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Speaker 1: Welcome back to You've Got Mail, presented by Delta Dental.

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Speaker 1: I'm your forty nine Ers team reporter Brionna Janelle and

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Speaker 1: in today's episode, we're sitting down with offensive linemen Dominic Pooney.

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Speaker 1: In this episode, he shares his Midwest roots and talks

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Speaker 1: about his journey to becoming a ligneman. We play a

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Speaker 1: few fun games and answer questions directly from the faithful.

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Speaker 1: Check out my conversation with Dominic Pooney right here. What's up,

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Speaker 1: Dominic Pooney? How are you welcome to the podcast.

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Speaker 2: I'm good, I'm good. Thanks for having me. I'm excited

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Speaker 2: to be here.

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Speaker 1: I'm excited to chat with you. Have the fans get

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Speaker 1: to know you a little bit more. Let's start all

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Speaker 1: the way from the beginning. You grew up in Missouri

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Speaker 1: and spend a lot of time in your football journey

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Speaker 1: in the Midwest. How did you describe Midwest football culture

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Speaker 1: compared to the West coast.

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Speaker 3: Midwest football culture. It's, man, I don't even really how

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Speaker 3: to explain it. I mean, it's normal football. I don't

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Speaker 3: really know how football is out here. I already knows

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Speaker 3: the NFL, so I mean, to me, it's really the

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Speaker 3: same like I don't really see too many differences. Maybe

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Speaker 3: from like a like a cultural perspective, like it's a

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Speaker 3: little different. It's a little more swag on the West

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Speaker 3: Coast than in the Midwest. But yeah, for the most part,

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Speaker 3: it's pretty much the same.

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Speaker 1: With there not being too much a difference when it

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Speaker 1: comes to football. What about life, because you live in

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Speaker 1: the Bay Area now it's your second year, are you

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Speaker 1: proud of being from the Midwest and do you think

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Speaker 1: it shaped you into the person you are today?

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Speaker 2: Definitely, Yeah, definitely.

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Speaker 3: I love being from Missouri, being from the Midwest, just

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Speaker 3: you know, like how people are out there, you know,

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Speaker 3: the mannerisms they have, just the hospitality. Coming out here

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Speaker 3: to the West Coast is a whole different It's really

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Speaker 3: a whole different world, honestly. I mean it's a big

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Speaker 3: adjustment obviously, just living and being near the ocean. I

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Speaker 3: love that part. The weather out here is a lot

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Speaker 3: better than the Midwest. I will say, you know, it's

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Speaker 3: always like seventy to eighty and then it'll drop down

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Speaker 3: to sixty and it's mostly Sunday every day. So I mean,

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Speaker 3: I really love the weather part out here, and I

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Speaker 3: love the people out here and just being near the ocean.

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Speaker 1: I gotta say, do you take advantage of being on

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Speaker 1: the coast.

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, visiting ocean Big sur is like my favorite part.

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Speaker 1: It's stunning, right, Yeah. It feels like it's straight out.

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Speaker 2: Of a movie. It is, No, it really is.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I can't believe. It's like it seems like it'd be

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Speaker 2: in like Jamaica or something.

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Speaker 1: It's pretty crazy that it's like just down the road. Well,

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Speaker 1: you came from a really athletic family. Your dad played football,

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Speaker 1: your mom played volleyball, your brother's played Also, what's it

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Speaker 1: like growing up in that kind of a household.

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Speaker 3: That's competitive for sure, Yeah, but it's also inspiring. I mean,

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Speaker 3: being the youngest, I was always like, you know, the

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Speaker 3: them at sports obviously, just being like being little. And

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Speaker 3: but you know, just my dad's background in football, my

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Speaker 3: mom background and all the sports she played, and just

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Speaker 3: growing up seeing how my sister played basketball, both my

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Speaker 3: brothers played football, basketball, baseball. It just made me want

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Speaker 3: my oldest brother, you know, he actually got a shot

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Speaker 3: like NFL jersey. That was probably really like what most

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Speaker 1: That's awesome. You saw it, so you felt like you

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, that's really cool.

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Speaker 1: I also learned that your dad coached you when you

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Speaker 2: Field, Never take a playoff. He was always so hard.

