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Speaker 1: Stern and Bradsha Welcome everybody. It's the Cowboys Hour, and

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Speaker 1: thank you all for joining us. We've got a terrific

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Speaker 1: much for coming out. And we have for the third

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Speaker 1: year in a row, delighted to be able to give

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Speaker 1: you an opportunity to get to know the brothers Smith

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Speaker 1: Odd and making a proper Hollywood entrance Jalen Smith and

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Speaker 1: would you give Jalen and Rod a big round of applause? Please,

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Speaker 1: thank you, um, thank you both appreciate it. Jalen just

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Speaker 1: got out of the cold tub, right, yes, sir, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: how long are you in the cold tub? Man? Ten

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Speaker 1: minutes and it's cold. Oh that's super cold. That's all

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Speaker 1: you need. Yeah, get your wow. Okay, Well, if you want,

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Speaker 1: sit with it on. It's it's a style. It couldn't

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Speaker 1: just to remind everyone, this is our regular Monday night

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Speaker 1: stop during the Cowboys season. We are here at the

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Speaker 1: Omni Frisco. We have a great place to enjoy the

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Speaker 1: fine food and beverages from neighborhood services, and Taylor and

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Speaker 1: I are delighted to be able to welcome everyone around

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys radio network and to look into the little

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Speaker 1: cameras that are set up right there for streaming live

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Speaker 1: on Dallas Cowboys dot com so everyone can see Jalen

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Speaker 1: and Rod's very handsome faces and uh and so this

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Speaker 1: is this is what we do. When they win, we

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Speaker 1: And when something other than that happens, we acknowledge that

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Speaker 1: to give you an opportunity to get to know our

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Speaker 1: We do thank all of you who have come out

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Speaker 1: and this given yesterday's game, this terrific crowd is a

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Speaker 1: testimony to the popularity of Jalen and Rod Smith. That's

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Speaker 1: what I'm going with. These folks have come out in

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Speaker 1: my right, you came out. This came No. I've been

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Speaker 1: doing as long enough to have empirical evidence that they

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Speaker 1: are not coming out for Sema. This is absolutely the truth.

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Speaker 1: Why is there a Michigan fan over there? He has

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Speaker 1: a Michigan Where where's the Michigan where I see him?

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Speaker 1: They cam, Yeah, that is a true notre dame alone

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Speaker 1: right here to be spotting that out. Even I definitely

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Speaker 1: did they have to buy it too? No? I provided it.

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Speaker 1: the down and up, down up feeling. And uh, you

424
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Speaker 1: guys are both pretty active on social media. Do you

425
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Speaker 1: check that at all? Do you read that? I mean,

426
00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:02,800
Speaker 1: I see what you're sharing on your own, but are

427
00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:06,720
Speaker 1: you seeing what people are tweeting? Or you just ignore that? Yeah?

428
00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:09,320
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, I mean if you don't help,

429
00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:11,040
Speaker 1: if you're on social media, you can't you can't help

430
00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:12,960
Speaker 1: but to see it. But I mean, I mean you

431
00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:14,800
Speaker 1: see it. I mean, you get you can choose, you

432
00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:18,600
Speaker 1: choose what you take in. Yeah, I mean what social

433
00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:21,800
Speaker 1: media says, it doesn't matter. They're not in those locker rooms.

434
00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:24,439
Speaker 1: They're not in the meeting room studying and working. They

435
00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:27,199
Speaker 1: butt off to prepare, prepare for this game. So they

436
00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:29,399
Speaker 1: really don't know what's what. They've just given their opinion,

437
00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:32,040
Speaker 1: which they had. They are entitled to their opinion. But uh,

438
00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:34,680
Speaker 1: like I said, you take in with you whatever you want.

439
00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:36,040
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, you gotta go

440
00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:37,840
Speaker 1: out there and do you How do you how do

441
00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:42,960
Speaker 1: you ignore something that is dumb and hateful, because there's

442
00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:46,080
Speaker 1: a lot of that out there. Don't block them out? Yeah,

443
00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:48,240
Speaker 1: I mean you can block it out and delete it.

