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Speaker 1: Nicole Hutchison and bradshan.

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Speaker 2: And welcome everybody to the Cowboys. Thank you very much

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Speaker 2: have come to Sidecars Social after a another difficult game.

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Speaker 3: How you doing?

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Speaker 2: And especially grateful after a tough game and another all

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Speaker 2: night flight to have linebacker Maris Leofoul join us. Thank

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Speaker 2: you so much for popping out with you and doing this.

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Speaker 2: Really appreciate it. Okay, Nicole, you don't travel well. You're

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Speaker 2: laughing already.

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Speaker 4: I know.

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Speaker 5: I'm sad. I'm sorry travel with you all, but.

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Speaker 2: You still have postgame responsibilities.

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So when the game is late, what time do

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Speaker 6: Like last night, I got to finish probably around like

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Speaker 6: one thirty because I had to also produce flashback this

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Speaker 5: So yeah, that was pretty much it.

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Speaker 2: Maris. What time did you We landed at four? Is

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I think we're on four o'clock.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we landed about four. What time did you get

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Speaker 3: I was probably sleeping around five five o'clock.

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Speaker 2: How after did you sleep on a plane.

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Speaker 3: I don't sleep well on planes.

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Speaker 2: You don't know. So most players, it takes time to

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Speaker 2: wind down win or lose after a game, right? Are

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Speaker 2: Yeah, your mind is racing and yeah, okay, still got

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Speaker 2: So now now you're home about four thirty, yep, just

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Speaker 2: about then, and you got to sleep in half an hour.

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Speaker 3: It might have been like five thirty.

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Speaker 2: was a very long night for anyone with the Cowboys

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Speaker 2: traveling party and a difficult night. And everyone knows, excuse me,

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Speaker 2: our practices. We will discuss the game briefly, and then

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Speaker 2: this is a great opportunity for you to get to

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Speaker 2: know one of the real bright lights of the Cowboys future, Marrisley.

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Speaker 2: If I was going to be a really outstanding player

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Speaker 2: through your Notre Dame years and you had one year

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Speaker 3: It was an ankle.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, But the worst season that Notre Dame had while

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Speaker 2: you were there was nine and four, Yes, is that right?

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Speaker 2: So that's a program with a lot of expectations. That's

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was pretty disappointing. We have a high standard

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Speaker 5: What originally attracted you to.

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Speaker 3: Notre Dame it was definitely wasn't the weather, huh, But

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Speaker 2: So we'll come back to that because there's a lot

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Speaker 2: So when you play at a program like Notre Dame

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I would. I would definitely think so. I feel

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Speaker 3: It's really just staying grounded. A lot of what I

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Speaker 2: And as a rookie, there's under any circumstances, it's a

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Is living in the present. We talk about that

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Speaker 6: Is there something that you kind of have to remind

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Speaker 3: Yeah? For me, it's it's always going back to gratitude.

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Speaker 3: There's my mindset is that there's way more things to

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Speaker 2: Really And at the same time, all of you who

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Speaker 2: So in a game like last night wasn't exactly like

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Speaker 6: Well, there's some positives that you amongst the other linebackers

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Speaker 5: You don't have to get two into detail, not.

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Speaker 5: Maybe a locker room talking, I don't know, it wasn't there.

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Speaker 3: So it wasn't much talk after quiet, quiet locker room. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And so what will your day off be like

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Speaker 3: What are you doing your day off tomorrow? Usually try

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Speaker 3: And obviously I'll look at some film on the team

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Speaker 3: we're playing next week this week, and that's kind of

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Speaker 2: I was just gonna say it would be a good

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Speaker 2: a great opportunity we have this evening. Speaking of gratitude,

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Speaker 2: we are so grateful for everyone to get to know Marisley.

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Speaker 2: If I very happy marrited with with us this evening.

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Speaker 6: Alm Aris, you had mentioned that the spotlight at Notre

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Speaker 3: Yeah? For me, I mean, the Cowboys are just the

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Speaker 6: Has it been challenging having to adjust to that top

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Speaker 3: Uh No, I don't think so, yeah.

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Speaker 3: Favorite part definitely just seeing the facilities. That was really cool.

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Speaker 2: How how did you go about acquainting yourself with the

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Speaker 3: Could you could you repeat that?

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Speaker 6: Were some of your teammates or coaches who were kind

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Speaker 3: Like everyone everywhere? Yeah, it's really everyone.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know they had players before Akman and Irvan.

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Speaker 2: How how many sports did you play in high school?

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Speaker 3: I played football, ran track and field, and I also

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Speaker 3: I think a lot of it was just watching my

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Speaker 2: Do you know anything about Mark two and I, yes.

