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Speaker 3: We got a very special guest, my guy, Austin Ackler,

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Speaker 4: How you doing.

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Speaker 1: I'll do well, brother, Thanks for having me back on man.

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Speaker 4: No anytime. Man, it's great to great to see you.

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Speaker 4: How you've been It's.

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Speaker 5: Been great man, Yeah, getting back healthy. You know how

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Speaker 3: At let's do it, no question, no question. You guys

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Speaker 3: Well, it's been an incredible journey, journey for you Western

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Speaker 5: But a guy that can move, you know, Philip wasn't

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Speaker 4: Not you. You've embraced it, talk about.

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Speaker 5: and pairing my personality with that has really I've immersed

437
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Speaker 5: myself in these opportunities and continue to blossom them, not

438
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Speaker 5: only on the field but off the field.

439
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Speaker 1: So it's been pretty special.

440
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Speaker 3: That's awesome. That's awesome. I mean, it's a it's a

441
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Speaker 3: great place. I'm from l A, so you know, known

442
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Speaker 3: the farm life.

443
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Speaker 5: But yeah, like I remember, you know, like during the winters,

444
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Speaker 5: like we would look forward to elk hunting, Like we

445
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Speaker 5: go elk hunting during the fall, right, and we had

446
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Speaker 5: our horses, so we'd be we wouldn't like people like

447
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Speaker 5: take four wheelers and stuff. We're going horseback, Like we're

448
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Speaker 5: going in we got five horses with us, some saddle

449
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Speaker 5: bags on. We're hiking up in the mountains and steamboat

450
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Speaker 5: Colorado and we're going to We're going to get ourselves

451
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Speaker 5: an elk. We'll get an elk, go butcher it right, wolfs.

452
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Speaker 1: Chopping, pioneers.

453
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Speaker 4: Stuff.

454
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Speaker 1: Man, that's the life I grew up in.

455
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Speaker 5: That's what we did every every fall, we're going elk hunting,

456
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Speaker 5: and you know, you'd clean the elk, you throw it

457
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Speaker 5: up behind quarters, over back, over the saddle bags of

458
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Speaker 5: the horses, and you take it down the mountain. And

459
00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:07,200
Speaker 5: it's like things like that that I grew up around.

460
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Speaker 5: Like we we shoot rabbits on our farm and like

461
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Speaker 5: eat them for like lunch, and like it's like based

462
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Speaker 5: like chicken, and so it's like it's a it's a

463
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Speaker 5: very different lifestyle than being in la I'll tell you that.

464
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Speaker 3: Like like like do your friends back home like that

465
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Speaker 3: grew up with you, Like look at you, like, hey, yo,

466
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Speaker 3: you didn't win Salt.

467
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Speaker 4: You ain't the same as you used to be.

468
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Speaker 5: If I didn't play in the NFL, they'd probably be

469
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Speaker 5: saying that, yeah, for.

470
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Speaker 3: Sure, for sure, Oh do you ever go back, and

471
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Speaker 3: like like don't shoot elk or rabbits.

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Speaker 1: I haven't been back. I haven't been back since I've left.

473
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Speaker 5: And maybe it's because you know, the lifestyle has continue

474
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Speaker 5: to leave me.

475
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Speaker 1: I changed, man.

476
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Speaker 5: I realized that he maybe this lifestyle isn't for me,

477
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Speaker 5: you know, going into the you know, the hunting season

478
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Speaker 5: and all that. But hey, I'll still sit on a

479
00:20:57,520 --> 00:20:59,600
Speaker 5: bucket on the ice and do some ice fishing. I

480
00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:02,600
Speaker 5: reckon and that for anybody. So yeah, that's what I

481
00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:05,199
Speaker 5: will get. So that's that part still lives within me.

482
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Speaker 3: If you if we ever get into like an apocalyptic situation,

483
00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:10,320
Speaker 3: you know where you know how to take care of yourself.

484
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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, for sure, for sure. Living out in the woods. Yeah,

485
00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:14,359
Speaker 5: we set up a hut, I can get you a

486
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Speaker 5: fire going. We'll get it. We'll survive. You know what's

487
00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:19,399
Speaker 5: the song. There's a song counchry boy will survive. It

488
00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:20,960
Speaker 5: stands true, stands.

489
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Speaker 4: True, no question? Are your parents and everybody? Is your

490
00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:24,440
Speaker 4: mom still out there? Yeah?

491
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Speaker 1: Yeah, my mom's my mom is like my support.

492
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Speaker 4: Now yeah, okay, is she is? She? Is she with you? Now?

