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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 Focus podcast, presented by Ticketmaster. I'm Scott Behar,

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Speaker 1: that's Tory mclaney. Falcons wide receiver Cadero Hodge is joining us,

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Speaker 1: and we couldn't be more thrilled because, as we admitted

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Speaker 1: before we started recording this podcast, we spent our entire Thursday,

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Speaker 1: which is when this is going on tape, going down

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Speaker 1: a caderrel Hodge TikTok rabbit hole. We spent most of

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Speaker 1: the day going over one video after another being like, Oh,

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Speaker 1: that one's really funny, that one goton views? How is that?

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Speaker 2: So I feel like we have to start there.

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Speaker 1: Give us the origin story about how this turned into

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Speaker 1: such a thing. You have almost one hundred thousand followers,

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Speaker 1: You've had a number of videos go over a million

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Speaker 1: that I've seen, and for those that haven't gone hit

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Speaker 1: pause on the podcast, go to give him the.

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Speaker 2: Right go to it. Consume a couple.

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Speaker 1: They're funny and interesting and so, now, with the intro

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Speaker 1: laid out, tell us how you got started with this thing.

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Speaker 3: Actually, I've been I've been doing this since since my

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Speaker 3: freshman year of college actually, but it's been on like

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Speaker 3: a couple of different apps I think we use. I

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Speaker 3: even use Vine back in the day, dub smashed, like

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Speaker 3: all types of things. But eventually I wanted to build

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Speaker 3: my Instagram and TikTok things, so that came along. And

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Speaker 3: I've dropped a couple of videos lately this year and they're,

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Speaker 3: like you said, they've been kind of trending, and so,

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Speaker 3: uh yeah, like I'm gonna I'm gonna keep building on it.

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Speaker 3: I think it's I enjoy doing it. It's something I

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Speaker 3: like to do in my in my free time. And

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Speaker 3: uh yeah.

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Speaker 1: So there's one that's called uber Driver picking me up

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Speaker 1: after final memosas have.

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Speaker 4: I had a friend who sent that to me, like

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Speaker 4: right when when you first dropped it, and she was like,

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Speaker 4: this is so funny. This is so us And I

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Speaker 4: was like, you know who that is, right and she

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Speaker 4: was like no, and I was like that's good. Daryl

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Speaker 4: was like, he's one of the receivers on this team.

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Speaker 3: Oh man.

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Speaker 4: So it's just so funny that, like, you've created this

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Speaker 4: content that a lot, it's reached a lot of people

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Speaker 4: and it's very very funny. But that one in and

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Speaker 4: of itself.

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Speaker 2: Is very good.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, what I've noticed. I've noticed the more things I'll

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Speaker 3: do that you can like based off like real life situations,

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Speaker 3: more people can relate to, and those are the things

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Speaker 3: that trend. So I've kind of started to dig in

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Speaker 3: the more like videos like people can relate to and

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Speaker 3: people actually do and find find funny like oh, I've

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Speaker 3: done that before. I've been here before. So I think

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Speaker 3: I think that's where a lot of my engagement comes from.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, like when you see something go, let's

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Speaker 1: say on average there, I don't know, twenty thousand, just

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Speaker 1: throwing a number out and then you see one to

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Speaker 1: go to two point four, one point eight around one million?

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Speaker 2: Are you just staring at your phone like oh?

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Speaker 1: And then it starts trending on Instagram right, and then

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Speaker 1: it becomes like a whole thing, like like what goes?

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Speaker 3: It was crazy the first video I seen that that

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Speaker 3: I'll look like I probably go play the game or

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Speaker 3: get a lot of notifications. I'm like WHOA, Like what's

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Speaker 3: and I'm like, okay, it's kind of big right now. Okay,

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Speaker 3: I was like, it's kind of big. Like that was

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Speaker 4: Do you have one that is your favorite that you

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Speaker 4: look back on. You're like, pen, I'm really funny one.

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Speaker 3: I don't gas my stuff like that. The ones I

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Speaker 3: Those are the ones that don't trend as much.

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Speaker 4: That's on TikTok because TikTok is just random, random, just

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like I put like I've done some

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Speaker 3: But then I'll make one and it'll be like I

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Speaker 3: the right hashtags, the right everything with TikTok. It's kind

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Speaker 3: of crazy, but I enjoy doing it even if it

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Speaker 1: All right, I just have one more. I'm sorry we

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Speaker 1: how this turned in from like four or five thousand

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Speaker 1: but like, are you strippting these things out? Are you

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Speaker 1: setting up your shots? Like how detailed are we getting?