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Speaker 3: I do. I do know a little bit, but not

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Speaker 3: But I'm pretty sure he went to my high school. Really,

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Speaker 2: Were the Polynesian Player of the Year in high school?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? We we We played against each other when he

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Speaker 2: Did you have to tackle him? No?

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Speaker 5: He grew up in Utah and you grew up in Hawaii.

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Speaker 6: Did y'all keep in contact often when you guys grew

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Speaker 6: What were those conversations like, Like, I mean, I'm sure

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Speaker 6: Something that I got a chance to ask you last

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Speaker 5: You have so far.

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Speaker 6: Can you just tell everybody else what you had mentioned

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Speaker 3: really he set the bar pretty high to Nicola, So

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Speaker 3: thanks Pooka for that. But uh, yeah, no, I definitely

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Speaker 2: All Right, let's get let's go back and get you

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Speaker 2: What was challenging in a good way? What what drew

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I probably had about ten offers coming out of

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Speaker 3: I can't really remember there is. Yeah, but when Notre

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Speaker 2: And was that based on their reputation or the way

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Speaker 3: That I think it was their reputation, just knowing that

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Speaker 6: Was there a coach there that you know, because typically

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Speaker 3: I mean coach Brian Polian was our special teams coordinator

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Speaker 7: A no brainer football fan as a kid, Yeah, for sure,

447
00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:28,280
Speaker 7: more of teams or players players. Yeah, So which ones?

448
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Speaker 3: My favorite player still is Troy Palmodel.

449
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good role model, both as a person

450
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Speaker 2: and as a player.

451
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Speaker 3: Yeah.

452
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Speaker 2: Did you try to model your even though you're a

453
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Speaker 2: different position, did you try to model the way you

454
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Speaker 2: play after him?

455
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Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean this his play style really, I feel

456
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Speaker 3: like if I'm not playing that way, then I'm not

457
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Speaker 3: playing the game the right way. And so I try

458
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Speaker 3: to play that with that similar play style that he

459
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Speaker 3: played with a lot in my game. Even to this,

460
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 3: I feel like it's important. That's like the first step

461
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Speaker 3: of being successful as a player football player.

462
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Speaker 2: All right, it's an essay test. Describe his play style?

463
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he just flies all over the field.

464
00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:19,080
Speaker 3: First of all. I feel like he lifts his teammates up,

465
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Speaker 3: not not only by leading, but also just the way

466
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:27,600
Speaker 3: he plays. His example that he sets and he just

467
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:30,719
Speaker 3: makes plays all over the field, and so being a playmaker,

468
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Speaker 3: being able to to to change the game, there's something

469
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Speaker 3: I admire about him and how I tried to play

470
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Speaker 3: the game as well.

471
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Speaker 5: Now, what linebacker do you model your game after.

472
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Speaker 3: Or?

473
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Speaker 5: Growing up?

474
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Speaker 3: Yeah, growing up, I didn't really watch too many linebackers.

475
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Speaker 3: It was it was it was mostly Troy. That's kind

476
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Speaker 3: of where I got my inspiration from. I didn't. I

477
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Speaker 3: didn't think I was. I actually thought I was gonna

478
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Speaker 3: play into back and then you grew too much. I

479
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,159
Speaker 3: grew a little bit too much. Yeah, uh, And so

480
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Speaker 3: I became a linebacker and here I am all.

481
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Speaker 6: All right, welcome back into the Cowboys Hour. Here at

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Speaker 6: boot of the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. Now, guys,

497
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Speaker 6: i think I'm gonna do something that I know marriage

498
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Speaker 6: is probably gonna hate me for. But it's Okay, it's fine.

499
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Speaker 6: You sing pretty amazing. He has an amazing voice. Just

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Speaker 6: letting y'all know that. Are you okay with singing?

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Speaker 5: Fans that are here to get to know you.

502
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:27,600
Speaker 2: It's just us, you know, it's just it's like family,

503
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Speaker 2: It's just us.

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Speaker 5: Don't me nervous. Sorry you got this?

505
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Speaker 2: How long have you been singing? We'll warm up?

506
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Speaker 5: Okay, there we go.

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Speaker 3: I've just been singing for fun since since a kid.

508
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Speaker 2: And it's anything formal, I mean, church band in the garage.

509
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Speaker 3: I was in choir in high school. I did. Yeah,

510
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Speaker 3: I did choir.

511
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Speaker 2: What kind of music do you like to listen to?

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Speaker 3: Mostly R and B. There's a lot of Island reggae

513
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 3: I listened to as well that I grew up listening to.

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Speaker 2: What kind of music do you like to sing?

515
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Speaker 3: There's really a mix of everything. Uh, probably I would

516
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Speaker 3: say mostly R and B as well.

517
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Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you remember singing in front of people

518
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Speaker 2: for the first time?

