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

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Speaker 1: season finale of the Falcons in Focus, a podcast presented

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Speaker 2: PS. I'm Scott Bay. Let's sorry mc laney.

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Speaker 1: Michael Prewitt is here with us wrapping up the season,

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Speaker 1: super excited for this conversation. Before we get to that,

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Speaker 2: Here we go.

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Speaker 3: All right, let's get into this with Michael Pruitt. Here's

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Speaker 3: the thing. Before we got on this, I have to

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Speaker 3: say I've been pronouncing your name wrong. I've been. I've

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Speaker 3: been pronouncing it it Michael, just like regular, regular old Michael,

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Speaker 3: which if y'all have seen his name on the highlights

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Speaker 3: when he scores touchdowns.

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Speaker 2: Which it does a lot pretty frequently.

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Speaker 3: Knock on wood, but it's my goal spelled exactly like

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Speaker 3: that M Y C O L E correct with a

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Speaker 3: capital C. So it's hilarious that we're starting here because

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Speaker 3: one of the questions that I get asked, almost more

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Speaker 3: than anything when covering this team is why do you

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Speaker 3: spell your name like that? Because I think a lot

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Speaker 3: of people think it's like Michael, and then they say it,

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Speaker 3: that's an interesting spelling, Scott, and I know the story

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Speaker 3: because we've been doing some research. Yeah, so we know

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Speaker 3: the story. But tell tell the people listening and watching

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Speaker 3: the story of your name, Okay.

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Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, it's a common theme I've had to

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Speaker 4: correct people.

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Speaker 3: I would maybe build nearly as bad, thank you.

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Speaker 4: I would think it's simple because it's it's spelled exactly

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Speaker 4: the capital C that emphasized.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but my cult.

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Speaker 4: So the story is, uh, my mom's name is cole

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Speaker 4: et and obviously the first part of the name is Cole.

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Speaker 4: She went she told me that cole means victory, and

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Speaker 4: basically my victory is how she came up with that.

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Speaker 4: And you know, it's a nice, little sweet story.

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Speaker 3: So no, it's great now for you. I mean that's

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Speaker 3: like I love names and the meanings of names. I

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Speaker 3: was like, yeah, it's Persian based and it was this

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Speaker 3: like Persian cologne. That she was like, that's a cool

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Speaker 3: think it like takes on a lot of ownership when

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Speaker 3: your story kind of matches your name. So for you,

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Speaker 3: how do you feel like you've kind of embodied the

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, I feel like I've had a few wins

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Speaker 4: So I feel like that's a win, that's a victory.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, what's the I don't know if there's a

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Speaker 1: If there's like an example of her going way out

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Speaker 1: help your family, well, like how did your family help you?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Shoot, my mom a single parent, you know, kind

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Speaker 4: So, and she spit the chunk of steak out and

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Speaker 1: But just like how important it was for you in

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Speaker 3: My next question is like, yeah, if I could.

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Speaker 4: It's just you know, embodies kind of the love I

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Speaker 2: Something like that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely not so for you. You went to Kirkland

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Speaker 3: High School. Is that Kirkwood Kirkwood High School in Missouri? Yeah, yes,

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Speaker 3: for you. You played football, basketball, track and field, but

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Speaker 3: oh yeah, Michael Prewitt volleyball player, and it's like, I

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Speaker 3: need to know how you got into volleyball, how long

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Speaker 3: he played volleyball. What's the story of Michael prut playing volleyball?

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Speaker 4: Volleyball was just like it was a one off.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, I guarantee they asked it. They could see

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Speaker 4: One of the one of my good friends on the

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Speaker 4: was really good at volleyball. Actually went to n I

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Speaker 4: t to play volleyball. Wow. Yeah, name was Patrick Veteran.

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Speaker 4: fun to play volleyball, Like a lot of people don't

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Speaker 4: don't really think of it that way. But it was

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Speaker 3: I mean you had at yeah, no, you one of

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Speaker 3: my favorite I covered Uja Volleyball circle like two thousand

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Speaker 3: it's you really, I mean I would just be amazed

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Speaker 4: Definitely, because there's a lot of nuances to every sport

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Speaker 4: Like probably the first probably the craziest thing, like getting

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Speaker 1: Just that feeling kind of happen.

