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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody, and welcome to the latest edition of

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Speaker 1: the falcons In Focused podcast, presented by Ticketmaster. I'm Scott Behar.

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Speaker 1: That's Tory mclaney. You all know the man in the

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Speaker 1: middle right here bud Dupree Falcon's Edge Rusher, Atlanta's own

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Speaker 1: representing Middle Georgia from my back when and that's not

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Speaker 1: too far back.

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Speaker 2: This is back not so far.

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Speaker 1: But representing Middle Georgia. And that's where I want to start. Specifically,

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Speaker 1: on March twenty fifth, twenty seventeen, when they took a

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Speaker 1: street sign that had been up for a while, threw

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Speaker 1: it on the ground, and then and then put up

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Speaker 1: a brand new one that no joke in Tuesboro, right

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Speaker 1: says bud Dupree Drive. And they had a bud Dupree

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Speaker 1: Day and they got and it comes back every year

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Speaker 1: and there's thousands of people that show up to this

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Speaker 1: thing on bud Dupree Drive. If you go and you

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Speaker 1: look up real estate in the town, you can see

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Speaker 1: houses being sold and it says on bud due Pre Drive.

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Speaker 2: I need to know the full story. How did this

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Speaker 2: come to be?

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Speaker 1: So it's pretty awesome.

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Speaker 3: I mean, crazy man, you know, just being a pillar

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Speaker 3: from my community. Basically like born and Making, Georgia, you know,

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Speaker 3: grew up in like you said, I grew up in Tumbinborough, Georgia,

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Speaker 3: back and forth. My mom lived at Making, so man,

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Speaker 3: just you know, being someone that everyone looks up to

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Speaker 3: from when I was a kid. I remember running through

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Speaker 3: the neighborhood at that small town when I was a kid,

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Speaker 3: back and forth, you know, playing football throughout the screets,

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Speaker 3: basketball with all the older guys. You know, just the feeling,

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Speaker 3: the love in the community. You know, cookouts every day.

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Speaker 3: Every every day it was a cookout of somebody house

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Speaker 3: and ba enable to know be the person that made

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Speaker 3: it from from the middle of nowhere and.

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Speaker 4: For everybody just to be super excited about it.

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Speaker 3: Man, just it means a lot for them to you know,

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Speaker 3: put all their eggs in the basket with me, you know,

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Speaker 3: just take pride and say, he from here, We had

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Speaker 3: some of the with him up his upbringing. We had

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Speaker 3: something to do with him how he is as a man.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 3: They took it upon themselves, unme with the street sign

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Speaker 3: and turned the road to turn the house the road

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Speaker 3: that I marched one when I was a kid, you know,

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Speaker 3: with diapers, with dirty shoes, snotty nose, snappy heads, you know.

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Speaker 3: Changing that name to Bullet pre Drive made it made

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Speaker 3: the whole community. You know, they take pride in it,

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Speaker 3: you know. So it's very exciting though. Every year, like

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Speaker 3: you said, every year we have thousands of people come

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Speaker 3: out for the bud the pre day, not only from

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Speaker 3: not only from Tombsboro and Making, but you know other

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Speaker 3: places too. Now other people don't starting to come down

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Speaker 3: people might not have come down to. It gets bigger

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Speaker 3: and bigger every year. The first year started off probably

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Speaker 3: with just my community and a couple of people from

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Speaker 3: other people community, probably like five six hundred people started

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Speaker 3: off with that many. The second year it came out

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Speaker 3: probably like thousand, the third year probably fifteen hundred. In

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Speaker 3: this past year, it probably like I want to say,

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Speaker 3: two thousand people you know, before the rain, before the

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Speaker 3: rain came. So you know, it was only gonna get

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Speaker 3: bigger and bigger. And it's to the point now where

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Speaker 3: we gotta have everything blocked off.

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Speaker 2: And I have like the whole street, the whole everything.

