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Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, Welcome to the latest edition of Falcons and Focus.

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Speaker 1: I am Tarren Walk joined by Tory mcelhaney per usual,

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Speaker 1: and our special guests of the day is Darnell Mooney.

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Speaker 2: Welcome.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, mister.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if I've been on a podcast. Welcome

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Speaker 2: to your first.

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Speaker 3: Podcast officially with the Falcons.

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Speaker 2: First of Falcons, Falcons First in Focus.

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Speaker 3: Could you fill our eyes on you?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a little bit. And then I felt like my

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Speaker 2: little voice give a bit.

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Speaker 1: In one of the things, like I was trying to

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Speaker 1: be a little comical or like no stop is serious anyways,

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Speaker 1: Now it's the fun part, I know. Oh and I'm

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Speaker 1: so excited because you went to Tulane. I'm sure you

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Speaker 1: saw that here in New Orleans. So for the people

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Speaker 1: who are are listening to this got you.

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Speaker 2: A little piece of college home.

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Speaker 3: We brought you Marti Graw this year. Did you ever

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Speaker 3: go to Marty Grau when you lived in New Orleans

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Speaker 3: once one time?

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Speaker 2: Can you tell the stories?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 4: It was, I mean it's a long week, so I

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Speaker 4: lasted two days though it wasn't it's a month. Yeah, true,

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Speaker 4: very true.

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Speaker 3: You go to any parades? No, No, just chilled. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Karen got back what like a month ago? Yeah, it was.

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Speaker 2: I did a final weeks. I don't want a lease.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's like we said, We're like, so you spent

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Speaker 3: four years at TWU Lane in New Orleans, and obviously

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Speaker 3: the hatred for New Orleans is pretty strong around here,

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Speaker 3: saying these falcons, but we're like, we're doing this to

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Speaker 3: like make you feel a little bit at home your roots,

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Speaker 3: at least for four years. Anyways, for sure, we were

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Speaker 3: doing a lot of research for this, and I think

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Speaker 3: one of the favorite stories that came up was your

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Speaker 3: recruitment story to TU Lane and how and correct me

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Speaker 3: if I'm wrong on this, but you were recruited very

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Speaker 3: kind of late in the game, and you were one

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Speaker 3: of the last people to sign, like the last scholarship spot.

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Speaker 3: Can you kind of talk to us a little bit

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Speaker 3: about that process and kind of the world went of it.

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Speaker 4: So first off, I couldn't, you know, get any interest

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Speaker 4: from me. Well, I had interest, but no offers because

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Speaker 4: of my ACT score, and I took it in August

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Speaker 4: and I didn't get my score back before like two

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Speaker 4: days before signing day. So the only person only people

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Speaker 4: that I had left was two Lane. They're like, yeah, whatever,

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Speaker 4: we'll give you a scholarship. And then so I signed

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Speaker 4: my scholarship or whatever. And then transcript somehow is not

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Speaker 4: facts in there, so I can't go to school early,

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Speaker 4: so I'm just training at home. So I ended up

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Speaker 4: getting there super super late. I got there like right

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Speaker 4: around with the training camp. What's happening shift stream the

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Speaker 4: first day, second stream the second, and then after their

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Speaker 4: game was starting ever since.

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Speaker 1: So in your stat just kept improving each year while there.

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Speaker 1: Is it wild how that worked out where the one

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Speaker 1: school worked perfectly.

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Speaker 4: I mean, it just sometimes you just gotta have to

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Speaker 4: It's just about what you deal with, you know, with

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Speaker 2: Had, and it worked out well.

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Speaker 1: Two Bowl games too. I know Willie Fritz was doing

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Speaker 1: well during that time. What was the biggest lesson you

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Speaker 1: learned during your college career?

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Speaker 3: Then?

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Speaker 4: Just learn how to be a man more than football.

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Speaker 4: So Coach Fritz definitely installed and installed in us like

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Speaker 4: how to be a man, how to be a family guy,

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Speaker 4: and just learning life as well without just all about

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Speaker 3: Nice. Well, we have a segment that we're reintroducing back

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Speaker 3: it for Scotty Miller last year, and we only did

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Speaker 3: it for Scotty. I don't know why.