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Speaker 4: That feeling is crazy, like you just philly for another

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Speaker 4: And so yeah, I got a I got a different

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Do you think now during training camp they actually

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Speaker 3: had some professional volleyball players that came, oh yeah, do

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Speaker 3: you remember that? Did you did you get to pass

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Speaker 4: It was a little off, I'm a little rusty.

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Speaker 3: It's been a little bit, but like you got it.

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Speaker 3: There I'm sure. Yeah. Now do you think who are

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Speaker 3: some other guys? I know there are some other guys

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Speaker 3: who played volleyball before. If you were making a team

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Speaker 4: Okay, okay, well they say Frank, Frank Doughby, he probably

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I've seen I've seen him play. I saw some

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Speaker 4: Gonna go ahead and take Frank with the first per.

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Speaker 2: Volleyball draft.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's he's probably like a back row like Leberro.

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Speaker 4: Or something that. Yeah, because you know he's jittery, so

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Speaker 3: He's some good twitch.

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Speaker 4: And then definitely Drake because you know he gets up,

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Speaker 3: That makes sense.

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Speaker 4: You gotta have kalais in the middle because.

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Speaker 1: We don't know if can jump very but he don't

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Speaker 4: In the middle for sure. I'm gonna go ahead and

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Speaker 4: played right out. Yeah. Okay, well I think I think

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Speaker 4: Drake's left handed.

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Speaker 4: Back two more, I'll probably go with Scottie Okay, okay,

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Speaker 4: Scotty back there digging them out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and then.

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Speaker 3: I heard Desmond Ritter actually played a little I've heard

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Speaker 4: Bit of doing that. Yeah, because probably hit from the

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Speaker 1: Say he's got the arms, so he's your service guy. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I would mean I would take that show on.

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Speaker 2: That's for sure.

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Speaker 3: That's a pretty stacked team. I'm not even a lot

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Speaker 3: like I would love to love to see that.

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Speaker 2: But again, just in the middle, right, yeah, well but

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Speaker 3: Mean seeing that, oh yeah, straight up down, I would.

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Speaker 2: Not want to get hit anywhere the volleyball coming. That doesn't.

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Speaker 3: Oh that's so great. I love that so much. So

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Speaker 3: I guess we'll so we have the volleyball story. But

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Speaker 3: I guess now we need to move on to your

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Speaker 3: college college days Southern Illinois, when you were kind of

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Speaker 4: I was a big basketball guy when I was a kid,

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Speaker 3: people in this building know, and Arthur Smith's there, I mean,

439
00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:43,280
Speaker 3: what was what was that time period?

440
00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:46,200
Speaker 4: Like? Yeah, Art Art was my tight end coach when

441
00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:47,040
Speaker 4: I first got there.

442
00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:49,040
Speaker 3: Is he still the same guy.

443
00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:51,520
Speaker 4: He's still a good, same guy, He's just you know

444
00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:56,520
Speaker 4: a little more stern the whole team, right, Yeah, Yeah,

445
00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:58,920
Speaker 4: it's not just us in the room kicking it and

446
00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:02,040
Speaker 4: having fun. So nah, but he's still the same guy. Man.

447
00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:06,400
Speaker 4: But those couple of years where they had their ups

448
00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:10,280
Speaker 4: and downs, like I said, it was I don't even know,

449
00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:13,800
Speaker 4: like I'll probably call it like identity crisis sometimes because

450
00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:16,159
Speaker 4: I felt like, man, I could do these things in

451
00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:18,520
Speaker 4: the past game and I want to be able to

452
00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:20,800
Speaker 4: contribute more to this team. But we need you to

453
00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:24,080
Speaker 4: be a blocker. We need so I embody that and

454
00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:27,160
Speaker 4: really like grew up in those years like to where

455
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:31,240
Speaker 4: it's like whatever needs to be done, I'm gonna do it.

456
00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:34,640
Speaker 4: And that you know that helps you in life as well,

457
00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:37,960
Speaker 4: like whatever you whatever needs to be done, especially as

458
00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:39,560
Speaker 4: a man, like you have to step up and do it.

459
00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:43,080
Speaker 4: So this is the way that I provide for my

460
00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:45,520
Speaker 4: family and if it's this, if it's this route that

461
00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:47,159
Speaker 4: I gotta go, that's that's the way I'm gonna do it.

