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Speaker 1: Happily joined now by Michael Pittman Junior. This time of year,

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Speaker 1: getting ready for the season, the team is back in

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Speaker 1: the building and getting ready for twenty twenty four. You

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Speaker 1: look at your career, Michael, and up to this point,

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Speaker 1: you're proven player. People run the league knows you. The

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Speaker 1: contract speaks for itself. How can you get better in

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Speaker 1: what you do with a healthy Anthony Richardson for seventeen weeks?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, it's just getting to know each other further because

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Speaker 2: obviously we had Anthony last year and he got to

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Speaker 2: play in three games, and just building on that relationship.

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Speaker 2: So Anthony's gonna play every single game this year, Like

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna put that out there now, and he will

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Speaker 2: be the longest standing quarterback I've been able to play

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Speaker 2: with in my pro career. So okay, I am looking

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Speaker 2: forward to that, just being able to build off that

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Speaker 2: and looking towards the future even further than next year,

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Speaker 2: Like it's just gonna get better and better and better.

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Speaker 1: His style of play, what he does with his feet understood,

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Speaker 1: but he can you know, he can continue plays and

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Speaker 1: get outside the pocket and such like that. How big

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Speaker 1: of a difference is it playing with much of last

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Speaker 1: season with Gardner Minshew in that role there where it

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Speaker 1: is not with Anthony, who brings a different skill set.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Gardner came in and did a great job for us,

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Speaker 2: and that is credit to him, and then that's credit

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Speaker 2: to Shane because Shane really did a good job of

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Speaker 2: playing to his player's strengths and he did that with

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Speaker 2: like Gardner, he did that with me and with all

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Speaker 2: of our other guys, and now getting Anthony. Anthony strengths

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Speaker 2: is obviously his arm and then his legs, right, so

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Speaker 2: there is a number of ways that we're going to

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Speaker 2: be able to use that, whether it's RPO, whether it's scramble, drill,

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Speaker 2: quarterback design runs really like it's endless and has he

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Speaker 2: develops further, Like you're going to see that passing game

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Speaker 2: develop more and more and he's just going to get

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Speaker 2: more dangerous, like as we go on.

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Speaker 3: You know, Michael, you talked about all the different quarterbacks

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Speaker 3: that you've had to play with. You played with seven.

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Speaker 3: I think we've talked about this in the past from

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Speaker 3: your stand point playing the wide receiver position. What are

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Speaker 3: some things that are just so tough about that revolving

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Speaker 3: door of quarterbacks that you've had to endure that maybe

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Speaker 3: the common fan doesn't know just the challenges that some

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Speaker 3: of the small, nuanced challenges that most people don't realize.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you just have to adapt to every single quarterback,

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Speaker 2: which is probably the biggest thing. And then the next

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Speaker 2: biggest thing is proving to that quarterback why you should

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Speaker 2: be there quote unquote go to guy, like when they

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Speaker 2: are in trouble, and just like developing that relationship with

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Speaker 2: them sometimes can take time. But Anthony has seen me play,

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Speaker 2: He's played with me for three games, so hopefully that

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Speaker 2: we could speed that up and get it going. But

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Speaker 2: those are probably the two biggest things, Like just anticipation,

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Speaker 2: timing and then just knowing one another. You see all

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Speaker 2: these great duos who have been together forever, like just

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Speaker 2: like league wide guys, I think that Airon and and

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Speaker 2: or that come to my mind, like even though they're

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Speaker 2: through and through, And that's kind of what I am

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Speaker 3: How long does that take to get to the point

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Speaker 3: and just know, hey, my main man, Michael Pittman Junior here,

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Speaker 3: he's gonna make a play. I have no doubt. I

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Speaker 2: And the thing is, I don't really know how long

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Speaker 2: count on, I think that just goes through camp and

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Speaker 2: maybe the first couple of games and like they're okay,

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Speaker 2: Like he's gonna make the catch no matter what double coverage,

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Speaker 2: bad throw, good throw pass behind you, Like it just

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Speaker 2: doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: We're talking to Michael Pittman Jr. And your resume in

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Speaker 1: the you know, in the Sunday League speaks for itself.

