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Speaker 1: and Trayvon Diggs have made their mother, Stephanie, very proud. Yes,
Speaker 1: because they're each among the best at their positions in
Speaker 1: the NFL, and because they had to make it to
Speaker 1: the top without the guiding hand of their father, Aron,
Speaker 1: who passed away when they were just boys. I'm senior
Speaker 1: producer Dan Bloom, and I have senior writer Alex Pruett
Speaker 1: with me today. He wrote our cover story about the
Speaker 1: Diggs brothers for sis Strength issue, and their journey, although
Speaker 1: paved with pain, forged an unshakable brotherly love that now
Speaker 1: extends through generations. How's that for a Philly reference? Gonzalez
Speaker 1: from Sports Illustrated and I Heart Radio. This is Sports
Speaker 1: Illustrated Weekly. My name is Alex pruittt, senior writer at
Speaker 1: Sports Illustrated. Today we're talking about cover story I did
Speaker 1: for our Strength issue about a pair of brothers in
Speaker 1: the NFL, Stefan and Trayvon Digs. Stefan is a All
Speaker 1: Pro receiver for the Bills, and Trayvon is an All
Speaker 1: Pro defensive back for the Cowboys. Stefan is this shipmying, shaking,
Speaker 1: joking receiver. Well, that's how you become the best receiver
Speaker 1: of the National Football League like he was last year.
Speaker 1: Trayvon is kind of the smooth operator. He has this
Speaker 1: natural receiving backgrounds, natural feel for tracking passes. So there
Speaker 1: are times when he like gets an interception and you
Speaker 1: think he's the receiver perfect, it's Trayvon ditch tell the sideline,
Speaker 1: Nobody's gonna catch him. House call, Travo ditch pick six.
Speaker 1: Stephen said, all manner of time since Randy Moss and
Speaker 1: Chris Carter stats in Minnesota and then most famous for
Speaker 1: the Minneapolis Miracles games, winn ass for Trayvon, Iinecky going
Speaker 1: to keep the field and interception number eleven for Trayvon Dick.
Speaker 1: I don't know if anyone could have predicted, even Stefan
Speaker 1: the leap, that he was going to make a bagged
Speaker 1: eleven interceptions more than any NFL player in forty years.
Speaker 1: Trayvon Dick, staring right back into Heinrich's soul, knew exactly
Speaker 1: what he was gonna do. In perfect position, hit the
Speaker 1: Jets and comes up with number eleven on the season.
Speaker 1: What a phenomenal year this young man has had. Not
Speaker 1: necessarily unique to have a couple of brothers, or even
Speaker 1: elite brothers in the NFL. I would see it with
Speaker 1: the Watts, with the bossas we've seen him with the Mannings.
Speaker 1: But never has it been so condensed to this like
Speaker 1: single matchup, the single isolated matchup of receiver versus defensive back,
Speaker 1: opposite positions of a matchup that I think, in some ways,
Speaker 1: speaking as an only child from my vast experience, mirrors
Speaker 1: the sibling rivalry itself. Right, you're out on an island.
Speaker 1: It's kind of mono mono. So you've intrigued me with
Speaker 1: your talk of only childhood as I am also an
Speaker 1: only child. Did your being an only child have anything
Speaker 1: to do with your interest in doing the story and
Speaker 1: its conception? No? If anything, it made me think maybe
Speaker 1: I shouldn't do this story. Maybe I should find someone
Speaker 1: who actually knows what it feels like. Now, why did
Speaker 1: you think that this story would fit in well with
Speaker 1: the strength issue? Beyond their obvious strengths as football players.
Speaker 1: Beneath that layer, I think there's and once you peel
Speaker 1: it back, there's a lot more themes of strength that
Speaker 1: crop up the theme of of iron sharp and iron
Speaker 1: going up against each other in workouts and Madden and
Speaker 1: pick up basketball and um, all these things they've done
Speaker 1: throughout their childhood that kind of formed the foundation for
Speaker 1: what they've built today. And then even deeper than that
Speaker 1: is I think the strength of love, how their relationship
Speaker 1: has evolved as they've expanded past just the tough love,
Speaker 1: the kind of doggy dog mentality. These like really intense
Speaker 1: battles where they're like running routes against each other at
Speaker 1: their grandfather's memorial service. So back us up a step.
