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Speaker 1: Here we come, Here we go. Welcome to money making Conversations.

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Speaker 1: That's called steps planning your steps of success. My next

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Speaker 1: and red bean candy. Yeah, just mad scientist. I like it.

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Speaker 1: I like that you called me the mad scientists. Who

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Speaker 1: yea all that? Okay, Now the coconut dressy, the coconut dressy,

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Speaker 1: tell me about that. So coconut dressing is uh, just

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Speaker 1: some coconut milk, a little bit of bird's eye chili,

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Speaker 1: dressing will cut through the bitterness of the color green.

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Speaker 1: So it gives it a really nice balance. So if

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Speaker 1: you really love. So another thing he caught my eye

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Speaker 1: I said that you should share with fortified people. So

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Speaker 1: really taking it. Oh my goodness, so so so. The

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Speaker 1: passion for you, right j J. Yeah, it's a big

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Speaker 1: should see you tomorrow. You will see me tomorrow night.

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Speaker 1: I swear to you you will see me tomorrow night. Um,

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Speaker 1: I will definitely want to try this colleague green salad.

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Speaker 1: I'm telling your front um, I haven't ready for you.

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Speaker 1: I will be and I just wanted to just don't

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Speaker 1: because that's that's that's just such a great level of

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Speaker 1: curiosity for me. I know it's gonna taste great. And

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Speaker 1: I had amazing time with this interview. Again, Uh, incredible chef.

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Speaker 1: He's a new TV show just debated on the TV

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Speaker 1: years now. Football is not his future. I'll talk about

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Speaker 1: What do you do? What do you do? You shape that?

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Speaker 1: What do you do with that opportunity? Well, he's doing

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Speaker 1: a lot with that opportunity. He's on the show today

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Speaker 1: to talk about his football career and his digital show,

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Speaker 1: low Key let So YouTube. It's a traveling business review show.

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Speaker 1: Please welcome to Money Making Conversations, Ryan Delaire. Yeah, are

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Speaker 1: you doing? Come on? Not Ryan, you can come to

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Speaker 1: your your TV host, man, come on your TV. Okay,

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Speaker 1: come on. I'm proud to be here on the Money

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Speaker 1: Making Conversations talking about getting the money and talking about

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Speaker 1: You got a TV show that you're creating that you're

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Speaker 1: traveling around the country. Tell us how that concept started

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Speaker 1: and tell us um the first tell us how the

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Speaker 1: concept started. It's called low Key Lit. Yeah. So with

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Speaker 1: low Key Lit, I came up with the concept. I

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Speaker 1: basically was traveling, you know, from different places, you know,

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Speaker 1: from state to state. My um, I think second year

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Speaker 1: after the season with my agent, you know, I went

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Speaker 1: to the When did I go to I went to

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl in Houston. I had a couple of

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Speaker 1: events had to do there with him, and then I

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Speaker 1: had I went to the All Star Game that year.

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Speaker 1: Then I traveled to Miami. Says I traveled to Miami.

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Speaker 1: So then, thinking back to when I was doing that,

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Speaker 1: I was thinking, like, if I'm traveling to all these

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Speaker 1: different places, I should try to monetize it or you know,

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Speaker 1: do something and create a following. Because I felt like

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Speaker 1: I was going to all these like you know, I

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Speaker 1: wanted to know what were the best places to eat

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Speaker 1: when I was in those locations. So I came up

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Speaker 1: with the concept of low Key Lit because I wanted

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Speaker 1: to be the guy that everybody can reach out to

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Speaker 1: if they wanted to know what place to eat in

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Speaker 1: a certain city. So I basically came up with the

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Speaker 1: go to the places that are literally low key and

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Speaker 1: they're lit. Like places are like, you know, not many

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Speaker 1: people would know about. You know, they're like my pop shops,

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Speaker 1: but like you know, just like everyone else, you know,

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Speaker 1: Mama pop shops have like some of the best flavors

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Speaker 1: you know I went to a place. Yeah, I went

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Speaker 1: to a place in Atlanta one time, and I had

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Speaker 1: to put them on my show called Mr. Everything. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's a really nice place to have like you know,

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Speaker 1: steam veggies. Everything was grilled over rice. You know, steam

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Speaker 1: veggies was like a certain meat, whether it's like salmon, um, chicken,

