something that like KB three, No doubt, no doubt.

466
00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:40,480
Speaker 1: So is that gonna be like his first car? Is

467
00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:42,880
Speaker 1: that gonna be like this is a big deal when

468
00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:46,040
Speaker 1: it's a face. The thing is is that car was

469
00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:48,399
Speaker 1: passed down to me. So that used to be the

470
00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:52,600
Speaker 1: family car, right That car was passed me. I worked

471
00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:55,560
Speaker 1: for that car in high school. It was passed that

472
00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:58,359
Speaker 1: to my brother for a year in college, and I

473
00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:00,240
Speaker 1: got the next car that was passed that, which was

474
00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:04,080
Speaker 1: which was a Crown Victoria. My last couple of years

475
00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:08,000
Speaker 1: in college, my brother wrecked the tahoe which bent the hood,

476
00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:09,960
Speaker 1: which is still bent right now. I ain't got that fixed.

477
00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:13,760
Speaker 1: That's what I brought to the league with me, um,

478
00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:15,520
Speaker 1: so it would just be passed there, just like it

479
00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:17,040
Speaker 1: was passed down to me. So the next person in

480
00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:20,119
Speaker 1: live is my daughter Klena bass down to Klein and

481
00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:22,640
Speaker 1: once Clean moves on be passed down to K three.

482
00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:24,639
Speaker 1: Once K three moves on to me, passed down to

483
00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:27,680
Speaker 1: Janelle and whoever decides to to to keep it going

484
00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:30,359
Speaker 1: from there. Uh, you know it'll be passed down just

485
00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:32,359
Speaker 1: like it was passed down to me. I love it.

486
00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:39,800
Speaker 1: That's a family tradition. I'm making it away. Um thinking Uh,

487
00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:43,320
Speaker 1: speaking of Thanksgiving, I should say, in Pittsburgh when you

488
00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:48,320
Speaker 1: started out, did you seek out homeless on the on

489
00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:52,080
Speaker 1: the street in terms of giving them meals and stopping

490
00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:55,000
Speaker 1: by or this is something you were driving by in

491
00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:57,240
Speaker 1: the Chevy Tahoe and you saw people on the street

492
00:23:57,280 --> 00:23:59,520
Speaker 1: and you know, I want to help him. What the

493
00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:02,760
Speaker 1: thing is in Pittsburgh if you're um, I can't think

494
00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:04,440
Speaker 1: of a bridge now, But if you're going through Fort

495
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:07,560
Speaker 1: pitt Tunnel, Um, there are usually people that are because

496
00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:11,119
Speaker 1: they know traffic. During traffic time, it's really slow, and

497
00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:13,119
Speaker 1: you will see people standing up, you know, standing up

498
00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:15,119
Speaker 1: on the bridge. And you know, if I'm taking a

499
00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:17,200
Speaker 1: meal home from the facility and pick up a couple

500
00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:19,800
Speaker 1: of extra apples or a couple of extra bananas, and

501
00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:21,840
Speaker 1: I see them and you know I would give them.

502
00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:24,880
Speaker 1: I will purposely bring stuff from the facility. So yeah,

503
00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:28,440
Speaker 1: you make that part of your routine. So anytime I

504
00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:32,440
Speaker 1: saw somebody there and you know they had to ask

505
00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:34,840
Speaker 1: I would have something already in the car form. But

506
00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:36,959
Speaker 1: the thing is, I've been doing this stuff. I've been

507
00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:39,720
Speaker 1: doing food related things since high school, honestly. So this

508
00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:42,360
Speaker 1: has been something that has continued to be a part

509
00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:44,160
Speaker 1: of my life and will continue to be a part

510
00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:46,040
Speaker 1: of my life after I'm done playing football. So it's

511
00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:48,520
Speaker 1: not just I waited until I got here to do it.

512
00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:51,600
Speaker 1: I did this. I did can drives and food drives

513
00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:55,760
Speaker 1: in college and conjunction with the sm athletics, and did

514
00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:57,960
Speaker 1: some of these things with the more multi cultural club

515
00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,239
Speaker 1: when I was in high school. So this has been

516
00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:02,320
Speaker 1: something that I've been doing for some time. What's your

517
00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:05,159
Speaker 1: favorite part about it? You know, at the end of

518
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:07,160
Speaker 1: the day, it's being and I say this all the time.

519
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:10,560
Speaker 1: It's been able to provide a smile to somebody. UM.