Speaker 1: Who is the Diggs family? Where are they from? What
Speaker 1: are they all about? Trayvon is the youngest of five
Speaker 1: going on down the list around Jr. Porsche, Stephen, Marshawn,
Speaker 1: and Trayvon. Stephan and Trayvon are the only two of
Speaker 1: those five whose parents are Aaron Senior and Stephanie Diggs.
Speaker 1: They grew up in various areas are various places around
Speaker 1: the DC Beltway region, but largely Montgomery County. That's where
Speaker 1: Trayvon went to high school of Public Wouten and then
Speaker 1: later Private Avalon. Stefan went to very famous football powerhouse
Speaker 1: school council. Best as I could tell, their origins and sports.
Speaker 1: Passion for sports started with Aaron, especially football. It was
Speaker 1: a big Cowboys fan, but it was definitely something for
Speaker 1: all the boys to do. I mean, Stephanie recounted Saturdays
Speaker 1: where they would show up to the Pop Warner Field
Speaker 1: at nine am and not leave till like four or
Speaker 1: something because Stefan, Marshawn, and Trayvon would all have games
Speaker 1: in succession. And you know, Iran I think certainly had
Speaker 1: a vision. There's I think a famous family story about
Speaker 1: one Halloween Stefan was maybe five or something, Neron looks
Speaker 1: at him as like, that kid's going to the NFL.
Speaker 1: You would tell Stefan, you know you're going to get
Speaker 1: bins full of college letters when you're older. And again
Speaker 1: Stefan's like in grade school. But he would put in
Speaker 1: the work with them. He would stop at a park
Speaker 1: on the way home from school and run bleachers or
Speaker 1: ducone drills. They weren't really like running routes against each
Speaker 1: other until they were much older, but it was just
Speaker 1: like a lot of conditioning, a lot of hard work.
Speaker 1: Ethic kind of instilled this belief that if you work
Speaker 1: hard enough, you can achieve your goals. So now we
Speaker 1: have to talk about the tragic event that happens to
Speaker 1: this family, Iran's passing. How does that take place? And
Speaker 1: how old were the boys when this happened? Yes, Iran Sr.
Speaker 1: Died of congestive heart failure. He had been at out
Speaker 1: of the hospital for for half a decade and passed
Speaker 1: in January. Stephen was fourteen, Trayvon was nine. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: I am having this conversation with you at age thirty eight,
Speaker 1: and Iran Senior died at age thirty nine, and he
Speaker 1: had kids, and I have a kid and I have
Speaker 1: another on the way, and so damn this particular detail
Speaker 1: really hit me hard, and I really feel in that
Speaker 1: moment for this family. Can you just talk about what
Speaker 1: it was like to lose Iran? Yeah? Do you want
Speaker 1: to talk about how you feel? First though? How I
Speaker 1: feel how you fell reading that? Oh my god? Well,
Speaker 1: I love my son so much, and I also want
Speaker 1: to pour every ounce of knowledge and effort and energy
Speaker 1: that I can muster into his life and into his
Speaker 1: soon to be brother's life. Our next child is going
Speaker 1: to be a boy as well. So yeah, so I
Speaker 1: see so much in like what's coming in my own
Speaker 1: life in your story, And it is both extremely sad
Speaker 1: to think that they lost this pillar human flawed perhaps
Speaker 1: as we all are, imperfect in their way of loving,
Speaker 1: but obviously such an important pillar in these really impressive
Speaker 1: people's lives. So to think about myself as a Iran,
Speaker 1: it's like, wow, how sad would it be to lose
Speaker 1: my position within this beautiful family structure? And yet how
Speaker 1: powerful it is to be able to transmit lessons that
Speaker 1: stay with you even well beyond your own death. Well said,
Speaker 1: I don't have kids myself, so it's again like that's
Speaker 1: another moment where although I did, I lost my dad
Speaker 1: two years ago, so I was, oh, wow, I was
Speaker 1: able to connect to them a little bit. I'm sorry
Speaker 1: to hear that. Yeah, I remember. We were talking about
Speaker 1: just like little things that we do that we picked
Speaker 1: up from our parents that you don't even recognize. And
Speaker 1: Stefan like had just spit out the car and he
Speaker 1: would with car window and he was like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: like spitting out the car. My dad used to do
Speaker 1: that all the time. Where were we um describing a
Speaker 1: RAN's passing and how it affected the family and how