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Speaker 2: She just loves it.

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Speaker 3: I know I love it. But it's called explain Yourself.

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Speaker 3: And we will have three facts that we were able

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Speaker 3: us if it's true. I eat, explain yourself. So are

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Speaker 3: you ready? No? Not at all? Okay, We're gonna go

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Speaker 3: anyways whether you're ready or not. So the first one,

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Speaker 3: buy a jug machine. Is that correct?

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Speaker 4: That is correct?

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Speaker 3: Okay, explain yourself and why you wanted to do that.

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Speaker 4: It was something at Tulane that we had, but I

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Speaker 4: just always wanted one at my house and I didn't

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Speaker 4: I didn't want anything expensive. And I knew if I

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Speaker 4: I have a few bucks, I can purchased this thing.

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Speaker 3: So did you just stick it in the backyard?

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Speaker 4: It was in my apartment?

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Speaker 1: He had inside, no way, it was in your How

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Speaker 1: many things did you break?

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Speaker 4: Nothing?

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Speaker 3: To not break anything that's deposit back that's hilarious. Okay.

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Speaker 3: Number two, you are a big time bowler. You're a

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Speaker 3: good bowler too. We have another bowler on the team,

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Speaker 4: Figure that out.

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Speaker 3: Yeah five minutes ago. Really he also had So I've

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Speaker 3: heard that the ball that you have is it Manian Devil? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: From your mom? Is that correct?

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Speaker 3: Okay? Explain yourself and how the love of bowling came to.

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Speaker 4: Be just at a young age. My mom uh got

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Speaker 4: everyone you know, bowling balls, and that's just what I think.

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Speaker 4: That was just something we just do and yeah, she's

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Speaker 4: that was that's one of the bowling balls I have.

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Speaker 2: And one of them how many do you have?

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Speaker 4: Three? One has a like it's like clear and just

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Speaker 3: What does it smell like cinnamon?

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Speaker 1: Okay, because Tyler, you can scratch the ball, I mean

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Speaker 3: So apparently that this is like a thing because Tyler

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Speaker 3: you and Tyler like out to a bowling out around here.

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Speaker 4: I just talked to him. I was like, because yeah,

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Speaker 4: he just got his balls like shipped here.

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Speaker 1: No way.

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Speaker 4: I was like, oh, you bowl, Let's go bowling.

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Speaker 3: That would be so much fun. I keep pitching this

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Speaker 3: idea that like we all just go bowling because I

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Speaker 3: I got to see right now for sure. How how

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Speaker 4: I used to do it a lot. I haven't been

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I weirdly had a volleyball. I just got

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Speaker 2: Have a cat, so it was like, what kind of weird?

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Speaker 2: It was a prank gift.

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Speaker 1: But I was just like, okay, that you should. So

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Speaker 1: I just had a vulliyball for years.

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Speaker 3: Okay. The third and final explain yourself. Fun fact you are.

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Speaker 3: You play the piano, but you didn't like take lessons.

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Speaker 2: To play the the internet.

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Speaker 3: The internet, everything's on the end.

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Speaker 2: Never google yourself though.

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Speaker 3: Also we're really good at our jobs. Everybody we know

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Speaker 3: what to look up. Okay, So play the piano, and

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Speaker 3: you learned not from like reading sheep music or anything

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Speaker 2: How?

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Speaker 3: How did all of this happen?

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Speaker 4: I don't know. I just loved the piano sound and

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Speaker 4: just always wanted to play. Alicia Keys is like one

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Speaker 2: So some people have that gift, though they do. I

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I like took piano lessons when I was younger,

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Speaker 4: Or is it I'm going to learn this year?

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Speaker 3: like my pandemic goal was. I was like gonna try

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Speaker 3: It's gone. I don't know where it is. I couldn't

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Speaker 2: I'm like, there's no piano, hidden, piano.

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Speaker 3: Just in a closet somewhere. So is that like a

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Speaker 3: someone else plays the drums. I'm just so now you're

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Speaker 1: Whole pre game show by the Falcons for the Atlanta Falcons,

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Speaker 1: right exactly.