462
00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:51,159
Speaker 4: And it's paid off from a.

463
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Speaker 2: Life, you know, from outside of football perspective.

464
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Speaker 1: And you're kind of bouncing around and I don't know

465
00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:59,639
Speaker 1: if you're staying in hotels sometimes or you know, never

466
00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,680
Speaker 1: really have a home. I mean, so you're you're dealing

467
00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:06,600
Speaker 1: with all of these things too, yeah, you know, and

468
00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:09,400
Speaker 1: then to finally go to Tennessee and be here right

469
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:12,960
Speaker 1: and be such a trusted part of this offense. I guess, like,

470
00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:16,399
Speaker 1: what's that transition? Like, right, you're bouncing all around, you know,

471
00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:17,639
Speaker 1: and then you kind of.

472
00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:20,159
Speaker 2: From outside of football, Okay, I'm in Tennessee for.

473
00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:22,280
Speaker 1: A while, or I'm in Atlanta for a while, you know,

474
00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:23,640
Speaker 1: and making those contributions.

475
00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:31,080
Speaker 4: Stability is fleeting in this in this business. So even

476
00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:33,840
Speaker 4: while I was in Tennessee for four years, like like

477
00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:37,800
Speaker 4: she said, I was, my contract was up there and

478
00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:40,920
Speaker 4: I had to go into forty nine ers come back, right, so,

479
00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:45,240
Speaker 4: and I'm in one year deals since then. So it's

480
00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:48,360
Speaker 4: really you it's really up in the air every year. Yeah,

481
00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:52,080
Speaker 4: But it's about the mental fortitude and being able to

482
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:55,520
Speaker 4: realize that. H Like I said, whenever that opportunity comes you,

483
00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:57,359
Speaker 4: you go and go out there and take advantage of it.

484
00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:01,600
Speaker 4: It's hard, but you know, it's it's it's something that

485
00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:03,399
Speaker 4: a lot of guys got to deal with, and if

486
00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:06,200
Speaker 4: you can overcome that, you can go you can go away.

487
00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:09,240
Speaker 1: I go back to what you were saying at the

488
00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:11,520
Speaker 1: start of this whole thing, when you were saying, you

489
00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 1: know that you you know, maybe didn't have a lot

490
00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:16,240
Speaker 1: and you kind of had to earn everything that you

491
00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:18,680
Speaker 1: got and then you found and then you got this,

492
00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:21,919
Speaker 1: You got this opportunity to go play high school football

493
00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:24,600
Speaker 1: and you've turned it into consecutive All American status, right

494
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:28,000
Speaker 1: that it's and then you you know, you grinded through

495
00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:28,800
Speaker 1: the hard times.

496
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Speaker 2: This is personally now you know as an adult, and

497
00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:33,560
Speaker 2: then you adapt and then figure it out.

498
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Speaker 1: There's some parallels to that journey that maybe you know

499
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,119
Speaker 1: you're kind of you talk about the mental fortitude. You

500
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:40,840
Speaker 1: really have to have that, and it seems like you've

501
00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:42,160
Speaker 1: had that for a long time.

502
00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:47,920
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, it's a lot of battles, man. You you

503
00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:50,360
Speaker 4: you you look in the mirror and you really find

504
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:53,639
Speaker 4: out what you're what you're about. Yeah, and when you

505
00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:57,840
Speaker 4: go out there on that field, that's the that's one

506
00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:01,240
Speaker 4: of the biggest mental battles. It's a lot. It's very physical,

507
00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:04,520
Speaker 4: but it's a lot. It's a lot mental that you

508
00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:09,199
Speaker 4: got to overcome us with. So but it's it's been

509
00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:09,680
Speaker 4: fun though.

510
00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:10,080
Speaker 1: Yeah.

511
00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:14,360
Speaker 3: That's what I was gonna say, is like I don't

512
00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:17,040
Speaker 3: know if you know this, but and I don't even

513
00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:19,720
Speaker 3: know if I've ever told this story anywhere, but the

514
00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:22,560
Speaker 3: day that you came back to Atlanta this past year,

515
00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:27,360
Speaker 3: when you signed back here, it was I want to say,

516
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:31,000
Speaker 3: it was like when players report back, and that was

517
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:34,160
Speaker 3: like I remember because I was in a room y'all

518
00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:37,080
Speaker 3: were all doing y'all's head shots with Shauna, our team photographer,

519
00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:38,960
Speaker 3: and I was in that room with her, and you

520
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:42,360
Speaker 3: walked through and all I could hear was just guys going.