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Speaker 1: Or like are you just being like this kind of funny,

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Speaker 1: like let's just try this sound.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm more of like a try it. It'll be

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Speaker 3: more spontaneous. If I if I see a video and

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Speaker 3: I'm just scrolling through, whether it's like me lip sync

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Speaker 3: bring a song to life like the Mamosa video, and

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Speaker 3: look at it from my point of view, I just

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Speaker 3: I'll just be going through my throat, through my page

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Speaker 3: and whatever video I see, I'm like, Okay, I could

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Speaker 4: I love it. Everyone go follow Kadero Hodge on TikTok plug.

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Speaker 2: You might lose a whole day doing it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, again, that's all we've been doing all day to day.

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Speaker 4: Like we get paid to do this. It's a great

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Speaker 4: a great time. So I want to talk you know,

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Speaker 4: we talked about TikTok, but one of your other hobbies,

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Speaker 4: and I will say hobbies because what you do is

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Speaker 4: pretty impressive too. We really are gassing you up on

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Speaker 4: this podcast. But I your game Day fits and I

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Speaker 4: do a show with the Kelly Price on Fox five.

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Speaker 4: It's called Rise Up Tonight, and we have a whole

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Speaker 4: segment where we do it's called Falcons Fits, and we

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Speaker 4: go over all of y'all's fits and we pick the five,

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Speaker 4: four or five best fits. I'll tell you this and

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Speaker 4: this is not me just like saying this because you're

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Speaker 4: sitting right here. You were on it almost every week

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Speaker 4: and the only the only reason, the only reason you

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Speaker 4: weren't on there every single time. Is because we felt

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Speaker 4: the need to like spread the love, and we're like,

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Speaker 4: we can't just keep We started calling you like our

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Speaker 4: King of Falcons fits because your fits were so good

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Speaker 4: last year. So please tell me the story of kind

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Speaker 4: of how you got into fashion and why it's something

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Speaker 4: that you have been gravitating towards for a little bit now.

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Speaker 3: I've actually I've always been in the fashion like growing up. Actually,

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Speaker 3: uh men, I have a toin sister, Me and my

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Speaker 3: twin sister. Growing up, we all always wanted to like

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Speaker 3: she's more of the idea. She's actually more has more

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Speaker 3: fashion sense than me. But she she can sew. She

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Speaker 3: with it, and uh, I look at different little pages,

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Speaker 3: I'm like, I do love fashion. I think, uh it

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Speaker 3: brings a lot of things to life and people enjoy

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Speaker 3: watching it, so so yeah, it's something I really like doing.

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Speaker 3: Like I said her, I sometimes I do have my

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Speaker 3: uh my stylist in the background. I know she want

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Speaker 3: her little shout out. Rosa Vega. Yeah she been. She

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Speaker 3: been rocking with me since since my rookie year. We started.

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Speaker 3: We started out as a coming up together, so she's

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Speaker 3: been doing a good job. But yeah, I definitely love fashion.

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Speaker 4: Do you have a favorite fit from last year? I do.

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Speaker 4: Do you want to hear which one of mine? Yeah,

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Speaker 4: one I loved. I can't remember. It may have been

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Speaker 4: Tampa Bay, but it was the It was like the

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Speaker 4: light blue leather pants with the tulip Oh, yeah, I

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Speaker 4: thought that was so cool. And I also really liked

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Speaker 4: I was going to say that one, that one was

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Speaker 4: I was going to say, yeah, I like that one.

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Speaker 4: I also thought the one the hoodie with the I

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Speaker 4: don't know what it's called. It's like a like Sistine

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I like that one a lot. So those are

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Speaker 4: my top three. I appreciate it are those like your

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Speaker 3: That's uh, I can't really think my offits right now.

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Speaker 3: And uh, the third one is kind of in the air,

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Speaker 3: be honest. The third kind yeah, there was kind of We're.

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Speaker 1: Going to have to include like a whole like gallery

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Speaker 1: in the I Know this podcast so you can refer

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm kind kind of like, what did you get up?

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Speaker 4: Are you the type that, Okay, before the season starts,

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Speaker 4: you go week by week?