493
00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:29,679
Speaker 4: Are she in?

494
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Speaker 5: She's back in Colorado still? So she's still no, no, no, no.

495
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Speaker 5: So after I graduated, there was a divorce and kind

496
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Speaker 5: of they split ways and now she's now she's in

497
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Speaker 5: the civilized land with with people in the neighborhood, you.

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Speaker 1: Know out there. Yeah, so there's a place is Briggsdale, Colorado.

499
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Speaker 1: That's where we lived.

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Speaker 5: It was like a population one hundred and eight, and

501
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Speaker 5: so I didn't end up going to that school. I

502
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Speaker 5: went to the town that was bigger, which was four

503
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Speaker 5: thousand right next to us. But out here's ranches, man,

504
00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:01,199
Speaker 5: like we had we had eight acres, which sounds like

505
00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:03,880
Speaker 5: a lot, but really it was in Colorado.

506
00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:04,520
Speaker 1: Was just dirt.

507
00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:09,040
Speaker 5: And I mean we're around thousands of acre ranches around us,

508
00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:10,800
Speaker 5: and that's that's kind of the lifestyle that it was

509
00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:11,240
Speaker 5: out there.

510
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Speaker 3: So one hundred eight people, you know, every single person,

511
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Speaker 3: you gotta knowle person.

512
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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, I knew. I knew them. I knew the families.

513
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Speaker 1: We kind of grew We grew up together.

514
00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:21,800
Speaker 5: We played all sports together, Like we played baseball together

515
00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:25,400
Speaker 5: that we go into you know, basketball, we go to track, football, wrestling,

516
00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:26,680
Speaker 5: We did everything together.

517
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Speaker 1: I knew everyone.

518
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Speaker 5: I'd be going up to over other each other's houses.

519
00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:34,600
Speaker 5: Like it was that like typical small town you know, vibe.

520
00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:37,200
Speaker 3: Did y'all win any championship because I know you had

521
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Speaker 3: like leagues, like the leagues you went out around and

522
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Speaker 3: play everybody else.

523
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Speaker 5: And now We had a group of studs for sure,

524
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Speaker 5: and I didn't keep playing baseball. But that that group

525
00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:47,320
Speaker 5: went and played baseball and they won a bunch of championship.

526
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Speaker 5: We didn't win any football. We always only lost every

527
00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:53,440
Speaker 5: one game every year, and it was in the playoffs. Unfortunately.

528
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Speaker 1: I know, I know, it would.

529
00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:57,399
Speaker 5: Always be eleven, eleven and zero, and then we get

530
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Speaker 5: to the playoffs and we come up short.

531
00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:02,240
Speaker 1: But hey, ended up working out for me.

532
00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:05,560
Speaker 3: Worked out great for you. Well, I got a trivia

533
00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:06,600
Speaker 3: question for you.

534
00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:10,480
Speaker 1: Oh trivia. Okay, okay, this is football trivia. Okay. So

535
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Speaker 1: a quick story about my football.

536
00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:13,679
Speaker 5: I didn't start watching the NFL, like I told you,

537
00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:15,760
Speaker 5: I was going into business, like that's where my mind's that,

538
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:17,720
Speaker 5: Like I want to grow, I want to bring f

539
00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:20,840
Speaker 5: like I want to bring impact to people in the

540
00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:22,520
Speaker 5: way of building tools, like I'm a builder.

541
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Speaker 1: I've been building for my whole life.

542
00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:26,280
Speaker 5: So I didn't start watching the NFL till my junior

543
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Speaker 5: year of college when my coach is coming to me

544
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Speaker 5: and it's like, hey, like you might be able to

545
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Speaker 5: play in the next level. I'm no, I'm the first

546
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Speaker 5: guy for my school to ever go to the NFL.

547
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Speaker 5: So I've never seen NFL scouts on campus. There's never

548
00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:40,760
Speaker 5: been a Pro Day on my campus. This NFL thing

549
00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:41,480
Speaker 5: is like a.

550
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Speaker 1: Foreign like entity.

551
00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:44,520
Speaker 5: Like I don't even know what the heck's going on.

552
00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:47,240
Speaker 5: I grew up watching bull riding, like Chris Shivers looking up.

553
00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:48,960
Speaker 5: He was my he was the guy I was looking

554
00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:51,840
Speaker 5: up to. Man, this guy was a world champion bull rider.

555
00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:52,480
Speaker 4: I want to be.

556
00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:54,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I was in a whole different world. So

557
00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:57,000
Speaker 1: we'll see. We'll see if I can handle some NFL trivia.