Speaker 1: they responded Stefan. He emphasized what you said, which was
Speaker 1: the idea of lessons during his life. Iran sr. Was
Speaker 1: the type to really teach you stuff. But at that
Speaker 1: time it was a very rocky road because that was
Speaker 1: around the time we lost our father or whatever, and like,
Speaker 1: you know, you're kind of trying to find your way,
Speaker 1: find yourself. It's hard to be a man when you
Speaker 1: still the kid, I'm saying, when you're trying to be
Speaker 1: a man and trying to find with you know, damn
Speaker 1: their feedsure stuff. I'm trying to like start of fitting
Speaker 1: for yourself because my mom God best her, she was
Speaker 1: superwoman and dude everything she could. But you know, you
Speaker 1: try to start figuring it out for yourself and for
Speaker 1: your younger servants. Stephanie has worked various jobs for Amtrak
Speaker 1: for decades now. When the boys were younger, she would
Speaker 1: work on basically East Coast Corridor trains along night and
Speaker 1: you have Corridor. Occasionally Stefan would tag along their stories
Speaker 1: about him pretending to run routes in the aisles and
Speaker 1: like joking past strangers. You know, they had extremely strong
Speaker 1: parental influences, and not just Stephanie but Porsche in the house.
Speaker 1: But as Porscha goes away to college and Stephanie's again
Speaker 1: working these overnight, long overnight shifts on amtrack, um, the
Speaker 1: boys are often at home together having to figure it out,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, early on they said this manifest
Speaker 1: in Stefan taking some liberties with what people would tell them,
Speaker 1: which was that he was the quote unquote man of
Speaker 1: the house. Now, so you know, one day, Stephanie comes
Speaker 1: home from work and finds Travon on the couch hanging
Speaker 1: out and he was like, what stuff, I told me
Speaker 1: he didn't have to go to school today. But again,
Speaker 1: you know, just it's working progress, right, and stuff On
Speaker 1: himself is only just a teenager having to grow up
Speaker 1: way too fast here, So tough conversations but also empathy
Speaker 1: led to them being in a much better place and
Speaker 1: this kind of protective relationship. Forming he did good in school.
Speaker 1: You know, he had a hall of it. I say,
Speaker 1: tea score he blew it out. It wasn't I to
Speaker 1: a C T S. Yeah, he blew it out the
Speaker 1: water like that was something that everybody was taking concerned about.
Speaker 1: And I was like, and I tell you super smart,
Speaker 1: Like I ain't concerned at all. He blew it out
Speaker 1: the water. We both dealt with like some serious battles
Speaker 1: as far as like the death of our father. Being young.
Speaker 1: I was young, but he was younger than me, so
Speaker 1: I can't imagine how we had to deal with it.
Speaker 1: And you know how we fought through it kind of
Speaker 1: like together, like going out how to be without a
Speaker 1: dad and kind of keep pushing forward. Strength comes from
Speaker 1: many different areas, you know, it used to come from pain.
Speaker 1: You kind of got to thrive off of that. Stefan
Speaker 1: Diggs was a huge star at Good Council of High School, which,
Speaker 1: as you noted, is a football powerhouse in its own right.
Speaker 1: And Trayvon described those games when he first started. I
Speaker 1: just know the brother really really good at football in
Speaker 1: high school. I used to saying, so watch him. I
Speaker 1: used to go to all his games. You know, his
Speaker 1: games to be packed the council so pack like a
Speaker 1: college game. But it was just like, I hate my brother,
Speaker 1: really really good at football. He's doing something right. I
Speaker 1: think that was a really eye opening period for Trayvon.
Speaker 1: That's Trayvon put it. Seeing the bins of recruiting letters
Speaker 1: that Aaron predicted Stefan would get. Seeing these you know,
Speaker 1: towers of bins in the family dining room. He remembers
Speaker 1: fans lining up for Stefan's autograph after games, and like Tupper,
Speaker 1: wears of fresh baked cookies that they brought for him.
Speaker 1: Maybe there's something to this, Maybe this is like a
Speaker 1: legit path. So as is revealed in your story, Stefon
Speaker 1: Diggs now views his decision to attend the University of
Speaker 1: Maryland perhaps as a misstep. Were you that that's gonna
Speaker 1: be the biggest thing to come out of this? Probably right?