521
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:47,960
Speaker 3: Everyone was so excited to like to have you back.

522
00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:51,360
Speaker 3: And in that moment kind of where you do get

523
00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:54,800
Speaker 3: to get to be here for another year and you

524
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:57,080
Speaker 3: get to come back to a team that you know,

525
00:26:57,560 --> 00:26:59,679
Speaker 3: I think a lot of the locker room really believes

526
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:02,920
Speaker 3: in this team and this coaching staff and everything. But

527
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:05,560
Speaker 3: what did that kind of mean to you in that moment?

528
00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 4: Uh, it meant a lot, man. You build relationships in

529
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:13,760
Speaker 4: that locker room and and and that's that means a

530
00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:19,560
Speaker 4: lot man. Some of those guys, like especially you move teams,

531
00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:21,080
Speaker 4: you never know if you're going to see these guys

532
00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 4: or whatnot. But when you come back and you get

533
00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:27,680
Speaker 4: that type of reception, Even even the story that came

534
00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:29,200
Speaker 4: about AJ saying something.

535
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:30,080
Speaker 1: Yeah.

536
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:36,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, for those that don't know, AJ Terrell broke the

537
00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:41,480
Speaker 5: news of Michael's signing because you had not officially signed yet.

538
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:43,760
Speaker 3: Like it was we knew you were in the building,

539
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:46,320
Speaker 3: but like we weren't announcing it yet because I don't

540
00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:49,440
Speaker 3: think everything was a done deal. AJ goes out in

541
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:51,200
Speaker 3: front of everyone. He's like, you know, it's not to

542
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:53,920
Speaker 3: see Prew back in the building, and it's like he's not,

543
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:57,639
Speaker 3: He's not back in the building. AJ, I vividly remember

544
00:27:57,680 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 3: that was funny.

545
00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:03,920
Speaker 4: That's my guy, man, So that means that I'm making

546
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:08,920
Speaker 4: the impact. Yeah, and people people really love me being around.

547
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:10,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was I.

548
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 1: Can't remember if it was Desert, it was Tailor, but

549
00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:17,720
Speaker 1: they'd thrown a touchdown pass to you and and it

550
00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:19,840
Speaker 1: was one of those things where he was like, I know,

551
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,680
Speaker 1: if I like, if I just put it improves vicinity,

552
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:23,880
Speaker 1: good things are going to happen.

553
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:24,280
Speaker 4: Right.

554
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:26,280
Speaker 3: It may have been the Jets touchdown.

555
00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:28,919
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was right.

556
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:31,119
Speaker 1: So it's like you hear things like that and you

557
00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:34,920
Speaker 1: see you know, it's like the volume of touch like

558
00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:37,040
Speaker 1: like when it really matters, when you've got to have

559
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,000
Speaker 1: a catch, right, it goes to you a lot, and

560
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 1: you're right, like you talk about the fun aspect of it,

561
00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, those moments are fun.

562
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:49,520
Speaker 2: Hearing people shout your name throughout the bill, like that's fun.

563
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:53,080
Speaker 4: You know, definitely, definitely. I think it shows by the

564
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:58,600
Speaker 4: way that I've celebrated somebody touchdown. Yes, sir, I kind

565
00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:00,120
Speaker 4: of come out of my body, like I don't I

566
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:01,920
Speaker 4: don't have a plan, I don't you know what I'm saying.

567
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 4: I just whatever I feel, the passion, the whatever emotions,

568
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:09,880
Speaker 4: they all come out. And that's that's just the love

569
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 4: of the game right there.

570
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 3: I love it now. I also want to ask this question,

571
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:15,479
Speaker 3: and we're kind of going back in time a little bit,

572
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:17,720
Speaker 3: but before we get to like our rapid Fire, which

573
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 3: is a segment that ends the show, Before we get

574
00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:24,640
Speaker 3: to that, I want to go back to mid pandemic

575
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:25,520
Speaker 3: twenty twenty.

576
00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:26,640
Speaker 2: Very excited about this.