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Speaker 4: Kids just run free.

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Speaker 3: It's one of them days where you can just don't

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Speaker 3: worry about your child, just let them go and you know,

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Speaker 3: it's always fun, man, And people come down. I know

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Speaker 3: they want to take pictures on the grass I do.

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Speaker 3: I do a cookoff competition, and that's my way of

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Speaker 3: giving a little bit of money back to the community.

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Speaker 3: I let them win. Winter takes. You put twenty dollars

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Speaker 3: in the Winter takes. Uh the win it takes on

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Speaker 3: five hundred. It's two different competitions, brisket and the ribs.

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Speaker 2: Okay, are you judging these? Are you a judge?

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Speaker 4: I don't eat pork?

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Speaker 3: Okay, but I have five judges and I picked five

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Speaker 3: judges who you know in the community, who.

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Speaker 4: Kind of healthy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and this is this is the bread and.

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Speaker 4: Butter, and I let them pick it. Man. It's good man.

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Speaker 4: People get mad, they.

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Speaker 1: Get they come back thinks that their ribs or their

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Speaker 1: brisket is.

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Speaker 4: The best, right every time. So that's what it is. Man.

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Speaker 3: So when I got a chance to be on the Falcons,

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Speaker 3: and it was a no brainer being able to come home.

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Speaker 3: And like I said, people come to the game, travel

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Speaker 3: to the game. It's amazing for me right.

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Speaker 1: Now, I just I have to ask one more question

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Speaker 1: about this. When when you get a call or someone

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Speaker 1: they say, yeah, we want to name a street after him,

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Speaker 1: Not like we want to have a day or like

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Speaker 1: he's going to ride into fancy car in a Fourth

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Speaker 1: of July parade or something like that. No, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: name a street after you. That street's gonna be up

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Speaker 1: there forever.

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Speaker 4: No for sure.

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Speaker 1: What's the reaction to.

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Speaker 3: That, man, It was amazing, Like it's it's crazy because

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Speaker 3: it was a trickle effit. First, UH, where I went

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Speaker 3: to school in Irverton, they they gave me the key

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Speaker 3: to the city. That's how cool I went to They

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Speaker 3: gave me the key to the city. That was the

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Speaker 3: first year I got drafted. Followed up by I was

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Speaker 3: doing a lot of charity events in down there also

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Speaker 3: in making. So secondly they named but the pre Drive

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Speaker 3: of me Boom. Then they came back and making game

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Speaker 3: Bud the pre Appreciation. So I got a plaque for

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Speaker 3: Buddy pre Making from the from the community from the

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Speaker 3: rec center, Bud the pre Drive. While I grew up

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Speaker 3: at UH in the Key to the city, while I

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Speaker 3: went to school at SO just every area that I

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Speaker 3: impact as an individual has shown love tremendously and uh,

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Speaker 3: you know, just don't want to continue to do it

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Speaker 3: as much as long as I can much as I can,

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Speaker 3: and your.

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Speaker 1: Number has retired it at both.

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Speaker 5: Also, is it true that the speed limit on budd

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Speaker 5: dupre drive is forty eight miles per hour?

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Speaker 4: I don't think anything. They just put the sign of it.

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Speaker 1: Say that would be if they have the law.

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Speaker 4: I would think it's the law. They just put the

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Speaker 1: I would just love it. Like some like cop like

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Speaker 1: pulls you over. I'm sorry you were going forty nine

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Speaker 1: miles per hour one mile pre hour over the bud

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but it's just funny, man.