444
00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:50,440
Speaker 1: You don't play it, don't play, don't don't read it,

445
00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:54,240
Speaker 1: don't read anything. Um, it's a lot of strategies about,

446
00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:56,320
Speaker 1: you know, going around it. Do you feel like you've

447
00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:58,680
Speaker 1: gotten better since you've been in the league, matured a

448
00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:01,159
Speaker 1: little bit, since maybe you're time at Notre Dame or

449
00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:04,600
Speaker 1: I'm even that Notre Dame. I never really paid attence

450
00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:07,520
Speaker 1: in the people's comments. That's good. That's hard to do.

451
00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:10,280
Speaker 1: I mean, but when you were Notre Dame, people's comments

452
00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:21,400
Speaker 1: were about how great you are every single day. No, no, yeah,

453
00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:25,720
Speaker 1: it's it's it's very very love and hatus. You know,

454
00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:30,520
Speaker 1: months like the uh you know America's team, Sam, Yeah, yeah, yes,

455
00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:33,920
Speaker 1: I think that probably prepared you. You probably went to

456
00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:37,600
Speaker 1: both of you, in fact, went to perfect universities to

457
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Speaker 1: prepare you for the experience of being a Dallas Cowboys.

458
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Speaker 1: We will be back with more with Rod and Jalen

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Speaker 1: Monday night stop. Taylor Stern and I are delighted to

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Speaker 1: be joined by all of you who are here tonight.

478
00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:58,640
Speaker 1: We encourage you to come on out meet your cowboy favorites.

479
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:02,800
Speaker 1: And I all always love having this show always for

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00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:05,000
Speaker 1: the last three years since they've both been here, Jalen

481
00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:08,920
Speaker 1: Smith and Rod Smith, because I like him so much

482
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:12,640
Speaker 1: individually and I love him even more together. It's such

483
00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:15,520
Speaker 1: a great story. So I apologize to both of you

484
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:18,880
Speaker 1: for rehashing some old ground, but there are so many

485
00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:20,960
Speaker 1: people who haven't heard it that it's just always fun

486
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:28,000
Speaker 1: for me. So Rod's the older brother, and you looked

487
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:30,359
Speaker 1: up to him. He was your hero right when you

488
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:35,440
Speaker 1: were a kid. Yes, yeah, absolutely, you know, like like

489
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 1: Rob mentioned before, he was always, like in the spotlight,

490
00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:44,439
Speaker 1: the greatest player, greatest young player to ever come out

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Speaker 1: of our hometown. Like I looked up to him. Everyone

492
00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:51,560
Speaker 1: envied him. So it was for me. It forced me

493
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:53,280
Speaker 1: to be great because I didn't want to be the

494
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:56,520
Speaker 1: little brother that was just mediocre, you know. So you

495
00:26:56,600 --> 00:27:00,520
Speaker 1: know it calls for a lot of nights of you know,

496
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:03,000
Speaker 1: with while he's doing extra push ups, you know, I'm

497
00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:05,000
Speaker 1: getting down on the floor doing them with him. Man,

498
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:07,800
Speaker 1: you know, or he's outside running extra laps. You know,

499
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:11,080
Speaker 1: I go outside and run with him, um and and

500
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:14,360
Speaker 1: just helped me. Why did you decide to play defense

501
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:17,399
Speaker 1: when he was playing offense because of that? Well, I

502
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:21,240
Speaker 1: wanted to hit people instead of, you know, to instead

503
00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 1: of getting hit, you know, I wanted to kind of

504
00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:26,960
Speaker 1: put the punishment on people. I've always had a passion for, um,

505
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:30,000
Speaker 1: you know, kind of laying the hid and sacking the quarterback.

506
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:32,840
Speaker 1: But it just kind of kind of developed into my

507
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:35,000
Speaker 1: own niche and I wanted to take my own path.

508
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:37,760
Speaker 1: So instead of going on high state, you know, I

509
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:39,960
Speaker 1: chose to go to another Dame. Was no way to

510
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:41,960
Speaker 1: go on the same college he went to. No, that

511
00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:44,480
Speaker 1: was my second choice. It wasn't yeah, ok, yeah, Like

512
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:46,439
Speaker 1: I was actually gonna be like I would have been

513
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:48,720
Speaker 1: there with like me and Zeke would have went there

514
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:52,240
Speaker 1: together and all that out. But I wanted to take

515
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:54,840
Speaker 1: my own path. And I'm mama's boy, so you know

516
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:58,760
Speaker 1: that Dame was a little closer. And uh, the fact

517
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Speaker 1: that you went to a private high school, Rod, you

518
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:04,560
Speaker 1: were in public school, right, and was that also part

