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Speaker 1: Buckman's at Lounge presented by DraftKings. We're sitting down with

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Speaker 1: Rokwan Smith today in London. No, Ro, you're a big traveler,

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Speaker 1: right so you I mean you did the Asian trip

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Speaker 1: with the guys this past year. You've been to London once.

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Speaker 1: You played here with Bears, right when was that?

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Speaker 2: That was back in twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So what's your impression of London.

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Speaker 3: Besides the British accents, which I think are pretty unique,

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Speaker 3: just lovely, you know, great people, very nice and they're

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Speaker 3: pretty hyped up about football, you know when it times

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Speaker 3: when it comes over here.

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Speaker 2: So I'm just excited to put on a show for him.

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Speaker 1: How many stamps do you have in your passport? I'm curious.

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Speaker 3: I will literally have to. I just got a new one,

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Speaker 3: so I will have to. Really I don't have this.

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Speaker 1: We're talking like plus ten, like over ten.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, at least got ten? Yeah okay, yeah, I at

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Speaker 2: least got ten.

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Speaker 4: This world traveler, I know, I like that. What is

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Speaker 4: how do you approach the week here? You know, like

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Speaker 4: it's kind of been a whirlwin four eight hours, Like

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Speaker 4: you play the Steelers, you get back at eight o'clock.

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Speaker 4: Then you're twelve hours later, you're basically back on a fly.

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Speaker 4: You get here late. Like, how do you approach this

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Speaker 4: week and all the jet lag and all that stuff

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Speaker 4: that goes into kind of moving abroad for a week.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you just have to understand that's part of the job.

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Speaker 3: And I just look at it as like, hey, first

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Speaker 3: that you come in, it's probably like the toughest day,

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Speaker 3: and then you kind of get acclimated after like a

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Speaker 3: day or two. I'm being over here, and I don't

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Speaker 3: think anything changed far as like there's still twenty four

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Speaker 3: hours in a day, so the preparation is still going

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Speaker 3: to be the same as far as like how you're

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Speaker 3: going to study your opponent in the foods. You know,

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Speaker 3: not as American food, but there's like pretty good food

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Speaker 3: regardless of where you go. So as long as you

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Speaker 3: get good food, hydration, watch what you need to watch

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Speaker 3: for as us studying your opponent, I don't think anything

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Speaker 3: else needs to be done.

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Speaker 1: Well, what was it scorpion that you ate in Asia?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, that was a scorpion man Marlow both eight

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Speaker 2: over and ages.

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Speaker 1: So I mean you're adventurous British food not quite.

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Speaker 4: That far out.

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Speaker 2: None of that over here.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, you see like a kind of guy like

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Speaker 4: you don't care. You like parking lot one am noon Thursday, Monday,

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Speaker 4: doesn't matter like you. That just kind of seems like

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Speaker 4: your attitude on I'll play wherever you tell me to play.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, Like I just think back to like as.

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Speaker 3: A kid, you know, I used to dream of being

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Speaker 3: in these moments and growing up in Georgia and whatnot.

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Speaker 3: Like we used to always make the joke just roll

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Speaker 3: the ball out. It could be paved man or whatever

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Speaker 3: the case may be. I'm down to play wherever.

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Speaker 1: That's awesome? Did you were the players like really happy?

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Speaker 1: Like do you like coming out early so you have

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Speaker 1: that time to acclimate? Like last time the Rivens came

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Speaker 1: out here, we came out landed Friday morning and it

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Speaker 1: was kind of like an in and out. It was

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Speaker 1: kind of a whirlwind. Do you like that you know

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Speaker 1: you have the full week out here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it gives you time enough to be

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Speaker 3: acclimated when you're out here, actually know, you know, get

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Speaker 3: to just feel more comfortable being able like Okay, I'm here,

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Speaker 3: I feel comfortable. I'm in Like an environment that I'm

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Speaker 3: I think it's definitely great as opposed to getting out

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Speaker 3: up playing two days later. So yeah, I'm excited to

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Speaker 3: be that we're out here a couple of days early.