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Speaker 3: It really was choir? Yeah, choir for sure.

520
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Speaker 5: Now your mom had the vocals, you said, yeah.

521
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Speaker 3: I would say my mom more so than my dad.

522
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Speaker 5: At least, does she push you to sing?

523
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Speaker 3: She'll kind of be like you and like make me

524
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Speaker 3: sing in front of people.

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Speaker 5: I mean you you have an amazing voice, Like that's

526
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Speaker 5: a gift.

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Speaker 6: Not everybody's gifted and blessed enough to say that they

528
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Speaker 6: can sing.

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Speaker 3: You know, yeah, that's true.

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Speaker 5: You know it's a positive. So what you got for us?

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Speaker 4: Man?

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Speaker 3: You got I always go Tennessee whiskey, right, so I'll

533
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Speaker 3: just go just acapella, a cappella. All right. You used

534
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:57,600
Speaker 3: to spend my nights out in the bar room. Liquor

535
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:05,479
Speaker 3: was the only love. But you rescued me from reaching

536
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:14,720
Speaker 3: for the bottom and brought me bad from being too

537
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Speaker 3: far gone. Your horse smooth.

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Speaker 4: It's tennise, whiskey, your it's sweet, the straw very wild?

539
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Speaker 3: Who you was warm? There's a glass a brandid.

540
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Speaker 4: And honey eye stared on, Oh your love all the time.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's nobody can do anything o that. There's marselea fountain.

542
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Speaker 2: Nicole did not even exaggerate.

543
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Speaker 3: Next next interview that they see Nicole is going to

544
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Speaker 3: be that I'm not doing it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, we've got We've got this done. That's that

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Speaker 2: is great. What's your favorite rendition of that?

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Speaker 3: Uh? I don't have one.

548
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And and who's the I'm I'm blanking on the

549
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Speaker 2: country singer who Chris Chris Staple? Have you seen have

550
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Speaker 2: you seen the version where Chris Staple din sang it?

551
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Speaker 2: Maybe on the Grammys with Justin Timberlake. Have you seen that?

552
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Speaker 3: I might have.

553
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Speaker 2: It's awesome. Stapleton was singing the song. I don't think

554
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Speaker 2: he knew that Timberlake was coming in and then and

555
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:45,399
Speaker 2: it was. It's it's spellbinding, It's absolutely captivating.

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Speaker 3: I gotta say, I gotta check it out.

557
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah you do.

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Speaker 3: I don't think anyone does better than him.

559
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Speaker 2: I'm sure. I'm sure nobody does. So do you guys? Still?

560
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Speaker 2: Is it still a thing that at some point during

561
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Speaker 2: rookie training camp? You guys, rookies had to sing.

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Speaker 3: That's what I That's what I said.

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Speaker 2: That was That's what you're saying. How does that? What

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Speaker 2: part of training camp does that have? What are the

565
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Speaker 2: veterans do?

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Speaker 3: I think it starts early in training.

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Speaker 2: Camp at team meetings.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we kind of go in order of draft draft pick,

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Speaker 3: and so Tyler went first.

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Speaker 2: Can he carry it to?

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Speaker 3: And even he did his thing?

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Speaker 2: Did he really?

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Speaker 3: It might not be in the right pitch, but he

574
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Speaker 3: was doing his thing.

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Speaker 2: Look, at it. Who's gonna tell him different?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he he gave it his all and

577
00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:36,680
Speaker 3: so everybody. You can't complain when someone gives it there all. Yeah,

578
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Speaker 3: everyone loved it. Yeah, it was fun. They made me

579
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Speaker 3: go again. I was telling Nicole, they made me go

580
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 3: two times because you were so good. Yeah, I guess.

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Speaker 5: So who had the next best voice?

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Speaker 2: Ah?

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Speaker 3: You know we have a real singer on our team,

584
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Speaker 3: Josh Butler. Really yeah, he actually makes music. Yeah, he

585
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Speaker 3: makes m Yeah, I know he's Yeah, he makes real music.

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Speaker 5: I'm getting him to sing next.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: You wait to talk to him about that. Uh, that's

589
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Speaker 2: that's awesome. Do you ever have the thought of doing

590
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Speaker 2: something with that? M?

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Speaker 3: Not really? Oh?

592
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Speaker 6: Why football is of course like outside of football.

593
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Speaker 2: Scott from the Cowboys staff, We've got to get him

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Speaker 2: on the voice.

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Speaker 3: I want to go there. You don't stay at the sidecard.

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Speaker 2: Well, then we got to have a band. I think

597
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Speaker 2: we could get We should usually have gigs.

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Speaker 3: Maybe maybe we'ld do that one day in the off season.