519
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:07,280
Speaker 1: of that taking your own path? Yeah? Well, I went

520
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 1: to Catholic High school, and like the whole vibe change

521
00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:13,119
Speaker 1: when I got an offer from Notre Dame, and I

522
00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:16,760
Speaker 1: really didn't know why until I visited. So just um,

523
00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:19,080
Speaker 1: you know, basically just the experience you know that I

524
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:23,120
Speaker 1: was able to receive and um in South Ben, the camaraderie,

525
00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 1: the connections Notre Dame is global. So thankful Rod. When

526
00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:31,560
Speaker 1: did you know that he was going to be at

527
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:36,600
Speaker 1: least as good as you? Probably? Uh? I always seen

528
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:38,840
Speaker 1: it him run up, to be honest, but uh, but

529
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:41,200
Speaker 1: you weren't going to tell him that. I mean he knew.

530
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:46,480
Speaker 1: I mean no, I know, I know, I know he knew.

531
00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:49,880
Speaker 1: I want to know when you knew because my brother

532
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 1: who's here, has got two grandsons who are what a

533
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:55,960
Speaker 1: year and a half apart, and they are terrific little

534
00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,920
Speaker 1: athletes and they really love baseball right now. And so

535
00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 1: the older one, for a while, I thought, Okay, I'm good,

536
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:05,480
Speaker 1: and he I see he wants to be like me,

537
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 1: and okay, he's good, but I'm And then there came

538
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:10,360
Speaker 1: a point when the younger one and starting to get

539
00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:13,200
Speaker 1: closer to him, and we we knew from when they

540
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:15,680
Speaker 1: were a little bit, oh he's gonna be that one's

541
00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 1: gonna be he's gonna pass him by. Yeah, I'm not

542
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 1: saying he's passed you by. So you want to know,

543
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:23,080
Speaker 1: what's that what's that memory moment? I want to say,

544
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:26,440
Speaker 1: when did you look at him and say? It's a

545
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:28,480
Speaker 1: lot of them actually, but the one I give you.

546
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:32,320
Speaker 1: Um so my senior year, his freshman year in high school. Um,

547
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 1: it's it's the week we played each other. You know,

548
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:38,200
Speaker 1: we're saying, hey, I'm on one side of party, he's

549
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 1: on the other side of parts and not even just played.

550
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:42,800
Speaker 1: This was for the state title, right, No, no, no,

551
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 1: this wasn't for the state tide this but he did

552
00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 1: go down to the state title did end up going

553
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 1: down to the state title and win it there. But

554
00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 1: but no, so anyways, um, he's playing the game he had.

555
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:55,560
Speaker 1: He was he was playing fullback at the time. He

556
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:57,720
Speaker 1: was he was leading, he was leading up. So he

557
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:00,280
Speaker 1: came up and it was me. It was my chance

558
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 1: to hit him, music to hit him or make the tackle.

559
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:05,840
Speaker 1: I hit him, hit him pretty hard, hitting pretty hard.

560
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:07,680
Speaker 1: He got back up, you know, he got back up.

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00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 1: You know I got to talk, you know, yelling at

562
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:13,400
Speaker 1: him or whatever. So probably the next series, the next

563
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:16,600
Speaker 1: series or two. Um. He comes and gets like I

564
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:18,600
Speaker 1: want to say, like a flat route out of the backfield.

565
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:20,920
Speaker 1: He catches it. You know, I'm chasing it down and

566
00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:23,840
Speaker 1: chasing it down. His receiver blocks me. He keeps running

567
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:27,160
Speaker 1: down the sideline. He runs over our starting safety and

568
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:29,959
Speaker 1: our starting corner. H I'm talking about run him over,

569
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:33,920
Speaker 1: like completely run through him. Stay up, see still up,

570
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:36,840
Speaker 1: end up and keep going, ended up, stepping out of bounds.

571
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:38,560
Speaker 1: I got the maybe like two or five yard line

572
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 1: he can. He comes back yelling at me like he

573
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:44,280
Speaker 1: just ran me over. I'm like, damn what at At

574
00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:46,320
Speaker 1: the same time, it's like, man, why do you let

575
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:47,640
Speaker 1: him do that to you? But at the same time,

576
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 1: it's like, man, that's what I'm talking about. Keep on,

577
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:51,880
Speaker 1: keep on balling, keep on going at him. But uh

578
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:54,640
Speaker 1: but yeah, that game right there. You know what I'm saying.