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Speaker 3: I tried to go, like I tried to do everything

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Speaker 3: before season, but it never worked out, and it ended

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Speaker 3: up I ended up going week by week. And like

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Speaker 3: I said, like she does her thing, like I don't

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Speaker 1: So you mentioned that you have a twin sister. Now

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Speaker 1: let's kind of get into that a little bit, like

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Speaker 1: what was it like because you're from a small town

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Speaker 1: in Mississippi. Delo am I saying it right?

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Speaker 2: I sound like a California guy.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I'm over here from checking my.

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Speaker 1: So growing up in a small town, you had other siblings,

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Speaker 1: but having a twin sister, Like, what was that experience

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Speaker 4: Now I was looking up and correct me if I'm wrong.

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Speaker 4: Wow, I didn't know that it was like that deep

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Speaker 1: So like, what was the I know, you're only what

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Speaker 4: I mean, in that moment kind of what's going through

434
00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:06,199
Speaker 4: your head because like what you're saying, you're like I

435
00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:09,240
Speaker 4: had people saying, you know, go do something else, of

436
00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:12,080
Speaker 4: other people saying, hey, no, lean into this. Follow what

437
00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:15,239
Speaker 4: you're doing to get that call? How much of how

438
00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:17,679
Speaker 4: much of not just to weight off your shoulders, but

439
00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:20,480
Speaker 4: how much of it was a reassurance that like, yes,

440
00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:23,399
Speaker 4: what my dream is is what I'm supposed to be chasing.

441
00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:27,600
Speaker 3: Yes meant a lot. It's just a second chance. And

442
00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:31,040
Speaker 3: that's what I feel like if I got this second chance,

443
00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:33,400
Speaker 3: then they would have to kick me out this league,

444
00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:37,040
Speaker 3: their stuff, Like I won't be I won't be the problem,

445
00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:39,160
Speaker 3: Like hard work won't be the problem because I feel

446
00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:42,080
Speaker 3: like God gave me this check second chance for a reason,

447
00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:46,840
Speaker 3: so I just know me doing my part won't be

448
00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:51,560
Speaker 3: a problem. Like like I said, hard work positionless like

449
00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:54,320
Speaker 3: took the pride out of the game. Like I'm here

450
00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:57,960
Speaker 3: for a reason and you can use me whatever way

451
00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,960
Speaker 3: you need to use me. What it is special teams,

452
00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:05,280
Speaker 3: it's receiver, it's whatever, Like I'm here to do my

453
00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:08,120
Speaker 3: job and trust God.

454
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Speaker 4: Basically, Now do you think you could be an emergency

455
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Speaker 4: quarterback as well?

456
00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:13,160
Speaker 1: Yeah?

457
00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:15,000
Speaker 2: Quarterback?

458
00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:19,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I think I've seen you know, you see

459
00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:22,520
Speaker 4: some things. I think you could do it. I think, yeah, yeah,

460
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Speaker 4: I appreciate it.

461
00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:25,439
Speaker 3: I appreciate it. I kind of I kind of be

462
00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:27,720
Speaker 3: putting the bug in the area. Sometimes they don't believe me,

463
00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:29,920
Speaker 3: but I talked. Just tell Arthur, yeah, I talk a

464
00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:32,199
Speaker 3: little noise every now and then and try to hit

465
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:34,520
Speaker 3: the goal post to show him like, okay, you've seen that, right.

466
00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:38,880
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's always fun to mess with the quarterbacks.

467
00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:43,000
Speaker 3: I tease them be like okay, QB four. But yeah,

468
00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:44,679
Speaker 3: it's always fun playing with those guys.

469
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Speaker 1: Yeah, because you were a quarterback in high school. Your

470
00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:51,440
Speaker 1: cousin Steve McNair, right, yeah, yeah, and uh and you

471
00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:56,080
Speaker 1: you played some quarterback before switching to wide receiver, which

472
00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:59,360
Speaker 1: ultimately you know was a good move. I guess here

473
00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:02,680
Speaker 1: you are, but like, maybe talk about that period because

474
00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:06,679
Speaker 1: you kind of you went to Alcorn State first and

475
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:09,879
Speaker 1: then you like as a quarterback, and then bounced to

476
00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:14,040
Speaker 1: Heine's Community College and then went to Prairie View with

477
00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:18,119
Speaker 1: your old offensive coordinator.

478
00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:21,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then ended up kind of thriving.

479
00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:22,800
Speaker 3: As a wide out. Yeah.

480
00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:25,600
Speaker 2: That was I mean, that's a crazy Yeah, it was.