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Speaker 1: So I had to put them on the show. That

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Speaker 1: was one of my first episodes when I was growing.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I just love the fact that I

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Speaker 1: can go to these hidden gems and show my perspective

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Speaker 1: of it from my athletes perspective, and I would just

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Speaker 1: put a you know, plenty of my different teammates on

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Speaker 1: there as well. Now he's just there for the athletes perspective. See,

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Speaker 1: I'm not an athlete. I was just a regular eater now,

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Speaker 1: you know. So with that being said, what what what

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Speaker 1: are the you said? The criteria basically is these hidden jams,

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Speaker 1: you know, low profile, but you know everybody knows somebody

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Speaker 1: you're dine and now I see a camera. Is a

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Speaker 1: camera crew follow you around us? The actual camera is

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Speaker 1: it a iPad? Is it a your iPhone? Well? How

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Speaker 1: are you? How is this show being shot? So it's

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Speaker 1: being shot with um a camera. We we shot with

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Speaker 1: And you know, I don't have like two cameraman with me,

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Speaker 1: And basically I would and I would basically go to

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Speaker 1: And I don't have it everything within contract. I would

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Speaker 1: do a press release just a you know, just for

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Speaker 1: legal purposes. Um. Yeah, you don't want to go in

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Speaker 1: there with no kind of dination right there? You know

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Speaker 1: what I mean? Everything is, yeah, exactly. You know you

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Speaker 1: want to start tapping on the show. Excuse me, sir, sir,

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Speaker 1: sir sir with all these cameras, who let you all

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Speaker 1: in here my show? So you got no yeah, like

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Speaker 1: you definitely wanted to everything to be business business oriented.

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Speaker 1: So with that, I basically I have my two camera man,

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Speaker 1: and we just go in and we shoot. Here here's

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Speaker 1: my thoughts. Because I saw the I saw the cookie visit,

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Speaker 1: You're you're chrismatic, you look good, you feel the camera,

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Speaker 1: I would do it more like, uh like an iPhone style,

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Speaker 1: you just invite them into the world. I just just

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Speaker 1: but I love you and I want to give you

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Speaker 1: a little bit advice. You can take it or you can,

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Speaker 1: like uh later on let it marinate. But if you

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Speaker 1: would bring down the production level and make it more

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Speaker 1: like uh like like your your point of view shot man,

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Speaker 1: I dude, I would watch that. And I said I

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Speaker 1: won't watching now, but that's just a thought and I

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Speaker 1: wanted to hear. I want to just talk a little

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Speaker 1: production back and forth with you, because you're the executive

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Speaker 1: when I say, hey, you know, let's let's let's bring

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Speaker 1: and you you just happen to be eating there and

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Speaker 1: it just popped off like that. Yeah. Yeah, I basically,

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Speaker 1: um I did. I did a point of view basically

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Speaker 1: like a blog. Setting did that, but I merely did

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Speaker 1: that for when I was traveling, So I yeah, I

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Speaker 1: did that. So I have like two different productions. I

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Speaker 1: have like the low key lit like when I actually

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Speaker 1: have a production like it's an episode, and I have

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Speaker 1: local lit vlogs. So when I did like the local

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Speaker 1: different things while I was out there that people probably

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Speaker 1: never knew I was out there in Colombia. And I

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Speaker 1: did like Paraglider, I did a TV writing and I

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Speaker 1: South Africa last year as well, and I just show

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Speaker 1: what it was like to be m hmm, yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: that's some fun stuff. And so but no, but no

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Speaker 1: camera crew was falling around. You just kind of like

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Speaker 1: doing it yourself yeah, I have my my camera had

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Speaker 1: a go pro and I had my phone. That's how

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Speaker 1: I just yeah, and I just wanted to show raw

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Speaker 1: footage of how everything is, how everything is you know,

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Speaker 1: over there. So that was really good. But like when

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Speaker 1: I usually do my traveling, I usually try to blog that.

