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Speaker 1: All right, welcome back into the play m GM Studios

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Speaker 1: for the Official Jets Podcast. This time, Sam Ficken joins us.

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Speaker 1: Sam thanks so much for joining us. You can listen

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Speaker 1: know what you think. I wonder listen to her. I

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Speaker 1: don't know, we had maybe on on last week. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're following up no pressure. Yeah yeah, after a future

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Speaker 1: Hall of Famer. Oh, laying the hammer here early Sam's

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Speaker 1: used to pressure though. We'll get to that in the

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Speaker 1: podcast throughout in the episode, but before we dive into

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Speaker 1: kicking and Penn State and all that, something that fans

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Speaker 1: don't know about you. You were on Wall Street before

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Speaker 1: you were in the NFL. So can you kind of

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Speaker 1: explain how that came about and what happened on Wall

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Speaker 1: Street and your job when you re entered the NFL. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so I graduated from Penn State with a finance degree.

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Speaker 1: Um three point what three point six five? I think

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Speaker 1: that's not too bad. I'll take it. I'll take it

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Speaker 1: as with my parents. So I was happy with that.

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Speaker 1: But no I graduated with a great degree. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: kind of dabbled a little bit, um a couple of

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Speaker 1: training camps. I was with the Jags. Unfortunately didn't work

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Speaker 1: out there, so you know, I kind of decided it

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Speaker 1: might be time to get a real job. So UM

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Speaker 1: kind of dug into the into the roots, and UM

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Speaker 1: came up with a guy by the name of Lance

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Speaker 1: Launergan who's a Penn State letterman. Uh runs a trading

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Speaker 1: firm in Greenwich, and UM, you know, reached out to

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Speaker 1: him and told him I was interested, and he, uh

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Speaker 1: he allowed me to come out and then they hired

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Speaker 1: me full time after about a two month internship. So

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Speaker 1: I was doing equity trading and UM, it was an

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Speaker 1: awesome experience. I had a lot of fun there. How

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Speaker 1: long were you doing that? Uh? Um? So I got

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Speaker 1: hired full time in June of seventeen, and UM, that

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Speaker 1: was kind of with the caveat that. You know, they

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Speaker 1: were like, hey, like, what's your football, Like, give me

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Speaker 1: a percentage of like getting you back And if you

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Speaker 1: get to call Sam, are you gonna go? And I

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Speaker 1: told him, I said, if I get a call, I'm leaving.

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Speaker 1: But you know, it's been pretty quiet here for a while.

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Speaker 1: So um, with that being said, they hired me full time. UM,

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Speaker 1: and about three weeks later, the chiefs called me. So

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Speaker 1: you know, I said I if I got a call,

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Speaker 1: I'm leaving UM and went out there. I want to

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Speaker 1: and then got released. So I went back to the job. UM,

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Speaker 1: got all my licenses out of the way series seven

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Speaker 1: sixty three fifty seven. UM. And actually the day after

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Speaker 1: I passed my final certification to actually start clicking buttons

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Speaker 1: was when I got a call from the RAMS. I

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Speaker 1: said again, you know, if if I get a call,

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Speaker 1: I gotta go, and and they were super supportive. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, I think part of the caveat was I

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Speaker 1: and um, you know, obviously playing in the NFL has

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Speaker 1: And you know, when I did get that call, They're like, hey,

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Speaker 1: we hope, we hope we never see you again. So

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Speaker 1: that's pretty nice though. Yeah. Yeah, they were super supportive

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Speaker 1: through the whole thing. Obviously, not too many I think

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Speaker 1: corporate companies would allow you to kind of hop back

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Speaker 1: and forth So how would you break it down to

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Speaker 1: a high schooler who wants to get into Wall Street

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Speaker 1: and business equity trading? What does that mean? Um? So,

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Speaker 1: I mean your your common stocks like Apple, Facebook, Google,

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Speaker 1: million shares probably a day we were you know, are

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Speaker 1: kind of little caveat was you know, the sticky names

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Speaker 1: You know, we go out to clients on either side

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Speaker 1: enjoyed my time there, and again I think finance, especially

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Speaker 1: of The Wolf of Wall Street. How much of that is?

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Speaker 1: How much fantasy? You know? It's funny. I watched yesterday

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Speaker 1: before the game, I watched we're recording this on the

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Speaker 1: Tuesday after the Browns game. For the record, I watched

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Speaker 1: American Psycho for the first time with Christian Bale And

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Speaker 1: have you ever seen the movie? I've I've seen clips,

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Speaker 1: not told right, so I can't stay with it for

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Speaker 1: the whole thing. Yes, it's just too much for Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the thing on Wall Street and I think it fits.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate, Yeah, I think it fits. But he's but

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Speaker 1: he's an Indiana kids. So when I think about Indiana kids,

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Speaker 1: I think about hoops and John melcamp peaks right Indiana,

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Speaker 1: it's it's hoops, I think, right after religions. So you know,

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Speaker 1: what kind of hoops player were you growing up? We're

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Speaker 1: just talking about it before we started taping. Your first

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Speaker 1: Robbie Hummel. Yeah. Yeah, I certainly wasn't at his level. Um,

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Speaker 1: um yeah, obviously his story is exceptional, and you know,

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Speaker 1: Goes back to Penn State because you weren't recruited by

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Speaker 1: you know, I think everyone's past a little different. Um,

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Speaker 1: My question? Yeah, how long after that? Did they call

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Speaker 1: or something or what we figure something. Okay, I'm sure

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Speaker 1: all right, that's all we have here on the Official

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Speaker 1: Jet podcast in the play MGM Studios again New York

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Speaker 1: Jets dot com, SoundCloud, Apple podcast, Google Play YouTube. Basically

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Speaker 1: wherever you can find a podcast, you can find us.

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Speaker 1: Anything else. You can send us some questions including if

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Speaker 1: you be equity training tips right, we will ask Sam.

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Speaker 1: If you got questions, let us know, rate us, review

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Speaker 1: us Sam, thanks a lot for coming on, appreciate the time.

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Speaker 1: Thanks guys,