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Speaker 3: So I do something too, like every end of the

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Speaker 4: I give them. I pay the water bill, out of town,

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Speaker 3: On groceries, send out to I got one guy down

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Speaker 3: And I just make sure I communicate with him and

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Speaker 3: see who needs help. Kids need help on Christmas, like

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Speaker 3: it'll be Christmas time right now. A lot of people

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Speaker 3: hit me and be like, you know they can't afford

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Speaker 3: I tap in and make sure, you know, because I

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Speaker 3: remember when I was young man, my mom used to

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Speaker 3: not only for me, but everyone else in her family,

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Speaker 3: you know, being a pillar for the community. She was

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Speaker 3: the first pillar for our community. And I just follow suit,

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Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. And my godma, who I

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Speaker 3: seen them day in and day out. Uh, everyone who

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 3: You know, it takes a village, and uh, I want

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Speaker 3: them village kids. I love that it's smooth.

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Speaker 5: It's funny too, because you bring up your mom, and

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Speaker 5: I'm so glad you did. But and you talk about

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Speaker 5: her being kind of the first pillar of this community,

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Speaker 5: and I think what people needed to know is that

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Speaker 5: she had a beauty shop, right yep, and she did

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Speaker 5: hair and that was kind of the place, that was

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Speaker 5: the hub where everybody went. What memories do you have

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Speaker 5: of growing up and going to your mom at the

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Speaker 3: So it's funny though, cause I remember just being the

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Speaker 3: before my Godma used to con't get me and take

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Speaker 4: Running into the wall like everybody used to.

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Speaker 3: They used to be laughing, like SOPHI, your son over

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Speaker 3: In my mind? I'm like, man, I'm just playing football.

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Speaker 3: Then like that was now you And then I got

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Speaker 3: growing up with her, seeing her, you know, day in

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Speaker 3: what I'm saying every day. So seeing that, being able

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Speaker 3: I'm like my mama working in hard. Kind of worked

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Speaker 3: hard too, So it just makes you, you know, feel that.

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Speaker 3: And I took it upon myself. Man, I just wanted

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Speaker 3: to get in a better situation. So it's fun.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and kind of follow that example that she set

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Speaker 1: for you. Everybody kind of gravitated towards her, and now

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Speaker 1: people are gravitating towards you, and you know, it's kind

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Speaker 1: of like looking up your background. I had to check

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Speaker 1: my notes be like, his room name isn't Bud.

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Speaker 5: I had no idea that Bud was not your actual,

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Speaker 5: like legal name.

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Speaker 2: That shocked me, and I did. I'm not joking. I

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Speaker 2: did not know that until.

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Speaker 3: Today, nobody know my real name, Am Jr.

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Speaker 1: I was gonna say your dad's name is Alvin too.

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Speaker 1: But so give us the origin story.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, So I'm Avonlee Dupre Junior. My dad

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Speaker 3: and name, Uh he grew up. He's from Twiggs County.

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Speaker 3: It's a neighbor county from between Making and twein Wilson.

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Speaker 3: So when I was young born, my godmom, which is

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Speaker 2: That is crazy. That's one of those things that you

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Speaker 4: You can't make it now, you can't make it up,

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Speaker 3: It's wild though everybody know it too, Like it's amazing

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Speaker 4: That way. Man, Bud just a name that just rings.

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Speaker 2: Is this correct?

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Speaker 3: About transfer? I can talk about it now because I

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Speaker 3: I mean, not play defense, cause I want to play

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Speaker 3: tight end. You know, just you know you you you

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Speaker 3: It's what you want to be. Yeah, like you want

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Speaker 3: And that was thirty two those state champions. So you know,

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Speaker 1: I was like cool, yeah, okay, like like maybe we

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Speaker 5: If you could go back and tell that kid that

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Speaker 4: I would to say, go buy be all in right.

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Speaker 1: Now, do it right now, all in, Go be all in.

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Speaker 3: Matter of fact, don't even think about playing tight end

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Speaker 4: You have fun playing in high.

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Speaker 3: I mean I'm fast enough to do it, but man,

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Speaker 4: You gotta kisch the ball. Intends to be good at

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I got to be on that drug machine.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's crazy because it's like the football kind of

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like other ventures.

