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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Player's Podcast, where in Los Angeles, the

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Speaker 1: super Bowl is back. The ram Cincinnati being goes. I

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Speaker 1: have my favorite team that drafted me, the Arizona Cardon.

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Speaker 1: As I get the interview, I'll do a podcast with

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Speaker 1: Zach and his wife Julie. Ernt that I said that correct.

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Speaker 1: Let's get that right. You don't have to be perfect.

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Speaker 1: Arts that's high is pronounced. It is an honor to

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Speaker 1: have you guys here. I call the Powell couple in

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Speaker 1: this podcast. I can't wait to hear how the two

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Speaker 1: athletes stay married, stay partners, and and then begin to

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Speaker 1: raise up children. So welcome to the NFL Player's Podcast. Hey,

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Speaker 1: let's get started, Zach and Julie and tell me what

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Speaker 1: you guys met. Yeah, so he met. I was years old,

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Speaker 1: she was twenty. We met in college. Julie went to

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Speaker 1: a Friday baseball game at Stanford that Julie happened to

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Speaker 1: go to a friend and one of my high school teammates,

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Speaker 1: and basketball was like the ace pitcher at Stanford. So

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Speaker 1: I used to go watching pitch on Fridays, and so

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Speaker 1: sat right next to her, um and we started talking

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Speaker 1: sharing sunflower seeds. And that was the start of our

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Speaker 1: relationship year ago. Hold on, hold up, hold you just

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Speaker 1: go sitting next to her? Yeah, now are you checking

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Speaker 1: this out? You're noticing what's happening. Do you remember that moment?

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Speaker 1: I do remember that moment. Yeah, so, and then sunflower seeds?

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Speaker 1: Is that? That's how that's how we That was probably

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Speaker 1: the start of the topic right there, had the conversation

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Speaker 1: do you want some sunflower seeds? Okay, so you got

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Speaker 1: World Cup soccer? We'll get to that now. Professional football

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Speaker 1: player beside World Cup the side NFL. What motivate you guys, Julie.

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Speaker 1: I'm I think a lot of things like our support

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Speaker 1: from our family, our faith are drive. Like we just

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Speaker 1: love to be able to compete, Like I think we're

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Speaker 1: just so competitive and everything that we do that you

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Speaker 1: you can always get better. So it's just like even

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Speaker 1: when you, you know, get a acculate, it's always what, well,

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Speaker 1: what's next? You know? And I think you think you

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Speaker 1: think it's just that constant wanting to try and get

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Speaker 1: just motivating in itself. Is that you have unusual And

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Speaker 1: here's what I'm saying, a lot of time athletes don't

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Speaker 1: in the tumult endurance, the pain, the losing, and the winning.

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Speaker 1: What is that like? Is that an advantage? Oh? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: It's definitely been a blessing from sure. I mean Julie.

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Speaker 1: Every experience that I've gone through my career, Julie's experience

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Speaker 1: Julie's like, no, I know exactly what you what you're

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Speaker 1: So a lot today is about total wellness, right mental, physical,

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Speaker 1: that was just a world wind. And then um France

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Speaker 1: was really special um in twenty nine, just because being

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Speaker 1: I had my whole family there the whole time, and

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Speaker 1: so that was something really special because for us, we

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Speaker 1: wanted to be able to have our family there um

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Speaker 1: and really enjoy it because you you know, the first

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Speaker 1: one was amazing, but you're like, oh my gosh, like

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Speaker 1: you think it's gonna happen all the time because you're like, wow,

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Speaker 1: this is awesome, my first World Cup and we want it.

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Speaker 1: But second one, I really got a relish and have

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Speaker 1: family there and share what you know, sacrifices I've made

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Speaker 1: since I was four years old. Zack Julian, this has

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Speaker 1: been amazing. Thank you appreciate it. Keep up to grade work.

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