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Speaker 1: Well, welcome back to You've Got Mail, presented by Delta Dental.

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Speaker 1: I'm your forty nine Ers team reporter Brionna Janelle, and

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Speaker 1: in this episode, we're talking to some of your favorite

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Speaker 1: rookie d linemen, Alfred Collins and CJ. West. In this episode,

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Speaker 1: they talk all about their journeys to football and they

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Speaker 1: bring us into the forty nine Ers D line room.

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Speaker 1: Here's my conversation with Alfred and CJ. Hey beethe, welcome

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Speaker 1: to You Got Mail. I'm sitting down with Alfred Collins

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Speaker 1: in CJ. West right before Monday Night football. How are

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Speaker 1: y'all doing?

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Speaker 2: That's great?

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Speaker 1: Are y'all excited primetime again?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: It should be fun. Now. I'm really excited to get

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Speaker 1: to know y'all a little bit more your personalities. What

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Speaker 1: brought you into football? You guys both started playing football

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Speaker 1: like around middle school, right seventh eighth grade. What do

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Speaker 1: you first remember about what you fell in love with

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Speaker 1: the game?

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Speaker 3: H My first year was eighth grade, and I would

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Speaker 3: say that that was my first year really being in

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Speaker 3: like full competitive team sports and like actually getting a

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Speaker 3: chance to like win something. And I feel like my

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Speaker 3: greatest satisfaction on that from that was just winning something like,

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Speaker 3: you know, we did a long hard camp and you know,

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Speaker 3: practices and all these games and getting something at the

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Speaker 3: just with my teammates and stuff. So that's kind of

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Speaker 3: why I fell in love with the game.

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Speaker 1: So your first season ever playing tackle football, you won

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Speaker 1: it all?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we won the Pop Warner Championship or whatever. Wow,

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Speaker 3: going down to Nationals in Daytona, Florida?

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Speaker 1: Was that when it was down in Orlando?

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Speaker 3: Was in Daytona?

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Speaker 1: Okay? Fun?

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah for whatever Pop Warner the league or whatever

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Speaker 3: we did ours was in Daytona.

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Speaker 1: That's so cool, Alfred. You remember when your first memories

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Speaker 1: were playing the game?

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Speaker 2: No, it was just when I fell in love with it.

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Speaker 2: It was, I would say, just like the camaraderie of

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Speaker 2: the boys, the grind stuff like that. I didn't take

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Speaker 2: it that serious, but it was just you know, it's

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Speaker 2: a processing. I loved it and it fell in love with.

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Speaker 1: When you first started. Was it Pop Warner like CJ?

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Speaker 1: Or was it school and after school program?

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Speaker 2: So long story short. I had to stop playing because

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Speaker 2: breaking complaints about being on too big.

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Speaker 1: Did they put the eggs on your helmet.

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Speaker 2: Nah, I could only feel like receiver. But I stopped playing.

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Speaker 2: But I said, like around middle school and stuff like that,

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Speaker 2: I really fell in love with it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because I have a little nephew. He plays pop Warner.

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Speaker 1: My little brother also played pop Warner growing up. And

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Speaker 1: it's really special seeing sort of the learning curve and

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Speaker 1: their confidence grow over time, because when you put these

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Speaker 1: as a kid, it could be intimidating. Did you ever

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Speaker 3: Yeah, most definitely. My first time, like actually tackling somebody,

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Speaker 3: I was one hundred percent nerve, no idea what I

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Speaker 3: was doing. My first year playing football. Some of these

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Speaker 3: little more normal sized when I was younger. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: there's a lot of nerves going into that. But just

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Speaker 3: the repetitions and getting different opportunities to continue to you know,

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Speaker 1: So Alfred, were you afraid or you knew from the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like pop wonder. We played this team, we

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Speaker 2: played up and I saw her playing. I was just scared,

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Speaker 2: I said, coach from hurt this one out cut. So

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Speaker 2: I've been scared before.

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Speaker 1: Then, what what did it take for you to knew

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Speaker 2: Just the next game. I didn't go back in, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: And I want to get to know more about your backgrounds,

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Speaker 1: where you guys are from. Tell me about your hometowns,

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Speaker 1: how Texas and Illinois shaped you into the people you

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Speaker 2: There you go ahead, they see you know, I would

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Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like in the weather and I

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Speaker 1: You're Texas through and through because you ended up going

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Speaker 1: to Texas also how proud was your family because your

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Speaker 1: mom played at Texas. Did tell me about that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, No, there was my last out of my top five.

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Speaker 2: There was my last pick, but it was the best

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Speaker 2: they come to games. My mom went there, continue your legacy.

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Speaker 2: So it was all just a blessing.

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Speaker 1: So I want to know, Yeah, are you and your

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Speaker 1: mom competitive? Yes, it's like the most random things you

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Speaker 1: guys are competitive over.

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Speaker 2: I always have to say, Man, I have to say,

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Speaker 2: what are we competitive about? It's a lot of stuff.

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Speaker 2: I'm about to get back to you on that.

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Speaker 1: You're good, Think about it. Think about it. CJ. Tell

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Speaker 1: me about your hometown and how it shaped from Chicago. Oh,

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Speaker 1: Chicago nice, the best.