579
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:56,600
Speaker 1: It was no question. I'm like, oh, man, he's he's

580
00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 1: gonna be a star. He's definitely gonna say him sensor

581
00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:04,680
Speaker 1: past me. All right, he's your hero. When did you know? Okay,

582
00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 1: I got caught him. I'm I'm as good as him. Man.

583
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 1: It was still he still got it. We go, we

584
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:17,280
Speaker 1: go at it. We go add it in practice every Thursday,

585
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 1: we do one on ones and we go back and forth,

586
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:23,280
Speaker 1: you know who gets the victory. But like, it was

587
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 1: probably my junior year into junior high school where I

588
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 1: was like, okay, I got a chance to really be

589
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 1: as good as my brother, and um, you know, I

590
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:39,640
Speaker 1: had worked my entire life up to that point just

591
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:43,040
Speaker 1: to you know, just to to get under his get

592
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 1: up from under his shadow. And uh, you know, once

593
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 1: that happened, it was just you know, nothing but love

594
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 1: because because I was forming into my own self, own personal,

595
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 1: own player. And uh, I think we fueled each other, um,

596
00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 1: you know, to get here, you know, to the position

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00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:01,120
Speaker 1: that we're are today. And and you know, being as

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00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:04,600
Speaker 1: our third year, um you know, together my third year

599
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 1: in the league, his fourth year, but third year playing

600
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 1: on the same team. It's it's amazing. Yeah. I don't

601
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 1: know if you remember this road, because this was a

602
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 1: long time ago. This was your first year on the Cowboys,

603
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:18,080
Speaker 1: and I remember we were standing there, Taylor, it's only

604
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:20,960
Speaker 1: three years ago that well, hey, some people just don't

605
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,800
Speaker 1: remember these things. Some people have been on the earth

606
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 1: last time than other people. Three years. But we were

607
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 1: staying there and we came up do this wasn't Jalen

608
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:35,080
Speaker 1: was still a senior and it was before I think

609
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 1: any Bowl games or anything like that, and we came

610
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 1: up doing We're like, Jalen, you know, is he getting

611
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:41,560
Speaker 1: ready for the NFL and all that? And You're like, yeah,

612
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:42,960
Speaker 1: he's ready, and we I think we asked you is

613
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:44,920
Speaker 1: he gonna be a Cowboy? And You're like, he should

614
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:49,200
Speaker 1: be fast forward? He is. And for everyone who's seen

615
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 1: the incredible moment when you get the call from the Cowboys,

616
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:55,800
Speaker 1: you're right there was that just as cool for you

617
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,480
Speaker 1: as it was for Jalen. Man, it was. It was

618
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 1: blessed it it was, but it's probably one of his

619
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 1: biggest I was. I was holding it in, but I

620
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 1: shared it. I shared it. Something ain't gonna but not

621
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:12,479
Speaker 1: though it was, it felt it felt like I got drafted.

622
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:15,560
Speaker 1: You know, I was just flying, flying back into the

623
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:18,440
Speaker 1: city to get ready for the draft, and I'm coming

624
00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:20,320
Speaker 1: back from Dallas. You know, I'm you know, I've been

625
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 1: in Dallas for the past few months playing, so I

626
00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:25,440
Speaker 1: come back. You know, we all just chilling. We got

627
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:27,720
Speaker 1: the family and friends, you know, are close ones around

628
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 1: us back in our hometown. That's why. I think that's

629
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 1: what made it so special, you know, being from four

630
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 1: Way Indiana and them, it's it's it's rare. You know,

631
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:35,520
Speaker 1: it's rare. But we're starting to you know, we're starting

632
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 1: to produce a couple more athletes. But um, but yeah,

633
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Speaker 1: I've seen the I've seen the two one four. I'm like,

634
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:45,280
Speaker 1: man like Dallas, Dallas, I know that. Yeah, yeah, we

635
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:48,960
Speaker 1: we he got excited, we both got excited. He answered

636
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 1: the phone, and I'm listening in here. It's Jerry Jones.

637
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:57,000
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, are you crazy? It's crazy? But uh man,

638
00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 1: it's and it's been a dream come true. I wouldn't

639
00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:02,320
Speaker 1: change I wouldn't change nothing, nothing at all, Like how

640
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 1: how everything happened. I wouldn't change nothing because it brought me.