558
00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:03,400
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, Chris Shivers with that? Who's that's the trivia question?

559
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:08,399
Speaker 3: Who's who did Austin idolized growing up? Chris Shivers?

560
00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:08,920
Speaker 4: That's good.

561
00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:13,280
Speaker 3: On Sunday, you became the fourth player in the Super

562
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Speaker 3: Bowl Error with thirty plus rushing touchdowns and thirty plus

563
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Speaker 3: receiving touchdowns.

564
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Speaker 4: Who are the other three? Mm?

565
00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:30,080
Speaker 1: Hmm thirty rushing and thirty receiving? Wow? Are any of

566
00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:31,480
Speaker 1: those still actively playing?

567
00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:33,040
Speaker 4: None? Actively playing?

568
00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:36,080
Speaker 1: Oh god? Oh god?

569
00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:43,600
Speaker 4: Hm hmm. One of them was Met Smith one of them. No,

570
00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:51,920
Speaker 4: he's not Barry Sanders, No, sir, he is not. Wow.

571
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:53,440
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of guys about it.

572
00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:56,439
Speaker 3: Caught the ball yeah, there's there were some great running

573
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Speaker 3: backs that that ran it well and caught it well.

574
00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:01,760
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm trying to have a hint I can give you.

575
00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:07,440
Speaker 1: Priest Holmes, no, sir, Adrian Peterson.

576
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:12,160
Speaker 4: One, no, sir, oh no.

577
00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:14,639
Speaker 3: But they played on the same well, he played for

578
00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:18,000
Speaker 3: the same organization as Eric Dickerson did one of that.

579
00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,919
Speaker 1: Okay, you you gonna have to help me out, man, okay.

580
00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:28,520
Speaker 4: Uh greatest shoal turf he I need you to know

581
00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:32,119
Speaker 4: that one. Hold.

582
00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:41,520
Speaker 1: Hold, I've heard it before. H sure, I just told you,

583
00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:41,879
Speaker 1: damn it.

584
00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:46,040
Speaker 4: Chris Shivers, bro Marshall fall, Marshall, Marshall.

585
00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:47,639
Speaker 1: Paul Yeah, okay, I know who Marshall paulk is. That's

586
00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:49,320
Speaker 1: who you're saying. Yeah, played on the same team, played

587
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:49,720
Speaker 1: for the Rams.

588
00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:51,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, greatest show turn.

589
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:56,520
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, get exposed here. Who's the next one? Bryan

590
00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:59,720
Speaker 1: Westbrook Ryan okay, right?

591
00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:00,000
Speaker 3: Uh?

592
00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:03,359
Speaker 1: Seahawks right? No, Eagles, Oh Eagles?

593
00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:05,080
Speaker 5: Okay, wait, I think I played with him in two

594
00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:07,200
Speaker 5: thousand and seven Madden, way back in the day.

595
00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:10,480
Speaker 4: There you go the Yeah, he was a great receiving.

596
00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:14,400
Speaker 3: Running back in James Brooks, so that when I would

597
00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:17,440
Speaker 3: wouldn't expect you to get but Marshall Falk I thought

598
00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:18,280
Speaker 3: you had a shot.

599
00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,919
Speaker 1: At thank Thanks for having faith to me.

600
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:23,280
Speaker 4: Man. Thanks. I just try to believe in you.

601
00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:25,840
Speaker 5: I gave you the backstory where I'm from. Man, I'm

602
00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:28,080
Speaker 5: out killing elk in the in the fall. You know,

603
00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:30,840
Speaker 5: that's what we're doing. That was the watching football.

604
00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:32,840
Speaker 3: During the two thousands you were you were climbing up

605
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:36,119
Speaker 3: the mountain killing elk, cleaning it.

606
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:39,280
Speaker 1: Oh, different life, man, different lifestyle.

607
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,160
Speaker 3: That's definitely a different life. Well, I appreciate you joining me, brother.

608
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:44,400
Speaker 3: If you got any questions for me, I'm all the years.

609
00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:46,919
Speaker 3: But otherwise I know it's it's your off day. You

610
00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:48,960
Speaker 3: gotta get some rest. You got a big game coming up,

611
00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:50,439
Speaker 3: so I don't want to hold.

612
00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:51,000
Speaker 4: You up too much.

613
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:52,959
Speaker 1: Awesome, keep crushing it. Sure, I'm proud of you, man.

614
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:53,600
Speaker 1: Thanks for having me on.

615
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:55,920
Speaker 4: Brother. I appreciate you, Brother, appreciate you all.

616
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Speaker 1: Love awesome all right, bro.

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Speaker 5: The volume