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Speaker 1: I heard the stories about how you, in a lot

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Speaker 1: of ways were indirectly responsible for the success that Peyton

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Speaker 1: Manning was able to have, as can you. Because what

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Speaker 1: one thing that people may not realize sometimes is how

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Speaker 1: cerebral and how intelligent players are outside of the quarterbacks position.

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Speaker 1: But you were one of those guys that when people

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Speaker 1: talk about Marshall fulk, they talked about what's up? Everybody's

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Speaker 1: LeVar Arrington here bringing you another exciting edition of conversations

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Speaker 1: with a legend, and I certainly have a legend with

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Speaker 1: me right here, right now, the legendary Marshall Folk, one

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Speaker 1: of the goats of goats at the running backs position.

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Speaker 1: He's here. He's promoting drug freeworld dot org. You can

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Speaker 1: Get involved, Port Marshall. You're here for a great a

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Speaker 1: great cause. It's your organization. Before we talked some football,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about why this is so important to you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because you know, drugs is rampant in our country

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Speaker 2: and in every country, I should say, because this affects

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Speaker 2: the world. This is the world issue that we have

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Speaker 2: and you know we've we've tried, and you have kids,

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Speaker 2: you know we try to tell them, just tell them,

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Speaker 2: don't do something. I was like telling them to do it.

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Speaker 2: So education is the approach. So what we've done is

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Speaker 2: we've created educator kids stuff that we give away for free.

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Speaker 2: If if you want to learn more about how to

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Speaker 2: an educator and you work for a school and you

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Speaker 2: want the curriculum, we give it away. It's not something

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Speaker 2: we're asking you to pay for. It's for free, but

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Speaker 2: it's giving the kids the education about different types of drugs,

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Speaker 2: whether it's street or prescription and also vaping stuff like that.

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Speaker 2: We we even tackle we even tackle what alcohol does

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Speaker 2: to your body, which we understand that and it's up

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Speaker 2: to you to partake. You just need to understand and

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Speaker 2: educate yourself on what you're doing to your body. And

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Speaker 2: we believe kids will make the better decision once they're

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Speaker 2: educated about it.

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Speaker 1: That's like that new age drug awareness resistance education. You know.

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Speaker 1: We grew up on there, you know, and they put

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Speaker 1: it in the classrooms. So hopefully they put it into

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Speaker 1: classrooms and get people involved. Drug freeworld dot org make

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Speaker 1: sure you check it out. I got one more for

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Speaker 1: you because this is more football related. Obviously, talking to

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Speaker 1: Marshall Folk, Hall of Famer, one of the greatest ever.

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Speaker 1: People don't realize I was a well, it doesn't matter

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Speaker 1: if they realize it because they don't remember me. It's

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Speaker 1: been too long. But I was a running back when

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Speaker 1: I was coming up, I was running back in the linebacker.

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Speaker 1: My eighth grade year, we had red and white was

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Speaker 1: our uniform. Everybody wore white socks. Everybody wore, you know,

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Speaker 1: black shoes. Some people wore white shoes. It was just

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Speaker 1: becoming a trend to wear black shoes. And as a

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Speaker 1: went with black, black leggings, black Nike socks, black shoes

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Speaker 1: and put a piece of white tape around it as

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Speaker 1: a running back. Now I'm six foot six ' three

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Speaker 1: playing tailback, trying to look like Marshall Folk. Conversations up

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Speaker 1: with a legend. I can distinctly remember that defining how

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Speaker 1: I my style of running back. I ran like I

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Speaker 1: be shiftier. I didn't have I didn't run like Eric Dickerson.

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Speaker 1: I ran like Marshall Folk. A lot of people may

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Speaker 1: not realize that, but played a major part in how

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Speaker 1: good I was playing linebacker because that was the movement

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Speaker 1: I was able to move like I was more shifty,

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Speaker 1: but I had long range speak because I was long,

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Speaker 1: I figured out how to run small. Who was your influence? Like?

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Speaker 1: What influenced you? Because you were such an iconic figure

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Speaker 1: attention to. It wasn't it wasn't like this was like

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Speaker 1: Who was your influence?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Well, first, my high school coach. I'm from New Orleans,

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Speaker 2: so this is my city. Okay, this city. My high

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Speaker 2: I was like, what are you talking to me? He's like,

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Speaker 2: so we could play you at running back, and we

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Speaker 2: at quarterback, tight end, we can play at corner. So

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna move your environment. Yeah, And so with that

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Speaker 2: I just started looking at as I saw the league,

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Speaker 2: I saw the league to a different lens. It wasn't

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Speaker 2: just playing the position of running back, so watching a

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Speaker 2: Ted Barsia Broda was the offensive coordinator for that Buffalo

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Speaker 2: much Therman Thomas take, Okay, it was unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: That makes a lot of sense you all right, So

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Speaker 1: you talked about being in the pros. I heard the

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Speaker 1: thing that people may not realize sometimes is how cerebral

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Speaker 1: and how intelligent players are outside of the quarterback's position.

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Speaker 1: But you were one of those guys that when people

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Speaker 1: talk about Marshall Faulk, they talked about your understanding of

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Speaker 1: what was taking place with the defense, how the Reeds looked,

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Speaker 1: how the game worked, and that played a major part

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Speaker 1: in Peyton Manning's adjustment and adaptation to the league.

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Speaker 2: Yeah understanding, and listen Peyton's and Peyton's savant. Sure, but

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Speaker 2: when you when you have somebody and you can have

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Speaker 2: those conversations, and Peyton and I we be sitting, you know,

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Speaker 2: like this, you know cover what do you think? I'm like,

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Speaker 2: you got it? Like that's that's it's oh, there's no, no, hey,

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Speaker 2: the safety is rotating. Uh, this this will this will

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Speaker 2: probably be there's probably be three he's gonna drop down.

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Speaker 2: So just having those conversations. Then in film study, in preparation,

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Speaker 2: he and I we we literally saw the game through

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Speaker 2: the same lens, and that relationship in that Bond year one,

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Speaker 2: didn't have a lot of time. So you hit the checkdown,

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Speaker 2: you hit the checkdown, and he was seeing things a

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Speaker 2: lot faster learning than What I loved about Peyton and

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Speaker 2: I had nothing to do with this was that rookie year.

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Speaker 2: He made a mistake once and he never made it again.

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Speaker 2: If he made it once you couldn't get in with it,

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Speaker 2: and it literally I mean he turned into what he

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Speaker 2: into us communicating, making sure we were on the same page,

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Speaker 2: full on communicator with the center, offensive line receivers, everybody

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Speaker 2: knowing what was going on and didn't care if the

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Speaker 1: Yuh, hey, man, it's martial folk. Make sure you check

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Speaker 1: it out drug freeworld dot org support get your kids

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Speaker 1: educated on what's going out here in the drug world,

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Speaker 1: all right, and while you're at it, make sure you

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Speaker 1: take a little bit of time go on YouTube or

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Speaker 1: something like that. Type in Marshall folk, that'll be a

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Speaker 1: treat for you. Believe me, one of the best to

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Speaker 1: do it. Appreciate you taking time for me, man, absolutely

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Speaker 1: all right, this is conversations with a legend. I'm LeVar Arrington. Yeah,

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