641
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 1: It brought me, you know what I'm saying, to be

642
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 1: back when I reunited with my brother. I mean, we

643
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:11,920
Speaker 1: was already close. You know, we've been around each other

644
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:13,879
Speaker 1: all the life, but we had never got a chance

645
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:15,759
Speaker 1: to play. They never got a chance to play play

646
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 1: play with each other. You know, it's always been that

647
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:20,600
Speaker 1: age difference. But um, like I said, man like Jay

648
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:23,400
Speaker 1: Len like he feels he feels me I feel like

649
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:25,719
Speaker 1: I feel him. I think we both collectively make each

650
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:27,880
Speaker 1: other better. And I think it's it's a it's a

651
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:29,920
Speaker 1: it's a good energy, young hand that that we bring

652
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:33,560
Speaker 1: to the Cowboys? Is there? Is it even better than

653
00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:37,640
Speaker 1: you when you whenever however age picking age, I don't care.

654
00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:40,200
Speaker 1: Wouldn't you said to have be cool? If we could

655
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:43,439
Speaker 1: play together on the same team? Is it even better?

656
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:46,799
Speaker 1: Now you're both team members of the team, you're both

657
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 1: well because contributors, and it's a it's a it's a

658
00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:55,239
Speaker 1: dream come true. Like, um, last week we got our

659
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:58,719
Speaker 1: first win. Like he was like the special teams player

660
00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 1: of the game and then I was like the defensive

661
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:03,400
Speaker 1: player of the game. And it's like a picture up

662
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:05,399
Speaker 1: at the you know, at our practice facility, and it's

663
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:07,960
Speaker 1: like like I want to get that monumented because it's

664
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:10,719
Speaker 1: like like and send that to our parents. I know

665
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 1: some people, you know, I could get forty years that

666
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:20,440
Speaker 1: I would definitely get a shirt. You have to do that.

667
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 1: Now you want like a posterization of the two of you. Yeah,

668
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:28,040
Speaker 1: from that moment, Yeah, we'll get it done. I can

669
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:30,759
Speaker 1: get that, all right, we'll get it done. Now. Last

670
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:33,359
Speaker 1: year when you scored your first touchdown, obviously, Jayalen ran

671
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:36,520
Speaker 1: onto the field to celebrate with you, and your touchdown

672
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:40,239
Speaker 1: celebration was so unique because everyone's doing these crazy things

673
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 1: and you laid down to pretend like you were sleeping.

674
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:45,239
Speaker 1: When you were asked about it, you said, it's because

675
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:47,720
Speaker 1: you feel like people are sleeping on you. Well, that's

676
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:51,520
Speaker 1: still be your celebration this year. Or you think you

677
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:54,160
Speaker 1: got something else up your song? Oh no, I definitely,

678
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:56,240
Speaker 1: you know, I definitely feel like people still sleep asleep

679
00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:58,960
Speaker 1: on me. Definitely, But um, you know I got I

680
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:00,640
Speaker 1: got some more, some more stuff for my sleeve. You

681
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:02,000
Speaker 1: know when I when I touched the ends on you,

682
00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:07,040
Speaker 1: Let's see what happen. You never know. Speaking of celebrations,

683
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 1: how what gets you to break out the swipe? Yea?

684
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:15,239
Speaker 1: What is a swipe worthy moment? M hmm that hit

685
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:20,080
Speaker 1: on Eli? Oh yeah, yeah, who didn't? Did you like

686
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:24,480
Speaker 1: say anything to you after that? Na? Did you hear

687
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 1: the breath leave him with? Because that was a Purge moment.

688
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:32,839
Speaker 1: That was big Purge moment, big big Purge moment. Yeah.

689
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 1: That was like if I was investing in private equity

690
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:40,520
Speaker 1: and I was, you know, uh, starting the fund raising

691
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:43,279
Speaker 1: the fund and I like got it all and it's like,

692
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:46,239
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, two three years I you know, I

693
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:48,760
Speaker 1: received two three x of my money sold the company.

694
00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 1: It was like that business money does it take that?