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Speaker 1: Now coming off the Steelers game, how does that kind

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Speaker 1: of affect the vibe?

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Speaker 3: You know?

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Speaker 1: I mean we were saying earlier that, man, if we

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Speaker 1: won that game, the plane ride over would have been

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Speaker 1: a little bit nicer. But how do you how do

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Speaker 1: you go about shaking it off? What do you say

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Speaker 1: to teammates about that? You know, how does the team

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Speaker 1: of let slip away? You know, we could have won that.

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Speaker 2: Game, yeah, easily.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, man, And I think that's just the league and

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Speaker 3: you know, us as guys, you know, obviously we know

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Speaker 3: there was mistakes that was made out there. If they

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Speaker 3: you just have to look at it as like, you know,

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Speaker 3: off the negatives and then just have to flush it

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Speaker 3: and like just can't let the game beat you twice

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Speaker 3: at the end of the day and just have to

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Speaker 3: move on.

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Speaker 2: Don't get ready for.

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Speaker 3: Tennessee, because that's the biggest challenge at hand, because what

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Speaker 3: happened in Pittsburgh has happened and there's nothing we can

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Speaker 3: of the mindset of have flushit forget it right?

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Speaker 4: Does it help at all? Like when you have a

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Speaker 4: week like this, it kind of has a team building

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Speaker 4: you know, first you have a long flight. Then it's Tuesday.

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Speaker 4: We're talking to you on Tuesday's player off day. So

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Speaker 4: you guys have a chance just to kind of be

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Speaker 4: together and you know, spend more time with you I

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Speaker 4: mean you're living, you know, here with each other for

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Speaker 4: the week. Does that kind of from a team building

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Speaker 4: camaraderie standpoint help, especially like you're trying to come off

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Speaker 4: that game and flush that move on from it, but

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Speaker 4: that you guys are together, how does that help from

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Speaker 4: a team building standpoint?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, Just being able to spend countless hours over here

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Speaker 3: together when it's not just football, because like having today

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Speaker 3: play video games, play little board games and things of

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Speaker 3: that nature, as well as just chop it up, and

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Speaker 3: you just learn different things about your teammates who saw them.

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Speaker 3: You don't really get to spend much time with outside

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Speaker 4: Did you bring Connect four?

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Speaker 1: I was gonna.

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Speaker 2: I didn't bring Connect four.

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Speaker 3: I thought about it, but like I wasn't in the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I understand that what can you fit in the back.

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Speaker 1: Maybe Jenga could have Maybe?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure?

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Speaker 1: What other games are you into? Is it just Connect four?

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Speaker 3: I'm into like a lot of board games like Connect four,

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Speaker 3: jengas one of mine. I've done, Like Scrabble, uh okay,

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Speaker 3: like Monopoly. There's this horse game, but I can't even

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Speaker 1: The settler's of Gaitan that kind of level board game

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Speaker 1: or you're talking, Okay, I could see you being a

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Speaker 1: problem in Monopoly though. Yeah, I could see you being

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Speaker 4: I mean, we we all saw like the video that

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Speaker 4: and I loved it because, like you, you turned up

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Speaker 4: the heat like you did, like you, you were competitive.

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Speaker 1: That's just how you are.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you gotta be competitive. Can't be okay with losing

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Speaker 3: in anything in life. So I definitely don't want to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's awesome. One thing quin that really stands out

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Speaker 1: to me talking about your competitiveness is like how you

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Speaker 1: think Garrett, like I haven't really seen a guy like that,

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Speaker 1: you know, the right comparisons being made. Marshal Yanda was

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Speaker 1: Like how do you go about flipping that switch?

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Speaker 3: Honestly, I just think it just goes back to football,

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Speaker 3: you know, being playing football. I do that a couple

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Speaker 2: So it's just being myself the other days.

