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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ozone Podcast presented by by Star Credit

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Speaker 1: with Jaguars senior writer John Osan. All Right, welcome into

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Speaker 1: this week's ozone podcast presented by by sar And I

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Speaker 1: think we're gonna have some fun today. I think Jaguars

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Speaker 1: If they've heard anything or read anything about this guest,

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Speaker 1: they know it'll be an enjoyable, entertaining interview. I welcome

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Speaker 1: in Jaguar's offensive lineman. I'm not going to call him

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Speaker 1: a center yet, but I think that's what we all know.

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Speaker 1: It's headed to Luke Fortner from Kentucky. Luke, I appreciate

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Speaker 1: you joining the ozone podcast. Yeah, thanks for having me on.

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Speaker 1: I'm really excited. And look, the first question, I know

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Speaker 1: you spent about fifteen years at Kentucky, right, so, um,

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Speaker 1: with all that time, Uh, why in the world. I

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Speaker 1: know football is important, but why in the world wouldn't

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Speaker 1: you have gotten something to fall back on? A great question?

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Speaker 1: A lot of people, a lot of people wonder why

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Speaker 1: I wasted so much time there, and you know I

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Speaker 1: didn't use it the right way, but I'll figure it

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Speaker 1: out eventually. Obviously, Um, you know people know it, but

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Speaker 1: tell me your degrees that you've earned. Give me the

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Speaker 1: official rundown on those titles. It's fascinating. Yeah. So I

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Speaker 1: I have received my undergrad and Mechanical Engineering UM and

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Speaker 1: then I received the master's and Aerospace Engineering and I'm

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Speaker 1: getting my MBA this spring. Fantastic And uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: is that direction something you always wanted to do? Did

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Speaker 1: did something at UK start sort of guiding you? Tell

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Speaker 1: me how the academic part of it came together. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: let me be honest with you. I got in there

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Speaker 1: and they were like, what what do you want to

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Speaker 1: Yeah I was They're like, what are you good at?

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Speaker 1: I was like I don't know, I'm okay at math.

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Speaker 1: They're like, well, what about engineering? I was like, sure,

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Speaker 1: I really loved football, and he was like, I'll take

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Speaker 1: what I thought was my last year, my fifth year

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Speaker 1: kind of the silver lining of the pandemic for me

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Speaker 1: an NBA degree. Now the sixth year, I mean I

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Speaker 1: was in college a little longer than I could have been.

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Speaker 1: I was in there four and a half. But six years.

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Speaker 1: Do you even remember high school? It's a long time

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Speaker 1: ago now, right, No, I don't remember much from back then.

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Speaker 1: You know, they the best advice I got was staying

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Speaker 1: college as long as you can. So I put that

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Speaker 1: to the test. U. Well, you won't regret it. And

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Speaker 1: we'll get into some football things as we go along.

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Speaker 1: But um, honestly, football wasn't your only option. Uh. Have

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Speaker 1: you had opportunities to go a different direction already? Uh?

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Speaker 1: And I guess football is just the passion, so you

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Speaker 1: want to stick with it, right? Yeah? I had h

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Speaker 1: had the opportunity to intern at NASA, and UM, you know,

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Speaker 1: I had the opportunity to get a job at Toyota.

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Speaker 1: They have a plan in Kentucky and a couple opportunities.

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Speaker 1: I never took them up on them, just because the

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Speaker 1: time was constraints with football. Um, but definitely some different

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Speaker 1: So I came back to that six year and kind of,

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Speaker 1: a second. But I get to talk football a lot.

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Speaker 1: And this is fascinating, Sammy. Give me your five year plan,

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Speaker 1: to use a cliche, but then give me your twenty

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Speaker 1: Five year plan would be, you know, be a start

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Speaker 1: we'll see. I'm not sure, but opened open to a

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Speaker 1: lot of different things. Luke. I worry about your future.

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Speaker 1: I worry about where you're headed. Uh, council you a

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Speaker 1: what were your impressions before and then once you were drafted? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're You're absolutely right. Once Josh kind of came down here,

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Speaker 1: You answered this very professionally the other day, but obviously

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Speaker 1: in and contributing and perhaps starting right away. That's your goal. Yeah, definitely.

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Speaker 1: I got you, I got you. Um. How does your intelligence,

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Speaker 1: Ravon dexter Um number nine, real, real good player, real

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