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Speaker 1: And I've also heard that like when you go home,

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Speaker 3: So the record label is very fun to me. I

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Speaker 4: Kept climbing, kept climbing.

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Speaker 3: Found an artist named Baby Jungle, Troy and Twin uh

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we did a deal with that major label, deal

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Speaker 3: It's tremendous opportunity. Jungle has managers as well who helped

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Speaker 3: Those are the ones that you really need to have

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Speaker 4: So it's always been fun. Man.

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Speaker 3: Music always been a passion to me personally, but I

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Speaker 5: Well, so this is fascinating to me because I think

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Speaker 3: Man, you know, just not giving up and kind of

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Speaker 3: And you know it's fun, man to see that now

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Speaker 3: it's less work that I have to do now. Now

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Speaker 5: Now. Another venture of yours is the restaurant Vibes with

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Speaker 3: So for the restaurant, man, it was both basically to

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Speaker 3: So I have also two people who helped me with that,

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Speaker 3: Everyone you know, has a great time when they go.

440
00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:29,520
Speaker 3: We you know, Making is a violent city, but we

441
00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:34,120
Speaker 3: don't have any altercations at myself. So it's a safe

442
00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:35,920
Speaker 3: haven for everyone to have a great time as well.

443
00:19:36,359 --> 00:19:39,200
Speaker 3: And uh, you know, and have the communities a place

444
00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:42,040
Speaker 3: to have fun and just provide a different outlook for

445
00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:44,600
Speaker 3: the youth down there too. And then we got young

446
00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:47,720
Speaker 3: guys who work in the back watcher so that in

447
00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:49,560
Speaker 3: high school they need second they need jobs they can

448
00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:52,200
Speaker 3: come and work. Yeah, and man, it's great for them

449
00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:55,080
Speaker 3: to get structure in their life. And we do at

450
00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:57,640
Speaker 3: risk kids as well, so kids that have at risk.

451
00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:00,480
Speaker 3: One kid, you know, turn his life around. He got shot,

452
00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:03,720
Speaker 3: he came and started working. Uh, he got a college degree,

453
00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:06,119
Speaker 3: He got enough money from vibs to help out with

454
00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:08,720
Speaker 3: his schooling, and that was a great opportunity for that.

455
00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:10,919
Speaker 3: So when they tell me about that, that really was a

456
00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:12,240
Speaker 3: great push for the team.

457
00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:15,280
Speaker 5: I mean how much, like I know, you kind of

458
00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:17,400
Speaker 5: don't want to like sit here and be like, oh, yeah,

459
00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:20,359
Speaker 5: like I was a part of, you know, turning somebody's

460
00:20:20,359 --> 00:20:23,080
Speaker 5: life around. But how much does that mean to you

461
00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:27,200
Speaker 5: to kind of have played a part in being there

462
00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:30,240
Speaker 5: for somebody who needed a change.

463
00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:32,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot of people who work at VIS

464
00:20:32,359 --> 00:20:34,239
Speaker 3: who really was on the wrong track and then we

465
00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:36,600
Speaker 3: came in as a family oriented group and made them

466
00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:38,960
Speaker 3: get back and get back in the right track.

467
00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:41,600
Speaker 4: That's something that I really take prior. I don't run

468
00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:42,199
Speaker 4: from the I.

469
00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:46,080
Speaker 3: Don't run from per se to the criminal backgrounds and

470
00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:47,840
Speaker 3: stuff like that. I want to be able to help

471
00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:50,840
Speaker 3: those people be able to change their life around, especially

472
00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:53,439
Speaker 3: when they want to change their life. And that's what

473
00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:55,359
Speaker 3: that's what it boilt down to people want to be

474
00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:57,280
Speaker 3: able to get in a better situation for their family.

475
00:20:57,280 --> 00:21:00,959
Speaker 3: They helped them out and you know, creating that space.