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Speaker 1: But like for the production of the of the show,

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Speaker 1: when I'm you know, at the restaurant, I probably did

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Speaker 1: one episode and I was just blogging and I had

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Speaker 1: the camera to interview on me. But majority of the time,

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Speaker 1: I'm make it, you know, a quality. I'm making it

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Speaker 1: like a pretty good quality episode. Well, I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: it's not I'm just saying that what I'm asking you

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Speaker 1: to do is not a quality. It's just it's just

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Speaker 1: that when you with low key, low key lit, you

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Speaker 1: know that it's a it's really a cool concept and

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Speaker 1: it's from your point of view. And I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: the camera has to be on you. You know, you

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Speaker 1: can turn when you I'm just telling you, is that

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Speaker 1: advising you? Because like I said, I love your idea.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't be pitching your idea, wouldn't have you on

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Speaker 1: the show. I wanted to bring on the show just

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Speaker 1: to talk to you and let people know that if

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Speaker 1: you have a dream, you can do it yourself. And

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Speaker 1: that's what he's doing. You know, he's taking it upon himself.

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Speaker 1: He has a time, and he's doing it himself, and

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Speaker 1: he's putting it on YouTube. So where can people find

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Speaker 1: episodes of your show? So all you have to do

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Speaker 1: is to go to low Key lit. It's um. All

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Speaker 1: you have to do is type in low key let

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Speaker 1: and low key is one word, and let it is

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Speaker 1: a separate word, and type that into YouTube and then

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Speaker 1: you can see the episodes. I have about like probably

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Speaker 1: eight or ten episodes on there where you can see,

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Speaker 1: or you can just go to my Instagram and I

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Speaker 1: when I went to a coffee shop that had creeps,

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Speaker 1: things there. So you know, if you had that link,

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Speaker 1: you'll see all my episodes absolutely so so far. What's

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Speaker 1: your favorite restaurant you've been talk been too so far

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Speaker 1: just in this country business. A restaurant that you that

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Speaker 1: you feature so far, not feature that just experienced they

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Speaker 1: want to go back. I mean I just moved to Houston. Okay,

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Speaker 1: now you know from Houston that Ryan alright, now you're

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Speaker 1: my counting now Okay, Yeah, I went to Houston and

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Speaker 1: like one of my favorite spats I was here was

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Speaker 1: called crab Kings. I know, Craft Kings, seventeen thousand views.

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Speaker 1: I saw that episode that you had on the seventeen

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Speaker 1: thousand views. Yeah, that that restaurant was at a high level.

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Speaker 1: The food, the quality, you know, the how they were

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Speaker 1: It's just as important. That's how good the food is.

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Speaker 1: To some people forget that. But the way everything was

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Speaker 1: orchestrated over there was at a high level. So that

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Speaker 1: was one of my favorite favorite restaurants. Well, let me

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Speaker 1: tell you something. My nephew he has a Big six Barbecue.

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Speaker 1: It's on Highway six. I kid you, not the best

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Speaker 1: But these are these hidden gyms that you're talking about.

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Speaker 1: But if you're in Houston, I want to talk to

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Speaker 1: am Miami. Please welcome to money making conversations to kill spikes,

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Speaker 1: my man or that voice, that voice, making money with

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Speaker 1: that comes with it. Well, let me talk about it.

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Speaker 1: I got your book here. It's uh, it's called the Mask.

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Speaker 1: Now behind the Mask. First of all, you are helm

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Speaker 1: mask me something else? Yeah, it was I came up

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Speaker 1: you know what, I want to go behind the mask.

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Speaker 1: That's the reason why I titled my book behind the Mask.

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Speaker 1: Behind the Mask because I wanted to go behind the

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Speaker 1: mask to figure out what makes you tick, what makes

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Speaker 1: you so different. So let's talk about this book, Man

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Speaker 1: the Mask. Uh. First of all, I'm a football nut,

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Speaker 1: you know, and in high school, junior high, they's called

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Speaker 1: me black high sale. And so when I see you

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Speaker 1: see Chuck ben Derrick, that's see to have that name

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Speaker 1: right there, and Dick La Bolt name in here right there.

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Speaker 1: That's that's some deep that's some legendary names right there.

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Speaker 1: And then you got Bobby Belle, Kansas City chief who

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Speaker 1: him and Willing and there said both of them boys,

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Speaker 1: simple tell you something important. This book is from an

857
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Speaker 1: African Americans perspective because she back in the day, you

858
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Speaker 1: knew that white players were only reserved for certain positions.