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Speaker 2: We should have a band and yeah, you could have

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Speaker 2: you cauld have some music behind you. That was that

601
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:49,719
Speaker 2: was awesome. That was really great. So let's go back

602
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Speaker 2: to football.

603
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Speaker 3: For a minute.

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Speaker 2: Is it difficult when Troy Polamalu is your football true north?

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Speaker 2: Is it it's tough to play like him when you're

606
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Speaker 2: not playing that position because he had unique skills that

607
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Speaker 2: he could bring to play in safety.

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Speaker 3: No, I don't think so. I mean even the safety

609
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:16,400
Speaker 3: position in general, if you look at it nowadays, especially

610
00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:18,840
Speaker 3: the linebackers do a lot of what they do in

611
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:21,880
Speaker 3: terms of covering and coming downhill, filling gaps, and so

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Speaker 3: I don't think it's hard at all. His play style is.

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Speaker 3: I think everyone can play that way in some way,

614
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Speaker 3: shape or form in any position. I think there's just

615
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Speaker 3: things to take out from the way he plays as

616
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Speaker 3: a player, and so I really don't find it het

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Speaker 3: at all.

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Speaker 6: At the linebacker position, what would you say your biggest

619
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Speaker 6: strength is and what is something that you're still working

620
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Speaker 6: to improve on.

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Speaker 3: I think one of my biggest strengths is being able

622
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Speaker 3: to being able to do a lot of things on

623
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Speaker 3: the field, being versatile as a player, being able to

624
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:04,520
Speaker 3: line up on the ball, off the ball. So coaches

625
00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:06,840
Speaker 3: are like, all right, we need someone to do this,

626
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:09,440
Speaker 3: Like Okay, Marie can do it, like that kind of thing.

627
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Speaker 3: I think something that I'm working on is being more

628
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Speaker 3: consistent at those things, because I can do a lot

629
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Speaker 3: of different things, but I want to focus in on

630
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Speaker 3: being very good at those things.

631
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Speaker 2: You and Overshown are both like heat seeking missiles when

632
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:31,000
Speaker 2: you get going. Is there is there a difficulty in

633
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Speaker 2: learning to be that aggressive with discipline because you can't

634
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:42,720
Speaker 2: there are certain things you have to do to maintain

635
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:45,840
Speaker 2: gap control and all that stuff. When you're playing defense

636
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 2: and you get the way you and marve On both play,

637
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:53,160
Speaker 2: it's everybody's excited to see you get to the ball.

638
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:55,080
Speaker 2: How do you make that work together?

639
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Speaker 3: Yeah? I think that's through preparation throughout the week. You

640
00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 3: kind of you do all the thinking. That's how I

641
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:02,280
Speaker 3: like to see it. You do all your thinking throughout

642
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:03,759
Speaker 3: the week, and then you get to the game you

643
00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:07,359
Speaker 3: can just kind of let loose and so you kind

644
00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:10,600
Speaker 3: of play within your obviously your job, so playing within

645
00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:13,719
Speaker 3: your job, you can let loose and at the end

646
00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:15,040
Speaker 3: of the day you get to the football. That's what

647
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Speaker 3: linebackers do.

648
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Speaker 6: How much more exciting is it playing alongside a guy

649
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:23,440
Speaker 6: like the Marvin overshon who you guys show so much similarities.

650
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Speaker 3: It's so exciting. I love watching him play. I definitely

651
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:31,720
Speaker 3: get fired up watching him play. It's just like everyone

652
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:34,200
Speaker 3: else does watching him play, and so I think it's

653
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Speaker 3: an order to play next to someone like that who

654
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:39,720
Speaker 3: has that kind of play style. Like I mentioned with Troy,

655
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Speaker 3: there's a lot of the things I see that Troy

656
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:46,359
Speaker 3: did also, like the Marvean d demo we call him,

657
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:48,880
Speaker 3: he shows those things too, and so I respected a

658
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:51,719
Speaker 3: lot as a player. It's not easy to do and

659
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 3: not everyone can do it, and so I just respect

660
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:56,120
Speaker 3: it a lot and I have I feel like it's

661
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:58,440
Speaker 3: in honor to play next to him. And also guys

662
00:39:58,440 --> 00:39:59,280
Speaker 3: like Eric Kendricks.

663
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Speaker 2: Hendricks was the next guy was going to bring up

664
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Speaker 2: because obviously he is kind of the marshal of the

665
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:09,400
Speaker 2: defense because he knows the system so well, but he

666
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Speaker 2: also is he just covers so much ground and he

667
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Speaker 2: seems to have a great nose for the football. What

668
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Speaker 2: have you learned playing next to him?