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Speaker 1: But your type of guy that's gonna play this game

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Speaker 1: for a long time, Michael and the great ones, and

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Speaker 1: I'm putting you in that class. The great ones always

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Speaker 1: get better the next season. How you with at this

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Speaker 1: point of your career? What are you doing to get

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Speaker 2: The biggest thing that I'm working on is studying myself

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Speaker 2: and studying my deficiencies. And the two biggest things that

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Speaker 2: I've noticed is my stride length I sometimes shorten it,

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Speaker 2: and my release game can definitely get better. And working

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Speaker 2: on those two basically all of like offseason and going

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Speaker 2: to bring that into this season, Like I've already seen

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Speaker 2: a huge improvement because I put so much effort in it.

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Speaker 2: And then the next step is just being able to

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Speaker 2: diagnose defenses faster and have that accelerated vision and know, hey,

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Speaker 2: like verse this look, I'm gonna get the ball versus

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Speaker 2: that look Josh is gonna get the ball, So let

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Speaker 2: Or like, hey, there's this look Alex gonna get the ball,

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Speaker 2: So just being able to diagnose all that stuff lightning fast,

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Speaker 2: I feel like comes with like age and just seeing

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Speaker 2: it more so now I'm going into year five, I've

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Speaker 2: seen it a lot, right, and I feel like I

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Speaker 2: was pretty good last year, but you can always get better.

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Speaker 3: Just to hear you talk like that, you are a

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Speaker 3: you can make on the perimeter in the running game,

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Speaker 3: especially with the dynamic abilities of this offense in the

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Speaker 3: to speak for the position group as a whole, but

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Speaker 3: you just kind of seem like the outlier, you know,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that comes from my dad. So my dad

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Speaker 2: played running back nasty and nasty. Yeah, he's nasty. He

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Speaker 2: spoke very highly of Keishawn Johnson, who was one of

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Speaker 2: thing about me, right of course. And honestly, like, it's

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Speaker 2: just like a fight, right, so so like I'm trying

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Speaker 2: to beat you up, right, be like just because we're

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Speaker 2: in a all day fight and it keeps going until

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Speaker 3: Michael Pittman Junior is our guest, and we talked about

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Speaker 3: this again, going back to when you sign your contract,

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Speaker 3: Shane Stiken said that you got to be the enforcer.

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Speaker 3: That's your role on this team off the field, on

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Speaker 3: the field, in the weight room and meetings. How do

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Speaker 3: you see guys responding to that big of an important

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Speaker 2: I think they feed off of my actions because I

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Speaker 2: don't really love to be the guy that sits up

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Speaker 2: there like hey, guys, like we're going to do this,

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Speaker 2: this and that. Like I would rather them watch the

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Speaker 2: energy that I bring in practice and in games, weight

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Speaker 2: room meetings and and I feel like everybody pretty much

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Speaker 2: quite a while now, Like it's weird to think because

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Speaker 2: I feel like I just got here. I still feel

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Speaker 2: so yeah, I know crazy stuff, but yeah, I mean

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Speaker 2: I just try to lead by like example, and if

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Speaker 2: like I'm always there, like to the lendam so pet

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Speaker 2: that's the thing you're talking about, your leadership skills on

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Speaker 2: stuff like this.

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Speaker 1: Shane calls you the enforcer. Are you not afraid to

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, I mean, I mean they know that I can

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Speaker 2: be ruthless, right, I mean like I have a switch

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Speaker 2: to where ninety five percent of the time like I'm

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Speaker 2: that when it gets flipped. I mean, I mean it's

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Speaker 2: like just like it's ruthless. Like I don't even like

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Speaker 3: You dominate the middle of the field, There's no question

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Speaker 3: about that.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 3: Do you want people to know more about your game

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Speaker 3: in terms of outside the numbers and down the field

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Speaker 3: and for that to happen, how much do you have

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Speaker 3: to go to Shane and say I'm more than what

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Speaker 3: I've been able to dominate to this point in my career.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, And that's one of the things where I felt

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Speaker 2: those gaps. And like I said before, we played to

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Speaker 2: our players strengths, and I think with Anthony, like we're

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Speaker 2: gonna see more of that outside game like in twenty

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Speaker 2: prior two years. So I think with Anthony's gonna stretch

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Speaker 1: You know, hey, I got to ask about getting off

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Speaker 1: the football field because you're an intense dude. I mean,

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Speaker 1: like I said, the way your father played the position

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Speaker 1: an intense dude. But you guys like you are thoroughbred.