476
00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:02,560
Speaker 3: You know with the people who we have in place

477
00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:05,879
Speaker 3: their vibes, they all work hard together and make it

478
00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:08,760
Speaker 3: and make it possible for them to know to get

479
00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:11,040
Speaker 3: back on the right track, contain to work and uh

480
00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:12,760
Speaker 3: provide for their family at the d of the day.

481
00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:14,399
Speaker 3: They have kids and they want to do better and

482
00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:18,080
Speaker 3: if that's stopping them from getting in trouble, more power

483
00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:18,400
Speaker 3: to them.

484
00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:19,600
Speaker 4: And I feel good about it.

485
00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:22,320
Speaker 5: And vibes is a lot of fun. I've seen the Instagram.

486
00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:25,920
Speaker 5: At some point I need to like make it track down.

487
00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:29,720
Speaker 2: It's great, Environment's great, the vibes are great.

488
00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:30,960
Speaker 1: Are great.

489
00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:31,440
Speaker 4: Yeah.

490
00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:35,040
Speaker 1: I just think it's interesting because you hear about people

491
00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:39,280
Speaker 1: who maybe grew up in a in a disadvantaged environment

492
00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:41,480
Speaker 1: and they like and they talk about getting out right

493
00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:43,160
Speaker 1: and their whole thing is I'm going to get out

494
00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:46,359
Speaker 1: of there, And then Bud keeps going back there to

495
00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:48,439
Speaker 1: help improve it. Like it's not just like hey, like

496
00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:51,200
Speaker 1: I got out of there, I succeeded. It's how can

497
00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:54,639
Speaker 1: I show other people? And I guess and maybe this

498
00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:58,080
Speaker 1: is your mom. Maybe it's somebody else, But was there

499
00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:00,359
Speaker 1: a version of you that you looked up to? Because

500
00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:03,000
Speaker 1: I read a quote that you said I always had

501
00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,000
Speaker 1: a game plan, that you were very structured in terms

502
00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:07,240
Speaker 1: of studies, in terms of how you were going to

503
00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:09,640
Speaker 1: achieve your goals. There was a game plan. But did

504
00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:13,000
Speaker 1: you have that kind of version of you out there?

505
00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,080
Speaker 1: Like was there somebody like that or did you and

506
00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:17,200
Speaker 1: your mom just kind of have to pave your own lane.

507
00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:19,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, we kind of like paid our own lane.

508
00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:21,600
Speaker 3: But I really didn't look up to nobody like beside

509
00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:26,080
Speaker 3: my like my mama and my daddy. Like sure, the

510
00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:27,680
Speaker 3: person I looked up to the most in the city

511
00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:30,320
Speaker 3: was like scenario him. He was a basketball player and

512
00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:33,080
Speaker 3: he was the d one basketball player for our community.

513
00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:34,960
Speaker 3: So I looked at him because he the first person

514
00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:37,680
Speaker 3: that I've seen with my own eyes make it out

515
00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:41,359
Speaker 3: big to be celebrity status where we're from. Sure, he

516
00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:43,800
Speaker 3: didn't go to the NBA, but he made it D

517
00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:47,320
Speaker 3: one and overseas, and it opened our eyes to be like,

518
00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:50,560
Speaker 3: dang man, we can get up out of here. So

519
00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:53,000
Speaker 3: it was just that type of situation and be like

520
00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:54,639
Speaker 3: we ain't got to be stuck in the country, our

521
00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:56,800
Speaker 3: whole life, Like we can be able to go do

522
00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:59,239
Speaker 3: stuff like scenario did. So that's what it was, and

523
00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:01,879
Speaker 3: I got sious about it. And I also wanted to

524
00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:03,640
Speaker 3: be like, man, I want to be different from everybody

525
00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:05,639
Speaker 3: in the pillar, in the community, not in a negative

526
00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:09,600
Speaker 3: ways saying everyone is a certain way, but they provide

527
00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:13,000
Speaker 3: something different outlook for kids, like because I was tired

528
00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:15,200
Speaker 3: of being able to see like, man, who were gonna

529
00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:15,679
Speaker 3: look up to?