481
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Speaker 3: Crazy Like I went to All Corn. I always wanted

482
00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:31,960
Speaker 3: to play quarterback. I never uh like, I never really

483
00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:35,680
Speaker 3: played any other position but quarterback, and uh I had

484
00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:39,199
Speaker 3: other offers and they wanted me to play safety or receiver,

485
00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:41,800
Speaker 3: but in my head, like I feel like I didn't

486
00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:43,880
Speaker 3: want to play anything else. So I took the offer

487
00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:47,720
Speaker 3: to All Corn. Uh I did my freshman year there

488
00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:50,840
Speaker 3: and I read shirted it. I read shirted there my

489
00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:53,720
Speaker 3: freshman year. Things that it wasn't really going the way

490
00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:56,800
Speaker 3: I wanted it to go, and uh I kind of

491
00:24:57,119 --> 00:25:00,280
Speaker 3: felt like I had needed to make the transition into

492
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Speaker 3: a receiver, so I went. I ended up going to

493
00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:13,280
Speaker 3: hansk Haines Community College in Mississippi. Total shocker. Yes, first

494
00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:18,560
Speaker 3: first time playing receiver against actual defense and did not

495
00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:23,479
Speaker 3: go to where planned what's supposed to go. Was getting jammed,

496
00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:27,120
Speaker 3: I admit I was. It was like a whole new thing,

497
00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:29,879
Speaker 3: like looking from the quarterbacks like it's like, okay, I

498
00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:32,600
Speaker 3: could do this easy, like it's just catching the ball really,

499
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:35,359
Speaker 3: but I didn't really know like the ends and nots

500
00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:39,000
Speaker 3: of receiver, like how to get open and everything, and Okay,

501
00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:42,000
Speaker 3: I was like, okay, this is it's probably harder than

502
00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:45,480
Speaker 3: what I thought it was. So I actually didn't get

503
00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:49,040
Speaker 3: a lot of playing time at HANS. Like I actually

504
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:51,760
Speaker 3: didn't play at all, to be honest, And that was

505
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:54,880
Speaker 3: another question, Like, Uh, I got to that point after

506
00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:57,160
Speaker 3: the season, I'm like, well, I might have to go

507
00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:00,960
Speaker 3: h D two or something like that because I had

508
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,560
Speaker 3: no film to go off of to uh interesting.

509
00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:06,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, So and you were injured during that year too, right,

510
00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:07,760
Speaker 4: had like a broken thumb?

511
00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:10,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, broken thumb. I actually broke my thumb at at

512
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:14,480
Speaker 3: all corn And practice. I was throwing in a it

513
00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:18,000
Speaker 3: hit a guy's helmet and it was kind of on

514
00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:21,920
Speaker 3: some Flukes stuff for real. And after I left after that,

515
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:25,119
Speaker 3: so I was recovering from my thumb and I was

516
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:27,399
Speaker 3: kind of ready for the season, kind of wasn't, but

517
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:29,720
Speaker 3: I kind of had no choice to just get in

518
00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:34,920
Speaker 3: there and play. And yeah, it just didn't go didn't

519
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:37,600
Speaker 3: go as planning. So I wasn't getting a lot of

520
00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:41,440
Speaker 3: shine after the season. Again, it was back to just

521
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:45,600
Speaker 3: praying and hoping and just working. And uh, like I said,

522
00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:49,240
Speaker 3: coach Simmons had ended up becoming the head coach at

523
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:52,440
Speaker 3: preview and it was a random call and I didn't

524
00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:54,359
Speaker 3: I didn't know, he called me and it was like,

525
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:58,800
Speaker 3: a like, who you got offering you? I'm like nobody,

526
00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:01,560
Speaker 3: and he was like, I just came. I just became

527
00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:05,280
Speaker 3: the head coach at Purview and them. I was like, okay,

528
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:08,000
Speaker 3: well take me with you. He was like, he was like,

529
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:09,800
Speaker 3: you want to go with me? I was like, I'll

530
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:13,080
Speaker 3: ride with you there. And I didn't take a visit

531
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 3: or anything. So I just went straight there and kind

532
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:19,879
Speaker 3: of worked out from there. I met up with my

533
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:25,840
Speaker 3: grave receiver coach, coach Reggie Moore, and he basically trained me.