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Speaker 3: And then you know, when it's time to play ball,

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Speaker 3: definitely get you going thinking if another man is gonna

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Speaker 3: of the day, I'm not trying to have my plate wipe, so.

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Speaker 2: I want to wipe someone's play. That's how I look

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Speaker 1: Is that kind of like part of the reason that like,

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Speaker 1: you know, you also the way you talk like you're

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Speaker 1: a matter of fact, You're like I'm going to beat

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Speaker 1: you or you know, like does that kind of also

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Speaker 1: Like I better not let let him put me on

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Speaker 1: my back. You know, does that play into it a

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Speaker 1: little bit?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely?

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Speaker 3: If you definitely talk to talk, you better be able

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Speaker 3: the sky's the limit each and every game.

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Speaker 4: For me, how much is leadership like something that matters

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Speaker 4: to you? Because it seems to me that that is

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Speaker 4: part of what makes you a great player, is your

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Speaker 4: ability to motivate a defense in a team and really

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Speaker 4: be a tone setter. All the buzzwords like you wanted

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Speaker 4: to use to describe leadership, But is that something that

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Speaker 4: you focus on that you really care about. Kind of

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Speaker 4: give me some insight into how you approach leadership.

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Speaker 3: Honestly, I think it just happens, and it's like indirectly

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Speaker 3: in a sense, I feel like I'm just myself throughout

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Speaker 3: the day, and I feel like Gods just more so

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Speaker 3: where it's like, you know, I lead first and foremost

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Speaker 3: by example, and then you know, I say things when

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Speaker 3: got a nice choice of words to get guys going

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Speaker 1: Here, right And obviously, the tradition of inside linebackers here

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Speaker 3: Honestly, don't handling any type of way. I just feel

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Speaker 4: Could when the trade went down, could you have imagined

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Speaker 4: you have established yourself as a leader of this team.

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Speaker 4: I think the Ravens, I think this team is really good.

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Speaker 3: I'm just excited to be here like every single day,

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Speaker 3: You know, they prize themselves on physicality and things of

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Speaker 1: Yeah, violence every day.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, and so I think it's gonna be a great game,

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Speaker 3: I think it's going to be a great game to

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Speaker 1: Basically, we're bringing football football. We're not bringing football, We're

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Speaker 4: Thanks, I appreciate it. Man. Well, big thanks to Roquan

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Speaker 4: conversation with Roquan. I mean, this guy's great, you know,

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Speaker 4: as if we talked about it at the end, like

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Speaker 1: But I better than I thought even he would.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, like I would be lying if I expected it

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Speaker 4: you know. I was like, because I just didn't realize

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Speaker 4: Like that doesn't happen very often, well.

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Speaker 1: Just in any like all right, to just give fans

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Speaker 1: just it's hard for me to imagine the Ravens struggling

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's just gonna be a good defense

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Speaker 4: Yeah, like I'm not trying to be him. I'm not.

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Speaker 4: He's not gonna do the squirrel dance coming out of

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Speaker 4: the tunnel like he's gonna do his He's gonna play

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Speaker 4: the game and approach things the way that he does it.

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Speaker 4: He's not trying to be anyone else. He's like very authentic,

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Speaker 4: very genuine, and that's something that I think resonates. I

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Speaker 4: feel like in a similar way, like Lamar Jackson is

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Speaker 4: like a very genuine guy at all times, and I

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Speaker 4: think that like that being genuine attracts I don't know,

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Speaker 4: it makes people people like you. Like there's nothing worse

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Speaker 4: than someone who's like authentic. And Roquond is genuine on

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Speaker 4: camera off camera, and you saw that. You've seen that

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Speaker 4: since he got here, and I just think that it's

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Speaker 4: a huge reason why this defense is playing as well

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Speaker 4: as it is.