695
00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:59,840
Speaker 1: Does it take us a sack? Or that kind of

696
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:02,440
Speaker 1: They had to bring out the swipe third down stop,

697
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:06,720
Speaker 1: you know, some type of momentum uh switcher, tackle for lost,

698
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:10,520
Speaker 1: you know, some something of that caliber to that kind

699
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:12,480
Speaker 1: of you know, ignites the team if you know. I

700
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:13,840
Speaker 1: can do the swipe too. You know, you know, I

701
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:16,800
Speaker 1: play kickoff, I make tackles, you know, but would you

702
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:20,360
Speaker 1: would you? I mean wouldn't, But wouldn't it be taking

703
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:26,279
Speaker 1: his move? It's a family than we're not related. We

704
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 1: got a trademarking. Oh you know what, I actually believe you. Actually,

705
00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 1: I actually believe you. Will you do that? I've done

706
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:42,800
Speaker 1: it before. I've done it last year. First the Rams.

707
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:45,719
Speaker 1: I'm looking for the swipe. You can see it again.

708
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:48,520
Speaker 1: You see it again. Have you ever been able to

709
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:53,560
Speaker 1: do the swipe in the same game? Who? No? Not?

710
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,200
Speaker 1: We got to change that. That is the challenge I

711
00:37:56,320 --> 00:38:02,520
Speaker 1: am offering you for Sunday. Okay, sounds accepted. Swipe against

712
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:06,359
Speaker 1: the Detroit lions for each Smith double swipe. That would

713
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:08,759
Speaker 1: be good. That would be a good thing if you're

714
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:11,800
Speaker 1: a Cowboy fan. Okay, we are going to give you

715
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:14,880
Speaker 1: an opportunity now to ask Rod and Jalen some questions.

716
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:18,440
Speaker 1: Delighted to have the Smith brothers with us on the

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Speaker 1: excitement of Dallas Cowboys, Dowers and broadcasting line from the

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00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:15,040
Speaker 1: Omni Frisco at the starter. Welcome back. It's the Miller

732
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:18,279
Speaker 1: Like Cowboys Hour. I'm Brad Sham with Taylor Stern our

733
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:22,640
Speaker 1: special guests Tonight Rod and Jalen Smith in birth order.

734
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:27,920
Speaker 1: Um and yeah, and before we go to questions from

735
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:30,600
Speaker 1: this great audience we've got here at the Omni Frisco,

736
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:33,759
Speaker 1: I think perhaps this is the last year we'll have

737
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:38,880
Speaker 1: any reason to ask Jalen anything about the remarkable trail

738
00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 1: he's marked out for coming back from that injury in

739
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:46,040
Speaker 1: the Fiesta Bowl. But because people are now just starting,

740
00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:50,320
Speaker 1: people here are just starting to get an upfront in person.

741
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:54,319
Speaker 1: Look at you playing near your peak. Tell people who

742
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:57,759
Speaker 1: didn't watch a lot of Notre Dame games how they

743
00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 1: can tell that you are what you want to be

744
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:05,319
Speaker 1: on the football field in terms of Um, I mean,

745
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 1: I'm a playmaker. Um you know, I can cover, I

746
00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:14,080
Speaker 1: can tackle, I can run, Um, I can I can

747
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 1: pass rush. Um just a jack of all trades. And

748
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:21,399
Speaker 1: that's why. Um. You know, Jerry Jones drafted me um

749
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:23,920
Speaker 1: in the second round a couple of years ago. Um,

750
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 1: you know, after me dropping from being a top five pick.

751
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:29,360
Speaker 1: UM he believed in me. You know that I was

752
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:32,719
Speaker 1: gonna return, um you know to that high gall that

753
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:36,000
Speaker 1: high caliber you know, type of player, and um you

754
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:38,360
Speaker 1: know you know now the world's getting a chance to

755
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:40,920
Speaker 1: see that, um you know, with with with my health

756
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:44,719
Speaker 1: being a lot a lot better. So I'm just I'm

757
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:46,480
Speaker 1: blessed just to be able to play the game. I

758
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:50,720
Speaker 1: love again, very thankful when when you carry a receiver

759
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 1: like I remember there's a time in practice, you know

760
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:55,440
Speaker 1: you you ran down the length of field with Cole. Uh,

761
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:59,120
Speaker 1: there's been at least one time in these first three games. Well,

762
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:00,520
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was Mcca after a year,

763
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:04,120
Speaker 1: ode Odell, it was Odell Beckham. That's exactly right. And

764
00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:07,600
Speaker 1: so do you do those guys ever look at towards

765
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:08,800
Speaker 1: the end of the play, they ever look at you

766
00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 1: and what are you doing here with me? You can't

767
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:17,200
Speaker 1: run with me? Yeah? Absolutely absolutely, They're like they're like, man,

768
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:22,680
Speaker 1: you you got some speed and you love that, don't you. Yeah,

769
00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:24,600
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to I'm just I'm just trying to

770
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:27,440
Speaker 1: execute my job. Oh yeah, that's that's what it's about.