Speaker 1: Were you struck by his frankness and discussing this particular topic,
Speaker 1: and how do you analyze his statement? What do you
Speaker 1: think he's right? At this point, I'm not really struck
Speaker 1: by Stefan's frankness. Talk to him enough, he says what's
Speaker 1: on his mind. It was an explicit question I asked.
Speaker 1: I think the way I phrase it was would you
Speaker 1: have gone to Maryland if you were an only child?
Speaker 1: And his answer was something like no. And he went
Speaker 1: on to expeld briefly that that was just from a
Speaker 1: development perspective, He didn't feel as prepared for the next level,
Speaker 1: howle as he thought he would have been if he
Speaker 1: had gone somewhere else. Why was Stephen's time at Maryland
Speaker 1: so tumultuous. Yeah, they got down to their fifth quarterback
Speaker 1: that year because three of the first four toward their
Speaker 1: A c l s and the fourth I think had
Speaker 1: a season ending Liz Frank or something like that. Their
Speaker 1: fifth quarterback was a true freshman linebacker who was supposed
Speaker 1: to red shirt that year, but they were just so
Speaker 1: short on bodies that he played his high school position
Speaker 1: a quarterback for the last like two thirds of the season,
Speaker 1: and then from their stuff on broke his leg, he
Speaker 1: lascerated his kidney, and then again just kind of a
Speaker 1: period of transition Maryland of just kind of mediocre results
Speaker 1: and him not showcase being showcased maybe perhaps the way
Speaker 1: he wanted to, And I think all of which kind
Speaker 1: of conspired to take his draft stock. That said, you
Speaker 1: can't really put this in a vacuum, right because it's
Speaker 1: not just about his football career. It was about the
Speaker 1: people back home. He felt such an obligation to be
Speaker 1: close spy, to be able to go watch Trayvon's games
Speaker 1: in person, to be able to have Trayvon be with him,
Speaker 1: to continue that relationship in a way. But also giving
Speaker 1: Trayvon the up close look that he needed too one
Speaker 1: day to do it on his own. Before we sat
Speaker 1: down to lunch, we had some time before the meal came,
Speaker 1: and Stefan was like, let's just go. Let's just drive
Speaker 1: over to Maryland and see who's there, and you swing
Speaker 1: by the football office. Like he's famous enough he can
Speaker 1: just do that and like park on the curb, but
Speaker 1: no one gives him a ticket. But on the way
Speaker 1: there they got to talking about how you know, they
Speaker 1: started reminiscing about, Oh, yeah, that's where we would go
Speaker 1: get Italian nice, and that's where we would you know,
Speaker 1: that's where we had a party, and that's where the
Speaker 1: floor almost caved in, and Trayvon was basically like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I like lived here. Trayvon said again he got to
Speaker 1: experience a lot of college, a lot of that life,
Speaker 1: not just with Stefan, but with all of Stefan's teammates who,
Speaker 1: because he was Stefan's brother, were looking after him or
Speaker 1: making sure that he wasn't getting in trouble. I used
Speaker 1: to be at every day every weekend in college and college.
Speaker 1: I'm at high school and now ninth grade, I'm going
Speaker 1: to your empty and I say, like, I feel like
Speaker 1: that probably kept me out of the troupe, being up
Speaker 1: there with him, you know, being right there with him
Speaker 1: and he looking after me. You know, he got his
Speaker 1: teammates right there look at making strong straight. So you know,
Speaker 1: it's just everything worked out as supposed to. And I
Speaker 1: got to see a lot of stuff that a lot
Speaker 1: of people, you know, my age, didn't get to see,
Speaker 1: you know, and I never may know like bad decisions
Speaker 1: on bad choices, you know, I'm just watching, just just
Speaker 1: watching and learning. Like they say, like it takes a
Speaker 1: village to raise a kid, and like so many people
Speaker 1: played a part like and kind of like keeping him
Speaker 1: like straight, Like I never had no concerned about him
Speaker 1: ever being okay, especially at the crib because like trying
Speaker 1: to be that like father figure that I didn't really
Speaker 1: have to do it by myself, like I had like
Speaker 1: basically a village of people making sure little bro was good. Trayvon,
Speaker 1: in terms of college selection, again immediately learned from his
Speaker 1: brother's quote unquote mistake and goes to Alabama, doesn't try
Speaker 1: full and as as soon as he gets the offer
Speaker 1: from Alabama, he's like done deal. Regardless of how it
Speaker 1: ended up going for him, which was also tumultuous in
Speaker 1: his own right. He saw that opportunity, he seized it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not necessarily only learning from the mistakes, but just wanting
Speaker 1: to do better regardless, wanting to carve your own path
Speaker 1: in a way too. And you know, I think that's
Speaker 1: why some of what you mentioned. His position changed to
Speaker 1: defensive back after playing it a safety returner receiver as
Speaker 1: a true freshman. Nick Saban calls him in his office
Speaker 1: and says, you're moving a cornerback, and Trayvon calls Stephan
Speaker 1: in tears because he's so upset. I called him crime.