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Speaker 1: But he's also genuine when he says like I'm going

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Speaker 1: to embarrass you in front of your wife and kids

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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna smack you in the mouth, right like

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Speaker 1: you said, He's like, all right, if you don't go

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Speaker 1: do it now, you're phony. Yeah, So I don't want

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Speaker 1: to be a phony.

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Speaker 4: Well, like I mentioned his his pregame speech is like

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Speaker 4: I'm down there on the fields pregame and I can

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Speaker 4: have a chance to listen in on some of those,

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Speaker 4: and you know most of those aren't radio edit. Uh.

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Speaker 4: You know you'd have to have the mute whatever that

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Speaker 4: edit button on some of those. But I think that,

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Speaker 4: like I see the reaction from his teammates, and honestly,

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Speaker 4: sometimes like guys give a pregame speech and it's like

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Speaker 4: it happens in football, and guys have heard at the

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Speaker 4: NFL level million pregame speeches and like it's hard to

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Speaker 4: I think it's hard to deliver a pregame speech that

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Speaker 4: like really fires guys up. I just think it's it's difficult.

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Speaker 4: It's hard to hear it. You know, it's loud down there.

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Speaker 4: Like it's just it's just difficult.

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Speaker 1: What do you what new are you gonna say?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: But however, I'm not and I'm not lying about this,

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Speaker 4: Like I I've seen some from Roquan where guys like

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Speaker 4: are basically hitting each other afterwards, Like, man, that was awesome.

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Speaker 4: That has we fired up. Like they're there intently listening

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Speaker 4: on what he has to say and it's like it's different.

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Speaker 4: I think it's different, and it's it's been awesome to

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Speaker 4: see that, just like we keep saying a million times,

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Speaker 4: really glad this guy's in Baltimore.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. It's it's a lot of fun to

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Speaker 1: watch him play. And he's gonna he's gonna be hitting

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Speaker 1: h Derrick Henry versus Roquan Smith is gonna be That's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a sight to see. Yes to two big

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Speaker 1: physical dudes going at it, and uh that that is

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Speaker 1: gonna be fun. I think really what he said about

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Speaker 1: you know this Titans game, like we want to you know, A,

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Speaker 1: we know that their physical team. B. Yeah, he's heard

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Speaker 1: a little bit of the Ravens Titans history and see

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Speaker 1: we want to come to London and show them that

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Speaker 1: you know, this isn't finesse ball, We don't play faness ball.

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Speaker 1: This is what this is what real football looks like.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well that's just how he That's just how he operates.

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Speaker 4: You know, just think that that's like how he how

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Speaker 4: he approaches the game, how what he thinks about the game.

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Speaker 4: I just think that's that's Roquand for you.

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Speaker 1: Yep, yep.

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Speaker 4: So you know, in terms of in terms of this game,

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Speaker 4: I do actually think that like a lot of this

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Speaker 4: could be kind of I don't know, one and lost

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Speaker 4: based on the physical nature of the game. I think

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Speaker 4: that could in a lot of ways be the deciding factor,

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Speaker 4: like of of this game. I think that like the

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Speaker 4: Titans offense starts with Derrick Henry, and I like the

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Speaker 4: Raven's ability to stop the run. But like we've seen

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Speaker 4: when they've played them in recent years, like they've done

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Speaker 4: the decent job of bottling him up at times, and

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Speaker 4: then he can break free for a big game.

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Speaker 1: And you know, of course Derrick Henry does.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, like you can. Okay, it's like first three quarters,

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Speaker 4: got he's got whatever thirty five yards and all of

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Speaker 4: a sudden, you know, fourth quarters rips off a forty

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Speaker 4: yarder and a thirty yarder and much different story.

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Speaker 1: Well yeah, you know, it's not a sixty five yard

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Speaker 1: or some of the yarder.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So like I think so, so I think, uh,

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Speaker 4: I think that's where this game in a lot of

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Speaker 4: ways is probably gonna want to lost.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I would. I would definitely agree with that, and

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Speaker 1: especially you know, you come abroad and like can you

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Speaker 1: get your body right, can you get your head in

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Speaker 1: the right space and and bring that same level of intensity.