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Speaker 1: You know, middle linebacker you had to be white, center

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Speaker 1: you had to be white, and quarterback he had to

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Speaker 1: be quiet. So Willing there was my first, I'm gonna

862
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Speaker 1: tell you my first hero because he played that position.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. So, no, the importance of

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Speaker 1: this book when you start, when you start lining up everybody,

865
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Speaker 1: Come On, London, Fletcher Washington, Reds Kids, Kevin Green, Carolina Path,

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871
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Speaker 1: the eyes. And then you, why did you do this

872
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Speaker 1: book and why did you focus on linebackers? I focused

873
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874
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Speaker 1: had no intentions of having these other cast members on,

875
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Speaker 1: these other great men, great leaders. But the more I

876
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Speaker 1: thought about it, and the more I saw a gap.

877
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Speaker 1: I think in anything that you do, money making conversations,

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880
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881
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Speaker 1: stories told, and some of their stories being told, it

882
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Speaker 1: was either either diluted or it was not told to

883
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Speaker 1: the extent with the passion that it deserved. And so

884
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885
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Speaker 1: Not only will I share my story, I'm gonna go

886
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Speaker 1: around an interview every guy, and every linebacker comes from

887
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Speaker 1: a different decade, you talked about Willie Lanier knowing the

888
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Speaker 1: history of the game. This is not just a football book.

889
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Speaker 1: It's a book about leadership. It's a book about perseverance,

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892
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893
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894
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Speaker 1: you said, you know what, I am going to sacrifice

895
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896
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Speaker 1: And I went, I visited every guy for a two

897
00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:47,800
Speaker 1: year time period, spent the day with them, and I

898
00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:51,520
Speaker 1: got their story of their defining moment. And so when

899
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Speaker 1: you look through the book and you read the stories,

900
00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:57,160
Speaker 1: the stories drives the images, and the images drives the story.

901
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902
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Speaker 1: me to be able to not only share their story,

903
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Speaker 1: but allow them to be the author of their own autobiography. Well,

904
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Speaker 1: I think it's important that the story is important. Like

905
00:49:08,239 --> 00:49:10,520
Speaker 1: I was telling you, how each one of these stories

906
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Speaker 1: affected me or still affect me because of the fact

907
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Speaker 1: that you know, when you when you're going through life

908
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909
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Speaker 1: they they can see social media. They see kids are

910
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Speaker 1: seeing people and they think that athletes had this or

911
00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:27,680
Speaker 1: this writer of passage all their lives, you know. And

912
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Speaker 1: sometimes and then there's certain things that happened. They check it.

913
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Speaker 1: You know, you're still the athlete, okay. And and when

914
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Speaker 1: I when I look at what you're doing with this book,

915
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Speaker 1: like you said, as different errors, when I when I

916
00:49:39,120 --> 00:49:42,160
Speaker 1: see they're Brooks, such a humble, humble person, you know

917
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And and the and the great Harry

918
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Speaker 1: Carston played with LT and the Giants, with those those

919
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:52,440
Speaker 1: great giant teams and fletchers small compact or fearsome force.

920
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:55,800
Speaker 1: When you look at all these linebackers, these great linebackers,

921
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Speaker 1: what do you fall athletically like I took a little

922
00:49:59,239 --> 00:50:02,759
Speaker 1: bit of this. I I symbolize this type of poissana

923
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Speaker 1: or this type of physicality when you start line up

924
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Speaker 1: these linebackers. When I look at every guy to me,

925
00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:11,440
Speaker 1: I split it down the middle one side, It's like

926
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Speaker 1: what traits do I see what they have? And how

927
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Speaker 1: can I incorporate that until my game? And you know,

928
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Speaker 1: I look at Chuck bay Nary. He was the last

929
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Speaker 1: of the sixty minute men, meaning he played both ways,

930
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Speaker 1: offense and the defensive side. Concrete Charlie was his nickname.

931
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Speaker 1: So for me, I wanted to be hard like Concrete Charlie.