520
00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:12,600
Speaker 1: But I think as I've been doing it more, I've

521
00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:16,159
Speaker 1: been able to see more instances. UM. I did uh

522
00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:19,280
Speaker 1: water distribution that ended up with me provided some food

523
00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:22,480
Speaker 1: along with them a couple of weeks ago, UM in

524
00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:25,280
Speaker 1: conjunction with United Way, and it was a mother that

525
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:27,960
Speaker 1: had seven kids and they were all adopted. She adopted

526
00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:31,080
Speaker 1: seven kids and to get three cases of water and

527
00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:35,360
Speaker 1: two big huge boxes of food just to see how

528
00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:39,120
Speaker 1: she reacted. Um, for me, that is special to get

529
00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:41,800
Speaker 1: a hug from a stranger. I talked about human connection earlier.

530
00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:44,480
Speaker 1: To get a hug from a stranger and uh and

531
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:47,200
Speaker 1: all she says and thank you. Um, I didn't see

532
00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:49,280
Speaker 1: this coming. I had no idea that this was coming. Um,

533
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:51,480
Speaker 1: this is gonna help my family tremendously for the next

534
00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:53,680
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. You just don't know what that that

535
00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:56,360
Speaker 1: that does for people. UM. And for me, it's being

536
00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:59,040
Speaker 1: able to make that small impact and and understand that

537
00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:02,280
Speaker 1: I helped somebody that that otherwise may not They've gotten

538
00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:04,639
Speaker 1: it in time, you know. UM. And I really do

539
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:06,120
Speaker 1: get a lot of joy out of that. I get

540
00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:09,600
Speaker 1: energy from that, honestly. That like people you know, trying

541
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:11,240
Speaker 1: to figure out what what are you get energy? And

542
00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:13,960
Speaker 1: how do you keep going? For me, that that that

543
00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:16,119
Speaker 1: that fires me up when I'm able to help somebody

544
00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:18,880
Speaker 1: in that particular fashion. And you're helping the youth too

545
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:23,840
Speaker 1: through STEM. What's that an acronym for? And why is

546
00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:27,639
Speaker 1: that so important to you? Science? Technology, engineering and mathematics?

547
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:30,720
Speaker 1: And if you want to say Steam. You add the arts, UM,

548
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:34,040
Speaker 1: but you think about where we're going from an economy standpoint.

549
00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:36,639
Speaker 1: You think about the the market cap for Google, and

550
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:40,119
Speaker 1: the market cap for for for Facebook and Microsoft and

551
00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:44,720
Speaker 1: all these tech giants. UM, they're powered by software engineers,

552
00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:52,159
Speaker 1: electrical engineers, developers, you know, product managers, designers like what

553
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:56,720
Speaker 1: have you. And they're all coming from Steam based backgrounds UM.

554
00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:58,760
Speaker 1: And the thing is, I want to make sure that

555
00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:03,119
Speaker 1: people of of of all colors are races UM, have

556
00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:06,480
Speaker 1: access to understanding how they can play a role and

557
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:10,040
Speaker 1: in this new economy. UM. And the thing is, there's

558
00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:12,240
Speaker 1: there's money to be had, and I know, you know,

559
00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:15,639
Speaker 1: money doesn't solve everything. But again we talked about the

560
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:18,200
Speaker 1: middle class, and we talked about the common they American

561
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:20,720
Speaker 1: to be able to go and then have a job

562
00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:23,000
Speaker 1: coming out of college or coming out of high school.

563
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,360
Speaker 1: You know, because you've been working on being a sophomore

564
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:28,360
Speaker 1: engineer and you're starting salaries eighty five thousand, that that's

565
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,200
Speaker 1: a lot different than than than where most of America is.

566
00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:33,639
Speaker 1: And to be able to have a skilled job that

567
00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:37,040
Speaker 1: you can actually you know, uh continue to to to

568
00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:40,240
Speaker 1: to go through the ranks and continue to elevate yourself

569
00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:43,399
Speaker 1: and become you know, possibly a VP, possibly a CEO,

570
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:46,600
Speaker 1: to be able to empower our youth in that particular fashion.

571
00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:49,720
Speaker 1: Something that I see because I see what the economy

572
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:52,520
Speaker 1: is at, you know, and I see where um folks

573
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:55,119
Speaker 1: can be in this particular space. So just for me

574
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:57,680
Speaker 1: is just again being able to provide a word. It's

575
00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:01,199
Speaker 1: being able to provide opportunities, being able to about exposure. Um,

576
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:03,080
Speaker 1: I wasn't exposed to these types of things. I had

577
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:05,880
Speaker 1: no idea what Apple was. You know, everybody just used

578
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:10,119
Speaker 1: the iPods, you know, but nobody realized how impactful Apple

579
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:12,560
Speaker 1: would be to our our our society right now. And

580
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:15,080
Speaker 1: it's being able to make sure that our young folks, um,

581
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:17,480
Speaker 1: you know, here in America and across and across the

582
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 1: globe have access to it. You got anything else? No man?