Speaker 1: He wanted me to play DVM say, oh, no, we
Speaker 1: ain't doing that now. I said, I get to work, right,
Speaker 1: Let's go. That's that's what it is like. Like He's like, man,
Speaker 1: I'm not sorry to hear all that. Crun, Let's get
Speaker 1: to work. Ultimately, it was also a blessing in disguise
Speaker 1: for Trayvon to switch positions, to play a different position,
Speaker 1: to not necessarily be linked to his brother all the
Speaker 1: way through college either, to be able to kind of
Speaker 1: spread his wings and find his own path. The most
Speaker 1: touching moment of this interview for me was when you
Speaker 1: asked Stefon Digs about the concept of tough love, and
Speaker 1: then he basically pivoted and said, yeah, tough love is great,
Speaker 1: But when they were younger, tough love was was what
Speaker 1: they knew, and tough love was what Stefan tried to
Speaker 1: pass along to Traybon after their dad passed as well,
Speaker 1: all these scenes of him working Trayvon super hard, taking him,
Speaker 1: dragging him out of bed to go run routes and
Speaker 1: run sprints and stuff. But that tough love, Like if
Speaker 1: I could tell anybody life tough love, like I supported,
Speaker 1: like I'm a hundred percent behind it, but I also
Speaker 1: feel like a certain level of love like not necessarily
Speaker 1: coddling because I'm not a fan of coddlm and he
Speaker 1: knows like I ain't here to I should fall on
Speaker 1: the ground to patch your back, like I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you get up what I'm saying. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: like it's okay to testimony you love them, it's okay
Speaker 1: to teest somebody that like what I'm saying, Like if
Speaker 1: you heard I got you like what I'm saying. We
Speaker 1: always just always naturally had each other back because we
Speaker 1: probably family because that's my brother. But it's okay to
Speaker 1: testimony that you're proud of them, Like I'm saying, some
Speaker 1: people need to hear that because you'll be on this
Speaker 1: crash course of always chasing what's next. I need to
Speaker 1: do more. I need to do more, like I had
Speaker 1: to learn that, I'm saying, because you'd be so hard
Speaker 1: on the person that you don't know what they can endure,
Speaker 1: what they can do with an they can't break at
Speaker 1: any given point. So at one point I wanted him
Speaker 1: to know that I was proud of him. I love
Speaker 1: him and I appreciate them, and that goes a long way,
Speaker 1: especially considering like everything that we've been through individually, not
Speaker 1: just together, but individually. Boy, Like, I'm proud of you. Boy,
Speaker 1: you can't a long way. I used to wash and
Speaker 1: wipe your assay. I'm just I'm saying, I love you.