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Speaker 3: He was harder on me than anybody else on the team.

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Speaker 3: And you know, at the time I hated it, but

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Speaker 3: He was just pushing me to be the best I can.

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Speaker 3: And anytime I was lazy on the field, you know,

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Speaker 2: So that's the biggest lesson I would take.

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Speaker 1: So you're happy you had a dad who was also

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, looking back on it, yes.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, a moment maybe maybe not, but now, yeah, that's sweet. Well,

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Speaker 1: you also played volleyball and ran track in high school.

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Speaker 1: What do you think those sports taught you when it

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Speaker 3: I threw shot put for like a month, okay, so

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Speaker 3: I don't know if I count track, okay.

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Speaker 2: But volleyball I played for three years.

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Speaker 3: It definitely taught me, like I think, a lot of

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Speaker 2: It helped out a lot.

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Speaker 1: When you switched over from volleyball to football, was O

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Speaker 3: No growing up, I always was a defensive end. That

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Speaker 3: when I got to college, like going getting ready to

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Speaker 3: I was I wasn't happy at the time, but you know,

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Speaker 3: I'm glad it paid off for sure.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it took you all the way to the NFL. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure, we're happy. Now, Well, let's talk about college.

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Speaker 1: Random fact you majored in criminal justice. What drew you

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Speaker 2: My brothers?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I really didn't know what I wanted

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Speaker 3: And ultimately and stuck with it.

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Speaker 1: Any cool things you learned from being in that major.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot, but it's it's been a while, so

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Speaker 2: it's allover.

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Speaker 1: It's also heavy, heavy subjects. Yeah, well, when did it

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Speaker 3: When I transferred to Kansas and like so I was

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Speaker 3: And after that it just kind of like kept going up.

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Speaker 2: And I think that was the moment.

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Speaker 1: And you mentioned in the past that you always wanted

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Speaker 1: to shout out those smaller school guys. What advice would

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Speaker 1: you give players from smaller programs dreaming of being at

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 3: You got to work twice as hard as the guys

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Speaker 2: That's ultimately what it took.

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Speaker 3: I was just working out with one of my teammates, Corbyn,

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Speaker 3: and you know, we just took it to another level.

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Speaker 2: And that was the summer.

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Speaker 3: Really elevated like my body, my diet, everything, and it's

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Speaker 3: just like it propelled me for I think even till now.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, you really got to work twice. It's hard.

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Speaker 1: That's really cool, really good advice. Now, you had that

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Speaker 1: in year two in the NFL. What was your I

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Speaker 1: made it or welcome to the NFL moment.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know if I had a welcome to

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of anxiety and like build up to it.

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Speaker 1: What a way to start in primetime.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, some guys would preferred just like the first slot

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Speaker 3: games like the one PM or the twelve, but you

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Speaker 3: know where it's one of the best d lines in

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Speaker 2: Why not?

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Speaker 3: So yeah, that was probably after that game, I was like,

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Speaker 1: You think that moment got you ready and set you

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Speaker 1: up for the rest of your career here in the Bay, I.

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Speaker 2: Do, I do. Yeah, that was a big game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the pressure really sometimes makes the stars really shy.

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Speaker 1: So take me into this forty nine ers oh line.

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Speaker 1: Do you guys have any traditions or superstitions now that

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Speaker 3: I mean we'll do we in fall camp, we always

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Speaker 3: do our big like dinner usually the rookies pay for.

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Speaker 3: From a tradition perspective, I mean we always just like

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Speaker 3: decorate the room every holiday. So every Christmas are a

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Speaker 3: But there's like a minimum price that you have to meet.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, that's probably my favorite one.

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Speaker 1: That's fun. So I'm assuming there's some Thanksgiving decore around

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Speaker 3: Yes, Thanksgiving, but some guys are pushing for Christmas already.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, how some people.

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Speaker 1: Get I need to hear your thoughts. Do you put

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Speaker 1: up the Christmas to core before after Thanksgiving after after right,

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Speaker 1: you have to give Thanksgiving its moment. Yes, I'm not

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Speaker 1: gonna lie. There might be a few Christmas decorations in

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Speaker 1: my apartment room already it's light though the tree is

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Speaker 1: not up.