669
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Speaker 3: I learned a lot. Just he's very smart. He's I mean,

670
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Speaker 3: he's in his like tenth year in the league, and

671
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:27,640
Speaker 3: so he has so many experience and he's always around

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Speaker 3: the football. So I've learned. Just one of the things

673
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Speaker 3: I've learned from him is being specific in your job,

674
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Speaker 3: Like at the end of the day, you can do

675
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Speaker 3: that at a high level. Just the main thing is

676
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Speaker 3: to get into football, Like that's what linebackers do. That's

677
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:48,279
Speaker 3: we get to the football, We tackle the ball, we

678
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Speaker 3: run around the field, and we make people right.

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Speaker 2: We have to take a break. I wish that we

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Speaker 2: had recorded, well some people did, but I wish we could.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, we can.

682
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Speaker 2: We play it back like going out as a bridge

683
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Speaker 2: can Okay? I thought that wouldn't that be great? As

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Speaker 2: we fade to break with Merris singing Tennessee whiskey. That

685
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Speaker 2: will be on Dallas Cowboys dot Com later, so keep

686
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Speaker 2: an eye on that and we'll be right back on

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Speaker 2: the Cowboys Hour. Hey Cowboy fans.

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Speaker 3: I'm dot quick.

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Speaker 8: Cow Cowboys, no cowbows, no Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: Twas to the Miller's Cowboys Hour, supported by Albertson and

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Speaker 1: broadcasting live from Side Cars Social at the Star Infrasco.

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Speaker 2: And welcome back to the Cowboys Hour. Thank you all

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Speaker 2: for being with us. Thanks especially to Marius leah Foul

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Speaker 2: for being our special guest and musical accompanist. Tonight, Cowboys

695
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Speaker 2: linebacker Brad Sham and Nicole Hutchinson. We will be back

696
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Speaker 2: here next Monday night and we won't be quite asleep.

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Speaker 2: Deprive next Monday night after the Cowboys play a noon game.

698
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Speaker 2: It is noon in the noon game, I believe next

699
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Speaker 2: week in in Atlanta. We have a microphone. If anybody

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Speaker 2: has any questions, anybody in our audience has any questions

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Speaker 2: for Marist, Let's let's get back into Hi. I'm Marist.

702
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:18,000
Speaker 2: You mentioned your faith earlier, and that's a very strong

703
00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:20,560
Speaker 2: part of your life. Do you mind talking a little

704
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:21,120
Speaker 2: bit about it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, growing up since a young age, my family's always

706
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:29,200
Speaker 3: and so that face aspect in me. We always grew

707
00:45:29,239 --> 00:45:33,359
Speaker 3: up praying. We always grew up going to church, and

708
00:45:33,719 --> 00:45:35,840
Speaker 3: that's something that stuck with me throughout my whole life,

709
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:39,680
Speaker 3: and especially this year this with this big change in

710
00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:42,719
Speaker 3: my life and coming to the NFL, something that's kept

711
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:45,400
Speaker 3: me grounded. Like I mentioned earlier, is my faith, getting

712
00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:48,799
Speaker 3: my word in reading the Bible when I can as

713
00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:51,960
Speaker 3: much as I can, and just the values that I

714
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:56,439
Speaker 3: learned from that. And yeah, just the values I learned

715
00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:59,000
Speaker 3: in that It keeps me grounded and as a person,

716
00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:02,200
Speaker 3: I feel like I can live by those those values

717
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:06,400
Speaker 3: and no matter what this life that the NFL presents

718
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:10,359
Speaker 3: to me throws at me. No matter what it throws

719
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:12,400
Speaker 3: at me, I can I know who I am, I

720
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:15,160
Speaker 3: know what I stand for, my values, and it also

721
00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:17,840
Speaker 3: brings me back to my family and how it was raised.

722
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Speaker 6: How much has your faith helped you with one football

723
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:28,040
Speaker 6: but also throughout your life just staying grounded and trusted

724
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Speaker 6: in your word.

725
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's been everything. Like one example is in

726
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:37,440
Speaker 3: training camp, I would get I would read my Bible,

727
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:41,600
Speaker 3: and training camp can be hectic, especially as a rookie.

728
00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:43,840
Speaker 3: You're kind of coming in, You're trying to prove yourself

729
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 3: every day to everyone, not just the coaches, but to

730
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Speaker 3: the players. You're kind of earning that respect from the

731
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:52,840
Speaker 3: players as well, and so it's just and then you

732
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:56,040
Speaker 3: learn the cutthroat business side of the league that like

733
00:46:56,160 --> 00:46:58,200
Speaker 3: I had a roommate who was there and he was

734
00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:01,920
Speaker 3: gone before camp ended, and so those kind of things

735
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:04,080
Speaker 3: that they throw you off balance a little bit. And

736
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:05,799
Speaker 3: so that's when I go back to my word and

737
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Speaker 3: I'm like, Okay, here's what I signed for, here's what

738
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:12,719
Speaker 3: I believe in, and I'm good. I'm grounding. I can

739
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Speaker 3: enjoy every day, be grateful for everything I have in

740
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Speaker 3: my life and be grateful for the opportunities that I

741
00:47:18,120 --> 00:47:21,400
Speaker 3: have in the present moment, and I can live in

742
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Speaker 3: that moment and I can move on because of that.

