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Speaker 1: Hey guys, Chris Avery with you on the Chargers podcast network,

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Speaker 1: and this is the Backstage Chargers podcast presented by your

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Speaker 1: Southern California Toyota Dealers. Another episode of Mike and Ike

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Speaker 1: headed your way. This week kicker Michael Badgeley and defensive

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Speaker 1: end Isaac Richell. They sat down with fullback Derek Watt

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Speaker 1: to learn about his football journey starting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Speaker 1: So let's get right to it. Here's Mike and Ike

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Speaker 1: with Derek Watt. Welcome back to the Mike and Ike Show.

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Speaker 1: And no not the candy. It's a show with Michael

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Speaker 1: Badgley and Isaac Rochell. We bring people on and we

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Speaker 1: hear their story from their perspective, and you can catch

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Speaker 1: us on YouTube under the Mike and Ike Show. You

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Speaker 1: can catch us at on the iTunes podcast Mike and

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Speaker 1: Ike Show. And today we have wonderful Eric Watt. Now, Isaac,

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Speaker 1: letting me introduce this guy. He comes out of Peewaukee, Wisconsin.

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Speaker 1: He plays fullback. He is a gladiator out there, number

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Speaker 1: thirty four for the Los Angeles Chargers. Derek what, Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the show. Thank you boys, thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: I just want to point out to all the listeners

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Speaker 1: and viewers. We are in Derek's house right now. I

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Speaker 1: mean we'll call him DJ for the rest of the

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Speaker 1: podcast because that's also another version, isn't that. But we're

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Speaker 1: in Derek's house slash DJ, and we've got babies in

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Speaker 1: the background, We've got wives making cookies, we've got our

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Speaker 1: in house producer. Here is wives plural? There? Yeah that

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Speaker 1: was a plural. Oh no, that's I mean, I guess

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Speaker 1: it didn't come across a plural. But yeah, Okay, what

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Speaker 1: Isaac's trying to get out is we are at Derek's

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Speaker 1: the Mike and Ike podcast. I guess that would be

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Speaker 1: the point. Yes, yeah, and thank you Wat for allowing

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Speaker 1: us to come in here. You've been super patient with us.

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Speaker 1: But I mean, as we always start this off, I

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Speaker 1: two year old Watt when you first start playing hockey.

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Speaker 1: Two year old Watt. Yes, Uh, hockey was our first

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Speaker 1: sport that we really got into. Uh. That's just for

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Speaker 1: I got Hockey's expensive, yeah, but I got a lot

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Speaker 1: of travel. Yeah. One question about hockey. Do you think

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Speaker 1: I'm not better than you at you, but I am

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Speaker 1: better hockey than You're not a better badge than badge.

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Speaker 1: Would you skate circles around him? Because that's been a reference.

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Speaker 1: This is what I'm saying. Badge has told me so

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Speaker 1: that's all I'm hearing right now. You're it's not fair.

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Speaker 1: here's part two of Mike and Ike with Derek Watton

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Speaker 1: on the Backstage Chargers podcast, presented by Your Southern California

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Speaker 1: Toyota dealers. Um, so you're you were growing up where

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Speaker 1: you do everything in high school at let me read

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Speaker 1: this from his high school football. So, Derek, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: high school football, you were the kick returner, the kicker, punter,

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Speaker 1: punt returner, linebacker, and running back. It's correct, and to continue,

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Speaker 1: he never left the fields. Elected for first team All

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Speaker 1: State for offense and defense. I did never leave the field.

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Speaker 1: in the broadcast, they had said that he does it all.

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