577
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:32,240
Speaker 3: Okay, there is a story that you actually, during the

578
00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 3: height of the pandemic, you worked out with your sister Joelle,

579
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:40,840
Speaker 3: who is a fitness instructor trainer. Yeah, she's really really

580
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:44,479
Speaker 3: big into the fitness world. We take us into one

581
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 3: of those workouts. What were what was that workout like

582
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:49,520
Speaker 3: and how good is she as like a motivator and

583
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 3: personal trainer for you?

584
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 5: So she's a CrossFit trainer, okay, okay, something that's different

585
00:29:57,520 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 5: than just a regular trainer.

586
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:01,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, so that's something that's a that's a new area

587
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 4: for me. Yes. So some of these workouts are okay,

588
00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 4: we're gonna run them out. They're gonna come in and

589
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:10,560
Speaker 4: do cleans, and then we're gonna do squats right after that,

590
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:13,360
Speaker 4: then we're gonna hop on the bike. And so she

591
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 4: had me gas gas, So I'm okay, this is good work.

592
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 4: So I'm gonna keep coming. And she's real passionate about it.

593
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,800
Speaker 4: She's in the competitions and all that type of stuff,

594
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:27,640
Speaker 4: and uh, you know, we we we had a good,

595
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:32,080
Speaker 4: good little session that off season. And my boy, actually,

596
00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 4: uh My Hicks, my best friend from high school, he

597
00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:38,440
Speaker 4: was working for the news station at the time, and

598
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 4: I'm gonna do a story on you guys, So it

599
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:42,240
Speaker 4: ended up getting on the news.

600
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Speaker 3: Work out. How is she is she like a is

601
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Speaker 3: she hard on you?

602
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:50,280
Speaker 4: Like?

603
00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:52,320
Speaker 3: Is she like vocal? Or is she kind of like

604
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:53,840
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do it, you can do it if you

605
00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:54,200
Speaker 3: want to.

606
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 4: She's a lead by example. Okay, Okay, by example, and

607
00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:02,040
Speaker 4: she's not she's not lifting the light weights now, and

608
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:03,760
Speaker 4: I can't, you know, I got to go up from that.

609
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:08,800
Speaker 3: You can't have other people be condition and everything like that.

610
00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:11,720
Speaker 3: But that's really cool. I think that's really awesome. I

611
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:14,720
Speaker 3: didn't know that there was like the CrossFit that adds.

612
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:17,600
Speaker 4: Oh Man.

613
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:20,440
Speaker 3: All right, well that was fun. Yeah, you ready for

614
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 3: some rapid fire questions. Everybody gets relatively the same five questions. Okay,

615
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:31,280
Speaker 3: but you answer how you feel. What is your favorite

616
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:33,760
Speaker 3: play of your career? And this can be high school,

617
00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:38,480
Speaker 3: college pros, favorite play of your career, my whole career,

618
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 3: whole career.

619
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:41,680
Speaker 4: I think my favorite play have an issue.

620
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:43,040
Speaker 3: Really really which one?

621
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:44,360
Speaker 4: Really?

622
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:45,440
Speaker 2: That's great?

623
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, that touchdown, I mean that was a pre stick touchdown.

624
00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 4: I think that was probably my best touchdown in the ring.

625
00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 4: I happen to get two feet down. It's just like

626
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:00,880
Speaker 4: everything came together in that moment and it was the

627
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:02,000
Speaker 4: only touchdown of the game.

628
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 3: I mean that adds something too. I mean that was

629
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 3: such a like grand that game. The weather is so gross,

630
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:10,000
Speaker 3: what's the what's the feeling?

631
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 2: I don't know if you can describe it, but after

632
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:14,280
Speaker 2: a moment like that, it's pure adrenaline.

633
00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:19,080
Speaker 1: It's happening so fast, Bam, catch it, touchdown. Is there

634
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 1: a way to describe what like what like what that

635
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 1: feeling is next?

636
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:29,480
Speaker 4: I don't even know. I can just pure relation, just yelling, screaming,

637
00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:34,480
Speaker 4: everybody jumping on you. It's just, you know, adrenaline just

638
00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 4: running at its highest.

639
00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 2: I think we might know the answer to this question already.

640
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 2: But your favorite athlete regardless of sports.