743
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Speaker 2: Anybody who's ever done any gratitude work understands the value

744
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:32,719
Speaker 2: of that how that gets you through difficult times. But

745
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:37,240
Speaker 2: it's also really important to do it when things aren't difficult,

746
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:43,080
Speaker 2: just to make sure that you're consistent in it. Did

747
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Speaker 2: you at some point have to learn that being an athlete,

748
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:52,080
Speaker 2: you aren't going to win every game, and so you

749
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Speaker 2: that you still had to find the gratitude and all

750
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Speaker 2: the things that went into just being able to play it.

751
00:47:57,520 --> 00:48:01,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, one hundred percent. Like after a loss, Like one

752
00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:05,080
Speaker 3: thing I think about after loss is life moves on.

753
00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 3: You can't be stuck on that loss. You can't let

754
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:12,520
Speaker 3: that loss determine how Like for example, my parents, thankfully

755
00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:16,759
Speaker 3: they made it to this last game yesterday, and so like,

756
00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:18,440
Speaker 3: obviously we lost, But I'm not going to go to

757
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Speaker 3: my parents and give them a sad face and just

758
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Speaker 3: just be upset about a loss when I can enjoy

759
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Speaker 3: the opportunity to see my family who I barely get

760
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Speaker 3: to see. I went to Notre Dame, and that was

761
00:48:32,719 --> 00:48:35,160
Speaker 3: far from home as well, and Dallas is far too,

762
00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 3: really anywhere as far from Hawaii. But being able to

763
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:41,279
Speaker 3: see them, I'm so grateful for that opportunity. And for

764
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Speaker 3: me to go there and be sad and and not

765
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Speaker 3: enjoy the moment with them, it would it would just

766
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Speaker 3: be a waste.

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Speaker 6: The things you don't shy about, shout away from talking

768
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Speaker 6: about is your faith, your culture, and also your family.

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Speaker 5: What does family mean to you?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's who I am. Really, it means everything to me.

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Speaker 3: I just can't put into words. It's it's just everything

772
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Speaker 3: to me.

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Speaker 6: How much has your mom, your father, on the rest

774
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Speaker 6: of your family played a role in who you are today?

775
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Speaker 3: Yeah? They Without them, I wouldn't be here. The way

776
00:49:15,719 --> 00:49:19,000
Speaker 3: they raised me. I feel like it's a huge part

777
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Speaker 3: of why I'm here, huge part of why I've been

778
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Speaker 3: successful as a young man, and they've built me into

779
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Speaker 3: this person. I'm forever grateful for them because of that.

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Speaker 2: Let's get into what you like to do in downtime

781
00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:35,279
Speaker 2: off the field. Yeah, now, not during the year, because

782
00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:38,480
Speaker 2: during the season, you know, you told us what your

783
00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:41,800
Speaker 2: day off will be like tomorrow, what it's off season,

784
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Speaker 2: what do you.

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Speaker 3: What do you like to do to really, Nicole told

786
00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:47,200
Speaker 3: you already. I like to sing, So that's one of

787
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Speaker 3: the things I just like to do.

788
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Speaker 2: Really, would you mind singing for us? Though?

789
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Speaker 3: So that's like one of the I mean, I'll just

790
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Speaker 3: sing for fun, like by yourself. Yeah, by myself, just

791
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:03,319
Speaker 3: because I enjoy it, and other things like play video

792
00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:07,759
Speaker 3: games here and there. I watched some anime. I like

793
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Speaker 3: to watch anime a.

794
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Speaker 5: Little, so yeah, I think Osa actually told us that

795
00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:13,960
Speaker 5: as well. He likes anime is huge.

796
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Speaker 3: Did you know that? I think I did. I know

797
00:50:16,719 --> 00:50:18,400
Speaker 3: Chauncey's huge.

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Speaker 2: Chauncey is a big anime guy.

799
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Speaker 5: Yeah, which anime show are you big on?

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Speaker 3: Right now? Hunter? Hunter?

801
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Speaker 6: I act like I know exactly what that is, kidding,

802
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:34,759
Speaker 6: but no, what exactly is that show about?

803
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Speaker 3: It's kind of hard to I mean, it's just they're

804
00:50:37,960 --> 00:50:40,160
Speaker 3: kind of all about the same things. They have a

805
00:50:40,239 --> 00:50:42,880
Speaker 3: journey and learn how to fight better and they have

806
00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:43,799
Speaker 3: cool fights.