530
00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:18,240
Speaker 4: Like I be the person we look up to. That's

531
00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:20,160
Speaker 4: what it was like all right now.

532
00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:23,520
Speaker 3: When we we ain't really see nobody who was riding

533
00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:28,640
Speaker 3: foreign cars and ah.

534
00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:28,760
Speaker 4: Going to nice houses.

535
00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:31,000
Speaker 3: So like I bring some of the little kids they

536
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,280
Speaker 3: can come stay with me now, like and they can

537
00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:36,560
Speaker 3: see just difference my college, my AU coach and I

538
00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:41,199
Speaker 3: played for Hoop Planet in Atlanta. Coach Dwayne he was

539
00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:44,600
Speaker 3: the first person to start bringing me around mansions. So

540
00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:47,439
Speaker 3: when he used to come to Atlanta, we stay in

541
00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:50,199
Speaker 3: man AU team we sleep on the floor, sleep on

542
00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:51,880
Speaker 3: their souls. So it was the first time I start

543
00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:54,440
Speaker 3: seeing huge houses and I'm like, man, I want to

544
00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:57,399
Speaker 3: stay out here. So that's that's kind of like what

545
00:23:57,760 --> 00:23:59,760
Speaker 3: like what drove me to be like, man, I love

546
00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:02,960
Speaker 3: this city like and it's just it was fascinating man.

547
00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:06,600
Speaker 4: And yeah, so that was what it. That's what it was, man.

548
00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:10,440
Speaker 3: And uh you know his uh, his son is Isaiah

549
00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:13,880
Speaker 3: Collier the basketball player. Oh really yeah, so shout out

550
00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:16,480
Speaker 3: to them, man, he doing good, son doing good. That's

551
00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:18,239
Speaker 3: still doing good. He was the first person really kind

552
00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:20,280
Speaker 3: of like take me out the environment. Shout out to

553
00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:23,240
Speaker 3: doctor Jeter, who was our basketball coach and our and

554
00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:23,960
Speaker 3: our principal.

555
00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:25,639
Speaker 4: So he hooked us up with it.

556
00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:25,840
Speaker 1: You know.

557
00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:28,120
Speaker 3: I always try to give us opportunities to be able

558
00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:30,680
Speaker 3: to get out of our environment and to go play basketball.

559
00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:30,960
Speaker 4: Over the places, right.

560
00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:33,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's what really took me to start seeing

561
00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:34,960
Speaker 3: sight seeing and stuff like that.

562
00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:36,439
Speaker 5: Do you ever kind of think back to be like,

563
00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:39,880
Speaker 5: oh my gosh, like the the kid that was sleeping

564
00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:42,399
Speaker 5: in those mansions and and now kind of where you

565
00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:44,679
Speaker 5: are in life and and kind of the full circle

566
00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:47,000
Speaker 5: moment to a certain extent of being here playing for

567
00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:47,560
Speaker 5: the Falcons.

568
00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:50,040
Speaker 3: Now it's fun, man, it's it's it's tremendous role man

569
00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:51,320
Speaker 3: to be able to see it. Like a lot of

570
00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:53,439
Speaker 3: guys who in me too, that tell you, Uh, the

571
00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:56,080
Speaker 3: basketball player like the Bunzio Stars. He's one of the

572
00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:58,399
Speaker 3: guys who played basketball with me, who was in the

573
00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:01,520
Speaker 3: group with me for sean US three. We was kind

574
00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:03,720
Speaker 3: of like the three guys who moved from my from

575
00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:08,199
Speaker 3: our age around with with coach, and he helped us

576
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:10,680
Speaker 3: out a lot, big input. I would definitely say that,

577
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:12,959
Speaker 3: and I would definitely say you help us all up.

