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Speaker 1: Welcome you into another episode of the Best Podcast Available

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Speaker 1: on Jason Gibbs live from the Cross Country Mortgage Campus

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Speaker 1: here in Borea. Summer vacation has started for the bulk

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Speaker 1: of the players, that is, unless you are a rookie

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Speaker 1: or a first year player, in which case you are

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Speaker 1: still here this week. But then everyone goes away on

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Speaker 1: the football side for a good three or four weeks.

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Speaker 1: Everybody comes back ready to go after the fourth of July,

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Speaker 1: and the twenty twenty three season will officially be upon

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Speaker 1: us with training camp at the Greenbrier to kick things

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Speaker 1: off a little over a month from right now. But

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Speaker 1: the good news is we're able to sit down with

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Speaker 1: a number of players and you'll hear these interviews coming

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Speaker 1: up over the course of the next few weeks. As

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Speaker 1: we close out the off season portion of the Best

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Speaker 1: Podcast Available. Today, we feature our new defensive end, Obo Okoronkwo,

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Speaker 1: a great free agent pickup here for this football team.

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Speaker 1: A guy that's got a lot of potential and adds

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Speaker 1: a lot of depth to now a very strong defensive

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Speaker 1: end room. Obo born in nineteen ninety five. I was

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Speaker 1: graduating high school in ninety five, so I feel a

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Speaker 1: little old in that situation. He's twenty eight years old,

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Speaker 1: six ' to one, two hundred and fifty three pounds,

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Speaker 1: went to the University of Oklahoma. I think what a

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Speaker 1: lot of people don't realize is he has been in

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Speaker 1: the league now for five years. Drafted in twenty eighteen

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Speaker 1: by the Rams. In two thousand and seventeen, he was

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Speaker 1: the Big twelve Defensive Player of the Year as a senior.

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Speaker 1: So this is a gentleman that's racked up some impressive accolades.

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Speaker 1: Spent four years with the Los Angeles Rams, went to

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Speaker 1: two Super Bowls, won one of them. So he does

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Speaker 1: something that this team definitely can play off of and

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Speaker 1: use as they go into the twenty twenty three season.

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Speaker 1: After his stint with the Rams, he then went on

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Speaker 1: to the Houston Texans. One year with the Texans, started

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Speaker 1: of it career highs in sacks, tackles, tackles for a loss,

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Speaker 1: five sacks in eight games the final eight games of

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Speaker 1: the regular season last year, and that got him a

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Speaker 1: new three year contract with the Cleveland Browns. And this

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Speaker 1: is a guy that's got a lot of potential. A

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Speaker 1: lot of the NFL media who cover the league from

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Speaker 1: a higher level very impressed with his signing. It was

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Speaker 1: one of the first signings for the Cleveland Browns. I

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Speaker 1: had a chance to sit down with Obo on Karanquo

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Speaker 1: to talk about why the Cleveland Browns, his relationship with

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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson, and also his upbringing and how he got

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Speaker 1: to the point where he is today, his expectations as

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Speaker 1: well for the twenty twenty three season. Have a listen

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Speaker 1: the best podcast available. Happy to be joined by one

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Speaker 1: of the new members of your Cleveland Browns here in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, Obo Okoronkwo and Obo Welcome to Cleveland.

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Speaker 1: Weather pretty nice right now? Are you liking it? I'm

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Speaker 2: A lot of the city's really cool, very welcoming.

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Speaker 3: What do you like about it so far? The people

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Speaker 1: What about food wise, anything that you're into here in

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Speaker 3: Food wise, I've been to Marble Room. I had a

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Speaker 1: A popular place here with this football team.

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Speaker 2: Yea, yeah, that's pretty good. I'm a fan, all right.

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Speaker 2: What cut?