534
00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:29,480
Speaker 3: From from then to now, I worked for him. I

535
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:31,520
Speaker 3: talked to him until now. He's more of a mentor

536
00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:34,639
Speaker 3: right now, gonna work when I can, But he basically

537
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:38,920
Speaker 3: taught me the fundamentals from handout coordination to top of

538
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:41,880
Speaker 3: the route to everything, and I just kind of put

539
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:44,159
Speaker 3: that work in with him and put it in a

540
00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:48,280
Speaker 3: lot of work overtime, and the work eventually showed.

541
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Speaker 4: I'm glad that you brought up Reggie Moore because there

542
00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:53,919
Speaker 4: was a quote from you that you said and you

543
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 4: alluded to it here where you said, you know, he

544
00:27:57,280 --> 00:28:01,440
Speaker 4: developed me from the ground up. But what you were

545
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:04,679
Speaker 4: when y'all first started working together and then what you

546
00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:08,480
Speaker 4: ended up being like three seasons later when it came

547
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:11,560
Speaker 4: to your development with him, what was something that he

548
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:13,879
Speaker 4: taught you that you look back on and even today

549
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:16,480
Speaker 4: you're like, thank god, he drilled that into my head.

550
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:22,159
Speaker 3: Fundamentals, fundamentals of the game. He's he's more of an

551
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:26,520
Speaker 3: old school coach, so they really hammered the fundamentals. And

552
00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:28,960
Speaker 3: what I've learned now like, it don't matter how much

553
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:31,040
Speaker 3: flavor you got, you can never get away from the

554
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 3: fundamentals of the game. And it's just the basic footwork,

555
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 3: the hands, the placement of everything. It's it always goes

556
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 3: back to the fundamentals. And he really drilled that. Whether

557
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 3: it's like I said, top of the rock, getting in

558
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 3: and out of cuts, eyes, catching the ball, tacking the ball,

559
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:53,160
Speaker 3: it was everything always went back to the fundamentals. So

560
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:55,959
Speaker 3: that's the big thing he really taught me.

561
00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:58,480
Speaker 2: I look back at it.

562
00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:01,000
Speaker 1: It's like the reason why I think we love doing

563
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,200
Speaker 1: this podcast so much. Is there a people who probably

564
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:05,120
Speaker 1: only know you watching you for three and a half

565
00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:08,600
Speaker 1: hours on Sunday and on your TikTok channel, Right, but

566
00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:12,760
Speaker 1: then you hear this success story coming from nothing and

567
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:16,280
Speaker 1: really having a couple of valleys, and yet here you

568
00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:18,800
Speaker 1: are second year with the team, because you're first receiving

569
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:22,120
Speaker 1: touchdown last year and are kind of like standing tall

570
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 1: as an example of kind of what can be created here,

571
00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 1: and that I think is such a fun part of

572
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,320
Speaker 1: this conversation. There's no easy way to turn to transition

573
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:32,720
Speaker 1: from that to this. But we have a section of

574
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:35,680
Speaker 1: the pod. It's called rapid fire. Sometimes it's not that rapid,

575
00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:40,800
Speaker 1: but it's essentially the same five questions everybody gets pressures

576
00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:44,200
Speaker 1: on are you ready? There's really no reason to be great,

577
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:47,800
Speaker 1: But I just like to say that first on what

578
00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:50,960
Speaker 1: is your favorite play of your career?

579
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:54,600
Speaker 3: High school, college, high school, anywhere.

580
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 2: Any your favorite highway anywhere.

581
00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:01,120
Speaker 3: It was actually in high school, I would say we

582
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 3: played our rival McGee Mcgie high school and I was

583
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:09,640
Speaker 3: at quarterback. We did a little read option and I

584
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:13,240
Speaker 3: really talk to them today every year. Every every year

585
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:16,920
Speaker 3: when we're about to play down, I had like a

586
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 3: little read option play a quarterback and I probably I

587
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:22,360
Speaker 3: don't know how it happened, but I probably juked like

588
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:27,640
Speaker 3: the whole team. It was crazy, Yeah, it was crazy.

589
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:33,280
Speaker 3: It was like a little sixty yard sixty yard run. Yeah,

590
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:35,600
Speaker 3: it was. It was pretty smooth. I hate the gas.

591
00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 4: It's okay, there, we'll find the video and we'll let

592
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:39,920
Speaker 4: the video.

593
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:42,400
Speaker 3: I was like, okay, okay, that's pretty smool.

594
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:44,520
Speaker 4: I love that and the fact that it's like, you know,

595
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:45,800
Speaker 4: high school rivalry.

596
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:47,000
Speaker 3: Yeah.