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Speaker 3: Oh I love that. Okay, that that was the explain yourself.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't too bad. It's just like where did you

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Speaker 1: find all this? But you mentioned like the bowling balls

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Speaker 1: with your siblings? Another thing we found you have a twin?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, right?

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Speaker 1: What was that like growing up with a twin? I

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Speaker 1: saw he also was a wide receiver and all are

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Speaker 1: very different in stature for sure.

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Speaker 4: Oh really, yeah, he's way bigger.

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Speaker 1: He saw the sighting photo and I was like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: my sister's all taller than me, but we're not twins.

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Speaker 4: It was fun, though, I mean, it was composition every day,

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Speaker 4: and then when we finally left from each other after

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Speaker 3: So honestly, I feel bad. I feel like I talked

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Speaker 3: when we were growing up. Well, and we would fight

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Speaker 1: How it is they were able to do on the

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Speaker 3: It is because you spent summers in Chicago and yeah,

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Speaker 3: It is our rapid fire segment. Everybody gets similar five

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Speaker 1: All right, Tarn you go, who is your favorite player

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Speaker 3: Yes, I love that. You need to do the Alan

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Speaker 3: Iverson photo shoot. Do you know what I think cal

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Speaker 3: like Darnell's gonna do it. I'm making him. I'm just kidding. So, okay,

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Speaker 4: I think I had like a partner turn in high school.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, oh my gosh, that's funny.

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Speaker 2: If you could have any superpower, what would it be

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Speaker 4: Really?

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Speaker 2: Probably a good thing, Like, yes, less screen time.

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Speaker 3: Honestly, I probably need to watch less TV, if I'm

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Speaker 1: But I'm glad I ended up with the last question. Yes,

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Speaker 2: Your favorite?

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Speaker 1: So, I lived in New Orleans for a year, So

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Speaker 3: And also because we do go there once a year,

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Speaker 4: Well, I have a list, so okay, I'll send to

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Speaker 4: you guys, but buy you Hot Wings is one of

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Speaker 3: Hot Wings Okay.

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Speaker 2: Where is it though?

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Speaker 4: And it's right across the street from Tulane.

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Speaker 3: Nice? Okay, we'll go this year when we go to

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Speaker 2: Hop Wings makes me nervous because I'm bad.

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Speaker 4: With Well, it's not that's the same place.

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Speaker 4: They're definitely definitely the hole in the walls are the

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I didn't know that until Taren was like showing

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Speaker 2: Why would I eat there? Was like, because it has

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Speaker 4: It's a place called Manchu. You would not you would think, like,

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Speaker 4: why would I go there?

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Speaker 2: From Clayborne, I'm not sure.

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Speaker 4: It's under the bridge.

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Speaker 1: It's like Chinese food, right, Yes, yeah, I've had it,

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Speaker 1: have it. I definitely remember walking and being like, do

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Speaker 1: I get a scratch off ticket with my veil?

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Speaker 4: No? It's it's crazy.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's good enough about that. I don't know.

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Speaker 3: There's just something about getting food from a gas station.

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Speaker 1: That well, I guess it's not I'm not actually giving

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Speaker 1: selling gas.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, looks like some.

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Speaker 1: Places do, though, So that's hilarious.

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Speaker 2: On that note, great notes and gas stations here, she

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Speaker 2: knows what she's talking about.

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Speaker 1: Man was really good, but thank you so much. You know,

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Speaker 1: you were like, where did you find this information?

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Speaker 2: But thanks for playing along.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, hopefully we didn't creep you out too much.

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Speaker 2: He's gonna avoid this floor.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's never gonna talk to us again. These are

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Speaker 3: gonna work. Corey B.

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Speaker 1: You said it, not me.

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Speaker 2: I'm normal, all right.

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Speaker 1: Well, for everyone listening, be sure to like and subscribe

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Speaker 1: to the Falcons Podcast Network Yes, yeah, that's it formal name,

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Speaker 1: which is available on YouTube, Spotify, Apple, and really anywhere

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Speaker 1: you can find your podcast.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, appreciate you and excited for the season.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, looking forward to thanks coming on.

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Speaker 4: Thank you,