Speaker 1: Am I right in reading that Stefan just signed a
Speaker 1: contract extension? He did? Yeah, And isn't Trayvon up for
Speaker 1: a big today? Like not to be crass about it,
Speaker 1: but you know they've been monetarily successful as well. Oh
Speaker 1: absolutely absolutely. Um the term of generational wealth, of taking
Speaker 1: care of Stephanie of taking care of their kids comes
Speaker 1: up a lot, and Stefans said, kind of tongue in cheek, well,
Speaker 1: thanks goodness, there's two of us to do it. But yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, this past offseason, a lot of movement, a
Speaker 1: lot of money given out to receivers, and Buffalo locked
Speaker 1: him up with an extension that guarantees him seventy million
Speaker 1: over the next uh six seasons. And yeah, Trayvon's bag
Speaker 1: will follow soon enough. I'm sure. It used to be
Speaker 1: a big topic of conversation among the family about if
Speaker 1: they were ever going to play together. I asked Stephon
Speaker 1: that and he he kind of pooh pooted and said, well, maybe,
Speaker 1: but not after my extension. And I don't think Trayvon
Speaker 1: is ever gonna leave Dallas. But then I asked Trayvon
Speaker 1: that on a call a couple of days later, and
Speaker 1: he was like, well, I don't know. Never said never,
Speaker 1: So there's always the proball I suppose. Yeah. Well that
Speaker 1: was was the start in its own way. When they
Speaker 1: matched up against each other. Leave it to Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: to ruin the moment. Has checked in on offense, Stefan
Speaker 1: is in on defense. These two went out of the
Speaker 1: skills competition, and now they'll go at it here on
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl. Now it's on Kirk to to recognize
Speaker 1: it and say, Okay, I gotta throw the ball over there.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna predict a play their battles top of your
Speaker 1: scream because goes to Kamara. I love Stefan, locked him
Speaker 1: down right there, throw it to him, curtain. So how
Speaker 1: does their mom, How does Stephanie feel about their success?
Speaker 1: One can guess she's pretty happy. Absolutely, she's certainly I
Speaker 1: think looking forward to the day that they match up
Speaker 1: against each other, and I believe they're scheduled to face
Speaker 1: next year and three. So I asked Stephanie what our
Speaker 1: hopes are for when Stefan and Trayvon play for inevitably
Speaker 1: play for the first time, and she said she's getting
Speaker 1: two jerseys. She's gonna set them together. And then she said,
Speaker 1: I'm hoping tray shuts down Stefana. Stefan thinks it's never
Speaker 1: gonna happen. He's got that big brother syndrome. But I mean,
Speaker 1: on a more serious note, it must be profoundly satisfying
Speaker 1: for her to look at her family now after taking
Speaker 1: such a hard blow at such a young age. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think she's able to look forward and feel
Speaker 1: something similar to when it comes to her grandkids. Um
Speaker 1: Stefan's daughter Nova and Trayvon's son Aiden are pretty much
Speaker 1: total opposites, but also exactly like their uncles. Nova's is
Speaker 1: very reserved and shy, like Trayvon is as anyone who's
Speaker 1: seen hard knocks nos Aiden is not afraid to march
Speaker 1: up to anyone and tell him exactly what's on his mind. Hi,
Speaker 1: how you doing? What's your name? Aiden? Your patro? I
Speaker 1: mean not your death Plasco. So good to see you.
Speaker 1: You can't keep giving me and Patrick confused. Stephanie's played
Speaker 1: an incredibly impactful role in shaping both these brothers as fathers,
Speaker 1: but also as a grandmother and being in their lives.
Speaker 1: And not too long ago there was just these incredibly wholesome,
Speaker 1: cute videos of Stephanie working out with Aidan and Nova
Speaker 1: at the gym that Stefan and Trayvon work out at
Speaker 1: in the DC area. That's where where we shot some
Speaker 1: footage for our shoot as well. Yeah you go, you
Speaker 1: did job? Would you say? Here you go? Good job? Grandmother,
Speaker 1: granddaughter and grandson all like slamming medicine balls on the
Speaker 1: ground and like waddling with dumbells around the track, and
Speaker 1: it's just it's so cute wholesome to see, not just
Speaker 1: again like generational accumulation of wealth, but generational accumulation of
Speaker 1: love as well. Alex Pruitt, thank you for such a
Speaker 1: beautiful story and I appreciate your work. Thanks for being here,
Speaker 1: appreciate you, Thanks for having me. Alex PRUITTT is a
Speaker 1: senior writer for Sports Illustrated. You can find a link
Speaker 1: to his article about the Diggs brothers in our show notes.
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Speaker 1: song is by Nolan Schneider and if you've stuck around
Speaker 1: for this long, we to you with this. I thought
Speaker 1: the most touching moment of the whole day was when
Speaker 1: Stefan wiped the booker off of tray Bon's nose, also
Speaker 1: touching literally, Yes, I digress, Let's not go there. U