807
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Speaker 2: So okay, yeah, do you cook?

808
00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:50,879
Speaker 3: I don't cook. No, you have a chef. I don't

809
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Speaker 3: have a chef.

810
00:50:52,280 --> 00:50:53,759
Speaker 5: So where's your favorite restaurant?

811
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Speaker 3: The sidecar?

812
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Speaker 2: Look at this, this is a college graduate Ladies and gentlemen,

813
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:04,080
Speaker 2: this is a college graduate right here. So how do

814
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:08,040
Speaker 2: you balance your nutrition during the season? I mean you can,

815
00:51:08,120 --> 00:51:10,720
Speaker 2: I guess you can eat most meals with the training

816
00:51:10,719 --> 00:51:11,640
Speaker 2: table if you want to.

817
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:13,440
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, training table has a great.

818
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Speaker 2: Chef Andrews top of the top of the deck.

819
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Speaker 3: Now, yeah, I mean if I could go there every day,

820
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Speaker 3: I would. They have it pretty much every day, and

821
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Speaker 3: so they have everything we need there. I get all

822
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Speaker 3: the nutrients whatever, everything I need from the facility and

823
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Speaker 3: so I know it's not like that everywhere. So I'm

824
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Speaker 3: grateful for that.

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Speaker 6: Have you always been or I'll start with how is

826
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Speaker 6: your diet like? Is that something that you prioritize as

827
00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:39,719
Speaker 6: right now?

828
00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:43,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely something that I've been working on in college.

829
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:45,400
Speaker 3: It wasn't super big on it. I was kind of

830
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:49,840
Speaker 3: just eat whatever and I made it by. But I

831
00:51:49,880 --> 00:51:52,600
Speaker 3: know every little thing matters in an NFL and so

832
00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:56,360
Speaker 3: and also, your body is is kind of your corporation,

833
00:51:56,520 --> 00:51:58,560
Speaker 3: and so you got to take care of it. You're

834
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Speaker 3: gonna be mindful of what you put into your body.

835
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Speaker 3: And so I'm definitely figuring out what works for me

836
00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:07,480
Speaker 3: and my routine, still figuring it out and being a

837
00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:11,320
Speaker 3: rookie having all this this free time that I didn't realize.

838
00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:13,719
Speaker 3: We do have more free time than in college, and

839
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:17,439
Speaker 3: what you do with it matters, and so I'm trying

840
00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:18,480
Speaker 3: to figure that out right now.

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Speaker 6: What are some things that you try to stay away

842
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:22,320
Speaker 6: from and keep out of your body?

843
00:52:24,239 --> 00:52:28,719
Speaker 3: Alcohol? Yeah, definitely stay away from that. I just hear

844
00:52:29,080 --> 00:52:30,840
Speaker 3: I want to hear negative stuff about it, and so

845
00:52:31,120 --> 00:52:35,160
Speaker 3: especially during season, that's just one of the main things.

846
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:38,200
Speaker 3: And then when it comes to food, just I always

847
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:41,680
Speaker 3: trying to have a balance plate like carbs, you have

848
00:52:41,760 --> 00:52:45,200
Speaker 3: your proteins and your greens and vegetables. Just having a

849
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:47,239
Speaker 3: balance plate. That's kind of where I'm at right now.

850
00:52:47,280 --> 00:52:52,160
Speaker 3: But definitely want to be more specific and what I

851
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Speaker 3: want to do with it.

852
00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:59,040
Speaker 2: But on those days when you just say not now today,

853
00:52:59,160 --> 00:53:03,160
Speaker 2: I'm just want to give into my baser instincts. I'm

854
00:53:03,200 --> 00:53:05,000
Speaker 2: gonna have something terrible for me.

855
00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:10,120
Speaker 3: What is that I'll probably go get like a like

856
00:53:10,160 --> 00:53:13,560
Speaker 3: a blizzard from dairy Queen or something. Yeah, I'll go

857
00:53:13,600 --> 00:53:15,879
Speaker 3: get some ice cream or something like that, or even

858
00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:18,960
Speaker 3: this there's a somebody like an ice cream spot right

859
00:53:18,960 --> 00:53:23,479
Speaker 3: down here, right across the street that I been going

860
00:53:23,520 --> 00:53:25,680
Speaker 3: to probably more than I should.

861
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Speaker 5: Well, favorite what's your favorite ice cream flavor over there?

862
00:53:30,640 --> 00:53:34,080
Speaker 3: It's like it's called like death by Chocolate, Death by Chocolate.

863
00:53:34,840 --> 00:53:37,040
Speaker 3: The fact that I know the name of it, I've

864
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Speaker 3: been going there too much.