578
00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:16,280
Speaker 1: Just kind of like wrapping up before we get to

579
00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:21,720
Speaker 1: our rapid fire section here being you've obviously starrer in

580
00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:24,360
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh for a long time, you play college football in

581
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:28,800
Speaker 1: Kentucky and and Tennessee. But is there something about all

582
00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:31,320
Speaker 1: the stuff that we're talking about, right, but you're you're

583
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:35,320
Speaker 1: in Georgia every day now, Yeah, And it's easier for

584
00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:37,600
Speaker 1: these kids that you're it's not a special visit home.

585
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:41,919
Speaker 1: You're here. You're playing on Sundays at Mercedes Benz in

586
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:45,280
Speaker 1: their market, they turn on the Fox station and they.

587
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,520
Speaker 4: Can see does that every Sunday?

588
00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:50,200
Speaker 1: Does Does that mean something to you to be back

589
00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:52,160
Speaker 1: in this you know, in the state.

590
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:53,080
Speaker 4: That fun though?

591
00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:55,040
Speaker 3: For real, for real, like for real, like being able

592
00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:56,520
Speaker 3: with kids to look on the news and they see

593
00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:58,880
Speaker 3: me every Sunday because they gonna show it. They really

594
00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:00,640
Speaker 3: didn't see me in Pittsburgh. They and play the games

595
00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:04,200
Speaker 3: down here, especially Tennessee. They didn't show Tennessee games here.

596
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:06,440
Speaker 3: So that was that's when I went to Tennessee. People

597
00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 3: like Tennessee. What they you know, it's different for the

598
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:11,640
Speaker 3: markets here, but they know the Falcons with everybody, group

599
00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:16,520
Speaker 3: of VIC fans, uh, everybody group a Judio fan, Ward

600
00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:21,840
Speaker 3: dunk Ah. They just everybody remember them. So you know,

601
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:25,919
Speaker 3: we all had different you know, different thoughts on every player.

602
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,440
Speaker 3: Now Matt Ryan, man, no matter what they said about

603
00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:30,560
Speaker 3: Matt Ryan, Matt Ryan is still a pillar in the

604
00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:34,080
Speaker 3: Atlanta history and he's a great guy. Especially from my community,

605
00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:36,960
Speaker 3: in my neighborhood, we all looked up to him and uh,

606
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:39,199
Speaker 3: you know, after VIC came and little you know, he

607
00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:41,040
Speaker 3: came in stepped there. So it was great to see

608
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:43,520
Speaker 3: you know, everyone you know be a part of it.

609
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:46,680
Speaker 3: You know, it's just tremendous and it's fun being a

610
00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:47,320
Speaker 3: Falcon's fun.

611
00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:49,680
Speaker 4: It's dream. It's a dream, man. So I want to

612
00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:53,040
Speaker 4: continue to win, containue the ball as I can and no.

613
00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:57,000
Speaker 1: Uh no, man, just do it for day, all right,

614
00:26:57,040 --> 00:27:00,880
Speaker 1: we love it. Okay, Now this everybody gets five questions.

615
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 1: Its relatively flast to call it rapid fires too much,

616
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 1: but nonetheless, here we go. Are you ready? Okay? What's

617
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:12,440
Speaker 1: the favorite your favorite play of your career? Youth, high school, college,

618
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:13,440
Speaker 1: pros do matter?

619
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:21,280
Speaker 4: Uh? When I hit Matt Moore, I didn't know.

620
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:22,920
Speaker 2: I didn't know what was gonna come out.

621
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:27,480
Speaker 1: I didn't know, but I was ready for that one.

622
00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:29,720
Speaker 2: All right, Good, that's a good that's a good start.

623
00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:30,200
Speaker 1: All right.

624
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,200
Speaker 2: Your favorite player growing up was it Vig?