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Speaker 1: They need to get away from the racetrack a little bit,

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Speaker 1: and you do that at your farm. Yes, And I

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Speaker 1: want to ask you specifically a two part question. How

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Speaker 1: many head you got on that when it comes to

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Speaker 1: livestock including chickens? And the second thing is do you

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Speaker 1: you work with? They see this Michael Pittman Junior signing

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Speaker 1: a big contract. These things gotta eat. You gotta buy

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Speaker 1: feed for him, you gotta buy hay for him. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk about those relationships you got now.

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Speaker 2: So in terms of live animals on my farm right now,

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Speaker 2: probably running somewhere around fifty okay, majority of those, thirty

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Speaker 2: three goats in alpaca, three dogs, We have a emu,

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Speaker 2: and we have guinea fowl and yeah, chickens. So that's

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Speaker 2: what we got right now.

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Speaker 1: Michael, just help me out. When it said, hey, should

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Speaker 1: we get this outpaca or shouldn't we? What is that decision?

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Speaker 1: Like in the household?

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Speaker 2: So I forget where I was at, Like it was

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Speaker 2: somewhere where, like I was looking on Facebook marketplace and

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Speaker 2: in like little Facebook classified ads and I saw it

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Speaker 2: and I looked at my wife and like she's like no,

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Speaker 2: and I was like, wait, think about it, think about it,

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Speaker 2: and she said no. And then I just brought it

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Speaker 2: home and was forgiveness. Yeah, and like I was like,

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Speaker 2: we got space for like I just built this awesome

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Speaker 1: Nice.

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Speaker 2: But in terms of feed man, we man, we run

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Speaker 2: up the feed bill. I mean every time we order haybaales,

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Speaker 2: we order at least one hundred bales, and the cows

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Speaker 3: So can we back up? Why farming? Why did that

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Speaker 2: So? I just feel like it gives me a greater

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Speaker 1: Wow, doing what you're doing makes you a better football player.

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Speaker 1: And the reason I'm saying this, Michael, there's guys. There

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Speaker 1: The responsibility when it comes to running a farm actually

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So what people don't know is actually last season,

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Speaker 2: I would wake up anywhere between five thirty and six.

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Speaker 2: I would check on them like I would pick up poop,

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Speaker 3: Amazing how demanding is all of this during the season.

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Speaker 2: It's actually something that I enjoy doing and it keeps

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Speaker 1: Long ago watched you grow up right in front of

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Speaker 1: a new contract and everything goes with it. Man, Yeah, incredible.

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Speaker 3: Michael that's one for me. All twenty two starters on

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Speaker 3: And obviously, you know, as we sit here and talk

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think that's special to this organization. Like

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Speaker 2: I feel like dating back to just like as long

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Speaker 2: like just like the guys didn't really change much. I mean,

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Speaker 2: like I said, like there's different pieces that come in

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Speaker 2: saying that Gardner didn't do a good job, because I

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Speaker 2: season and we're like, whoa, we don't know what we

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Speaker 2: back and confident I mean, I mean, I think that

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Speaker 1: Hey man, the skuy's a limit for this offense. Love

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Speaker 1: what you do on the field, love what you do

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Speaker 1: off the field. And hopefully after this interview we can

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Speaker 1: work some out. Maybe give me two dozen every Monday,

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Speaker 1: a couple dozen eggs. I'll go six bucks a dozen.

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Speaker 2: How about that. I actually jointed at a fair price.

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Speaker 2: I actually just brought in nine dozen eggs and put

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Speaker 2: so they're just in there.

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Speaker 3: So I'm lis on Pittman, so I walk in there

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Speaker 3: and grab awesome.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for your time, Michael Pittman Junior, everyone, Thank you guys,