771
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:29,879
Speaker 1: Before we do get to the fan questions, because they're

772
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:32,359
Speaker 1: fun and they're good I just have to know if

773
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:35,000
Speaker 1: you guys have seen the Unfiltered series that these guys did,

774
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:38,600
Speaker 1: they revealed something about themselves that I thought was very unique.

775
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:43,960
Speaker 1: Their favorite food is catfish and spaghetti and together. So

776
00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:46,280
Speaker 1: tell everyone, because you guys said it was a Midwest,

777
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:50,840
Speaker 1: Midwest thing, I don't know. I mean, you know, is

778
00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:53,239
Speaker 1: it good? It's fire, you know you if you if

779
00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 1: you want to throw a little bit of sugar on

780
00:41:55,200 --> 00:42:01,719
Speaker 1: your spaghetti's trust me, Garl garlic barrier. Come on and

781
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:04,439
Speaker 1: some hot sauce, some rare hot mom. Make that. Yeah,

782
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:06,440
Speaker 1: I like that Tabasco sauce down here. You gotta get

783
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:11,120
Speaker 1: red hot. That's like Frank's sugar. Sugar on your spaghetti.

784
00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:12,680
Speaker 1: I want to just make sure I heard that. Yeah,

785
00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:14,440
Speaker 1: just not too much, just a little, you know, just

786
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 1: a dabble, dabble, you know, you don't need you don't

787
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 1: need it, don't understanding. But if you the kid, the

788
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 1: kid for the kids, okay, I try to stay away

789
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:26,839
Speaker 1: from the sugar nat and a half. You know, that's

790
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:29,920
Speaker 1: like the movie Elf. They're putting sugar out there. Yeah, okay,

791
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:32,000
Speaker 1: all right, Steven, I know we got some fans with

792
00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 1: questions for a Jail on the rod. Yeah, we have

793
00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:38,040
Speaker 1: Isaiah here with a question. Hey, Jail, and I was

794
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:40,759
Speaker 1: wondering what your thoughts on the new quarterback rule was

795
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:47,520
Speaker 1: and how that interferes with you Perjing quarterbacks man interferrece tremendously. Um,

796
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:51,200
Speaker 1: you gotta understand that this game is about the quarterback

797
00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:54,719
Speaker 1: and uh, you know that's that's what has the you know,

798
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:57,000
Speaker 1: the fans and the crowd and all of that good stuff,

799
00:42:57,040 --> 00:43:01,759
Speaker 1: all these dollars from sponsorships, et cetera. Um, but it's just,

800
00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:05,000
Speaker 1: you know, football is a dangerous sport. It's the last

801
00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:08,400
Speaker 1: gladiator sport. Um. No matter how safe we try to

802
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:11,680
Speaker 1: make it. Um, you know, it's just tough and it's hard.

803
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:14,480
Speaker 1: And when you know we're making you know, hits on

804
00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:18,440
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that are clean hits and getting flagged for it. Um,

805
00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:20,960
Speaker 1: it's really not a lot that we can do. Um.

806
00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:25,520
Speaker 1: You know, we're tackling a guy that's you know, and

807
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:27,880
Speaker 1: when we put our body weight on them, it's just

808
00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:31,959
Speaker 1: hard to control that without injuring yourself, you know, trying

809
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:35,520
Speaker 1: to avoid Um, it's really nothing that we can do

810
00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:38,399
Speaker 1: about it. You know, you just gotta you know, if

811
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:40,480
Speaker 1: you're ever caught in that situation. You gotta talk to

812
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:42,920
Speaker 1: your agent and hope you can get that finary do

813
00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:46,920
Speaker 1: have you Have you seen the tape of the of

814
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:50,800
Speaker 1: Tyrone's play yesterday? Yes? And so what what what was

815
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 1: your opinion live? And when you look back at it's

816
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:57,960
Speaker 1: clean hit, simple as that. And how did you avoid

817
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 1: Matthews clean hit? Yeah? How did you avoid doing any

818
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:05,239
Speaker 1: of that to Eli? I avoided it. I didn't fall

819
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:10,680
Speaker 1: on them. I mean we purged them without falling on well.