625
00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:38,119
Speaker 5: Why was Vic so so important to not just like

626
00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:40,040
Speaker 5: you and who you were looking up to, but I

627
00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:41,720
Speaker 5: think like even the community at large.

628
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 3: He just made everybody think that, you know, we could

629
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:51,200
Speaker 3: be super athletes of the fear. Vig was an adjective.

630
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:54,680
Speaker 1: That's such a good way.

631
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 3: Everything we did, man, we running, we played. So in

632
00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:00,480
Speaker 3: my community, we played a game called throwing up. Bust

633
00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 3: them up. All the little kids we get in the circle.

634
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:05,159
Speaker 3: We want football. It's bout ten to twelve kids. We

635
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:06,800
Speaker 3: throw the ball and that whoever catch the ball, you're

636
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:09,280
Speaker 3: gonna get hit. So we I just always want to

637
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:10,919
Speaker 3: catch the ball and I want to be Vic. I

638
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:13,760
Speaker 3: catch the ball and juking everybody. Oh, I'm Vic, you know,

639
00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 3: stiff on men, we're doing the celebrations.

640
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:18,359
Speaker 4: He did. Man, we just alwaysought we we all had

641
00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:20,639
Speaker 4: the breaks. Uh.

642
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:22,400
Speaker 3: We all tried to get the Vics when it first

643
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:25,920
Speaker 3: came out. Oh yeah, yeah, so we beat our mama

644
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:27,200
Speaker 3: doors down trying.

645
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 4: To get those vics.

646
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:32,000
Speaker 3: Please give me the vis Please give me the VIX.

647
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:34,240
Speaker 4: And when we got them, we thought we were superstars.

648
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:34,800
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.

649
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:36,440
Speaker 4: So it was just a pillar for the community.

650
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:36,560
Speaker 1: Man.

651
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:38,680
Speaker 4: It was awesome being able to do that.

652
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:40,920
Speaker 1: So it was fun, so cool. Is there a movie

653
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 1: you're a TV show that you're obsessed with? Anything you're binging,

654
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 1: any movie that you love, anything like that? Power and yeah,

655
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:50,400
Speaker 1: there we go. Good choice.

656
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:56,960
Speaker 2: Question number four. If you're going to vibes, what is

657
00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:57,520
Speaker 2: your order?

658
00:28:57,760 --> 00:28:58,520
Speaker 4: Salmon bikes?

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Speaker 1: Salmon that one and one second.

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Speaker 2: You're good at rapid Fire?

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Speaker 1: Is there a drink name after you?

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Speaker 4: There?

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Speaker 1: Did you get to design it?

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Speaker 4: No? I tasted it.

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Speaker 1: That's the important thing, right, Yep, this is excellent. I

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Speaker 1: put my name out. This is ale. And last one,

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Speaker 1: if you had a superpower, what would it be?

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Speaker 4: Flying?

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Speaker 1: Flying good one? I love it? Yeah, bing bang boom.

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Speaker 1: That's the end of Rapid Fire. And that is the

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Speaker 1: end to another awesome Falcons and focused podcast presented by

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Speaker 1: ticket Master. Please do what you do, rate review, subscribe

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Speaker 1: to the Atlanta Falcons podcast networking. If you're ever making

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Speaker 1: stop by vibes like why don't you know I think

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Speaker 1: Torri and I should we're gonna make a trip out there,

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Speaker 1: like can we get like an employee discount or something you.

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Speaker 4: Gotta pay?

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Speaker 3: Man will make sure Man appreciate you all having me

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Speaker 3: Man is it?

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Speaker 1: Also yeah, yeah, yeah, And that's my favorite part about

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Speaker 1: this podcast. You really kind of get to know these

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Speaker 1: players that you see you go out and play every

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Speaker 1: single Sunday. That's the funnest part about it. But thank you, Alvin,

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Speaker 1: but great, thank you so much for joining us and

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Speaker 1: everybody else. Will have another great guest coming up next week.

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Speaker 1: See you, m