865
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Speaker 2: What's in death by Chocolate?

866
00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:42,040
Speaker 3: It's just chocolate.

867
00:53:43,160 --> 00:53:46,880
Speaker 2: Actually sounds it actually sounds very Hawaiian. I've had some

868
00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:49,359
Speaker 2: things in Hawaii that there that are a little bit

869
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:51,000
Speaker 2: like that did you did you?

870
00:53:51,080 --> 00:53:51,400
Speaker 3: Did you?

871
00:53:52,560 --> 00:53:56,399
Speaker 2: Are you like a diver or a snort or any

872
00:53:56,400 --> 00:53:57,920
Speaker 2: of that stuff that a lot of people go to

873
00:53:57,960 --> 00:53:58,719
Speaker 2: Hawaii to do.

874
00:53:59,360 --> 00:54:01,600
Speaker 3: Know, it's funny, actually stayed away from the water. It

875
00:54:01,640 --> 00:54:06,600
Speaker 3: wasn't a big water guy. Wow, well you're a land animal.

876
00:54:06,680 --> 00:54:10,120
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, why you just didn't like the water.

877
00:54:10,360 --> 00:54:13,160
Speaker 3: I've had some bad experiences. We got a we got

878
00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:16,359
Speaker 3: a pretty strong tide current back in Hawaii, and there's

879
00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:19,600
Speaker 3: been some times where I'm underwater for a little too long.

880
00:54:20,560 --> 00:54:22,880
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm good on land.

881
00:54:23,120 --> 00:54:25,480
Speaker 5: What was your favorite experience growing up in Hawaii?

882
00:54:27,520 --> 00:54:31,439
Speaker 3: Favorite experience is this the weather? You can't beat the weather.

883
00:54:31,480 --> 00:54:36,200
Speaker 3: The weather is the same all year round. Yeah, the

884
00:54:36,239 --> 00:54:36,879
Speaker 3: weather for sure.

885
00:54:37,160 --> 00:54:39,440
Speaker 6: Never been what's the weather like, Oh, you've never been

886
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Speaker 6: I've never been Hawaii.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you gotta go.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what what is your favorite part of the islands?

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Speaker 3: What do you what are your favorite island? I like

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Speaker 3: my island. I feel like it's you get the like

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Speaker 3: you get a city life, like there's not just completely

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Speaker 3: nothing on the island. And also there's also like the

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Speaker 3: nature and wildlife to the to our island as well,

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Speaker 3: so you can it's nice. I think. I think people

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Speaker 3: who visit get the best of both worlds and you

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Speaker 3: can kind of see like both experiences.

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Speaker 2: And so where do you when you're from Hawaii? When

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Speaker 2: you're not from Hawaii and you say to people, where

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Speaker 2: do you want to go? I want to go to Hawaii.

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Speaker 2: When you're from Hawaii, where do you want to go?

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Speaker 3: You can't go anywhere? I mean you just stay stay

902
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Speaker 3: at home. I guess, go to the beach.

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Speaker 2: You don't have any travel ambitions places in the world

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Speaker 2: you'd like to.

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Speaker 3: Say, Oh, yeah, no, I see what you're saying.

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Speaker 5: No, really, yeah nowhere.

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Speaker 3: No, we never had a family vacation. We just go

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Speaker 3: to the beach.

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Speaker 2: Would you call yourself we're almost out of time? Would

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Speaker 2: you call yourself a curious person?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I would say some.

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Speaker 2: What other cultures. Do you feel some curiosity towards.

913
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Speaker 3: I don't think I got that curiosity yet. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well, this is very early days. And the good news

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Speaker 2: is we're gonna be able to follow Marius leafhou for

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Speaker 2: years as he grows in his journey. And the time

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Speaker 2: will come when we'll have you back on this show

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Speaker 2: and you'll say, oh, yeah, man, I gotta go to

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Speaker 2: fill in the blank. I gotta go to China, I

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Speaker 2: gotta go to Italy, whatever, I gotta go to Japan.

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Speaker 3: Yeahever it is man. Oh, I'm planning to eventually get

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Speaker 3: somewhere out of it after this season. I don't know

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Speaker 3: where though.

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Speaker 2: All right, well, well yeah, baby steps, that's a great journey.

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Speaker 2: Say say thanks to Marius Leafhoo for being with us.

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Speaker 2: Willat thank you guys night last night, early arrival in

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Speaker 2: the morning. We appreciate your being with us. Thank you

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Speaker 2: to Nicole. Thanks to all of you who have been

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Speaker 2: with us this evening, and we will see you again

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Speaker 2: next Monday at Sidecar Social at the Star District in

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Speaker 2: Frisco on the next Cowboys Out.

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