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Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta ask her, O come your d

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Speaker 1: line coach played atter you. I'm sure you've heard him.

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Speaker 1: Clinton hurt. He said it a few times to you.

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Speaker 1: Why didn't you pick Miami University and that Florida State?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. That just wasn't the school for me,

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Speaker 1: you know, Florida State was That was that school that

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Speaker 1: I just dreamed up just watching growing up. Okay, I

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Speaker 1: just knew that was gonna be the one. Once they

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Speaker 1: gave me that. The opportunity got got you. Now, DeMarcus Christmas,

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Speaker 1: that's your government name. What we call you. We called

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Speaker 1: DeMarcus dem what we call you, what they call you school?

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Speaker 1: A lot of people a lot of nickname was Og

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Speaker 1: going towards the end, because I was like one of

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Speaker 1: like the old head or whatever. So Og was my

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Speaker 1: called me by my last names. Now, I gotta ask you.

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Speaker 1: Your last name is Christmas. You're born on the fourth

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Speaker 1: of July. That's amazing that your whole life. Oh, it's

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Speaker 1: actually been It's been like fun because like like my

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Speaker 1: mom kids, like my sister birthday falls on Easter every

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Speaker 1: other year, so it's like so it's kind of crazy

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Speaker 1: how how it all plays out. So I just take

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't say it's a joke, but but people calling

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Speaker 1: me other holiday it's probably the word head coach Jimbo Fisher.

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Speaker 1: He always Valentine's Day, Halloween or something like that. Hanker. Now,

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Speaker 1: now here's some some things that I've noticed about you.

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Speaker 1: You know, I give a little homework on you to Marcus.

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Speaker 1: You love the dress man. You got real good style, brother,

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Speaker 1: tell us how that came to be telling because you

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Speaker 1: not not having much, so you gotta make something out

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Speaker 1: too much, you know, It's something simple. Little Jay's here

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Speaker 1: and there, little T shirt, the match robbing jersey, got

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Speaker 1: the bulls hate ye man, You're drafted into sixth round Seattle, Seahawk.

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Speaker 1: Tell us what that was like when you found out

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Speaker 1: that you were gonna be a pro? Bro? Man, that

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Speaker 1: was that was just mom blowing. I was I was

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Speaker 1: lost the words. I didn't know what to say. All right,

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Speaker 1: I've been playing football at my life, NFL been my

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Speaker 1: us in my name, go across that TV and get

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Speaker 1: their phone call. Man, what have you learned so far? Like,

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Speaker 1: you got drafted. I think the draft was in May.

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Speaker 1: Here we are now you're getting ready h to start

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Speaker 1: camping everything like that. We're in July. What have you

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Speaker 1: what's the biggest let that you've learned so the big

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Speaker 1: the biggest thing I've been taking and learn how to

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Speaker 1: be a pro, how to take care of your body,

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Speaker 1: to eat right, what it takes to be a pro.

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Speaker 1: I'm just taking that in from all the other guys, Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, all the other rookies that I've had in

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Speaker 1: it's been everything that I've been through going far in

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Speaker 1: for the markets Christmas. You know when you started playing football?

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Speaker 1: What got you into plenty of the game of football

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Speaker 1: what I pretty lift my parents pretty much signed me

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Speaker 1: I was always bigger than everybody in my class. So

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Speaker 1: my game got good, just playing with guys older than me.

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Speaker 1: And in college, you had had Jimbo Fishing as a coach,

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Speaker 1: Jimba always told us to trust the process. Coach Tagger

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Speaker 1: type of cereal left on the planet, what cereal would

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Speaker 1: you shoot? Cinnamon toa cinnamon toast crunch has down? What

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Speaker 1: what can we catch the Marcus Christmas doing? Oh, you

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Speaker 1: can catch me fishing every day? Fishing. You know, I

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Speaker 1: You know what I did? See? You had some big

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Speaker 1: thing you call on your on your on your Instagram.

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Speaker 1: Yeah that was a snoop. You really like fishing like that? Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's just growing up my mom, like I said, we

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Speaker 1: took us out fishing. That's just something I do to

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Speaker 1: That's just my getaway. So let me ask you what happens?

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Speaker 1: So so there's your secret? Uh my sire, Hey, I

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Speaker 1: this this year? You know? Right now, all the twelves

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Speaker 1: You expect you got to come in and work hard

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Speaker 1: do like you. And that family man, all your family

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Speaker 1: you write, man, that humidity is real. With that, I

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Speaker 1: I got spoiled here just going back there, it was like,

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Speaker 1: whoa R man, Well, I'm getting ready to drop you

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Speaker 1: and if you can give a message to the twelves

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Speaker 1: right now, you got an opportunity to talk to them

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Speaker 1: right now, I just want to say that you guys,

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Speaker 1: I just want to say, go twelves all right man? Well,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it. And by the way, you will never

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Speaker 1: hear any type of puns off your last name being Crystal.

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Speaker 1: Valentine's Day, No fourth did July, even though that's when

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Speaker 1: your birthday is none of that's the world that you

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Speaker 1: jumped in with his brother. Thank you, brother,