597
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 4: Next question, is there a movie or TV show that

598
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:51,320
Speaker 4: you're really into right now?

599
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:56,440
Speaker 3: Really into right now? I just finished Power Power Book

600
00:30:56,480 --> 00:31:00,200
Speaker 3: to Ghost. That's great. I've kind of I love Love

601
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,880
Speaker 3: out of Banks, Love Out of.

602
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:07,560
Speaker 4: Banks, stop it. I love Outer Bank. It's the craziest

603
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:10,600
Speaker 4: show and it's like so unrealistic.

604
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 3: But but you can't help to get into it though.

605
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:13,040
Speaker 3: It's crazy.

606
00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 4: No spoilers on the podcast.

607
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I don't want to talk about it. Yeah,

608
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:17,680
Speaker 3: I don'tant to talk about it.

609
00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 1: Comes highly recommended, Yeah, yeah, I guess I'll put it

610
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 1: on that.

611
00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:28,080
Speaker 2: On my list. Who's your favorite player regardless of sport.

612
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:34,080
Speaker 3: Player? Regardless? I say Brian Probably Brian for sure.

613
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean he's only been doing it.

614
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:39,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, King James. It seems like he does not only

615
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 3: everything right on the court, but off the court, he

616
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 3: like like his everything is in order, Like everything he

617
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 3: does it seems to be like goes up. Yeah, he's

618
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 3: he makes the right moves like I don't know, he

619
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:55,440
Speaker 3: just got the right circle around him and everything like

620
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:56,360
Speaker 3: he does it the right way.

621
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:58,960
Speaker 2: Is there And it could be home cooking.

622
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,240
Speaker 1: It could be a restaurant from where you're from or

623
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:03,880
Speaker 1: where you are now. It's like, what's a meal that?

624
00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 3: Oh, it's it's definitely mom.

625
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 4: I was about to say you what didn't she you

626
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 4: were talking about all the kids came over to y'all's house.

627
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 4: I read something that she cooked for everybody.

628
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, so Sunday you already know what's going down. We

629
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:24,120
Speaker 3: have the soulful Sundays. Soulful Sundays, that's the last middle

630
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:27,680
Speaker 3: of Earth. That's gonna be soul full. Fried chicken, you

631
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 3: got greens, you got yams, you got macaroni, you got

632
00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:35,480
Speaker 3: the pound cake, you got everything under the sun that's old.

633
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:37,360
Speaker 3: It's gonna hit you the right way. That's gonna give

634
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 3: you the itist about thirty thirty minutes you everybody sleepy.

635
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:42,000
Speaker 2: It's down.

636
00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 4: There's there's something special about the nap after a soul food. Yeah,

637
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 4: type of moment you think of.

638
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 3: I think you wake up thinking it's the next day.

639
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:53,120
Speaker 2: Type of what.

640
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:56,520
Speaker 3: I missed all.

641
00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 4: Right, last one. Uh, if you could have a superpower,

642
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:00,960
Speaker 4: what would that super power by?

643
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:05,920
Speaker 3: I probably say teleport. I always wanted to teleport. I'm

644
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 3: like kind of a last minute wake up guy. Yeah,

645
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 3: that'll be perfect, Like I can wake up, I can,

646
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 3: we got means at eight, I can feel like I

647
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 3: wait by step seven, brush my teeth washed, my face, boom,

648
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:26,640
Speaker 3: get here like okay, right from the other. Yeah, I'm here.

649
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,840
Speaker 1: Oh man, that's awesome, Caderrol, thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: the time. Thanks to everyone who tuned in, downloaded, however

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Speaker 1: you consume this podcast and listened.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, can I say something?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah. I just wanted to say appreciate you

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Speaker 3: off of you know what I'm saying, have me on

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Speaker 3: this show. And I didn't mention this while we was

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Speaker 3: talking about the TikTok. But I do want to become

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Speaker 3: an actor after football. Forgot to mention that. So Tyler Perry,

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Speaker 3: if you look in, if you watch Tyler hit me up,

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Speaker 3: I'm I'm raw talent, I'm ready, I'm ready.

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Speaker 2: Well there's no better way to end a podcast than that.

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Speaker 2: So thanks everyone for downloading and listening to.

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Speaker 4: Falcons Focus, especially Tyler Perry.

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Speaker 1: Especially Tyler Perry was definitely tuning in down. If not,

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Speaker 1: we'll just like send this to the.

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Speaker 4: Studio people will get in touch with your people.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for coming, see you