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Speaker 4: But like my music, not not yet, maybe like a.

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Speaker 1: Soft jazz, not Christmas music, not Christmas music, but something

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Speaker 1: that'll put you in the mood.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I love it.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So I'm assuming you're a fan of Drew Ski

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Speaker 1: just from your Instagram? Does that mean you're the comedian

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Speaker 1: of the O Line group?

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Speaker 2: No, I'm not the comedian.

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Speaker 1: Okay?

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Speaker 3: Who is?

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Speaker 1: Who is?

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Speaker 2: Ben Bart is a comedian? Uh? Drake Nugent is hilarious.

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Speaker 2: Oh I'll go with those two for sure.

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Speaker 1: Okay, sweet, Well, if Drewski were to do with skit

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Speaker 1: in the forty nine ers locker room, who would you

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Speaker 1: want him to impersonate?

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Speaker 2: Oh? On the whole team or the old line.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk O Line.

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Speaker 2: I think mckivitz would be the funniest one.

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Speaker 1: So Drewski acting as mckivitz. Yeah, what does he need

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Speaker 1: to do? If you're teaching Drew Ski, he's in the

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Speaker 1: locker room, this is what you need to do to

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Speaker 3: Uh. He needs to come in the locker room and

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Speaker 3: just yell out hey Bud as long as loud as

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Speaker 3: you can, and just dressing camouflage and you know, wear

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Speaker 3: boots and just you know, give people a hard time

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Speaker 3: all the time, but you know it's all love.

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Speaker 2: Yea, Yeah, the hay bud, that's the big one for

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Speaker 4: Are you ready?

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Speaker 2: All right?

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Speaker 1: So you're protecting your piece? What's one thing you do

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Speaker 2: Play two K two knaw NBA.

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Speaker 1: Two K nice? Who's your team or do you build

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Speaker 2: I use my mind player going to wreck, playing the

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Speaker 1: It's a brotherhood.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, brotherhood.

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Speaker 2: Usually I go with the volleyball in high school?

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Speaker 4: Okay, playing volleyball, Yeah, that's pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: You're protecting your plate. What's your ultimate comfort meal?

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Speaker 3: Or I have a got I like spaghetti, a burger, lasagna, steak.

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Speaker 4: No, no, no, just do you do it all?

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Speaker 1: Take a little bit of this, a little bit of that.

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Speaker 1: You're protecting your vibe. What's one song that's always on

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Speaker 3: Oh, like I get my car and I'm playing the

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Speaker 1: It's it's always one that you could fall back on.

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Speaker 3: I'll probably go with like road Wave, like twenty five

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Speaker 1: Nice. You're protecting your culture. What's your favorite Polynesian food?

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Speaker 2: He makes like the chop suey good. That's real good.

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Speaker 2: He's good at that.

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Speaker 2: He's got three to four that he's mastered.

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Speaker 1: I love it. Now you're protecting your routine. What's a

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Speaker 2: Yeah, video games?

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Speaker 1: Video games to unwind. Nice, last couple, you're protecting your

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Speaker 4: My family, that's easy.

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Speaker 1: How often are they able to come out and see

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Speaker 3: I think they've been out here three or four times

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Speaker 1: Sweet, you get a little taste of home. Now you're

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Speaker 1: protecting your inner child. What would younger poony think if

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Speaker 2: He'd lose his mind? Yeah, you wouldn't believe it. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: he would not believe it.

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Speaker 3: Just keep dreaming and keep believing, but have fun while

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Speaker 3: doing it, don't stress out too much things? Will you

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Speaker 3: trust your hard work, You keep preparing as much as

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Speaker 1: Sweet. Well that'll do it for a Poonies protection plan.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna move on to some fan questions. We put

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Speaker 3: Yeah, just you can ask like Jake or Colt like

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Speaker 3: You know those like we get into the huddle every time,

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Speaker 1: Go Rock Mac? I love it all right. Final question

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Speaker 1: Well, that's all the questions we've got for you, Dominic.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much for joining us today, Thanks for

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