583
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,920
Speaker 1: Any last Thanksgiving thoughts here? Well? I did. I didn't

584
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:28,960
Speaker 1: actually want to ask you a question. This is big news.

585
00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:34,840
Speaker 1: Your hometown, it says on its website, a great place

586
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:37,439
Speaker 1: to live, no matter. How will you pronounce it? Now?

587
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:42,800
Speaker 1: Calvin grew up in Texas. How do you pronounce your hometown?

588
00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:45,560
Speaker 1: What is the proper way this is? I find it's

589
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 1: fascinating that they put this on their own website. So

590
00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 1: the proper way to say it is mahea. That's what

591
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 1: I thought exactly. If if most times people from the

592
00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:59,840
Speaker 1: north they say Mexico, and if you're from the air,

593
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 1: yeah you say my her, you know, yeah, because you

594
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:08,320
Speaker 1: know the the Texas slang and how words and and

595
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 1: and how um letters are drawn out. Sometimes that's just

596
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 1: how they said. So my hair is a way of

597
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:20,400
Speaker 1: saying it. Mexia is another way of saying it. And

598
00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:23,840
Speaker 1: maha um you know is the is the I guess

599
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 1: the correct annunciation of it. Did you have a favorite

600
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving growing up? In my head? Favorite Thanksgiving? Man, I

601
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:36,680
Speaker 1: had great Thanksgivings. Uh homemade ice cream? Oh boy, well

602
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,680
Speaker 1: she didn't know him homemade ice cream for for Thanksgiving? Um,

603
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:42,280
Speaker 1: so you talk about how you know you want. You

604
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:47,280
Speaker 1: didn't eat till four o'clock Thanksgiving meal, Like everything was

605
00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:52,160
Speaker 1: ready by noon, Like it was like we're ready to roll.

606
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:56,240
Speaker 1: We're praying, like that's what time we're getting ready. But

607
00:29:56,360 --> 00:30:00,760
Speaker 1: my mother, because she did homemade biscuits for the dress. Um,

608
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:03,080
Speaker 1: she would do the homemade biscuits, so we would have

609
00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:06,320
Speaker 1: that for breakfast. Um. And then you have the homemade

610
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 1: biscuits she made. She took some out that would be

611
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:11,480
Speaker 1: used for the dressing. We did a hen so we

612
00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:14,880
Speaker 1: did chicken and dressing instead of turkey. The chicken, the giveing,

613
00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:18,640
Speaker 1: the gravy, the potato salad, the devil leggs, the collar

614
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 1: green uh, the the the yams, the whole nine. The

615
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:28,360
Speaker 1: whole spread was already on the table, the peach cobbler,

616
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:32,600
Speaker 1: the banana pudding, the sweet potato pie, the kool aid,

617
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:36,720
Speaker 1: the sweet tea like all that was already ready at noon.

618
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 1: So growing up, like for me, my favorite holiday was Thanksgiving.

619
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:46,160
Speaker 1: Like forget about Christmas. My favorite holiday was Thanksgiving because

620
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 1: I knew we were gonna eat galore um uh, mac

621
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:51,480
Speaker 1: and cheese, the whole nine, and then we go play

622
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:55,280
Speaker 1: basketball afterwards. Uh played hoops, man, I played. I played

623
00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:59,320
Speaker 1: basketball before I even got recruited to play football. Now, okay,

624
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 1: we're not gonna get into that. Just I knew you play.

625
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:05,240
Speaker 1: I knew you played hoops. I just didn't know you

626
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 1: would play hoops on Thanksgiving. You you will play after,

627
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:10,480
Speaker 1: like if you gotta go run some of that stuff,

628
00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 1: you know. I feel like after I eat I'm I'm done,

629
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 1: Like on Thanksgiving, I wake up, I'll play hoops or

630
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:19,800
Speaker 1: I'll do whatever. And then once I eat, I eat,

631
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:22,840
Speaker 1: and I sit back and I just I do like

632
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 1: the chicken over the turkey. By the way, that's the

633
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 1: turkey guy at all. Not a big time Yeah, me neither.

634
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 1: I think turkeys is kind of an overrated bird. Yeah,

635
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:37,640
Speaker 1: I'll eat it. I'll eat it. I like it. I

636
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 1: just don't think it's you know, I saw something on

637
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:43,000
Speaker 1: Twitter the other day it says it takes Americans three

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