641
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:46,880
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Kobe Bryant. Kobe Bryant, that's my man. Every

642
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:51,120
Speaker 4: everything that he embodies is something I try to try

643
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 4: to model my mentality after. And man, you just can't

644
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:57,880
Speaker 4: deny some of the things that he was able to

645
00:32:57,960 --> 00:32:59,760
Speaker 4: do and and the way he went about doing it.

646
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 3: Absolutely, it's I mean, it's always great when gods get

647
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 3: in the chair and they go Kobe or Lebron like

648
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:10,600
Speaker 3: almost every single time, because that's like our generation. That's

649
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 3: all I grew up with, like Kobe or Lebron. Question

650
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:17,360
Speaker 3: number three, what's a TV show or movie that you

651
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 3: would recommend to the listeners?

652
00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:25,800
Speaker 4: Oh? Recomen, What am I watching right now? Uh? I

653
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:26,760
Speaker 4: like to show Fargo.

654
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:29,720
Speaker 2: Fargo Okay, yeah, that's awesome.

655
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've seen the first, I've seen them all, but

656
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:34,200
Speaker 1: I'm just getting caught up on the first season and

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Speaker 1: it's excellent as well, kind of like.

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Speaker 2: A like they can build suspense in a weird.

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Speaker 3: Way and you're just like happening now, Okay, Fargo.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: Is there a food whether it's something homemade or a

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Speaker 1: restaurant in Atlanta or back home or anywhere that you've

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Speaker 1: got to have a favorite of yours?

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Speaker 4: Sweep a steata pie?

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Speaker 2: Who's making it?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 4: Back in the back in the day, my my best

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Speaker 4: friend of mine I was talking about his mother used

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Speaker 4: to make them every Thanksgiving, every Christmas and I used

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Speaker 4: to come over and she would get me a pot

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Speaker 4: go home with the whole pot because she knew how

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Speaker 4: much I loved them. So it's been a while since

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Speaker 4: I was able to do that. So now my girlfriend

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Speaker 4: Lauren actually has learned how to make sweet potato.

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Speaker 3: That's fantastic.

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Speaker 4: She's found the key to my heart.

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Speaker 3: I mean, what is what's the saying away to a

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Speaker 3: man's heartest through his stomach? Potato? All right, last question

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Speaker 3: will get you out of here. If you could have

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Speaker 3: a superpower, what superpower would you have?

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Speaker 2: And why?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Man, I know there are a lot.

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Speaker 4: There are a lot. I would probably teleport just to

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Speaker 4: be anywhere anytime that I want to be, like not

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Speaker 4: have to worry about travel.

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Speaker 3: Like, yeah, I was on the road because I went home.

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Speaker 2: I'm up.

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Speaker 3: I live around Chattanooga, Tennessee, and so I'm about three

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Speaker 3: hours from here. And I got up this morning because

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Speaker 3: I spent Christens my family and I drove up here

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Speaker 3: and I was like, it really would be great if

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Speaker 3: I could tailport.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you spent we went to the movies on Christmas.

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Speaker 4: It's pouring down rain and driving. See if I could

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Speaker 4: tail report just right to it, have.

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Speaker 2: The popcorn already there. Yeah, amazing.

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Speaker 1: That is fantastic and really a great way to end it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Michael Pruitt, thank you so much for joining us on

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Speaker 1: the season finale of The Falcons in Focused Podcast presented

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Speaker 1: by ticket Master. It's been such a fun year really

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Speaker 1: getting to know you know the players and on a

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Speaker 1: different level, not how did you do last week, but

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Speaker 1: you find out so many new and cool things.

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Speaker 3: So hopefully he's best friends with Snoop Dogg. Yeah, I

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Speaker 3: mean I'm coming that's out and telling the story from

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Speaker 3: now on.

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Speaker 2: That's the way.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, please rate, review, and subscribe to

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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons podcast network on Apple Podcasts or Spotify,

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Speaker 1: and also subscribe to the Atlanta Falcons page on YouTube,

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Speaker 1: where you can watch the video version of this podcast

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Speaker 1: as well. So excited to end this on such a

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Speaker 1: high note. Thanks everybody for listening all season long.

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Speaker 2: It's been a blast, and we will talk to you again.

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Speaker 2: Not next September, but next kind of free agent off season.

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Speaker 3: We'll see you in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, we will again. Thank you so much for joining us.

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Speaker 2: We will talk to again, real real, soone.

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Speaker 3: Yes woo