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Speaker 1: Is there a certain kind of steak? If you're going

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Speaker 1: So you like Cleveland not as hot maybe as Houston

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Speaker 3: I was told it was hot and humid here, and

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Speaker 1: You were born in Gainesville, Florida. When'd you end up

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Speaker 1: how'd you end up in Houston, Texas? When'd you end up?

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Speaker 3: I just I skateboarded a little bit. Really, yeah, skateboard

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Speaker 1: Jeff McDaniel from our content production team still does that,

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Speaker 1: Baco does it?

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Speaker 1: Is there a favorite memory that you have from your

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Speaker 3: I think favorite memory we beat Ohio State at Ohio State,

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Speaker 1: You guys had a heck of a squad.

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Speaker 1: We's had some good, good teams in those years. What

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Speaker 1: You get to the National Football League and things start off.

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Speaker 1: You're in Los Angeles, you're with the Rams. It ends

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Speaker 1: up with the Super Bowl. Uh, what was your experience

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Speaker 2: Okay, so my rookie year we went to the Super

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Speaker 3: So going back and winning one definitely felt a lot better. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: It was so cool, Like we felt like we were

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Speaker 1: So you did go your rookie year and fell shorts

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Speaker 2: Oh, it was super difficult.

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Speaker 3: I believe that next year, we didn't make the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: Talking with Obo o'caraquo, our new defensive end here on

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty three Cleveland Browns. You win a super

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Speaker 1: Bowl and what was the biggest what was the best

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Speaker 3: He got on his he got on the ones and

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Speaker 1: All right, all right, all right, fast forward now a

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Speaker 3: I just saw the young talent on this team, you know,

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Speaker 3: I just saw a great opportunity, you know, also being

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Speaker 2: You know, it just was too too good of an

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Speaker 1: What's it been like so far with Miles I know

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Speaker 1: but your interactions with him.

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Speaker 2: Oh, he's a super cool guy.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: He he loves a game. He's probably somewhere training right now.

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Speaker 3: You know, the guy, he's a frequent nature. You know,

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Speaker 3: he can do a lot of stuff that I'll never

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Speaker 3: You know I say that I don't know, but me,

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Speaker 3: I'm just really I'm really excited to play for a

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Speaker 2: You know, he's a really cool dude. Ready to learn

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Speaker 1: What about Jim Schwartz what stands out so far through

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Speaker 3: His energy, you know, he's the same guy every day.

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Speaker 3: He loves the game. He wants us to play with

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Speaker 2: That's definitely one of my goals.

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Speaker 3: I don't want him to know that yet, but when

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Speaker 3: I'm like, when it's not a fifty four, I do

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Speaker 2: So I like that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's good. It's good to have that motivation. So

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Speaker 3: So I have my short term goals is just to

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: My my long term goals I mean, we all play

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Speaker 1: So will you do anything fun? Any plans to get

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Speaker 3: I might get away a little bit, but for the

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Speaker 3: most part, I'll be with my pastors. Guy, We'll we'll

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Speaker 2: I like that.

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Speaker 1: Indeed, anything else that we can. What else do you

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Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I'm I think was.

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Speaker 1: It Jerome had a Twitch account. Yeah, he was big.

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Speaker 2: I mean I do photography as well. I do.

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Speaker 3: I do a lot of photography. I actually like get

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Speaker 1: I hear a rumor that you might be doing some

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Speaker 2: Hey man, don't listen to every room.

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Speaker 1: I like starting rumors.

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Speaker 2: So I got that.

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Speaker 3: I guess we'll see you know. But yeah, I enjoy

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Speaker 2: It's right now.

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Speaker 1: Obo Okoronko, I appreciate the time, wish you all the

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Speaker 2: Thank you man.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to Obo Okarankuo for his time. Wishing him all

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Speaker 1: Miles Obo O o'caranquo is going to have a big

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Speaker 1: The expectations for both of those guys are going to

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Speaker 1: to keep guys fresh, Obo in for a big year

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Speaker 1: potentially for your Cleveland Browns. That's going to do it

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