820
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:14,400
Speaker 1: I put my you know, just straight shoulder, you know, no,

821
00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:20,279
Speaker 1: no type of head. But um, you know Eli is

822
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:22,480
Speaker 1: supposed to go down. He was supposed to slide, you know,

823
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:24,960
Speaker 1: he was supposed to do that. And I just had

824
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:26,239
Speaker 1: to make them. You know, I had to make him

825
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:29,359
Speaker 1: faith for him. You're gonna do that again? I bet

826
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:35,719
Speaker 1: no you don't. But do you think with these new rules,

827
00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:40,320
Speaker 1: do you find yourself thinking about get to the side

828
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 1: of him? Yeah? It happened to me in the preseason

829
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:46,760
Speaker 1: versus Andy Dalton versus the Bengals, and I got shot.

830
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:49,600
Speaker 1: So I said, you know what, I just gotta check

831
00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:52,800
Speaker 1: I got my mentality has to be the same. Purge

832
00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:57,520
Speaker 1: until he gives up and when they give themself up.

833
00:44:57,600 --> 00:45:00,160
Speaker 1: And this you know you can just fly by, fly over,

834
00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:04,560
Speaker 1: don't do none, stupid. Um. It's a quarterback league. You're

835
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 1: aware that you are an interesting dichotomy. This this uh

836
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:15,880
Speaker 1: clearly deep thinking, soulful person who wants to purge people.

837
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:20,480
Speaker 1: You understand that it's just a little skitzo Freddy d

838
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:22,480
Speaker 1: work there, don't you well? A lot of the legends

839
00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:26,239
Speaker 1: they talk about, you know, the switch, the next you know,

840
00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:29,960
Speaker 1: flipping that switch, and it's just something that both of

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Speaker 1: us we possess. Smooth and clear. I view no big

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Speaker 1: smooth and little smooth, big smooth and little and booby

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Speaker 1: mouse and booby mouth. All right, let's stop back here

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Speaker 1: from quarterback rules to dance moves. Got Courtney here, I'm okay,

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Speaker 1: big smooth and little smooth. Speaking of smooth, DeMarcus Ware

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Speaker 1: starts on Dancing with the Stars tonight. If given the opportunity,

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Speaker 1: is that something you guys would say yes to? And

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Speaker 1: if you were both on the same season, who makes

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Speaker 1: it far? Courtney? I love that question. I definitely got

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Speaker 1: the move. I definitely, I definitely do it. But I

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Speaker 1: don't know. Jela Jela, Jela got some moves. Don't let

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Speaker 1: him full y'all. He know a dance but uh, but

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I definitely have tried. I definitely try.

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Speaker 1: I actually watched it. He pretty, he pretty smooth. He

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Speaker 1: pretty smooth. What's your signature move? Signature move? Yeah? Like,

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Speaker 1: what are you doing out there on the dance floor? Oh?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, And I'm just feeling the beat. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's based on the beat. And you're the singer, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I got them vocals? Do you what do you like

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Speaker 1: to say? Man? Fergie Fergie? What's your favorite Fergie song?

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Speaker 1: Big Girls Don't Cry? Can you give us three bars

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Speaker 1: of Fergie singing? Can you give us three three bars

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Speaker 1: of that? Off the record? Off the record? I got okay,

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Speaker 1: I'll work out. I'll work out of Steven. We got

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Speaker 1: time for one more. Stephen still out there? No Stephen

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Speaker 1: kry Okay, we're back school mate in the school. We

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Speaker 1: are all right. You guys are I will reiterate what

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Speaker 1: I said before. You're tremendous individually, and you're even better together.

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Speaker 1: And um, I don't think we could be as glad

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Speaker 1: as you are that you get to play together. But

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Speaker 1: we're all close. It's great. To watch. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: being here tonight. Thank you, Jayleen Smith, Rod coming out,

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Speaker 1: Taylor Stern, thank you very much. Thanks to all of

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Speaker 1: you for being with us. It's our regular Monday night

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Speaker 1: stop right here at the Omni Frisco and we hope

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Speaker 1: to see you again next week. Safety Jeff Heath will

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Speaker 1: be one of our guests next week right here at

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Speaker 1: the Omni Frisco on the Cowboys Hour, Getting the Game