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Speaker 1: I think that brokewon Smith. I have a lot of

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Speaker 1: confidence that you know, obviously, the last time the Ravens

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Speaker 1: came to London they were not in a good head

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Speaker 1: space exactly right before the game. I have the utmost

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Speaker 1: confidence in Brokwan Smith that he's gonna have the guys

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Speaker 1: ready to roll. Huh.

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Speaker 4: So we got an email here, all right, So this

530
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Speaker 4: is from James Lauranz. You can always email us at a

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Speaker 4: little lounge at Ravens dot NFL dot net. We're here

532
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Speaker 4: in London and we did the film Breakdown, which which

533
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Speaker 4: dropped yesterday. One thing you didn't include in it is

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Speaker 4: the dog.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, dog, So James James says, who is

536
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Speaker 1: Ryan's British bow dog? The British is what James wants

537
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Speaker 1: to bull. Well, we'll have to find out in the

538
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Speaker 1: game obviously, but I do have to go back and

539
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Speaker 1: do the Steelers. Yeah, yeah, from the Steelers game. Goodness, Okay,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna.

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Speaker 4: Do the You're doing the pre Bulldog, the rokwand pre Bowl.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is not the British Bulldog of the Week.

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Speaker 1: This is just the Steelers Bulldog and then and then

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Speaker 1: next week we'll have to do the British Bulldog. Okay, okay, okay.

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Speaker 1: So I mean I think I got to give it

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Speaker 1: to Lamar, right, I mean Lamar was dog just a dog,

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I give it to him. You know, you

548
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Speaker 1: don't usually think of an offensive guy like that, but

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Speaker 1: he was dogging, he was.

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Speaker 4: He played a great game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, a great game.

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Speaker 4: It's unfortunated and the way that Ravens wanted. But Lamar

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Speaker 4: had a really he was sharp, dialed up. So we

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Speaker 4: mentioned this before, but I want to continue to make

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Speaker 4: sure that we hit this point. If you're here in London,

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Speaker 4: we want to see you, okay, we want to see

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Speaker 4: you in person. This is a chance. We don't do

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Speaker 4: this very often. This is really only the second time

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Speaker 4: ever that we have done a live recording studio audience

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Speaker 4: of the Lounge. And that is going to be Friday

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Speaker 4: night at the Counting House Pub in downtown London.

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Speaker 1: Be there at five o'clock.

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Speaker 4: Ray Lewis Rod Woodson are going to be joining us

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Speaker 4: again Counting House Pub, Downtown London, live episode of The

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Speaker 4: Lounge podcast.

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Speaker 1: Also, you know what my mission is for that? What's that?

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Speaker 1: My mission is to get more selfie requests than Ray Lewis.

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Speaker 4: I think that you may fail on that mission. I

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Speaker 4: think you may fail on that mission, but you know

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Speaker 4: it's important to dream bake. So best of luck in that.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: If our listeners are listening to this right now, help

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Speaker 1: me out.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you're gonna try to stack the deck there, maybe

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Speaker 4: you'll get more like before you got to collect them

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Speaker 4: before Ray gets here. Start and then also also yeah,

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Speaker 4: Ray could be in and out, so you know you

578
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Speaker 4: can just win longevity. You can get there early, you

579
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Speaker 4: can stay late, you can try to collect as many

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Speaker 4: as you as as possible. How this more beers right

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Speaker 4: there you go, that's within your control. So again we

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Speaker 4: want to see you there. And there's also another event

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Speaker 4: at the there's a flock party at the Counting House

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Speaker 4: Pub on Saturday night where Ray will be there again.

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Speaker 4: So if you want a full breakdown on all the

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Speaker 4: events that we have here, check out Baltimore Ravens dot com,

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Speaker 4: Slash London. Thank you so much for listening, and we'll

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Speaker 4: be back with you later this week with more from

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Speaker 4: here in London.