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Speaker 3: City in the world, the best in the world. Got

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Speaker 3: we got the best food, some of the best people,

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Speaker 3: the best views. It's just so much to do. Like

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Speaker 3: it's it's awesome. But yeah, like growing Chicago's Midwest area,

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Speaker 3: it gets real cold, you know, having them played football

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Speaker 3: It definitely makes you tougher. He kind of learned how

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Speaker 3: not kind of let you don't let the weather change

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Speaker 3: how you play or you know, how you're feeling that day.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't really matter. You know, nobody really cares, so

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Speaker 3: what now what. It's kind of mentality we have. But

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Speaker 3: growing Chicago is awesome, man. It's it's just a big city,

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Speaker 3: real fast paced, and you know, growing up my high

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Speaker 3: school life was awesome. I went to Nazareth Academy, legendary school.

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Speaker 3: I got some legendary people there, and it's just awesome.

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Speaker 3: You know, real brotherhood there.

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Speaker 1: So shout out, shout out. That's really cool. Now, if

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Speaker 1: I read correctly, you also played rugby.

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Speaker 3: I did. I did do a little bit.

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Speaker 1: I'm playing rugby. How does it ever overlap with football?

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Speaker 3: Man, So I played rugby after playing football, So I'm like,

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Speaker 3: why not try it? Let's I'm just bored. Let's do

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Speaker 3: it totally different, not wearing no pads, no helmet. The

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Speaker 3: football is much more around. You got to toss it

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Speaker 3: to the side and stuff. You got scrums. Rugby was cool.

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Speaker 3: I tried it for a little bit. It wasn't really

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Speaker 3: my forte. I like to hit hard. You can't really

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Speaker 3: hit that hard in rugby because they don't you don't

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Speaker 3: have any protection, So I was a little more advancing

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Speaker 3: those hitting areas. Not a lot of rugby players actually

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Speaker 1: So was it just like a one season stint or.

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Speaker 3: I maybe did like three games and it out. I was,

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Speaker 3: and I was it's not for me, like I tried it,

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I was.

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Speaker 1: Wasn't really fun thing something Well, one thing I know

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Speaker 1: about Texas and Chicago is the food is really good.

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Speaker 1: What's some of the best things when you go back

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Speaker 1: back and eat this thing?

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Speaker 3: Man, Uh Portillo's or if you never have Portillos, you

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Speaker 3: gotta go get you Italian beef extra dip. It's like

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Speaker 3: the sandwich they got cheese and peppers on it. It's fire.

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Speaker 3: It's like Chicago steak. If you ever go to Chicago,

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Speaker 3: you gotta try one. Portillo's is really good, or you

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Speaker 3: can try the old g spots like Johnny's had some

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Speaker 3: really good spots as well. But yeah, it's Italian beefs.

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Speaker 1: Ye, sure, Texas? Is it the barbecue or what is

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's for sure, it's for sure the barbecue. But

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Speaker 2: this place called Corbo Bobs. It's like Chipotle, but like, no,

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Speaker 2: it's not better. Yeah, every time I go back or

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Speaker 2: whenever I go back to Austin, I just know I'm

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Speaker 2: going to Bobs.

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Speaker 1: So is it like where you could build your own Oh?

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Speaker 2: No, like and they're like they're like not stingy, so

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Speaker 2: like they it's a very big.

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Speaker 1: No high school, we get the full scoop. So tell me,

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Speaker 1: how do you build your perfect ball or a burrito?

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Speaker 2: What is it?

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Speaker 2: My burrito order, it would be like chicken, rice or sausa.

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Speaker 2: What else? Probably double dubble chicken and then I'm adding

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Speaker 2: fish and.

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Speaker 1: Then double chicken, a fish, cheese.

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Speaker 2: Lettuce, sour cream, and then whatever sauce I'm in the

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Speaker 1: I don't know about fish, but that sounds fine.

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Speaker 3: What kind of fish added? It's like it's like for

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Speaker 3: our fish.

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Speaker 1: I mean that that's sounds good. That does sound good

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Speaker 1: fried fish. Yeah, like think about it, like fish tacos

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Speaker 1: are good. Yeah. But okay, So, as you've made your

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Speaker 1: transition over to California, is this the first time you've

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Speaker 3: Pretty much? I've been in Soca one time earlier in

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Speaker 3: my life, like in college. But North Calia it's my

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Speaker 3: first time up here. It's awesome.

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Speaker 1: Well, what do you guys think?

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Speaker 3: Man, the weathers, you can't beat it. You can't beat

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Speaker 3: the weather. So it's always sunny here. It's about sixty

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Speaker 3: five seventy five pretty much every day. The weather never

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Speaker 3: really changes.

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Speaker 2: It rained.

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Speaker 3: Probably count on one hand how many times it's rain

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Speaker 3: since I've been here. But it's been It's been lovely.

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Speaker 1: I know, it's that crazy. We are kind of tucked

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Speaker 1: away in the South Bay. But have you guys gotten

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Speaker 1: able to explore San Francisco maybe the East Bay? What

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Speaker 1: do you guys think?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been up to SF a couple of times.

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Speaker 3: It's gorgeous, has some really nice views up there. They

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Speaker 3: got some some dope mountains. You got the bridges to

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Speaker 3: see you know, you always see those as a kid

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Speaker 3: on postcards and stuff, so I can see that in

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you get to see it now. We don't have

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Speaker 3: Father, describe Alfred, it'll be turned. I feel like Alfred

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Speaker 3: If you ever hear him, man, you would start crying

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Speaker 2: I'll have to just say, just energy. You know, energy

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Speaker 2: He just be smile and happy like very you did

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Speaker 1: and answer questions directly from the faithful, so don't forget

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