932
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Speaker 1: You know, when I think about Mike Singletary, nobody ever

933
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Speaker 1: can recreate or try to. You know, well, they say,

934
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Speaker 1: uh impersonation is the best form of flattery, But Mike

935
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Speaker 1: sing for me, it took me to get like fierce

936
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Speaker 1: mad to even come close to his eyes. And I

937
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Speaker 1: still didn't accomplish that. But the intimidation factor of Mike

938
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Speaker 1: Singletary is what I really appreciated. Um I look at

939
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Speaker 1: Derrick Brooks. You know, a lot of people don't know,

940
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Speaker 1: but Derrick Brooks, how you say humble, reserve guy, but

941
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Speaker 1: his faith jumps out more than anything. And he didn't

942
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Speaker 1: care about necessarily football sports itself, but his family. His

943
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Speaker 1: faith was so strong that it led him to the

944
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Speaker 1: game of football, and that would really propel him to

945
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Speaker 1: be the Hall of Fame of that he is today.

946
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Speaker 1: So from all of those attributes that these guys had,

947
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Speaker 1: I kind of picked a little bit from everybody, and

948
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Speaker 1: you know, and and and it was very fun to

949
00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:35,680
Speaker 1: hear this story. I agree because I I the humbleness

950
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Speaker 1: that tone, Derrick Brookish. You know what I'm saying. I've

951
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Speaker 1: watched you play the physicality, that the sense of a center,

952
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Speaker 1: uh secretary all the way. But like I said, those

953
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Speaker 1: those magical eyes he had, you can't that was that

954
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Speaker 1: was God. Their lives with God given. You can't replace

955
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Speaker 1: those eyes. So I know we had a few minutes left.

956
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Speaker 1: I want to talk about this next book. You're gonna

957
00:51:56,280 --> 00:51:58,840
Speaker 1: write about these running backs right now. We're talking about

958
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Speaker 1: the Mass behind the Mask and the Linebacker edition. Now

959
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Speaker 1: you're gonna have a running back edition coming out. Running

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Speaker 1: Back Edition right now, here's my here's my all time

961
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Speaker 1: m Smith ad in it now. Eric Dickinson ain't in it. Man,

962
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Speaker 1: I'm messing up. I'm just thought thought kicking people to

963
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Speaker 1: the curve. You know. You know he's gotta start with

964
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Speaker 1: Jim Brown. They played listen, totally agreed. Twelve games. They're

965
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Speaker 1: they're doing twelve games back, then all of yours. He

966
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Speaker 1: ran up from just twelve games health games. Then I

967
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Speaker 1: gotta go to Barry Sanders. M hm m hmm. I'm

968
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Speaker 1: in the same kitchen with you, coach self from in

969
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Speaker 1: the same thing, and I know you can cook too.

970
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Speaker 1: I'm in the same kitching with you. Then I gotta

971
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Speaker 1: finish up with who I thought was the greatest physical

972
00:52:55,400 --> 00:53:01,760
Speaker 1: running back that matched speed simultaneously, the Tyler Roves. Earl Campbell.

973
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Speaker 1: Listen love Earl Campbell one of the first players I

974
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Speaker 1: saw as a little bit as a youngster. I thought

975
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Speaker 1: he played lineback. That's how hard he played the game,

976
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Speaker 1: alongside Walter Payton. Come weakness, I know, I know, I

977
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Speaker 1: know it's with that, but I was I was just

978
00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:25,840
Speaker 1: talking about these are three different players. What I'm saying,

979
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Speaker 1: and Walter Payton, Walter Payton, i'ma tell you some Walter Payton,

980
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Speaker 1: uh gifted. But I wasn't never afraid of Walter Payton.

981
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Speaker 1: I'll just tell you the truth. I was never afraid

982
00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:40,719
Speaker 1: of him. Earl Campbell, come on now, Errol Campbell was

983
00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:43,760
Speaker 1: was was a beast. Earl Campbell was one eight hundred.

984
00:53:43,880 --> 00:53:46,800
Speaker 1: Look you up, sir, and he will step through your chest.

985
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Speaker 1: Embarrys Sanders, Hello, goodbye. I got a great story about

986
00:53:51,480 --> 00:53:54,359
Speaker 1: Barry Sanders. When we come back. Oh man, we were

987
00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:56,360
Speaker 1: We're done. Yeah, man, we gotta wrap up here, we

988
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989
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Speaker 1: gotta bring you back. Yeah, you gotta here's deal. Here's deal,

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Speaker 1: wanna be because I got some things that I'm doing

998
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999
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